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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking Crimes now. One of

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Speaker 1: the alleged masterminds of the contract killing a Florida State

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Speaker 1: University law professor, Dan Markel, is facing a jury. Jury

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Speaker 1: selection for Donna Adelson, accused of planning their murder of

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Speaker 1: her son in law, is complete. Opening statements done now.

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Speaker 2: The evidence prosecutors depicted her as the matriarch mastermind behind

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Speaker 2: the brutal murder of the Florida State University law professor,

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Speaker 2: while her defense team portrayed her as a kind and

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Speaker 2: loving person. During their opening statements, the attorneys engaged in

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Speaker 2: extensive questioning and cross examination of several witnesses, including two

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Speaker 2: significant members of the Adelson family, Wendy and Robert. This

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Speaker 2: marked the first time Robert, the woman's son, has provided

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Speaker 2: testimony in the murder case. Having been estranged from his

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Speaker 2: family for several years. Robert disclosed that his last communication

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Speaker 2: with his mother was in twenty sixteen. Dan was fatally

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Speaker 2: shot at close range in twenty fourteen while in the

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Speaker 2: middle of a legal battle with his wife, Wendy Adelson,

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Speaker 2: over her desire to relocate with their two young sons

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Speaker 2: in Miami, where her parents lived as seventy five, Donna

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Speaker 2: Face's first degree murder charges, conspiracy, and solicitation in the

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Speaker 2: case that has garnered significant media attention in Tallahassee and

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Speaker 2: the US and resulted in the convictions of four others,

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Speaker 2: including her son, Charlie Adelson. Later in the afternoon, Wendy

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Speaker 2: Adelson took the stand once more, reiterating to the courtroom

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Speaker 2: that she had no involvement in the murder for hire

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Speaker 2: of her ex husband. However, during cross examination, Donna Adelson's

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Speaker 2: attorneys contended that Wendy may have had a deeper connection

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Speaker 2: to the murder than she disclosed. Assistant State Attorney Georgia

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Speaker 2: Kappelman continued to question Wendy, guiding the jury through the

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Speaker 2: timeline of events. I hired assassins at his Tallahassee residence.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it true that when you were interviewed by law enforcement?

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Speaker 3: She said initially, was Danny's parents were going to think

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Speaker 3: that you're the one who.

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Speaker 4: Did it, right. I did say that.

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Speaker 2: Throughout Wendy's testimony, Donna, her mother, listened closely as the

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Speaker 2: proceedings unfolded. Wendy's account remained consistent with her previous testimonies.

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Speaker 2: In earlier trials. On the morning of the murder, Wendy

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Speaker 2: was awaiting a TV repairman, the same television that Charlie

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Speaker 2: had joked about being less expensive than hiring a hit man.

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Speaker 2: Wendy acknowledged her brother's tasteless joke, but Capelman pressed her further, saying,

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Speaker 2: but someone did hire a hit man. Yes, that happened,

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Speaker 2: Wendy confirmed. Continuing her cross examination, Capelman posed a direct question,

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Speaker 2: were you in any way involved in the plot to

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Speaker 2: kill your ex husband? No, Wendy replied, did you perhaps

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Speaker 2: know what was going to happen but not the specifics?

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Speaker 2: I did not know what was going to happen. I

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Speaker 2: did not know anything about it, Wendy asserted. The trial

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Speaker 2: continues against the mother in law, Donna Adelson the more

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Speaker 2: Time and Justice News after this.

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Speaker 4: I'm Drew Nelson. A man puts on a murdered woman's

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Speaker 4: clothes and wig and forces the victim's boyfriend to wear

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Speaker 4: her clothes too and help dump her body in the

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Speaker 4: Florida Woods. That's according to police testimony heard in court Monday.

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Speaker 4: Our TV news partners at Fox thirteen Tampa. We're in

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Speaker 4: the Hillsboro County court room for the bond hearing of

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Speaker 4: Arnaldo Sintron, aged forty two, who was arrested alongside his girlfriend,

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Speaker 4: thirty seven year old he Sells Santiago Bonilla. Both are

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Speaker 4: charged in the brutal stabbing death of Sindrone's girlfriend's cousin,

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Speaker 4: forty two year old heel Hira Valsbonia, better known as Joy.

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Speaker 5: But given the nature and circumstances the offense, the vision

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Speaker 5: from law enforcement, the planning involved in this particular case,

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Speaker 5: in the overall risk of physical harm, and my concerns

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Speaker 5: about appearance, court taking a account her ties to the community,

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Speaker 5: I'm going.

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Speaker 4: To set substantial bail in these cases.

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Speaker 5: I do find that there she does pose a risk

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Speaker 5: of physical harm to the community, as well as a

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Speaker 4: In this case, Bania's boyfriend, Elga Davis the Second, told

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Speaker 4: deputies he saw Centron stab Joy in the neck and

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Speaker 4: her Riverview home after a fight about money and chores.

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Speaker 4: He said in court that Centron kept stabbing.

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Speaker 2: I'm sitting there and the next thing I hear like

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Speaker 2: someone get hid in the throat, and I did me that.

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Speaker 6: That sound and then I try to go run over

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Speaker 4: F Davis and Centron then forced him to help clean

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Speaker 4: ell helped to calling Joy evil and saying quote, she

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Speaker 4: deserved this. Put on to find the word.

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Speaker 1: Stuffed, folded, pushed, how was she fits into the box?

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Speaker 4: We stuffed her. They took the box with Joy's remains

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Speaker 4: to her car. Davis said Sentrone and Hezel threatened to

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Speaker 4: kill him and Joy's teenage son if he didn't help.

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Speaker 4: At one point, Sintrone dressed in one of Joy's wigs

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Speaker 4: They met up with another man known only as Tarzan

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Speaker 4: and dumped Joy's body in a mangrove area of the

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Speaker 4: later called his parents, then turned himself into deputies and

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Speaker 4: led them to the body. Sentrone faces charges of second

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Speaker 4: degree murder, moving a body in unapproved conditions, tampering with

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Speaker 4: His Hell is charged with accessory after the fact and

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Speaker 4: is being held on two hundred thousand dollars bond. The

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Speaker 4: investigation continues. I'm Jennifer Gould.

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Speaker 3: The quiet charm of Unison, Michigan was shattered by an

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Speaker 3: unsettling disappearance that has left investigators with a chilling mystery

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Speaker 3: and a family clinging to hope. Starla Goings, a sixty

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Speaker 3: five year old mom and beloved bank teller, vanished from

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Speaker 3: her home back on August fifteenth, just days after a

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Speaker 3: crucial legal development in her divorce case. The unsettling detail

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Speaker 3: of her abandoned car, found on a lonely stretch of road,

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Speaker 3: has sent chalk waves through the community and ignited a

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Speaker 3: desperate multi agency search. Here's Alger County Sheriff Todd Brock.

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Speaker 4: That's our focus.

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Speaker 6: Will exhaust every lead we have and do anything we

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Speaker 3: Goings, described by her daughter as quote unquote bubbly and

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Speaker 3: estranged husband, Stephen Goings, around midnight after the couple attended

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Speaker 3: the Upstate Fair. For a woman known to be in

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Speaker 3: constant contact with her family, her sudden silence was a

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Speaker 3: blaring red flag. A welfare check on August seventheenth confirmed

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Speaker 3: their worst fears, Starla was gone. The Alger County Sheriff's

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Speaker 3: Office immediately launched a full scale missing person investigation, but

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Speaker 3: a key piece of the puzzle quickly emerged. Deputies found

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Speaker 3: Starla's vehicle on August seventeenth, abandoned at the intersection of

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Speaker 3: to her whereabouts, sparking a methodical but frenzied search. K

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Speaker 3: nine units, aerial drones and ground teams from the Michigan

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Speaker 3: State Police, Marquette County Sheriff's Office, Michigan Department of Natural Resources,

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Speaker 3: and the US Forest Service are now combing the rugged terrain,

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Speaker 3: following every possible lead. The case has been further complicated

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Speaker 3: by court records. It was revealed that Starla had filed

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Speaker 3: for divorce from her husband in May, and just four

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Speaker 3: real estate sale proceeds was signed. While authorities have not

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Speaker 3: officially suggested foul play, these details have raised questions about

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Speaker 3: the nature of her disappearance. With no suspects named, and

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Speaker 3: community is left with one lingering question, what happened to

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Speaker 3: Starla Goings. The Alger County Sheriffs is asking residents to

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Speaker 3: please check game or outdoor cameras around the area where

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Speaker 3: her orange twenty nineteen Volkswagon tig One SUV was found

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Speaker 3: of place. Her family is pleading with the public for help,

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Speaker 3: urging anyone with information to contact the Alger County Sheriff's

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Speaker 3: Office at nine zero six three eight seven seventy thirty.

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Speaker 6: I'm Sidney Sumner. In a lengthy jailhouse interview, the father

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Speaker 6: of seven month old Emmanuel Harrow denied prosecutor's contention that

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Speaker 6: the boy suffered long term abuse before his presumed death,

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Speaker 6: and said his wife, who reported the infant missing, was innocent.

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Speaker 6: Jake Harrow, thirty two, told a Southern California News Group

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Speaker 6: reporter that he has been completely cooperative with investigators, although

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Speaker 6: he declined to say whether he led them to the

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Speaker 6: in a jailhouse jumpsuit as crews searched the area. Harrow

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Speaker 6: and forty one year old Rebecca Harrow were charged this

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Speaker 6: week with killing little Emmanuel and filing a false police report.

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Speaker 6: Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin said that investigators believed

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Speaker 6: that Emmanuel was severely abused over a period of time.

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Speaker 6: Hestron added both parents would have been aware of that abuse.

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Speaker 6: Harrow insisted that allegation was not true at all, but

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Speaker 6: the little boy's disappearance. Prosecutors and investigators said that there

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Speaker 6: has been some level of cooperation from the parents, but

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Speaker 6: declined to provide details. Rebecca Harrow reported her son missing

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Speaker 6: on August fourteenth, claiming that someone she did not see

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Speaker 6: knocked her unconscious while she was changing Emmanuel's diaper and

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Speaker 6: reported disappearance, she begged for help finding her son, but

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Speaker 6: investigators soon found inconsistencies in her stories, and a week later,

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Speaker 6: the parents were arrested. Formal murder charges were filed this week.

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Speaker 6: In his jailhouse interview, Jake Harrow also denied prosecutor's version

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Speaker 6: of his previous conviction for child abuse. He claimed that

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Speaker 6: she is now left blind with three percent brain function

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Speaker 6: from her severe injuries, which included fresh and healing rib fractures,

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Speaker 6: a fractured skull, and a leg fracture. And his then

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Speaker 6: wife pleaded guilty and he was sentenced to one hundred

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Speaker 6: abuse or treatment program. Haro said, somehow they magically convinced

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Speaker 6: me to take this plea deal. I was sick of court.

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Speaker 6: The judge knows I didn't do it. They just railroaded me.

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Speaker 6: I was the fall guy. District Attorney Hestern said that

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Speaker 6: there was no plea deal. Instead, Haro threw himself on

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Speaker 6: the mercy of the court and pled guilty in open

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Speaker 6: big break with the sentence over prosecutor's strenuous objections. The

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Speaker 6: commenting mister Harrow should have been in prison at the

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Speaker 6: time that this crime happened. Haro declined to provide any

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Speaker 6: details about the current case, citing advice from his lawyer.

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Speaker 6: Harro said, I want to talk about it, but I can't.

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Speaker 6: I was told don't do no press. Rebecca Harrow, too

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Speaker 6: appears to be ignoring legal advice, speaking to a reporter

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Speaker 6: kidnapping story. Rebecca's husband says she is innocent. The media

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Speaker 6: is killing her. She is a beautiful woman. She loves

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Speaker 6: her children. The Riverside Sheriff's Department has declined to comment

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Speaker 6: about Harrow's interview, saying the investigation is very active and

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Speaker 6: will be for quite some time. For the latest crime

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Speaker 6: and justice news, be sure to follow the Crime Alert

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Speaker 6: hourly update on your favorite podcast app with this Crime Alert.

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Speaker 6: I'm Sydney Sumner.