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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A five year old little

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Speaker 1: Everybody's gone to church, they've had lunch. You know that

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Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories with Me and All Star panel

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Speaker 1: joining me. Brian m'sw r A LTV. Doctor Katherine Maloney,

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Speaker 1: Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, Erie County Medical Examiner's Office in Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: founder of the Cold Case Research Institute, Ballistics forensics expert

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Speaker 1: Cheryl McCullum, psychoanalysts joining me out of Beverly Hills, doctor

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Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall, New York criminal defense attorney Randy Zellin. But

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Speaker 1: first to special guests, the mother and father of little

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Speaker 1: Cannon with me, Bonnie Wadell and Austin Hannett. Bonnie first

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Speaker 1: to you. You know, every morning when I wake up,

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Speaker 1: and all day long they're on my mind. What happened

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Speaker 1: the day five year old Cannon was shot. He was

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Speaker 1: visiting his dad's house. I was at home with my

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Speaker 1: that Cannon had been shot. I had gotten the numerous

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, I couldn't even think at that time.

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Speaker 1: Just can't be real, oh'bonnie. That feeling, that feeling, especially

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Speaker 1: the helplessness that they're trying to grapple with what shot

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Speaker 1: and all that screaming. I can't imagine that phone call.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to start with Cannon's mom before I go

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Speaker 1: to his dad joining us, who is at the scene.

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Speaker 1: Everybody there just love Cannon. He lit up the room.

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Speaker 1: Austin Hennock was inside his home on Archer's Road as

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Speaker 1: Now is Cannon's dad, Austin. Austin. I'm just so grateful

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Speaker 1: None of this seem dream. I can't tell you how

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Speaker 1: Austin and Bonnie, it can't happen to me. I used

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Speaker 1: To Austin, please explain to me what happened that day.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how to explain what happened to day,

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Speaker 1: We just wanted to life that we at Doctor Bethany Marshall,

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Speaker 1: as Austin Hannett said, the life they had, the way

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Speaker 1: Because Austin, Nikki, Cannon's mother and father had one reality

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Speaker 1: the definition of trauma, Nancy is a sudden, unanticipated change

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Speaker 1: And it takes a long time to get over something

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Speaker 1: thinking of my son, Austin. When you've never been forty

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Speaker 1: You know, you're you're just making me think of my

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Speaker 1: And we keep wondering to you, Austin, why why why

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Speaker 1: b s Under the law of the state does not

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Speaker 1: have to prove motive. A prosecutor doesn't have to crawl

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Speaker 1: into the dark mind of a killer and figure out why,

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Speaker 1: what possible motive could there be to kill a five

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Speaker 1: year old little boy riding his bike in the front

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Speaker 1: yard had died? Austin Hannett, Austin and mom Bonnie widel

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Speaker 1: with me right now, Austin. There was no bad blood

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Speaker 1: between the neighbors. In fact, I understand the family of

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Speaker 1: Darius Sessems had lived in the neighborhood twenty plus years,

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Speaker 1: and you guys had lived there, I guess close to

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Speaker 1: ten years. You had had him meighbors years for dinner,

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Speaker 1: no problem. In fact, you saw him in his car

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Speaker 1: I think the night before and said, hey, buddy, come over,

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Speaker 1: have a supper with us, and did he That's right,

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what happened. He was sitting in his car.

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Speaker 1: He looked like he had a lot on his mind

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Speaker 1: and looked like he would just counting down. And we

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Speaker 1: were already cooking chicken on the grill for the kids

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Speaker 1: and ourselves, and there was extra. So I just told

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Speaker 1: him the Lord says, that loved the neighbor and that

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Speaker 1: was the kind thing to do. That was something that

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Speaker 1: can I'm just trying to take all this in. Dairy

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Speaker 1: assesss was found about thirty to forty minutes away, hiding

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Speaker 1: out in a nearby town of Goldsboro. Now all of

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Speaker 1: this for you to get a mental image, is not

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Speaker 1: too far about it less than an hour from Raleigh. Now,

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Speaker 1: when you think of Raleigh, many people think of Andy

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Speaker 1: of Mayberry. Okay, remember they were always going to Raleigh.

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Speaker 1: And there's nothing more peaceful and calm and a happy

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Speaker 1: scenario than Andy of Mayberry. And that's what people think

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Speaker 1: of when we talk about that. That is not what

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Speaker 1: happened on that Sunday afternoon. To Bonnie Waddell, it's my understanding, Bonnie,

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Speaker 1: that the defendant's own family made a comment that the

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Speaker 1: defendant had been involved in drugs, not the family. Go ahead.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say this, but I don't care. I

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Speaker 1: have seen people on drugs. I'm twenty five years old,

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Speaker 1: I'm young. I've seen him all on drugs. Is no

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Speaker 1: amount of drug to be in your mind to kill

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Speaker 1: a child. You were not that high. That's exactly what

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Speaker 1: the law says. What you just voiced in your own way.

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Speaker 1: The voluntary use of drugs or alcohol is not a

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Speaker 1: defense under the law. Else everybody in the jail would

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Speaker 1: say right now, oh, I was high on pots, so

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Speaker 1: you know you can't hold me liable. In fact, under

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Speaker 1: the law, you have to be coma chose for drugs

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Speaker 1: or alcohol to be a defense. It is not a

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Speaker 1: defense to Austin Hennant. What is rubbing salt in the

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Speaker 1: wound is that you had reached out to the defendant

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Speaker 1: the night before to try to help him out, bring

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Speaker 1: him over to your home, had him at your table

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Speaker 1: for dinner. What did he show any animals, see any

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Speaker 1: anger toward cannon anything. Never. Never. He sat right on

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Speaker 1: my couch with me and we ate at the coffee

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Speaker 1: table while my fiance ate at the kitchen table. Would

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Speaker 1: offer the children never any issues. We finished our dinner

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Speaker 1: and walked outside, had a cigarette. He said thank you

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Speaker 1: and went on him by his night. What do you

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Speaker 1: make of comments that have reportedly come from the family

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Speaker 1: that he had used drugs. I don't care what he used.

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Speaker 1: What he did is unforgivable, unthinkable, and it can't be undone.

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Speaker 1: So now he's gonna suffer the consequences to the police.

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Speaker 1: It's end of the law. And that's just the bottom

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Speaker 1: line to Wendy Zellen. You hear the parents speaking out

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Speaker 1: and what should have been Cannon's first day at kindergarten.

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Speaker 1: I don't care either. I agree with mom and dad.

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Speaker 1: I don't care if he was high, if he wasn't high,

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Speaker 1: I don't care. That's not going to be a defense

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Speaker 1: for what he did to Cannon. This is true, but

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Speaker 1: we must remember that we have to view the law dispassionately.

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Speaker 1: We have to look at the law, and as you know, Nancy,

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Speaker 1: when you are in front of a jury, sympathy is

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Speaker 1: not ever supposed to enter into the courtroom, even though

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Speaker 1: it does. But here where the drugs, or whatever impact

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Speaker 1: the drugs may have had on this defendant, may play

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Speaker 1: more of a role from a penalty perspective than from

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Speaker 1: a guilt or lack of guilt perspective. Keeping in mind

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Speaker 1: that the death penalty is the ultimate sanction, and before

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Speaker 1: the court is going to impose the death penalty upon

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Speaker 1: a defendant, putting aside the cost that is inherent. Oh

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah, just stop, start with the money.

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Speaker 1: I want to go to Bonnie and Austin. Bonnie, what

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Speaker 1: is in your heart and in your mind right now?

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Speaker 1: This should have been his first day of kindergarten. I

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Speaker 1: woke up this morning and that's all I could think about.

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Speaker 1: It's my day he was supposed to start kindergarten. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you what's in my mind right now. Any

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Speaker 1: better be in jail praying that they give him to destinerty.

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Speaker 1: That's what it's in my mind right now, Because as

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Speaker 1: a day's past, and the more I'm mourned the loss

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Speaker 1: of my son, the more the anger it was up

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Speaker 1: inside of me. So I'm believe it of that. Bonnie Austin,

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Speaker 1: I wish we could take away from you what you're

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Speaker 1: going through. Thank you. All we can do right now

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Speaker 1: is to pray for you and pray for Cannon and

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Speaker 1: God willing seek justice, we wait for the courts to act.

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace crime story, signing of Goodbye Friend,