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Speaker 1: Tonight, we are learning how police paced together their investigation

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Speaker 1: into a Fort Worth woman's murder. Molly Matheson was discovered

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Speaker 1: dead in her home near TCUs campus April tenth. Detectives

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Speaker 1: don't believe she was actually killed in the shower, but

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Speaker 1: the killer tried to rinse her off there in an

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Speaker 1: effort to destroy evidence. Her mother discovered her body around

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Speaker 1: four thirty Monday afternoon. This is current stories with Nancy Grace.

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Speaker 1: A family friend described her as the funniest person nobody

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Speaker 1: could ever hate her. She was just so amazing, a

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Speaker 1: woman who was involved in church and had a clever

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Speaker 1: sense of humor. Though she lived near TCU, Molly was

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Speaker 1: not a student here. After they unlocked her phone with

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Speaker 1: her thumbrint, they found a text message from a number

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Speaker 1: that read I'm outside. It was sent just hours before

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Speaker 1: Molly was murdered, and police say that number belongs to

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Speaker 1: Reginald Kembro. In the last hour, we learned a twenty

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Speaker 1: three year old man has been arrested in a story

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Speaker 1: we told you about the murder of a young sorority

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Speaker 1: girl just twenty two years old, found brutally strangled in

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Speaker 1: her apartment near Texas Christian University. I'm talking about a

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Speaker 1: beautiful young girl, Molly Matheson. She was renting a garage

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Speaker 1: apartment just a couple of blocks from TCU, Texas Christian University.

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Speaker 1: She was just twenty two years old there in that

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Speaker 1: Fort Worth, Texas apartment. Her poor mother, Tracy, discovered her

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Speaker 1: body in that apartment bathroom, and the search was on. Why.

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Speaker 1: Why this morning do I learn that the elitted perpetrator,

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Speaker 1: Reginald Kimbro, had been arrested on several other sex offenses. I,

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace, this is crime Stories, and we want answer.

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Speaker 1: by her mother in that garage apartment just a couple

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Speaker 1: of blocks from Texas Christian. She had been reading the apartment.

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Speaker 1: It was connected to a home nearby. Her parents released

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Speaker 1: a statement about this. They are heart broken now. According

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Speaker 1: to Reginald Kimbro's Facebook page, he lives in Plaino, a

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Speaker 1: very will to do suburb, and was studying marketing at

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Speaker 1: University Arkansas. Now Matheson had also gone to University of Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: Kimbro was in his father's home in Dallas when he

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Speaker 1: was arrested. What is really upsetting to me, why wasn't

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Speaker 1: he already behind bars on the previous sex allegations. Joining

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Speaker 1: me is the Duke Alan, Duke Alan, what do you know?

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Speaker 1: The family acknowledges that she briefly knew this young man,

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Speaker 1: so there was that connection and presumably it was at

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Speaker 1: the University of Arkansas that they that In fourteen, according

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Speaker 1: to the arrest affidavit, he went over to her house.

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Speaker 1: Remember this is the house that is the pool house.

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Speaker 1: It's just a small, one bedroom pool house attached to

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Speaker 1: a much larger, nicer house in a residential area a

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Speaker 1: the shower. The theory of police is that he strangled her,

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Speaker 1: There are now suggestions that they had dated in the past.

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Speaker 1: That's irrelevant to me whether they had dated or not.

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Speaker 1: What concerns me as I asked you to start with,

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Speaker 1: But somehow you managed to dodge the question prior sex

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Speaker 1: accusations against him, That's what's concerning me. Were their prior

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Speaker 1: the past. Do we know about that at yes, we do.

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Speaker 1: Two instances where there were complaints filed against him, two

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Speaker 1: different women alleging rape one one. None of them went

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Speaker 1: was consensual. There never were charges prosecuted against him. What WHOA?

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Speaker 1: So there was DNA evidence in one or both of them,

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Speaker 1: I'm already in my mind figuring out how to prosecute

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Speaker 1: the case. Because you've got the woman who files a

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Speaker 1: rape report, you've got DNA and he says it was consensual.

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Speaker 1: Then you have another one, another rape allegation against him

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Speaker 1: that should have been brought in as a similar transaction

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Speaker 1: instead of out free to murder Molly. This is a

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Speaker 1: big deal at there are indications that this guy is

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Speaker 1: really premeditated and cold with this. Did you see the

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Speaker 1: text message that was on Molly's phone sent by this

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Speaker 1: guy after he allegedly killed her. Yeah, hey, thanks again

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Speaker 1: for the advice. It's nice seeing how far you've come.

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Speaker 1: I'm proud of you. When you get up, I mean

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Speaker 1: in that abbreviation HMU doesn't mean hmmmm, it means hit

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Speaker 1: me up, as in hit me up, call me when

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Speaker 1: you wake up. It was sent about an hour after

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Speaker 1: he allegedly killed her, so he was apparently trying to

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Speaker 1: cover up. It is very cool about it. And there

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Speaker 1: was another text message from Kimbro allegedly to Molly a

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Speaker 1: little bit earlier in the evening that said quote, I'm outside.

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Speaker 1: The police used these text messages to realize that Kimbro

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Speaker 1: had been in the apartment. The only way they were

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Speaker 1: able to find these text messages and now this this

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Speaker 1: is modern investigation. They took her thumb of the corpse,

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Speaker 1: the Molly's thumb, and put it on the iPhone thumb

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Speaker 1: print sensor, and that is how they unlocked her phone

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Speaker 1: because they didn't have the password. He admits he visited well,

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Speaker 1: a friendly visit. He admitted to police he had visited

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Speaker 1: Matheson on the date in April, claiming that they kissed

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Speaker 1: but she did not want to have sex, and he

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Speaker 1: and I found that arrest warrant in the Star Telegram.

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Speaker 1: Now he admitted that he was there the day of

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Speaker 1: left with no further incident. That's damning right there. You're

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Speaker 1: placing yourself at the scene of their murder. Then of

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Speaker 1: course there's the d n A. And to think alan

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Speaker 1: of time cleaning up the scene, so his fingerprints are everywhere.

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Speaker 1: But this is what I don't get. He had been

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Speaker 1: accused of rape twice twice, Alan, why wasn't he in jail?

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Speaker 1: We see from what he allegedly did the day of

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Speaker 1: he was smart, and apparently he was just smart enough

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Speaker 1: it was consensual and there was no crime committed. But

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Speaker 1: in this one he went way too far. Well now

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Speaker 1: they charges against this guy, Reginald Kimbro, have been upgraded

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Speaker 1: to capital murder and the horrible, the brutal strangulation death

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Speaker 1: for Molly Mouth. So we covered this when it was

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Speaker 1: still a mystery, when the killer was at large, when

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Speaker 1: there were no leads. The charges against twenty three year

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Speaker 1: old Reginald Kimbro, the man accused of killing Molly at

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Speaker 1: her Texas Christian University Area garage apartment, have been upgraded

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Speaker 1: to capital murder. Now. I just can't wait to hear

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Speaker 1: what the defense is going to be. When Matheson failed

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Speaker 1: floor wearing only a T shirt. In the arrest who

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Speaker 1: in after David Kimbro admits he had dated Molly at

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Speaker 1: University Arkansas briefly and they were quote hanging out at

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Speaker 1: her apartment Friday. That Friday night, he said they did

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Speaker 1: not have sex because it would upset her boyfriend. That's

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Speaker 1: not what happened at all. He says he left her

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Speaker 1: apartment around one thirty in the morning and had nothing

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Speaker 1: to do with her death. I just can't below this

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Speaker 1: guy had to prior rape allegations against him and he

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Speaker 1: was out walking free, and I'm sure Molly had no clue.

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Speaker 1: the charges are upgraded. In the search of her apartment,

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Speaker 1: police found a pair of Molly's running shorts, underwear, a pillowcase,

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Speaker 1: a fitted sheet in the washing machine, along with a

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Speaker 1: pair of men's underwear still wet. What an idiot did

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Speaker 1: he leave his own underwear there? You know what? That's

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Speaker 1: neither here nor there, except it could be more evidence.

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Speaker 1: What I want to know is they've upgraded the charges.

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Speaker 1: Is this going to be a death penalty case? Allan,

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Speaker 1: This is Texas, and in Texas that's what they do.

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Speaker 1: This is the latest in the case of Molly Matheson,

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Speaker 1: a young girl, beautiful young girl whose mother finds her dead.

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Speaker 1: I want justice for Molly Matheson, Nancy Grace Crime Stories

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