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Speaker 1: Hey, folks. It is Friday, March twenty seventh, and an

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Speaker 1: infamous cold case that has haunted the Houston area for

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Speaker 1: thirty six years has been solved. According to prosecutors, they

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Speaker 1: have caught the so called Lovers Lane killer. With that

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Speaker 1: welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ and Robe

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Speaker 1: one of the things, and yes, we off the top.

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Speaker 1: We'll mention it. You just said it about Savannah Guthrie's mom.

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Speaker 1: This is the case that's been sitting there for thirty

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Speaker 1: six years, and apparently robed one tip changed everything.

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Speaker 2: Right, And that's what police have said time and time

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Speaker 2: again about Savannah's mom, Nancy, that it's just one tip

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Speaker 2: that they need that will lead them in the right direction.

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Speaker 2: But when you have thousands of tips to go through,

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Speaker 2: it takes time and you don't know which one is

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Speaker 2: that needle in a haystack. And this story highlights that, yes,

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Speaker 2: even thirty six years after the murders, justice can potentially

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Speaker 2: finally be served. But my goodness, these families have had

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Speaker 2: to wait for so long to get something, anything, and

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Speaker 2: their reaction is pretty powerful.

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Speaker 1: And this we will take you back home. As we're

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Speaker 1: talking about the summer of nineteen ninety two. Young people

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Speaker 1: were the ages again twenty two and twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty two year old Cheryl Henry and twenty year

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Speaker 2: old twenty one year old Andy Atkinson.

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Speaker 3: They had a big date night.

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Speaker 2: They were out and partying with her sister, dancing at

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Speaker 2: a nightclub, and they went off to a place to

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Speaker 2: most likely make out. Maybe they couldn't they're young enough,

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Speaker 2: they couldn't probably go back to their family's house.

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Speaker 3: So they did what a lot of kids have done

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Speaker 3: over the years. They parked at a secluded area and

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Speaker 3: a cull to sack. It's so called lover's lane. It's terrible.

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Speaker 3: You don't need.

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Speaker 1: Most of us growing up and there was some spot

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Speaker 1: town like this, and usually they were a little scary, honestly,

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Speaker 1: because they are secluded and people go out there late

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Speaker 1: assume maybe it's another couple there. You don't know, So

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Speaker 1: to put you in that mind of where they were

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Speaker 3: As just horror, horrific, horrific.

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Speaker 2: So, yes, they they parked there and then what happened

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Speaker 2: was they didn't return home and they didn't show up

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Speaker 2: for work the next morning, and so family started calling

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Speaker 3: The search begins. A security guard.

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Speaker 2: Sees this vehicle parked in a cul de sac and sees,

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Speaker 2: I believe Sheryl's purse and sees some blood on the

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Speaker 2: And shortly thereafter their bodies were found. And the way

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Speaker 2: they were found, Babe, it is it's like a scene

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Speaker 2: out of a horror movie. It is.

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Speaker 1: And to be kind honest, we watch a lot of

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Speaker 1: horror movies and this thing kind of plays out where

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Speaker 1: lovers are targeted and there are these horrific killings and rods.

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Speaker 1: This is horrible stuff. They were both bound, He tied

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Speaker 1: He tied him to a tree and slashed his throat,

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Speaker 1: slashed her throat as well, but only after he raped her.

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Speaker 1: This is horrible, Yeah, horrible stuff. So Robes, what we're

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Speaker 1: describing now for the people of Houston, in the day

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Speaker 1: that followed, in the weeks that followed, in the months

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Speaker 2: And that was true. That was true, And that's the

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Speaker 2: scary part. This was one of those crimes where it's unexplained.

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Speaker 2: You don't have a reason. This is just a young

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Speaker 2: couple enjoying a night on their own. So this was

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Speaker 2: the opportunity. But yet, I think this man was on

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Speaker 2: the loose for thirty plus years, and he has some

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Speaker 2: history of other violent offenses. In fact, he was out

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Speaker 2: So this is just something that meant so much for

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Speaker 2: the family to hear where they talk about being shocked,

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Speaker 2: and who knows. They're probably thinking he could have been

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Speaker 3: Just all of that uncertainty just weighs on folks.

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Speaker 1: So that thirty six year weight ended this week. In fact,

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Speaker 1: he was in court yesterday and rolled. Yes, the folks

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Speaker 1: impacted by this. But the guy they caught after thirty

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Speaker 2: Texas, No, they did not. He was all the way

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Speaker 2: in Lincoln, Nebraska. His name is sixty four year old

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Speaker 2: Floyd William Parrott. He's been arrested. He's been charged with murder.

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Speaker 2: He was twenty eight at the time of the murders.

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Speaker 2: I was just trying to do them out there. But

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Speaker 2: that's remarkable. Thirty six years ago, he was twenty eight

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Speaker 2: years old. And yes, this break in the case from

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Speaker 2: a tip combined with renewed DNA analysis, because they had

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Speaker 3: They just didn't know who to be able to tie

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Speaker 2: It all came together with that tip and they got

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Speaker 1: And that's interesting because, yes, naturally the question is how

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Speaker 1: time that is interesting. And what we've seen. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there are shows called Cold Case File, there are shows

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Speaker 1: This is absolutely fascinating. There are so many police departments

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Speaker 1: that have detectives dedicated to cold cases. So you have,

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Speaker 1: in this instance, a detective dedicated to this case checking

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Speaker 1: it out. He reviews a tip. He comes across a

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Speaker 1: He saw this last year in going through stuff, but

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Speaker 1: we don't they didn't tell us a lot of information.

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Speaker 1: Actually not a lot of details. But he takes this

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Speaker 1: so many tips, one of them is.

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Speaker 2: The right one, and you have to be able to

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Speaker 2: Now you can say, oh my goodness, I can put

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Speaker 2: they were able to find him in Lincoln, Nebraska. He

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Speaker 1: So as they pieced this together, folks, and don't know

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Speaker 1: how this all exactly works, but my understanding is that

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Speaker 1: that detective who found the one tip, he realizes that

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Speaker 1: Parrot somewhere in his investigation the tip, I guess directed

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Speaker 1: sexual assault somewhere in nineteen ninety six. Yep, Do I

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Speaker 1: have this right?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So there's DNA from that case that had not

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Speaker 1: so it wasn't there to be compared. So once all

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Speaker 1: DNA from the lover's lame murders matches the DNA from

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, and holy hell, here we just like

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Speaker 1: that a case is solved, just with a couple of

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Speaker 2: And I hope that gives hope to so many families

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Speaker 2: out there who are waiting for answers, who are afraid

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Speaker 2: their loved one's death, or just even them being missing.

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Speaker 2: So for all the people who are waiting for answers,

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Speaker 2: and how excruciating that is. And we've just seen a

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Speaker 2: give closure to this, these two families in particular, but

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Speaker 2: I feel like it might give hope to so many

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Speaker 2: we'll figure this out.

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Speaker 1: You need a win. This is a weird comparison. Was

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Speaker 1: the first thing that came to my mind. Why some places,

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Speaker 1: some states require that lottery winners have to be publicly identified,

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Speaker 1: because people need to have confidence in the system and

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Speaker 1: know and see that yes, that person want or somebody

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Speaker 3: It's all true.

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Speaker 1: You need to see that, Oh this is possible, and

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Speaker 1: it did happen after thirty six years. My case has

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Speaker 1: It doesn't It matters, man. It gives your reason to keep.

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Speaker 2: And that is everything when you're waiting for answers that

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Speaker 2: the family statement from the victims. It is powerful and

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Speaker 2: praying that one day they too will have their case solved.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ

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Speaker 2: where police say they have finally nabbed the Lover's Lane

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Speaker 2: killer after thirty six years on the run. This is

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Speaker 2: an incredible story, a cold case that haunted the Houston

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Speaker 2: family members of the two young victims in this case,

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Speaker 2: twenty two year old Cheryl Henry and her boyfriend, twenty

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Speaker 2: one year old Andy Atkinson. It was bittersweeten and we'll

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Speaker 2: get into the exact statement, because it's so sad to

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Speaker 2: without knowing, without seeing this day, without feeling like justice

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Speaker 2: and probably had thought, I'm never going to know, I'm

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Speaker 2: never going to know what happened. But it just speaks

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Speaker 3: It's unthinkable.

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Speaker 1: It's we always say, right, it's the not knowing. It's

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Speaker 1: one thing that not does somebody's faith. But even when

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Speaker 1: you know your loved one might have been killed, you

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Speaker 1: still what's the next thing? You do want to know? Why? Yes,

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Speaker 1: you're just desperate for answers, and so at least this

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Speaker 3: Know that someone is held accountable matters.

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Speaker 2: I mean feeling like at least you know you're not

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Speaker 2: is something We've got. The Henry family statement that they

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Speaker 3: Today is a bittersweet day for our family.

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Speaker 2: Cheryl and Andy were truly incredible people, kind, loving, and

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Speaker 2: with so much life ahead of them after nearly thirty

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Speaker 2: we are overwhelmed with emotion. We are deeply grateful to

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Speaker 2: year and every breakthrough. We never gave up hope, and

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Speaker 2: we thank God that a suspect is now in custody.

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Speaker 2: We just wish our mother and Andy's father would have

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Speaker 2: lived to see this day. Cheryl's mother, Barbara Craig, and

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Speaker 2: Andy's Garland Atkinson, both passed away in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: As we move forward and seeking justice for Cheryl and Andy,

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Speaker 2: we kindly ask for privacy and continued prayers during this time.

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Speaker 1: Well done, well said, understandable. We've covered a lot of

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Speaker 1: execution is done. The victim's family oftentimes like this is over,

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Speaker 1: no more appeals and all this stuff. Over the past

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Speaker 1: thirty six years, this family has to hear little updates,

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Speaker 1: have little bits of hope there is that there was

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Speaker 1: at one point there was a pretty significant breakthrough in

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Speaker 1: this case. They having to keep hearing little dribs and

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Speaker 1: drafts and thinking, maybe this is the one, and maybe

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Speaker 1: this is that can stop. Now that's a big deal,

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Speaker 1: and that's that's peace as well, I'm sure, and I

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Speaker 1: wondered robes over the past thirty six years. Every time

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Speaker 3: Is this the tip?

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Speaker 1: Is this that it.

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Speaker 3: Gives me chills to think about?

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Speaker 2: I mean this is it actually makes me emotional because

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Speaker 3: You're always on edge. You're always waiting.

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Speaker 2: There's this level of anxiety that I'm imagining never goes

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Speaker 2: And now I feel like their shoulders can just relax

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Speaker 2: find out about this guy. It seems odd that you

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Speaker 2: would just, at one point in your life, at twenty eight,

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Speaker 2: That's just I wonder what else there is. I wonder

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Speaker 3: I would imagine that.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we're going to be hearing a lot more about

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Speaker 2: be obviously more intensive investigations about what this man was

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Speaker 2: doing for the past thirty six years and how he

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Speaker 3: With murder up until now.

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Speaker 2: Of course, we will continue to follow this case for you,

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Speaker 2: but a big, huge breakthrough for Houston, for that area,

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Speaker 2: for so many folks who had been on edge for

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Speaker 2: all this time. The Lover's Lane killer police say they

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Speaker 2: got their guy. And with that everyone, thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for listening to us. I'm made me roback alongside TJ. Holmes.

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Speaker 3: We will talk to you soon.