1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: Content warning. This podcast discusses violence, murder, suicide, civil unrest, 2 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: aggressive policing, racism, and lynching. If you or anyone you 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: know is considering suicide or self harm, or just need 4 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: to talk about problems, please call the National Suicide Prevention 5 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: Lifeline to seven three or text the crisis text line 6 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: at one. Previously and after the uprising, if this happens 7 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: to your child, wouldn't you want to get down to 8 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 1: the bottom of this and find out what really happened. 9 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: I think that black people in general are suspicious of 10 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: that because of the history of lynching in this country. 11 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,519 Speaker 1: I definitely understand why the parents would jump to that conclusion. 12 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: Do you think Dan would try to arrange to yet 13 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: Marcel hurt Dane would do it himself. You know, you 14 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: want to come over after? I think, you know, to 15 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: take He had a lot on his mind, So you 16 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: want to talk me and I a rest ship. Was 17 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: he influenced me in positive waves? I learned from older 18 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: brother myth too, you know what I'm saying. And he 19 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: looked out for me, you know, all right hand man. 20 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 1: But when I went back to look at those they're gone. 21 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: I can't say this for certain, but it makes me 22 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:21,960 Speaker 1: wonder is someone still logged into his account somewhere perhaps? 23 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, God, oh God. What you're looking at 24 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: is the aftermath of the grand jury deciding not to 25 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: indict Officer Wilson. A young man found hanging from a 26 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: tree in October. His mom believes someone murdered her son, 27 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: targeting himything. Danye became an activist in the wake of 28 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: the shooting death of Michael Brown by a white police officer. 29 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: That's why Melissa mckinnis wants St. Louis County police to 30 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 1: dig deeper to her son's death. He was not suicidal. 31 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: This is after the uprising, the death of Donye Dion Jones. 32 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: As far as who lord Danyae out, we had already 33 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: got word that people thought that that's who it was. 34 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 1: And at this point I'm really believe in that they 35 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 1: had something to do with it. Have you or anyone 36 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 1: in your immediate family talked to him? Oh no, no, 37 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 1: now the no one's confronted him about this. Oh no, 38 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: m M. Are you in any way afraid of him? Um, 39 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 1: I'm afraid. I'm not afraid. I'm just what with what 40 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: I have to do if I'm dead? I can't do 41 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: it right. This is from a conversation we had with 42 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 1: Melissa in July, long before we had Danye's phone act 43 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: and before the St. Louis County Police destroyed the bed sheet. 44 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: She wanted to tell us what she was hearing about 45 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: one of her step nephews, who has the nickname Deanie Boy. 46 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: She had been told that he was possibly involved in 47 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 1: getting Danye out of the house that night he died, 48 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: and she called to tell us that members of her 49 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: family believed he may have also been involved in someone 50 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: else's death. He said, um, I would serve them some 51 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: bad rogues, and I've been twice phone about it. And 52 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: so I said what he said, I'm serious. So I 53 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: looked at Danyee and Diane was like, do you tripping? 54 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: And I said, you know what you can be? Think? 55 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: Could you say a real stupid Melissa and Danye basically 56 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: told Dennie Boy to leave after saying such a heinous thing. 57 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: And then sometime later the woman Deanie Boy allegedly threatened 58 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: did in fact wind up dead. We know it's a 59 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: lot to track in one big speculation, Sandwich. That's what 60 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 1: this whole episode is going to be. We're taking out 61 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: our flashlight and climbing down a lot of rabbit holes here. 62 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: So strap in. Maybe we can pull back and go 63 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,280 Speaker 1: big picture and see where you all sit at this point. 64 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: Are you feeling that it was murder, but possibly not 65 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 1: racially motivated murder? In other words, that it could have 66 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: been related to something I don't know, you know, Deanie 67 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:50,720 Speaker 1: or something. Are you thinking it's police specific related? I mean, 68 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: I want to get a sense of where you know, 69 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: where do you think? What do you think happened? What 70 00:04:56,040 --> 00:05:01,279 Speaker 1: I think happened is my son was lower it out 71 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: to be murdered, and that's it. Who is That's that's see. 72 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: Everybody else wants to make it seem like it's one thing. 73 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: My main thing is who the hell kill my son. 74 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: I don't care if it was the police. I don't 75 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 1: care if it was President Obama, I don't care. I 76 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: need to find out who killed my son. So I'm 77 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 1: not leaning towards anything. What I'm leaning is towards is 78 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: someone killed my son and he did not commit suicide. 79 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 1: For more than two years, we have met with Melissa 80 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: and her family. We've spoken over the phone, texted, emailed, 81 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: and across all of that communication We've heard several bits 82 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 1: and pieces of theories about possible suspects and potential motives 83 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: and just strange happenings that we think we should share. 84 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: Some of these bits and pieces were things that Melissa 85 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: and her family found odd but really had nowhere to 86 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: go with. There was a white man in the back 87 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: of the church when we got there, just standing there, 88 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 1: not speaking to anybody. Is he the only white guy? 89 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: They're the only white guy there. He wasn't the only 90 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: white guy. It was activist there, but he stood out there. Yeah, 91 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 1: no one. When he came down. He's the only white 92 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 1: man that I saw him there. When he came down, 93 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: he didn't speak to the family. He didn't even go 94 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,679 Speaker 1: looking danya He didn't go He didn't walk past Danyae. 95 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 1: He walked over to and remember Christ's table, they had 96 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: a Bible on it did exactly like this with his 97 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: hands his fingers like he was reading something, but you 98 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: could tell he wasn't really reading. And he turned around 99 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: and walked out. Didn't see him anymore. What did he 100 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: look like? A middle age white guy, not really heavy, 101 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: short hair, he had like um, a scruffly like beer 102 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: type things. Anything he had on some like light khaki 103 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,719 Speaker 1: pants and a regular shirt and no one's ever seen 104 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: this before whenever Nope. I had actually asked our older sister, 105 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: I'm like, did you see him? And she was like, yeah, 106 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 1: who is he? Was like, I don't know, but he 107 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: seems like really weird, like he didn't even look at Danyelle. 108 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,559 Speaker 1: I said, okay, well, maybe he's an X like maybe 109 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: an ex manager. Maybe he's a teacher. So when you know, 110 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: after the funeral and we all got together and started 111 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 1: talking about everything, I asked my niece and nephew like, 112 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: did you see the white guy that was in there? 113 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: And they was like, yeah, we saw him. He was 114 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: staying in the back. And that was like I said, well, 115 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: is he like maybe an ex manager, maybe he's he 116 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 1: a teacher. They was like, we don't know who he is. 117 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: We've never seen him a day in all. With no 118 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: name or photographs of this man, there really isn't anything 119 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: to build off of, so it just stands out as 120 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: an oddity in their minds. Who was this guy? Why 121 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: was he at Danyae's funeral? Was he somehow involved in 122 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 1: Danye's death? Or was he just some weird guy who 123 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: likes to walk into stranger's funerals and speaking of mysterious 124 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: white people, Melissa and Derek once told us a quick 125 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: anecdote about some nameless white boys who were supposedly messing 126 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: with don Yae Danyee All said, you know, people can 127 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: know where you live, and you need to always have 128 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: your protection. And now mine you out there doing what 129 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: you do and you're you're getting threats. Made me think 130 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 1: about some things when he talked to my brother, because 131 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: he was saying something about some some white boys or 132 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: something being after him, and he was trying to enquire 133 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: about a gun, so you know, something was definitely gonna heat. 134 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: He wouldn't want to worry anyone about issues and maybe 135 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: going on with him or let you know the better 136 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: type thing. Do you remember anything else about these these 137 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: white boys wh my brother was telling me that when 138 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 1: he pulled up and he's talking, he said, hey, you 139 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 1: know what I can get, you know, a gun or something? 140 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 1: White boys you know looking for me and something something 141 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: said of fact, they've been they've been messing with me, 142 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:55,440 Speaker 1: he said. He told me he said they called me 143 00:08:55,480 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 1: a nigga, Ma a nigga, and I knocked them out. 144 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: I hit him. Do you remember even a rough that 145 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 1: was like maybe September, September obviously September. So according to Derek, 146 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: one day, his brother pulled up to their house and 147 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 1: Danye happened to be outside. Upon seeing Derek's brother, Danyae 148 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 1: asked him if he could help him acquire a new gun, 149 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: and the reason he gave for needing one was that 150 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:34,199 Speaker 1: some white boys were trying to get at him. According 151 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: to Melissa, Danyae told her that some white boys had 152 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 1: called him the N word and he had knocked one 153 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: of them out. Are these all the same white boys? 154 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 1: We don't know. All of this was roughly a month 155 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 1: or two before Danyae died. As with the mystery funeral guests, 156 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: there are no real details to build off of, and 157 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: maybe these white boys have absolutely nothing to do with 158 00:09:55,920 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 1: Danyae's death, but it does give us pause. And then 159 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 1: there is this step cousin you heard Melissa talk about 160 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 1: at the beginning of this episode, nicknamed Deanie Boy. Before 161 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: Danyane had left early last year, you know him and 162 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: Deanie Boy was like they were around each other a lot, right, 163 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: So from what I'm hearing, Deanie Boy's father and Deanie 164 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: Boy was having dany make runs for them. Okay, you 165 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 1: know what runs me right? Yeah, okay, I'm going to 166 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: get You mean that he's like driving drugs, yeah, like 167 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: getting getting them for them, you know. So that's why 168 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:46,719 Speaker 1: Dane was supposed to have disappeared, because he didn't want 169 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: anything to do that with that anymore. He said, My, 170 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 1: I've done some things you know that you wouldn't be 171 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 1: proud of. And um and I faild like what he said. 172 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: I so I pushed like I was sowing drugs and 173 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: I was like why. He said, that's why I left 174 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: to go away, to get my money together and come 175 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,679 Speaker 1: back and start my business. He said, you know, I 176 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 1: tried that once, just to get my money, right as 177 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: far as that, and they want me to come back. 178 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: So what's from what I'm hearing is when they found 179 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: out that Danyae had come back, they had started making 180 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: a lot of threats towards Danyae and Danye wouldn't come 181 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 1: out anymore. And do you think he owed them anybody? 182 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:37,840 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. 183 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: Melissa didn't say she thought Deanie Boy actually killed Danyae, 184 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: but speculated that maybe he was somehow involved with getting 185 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: Danye out of the house. Who would have put him 186 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 1: up to this, She didn't know, but further speculated it 187 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:55,440 Speaker 1: may have had to do with drug charges brought against 188 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 1: him the summer before Danyae's death. We got a hold 189 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: of dannie Boys criminal record, and it's pretty long. Since 190 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: he was a teenager. He's been getting in trouble for 191 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: various thefts and he also was charged with assaulting a 192 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: seemingly random person on the street. They need boy got 193 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:17,680 Speaker 1: caught up on some drug charges right before Dane was Hell, 194 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 1: that's what he's on the round floor. And then he 195 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: went to Florida, and then and then he came back 196 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: and was in town that day. Yep. Then there are 197 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: the two things that Melissa has pointed to all along, 198 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,439 Speaker 1: right from the beginning, that never got much attention from 199 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: the police, and that we would feel remiss if we 200 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 1: didn't talk about now, the strange cars that Melissa and 201 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:44,719 Speaker 1: her family all witnessed parked on the street in front 202 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 1: of their house in the weeks preceding Danya's death, and 203 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: the brick Danie was keeping next to the couch where 204 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 1: he slept. First, let's discuss the cars. See The thing 205 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 1: with the cars is most of the mant tina windows 206 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: the front it was tenant, but around the car was 207 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: completely tinant each and every time, and it was different cars, 208 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 1: and it was one person sitting in the car or 209 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 1: that it looks like like most of the time it's 210 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 1: only one, but one time it was more. And that's 211 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:23,719 Speaker 1: when there were you know, the black SUVs um that 212 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 1: the police drive. So this say, this is our home, okay, 213 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:33,559 Speaker 1: and there's a street if we look to the left 214 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 1: into the right. They were on both ends of aunt 215 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: how just parked there, but you could see that there 216 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:45,560 Speaker 1: were people in it. So me and Diane and I 217 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: we went out and sit on the porch. This is 218 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 1: one time that this just broke it all away, like 219 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: made us like really, you know, kind of scared a 220 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: little bit. We went on the porch and we looked. 221 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 1: I said, you see that, She said, yeah, he said 222 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: that on both ends watching you can see them looking 223 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:03,719 Speaker 1: this way though. So we played with them, you know, 224 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: we're like and we went back in the house and 225 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 1: went back in the house. We went in my bedroom 226 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: and opened up the blinds. Those guys got out of there. 227 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: The the trucks walked in front of our home, and 228 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: it was at least five or six of them and 229 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 1: stood there. Oh, white guys, all white guys. You can 230 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 1: tell that they were cops because they were on like 231 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: the same kind of cars, those trucks. We see him. 232 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: We still see them now. But um, they just stood 233 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: in front of our house, and so it really creeps down. Yea, yeah, 234 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 1: he said, whoa, what's going on? And he bagged back. 235 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: I said, look, they can come and knock on this 236 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: door if they want to. You know, they don't have 237 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: it's nothing in here. He said yeah. I said, let 238 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: him just stare. So I'm just sitting there looking at them. 239 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 1: And then they finally walked back, got in their trucks 240 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 1: and pulled off. Melissa told us this story on several occasions. 241 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: It clearly made an impact on her. How could it not. 242 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: We made Sunshine requests to several local and state law 243 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: enforcement agencies to see if anything would come up about 244 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 1: surveillance on Melissa's house, but we weren't given anything back. 245 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: We hesitate to suggest that this means some form of 246 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: surveillance wasn't happening. We also made a Freedom of Information 247 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: Act request to the Department of Homeland security and to 248 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: the FBI, but again got nothing back, which we don't 249 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: think means much because Foyer requests typically need the threat 250 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: of a lawsuit to get any meaningful response. And then, 251 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 1: if you remember back in episode one, we asked County 252 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: p D spokesman Sergeant Sean McGuire if police looked into 253 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: the statements Melissa made about cars being parked outside of 254 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: her home. She claims that in the time leading up 255 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: to his death, that there were menacing people who had 256 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: been around her home. Was that it all looked at? 257 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 1: Um I believe that was looked at eventually. She did 258 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: not report that stuff immediately to detectives because part of 259 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 1: their initial investigation they didn't know anything about that. As 260 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: time went, honestly had the public Facebook post and pat 261 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: told Facebook and said us that's when obviously detectives were 262 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 1: interested in talking to her about that. But it was 263 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: definitely looked into eventually. Based on our read of the 264 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: police report on Dane's death, every part of this statement 265 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 1: by Sergeant McGuire appears to be exactly false. Detective Anderer's 266 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 1: report states that, in fact, Melissa did tell police the 267 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: morning of Dane's death that strange cars had been outside 268 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: of her home, but the report contains no mention of 269 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 1: Anderer or any detective looking into these suspicious vehicles in 270 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 1: any capacity. Then there is the brick that aroused Melissa's 271 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: very first suspicions. There was a brick now there, and 272 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 1: that's the reason why I had actually went out to 273 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: the backyard because I'm like, why why did he have 274 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: his break in his house? What's going on? You know, 275 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:04,199 Speaker 1: he had said about it where he sleeps. That's when 276 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,880 Speaker 1: my my intensland, and I'm like, what the hell. Before 277 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 1: Melissa even knew that Donna was dead, she found the 278 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 1: brick he kept next to the couch where he was sleeping. 279 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 1: If you remember from episode one, she had gone downstairs 280 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 1: to look for Donya and saw the brick. She had 281 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: no idea why it would be there, and upon carrying 282 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: it to the back patio where it came from, she 283 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 1: found Danya hanging in the tree. Since that moment, she 284 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 1: has suspected that the brick was a weapon that Danya 285 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 1: was keeping close, something he could use to defend himself 286 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: against an attacker. If that is in fact, why Danyae 287 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,439 Speaker 1: was keeping a brick next to him while he slept, 288 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 1: that would seem to suggest a few things. For one, 289 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: he is afraid of being attacked, and two he is 290 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 1: afraid of being attacked by someone who can get into 291 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 1: his house. Was he afraid of random intruders or of 292 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: somebody specific with the White Boys know where Donne lived 293 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,239 Speaker 1: and how to get into his house? Or is that 294 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: the domain of perhaps a step cousin. And what about Marcel, 295 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: the person who allegedly shot Danyae's best friend Damon and 296 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:18,199 Speaker 1: narrowly missed his brother Javan. When we re listened to 297 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: the audio of Melissa reading for us her text message 298 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 1: chain with Donna about those events, it started to seem 299 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: pretty evident that Donne was planning some sort of revenge 300 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: attack on Marcel, and that this plan was devised in 301 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,120 Speaker 1: such a way so that it would not lead back 302 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:38,360 Speaker 1: to him. Remember how Donye told Melissa the streets were 303 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: going to handle it. The streets was going to take 304 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: care of that. He knows a lot of people, So 305 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 1: I say, knew it was plotting to shoot other people 306 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:54,919 Speaker 1: and already have at one point, do y'all wise up 307 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 1: or do y'all just let him just keep shooting and 308 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:02,879 Speaker 1: sit people? Shake my head? He says he was he 309 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:10,120 Speaker 1: would get taken care of. I said them, when he's 310 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:13,400 Speaker 1: taken care of his people, was going to come after them. 311 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:18,760 Speaker 1: Think so he said, Okay, do not understand what I'm saying. 312 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:24,399 Speaker 1: Not if it's a set of things different. It sounds 313 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 1: like Dna is hinting to his mother in these texts 314 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: that he may have been trying to have somebody else 315 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 1: kill Marcel. Now add to this the text he sent 316 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: to his friend in Springfield, Magianna and tod Asia. The 317 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: text to my Gianna said that an m F was 318 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 1: getting popped and that soon he might have to come 319 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: lay up with her for a week. The texts to 320 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 1: Deja named Marcel gave a description of him, had Danye 321 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: saying he knew where Marcell lived, and then we're followed 322 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: up by Danye sending two photographs, likely containing Marcel's image. 323 00:19:57,359 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 1: He ended it all by asking if Deja's people could 324 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 1: line it up. Knowing that all of this transpired about 325 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: four weeks before Danyae ended up dead, seems so entirely coincidental, 326 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:14,640 Speaker 1: almost unbelievably so. Here he is seemingly plotting a hit 327 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: on someone, then that someone is detained but released Immediately after, 328 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 1: Danyelle gets very paranoid or stressed, depending on who you ask. 329 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 1: He doesn't want to go anywhere unless it's to show 330 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 1: a property. He asks Derek's brother for help getting a gun, 331 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 1: ostensibly to protect himself from some maybe real, maybe made 332 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: up white boys, and he eventually puts a brick next 333 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:41,119 Speaker 1: to his bed. One possibility is that he wanted to 334 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,440 Speaker 1: use it as a weapon if someone tried to attack 335 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: him in the night, and honestly, it's hard to think 336 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: of a second reason he would keep a brick next 337 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 1: to him while he slept. What's going on here? Did 338 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 1: Marcel find out that DNA was maybe preparing a revenge 339 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,919 Speaker 1: attack on him through an intermediary? We really wanted to 340 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,159 Speaker 1: know what days I had to say about all of this, 341 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,399 Speaker 1: But once we told her that we had opened Danyae's phone, 342 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: she would answer a text or a Facebook message here 343 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 1: and there, but every time she scheduled to meet us 344 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,880 Speaker 1: in person, she wouldn't show up. On more than one occasion, 345 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 1: we sat waiting for her at a bar or a restaurant, 346 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:21,320 Speaker 1: only for her to never come. We would schedule phone calls, 347 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,959 Speaker 1: but when the time came to talk, she wouldn't answer. 348 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,160 Speaker 1: We figured we should just like all of our cards 349 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: on the table and put the ball in her court. 350 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: Your call. It's been forwarded to an automatic voice message 351 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 1: system at the town. Please record your message, Hidayja. It's 352 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 1: John from the Don podcast. Sorry, we weren't able to 353 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: connect with you this morning. We really hope to be 354 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 1: able to speak with you again. I know Ray made 355 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 1: it clear to you that we did open up Dona's 356 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: uh Android phone, and there's just a few questions we 357 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: have after seeing some texts that he sent to you, 358 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:02,959 Speaker 1: particularly revolving around Marcel and you know, the way Donya 359 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:07,399 Speaker 1: was speaking with you around those events, and you know, 360 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:10,360 Speaker 1: it just looks it can just kind of look strange 361 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: for me outside, and we were hoping you could explain 362 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,920 Speaker 1: what you guys were talking about, so it makes sense 363 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 1: to us. So, uh, you know, just give us a 364 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 1: text or call and we'll talk about it. Thank you. Eventually, 365 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: Deja did get back to us. We made another plan 366 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,679 Speaker 1: to meet when we were back in St. Louis on 367 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 1: a weekday. Afternoon, Desia had his meet her at her 368 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 1: place of work, where she hopped into my car and 369 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:39,880 Speaker 1: we spoke for almost two hours. Full disclosure. We did 370 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,360 Speaker 1: pay Desia one hundred dollars to give us this interview. 371 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,880 Speaker 1: At the outset, we told her how Danya's best friend 372 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 1: Damon had said to us. It wasn't surprised by the 373 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 1: idea that Donia had died by suicide. Ah, And then 374 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: I was very surprised, Okay, very very surprised because Danae 375 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:02,439 Speaker 1: never was suicidal. He well probably hurt someone else before 376 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 1: he hurt himself, to be honest, like he wouldn't be on, 377 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:10,400 Speaker 1: Oh I'm goin to kill myself and nobody know about it, 378 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: if he was in danger, if there was someone out 379 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,639 Speaker 1: to get him and he knew about it. Could you 380 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: see him in that situation taking his own life, to 381 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:25,640 Speaker 1: be honest, No, he will go away, he will disappear. 382 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 1: Like I said, man die. Diane was like everything to me. Nah, 383 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 1: I know I knew him too well for him to 384 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 1: even think about suicide. And it was just the case 385 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,360 Speaker 1: that I talked to him two days before he passed away. 386 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 1: Like that's what kind of threw me off. Like we 387 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: were just on the phone talking about how he was 388 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,199 Speaker 1: going to do things with each other and get married, 389 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 1: all types of things, you know, we were just talking, 390 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,720 Speaker 1: trying to see where we were going to move forward to. 391 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,919 Speaker 1: Dasha told us that she and Danya were working on 392 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,080 Speaker 1: getting back together and maybe they were what was important 393 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,439 Speaker 1: to us, and this moment was understanding what Danya was 394 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,640 Speaker 1: trying to have Dejah line up for him. Regarding Marcel, 395 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 1: there's a person named Marcel. You're familiar with Marcello. Is 396 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:22,400 Speaker 1: Marcel the one who shot at Gavano? Okay? And then 397 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:26,160 Speaker 1: he started texting you right after that, and he there's 398 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 1: a conversation where he's basically saying he's describing Marcel to you, 399 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: and then he asks, can your people line it up? 400 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 1: And I need to know what did he mean by that? Basically, 401 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 1: he wanted me to get him in the room with him. 402 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 1: He wanted to I wouldn't say cause a conflict, but 403 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: he trying to. He was trying to resolve it. Diana 404 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 1: don't like people doing stuff towards his family. He lived 405 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,439 Speaker 1: his family. Yeah, so I wouldn't say he was going 406 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 1: to hurt him or anything, but he just wanted me 407 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 1: to if I could reach out to him and get 408 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 1: damn near each other. Do you know Marcel personally? Desia 409 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 1: made it seem as though she thought Danya only wanted 410 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,119 Speaker 1: to get face to face with Marcel, which we didn't 411 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 1: think squared with everything we saw on his phone, So 412 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 1: we shared that information with Desa, telling her about his 413 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 1: texts with Melissa and Magiana. This new information quickly changed 414 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 1: Deja's mind. He probably was cooking up that as you 415 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: as you're saying, what he takes the other girl? But 416 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: I just didn't know because he don't want meet He 417 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 1: didn't want me to stop him. That sounds like something 418 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: that he would try to put together and wouldn't tell 419 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,439 Speaker 1: me to be honest, like because he knows how I 420 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 1: am and how is mama would or whatever. We both 421 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:44,719 Speaker 1: say him no, because we don't want to lose you. 422 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:46,880 Speaker 1: Do you think Danye had it in him to kill 423 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: somebody to protect a member of his family? Most definitely yeah, 424 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 1: and he wouldn't care about going to jail for it. 425 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: Once we had Deja, it made sense to ask her 426 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,680 Speaker 1: about some of the other potential threats and his life. 427 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,879 Speaker 1: Did you ever tell you a story about any white 428 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 1: boys out to get him? Nay? Why? Dude's only story 429 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,679 Speaker 1: that he ever told me a while ago was that 430 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 1: when you know, we first thought of getting into activism 431 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 1: and Protestant things, that it was people prank calling his phone. 432 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,400 Speaker 1: Did he say what they were saying? No, they would 433 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 1: just breathe. He say, they just hold the phone, and 434 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 1: he said, I didn't say nothing. This story about people 435 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 1: calling Donya and just breathing into the phone during their 436 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: time as activists, it's pretty unsettling. Who could have gotten 437 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 1: Donya's personal cell phone number. We also figured since Asian 438 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 1: knew Donya's step cousin, Deany Boy, we should ask her 439 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 1: what she thought of him. What about that step cousin 440 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: of his? Oh lord, so Deanie all right, trouble maker 441 00:26:55,040 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 1: in one way, I mean, mhmm. People out their intention, 442 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And Diane he ain't really 443 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 1: liked drama and whenever and his step cousin, which is 444 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: always something always between them, no not no, ok, yeah no, 445 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: the cousin getting into some stuff, you know, and then 446 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,399 Speaker 1: Dane trying to come in and be the rescue. That 447 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: was really what Diane was. He always just wanted to 448 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,680 Speaker 1: risk people. I know that he had done some drug 449 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 1: runs for dany prior to going out west. And then 450 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,440 Speaker 1: it's been explained to us that when he came back, 451 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,399 Speaker 1: he want anything to do with that. He was just 452 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 1: trying to get legit. Did he mention his step cousin 453 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: wanting him to get back into that. He never specifically 454 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 1: told me that he wanted him to get back into that, 455 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:55,920 Speaker 1: So I don't think, but I don't know. You're right, though, 456 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: I don't know. Would you think he would have the 457 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: capacity to you harm him, harm him? To be honest, 458 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 1: you he probably I could have thought about it, you know, 459 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,200 Speaker 1: And I think he thought about it, to be honest. 460 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:18,200 Speaker 1: Do you think, because you know how it is sometimes 461 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: when people want something and that person not trying to 462 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 1: do it for them or give it to them, They're 463 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,399 Speaker 1: gonna take it. And that was the type of person 464 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 1: he was, you know what I'm saying to me, He 465 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: was just more jealous. Jealousy can take a toll and 466 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 1: make you hurt someone. It was pretty shocking to hear 467 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 1: Deja just straight up say that she thought that not 468 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: only was Deanie capable of harming DNA, but that she 469 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 1: thinks he probably considered it. But Danielle died by hanging, 470 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: which really doesn't strike us as a tactic street level 471 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 1: criminals would use to kill someone not impossible, but that's 472 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: kind of out there, but it is interesting in light 473 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,160 Speaker 1: of the story of the alleged intentional overdosing, which of 474 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 1: course could not be true at all, but it does 475 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: describe someone who wants to set up their crimes to 476 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 1: look like other things. We sent multiple messages to Deny 477 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 1: via Facebook to offer him an opportunity to talk, but 478 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 1: he never responded. While we had Deja in the car, 479 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: we figured we should ask her if she could confirm 480 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 1: that Dnya was ever making any money with wholesale real estate. 481 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 1: So did he specifically ever tell you I have sold 482 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 1: something or made money in real estate? Yeah? He told 483 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 1: me he was recently buying properties. Is that the Illinois? 484 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 1: That's all he told me. Like he was like, but 485 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: you but like he told you that he had that 486 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,960 Speaker 1: he had made money. Yes, yes, he was making money 487 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: in it. And he was also like trying to put 488 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 1: other people in it, like I don't know how explain it, 489 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 1: but he was trying to like have a group. It 490 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 1: is very important to us to figure out the full 491 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: picture of what Danya's device use looked like. We figured 492 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: it was worth asking Deja if she had ever seen 493 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 1: Dania using a tablet. Did you know of him having 494 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: any other devices? I had gave him my iPad, but 495 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 1: I don't know what he did with it. Now that 496 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 1: is interesting. Desia saying she gave Danyae an iPad confirms 497 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:24,200 Speaker 1: Melissa and Derek's memories of seeing Danya use a tablet 498 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,120 Speaker 1: for a while and then never seeing it again and 499 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 1: not finding it among Danyae's belongings. This was huge because 500 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 1: it means there is a possibility that there is an 501 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 1: Apple device that Danyae had logged into his accounts on 502 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 1: that went into somebody else's possession. This would be even 503 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 1: more relevant after what Deja told us next. And I 504 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 1: feel really bad that I did not see the post 505 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 1: which posted on his page. What post is this? I'm 506 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: tired and he waved? Do you have it? Because I haven't. 507 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 1: I have not seen that one, and I don't know. 508 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 1: I killed me. Deja pulled out her phone and opened 509 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 1: Donna's Facebook page, and right there, on October six, is 510 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 1: a meme style post that just has one word tired, 511 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,719 Speaker 1: followed by an ellipses in an emoji of a hand waving. 512 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,960 Speaker 1: It was posted at eight thirt pm. The post settings 513 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,840 Speaker 1: were not public. It must have been only viewable for 514 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 1: specific friends, because like I'm telling you, like, if I 515 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 1: pull up Facebook and look at his profile, I can't. 516 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 1: I don't see that. Even the police looked at his 517 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 1: Facebook page and they would have no, they would have 518 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 1: written that down had they seen that. That's crazy and 519 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 1: he says tired by So who else has seen this? 520 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 1: I don't know. I tried to tell his mom, he's 521 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 1: the fan tailer. Everybody like, that's what he He's layst 522 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 1: post was what does this mean? That what I'm saying, 523 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: you know, like, because it could be, it could be 524 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: what you think it could be, but not like some 525 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 1: I just does that seem like? Does that seem like him? No? 526 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: What is what I'm saying? I feel like somebody did 527 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:15,240 Speaker 1: this to him. Despite this post, Desia was still skeptical 528 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 1: that Danye died by suicide. We figured it was only 529 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 1: fair to tell her about the hangman's new search we 530 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 1: found in Danya's YouTube history. There is a search in 531 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:30,480 Speaker 1: the YouTube history for how to tie a hangman's noose 532 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 1: with a blanket. I never ever heard him talk about 533 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 1: things like that, I promise you, Like, that's what makes 534 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:44,640 Speaker 1: me believe like somebody tried to plot all of these 535 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: now listen, like most people who hear this are going 536 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 1: to hear like there's a search in his YouTube history 537 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 1: for this new instruction, and then there's a Facebook post 538 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 1: that's limited to certain people that as tired hand waves, 539 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 1: you know, like goodbye, and the people people who hear 540 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,480 Speaker 1: that and go like, oh, he he definitely killed himself, 541 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 1: Like maybe we're at the end of the road. Maybe 542 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,800 Speaker 1: these are maybe these are the final proof that everyone 543 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 1: needs that he was in fact just you know, something snapped. 544 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,360 Speaker 1: He just it was too everything was too hard, and 545 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,680 Speaker 1: maybe he did do that to himself. But nin when 546 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:26,080 Speaker 1: I say you, when me and Dane was together, John, 547 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,560 Speaker 1: we went through a lot of stuff. Me and Die 548 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,760 Speaker 1: went through homeless, it's together. We went through a lot 549 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,680 Speaker 1: of stuff. So that's what I'm saying. We went through 550 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,800 Speaker 1: so much and he never wants you know what I'm saying, 551 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,920 Speaker 1: Like he had been through so much adversity and that 552 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 1: never came up. How would he want to do bad 553 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 1: to himself when he was doing good? You get what 554 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's what I don't get. When we were 555 00:33:55,440 --> 00:34:00,120 Speaker 1: doing that, Diane was strong, he was so strong. I 556 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,840 Speaker 1: was the weak one. Crying and oh my god, what 557 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 1: we're gonna do? He was Bay is gonna be okay, 558 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,320 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get the job at FedEx. He got the 559 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,640 Speaker 1: job at FedEx. And like I keep telling you, Diary 560 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,759 Speaker 1: wasn't doing he wasn't in a bad position. If like, 561 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,560 Speaker 1: even when he was in a bad position, he was 562 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:23,520 Speaker 1: still looking for positivity. I don't get like, like I said, 563 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:27,680 Speaker 1: it don't line up with me because we went through 564 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,959 Speaker 1: the worst. I just can't put that in my head. 565 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,440 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, which is I'm just fair. That's just fair. 566 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,040 Speaker 1: That's just not the dying that I knew. You know. 567 00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,799 Speaker 1: And even when, like I said, when he was in 568 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,040 Speaker 1: a bad position or however you want to call it, 569 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,919 Speaker 1: he never once thought about hurting himself. He just thought 570 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,960 Speaker 1: about making it better. Before parting, we thought it was 571 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,600 Speaker 1: appropriate to give Desja a chance to defend herself against 572 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 1: what Melissa and Milicia had said about her. They said 573 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 1: that you set people. Um, that was what they told 574 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,520 Speaker 1: me about you. Um, I know they hate me. I 575 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:10,800 Speaker 1: just gonna laughs on it. I don't know from a 576 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,200 Speaker 1: canapeg where they're talking about. But to be honest, why 577 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,239 Speaker 1: do you think I don't talk to them now. They 578 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:20,240 Speaker 1: are very fake people. To me, I am no type 579 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,920 Speaker 1: of faith. For what it's worth, Dejah and Melissa do 580 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,520 Speaker 1: not get along. If you hadn't noticed, but both of 581 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 1: these women believe deeply, fervently, passionately, that Danie would never 582 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,560 Speaker 1: have harmed himself. We thought it was important to bring 583 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:40,279 Speaker 1: some of this information back to Melissa with Derek buy 584 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,560 Speaker 1: her side. We again brought up Marcel and what looked 585 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,279 Speaker 1: like the rumblings of a plot by Danie to hurt 586 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:50,000 Speaker 1: or kill Marcel. This time, when we talked about it, 587 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,840 Speaker 1: Melissa walked back a little her earlier statement that Danye 588 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:58,480 Speaker 1: would do it himself. I would say this as far 589 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,480 Speaker 1: as killed it somebody, planning on it, and going through 590 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:08,759 Speaker 1: with it. Even though Danye didn't tell me every single thing. 591 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,239 Speaker 1: He told me a lot, And if Danye was going 592 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:19,680 Speaker 1: to go and kill somebody, I would know, Milicia would 593 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,359 Speaker 1: have known. You don't think that he would not tell you, 594 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,120 Speaker 1: So he didn't try to stop him because Danye didn't 595 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,160 Speaker 1: want to do it. Planning it and doing it two 596 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,200 Speaker 1: different things. Sometimes that he probably wants to look a 597 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:36,319 Speaker 1: little tougher than he really was. If that him and 598 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:39,919 Speaker 1: Damon had made some plans to do it, which it's 599 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:43,560 Speaker 1: not even in Damon either. It's really not. They just 600 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:49,480 Speaker 1: not built like that. It ultimately didn't matter because even 601 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,719 Speaker 1: if Danya was planning to hurt Marcel, that plan never 602 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:57,040 Speaker 1: came to fruition. And in a follow up conversation with Damon, 603 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,239 Speaker 1: he was pretty adamant that Marcel didn't even know any 604 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,120 Speaker 1: so the idea that Marcel would have come after him, 605 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,719 Speaker 1: he thought, was pretty laughable. Doubly so in light of 606 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,400 Speaker 1: the way in which Danye died. Damon re expressed to 607 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:12,799 Speaker 1: us that Danye felt like a burden to his mother. 608 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,759 Speaker 1: So we asked her if she thought that was true. Nope, 609 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:18,520 Speaker 1: because we made sure we told him that he was 610 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,560 Speaker 1: never a burden on us. I only asked his Damon 611 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:22,720 Speaker 1: told us that he'd expressed that to him at some point. 612 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:28,080 Speaker 1: We always made shoot our kids, and we told him, 613 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,839 Speaker 1: I see, you're not a burden all our kids if 614 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,359 Speaker 1: they need somewhere to sleep, as long as we got 615 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,600 Speaker 1: a roof over our head, you got a roof over you, 616 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,759 Speaker 1: he said, He said, if I'm if, if I ever 617 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,759 Speaker 1: if you ever feel like you know, I'm a burning said, now, 618 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:43,919 Speaker 1: if you know that you know Danyae. You know better 619 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,960 Speaker 1: than that, you know. That's That's what I'm saying. Like 620 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:52,279 Speaker 1: conversations that we had, I've had with Danyae, and we've 621 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:55,600 Speaker 1: had with Danyae. It's always been open. It's always been open. 622 00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:59,879 Speaker 1: So if I thought that it was to the point 623 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,640 Speaker 1: where he was, it was just too much, especially that night. Yeah, 624 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:09,440 Speaker 1: I would have known. And then this Facebook post. We 625 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,040 Speaker 1: felt a bit let down that no one in Danya's 626 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,279 Speaker 1: family had ever mentioned it to us. Maybe they thought 627 00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,880 Speaker 1: if we saw the post, especially at the outset of 628 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,800 Speaker 1: this investigative effort, we would quickly close the book on 629 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,400 Speaker 1: the possibility that Donya was murdered. Whatever the reason for 630 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:28,239 Speaker 1: not telling us. We asked about the post. When we 631 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,920 Speaker 1: look at his Facebook profile, we can only see what's public, 632 00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,759 Speaker 1: and Aja showed me that he made a post on 633 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:38,240 Speaker 1: the sixteenth that said I'm like I'm tired or tired 634 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,400 Speaker 1: and that had a hand wave. Okay, So did you 635 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,719 Speaker 1: ever see that or did not make people aware of it? Yeah? Okay? Yeah? 636 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,440 Speaker 1: Who who did? Who did see it? Who told you 637 00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:54,320 Speaker 1: about it? I think the police? Dude, Milicia dude, Okay, 638 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,880 Speaker 1: so she could see it. Yeah, even if he didn't 639 00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,920 Speaker 1: make that. What is tired me? I don't know what 640 00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:03,600 Speaker 1: does tired me? Are? Good night? But again, but again, 641 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:12,160 Speaker 1: also Dane, he would have sent me something. He would 642 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:19,040 Speaker 1: have left me, something said something to neatly. No note, nothing, 643 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:23,800 Speaker 1: no text, no messages or anything. It just makes no sense. 644 00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,719 Speaker 1: Melissa and her family don't think the tired post on 645 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:34,440 Speaker 1: Dane's Facebook page means much at all, and perhaps they're right. 646 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,719 Speaker 1: People do often post on their social media pages that 647 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,480 Speaker 1: they're tired. When they wake up the next day and 648 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,200 Speaker 1: go about their lives. The post isn't treated as some 649 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:47,239 Speaker 1: cry for help. It only looks like a goodbye when 650 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:51,040 Speaker 1: in fact someone does die. But here we are with 651 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,640 Speaker 1: two digital fingerprints, both left at a time when Danya 652 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,080 Speaker 1: was sitting next to his stepfather on the couch watching basketball. 653 00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,759 Speaker 1: Do the timing in the later deletions and usage of 654 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,680 Speaker 1: Donye's Google account taken into context with this missing iPad 655 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:10,880 Speaker 1: point to a conspiracy or is that just static noise 656 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:14,279 Speaker 1: that is confusing a clear signal making the notion that 657 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,680 Speaker 1: Donye's death is a homicide now a bridge too far, 658 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:22,520 Speaker 1: too irrational to walk across. We have been eating, sleeping, 659 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,760 Speaker 1: and breathing Donne Dion Jones for more than two years, 660 00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,560 Speaker 1: trying to read every text, speak with every friend, and 661 00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:32,320 Speaker 1: examine every detail of his life and death that we 662 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:35,240 Speaker 1: could get our hands on. As it stands, we can't 663 00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,640 Speaker 1: prove anything, and truly we never would be able to 664 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,960 Speaker 1: because we aren't a court. We're two guys who gave 665 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,520 Speaker 1: a damn and lent our time and resources to Melissa 666 00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,680 Speaker 1: and her family when they were trying to shed light 667 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:50,800 Speaker 1: on what happened to Donya. We've personally vacillated back and 668 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:54,040 Speaker 1: forth on just what happened to him, questioning the police, 669 00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:58,880 Speaker 1: questioning Melissa, questioning ourselves, sometimes falling deep into the caverns 670 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:02,680 Speaker 1: of minutia looking for the subtless clues and leads, a 671 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,879 Speaker 1: large portion of which went nowhere. And so we're never 672 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,560 Speaker 1: included in this show. At the end of everything, if 673 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,879 Speaker 1: we want this investigation to amount to anything, we would 674 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:16,040 Speaker 1: need to bring it to someone with subpoena power, someone 675 00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:19,120 Speaker 1: who could separate the signal from the noise, someone who 676 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,839 Speaker 1: could crack open the data and Dania's accounts and pin 677 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,360 Speaker 1: down once and for all which devices at which locations 678 00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,800 Speaker 1: made the posts and searches in question. We needed someone 679 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,480 Speaker 1: who could command that a real investigation take place, someone 680 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,000 Speaker 1: who promised to give all the residents of St. Louis 681 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:40,960 Speaker 1: County a fair shake. 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