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Speaker 1: Welcome to the crime round up.

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Speaker 2: Y'all.

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Speaker 1: We got an update for you today. Nat Sick, good morning,

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Speaker 1: Good morning.

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Speaker 2: I take you as somebody stayed up late last night celebrating.

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Speaker 2: Because either you said that late celebrating or there is

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Speaker 2: a frog living.

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Speaker 1: In your throat. I might have been up a little

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Speaker 1: late being grateful.

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Speaker 2: Now, wait a minute, aren't you in Vegas.

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Speaker 1: I am in Sholo, Arizona.

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Speaker 2: It's that near Vegas.

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Speaker 1: It's about six hours. I think.

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Speaker 2: Oh, okay, well, I know you aren't playing the crap

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Speaker 2: tables last night. Can we talk about something other than

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Speaker 2: you and the crap tables.

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Speaker 1: When we were in our twenties, Mary Max, to me,

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Speaker 1: was always a place that we would save for, like

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Speaker 1: celebrating something, acknowledging something. So I'm saying, once I get

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Speaker 1: back home and what you're free, we need to celebrate something.

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Speaker 2: It marry Matt and I already know what I'm gonna get.

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Speaker 2: I'm getting a vegetable plate, vegetable plight with the double

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Speaker 2: collars of corn bread, a squashed passwall, and some surprise

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Speaker 2: I don't know what it means. Maybe broccoli, I'm not sure. Cheese, grits, yes,

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Speaker 2: that yes, amazing we're talking, of course, about Melissa Wilson Berger.

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Speaker 2: You start because I am overwhelmed. You know, sometimes, Cheryl

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Speaker 2: and our line of work, we're used to getting knocked

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Speaker 2: down open and over and over. We're used to things

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Speaker 2: not going our way in court, We're used to sing injustice.

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Speaker 2: But when it happens, it's all worth it. It makes

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Speaker 2: all the years of working this case worth it. And

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Speaker 2: you have worked this case.

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Speaker 1: Honey. We have this case. And I'll tell you, anybody

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Speaker 1: that got to listen to crime Stories with Natcy Grace

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Speaker 1: yesterday heard it in Joe Scott Morgan's voice. We have

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Speaker 1: worked this case for seven years, but the family has

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Speaker 1: lived with it for twenty five. That's just an amazing number.

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Speaker 1: But this all started November of nineteen ninety eight. That's

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Speaker 1: the last time Melissa spoke to her mama. And then nothing,

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Speaker 1: not a word, not a letter, Nobody saw her, nobody

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Speaker 1: heard from her. And we took this case on. And

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Speaker 1: I remember the first time you and I talked about it.

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Speaker 1: We didn't have DNA, we didn't have an eyewitness, we

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Speaker 1: didn't have any new evidence come forward. But honey, we

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Speaker 1: worked it.

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Speaker 2: You know, when I first started churing cases, Cheryl, there

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Speaker 2: was no such thing. Yeah, well, we didn't know how

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Speaker 2: to use it for insticcely, of course it existed, DNA,

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Speaker 2: dioxy ribonicolinic acid. When I would have to try a

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Speaker 2: rape case, the best I had I could have. Well,

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Speaker 2: we can tell the journey that the rapist had Type

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Speaker 2: A blood and the defendant has Type A blood. Or

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Speaker 2: we can say this pubic care came from a redheaded

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Speaker 2: white male and the defendant is a redheaded white male.

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Speaker 2: That could be anybody. Right then the advent of DNA,

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Speaker 2: but this case, at the time that Melissa Wolf and

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Speaker 2: Barker went missing, no DNA nothing. And now, of course

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Speaker 2: the way that her skull, oh please don't even say

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Speaker 2: skull what I look back and realized, and that her

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Speaker 2: skull was miss identified as a white male. Yes, for

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Speaker 2: all that time. Yes, it just it just actually makes

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Speaker 2: my stomach hurt thinking about when I talked to the

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Speaker 2: mother and the sister yesterday, the pain. They held it

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Speaker 2: together really well for a long time, and then at

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Speaker 2: the end of our program Crime Stories, it just they

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Speaker 2: couldn't take it anymore when they were describing when they

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Speaker 2: were told that the remains were Melissa, just that pain

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Speaker 2: is right there at the surface. And you know, you

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Speaker 2: and I have discussed this many times in private, but

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Speaker 2: when I hear other crime victims talking that way, it

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Speaker 2: made my chest hurt because always just below the surface

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Speaker 2: for crime victims, that pain, it's right there. And the

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Speaker 2: day before had been the day that my fiance had

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Speaker 2: been murdered many years before. You know, I sold her

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Speaker 2: do day, you know, focusing on work, focusing on the twins,

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Speaker 2: focusing on anything but that. But when I heard Melissa's

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Speaker 2: mother and sister break down in tears, I felt like

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Speaker 2: it was me breaking down in tears. I mean, just

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Speaker 2: that pain never goes away, much less for your child.

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Speaker 2: That was her child, and I felt so bad for her. Well,

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Speaker 2: you know, your life with Keith is always there. Her

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Speaker 2: life with Melissa is always there. But that ended that

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Speaker 2: somebody took them, that somebody did something so horrible for them.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday. Here's what I watched. The entire time I've known them,

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Speaker 1: they've been fighting. Once that fight ended, they had a

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Speaker 1: release yesterday of all those emotions. They were able to

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Speaker 1: give up that fight and now turn it into We're

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Speaker 1: going to see this through. We know who, we know how,

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Speaker 1: what they did.

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Speaker 2: The bombshell is he's in custody. A man has finally

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Speaker 2: been arrested, twenty five years after Melissa's body's found dismembered,

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Speaker 2: dismembered in trash back. And you know another thing, while

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about it's one thing to see a skeletonized skull. Okay,

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Speaker 2: when I say skeletonized, I mean devoid of any hair,

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Speaker 2: soft tissue, skin, eyes, lips, anything. It's just a bone,

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Speaker 2: dry skull. I still don't understand because anthropologists can look

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Speaker 2: at various body parts. I'm talking about bones and tell.

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Speaker 2: And it's a man or woman that said I want

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Speaker 2: to have today as a good day, a rejoicing day,

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Speaker 2: because somebody's finally behind bars. It poc technical legal time,

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Speaker 2: but I mean I can't help. But look, I mean

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Speaker 2: you used to tell me this after trials. Well, I

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Speaker 2: should have done this, I should have done the ego.

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Speaker 2: Shut up, you won, Okay, quit looking at what you

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Speaker 2: could have done a little bit better. Blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: But for me, it's all part of the post mortem.

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Speaker 2: And I'll not casting blame. I'm all about how can

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Speaker 2: we avoid this happening? Next time, I.

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Speaker 1: Think what we've got, We've got a day, like you said,

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Speaker 1: to celebrate, and I think that's exactly what we should do.

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Speaker 2: Cheryl, Cheryl, Shall you know I don't celebrate. I basically

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Speaker 2: breathe easier for that day. I exhel because when I

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Speaker 2: would leave court with a guilty verdict, I thought, before

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Speaker 2: I started trying taxes, it's going to be like on

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Speaker 2: TV or movies, Well, party, but it's not like that.

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Speaker 2: I've never had a single case or I felt like

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Speaker 2: party and I've got David shut up there. I told

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Speaker 2: him I was just getting that out of the way.

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Speaker 2: Did we ever party? One time? After a trial? Was

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Speaker 2: more like, oh great, gone in heaven, that's over, did

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Speaker 2: we David?

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Speaker 3: No? Just so you know, I don't tell him to

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Speaker 3: shut up. If I did tell me shut up, you

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Speaker 3: wouldn't shut up anyway. Thankfully for me, the Lord blessed

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Speaker 3: me with a husband that does not talk a lot.

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Speaker 3: Can you imagine coming home from work and having a

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Speaker 2: It would be awful.

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Speaker 1: Oh that said, we have absolutely carried over before. Now

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Speaker 1: come on, you.

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Speaker 2: Speak for yourself, woman, like we can afford champagne. I

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Speaker 2: would get water every day for a lunch if we

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Speaker 2: went anywhere Lombardey So that was a big deal to

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Speaker 2: go to Lombardi's and have a Caesar salad at the

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Speaker 2: Italian restaurant by the courthouse. I'm like, no, I do

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Speaker 1: Oh lord, But you know, I tell you what really

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Speaker 1: got to me yesterday. As you know, I'm out of

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Speaker 1: town and I couldn't go to the press conference. You were,

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Speaker 1: of course busy taping crime stories, couldn't be there. But

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Speaker 1: the fact that Tina would take the time during the

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Speaker 1: press conference to name you and I publicly and thank

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Speaker 1: us for what we had done on this case. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to tell you something that got to me as

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Speaker 1: much as anything yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I very rarely talk about any court win or nothing

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Speaker 2: like that. You know, it's certainly not anything to brack about.

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Speaker 2: But yesterday I will tell you. I told John David

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Speaker 2: I won't guess what's son, and he knew about the

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Speaker 2: case because he sard you and I are talking about it,

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Speaker 2: and I can't believe that at his young age he

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Speaker 2: got it. He went, Wow, Mom, I said, big deal.

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Speaker 2: It's about to make me cry right now, I know,

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Speaker 2: because that woman in so much pain, and you and

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Speaker 2: I were just especially me, you did so much more

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Speaker 2: than me, just two little cogs in a big wheel

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Speaker 2: of justice. And when I think about what they've been

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Speaker 2: through all these years, all my stars, and they basically

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Speaker 2: felt they knew who had murdered Melissa and dismembered her.

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Speaker 2: And just and Cheryl, you tell it, you tell how

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Speaker 2: her body not only dismembered, but the trash back in

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Speaker 2: which her skull had been hidden rips open and it's

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Speaker 2: out near a street that just is so.

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Speaker 1: It just desecrated her. He was thrown out like trash.

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Speaker 1: We believe it was probably a dog or a coyote.

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Speaker 1: Something drugged that bag out. It was ripping it apart.

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Speaker 1: And there's literally a skull in the middle of the

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Speaker 1: road and a ups driver finds it making deliveries, calls

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Speaker 1: the police. It's miss identified as the Caucasian mail and Nancy.

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Speaker 1: They lose four years, four years, and then when the

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Speaker 1: She stayed in the morgue for four years until finally

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Speaker 1: somebody says, wait a minute. She lived right there on Brookline,

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Speaker 1: her husband worked right there at action Glass. Her head

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Speaker 1: the dental records, and of course it's Melissa, and her

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Speaker 1: that you watched the news and you were so grateful.

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Speaker 1: She was so grateful when it wasn't Melissa. And then

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Speaker 2: She was beheaded. I've got to tell you something. You

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Speaker 2: was crocked bite. I don't know why that's frowned up mine.

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Speaker 2: It's my favorite Swiss chicken. Then I got from a

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Speaker 2: court TV the God Rest Her Soul, Donna ka chirt.

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Speaker 2: You put boneless thighs on the bottom, covered them with

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Speaker 2: chicken soups and in stovetop dressing and let it cook

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Speaker 2: for seven hours. It's Lucy's favorite. We were having that.

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Speaker 2: Lucy turned to me and went, Mom, are you really

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Speaker 2: still going to drive us to school on Fridays when

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Speaker 2: school starts. I'm like, yes, that's my only time to

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Speaker 2: I'm going to be a junior. I don't want you

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Speaker 2: to drive me to school anymore. John David wisely, and

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Speaker 2: you enough not to say anything. And I was looking

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Speaker 2: I was looking at her. To me, I was looking

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Speaker 2: me to to preschool. That's how I see her, right,

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Speaker 2: it's my sweet little baby, not a teen girl. Actually

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Speaker 2: that's her own mind. And I just am thinking about

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Speaker 2: Melissa and how her mother sings her and being told

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Speaker 2: this is my lessa. How she broke down and basically

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Speaker 2: fell down on the porch crying when she found out,

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, and you know.

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Speaker 1: What, her sister Tina got a phone call, go into

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Speaker 1: the store, just having a great afternoon walking. That's how

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Speaker 1: she finds out. You know, hucking Caroline. They're twenty one

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Speaker 4: Nathan Grace, Nasan Grace. It's gonna get solved now. And

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Speaker 4: I'm like this heaper. I mean, Nancy's okay, she's not

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Speaker 1: With Bye buddy, Bye buddy. Congratulations