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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. The Devil's Den killer suspect

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Speaker 1: was bounced from school to school to school because of

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Speaker 1: inappropriate behavior with little girls, but no one ever fired him.

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Speaker 1: That's how he ended up at the murder scene. Joining

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Speaker 1: us now is a very special guest. It's Danica Harold.

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Speaker 1: She has a longtime friend of the murdered mom and dad,

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Speaker 1: stabbed dead on a public hiking trail for families trying

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Speaker 1: to protect their daughters. Miss Harold, thank you for being

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Speaker 1: with us. When did you learn that your friends Kristen

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Speaker 1: and Clinton had passed away?

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Speaker 2: Were killed about midnight between Saturday and Sunday.

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Speaker 1: How did you find out the news?

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Speaker 2: Someone sent me a news article and I actually thought

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Speaker 2: it was a hoax researching.

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Speaker 1: It now, you've known them for a long time. What

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Speaker 1: was your reaction when you discovered they hadn't just passed on,

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Speaker 1: that they had actually been stabbed dead.

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Speaker 2: I was pretty mortified. It was very it was very

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Speaker 2: hard to learn that information.

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Speaker 1: Could you tell us, Miss Harrold, about the two of them.

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Speaker 1: We keep hearing that they were murdered trying to protect

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Speaker 1: their daughters, that the mom helped her two little girls

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Speaker 1: get away from the killer, and then after they were

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Speaker 1: safe in her mind, she went back to help fight

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Speaker 1: the killer off her husband, and in so doing, she

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Speaker 1: herself was murdered trying to defend him. Does that sound

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Speaker 1: like her?

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Speaker 2: They were all about their family.

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Speaker 1: Tell us what you can about them, because they have

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Speaker 1: turned into props for the killer. We just hear they

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Speaker 1: were stabbed. What can you tell us about them? How

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Speaker 1: did you meet? Describe them for us?

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Speaker 2: Actually met them. They joined my co ed volleyball league,

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Speaker 2: and she would bring her daughters with volleyball, and it

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Speaker 2: turns out we had, you know, two daughters that were

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Speaker 2: the same age. So then that in turn led to

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Speaker 2: us hanging out outside of volleyball, and she was just

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Speaker 2: as sweet as could be. I ran into some issues

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Speaker 2: while I worked out of town. Didn't even bat an eyelash,

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Speaker 2: And you know, she had to keep her over Christmas

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Speaker 2: one year, and she went as far as to make

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Speaker 2: sure that my daughter had the same matching pajamas as

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Speaker 2: her kids.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe that. I'm just trying to take that in.

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Speaker 1: I've had a lot of spin the nights from my

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Speaker 1: children's friends, but I never thought to go to that

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Speaker 2: She kept her three to four nights every week while

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Speaker 2: I worked out of town three to four days.

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Speaker 1: So you and Kristen became very close.

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Speaker 2: We did. She lived, She's probably about half miles from

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Speaker 2: my house, and I'd go on walks and we'd stop

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Speaker 2: at her house and we'd just sit down and visit

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Speaker 2: and she'd make some coffee or tea, and our daughters

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Speaker 1: We're showing photos of Kristin right now, and I'm wondering

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Speaker 1: if you could tell us about the dynamic between her

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Speaker 1: and her husband. They seemed very happily married.

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Speaker 2: They were they were supportive of each other. Christina was

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Speaker 2: a stay at home mom and Clinton worked. When she

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Speaker 2: at the two year programs was very difficult, like you're

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Speaker 2: away for two years just because of how much time

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Speaker 2: you have to put into it, and Clinton told her

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Speaker 2: to jump in with both feet. It's like, there's no

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Speaker 2: reason we can't get through this. And that's exactly what

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Speaker 2: Kristen did. With Clinton support, she was able to become

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Speaker 2: so much more with their kids. They started traveling more

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Speaker 2: and it was just it was they built this beautiful

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Speaker 2: life together.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about their traveling. I mean, we've got photos

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Speaker 1: of them hiking, of them on a cruise. I assume

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Speaker 1: they took their little girls with them.

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Speaker 2: Yep, everywhere they went, and it was usually they tried

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Speaker 2: to do things that were outdoors. They loved being outside,

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Speaker 2: and find new experiences to take the girls on.

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Speaker 1: What were some of their vacations. What were some of

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Speaker 1: their trips they went on.

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Speaker 2: Mainly it was just you know, like down in Red Lodge,

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Speaker 2: it's a beautiful area, so they'd take the girls camping

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Speaker 2: they'd just let the girls do what they you know,

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Speaker 1: You know, that sounds exactly like me. When we grew up.

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Speaker 1: We had a vacation and the vacation started on Friday

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Speaker 1: and it ended on Sunday. But to us, it was

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Speaker 1: like this incredible vacation where we would go into the

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Speaker 1: smoky mountains and all be together. I'm looking at cruise

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Speaker 1: ship photos of them. I see beach photos of them,

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Speaker 1: hiking photos of them. Seems like they took the girls

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Speaker 1: on a lot of outdoor trips. Now there were three girls, Arianna, Christina,

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Speaker 1: and Brianna. Tell me about the girls.

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Speaker 2: Christina and Ariana were pretty little when I started going

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Speaker 2: and hanging out with them, and they were just the

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Speaker 2: sweetest little things that just melted your heart when you

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Speaker 2: go over there. Their big old brown and blue eyes. Brianna,

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Speaker 2: she was a little older, and she was just as sweet.

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Speaker 2: She had this light blonde hair and she had big

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Speaker 2: blue eyes, just like Kristen Danda. We used to go

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Speaker 2: riding around on my flour wheeler when Christina would have

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Speaker 2: my daughter and her little girls, and I just remember

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Speaker 2: how big her lasts were and how excited she was

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Speaker 2: to get to do little things like that. She was

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Speaker 2: just the sweetest girl too.

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Speaker 1: Miss Harrold. You were mentioning earlier that the husband helped her.

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Speaker 1: Clinton Brink helped Kristin get through nursing school. How did

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Speaker 2: He gave her the time that she needed to do it.

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Speaker 1: So he took care of the girls while she went

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Speaker 2: Yep, or he'd help her find somebody who was there

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Speaker 2: that could take the girls if he happened to be working.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Now, from what we're learning, the two Kristin and

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Speaker 1: Clinton were attacked on the trail. I believe after one

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Speaker 1: of their daughters had been grabbed or approached by the suspect.

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Speaker 1: She Kristin. He got the girls to run and escorted

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Speaker 1: to keep going, and then turned back to save Clinton.

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Speaker 1: Why do you believe, with your knowledge of them, that

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Speaker 1: that's an accurate report.

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Speaker 2: I don't think Kristin wanted the girls to have a

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Speaker 1: How close were Kristin and Clinton?

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Speaker 2: From what I saw, they were very close.

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Speaker 1: What was his personality? Danica?

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Speaker 2: Clinton was very hard working. He did whatever he needed

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Speaker 2: to do for his family. If a job didn't happen

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Speaker 2: to work out, he'd have a new job within a week.

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Speaker 2: He also, when they moved to Rapid City, he found

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Speaker 2: it best that he become a CNA and he actually

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Speaker 2: worked in the same hospital as Christina did as a nurse.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm just looking as you're talking or showing

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Speaker 1: went with their children. Do you ever wonder, Danica like

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Speaker 1: I do, why is it that the innocent people that

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Speaker 1: work hard, that love their family, why they are the

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Speaker 1: ones targeted by criminals?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I've been wondering that almost every day since I

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Speaker 2: found out it happened. I guess they try and view

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Speaker 2: us family oriented people as weak. And I guess once

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Speaker 2: they decide, you know, to attack somebody, or they figure

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Speaker 2: out how much love and compassion we actually have for

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Speaker 2: that they're rude awakening for them.

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Speaker 1: Why did they move Danica.

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Speaker 2: To be closer to family?

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Speaker 1: What family were they trying to get closer to his

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Speaker 2: Well? Before she moved to Rapid City, they were discussing

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Speaker 2: whether they should go and go to Christen's side of

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Speaker 2: side of the family. So they moved a Rapid City

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Speaker 2: to get experienced in the hospital setting until they were

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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people are looking for a

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Speaker 1: connection between the suspect as he is called the Devil's

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Speaker 1: Den killer and them. I don't think they knew each other.

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Speaker 1: I think that this was just a chance meeting on

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Speaker 1: that trail. Do you have any reason to believe they

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Speaker 2: I don't. I agree with you. It was completely random.

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Speaker 2: I mean they were in Arkansas for what a month?

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Speaker 1: And it's like you said, he would take any job

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Speaker 1: just to keep working. I know he was supposed to

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Speaker 1: start a male milk delivery route just a day or

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Speaker 1: two after he was murdered. Have you seen the alleged

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Speaker 1: perp the suspect began.

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Speaker 2: I did. I saw the photos after he was mid haircut.

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Speaker 2: He looks very un I felt like it was very

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Speaker 2: bold of him to go and get a haircut just

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Speaker 2: days after he committed such a heinous act.

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Speaker 1: I agree. Why do you say that, I mean.

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Speaker 2: That town was so close to where the incident occurred.

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Speaker 2: He just didn't He thought he was invincible. Nobody would

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Speaker 2: notice his car description.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of a very unique car, Danica. We

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Speaker 1: are showing video right now of him parking right in

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Speaker 1: down and he refused to sign. You know how when

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Speaker 1: He refused to sign it. He'd been trying to get

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Speaker 1: his haircut for about two days. And guys, you're seeing

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Speaker 1: by Lupita's beauty salon where this happened. These ladies had

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Speaker 1: no idea that they were inches away from an alleged

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Speaker 1: double killer. When his photo on the trail came out

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Speaker 1: his hair or get a complete buzz. And as a

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Speaker 1: hair buzzed up the back, so it was completely different hair, hairstyle.

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Speaker 1: Check it out and in the back buzz straight up

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Speaker 1: the back, Danica, I think he was doing that on

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Speaker 1: purpose to conceal his identity. Miss Harold, when you think

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Speaker 1: back on what's happening, or when you drift off to

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Speaker 1: sleep at night, what are your thoughts about Kristin and Clinton.

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Speaker 2: It just hurts my heart. I still don't want to

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Speaker 2: believe it. No one should have to go.

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Speaker 1: Through this, Miss Harold, Thank you so much for being

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Speaker 1: with us and telling us more about Kristin and Clinton,

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Speaker 1: their stories yet to be told. Miss Harol, thank you