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Speaker 1: this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us

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Speaker 1: First of all, I want you to take and listen

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Speaker 1: to this. This is our friend Bill Spencer at kp

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Speaker 1: RC two. This alleged attacker or alleged attackers. They left

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Speaker 1: him in the street with fracture, with a fractures full unconscious.

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Speaker 1: The doctor said yesterday that it was bought force trauma

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Speaker 1: to the back of his head. He's got fractures inward

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Speaker 1: Lake Jackson police detectives are investigating the attack, and this

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Speaker 1: entire ordeal has been gut wrenching for the family. It is.

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Speaker 1: It's a rollercoaster of the most extreme grief you can

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Speaker 1: this senseless brutality. It's unimaginable. I wish you could see

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Speaker 1: his face. Teen boy Cole Hagen just scrubbed in sunshine.

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Speaker 1: The all American boy, star of the football team, well

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Speaker 1: liked by everyone at his high school there in Lake Jackson, Texas.

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Speaker 1: So why would someone lure him outside, away from his

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Speaker 1: twin of his friends and beat him senseless? Again, thank

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Speaker 1: you for being with us here at Foxation in series

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Speaker 1: M one eleven with me an all star panel to

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Speaker 1: make sense of what we know right now. Gabby Hart,

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Speaker 1: Reporter Fox twenty six Houston, joining US professor Forensics Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: and star of Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan on iHeart.

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Speaker 1: Joining US renowned psychologist forensics psychologist doctor Sherry Swartz her

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Speaker 1: specialty criminal behavior. James shell Nutt, former Metro major case

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Speaker 1: now lawyer and special guests joining US Cole Hagen's brother Corey. Corey,

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Speaker 1: when did you first learn that your brother had been

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Speaker 1: lured out and badly horribly attacked? Who was last weekend?

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Speaker 1: I guess I woke up at three o'clock in the

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Speaker 1: my phone, and I had six miscalls from my father,

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Speaker 1: and so I called him back and for me of

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Speaker 1: the attack and that my brother was an ICU at

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Speaker 1: Herman Memorial Hospital in Houston, Texas. So this happened on

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Speaker 1: a Friday night? Was it after a football game? No

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Speaker 1: football season had already ended, So what was happening? You're

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Speaker 1: your brother's a football player, right, Yes? He is? What position?

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Speaker 1: He's a wide receiver? And is that he just in

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Speaker 1: the eleventh grade? He's a junior. He is only a junior. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And let me ask you this, where are you in

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Speaker 1: relation to him? You're his brother, older brother, nineteen years

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Speaker 1: years apartment. So your little brother is lured out and

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Speaker 1: Where was he? They were at a gathering at one

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Speaker 1: that's where the attack occurred. Let's go straight out to

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Speaker 1: Gabby Hart joining us Fox twenty six, Houston. Gabby, what

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Speaker 1: do we know right now? What happened? Uh? Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: Where is Lake Jackson, Texas exactly so as the city

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Speaker 1: with purpose in mind, Nancy. You know who who brings

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Speaker 1: Where a Law and psychology intersect. Doctor Sherry speaking of

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. He paid two thousand dollars, took his pictures,

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Speaker 1: and he was on his way while my brother laid

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Speaker 1: in bed fighting for his life. Take a listen to

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Speaker 1: our cut five Fox twenty six, Houston. The community came

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Speaker 1: together Wednesday night at Freeport Park and prayed for a

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Speaker 1: full recovery. Police have identified the suspects as seventeen year

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Speaker 1: old eight In Holland, eighteen year old Logan Houber, and

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Speaker 1: seventeen year old Read Mitchell. They're all facing serious felony charges.

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Speaker 1: I just hope that they're held accountable to the full

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Speaker 1: extent of the law. My brothers certainly not getting cut

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Speaker 1: any deals. He's playing in a hospital bed, and we're

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Speaker 1: also prayed that he's going to come back to be

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Speaker 1: normal again, which we don't know. And now the family

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Speaker 1: says they believe that there's video of the attack out there,

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Speaker 1: and they say, and they're offering a twenty thousand dollar

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Speaker 1: reward for anyone who hands it over so that they

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Speaker 1: can assist police with this investigation by checking out and

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Speaker 1: looking at that video. Time Stories with Nancy Grace. Gabby

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Speaker 1: Hart joining me from Fox twenty six Houston. Gabby again,

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Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. It's my understanding that

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Speaker 1: two of the purps reportedly Lord call out and then

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Speaker 1: he was attacked by Mitchell. Well, what's the working theory

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Speaker 1: of cops right now and what Jackass gave us, Guy Bond?

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Speaker 1: You know what, Nancy, there's a lot of people asking

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Speaker 1: that same question right now. But again, you know what

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Speaker 1: we're hearing in this is unconfirmed, but that this kid,

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Speaker 1: read Mitchell, who is accused of this attack, actually has

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Speaker 1: some pretty high connections, you know, within the higher ups

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Speaker 1: out there, so he was able to be released that quickly. Again,

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Speaker 1: we're still working to confirm that now. Again, police saying

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Speaker 1: that they believe Reid Mitchell is the seventeen year old

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Speaker 1: who committed this assault, and the other two arrested, Aidan

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Speaker 1: Holland and Logan Hoober. Aiden is seventeen, Logan Hoober's eighteen

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Speaker 1: are believed to be the two that allegedly lured him

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Speaker 1: out of the home. I can tell you right now,

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Speaker 1: all three of the suspects at last check are looking

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Speaker 1: at charges of aggravated assaults. But we've also seen some

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Speaker 1: comments on social media comments from people in the community

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Speaker 1: saying that those charges just aren't stiff enough for what

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Speaker 1: happened to mister Hagan. And you know, the law is

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Speaker 1: that it's presumed you intend the natural consequence of your act.

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Speaker 1: And I've used this example before because I used it

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Speaker 1: with juries. For instance, if I take a piece of

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Speaker 1: fine child, the kind that you can actually see through

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Speaker 1: almost you can see a shadow of a hand behind it,

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Speaker 1: and then I throw it to a cement floor, the

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Speaker 1: law presumes I intend to break it. So when you

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Speaker 1: jump on a guy, throw him to the ground, to

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Speaker 1: the pavement, fracture his skull, beat him, smash his face

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Speaker 1: him with your elbow, and go on and leave him

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Speaker 1: there bleeding out, what does the law presume you intend

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Speaker 1: to kill him? That's what the law presumes you intend.

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Speaker 1: So why are they not charged with attempted murder? And

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Speaker 1: more important, why are they out walking free? All three

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Speaker 1: of them on bond. Why is that, Corey Hagen, You know,

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Speaker 1: the only thing that we can think of is because

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Speaker 1: of the connections that these kids allegedly have in the group.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Mitchell kid, allegedly his grandfather was a

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Speaker 1: former sheriff of a neighboring county and we've been told

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Speaker 1: that he made calls, which is again it's an allegation.

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Speaker 1: Two of the other guys that were involved in the

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Speaker 1: group that came over to carry out the attack. One

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Speaker 1: his grandfather is a municipal judge here in Lake Jackson.

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Speaker 1: The other his grandfather is a former sheriff of our county.

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Speaker 1: And so you know, I've I've hired an attorney for

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Speaker 1: our family, and we have set with the district attorney

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Speaker 1: and with the local police department to let him know that,

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Speaker 1: you know, our expectations are that these kids are treated,

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Speaker 1: you know, justin fairly with me as Corey Hagen, this

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Speaker 1: is Cole's brother, his older brother. So who we think

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Speaker 1: to be the main perp reportedly read Mitchell seventeen years old,

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Speaker 1: it's the one who did most to the beating. Reportedly,

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Speaker 1: you're telling me his grandfather is who he is a

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Speaker 1: former sheriff of the neighboring county, Okay, and Logan and Huber,

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Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to say their names out loud, and

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Speaker 1: I'm looking right at their pictures. Logan Huber seventeen reportedly

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Speaker 1: lord your little brother out to take a beating that

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Speaker 1: gave him brain damage and left him on a dental later.

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Speaker 1: What he and Aiden Holland, those two boys are the

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Speaker 1: ones that lord him out right, And I'm taking them

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Speaker 1: one by one. So Logan Huber, daddy or granddaddy is

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Speaker 1: who he doesn't have any connections. He's just with the connected. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Aiden Holland eighteen, who's his dad and granddad? He does

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Speaker 1: not have any direct connections that I know of, just

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Speaker 1: part of the group that has the connection. So hangers on.

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Speaker 1: And these were your brother's friends, the mate prom with

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Speaker 1: the prom together with all of these boys got to

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Speaker 1: Sherry Schwartz. I don't understand it. I do not understand it.

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Speaker 1: Could you explain to me? I would say pack mentality,

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Speaker 1: But when you have pac mentality, all I can think

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Speaker 1: of is the Lord of the flies that this is

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Speaker 1: worse than pac mentality because with pack mentality you go

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Speaker 1: along with the crime. But not necessarily when you know

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Speaker 1: the victims, so well, that's more of a random crime scenario.

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Speaker 1: It's called wilding. What is the scenario? Dotor Sherry Schwartz

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Speaker 1: and psychological terms, Well, in psychological terms, what we have

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Speaker 1: here we have kids who are playing football, kids who

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Speaker 1: sound like they come from privileged backgrounds, So their aggression,

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Speaker 1: all of that is rewarded, right because in football, hit hard, hit,

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Speaker 1: you get rewarded for that. That's how you win, that's

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Speaker 1: how you get lcolate. And then you know, you have

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Speaker 1: all of this jealousy it sounds like, over the fact

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Speaker 1: that you know this was over a girl potentially, And

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Speaker 1: then you have the peer pressure aspect of these kids

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Speaker 1: who know in advance what's what's going to happen. Not

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Speaker 1: maybe not everybody knew that it was going to be

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Speaker 1: this brutal, but they knew that, Okay, we're going to

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Speaker 1: lure him out and he's going to be confronted, and

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Speaker 1: people participate in this, and in an environment where kids

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Speaker 1: are not really good at keeping secrets from each other,

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Speaker 1: they do somehow keep this somewhat secret from Coal to

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Speaker 1: be able to lure him out by telling him, hey,

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Speaker 1: you know your truck got hit. So you've got this

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Speaker 1: cocktail of you know what your friends are doing, you

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Speaker 1: don't want to be left out, you don't maybe want

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Speaker 1: to be bullied yourself, you don't want to be uncool,

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Speaker 1: and then you stand by and watch this horrible thing

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Speaker 1: happen and no one reports it. Nancy, that's the other thing.

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Speaker 1: It's unlikely, right, we don't know. It's unlikely they planned

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Speaker 1: it that day, so no one reported it. No one

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Speaker 1: told the teacher, no one told another parent. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's that's really scary. Gabby harn't joining me from Fox

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Speaker 1: twenty six Houston. They because of they reported connections these

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Speaker 1: thugs have. Is this going to just be swept under

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Speaker 1: the rug and nobody cares or notices? Well, you know what, Nancy,

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Speaker 1: I can tell you that the community cares, and us

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Speaker 1: as a news organization are going to do everything on

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Speaker 1: our end to get answers. I can tell you that

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Speaker 1: we've been in constent, you know, communication with the Lake

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Speaker 1: Jackson Police Department, requesting statements, requesting updates, so you know,

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Speaker 1: it's not something that's going to fall by the wayside.

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Speaker 1: And we're also going to ask the question, you know,

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Speaker 1: is there a need for tougher charges on these teams.

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Speaker 1: Why are they out? You know, we've already asked that

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Speaker 1: and we're waiting to kind of get some correspondence back

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Speaker 1: on that, but it's definitely something that us at Fox

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Speaker 1: twenty six plan to keep pushing for answers. We also

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Speaker 1: plan to update you know, the community on cole Hagen's

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Speaker 1: status as he improved, and of course wishing him the

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Speaker 1: best here, but we plan to stay on top of it. Nancy, Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering if we donate an independent prosecutor brought in,

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Speaker 1: because if this prosecutor has ties to a former sheriff

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Speaker 1: or a former judge, that's not gonna work. No, you

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Speaker 1: need somebody completely unbiased that will investigate and prosecute this

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Speaker 1: case to the fullest extent of the law. Guys, today,

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Speaker 1: our prayers for cole Hagen. We don't know what his

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Speaker 1: future may be or what his family is going through.

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Speaker 1: I guarantee you this, lady, Justice doesn't cut you a

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Speaker 1: break just because your daddy was a sheriff in the

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Speaker 1: neighboring county or your brothers a judge. Does it matter

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Speaker 1: to her? It doesn't matter to us. We wait as

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Speaker 1: just as unfolds Nancy Grace Crumbs story signing off goodbye friend,