WEBVTT - 8.9.24 CRU with Nancy Grace: Justice For Melissa Wolfenbarger

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to the crime round up.

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<v Speaker 2>Y'all.

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<v Speaker 1>We got an update for you today. Nat Sick, good morning,

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning.

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<v Speaker 2>I take you as somebody stayed up late last night celebrating.

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<v Speaker 2>Because either you said that late celebrating or there is

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<v Speaker 2>a frog living.

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<v Speaker 1>In your throat. I might have been up a little

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<v Speaker 1>late being grateful.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, wait a minute, aren't you in Vegas.

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<v Speaker 1>I am in Sholo, Arizona.

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<v Speaker 2>It's that near Vegas.

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<v Speaker 1>It's about six hours. I think.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, okay, well, I know you aren't playing the crap

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<v Speaker 2>tables last night. Can we talk about something other than

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<v Speaker 2>you and the crap tables.

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<v Speaker 1>When we were in our twenties, Mary Max, to me,

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<v Speaker 1>was always a place that we would save for, like

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<v Speaker 1>celebrating something, acknowledging something. So I'm saying, once I get

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

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<v Speaker 2>It marry Matt and I already know what I'm gonna get.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm getting a vegetable plate, vegetable plight with the double

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<v Speaker 2>collars of corn bread, a squashed passwall, and some surprise

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>You start because I am overwhelmed. You know, sometimes, Cheryl

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<v Speaker 2>and our line of work, we're used to getting knocked

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<v Speaker 2>down open and over and over. We're used to things

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

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<v Speaker 2>But when it happens, it's all worth it. It makes

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<v Speaker 2>all the years of working this case worth it. And

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<v Speaker 2>you have worked this case.

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

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<v Speaker 1>that got to listen to crime Stories with Natcy Grace

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<v Speaker 1>yesterday heard it in Joe Scott Morgan's voice. We have

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<v Speaker 1>worked this case for seven years, but the family has

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

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<v Speaker 1>But this all started November of nineteen ninety eight. That's

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<v Speaker 1>the last time Melissa spoke to her mama. And then nothing,

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<v Speaker 1>not a word, not a letter, Nobody saw her, nobody

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<v Speaker 1>heard from her. And we took this case on. And

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<v Speaker 1>I remember the first time you and I talked about it.

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<v Speaker 1>We didn't have DNA, we didn't have an eyewitness, we

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

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<v Speaker 1>worked it.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, when I first started churing cases, Cheryl, there

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

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<v Speaker 2>to use it for insticcely, of course it existed, DNA,

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<v Speaker 2>dioxy ribonicolinic acid. When I would have to try a

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<v Speaker 2>rape case, the best I had I could have. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>we can tell the journey that the rapist had Type

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<v Speaker 2>A blood and the defendant has Type A blood. Or

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<v Speaker 2>we can say this pubic care came from a redheaded

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<v Speaker 2>white male and the defendant is a redheaded white male.

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<v Speaker 2>That could be anybody. Right then the advent of DNA,

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<v Speaker 2>but this case, at the time that Melissa Wolf and

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<v Speaker 2>Barker went missing, no DNA nothing. And now, of course

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<v Speaker 2>the way that her skull, oh please don't even say

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<v Speaker 2>skull what I look back and realized, and that her

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<v Speaker 2>skull was miss identified as a white male. Yes, for

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<v Speaker 2>all that time. Yes, it just it just actually makes

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<v Speaker 2>my stomach hurt thinking about when I talked to the

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<v Speaker 2>mother and the sister yesterday, the pain. They held it

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<v Speaker 2>together really well for a long time, and then at

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<v Speaker 2>the end of our program Crime Stories, it just they

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<v Speaker 2>couldn't take it anymore when they were describing when they

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<v Speaker 2>were told that the remains were Melissa, just that pain

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<v Speaker 2>is right there at the surface. And you know, you

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<v Speaker 2>and I have discussed this many times in private, but

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<v Speaker 2>when I hear other crime victims talking that way, it

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<v Speaker 2>made my chest hurt because always just below the surface

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

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<v Speaker 2>day before had been the day that my fiance had

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<v Speaker 2>been murdered many years before. You know, I sold her

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<v Speaker 2>do day, you know, focusing on work, focusing on the twins,

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<v Speaker 2>focusing on anything but that. But when I heard Melissa's

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<v Speaker 2>mother and sister break down in tears, I felt like

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<v Speaker 2>it was me breaking down in tears. I mean, just

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<v Speaker 2>that pain never goes away, much less for your child.

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<v Speaker 2>That was her child, and I felt so bad for her. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, your life with Keith is always there. Her

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<v Speaker 2>life with Melissa is always there. But that ended that

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<v Speaker 2>somebody took them, that somebody did something so horrible for them.

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

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<v Speaker 1>they've been fighting. Once that fight ended, they had a

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<v Speaker 1>release yesterday of all those emotions. They were able to

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<v Speaker 1>give up that fight and now turn it into We're

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<v Speaker 1>going to see this through. We know who, we know how,

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<v Speaker 1>we know when and now they've got to pay for

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<v Speaker 1>what they did.

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<v Speaker 2>The bombshell is he's in custody. A man has finally

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<v Speaker 2>been arrested, twenty five years after Melissa's body's found dismembered,

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<v Speaker 2>dismembered in trash back. And you know another thing, while

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

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<v Speaker 2>when I say skeletonized, I mean devoid of any hair,

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

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<v Speaker 2>dry skull. I still don't understand because anthropologists can look

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<v Speaker 2>at various body parts. I'm talking about bones and tell.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's a man or woman that said I want

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<v Speaker 2>to have today as a good day, a rejoicing day,

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

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<v Speaker 2>but I mean I can't help. But look, I mean

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<v Speaker 2>you used to tell me this after trials. Well, I

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<v Speaker 2>should have done this, I should have done the ego.

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<v Speaker 2>Shut up, you won, Okay, quit looking at what you

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<v Speaker 2>could have done a little bit better. Blah blah blah.

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

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<v Speaker 2>And I'll not casting blame. I'm all about how can

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<v Speaker 2>we avoid this happening? Next time, I.

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<v Speaker 1>Think what we've got, We've got a day, like you said,

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

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<v Speaker 2>Cheryl, Cheryl, Shall you know I don't celebrate. I basically

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<v Speaker 2>breathe easier for that day. I exhel because when I

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<v Speaker 2>would leave court with a guilty verdict, I thought, before

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<v Speaker 2>I started trying taxes, it's going to be like on

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

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<v Speaker 2>I've never had a single case or I felt like

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<v Speaker 2>party and I've got David shut up there. I told

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<v Speaker 2>him I was just getting that out of the way.

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<v Speaker 2>Did we ever party? One time? After a trial? Was

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<v Speaker 2>more like, oh great, gone in heaven, that's over, did

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<v Speaker 2>we David?

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

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<v Speaker 3>shut up. If I did tell me shut up, you

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

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<v Speaker 3>me with a husband that does not talk a lot.

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<v Speaker 3>Can you imagine coming home from work and having a

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<v Speaker 3>gabby chatty husband.

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<v Speaker 2>It would be awful.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh that said, we have absolutely carried over before. Now

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<v Speaker 1>come on, you.

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<v Speaker 2>Speak for yourself, woman, like we can afford champagne. I

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<v Speaker 2>would get water every day for a lunch if we

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<v Speaker 2>went anywhere Lombardey So that was a big deal to

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<v Speaker 2>go to Lombardi's and have a Caesar salad at the

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<v Speaker 2>Italian restaurant by the courthouse. I'm like, no, I do

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<v Speaker 2>not want any ice ta that costs a dollar twenty

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<v Speaker 2>five forget it.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh lord, But you know, I tell you what really

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>the fact that Tina would take the time during the

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<v Speaker 1>press conference to name you and I publicly and thank

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<v Speaker 1>us for what we had done on this case. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>going to tell you something that got to me as

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<v Speaker 1>much as anything yesterday.

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<v Speaker 2>I very rarely talk about any court win or nothing

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

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<v Speaker 2>But yesterday I will tell you. I told John David

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

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<v Speaker 2>case because he sard you and I are talking about it,

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<v Speaker 2>and I can't believe that at his young age he

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<v Speaker 2>got it. He went, Wow, Mom, I said, big deal.

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<v Speaker 2>It's about to make me cry right now, I know,

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<v Speaker 2>because that woman in so much pain, and you and

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<v Speaker 2>I were just especially me, you did so much more

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<v Speaker 2>than me, just two little cogs in a big wheel

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<v Speaker 2>of justice. And when I think about what they've been

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<v Speaker 2>through all these years, all my stars, and they basically

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<v Speaker 2>felt they knew who had murdered Melissa and dismembered her.

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<v Speaker 2>And just and Cheryl, you tell it, you tell how

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<v Speaker 2>her body not only dismembered, but the trash back in

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<v Speaker 2>which her skull had been hidden rips open and it's

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<v Speaker 2>out near a street that just is so.

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<v Speaker 1>It just desecrated her. He was thrown out like trash.

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<v Speaker 1>We believe it was probably a dog or a coyote.

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<v Speaker 1>Something drugged that bag out. It was ripping it apart.

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<v Speaker 1>And there's literally a skull in the middle of the

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<v Speaker 1>road and a ups driver finds it making deliveries, calls

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<v Speaker 1>the police. It's miss identified as the Caucasian mail and Nancy.

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<v Speaker 1>They lose four years, four years, and then when the

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<v Speaker 1>arms and legs they're located, they think they belonged to

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<v Speaker 1>the same man and just keep it on his shelf.

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<v Speaker 1>She stayed in the morgue for four years until finally

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<v Speaker 1>somebody says, wait a minute. She lived right there on Brookline,

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<v Speaker 1>her husband worked right there at action Glass. Her head

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<v Speaker 1>is found not thirty feet from the front door. Hit

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<v Speaker 1>the dental records, and of course it's Melissa, and her

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<v Speaker 1>mom is told on the front porch that that skull

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<v Speaker 1>that you watched the news and you were so grateful.

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<v Speaker 1>She was so grateful when it wasn't Melissa. And then

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<v Speaker 1>she's told it was Melissa and.

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<v Speaker 2>She was beheaded. I've got to tell you something. You

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<v Speaker 2>going to think, Okay, what does that have to do

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<v Speaker 2>with this? Just wait for it. Last night at the

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<v Speaker 2>supper table, I had once again cooked dinner, although it

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

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<v Speaker 2>It's my favorite Swiss chicken. Then I got from a

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<v Speaker 2>court TV the God Rest Her Soul, Donna ka chirt.

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<v Speaker 2>You put boneless thighs on the bottom, covered them with

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<v Speaker 2>Swiss cheese slices, put a concoction of various cream of

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<v Speaker 2>chicken soups and in stovetop dressing and let it cook

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<v Speaker 2>for seven hours. It's Lucy's favorite. We were having that.

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<v Speaker 2>Lucy turned to me and went, Mom, are you really

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<v Speaker 2>still going to drive us to school on Fridays when

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

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<v Speaker 2>really be alone in the car. He she is, Mom,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to be a junior. I don't want you

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<v Speaker 2>to drive me to school anymore. John David wisely, and

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<v Speaker 2>you enough not to say anything. And I was looking

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<v Speaker 2>at her because I sit between her and John David,

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<v Speaker 2>I was looking at her. To me, I was looking

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<v Speaker 2>at her. It's like a three or four year old

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<v Speaker 2>little girl going Mommy, yeah, I want you to try

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<v Speaker 2>me to to preschool. That's how I see her, right,

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

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<v Speaker 2>that's her own mind. And I just am thinking about

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<v Speaker 2>Melissa and how her mother sings her and being told

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<v Speaker 2>this is my lessa. How she broke down and basically

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<v Speaker 2>fell down on the porch crying when she found out,

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<v Speaker 2>Oh gosh, and you know.

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<v Speaker 1>What, her sister Tina got a phone call, go into

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>and twenty three. They get invested in these cases as well.

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<v Speaker 1>They've been crime seen with me, they've met Melissa's mom

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<v Speaker 1>and sister. So yesterday they felt the same way John

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<v Speaker 1>David did.

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<v Speaker 2>They're proud of this.

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<v Speaker 1>They understand what it takes to get here, and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>it's just wonderful to me to also share that with them.

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<v Speaker 1>They know what we do for a living, they know

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<v Speaker 1>how important what we do is, and they knew they

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<v Speaker 1>had a hand in this as well.

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<v Speaker 2>The mother and the sister yesterday are still I can

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<v Speaker 2>just see them vividly in my mind's eye right now.

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<v Speaker 2>Yesterday I felt like they were in the round with

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<v Speaker 2>me and they were describing, you know how they she

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<v Speaker 2>was there at Thanksgiving and she asked for one Christmas present,

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<v Speaker 2>one thing, a picture of her with her grandfather. That's

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<v Speaker 2>all she wanted. And then she didn't show up one

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<v Speaker 2>month later to get the gift. The mom had gotten it,

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<v Speaker 2>had it framed, all wrap, and she didn't show up.

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<v Speaker 2>They knew right then, right then, I think they knew

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<v Speaker 2>she was dead. I agree that would be impossible to

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<v Speaker 2>accept that. And again they just prayed and surely she's

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<v Speaker 2>going to show up.

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<v Speaker 1>Surely there's going to be a phone call, because there

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<v Speaker 1>were times, you know, she didn't even have a call.

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<v Speaker 1>So they didn't always, you know, get in contact with

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<v Speaker 1>her regularly. But when her sister found out she hadn't

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<v Speaker 1>showed up at work for a month.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, you know another thing that the sister Tina said,

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<v Speaker 2>I got to say you, I don't think I've ever

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<v Speaker 2>met any people's finer than these to Amna and his sister,

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<v Speaker 2>and they're very plain spoken, very forced to right, kind

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<v Speaker 2>of quiet spoken people. The sister Tina stated, hopefully we

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<v Speaker 2>can finally get justice from Elissa. She did not deserve

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<v Speaker 2>what she got and then she ended it by selling.

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<v Speaker 2>And I hope anybody who is in a domestic violence

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<v Speaker 2>situation please get out, because that's what this was. I

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<v Speaker 2>hate to say domestic violence because that makes it sound

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<v Speaker 2>all warm and fuzzy like the Hallmark movies where you know,

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<v Speaker 2>the Hallmark movies. I did for so long about Haley Dean,

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<v Speaker 2>you do know that was going to be Lucy's name,

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<v Speaker 2>Haley from after Holly's comment once in a lifetime, but

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<v Speaker 2>then at the last moment, I named her after my

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<v Speaker 2>grandmother Lucy. But that said, you know, they always turn

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<v Speaker 2>out great in the end and everybody's happy, and even

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<v Speaker 2>though it's the murderer. Hello, but this is a domestic violence,

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<v Speaker 2>as she said, situation. The person charged with murdering her,

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<v Speaker 2>which the family felt all along was the killer, is

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<v Speaker 2>Christopher Wolfen Barker. And there were times that she would

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<v Speaker 2>the family would see her crying and with the black eye,

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<v Speaker 2>and she had the children with him, so she didn't

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<v Speaker 2>want to break up the family. Oh, Cheryl, I've seen

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<v Speaker 2>it so many times. It just breaks my heart.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know, I thought her taking the time again

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<v Speaker 1>to advocate for other people in this situation. Here she's

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<v Speaker 1>in the middle of hurting, but she's thinking of other

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<v Speaker 1>people and trying to save other lives because her sister

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<v Speaker 1>did not get out safely. And you can't do anything

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<v Speaker 1>but just look at her. And again, for me, anytime

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<v Speaker 1>that you would be able to be a little selfish,

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<v Speaker 1>it would have been yesterday, and she was not that

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<v Speaker 1>at all.

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<v Speaker 2>What a journey a rocky road, this family, this mother,

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<v Speaker 2>this sister has traveled not just to rocky road, but

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<v Speaker 2>a rocky road barefoot. And they have walked it and

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<v Speaker 2>walked it and walked it. And I gotta say, Cheryl,

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<v Speaker 2>I respect to you in so many ways, but in

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<v Speaker 2>your way, you helped them carry that burden along around

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<v Speaker 2>Rocky Road, and I'm just really proud that you let

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<v Speaker 2>me be part of it.

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<v Speaker 1>I really appreciate you saying that. But I got to

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<v Speaker 1>tell you two things. One, when I told the family

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<v Speaker 1>that I was gonna call you, I didn't think the

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<v Speaker 1>mother was going to survive that.

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<v Speaker 4>Nathan Grace, Nasan Grace. It's gonna get solved now. And

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

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<v Speaker 4>all that. I'm just calling her because you know whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, you know, when you're in high school

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<v Speaker 1>and you're a freshman and that senior just seems untouchable.

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<v Speaker 1>They're so smart and they're so beautiful, they got everything together.

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<v Speaker 1>That's how I always felt coming to you. I was

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<v Speaker 1>always the freshman. You are always this just golden child.

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<v Speaker 1>And every time I have ever called you on a case,

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<v Speaker 1>you have helped. And people don't know that. People think

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<v Speaker 1>you're on TV. They don't know you. And I still

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<v Speaker 1>go in the field. They don't know you, and I

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<v Speaker 1>still work a crime scene with ground penetrating radar in

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<v Speaker 1>the heat and bugs. They don't know that because you

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<v Speaker 1>don't ever brag. So I'm gonna brag right now on

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<v Speaker 1>you when I called you on this case. You didn't hesitate,

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<v Speaker 1>and you knew we didn't have DNA or witnesses or

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<v Speaker 1>new evidence. You knew the father's background. That didn't stop

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<v Speaker 1>you either. You were like, okay, the sins of the

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<v Speaker 1>father has nothing to do with Melissa, Amen and hallelujah.

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<v Speaker 1>And in our job, we don't get to pick who

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<v Speaker 1>we help anyway. That now, when one call comes in

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<v Speaker 1>and we go to work, well, I always told Jeris,

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<v Speaker 1>who do you expect to be part of a case?

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<v Speaker 2>Nuns and priests and versins, because they're not okay, that's

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<v Speaker 2>not new. I'm putting up as witnesses.

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<v Speaker 1>And you told me a long time ago swam don't

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<v Speaker 1>swim in a sewer.

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<v Speaker 2>And you are absolutely right. I believe I said cesspool.

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<v Speaker 2>But okay, go ahead and take literary license. Okay, So

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<v Speaker 2>just for this one day, just today, and then we'll

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<v Speaker 2>pick it up tomorrow about getting a conviction on this

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<v Speaker 2>guy who has presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a

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<v Speaker 2>reasonable doubt. I always have to say that, of course

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<v Speaker 2>I'm forced to. Just for this one day today, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>just gonna be happy that a rest has been made.

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<v Speaker 2>And then tomorrow we'll pick it up and go.

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<v Speaker 1>Amen.

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<v Speaker 2>Amen, Sister. All I have to say is shut up, David,

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<v Speaker 2>just in case you're.

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<v Speaker 1>With Bye buddy, Bye buddy. Congratulations