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Speaker 1: Here's Mark Boguten, Ron Liebermann's attorney, could be a victim

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Speaker 1: of random violence and crazy Hillo running through or then

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Speaker 1: He testified at the hearing. He said, it's very rare

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Speaker 1: So when considering explanations forced snayhouse disappearance, I think we

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Speaker 1: can safely cross off random act of violence. But what

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Speaker 1: find her. I'm your host, John Waalzac. The NYPD, private investigators,

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Speaker 1: and attorneys all focused on the idea of random violence.

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Speaker 1: You see it repeatedly in court records. Quote a random

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Speaker 1: me as disingenuous. Most murdered women are killed by men

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Speaker 1: Take for example, Ron's computer. Detective Stark obtained it. He

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Speaker 1: on September twenty six, two thousand and one, Snayha emailed

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Speaker 1: in Alaska, about the nineteen seventy two disappearance of two congressmen.

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