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Speaker 1: Crime a Lord hourly update breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Dave Mac. Idaho murderer Brian Coberger may have come

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Speaker 2: face to face with one of his victim's roommates just

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Speaker 2: three days prior to the heinous killings. Coburger was in

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Speaker 2: the same target within two hours of one of his

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Speaker 2: victims surviving roommates, Bethany Funk. A police report shows a

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Speaker 2: receipt at the department store for BF at four h

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Speaker 2: nine pm November ten, twenty twenty two, three days before

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Speaker 2: the massacre, and roughly an hour and a half before

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Speaker 2: Coburger checked out of the same store at five point

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Speaker 2: forty two pm. BF is an apparent reference to one

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Speaker 2: of the surviving roommates, Bethany Funk. Funk shared the off

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Speaker 2: campus house with five roommates in the small town of Moscow, Idaho,

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Speaker 2: living roughly fifteen minutes from Coburger's apartment in Pullman, Washington.

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Speaker 2: It is unclear what town the target was in now.

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Speaker 2: Since Coberger began living his lifelong stint in prison, he's

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Speaker 2: been making headlines for repeatedly complaining to his staff about

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Speaker 2: inmates harassing him, and even complaining about the type of

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Speaker 2: bananas he's being given. Coburger is not responding well to

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Speaker 2: his new status, as reflected in his frequent complaints just

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Speaker 2: days after his arrival at the facility. Brian Koeberger is

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Speaker 2: also said to be deeply unpopular with the other inmates

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Speaker 2: and guards, which seems to be linked to his alleged

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Speaker 2: patronizing attitude. Adjusting to prison life might have been easier

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Speaker 2: if the other inmates had accepted Coburger, but over five

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Speaker 2: months into his sentence, he appears to have only made

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Speaker 2: things worse for himself. He was met with a cold

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Speaker 2: reception upon arrival, with many inmates reportedly taunting him through

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Speaker 2: the events between filing complaints about the prison food and

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Speaker 2: taunts from fellow inmates. Convicted killer Coburger has been trying

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Speaker 2: to get in touch with serial killers from around the country.

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Speaker 2: No word on if Coburger has been successful at establishing

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Speaker 2: connections with those he feels worthy of his time. Director

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Speaker 2: of the Cold Case Foundation McDonough says Coberger has been

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Speaker 2: making overtures to other high profile killers and sees himself

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Speaker 2: above everyone around him.

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Speaker 1: A grieving mother was forced to witness the unthinkable as

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Speaker 1: cemetery workers unearthed her son's final resting place to make

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Speaker 1: room for a billionaire family's son. Paula Tinyo sixty two

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Speaker 1: sat in the grass at Skyline Memorial Gardens, pleading with

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Speaker 1: crews to halt the exhumation of her twenty year old son,

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Speaker 1: Tiber Harrison, after a judge ruled the plot legally belonged

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Speaker 1: to the science of a massive food empire. The devastating

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Speaker 1: incident was triggered by a clerical error at the Northwest

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Speaker 1: Portland Funeral Home, which sold the same burial plot twice.

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Speaker 1: Tinyo's husband, David Williams, spoke to the media.

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Speaker 3: I think the humanity or lack of it, the cruelty

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Speaker 3: and someone feeling so entitled that they just wanted that

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Speaker 3: piece of property when someone's son is already in the ground.

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Speaker 3: It was sort of unfathomable.

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Speaker 1: The Reser family, owners of the multi billion dollar Resour's

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Speaker 1: Fine Foods company, purchased the site in twenty nineteen following

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Speaker 1: the overdose death of their son Alex. Unaware of the

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Speaker 1: prior sale, Tinyo bought the same allegedly newly created space

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one to house a vault containing Tiber's

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Speaker 1: baby teeth, a lock of hair, and a portion of

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Speaker 1: his ashes. The promising twenty year old student had been

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Speaker 1: killed on March twenty ninth of twenty sixteen when a

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Speaker 1: truck plowed into him as he walked near the University

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Speaker 1: of Central Florida campus in Orlando. When the blunder was discovered,

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Speaker 1: the cemetery admitted to negligence over the double booking, but

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Speaker 1: insisted on honoring the Reser's earlier contract. Skyline tried to

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Speaker 1: make things right by reportedly offering a refund of the

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Speaker 1: sixteen thousand dollars that Tinyo paid. It also offered to

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Speaker 1: rebury her son's vault just a few feet away, but

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Speaker 1: she reportedly never responded to the offer. A Moltnomah County

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Speaker 1: judge ultimately sided with the Reeser family, ordering the removal

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Speaker 1: of Tiber's remains and his memorial bench. While the Reser

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Speaker 1: family was reportedly ordered into the litigation against their wishes,

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Speaker 1: they maintained their claim to the plot, where they intend

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Speaker 1: to install their own memorial bench near their son's grave.

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Speaker 1: In a separate civil trial, a jury found the cemetery

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Speaker 1: negligent but determined it did not inflict severe emotional distress

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Speaker 1: on Tienyo, largely because she had placed unauthorized cremains in

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Speaker 1: the vault. Her attorney, Darien Stanford, called the outcome quote

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Speaker 1: profoundly sad, noting that a mother should not be penalized

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Speaker 1: for not reading the fine print while burying her child.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, the family says they will keep their

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Speaker 1: son's remains at home until they find a place where

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Speaker 1: Tiber can truly rest in peace.

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Speaker 4: A well known farmer from California, Michael Obadi, has been

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Speaker 4: extradited to Arizona and has pleaded not guilty to a

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Speaker 4: charge of first degree murder in connection with the shooting

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Speaker 4: death of his estranged wife. The sixty three year old

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Speaker 4: entered his plea on Wednesday, December thirty one, during his

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Speaker 4: initial court appearance at the Navajo County Superior Court held

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Speaker 4: in California. Last month, the victim, Carrie n a Body

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Speaker 4: fifty nine, was discovered dead at their second residence in Arizona,

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Speaker 4: where she had relocated following their separation. Currently, a body

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Speaker 4: is being held at the Navajo County Jail on a

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Speaker 4: bond set at five point five million dollars. According to

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Speaker 4: the prosecutors, His attorneys expressed their concerns regarding a Body's

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Speaker 4: health and stated that if he were to be released,

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Speaker 4: he would continue his medical treatment while adhering to the

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Speaker 4: conditions of the bond. We urged the public to refrain

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Speaker 4: from forming judgments, he remarked, for many years, he has

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Speaker 4: been a respected member of the community, actively supporting charitable initiatives,

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Speaker 4: and deserves a fair trial, just like anyone else facing

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Speaker 4: serious allegations. Authorities alleged that on November twenty a body

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Speaker 4: traveled from California to Arizona, committed the murder, and then

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Speaker 4: returned to California shortly after. The Navajo County Sheriff's office

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Speaker 4: announced on December twenty three that they conducted searches of

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Speaker 4: various residents, properties, vehicles, and camp trailers linked to the

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Speaker 4: Body family in California, recovering a significant amount of evidence

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Speaker 4: that contributed to Michael Abodi's arrest. Regarding the motive, Sheriff

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Speaker 4: David Klaus stated during a subsequent press conference that he

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Speaker 4: couldn't pinpoint a specific reason, but acknowledged the couple's impending divorce.

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Speaker 4: The one clear factor is that there is a divorce

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Speaker 4: underway and they were unable to reach an agreement, said

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Speaker 4: the sheriff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I can't get into the specifics, but I

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Speaker 5: think one of the big things was she was living alone,

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Speaker 5: and she had left her husband and was living in

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Speaker 5: Pine Top, and Ted was working through a divorce that

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Speaker 5: had been dragging on for a couple of years. Was

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Speaker 5: the glaring things that were poking out.

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Speaker 4: The couple owned a body farms in California, As reported

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Speaker 4: by The Desert Sun, which accessed their divorce documents, Michael

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Speaker 4: reportedly found the divorce unexpected, claiming that Carrie had left

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Speaker 4: him in August twenty three while he was on a

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Speaker 4: fishing trip. A pre trial conference and hearing regarding the

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Speaker 4: possibility of release is set for Mark seventeen at the

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Speaker 4: Novajo County Superior Court.

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Speaker 2: Academy Award winning actor Will Smith accused of sexual harassment

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Speaker 2: and deliberately grooming an artist hired to play violin on

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Speaker 2: Smith's Based on a True Story twenty twenty five tour.

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Speaker 2: In a lawsuit filed in LA just before the new year,

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Speaker 2: professional violinist Brian King Joseph alleges Smith was deliberately grooming

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Speaker 2: and priming Joseph for further sexual exploitation. Joseph appeared on

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Speaker 2: the TV show America's Got Talent in twenty eighteen, and

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Speaker 2: after first performing with Smith in December twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 2: was hired to join Smith's twenty twenty five tour. Joseph

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Speaker 2: claims the relationship grew even closer when Smith offered Joseph

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Speaker 2: a chance to play on multiple tracks on his upcoming

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Speaker 2: studio album. In the lawsuit, Joseph claims Smith and plaintiff

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Speaker 2: began spending additional time alone, with Smith even telling plaintiff

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Speaker 2: that you and I have such a special connection that

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Speaker 2: I don't have with anyone else, and others similar expressions

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Speaker 2: indicating his closeness to the plaintiff. According to the documents,

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Speaker 2: Joseph allegedly joined the first leg of the tour in

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Speaker 2: March twenty twenty five in Las Vegas, where he was

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Speaker 2: provided a hotel room booked by Smith and his team.

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Speaker 2: He claims no other individuals besides the crew and hotel

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Speaker 2: staff would have access to his personal room. The violinist

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Speaker 2: claims to place his room key in his bag, which

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Speaker 2: was left in a van responsible for transporting the cast

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Speaker 2: and crew around after a rehearsal at the venue. Management

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Speaker 2: allegedly spent hours retrieving the bag When Joseph returned to

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Speaker 2: his hotel room later that evening, he claims to have

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Speaker 2: discovered evidence suggesting that an unknown person had unlawfully entered

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Speaker 2: the room. Joseph subsequently called hotel security. The lawsuit states,

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Speaker 2: quote the evidence included a handwritten note addressed to the

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Speaker 2: plaintiff by name, which read Brian, I'll be back no

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Speaker 2: later five point thirty just as, and then a drawn heart.

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Speaker 2: Among the remaining belongings were wipes, a beer bottle, a

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Speaker 2: red backpack, a bottle of HIV medication with another individual's name,

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Speaker 2: an earring, and hospital discharge paperwork belonging to a person

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Speaker 2: unbeknownst to the plaintiff. Joseph feared that an unknown individual

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Speaker 2: would return to his room to engage in sexual acts,

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Speaker 2: and he immediately notified hotel security and representatives for the defendant,

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Speaker 2: obtained photo documentation, requested a room change, and called the

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Speaker 2: local non emergency police line three one one to report

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Speaker 2: the incident. Days later, Joseph claimed Smith's team began blaming

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Speaker 2: him for the incident rather than being protected against further assault.

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Speaker 2: The complaint states, for attempting to understanding plaintiff's complaint, plaintiff

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Speaker 2: was shamed by defendant and told that he was being terminated.

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Speaker 2: When the plaintiff requested for the reasoning, Tim Miller, acting

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Speaker 2: on behalf of defendants, redirected the blame for the termination

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Speaker 2: onto the plaintiff for applying quote I don't know you

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Speaker 2: tell me because everyone is telling me that what happened

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Speaker 2: to you is a lie. Nothing happened, and you made

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Speaker 2: the whole thing up, So tell me, why did you

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Speaker 2: lie and make this up? Unquote? Joseph, at the request

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Speaker 2: of Miller, compiled a timeline to explain his traumatic series

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Speaker 2: of events that occurred that evening. However, following plaintiff's report

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Speaker 2: in termination, defendant hired another violinist to assume the same

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Speaker 2: position on the tour. This hiring strongly suggested the defendant

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Speaker 2: stated reason for the termination was pretextual. The facts strongly

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Speaker 2: suggests that defendant Willard Carroll Smith the Second was deliberately

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Speaker 2: grooming and priming mister Joseph for further sexual exploitation. The

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Speaker 2: sequence of events, Smith's prior statements to plaintiff, and the

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Speaker 2: circumstances of the hotel intrusion all point to a pattern

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Speaker 2: of predatory behavior rather than an isolated incident. The lawsuit

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Speaker 2: goes on to state defendant's actions caused plaintiff severe emotional distress,

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Speaker 2: economic loss, reputational harm, and other damages. Plaintiff was also harmed.

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Speaker 2: As a result of the stress of losing his job,

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Speaker 2: his health deteriorated, causing major physiological damage. Plaintiffs suffered from

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Speaker 2: PTSD and other mental illness as a result of determination.

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