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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Greece. Your daughter, the love of

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Speaker 1: find out the worst she's dead. Can you imagine anything

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Speaker 1: else that could be heaped on you as a mother

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Speaker 1: or father that could intensify your pain after what you've

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Speaker 1: already been through? Well, how about this? How about if

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Speaker 1: the Assistant District Attorney ask you, the mother of the

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Speaker 1: to a little office and ask you to sort through

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Speaker 1: the evidence and organize it, including the photos of your

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Speaker 1: girl in death. Now, I've got to say, when my

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Speaker 1: fiance was murdered, I did not want to see his body,

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Speaker 1: even in a casket, even with all the makeup on

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Speaker 1: and the one moment I did see a tiny bit

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Speaker 1: passed out. So what has this mother endured? Thanks to

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Speaker 1: a week prosecutor I Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us here at Foxination and

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Speaker 1: Serious Exam one eleven. First of all, take a listen

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Speaker 1: to this report from our friend Taylor Alanice at k

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Speaker 2: I'm supposed to trust her. I'm supposed to trust the DA,

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Speaker 2: and you're asking me to do something.

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Speaker 3: I trust you, trust that, Fallen Wood says, was broken

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Speaker 2: I remember her saying that she needed help sorting out

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Speaker 1: So she did what she thought any mother would do.

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Speaker 2: She did not say that it would jeopardize the case,

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Speaker 2: but she did say, you know, just keep this between us.

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Speaker 3: Wood says, Assistant DA and Helga Avnandez brought her to

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Speaker 2: I sat on the floor for three days sorting all

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Speaker 2: the interviews, everything from each name, from all seven names.

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Speaker 3: She says. Anande's made copies of video interviews with one

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Speaker 3: man who took a plea deal in connection to Brianna's murder.

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Speaker 3: Wood was allowed to take those videos home and keeps

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Speaker 2: It's the last image I see every night when I

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Speaker 1: You are hearing the voice of someone I now consider

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Speaker 1: I had heard nothing about this horrible travesty until I

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Speaker 1: I met some incredible women. In addition to hearing fallen

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Speaker 1: taking the death penalty off the table, I also met

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Speaker 1: another woman, a victim's advocate, Sharon Sedwick. She's a victim's

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Speaker 1: advocate because she is the mother of Jennifer Cave, who

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Speaker 1: become involved in fallen Wood's the mom of Brianna Wood

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Speaker 4: I had been watching it on the news and it

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Speaker 5: Brianna Wood and her mom talked or texted every day.

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Speaker 5: The family was close. Brianna, her mom, Fallon, and a brother.

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Speaker 5: The family had moved to Corpus Christi from Nevada just

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Speaker 5: four years before. On October eleventh, about ten pm, twenty

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Speaker 6: The last we heard of Brianna, she was at a PMI,

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Speaker 5: The next day, Fallon Wood files a missing persons report.

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Speaker 5: As police investigate, they learned Brianna Wood was last seen

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Speaker 1: they find they believe that her cards are used that

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Speaker 1: what was going on in the search for Brianna Wood?

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Speaker 1: What was the community doing? What were police doing to

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Speaker 6: going on families and friends. I mean, police were kind

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Speaker 6: that was that lead. Was nothing, So people a dead

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Speaker 1: ten Crime Fighters.

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Speaker 7: Twenty one year old Brianna Wood has been missing for weeks.

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Speaker 7: Her family and friends of seen or heard from her.

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Speaker 7: We're told Brianna's cat was left at her home unattended.

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Speaker 7: Brianna's mother first reported her missing back in October the eleventh.

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Speaker 7: Mom told cops she's concerned because she spoke with Brianna

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Speaker 7: Is there a possibility that she was abducted or harmed.

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Speaker 1: No supporting evidence. I find that very very difficult to believe.

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Speaker 1: Joining me, Doctor Jeff Kalashevski, forensic psychologist, author of Dark Sides,

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Speaker 1: Doctor Jeff, thank you for being with us. You know,

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Speaker 1: Why do cops insist on saying no foul play?

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Speaker 9: This case is just was idrid from the beginning. It

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Speaker 1: me is jeff Rickle, private investigator hired by Brianna Wood's mother,

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Speaker 1: Former Texas ranger. Jeffrey, Well, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: being with us. When did you first get involved in

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Speaker 10: I really don't know how she's putting one foot in

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Speaker 1: the Executioner's Toll, former prosecutor Matthew you know, it's bad

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Speaker 12: Well, you're right, Nancy. Unfortunately, you know, when you're dealing

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Speaker 12: Unfortunately, sometimes when these missing persons calls are made and

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Speaker 12: it's an adult, you know, they're not they're not looked

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Speaker 12: at with any real seriousness. You know, they'll they'll they'll

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Speaker 12: turn up, is kind of the explanation. And that's just

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Speaker 1: Matthew Man Gina, I always hear, oh, she probably went

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Speaker 8: She's missing. We're really concerned about her. This is unlike

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Speaker 7: If you have any information about the whereabouts of Brianna Wood,

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Speaker 1: This mother Fallon Wood doing everything she can to bring

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Speaker 1: To find her. Wood has been missing.

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Speaker 13: Since October eleventh, after she was last seen at the

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Speaker 1: I agree with you and to you, Matthew Mangino, high

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Speaker 1: There's no conspiracy. You need to tell me, Mangino that

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Speaker 12: Well, no question. I think that's one of the major

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Speaker 1: And true to form, that is what happens here. Take

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Speaker 14: Investigators claim when inmate told them where they could find

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Speaker 1: Straight out to our friend at Kris six Tailor, Anice Taylor. Again,

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Speaker 6: Yep, exactly that Nancy this inmate not only knew he

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Speaker 1: Sharon Sedwick, joining us victim's advocate a crime victim herself.

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Speaker 1: When I hear Taylor Alnie's speaking, it's as if Brianna,

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Speaker 4: The whole thing, The part I've always had a problem

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Speaker 14: Eleven Free Mus obtained the arrest affidavit, and the details

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Speaker 14: Her family devastated by details they never wanted or expected

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Speaker 1: Back out to Taylor Alaise with Kriis six, tell me

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Speaker 6: So an inmate of the West County Jail had told

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Speaker 6: Yes, something horrified. I mean, as a journalist, you hear

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Speaker 1: Joining me right now, the chief medical examiner out of

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Speaker 1: It's really hard for me to imagine when I look

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Speaker 1: You know, doctor Kendall Crown's. We see dismemberments and more

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Speaker 1: glad for this one moment that Breonna's mother is not

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Speaker 15: It would be the equival to put her on the jury, like,

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Speaker 2: It's been five years for her, it's been you know,

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Speaker 15: Everybody should know, if they don't already, that you should

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Speaker 1: So bottom line, not only has the victim's mother been

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Speaker 6: Yes, Nancy, she is looking at evidence in several cases

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Speaker 12: Yeah, this is Matt, I mean, this is a wrong

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Speaker 11: Let alone the mother of the victim to look at those,

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Speaker 17: Gonzales said Wood's murder was a network of individuals doing

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Speaker 2: I'm so happy you get all these people off the streets.

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Speaker 17: She was there for today's announcement.

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Speaker 18: to actually bring them to try and hold them accountable.

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Speaker 17: We've already reported on the arrest of Joseph Tahita. He's

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Speaker 17: now charged with capital murder.

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Speaker 1: And we'll face the death penalty.

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Speaker 17: Today the DA announced that Sandra Vazquez and Christopher Gonzales

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Speaker 17: are also charged with capital murder in addition to other crimes.

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Speaker 18: I promise the community these individuals will have a fair trial,

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Speaker 18: but it also promised you that justice will be served.

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Speaker 1: Who is that, Sharon Siedwick saying justice will be served?

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Speaker 1: Who is that?

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Speaker 4: I think that was Smartzales.

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Speaker 1: Our DA explained to me why the death penalty has

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Speaker 1: been taken off the table.

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Speaker 4: He doesn't believe in it.

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Speaker 1: Well, wait, did you say the prosecutor in Texas Corpus

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Speaker 1: Christy does not believe in the death penalty.

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Speaker 11: That's it.

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Speaker 4: He made that announcement a while back at the execution

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Speaker 4: of another person not involved in this case, that he

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Speaker 4: doesn't believe in the death penalty and therefore we'll not

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Speaker 4: ask for it in trials here in New Issis County.

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Speaker 1: You know, Sharon said Wick. How long has it now

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Speaker 1: been that Brianna was murdered.

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Speaker 4: Brianna was murdered in twenty sixteen, My daughter Jennifer was

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Speaker 4: murdered in two thousand and five, and I worked my

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Speaker 4: tail off to get dismemberment of a corpse made a

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Speaker 4: third degree felony so no other mother would have to

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Speaker 4: sit there and go I don't understand they butchered my daughter.

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Speaker 4: I don't understand.

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Speaker 1: Time stories with Nancy Grace. You know, I heard something

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Speaker 1: in the reporting tailor Alanise, and in my own investigation

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Speaker 1: of this, I heard that Brianna's body, that the purp

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Speaker 1: had sex with Brianna's body. Am I understanding correctly that

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Speaker 1: Brianna was raped after her death?

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Speaker 6: Post mortem? Yes, her we learned that just if Tahda

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Speaker 6: had shot her in the back of the head, broke

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Speaker 6: her arms, and raped her her body.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Kendall Crowns joining me, chief medical Examiner, joining us

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Speaker 1: out of Texas. Doctor Kendall Crowns, how do you in

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Speaker 1: a dismemberment case this young girl, how do you determine coeod,

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Speaker 1: cause of death and whether the victim was raped during

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Speaker 1: a life or postmortem?

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Speaker 16: So you determine cause of death based on the injuries

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Speaker 16: that are not related to the dismemberment. In her case,

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Speaker 16: it's going to be a gunshot into the head. Usually

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Speaker 16: the dismemberments occur after they've done something else like stab them,

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Speaker 16: shot them, or beaten them to death, So you'll look

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Speaker 16: for those injuries as far as evidence of rape in

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Speaker 16: the living will be damaged to the genitalia that can

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Speaker 16: be seen bruises, lacerations or tear or scratches, abrasions. In

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Speaker 16: the post warum state, you may not see those, but

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Speaker 16: you'll see possibly tearing of the skin from the forceful

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Speaker 16: penetration in the general region. But other than that, you're

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Speaker 16: not going to see much else.

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Speaker 1: Years years since the body of this twenty one year

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Speaker 1: old girl, Brianna Wood, was discovered in an abandoned oil

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Speaker 1: filled trailer surrounded by brush off a lonely state Highway

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Speaker 1: six ' six ' six near Robstown, Texas. But yet still,

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Speaker 1: even though years have passed, still no justice. In that time.

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Speaker 1: District Court Judge Jack Pulcher recused himself, he was replaced,

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Speaker 1: and the district Attorney Mark Gonzalez has now asked for

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Speaker 1: himself to be recused. To Taylor Alanise, why did the

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Speaker 1: judge recuse himself? And why has the district attorney, who

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Speaker 1: I thank god he's off the case, has asked to

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Speaker 1: be recused. But why did he want to be taken

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Speaker 1: off the case?

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Speaker 6: He had said that Fallen would Brianna's mother had threatened

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Speaker 6: to sue him, the police department and the judge Jack

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Speaker 6: Pulture at the.

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Speaker 1: Time, and I wonder why why was that? Why did

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Speaker 1: the mom feel like she had to sue the judge

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Speaker 1: of the DA, which.

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Speaker 6: Fallen says she didn't. She didn't make any threats of lawsuit.

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Speaker 6: She just said that they weren't getting justice for her daughter.

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Speaker 6: She took everything in her own hands to help find

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Speaker 6: her daughter and help get justice for her. And she

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Speaker 6: just let that be known, whether it was to the

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Speaker 6: media or to family or to friends, that they weren't

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Speaker 6: doing their jobs. She never threatened them with a lawsuit,

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00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 6: but still the district attorney said that she did and

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Speaker 6: said that he felt like he couldn't help her under

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Speaker 6: the crime Victim's Bill of rights.

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Speaker 1: Is it true that miss Wood Fallon would Brihanna's mother

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Speaker 1: says Gonzales blocked her personal email address. Is that true?

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Speaker 1: Taylor Alanise yes.

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Speaker 6: That's what Fallen told us. That's what Fallen told us.

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Speaker 6: That she had receipts, she had messages from when she

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Speaker 6: would try to email him that said that she was blown.

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Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, she did file a

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Speaker 1: legal process, a legal action, not a regular lawsuit. This

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Speaker 1: mom getting no help in her daughter's murder and dismemberment

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Speaker 1: and rape post mortem files a grievance with the Texas

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Speaker 1: Attorney Funeral's office and the Texas State Bar as she

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Speaker 1: should have, and now she's being punished. How many people,

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Speaker 1: tell or Alanise, have not been adjudicated. How many of

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00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: this what is it a gang?

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Speaker 6: I'm not sure about the gang affiliations. I know some

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00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 6: of the charges had to do with organized crime. But

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Speaker 6: we have Joseph to Hey that, we have his mother,

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00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 6: Sandra Massea, we have Sandra Voska. We have at least

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Speaker 6: three people that were part of a group of people

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Speaker 6: that were involved in this crime that have not had

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Speaker 6: their day.

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Speaker 1: Incour to Sharon, Saidwick, joining us Victims Advocate. It's been

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Speaker 1: now since October eleven, twenty sixteen, and still no justice.

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Speaker 1: Explain to me what Brianna's mother is enduring now after

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Speaker 1: she's asked to sort through the death scene photos of

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Speaker 1: her daughter and her daughter's dismember body.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's psychologically it has kicked her in the head.

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Speaker 4: I had breakfast with her shortly after this happened, and

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Speaker 4: she told me, and I was incredulous a that she

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Speaker 4: had to see those pictures alone, but that she saw

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Speaker 4: that evidence. And I said, get rid of it, take

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Speaker 4: it back, get rid of it. And I'm sorry. The

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00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 4: travesties that have been done to fallon as a human being,

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Speaker 4: as a crime victim and as a mother are almost

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Speaker 4: incomprehensible to me. And I know well in the state

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Speaker 4: of Texas, and I had to learn this. It is

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Speaker 4: the state of Texas versus and they make it very

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Speaker 4: clear that as moms, our children were adults and it's

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Speaker 4: the Texas versus so and so not mom. And it's

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Speaker 4: a very hard thing to get your hands around as

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Speaker 4: a mom.

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Speaker 1: Well, I guess it's pretty hard to get your hands

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Speaker 1: around it when it seems like there is no justice.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen to this mom. Suffering mom speaking to

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Speaker 1: Brianna Whitney at K three News is cut five.

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Speaker 14: Twenty one year old Brianna Wood first went missing in October,

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Speaker 14: her body found in a box. Months later, in January,

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Speaker 14: twenty six year old Joseph ta Haita was charged with

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Speaker 14: her murder, and Monday, his attorneys will ask for the

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Speaker 14: Nuaces County District Attorney's Office to be off the case.

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Speaker 1: Another hearing.

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Speaker 14: Brianna's mom will have to sit through, but even from above,

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Speaker 14: she can feel her daughter's support.

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Speaker 2: I feel like she's on me, like because I feel

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Speaker 2: so heavy. So I don't know if it's just my

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00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 2: heart beating on my chest or it's just you know

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Speaker 2: what that feeling is.

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Speaker 1: And more of Mom fallon Wood and Our cut eight

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Speaker 1: Speaking to Chris.

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Speaker 9: Brianna Wood disappeared in October of twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 1: She was found last January. He couldn't celebrate the holidays.

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Speaker 4: Since then, he's fallen Wood devoted her energy to finding

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Speaker 4: justice for her daughter.

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Speaker 2: I haven't crieved because I can't yet.

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Speaker 1: I have to do my job.

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Speaker 2: I told her, I would never stop until you know

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Speaker 2: justice is therefore and then I can, then I'll then

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Speaker 2: I'll crieve.

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Speaker 1: Matthew Mangino, joining US high profile lawyer, former prosecutor. The

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Speaker 1: reality is everyone seems to be blaming fallen Wood Brianna

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Speaker 1: Wood's mother, it's not her fault. An inexperience. An inept

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00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 1: assistant prosecutor asked the mother of a murdered, dismembered girl

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Speaker 1: to sort through the crime scene photos and statements. It's

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Speaker 1: not the mother's fault. But that said, it doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: because this evidence is not going to be excluded from trial.

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Speaker 1: The first hurdle the defense has in order to get

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Speaker 1: evidents excluded is to show that it was in fact

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Speaker 1: tampered with, that there's something wrong with it, there's something missing,

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Speaker 1: and that's never going to happen because it was not

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Speaker 1: tampered with. It was organized and put in piles, whether

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00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 1: alphabetical or chronological that I don't know. But this evidence

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Speaker 1: will not be excluded from trial.

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Speaker 12: Well, I agree with you. I mean it remains to

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Speaker 12: be seen. You know what would be presented by the defense.

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Speaker 12: I'm sure the defense is going to try to make

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Speaker 12: that argument. I wouldn't expect that they're going to be

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Speaker 12: able to prove that breon his mother, you know, disposed

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Speaker 12: of evidence or do anything like that. She's doing what

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Speaker 12: any parent would do if they were asked to assist

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00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 12: in some way in an investigation of the murder of

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Speaker 12: their child. So I don't anticipate that anything is going

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Speaker 12: to be excluded.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, not going to happen. And we also know the

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00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 1: way this case was actually cracked wide open is to

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00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: Hada's cellmate passed on information to hate had been bragging

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00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,800
Speaker 1: about the murder, and it cracked wide open. But still

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00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: the case is lingering. Last question, Taylor Alanise joining us

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Speaker 1: from Chris six. How did this da get in office?

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Speaker 1: To start with?

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Speaker 6: He is known as the biker district Attorney. He is

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Speaker 6: covered in tattoos from head to toe, and he has

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Speaker 6: a giant tattoo across his chest that says not.

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Speaker 1: Guilty, Stop right there, stop right there. Tattoos, don't care

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Speaker 1: one way or the other, but not guilty. The prosecutor

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Speaker 1: has a tattoo across his chest that says not guilty.

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Speaker 1: Where did that come from? But when he was a biker?

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Speaker 1: Let me guess? Yes? No, am I right?

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Speaker 6: Yes, he is part of a motorcycle club.

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Speaker 1: You know. That's who was elected. Now the voters are

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Speaker 1: reaping what they sewed and who was suffering fallon would

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Speaker 1: and the memory of her daughter, Brianna. We wait as

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Speaker 1: justice un false. Goodbye friend,