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Speaker 1: mine or twelve right now, imagine Honey Malone's mother, her

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Speaker 1: the case. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Crime

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Speaker 1: Story with Nancy Grace. How does a beautiful and I

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Speaker 1: mean beautiful eighteen year old girl end up dead? A

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. The night

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Speaker 1: host Karen Greer. Police in decap County, Georgia, respond to

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Speaker 1: And I'm just looking at her, the whole world in

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Speaker 1: Beverly Hills, Doctor Bethany, I still speak about my dad

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Speaker 1: and then gunshots pierced the night. Honey was shot once

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Speaker 1: at the back, a second shot to the chest, the

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Speaker 1: bullet plunging straight through her heart while the robbers were

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Speaker 1: ransacked in the apartment. I believe Honey walked in and

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Speaker 1: when she turned to leave, that's when she was shot.

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Speaker 1: When she turned to leave. Yes, so you think she

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Speaker 1: was trying to get out of there when she was shot,

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Speaker 1: Yes to Cheryl mccollin, director Cold Case Research Institute for

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Speaker 1: insuc's expert tell me about the scene. Tell me, because

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Speaker 1: I find it really hard to believe that three people

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Speaker 1: tied up in the bathtub know nothing, armed intruders nobody

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00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: can identify. Then Honey, who's just leaving her mom's condo

436
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: to go gousit her friend walks in the door as

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00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: she's gunned down what does the scene tell you? Cheryl McCall,

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00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: I'm a honey is shot in the living room of

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Speaker 1: a one bedroom apartment in the back, Nancy. She is

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00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: then drug through the apartment, leaving a trail of blood

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Speaker 1: where she is thrown in the closet of the master's

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00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: bedroom where she's shot. Wait wait, wait where based on

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Speaker 1: the trail of blood, where was she shot? Right by

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Speaker 1: the front door, trying to leave in the back? Okay,

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00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: so that's where the theory is coming from. That she

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00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: came in, she tried to leave, hence the shot in

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Speaker 1: the back, and that's where the blood trail starts. Got it,

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00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: go ahead. When she's in the closet, she has shot

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00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: a second time in the chest. Now to me, that

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00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: means they're making sure where she is not going to survive.

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00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: Then they steal her cell phone and leave the apartment,

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Speaker 1: leaving the two alleged victims caught up in the bathroom unharmed.

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00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: They weren't slapped, they weren't kicks, they weren't pumped, they

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Speaker 1: weren't even threatened. They were just put in the back room. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't like it. Karen Career with Me, investigative reporter,

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Speaker 1: News anchor at CBS forty six Atlanta and host of

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Speaker 1: CSI Atlanta, which we're linking to at crime online dot com,

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00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: so you can find out about that as well. Karen Greer,

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Speaker 1: I don't get it. If they're masked, why did they

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00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: have to shoot Vanessa Honey Malone when the others were

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00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 1: just tied up and left in the bathroom. They saw

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Speaker 1: the same thing Honey did. So why did they live

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Speaker 1: and Honey had to be shot dead? Is there a

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00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: chance the one supposedly tied up in the bathroom or not?

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Speaker 1: I just heard that, Karen. Karen Greer says, supposedly tied up,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, it just does not make sense. They're three

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00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: to six, four to six. The numbers don't even add up.

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Speaker 1: Nothing about what was told the police is the same.

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Speaker 1: And to have these people tied up with I think

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Speaker 1: it was twist ties in one paw are a belt?

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Speaker 1: Um some kind of cable? My cat could get out

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00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:10,719
Speaker 1: of a belt. Okay, tied up with a belt? I

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00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: am not abide why they lived, Karen Grier and Honey

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00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: had to be shot dead. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys,

475
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: we were talking about a sudden break in the case

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Speaker 1: in the murder of a beautiful young girl in Atlanta

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Speaker 1: native Honey Malone. Take a listen to our friend's crime watch.

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Speaker 1: Deli correspondent Anna Garcia Flora and honey sister Cassandra believe

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00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: Honey was lured to the apartment to silence her. Why

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00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: don't you believe that she walked into a robbery? I

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00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: believe that they thought she knew something or saw something

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00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: and was worried that she was gonna tell. She wouldn't

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Speaker 1: just walk into a kicked indoor to see what happened.

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00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: That's not her. So you think his whole home invasion

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00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: robbery theory is what I set up to make it

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00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: look like it was a robbery so they can get off.

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Speaker 1: One troubling question, why was Honey's cell phone found far

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00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: away from the murder scene. We tracked her cell phone

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00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 1: after the murder to a location about a half mile away,

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00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: where it stayed there until it died. So how did

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00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: Honey's cell phone end up half a mile away stolen

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00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: during the incident? Why would they take her cell phone?

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00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: They've already killed her. What do they need her cell

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00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 1: phone for? Thinking that maybe she could call for help? No,

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00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: they're just easy to resell on the street. But Honey's

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00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: family doesn't buy that explanation. I don't buy it either.

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Speaker 1: Karen Career, CBS forty six Atlanta and news anchor host

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Speaker 1: of c S I Atlanta. Karen, that was an excellent point.

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Speaker 1: This girl would never go into an apartment with the

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Speaker 1: door already kicked in, wouldn't happen. I think the people

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Speaker 1: in the bathtub are all lying about what happened, which

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00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: makes me wonder why why would they lie about it,

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00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 1: unless somehow they were part of something much more nefarious.

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00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: Karen Greer helped me understand the scenario. I know when

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00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: talking to Flora, I remember her saying Honey was tired,

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Speaker 1: she was going to lay down, she was resting in

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Speaker 1: her room. Then she got a phone call, then she said, Mom,

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00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: I'll be right back. So I believe that story that

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00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: she was lord there and once she got there, everyone

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00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: appeared to be against her. She was the one that

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00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: was glutally murdered, and then all of her supposed friends,

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00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: alleged friends, kind of turned I knew nothing and just

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00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: left her there to die. It's the worst story you

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00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: can ever amass. What could she possibly have seen? This

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00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: girl has never even been stopped as a juvenile for jaywalking.

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00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: For Pete's sake, she's every parent's dream as opposed to

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00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: a nightmare. You know, Cheryl McCollum, I tell my twins

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00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,760
Speaker 1: all the time, listen, even if somebody at school, because

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00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: they're a students. I want that a Cheryl. I feel

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00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: like I deserve those a's as much tutoring as I do.

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00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,280
Speaker 1: But I say, don't even let anybody look at your paper,

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00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 1: because if somebody cheats off you, you're going to be

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00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: the one they get kicked out. Both of you. You'll

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00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: boil in the same pot. In other words, your friends

525
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 1: that you make. This young girl, Vanessa Honey Malone, I

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00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: think went to go see friends and it turned They

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00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: all turned on her because they were part of something nefarious. Absolutely,

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00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: there's no doubt in my mind she was Luis there.

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00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: The only thing stolen from that apartment that night was

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00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: Honey's cell phone and her life. I want to go

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00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: back to Honey's mother, Flora Malone, and her sister, Cassandra Kennedy,

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00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: Miss Malone, and her whole life. Your daughter had never

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00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 1: once been in any trouble. She was a great student.

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00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 1: She had a job. I don't want to hear their names.

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00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: But who were these friends? Were they school friends, neighborhood friends?

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00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 1: Who were they? Well, I've never met any of them,

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00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm hearing that she liked to go over

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00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: there and play cards and listen to music and hang

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00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 1: out because she considered them friends. You know what's interesting

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00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 1: to Wendy Patrick, how many times did I prosecute a

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00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 1: case whether there be four teens and a stolen car,

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00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: and that I'll say it's not my car, and then

543
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,479
Speaker 1: the driver it would be their car, and the other

544
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: teams are caught in the same mess and they all

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00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: get charged. Who you hang out with, it's not your fault.

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00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 1: You don't always know who you're hanging out with, Wendy.

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00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: It's so true. It's why we tell our kids, show

548
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: me your friends, and I'll show you your future. We

549
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 1: really are guilty by association in the eyes sometimes of

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00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,319
Speaker 1: law enforcement of the community. And that is why when

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00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: we're warming up a cold case like this, talking about

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00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 1: who is socializing with who, it is imperative. And I'm

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00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: so pleased that you that honey had such a loving

554
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,479
Speaker 1: mother and sister that are able to show us who

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00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 1: she really was, so we can actually know that. You know,

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00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 1: Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor and author. Even when John David

557
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: is playing his games online, I get right up in

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00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: the picture and see who he's on with. If there's

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00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: not a pitch, I'm like, who is that? Who is that?

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00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: Let me hear their voice. I know it drives him crazy,

561
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: but I want to know this girl had never once

562
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:07,799
Speaker 1: been in trouble. To Cheryl McCollum, I'm not buying anything

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00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: they're saying about the crime scene. I don't think the

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00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: people were tied up and put in the bathtub. I think,

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00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:18,240
Speaker 1: like you and Karen Greer do, that she was lured

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00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: there because somehow she had seen or knew something had

567
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: gone on, as she had to be gotten rid of

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00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: taking listen guys. In the last hours, a major break

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Speaker 1: in the case and arrest has been made in the

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00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 1: murder of Honey Malone. This good news comes with mixed

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00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: emotions for Honey's family. They spoke exclusively to me about

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00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: how they're dealing with all of this. I want to

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00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: wake up and hear the phone ringing. Detective called me

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00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: in and say we got him, We got him. Flora

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00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: Malone got that call just three months after this interview,

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Speaker 1: to Cap County Police making an arrest in the twenty

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Speaker 1: twelve murder of her eighteen year old daughter, Vanessa Honey

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00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 1: Malone to a shot to death inside her friend's Stone

579
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Speaker 1: Mountain apartment. They drug a trail of blood of my

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00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: sister on the carpet and put her in the closet.

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00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: After years of frustration and grief, justice finally feels insight

582
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: for Flora and her daughter. Cassandra. Just grateful that I'm

583
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: alive to see this coming, because I'm worried about that sometimes.

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Speaker 1: The Cap County Police arresting thirty five year old Donald

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00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: Lash Friday at his mother's home in Stone Mountain. We

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00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 1: do believe that multiple people are responsible for this crime,

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00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:37,800
Speaker 1: and the investigation is ongoing. We hope more arrests will follow.

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00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: You are hearing the police speaking out on the arrest

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00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,280
Speaker 1: that has just happened a thirty five year old Donald

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Speaker 1: Ash to Karen Greer, CBS forty six, Atlanta anchor and

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Speaker 1: host of CSI Atlanta podcast, Karen Greer, who is this guy,

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00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 1: thirty five year old Donald Ash? What did he have

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00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: to do with this young girl? Interesting that he seemed

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00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: to know everybody involved in all of this. Interesting note,

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00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: Flora and Cassandra were no strangers to this gentleman, so

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00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,760
Speaker 1: this could be very interesting to see if in fact

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00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,320
Speaker 1: he's gonna turn into the other people who might have

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00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: been in that apartment or who were in that apartment

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00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:33,280
Speaker 1: when he was there when Honey was killed. Flora Malone,

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Speaker 1: do you know Donald ashe he's never agreed to meet

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00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: with us. Me and Cassandra had tried several times over

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00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: the years. Cassandra, did you know this guy before Honey

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00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: was killed? No, okay, so you did not know him.

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00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: Cheryl McCollum, who is this guy? And can't we make

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00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: him roll over on the everybody else in that apartment? Well,

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00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,280
Speaker 1: they knew him by a nickname, so he went by Mercy,

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00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 1: so they knew of him, and he was the apartment

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00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: earlier in the day, but he left before law enforce

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00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: has showed up. The person he was meeting at the apartment.

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00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: They also are aware of and know of this person

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00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 1: and he goes by Yaps. So yes, absolutely law enforcement

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00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,959
Speaker 1: has got to go back and reinterview these people. And

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00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 1: I've made it very very clear. The first one that

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00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,840
Speaker 1: talks gets the deal. So somebody needs a role on somebody. Oh,

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00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:28,320
Speaker 1: they will, they will. To Flora Malone and Cassanga Kennedy,

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Speaker 1: I'm so relieved that at least one arrest has been made.

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00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: Flora Malone, Honey's mother, what is your message to everybody

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Speaker 1: else that was in that apartment and had anything to

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00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: do with your daughter's death. My advice to anybody who

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00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: even knows what happened is go ahead and say no.

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Speaker 1: Because I don't know who else is going to be

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00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 1: charged or what the church will be, but I know

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00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,879
Speaker 1: they would feel better if they could get this off

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00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: their chest. They have to to Cheryl McCollum direct to

625
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: Cold Case Research Institute. For any people that have information

626
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: that are willing to come forward, where can they call?

627
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 1: They need to call the Cab County Police, or if

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00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 1: they don't want to call the police, they can certainly

629
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: call you know, channel forty six CBS. They can call

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00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 1: Atlanta Crime Stoppers. There's a plethora of people they can

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00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: call with information and it's imperative they do so. They

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00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:36,280
Speaker 1: can even leave a message on honey Facebook page. Karen Greer,

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00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,760
Speaker 1: tell me the number that you guys have that anyone

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00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: with information can dial four zero four three two seven

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Speaker 1: three thousand four zero four three two seven three thousand,

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Speaker 1: and you can even send us an email at CBS

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Speaker 1: Atlanta forty six dot com. We do get a lot

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Speaker 1: of anonymous tips, and I will say Sherlin and I

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Speaker 1: have been looking through some tips that people have been

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Speaker 1: sending us for weeks, so we try to make sure

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Speaker 1: that law enforcement gets a hold of those and that

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Speaker 1: any leads that we may get are followed. For right now,

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Speaker 1: a major break in the murder of this eighteen year

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Speaker 1: old girl scrubbed in Sunshine Vanessa Honey Malone. But it's

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Speaker 1: ain't over yet. Nancy Grace Crime Story, signing off Goodbye friend,