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Speaker 1: this is Jessica. In this bonus episode, Todd and I
Speaker 1: wanted to take a minute to share our thoughts around
Speaker 1: the New Orleans police body cam footage we played in
Speaker 1: the first couple of episodes. This footage is from the
Speaker 1: units who went to Jessica and Justin's home the day
Speaker 1: she went missing. The first recording was from that wellness
Speaker 1: check spurred by Maria's call to police to report Jessica missing,
Speaker 1: and the second was from a unit that arrived on
Speaker 1: scene to officially fill out a missing person's report about
Speaker 1: two hours later. The footage is recorded within hours of
Speaker 1: the last time anyone ever saw Jessica. So it's incredibly
Speaker 1: important to help us understand more about this case. Because
Speaker 1: my background is in investigative reporting and Todd's is in
Speaker 1: law enforcement, we have different lenses through which we look
Speaker 1: at case materials like this, and part of our on
Speaker 1: the ground investigation has included nightly debriefs where we talk
Speaker 1: about case material together. Todd is a former detective, so
Speaker 1: his insight is invaluable in helping me understand what really
Speaker 1: happened that night. His perspective has been so helpful to
Speaker 1: me personally that I thought I would share with you
Speaker 1: one of our late night recording sessions as we sat
Speaker 1: inside our New Orleans hotel in the Fringe Quarter watching
Speaker 1: those bodycam videos together. Now keep in mind we probably
Speaker 1: sat there glued to a laptop for about five or
Speaker 1: six hours, but we condensed that down for you so
Speaker 1: you can get a clearer idea of how the sequence
Speaker 1: of events that night could have had an impact on
Speaker 1: the rest of the investigation into Jessica's case. Let's start
Speaker 1: with that first wellness check.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this is Jessica in Todd Jean bodycam footage
Speaker 2: from August fifteenth, twenty nineteen. This will be the lead
Speaker 2: officer in the wellness.
Speaker 3: Check three six one seven. Sorry I came out the back.
Speaker 3: Oh did you live here? Yeah? Six year? We're told
Speaker 3: is your one ill here? Sorry? Someone sick here? No,
Speaker 3: nobody's sick here, sick. He don't buy you.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, he's.
Speaker 3: We got a call though. Yeah, I know. It's one
Speaker 3: of my wife's friends.
Speaker 4: And let me let me just say hi.
Speaker 3: So he's not walking at you guys.
Speaker 5: You guys have okay, look, sure you call no, no,
Speaker 5: because she's what missy.
Speaker 4: No, I mean not buddy, it's a college of.
Speaker 3: Was really excited? Sure your wife? Yeah, because she's.
Speaker 5: Her car cars here while it's here longing.
Speaker 4: Like twelve thirty twelve fifteen thirty.
Speaker 6: I fell asleep, So I don't really yes, sir, And
Speaker 6: I mean I know sr B.
Speaker 3: That's why I didn't call you, guys.
Speaker 6: I call I called jpso think you she might have
Speaker 6: a tech traffic attachment. I call it OPP seven, the
Speaker 6: same thing I called East Jefferson.
Speaker 4: She's depressed, bipolar, but she's on meds and stuff and.
Speaker 7: It's okay, so so far.
Speaker 2: The cop that's talking to him has no information about
Speaker 2: what this one, this check is even about. Now we
Speaker 2: know for a fact that the call was made from Maria, right,
Speaker 2: and Maria reported what they had talked about before the
Speaker 2: things were going back. There was a plan she was
Speaker 2: going to meet her this day.
Speaker 1: She couldn't get a hold of her. She was worried
Speaker 1: about her.
Speaker 2: And that I think her husband might have done something
Speaker 2: to her. That was the information given for the welfare check.
Speaker 2: Now they're sending an officer out with none of that information.
Speaker 1: He first he look for an elderly person living alone,
Speaker 1: and then it's someone sick here, like.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean, so we're getting off of the wrong
Speaker 2: foot because armed with the information that really was given
Speaker 2: during the report to cause the wellness check, you already
Speaker 2: know this call is elevated, right, Like this could be
Speaker 2: a big deal.
Speaker 1: Because he's giving the information new to this officer that
Speaker 1: seems to have no idea why he's there.
Speaker 2: Yes, and you can tell like probably the officer's not
Speaker 2: paying attention to things he should be because he's still
Speaker 2: trying to catch up on why he's even there, Like
Speaker 2: so far, the officer has way too many distractions going
Speaker 2: on for right now.
Speaker 7: Absolutely deal with this dog.
Speaker 2: He has to deal with catching up to the story
Speaker 2: because no one at dispatch gave him the full information
Speaker 2: that came in on the initial call to cause us
Speaker 2: wellness check. There's just a lot of problems to get started.
Speaker 5: So yeah, she said she left before like this is
Speaker 5: the length of time.
Speaker 6: Never, never, And that's what's got to be concerned. And
Speaker 6: you know, I called who called you?
Speaker 3: Guys?
Speaker 6: I called a friend of hers who overreacts to everything,
Speaker 6: and I told her, Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean well, because first you said you're freaking out,
Speaker 1: then you're saying you're concerned, and then you say her
Speaker 1: friend must have called you. She overacts to everything. Well,
Speaker 1: which is it?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 1: Did she ever react? Are you concerned?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Because if you're freaking out, as you said, and that's
Speaker 2: a quote, why is it overreacting for her to freak out?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 5: But I mean since twelve thirty day she just apparently
Speaker 5: warned it off and we're just now getting the call.
Speaker 6: I mean, well, know what happened was said, I woke
Speaker 6: up about oh, I came home from school. I woke
Speaker 6: up around okay, piece was made, A piece was okay,
Speaker 6: and she's gone right. And the course here, the keys
Speaker 6: are here versus here, you know, and she doesn't go
Speaker 6: wandering off.
Speaker 3: She's not from here.
Speaker 4: She's lived here seven years, six six years.
Speaker 6: So you know, I was kind of giving it in,
Speaker 6: you know, another hour or two before I called you guys, because.
Speaker 5: If she warned her back, I mean, she's never done
Speaker 5: that before. No, no, no.
Speaker 1: No, okay, Now I'm bothered. Ask him a question. Stop
Speaker 1: and let it breathe let them, let them finish their
Speaker 1: thought so you can get the full information in the
Speaker 1: full story. And he's not doing that here, and it's
Speaker 1: driving me crazy.
Speaker 2: And what information he is getting, he's not using to
Speaker 2: his advantage because he thought he was coming there first
Speaker 2: for an elderly man that lives by himself that's having
Speaker 2: some issue. And then oh no, wait minute, it was
Speaker 2: someone was ill. Maybe that was the same man. But
Speaker 2: now he discovers through this man that he counters that
Speaker 2: lives there, that his wife has been missing since four
Speaker 2: o'clock this afternoon and it's after ten pm now, since twelve. Well,
Speaker 2: he said he fell asleep and woke up at four
Speaker 2: and she was gone right, so at least four to
Speaker 2: then and then he he says, I know who called
Speaker 2: you too. It was her friend who lives in Alabama,
Speaker 2: and she always overreacts, So now you're already armed with
Speaker 2: enough information to go. Wait a minute, partner, we had
Speaker 2: the wrong information on this. Will you get all the
Speaker 2: information from the call from this friend that called in
Speaker 2: and see what she reported exactly, because then you're gonna
Speaker 2: find out she says, I think the husband did something
Speaker 2: to her. And now this might change the way you're
Speaker 2: approaching this, you know what I mean, because he's not
Speaker 2: acting appropriately for a call of this nature.
Speaker 1: The officer isn't you've done well in his test?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 1: And are do you normally go to the residents armed
Speaker 1: with more information than this?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, usually you're given I mean, this is a
Speaker 2: problem with the communication from the dispatch obviously, which now
Speaker 2: they receive it a lot of times over their terminal
Speaker 2: and their car the computer and it just pops up
Speaker 2: with whatever the dispatcher types in. So either the dispatcher
Speaker 2: typed in there was another wellness check somewhere else and
Speaker 2: got the too confused and typed in the wrong information,
Speaker 2: or he didn't pay any attention to what was typed
Speaker 2: in there. I mean one of the two. He has
Speaker 2: a totally wrong information. And we know Maria called it
Speaker 2: in and we know what she said, and we know
Speaker 2: that she didn't say there's an elderly man that lives
Speaker 2: here by himself. It's not feeling well. So now I
Speaker 2: got to stop for a second. Ago, wait a minute.
Speaker 2: The guy that lives here, whose wife has been missing
Speaker 2: for you know, at least six hours at this point,
Speaker 2: her best friend called.
Speaker 7: He didn't.
Speaker 2: And when the best friend called in, she said she
Speaker 2: was supposed to pick her up today because they were
Speaker 2: having domestic issues and she was scared, and now she
Speaker 2: can't get a hold of her, and she's afraid her
Speaker 2: husband has done something to her that changes everything, and
Speaker 2: he's not doing it.
Speaker 7: He didn't do that.
Speaker 2: This was the perfect time, once you got that information,
Speaker 2: to regroup a second and see why you're there.
Speaker 3: And that's that's my concern.
Speaker 6: And you know, we've we've been a little different. She's
Speaker 6: been Lucy stressed out for a couple of reasons because,
Speaker 6: like a fifteen year old is inside, and she got
Speaker 6: overwhelmed right before going to high school for the first time, and.
Speaker 5: Well, you you you checked all some good places that
Speaker 5: you need to check, hospitals in jail. I would never
Speaker 5: put anything like jail, you know, but at this point
Speaker 5: I think of the most group were required.
Speaker 3: Of course, they told me twenty four hours.
Speaker 5: Now, well, I believe the circumstances done in twenty four hours.
Speaker 5: It's coming to play. She just she disappeared. I mean, right,
Speaker 5: you could have done this for four dollars ago. I
Speaker 5: mean it's it's spriscious and un due to her, her
Speaker 5: her medication and all that other stuff.
Speaker 3: I would think she's been she's making.
Speaker 2: As alarmed as an officer. Just it's a way that
Speaker 2: he was about how suspicious.
Speaker 3: This is.
Speaker 2: The next move right now is okay, let's put the
Speaker 2: dog up somewhere and let's go inside and talk.
Speaker 7: Right now, Let's see what he does, because.
Speaker 3: We're gonna, like I said, we come out. We're gonna
Speaker 3: have a different unit come out a little bit on
Speaker 3: an out, and let's see if she pops up.
Speaker 1: So in this check, all they did was ask why
Speaker 1: are we here?
Speaker 7: Why are we here?
Speaker 1: And that was it.
Speaker 2: And now they're like, okay, wait a minute, this this
Speaker 2: is really a missing person's report. We need to send
Speaker 2: a different unit to come take that report. And now, listen,
Speaker 2: here's what they have going for them. They had the
Speaker 2: element of surprise. He didn't know the police were coming
Speaker 2: to his house until they knocked under the door. And
Speaker 2: they're there to do a wellness check, which they're not doing.
Speaker 2: This is the problem I have with some mindsets of
Speaker 2: some uniform officers, and it tends to be ones that
Speaker 2: have been on too long, okay longer than they should have.
Speaker 2: They think that they show up and all they are
Speaker 2: are filling the blank. Officers, I was sitting here for something.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to kick out some kind of incident report.
Speaker 2: Let me come get enough information to fill out the
Speaker 2: blanks and send it in there saying show I did
Speaker 2: my job. That's not it. I think here, you're in
Speaker 2: uniform that you don't have to investigate.
Speaker 7: You do.
Speaker 2: Every police officer is an investigator. This is an investigation.
Speaker 2: Every call for service is an investigation. You show up
Speaker 2: and investigate. You determine what's going on at that house.
Speaker 2: Someone called and said, my friend might be hurt.
Speaker 7: She's missing.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid the husband did something to her. Figure out
Speaker 2: if that is the case or not. Or if she's okay,
Speaker 2: that's your job. It's not to say, oh wait a minute,
Speaker 2: I'm a wellness check officer. I'm not a take a
Speaker 2: missing person's report officer. So let me wipe my hands clean,
Speaker 2: get back in my car. You have a new officer
Speaker 2: in another couple hours, you know.
Speaker 7: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know how this patrol situation is structured. Do
Speaker 2: they only have wellness check officers and that's their only duty?
Speaker 7: They just go around town? Don't?
Speaker 2: Yeah, white wellness check?
Speaker 1: Could they not have done the missing person's report?
Speaker 7: I don't get that at all.
Speaker 1: Why did they just send another unit out?
Speaker 7: I have no idea.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's because of their assignment whatever,
Speaker 2: But if so, you can see the damage that stuff causes.
Speaker 2: This is the most damaging thing that well, I'm gonna say,
Speaker 2: I'm quite certain this is going to end up being
Speaker 2: the most damaging thing that.
Speaker 7: Occurs in the first twenty four hours of this case.
Speaker 1: From your perspective. How important are the first twenty four
Speaker 1: and forty eight hours in something like care Ama.
Speaker 2: I mean, the stats speak for themselves, right, you know this?
Speaker 2: How many cases do you cover?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: I mean, if you don't solve in the first forty
Speaker 2: eight your odds of solving that crime diminish greatly. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's this whole thing is a train wreck. What you
Speaker 2: know is that this was the last place she was seen.
Speaker 2: So the investigation begins here. They're leaving this scene right
Speaker 2: now without doing anything, literally anything.
Speaker 1: As Todd and I D briefed about the response from
Speaker 1: the first responding officer, we highlighted the fact that this
Speaker 1: initial unit didn't seem to have the full picture about
Speaker 1: the information that was given to the NPD by Maria.
Speaker 1: While we do not have the audio from that original call,
Speaker 1: we do have Maria's account to us about what she
Speaker 1: said on that call, which will be verified by a
Speaker 1: second independent source, which is that second officer who arrives. Okay, now,
Speaker 1: let's keep everything you just heard in mind as we
Speaker 1: move into the second call to the house, where as
Speaker 1: promised by the first unit, the officer showed up to
Speaker 1: take a missing person's report a couple of hours later.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's gonna be just going Todd. We're watching and
Speaker 2: critiquing officer like Krisha Gantner's bodycam labeled just after midnight.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give you a twenty one month.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 2: Okay, she just said she's going to make a phone
Speaker 2: call in whoever it is, last name one, so we
Speaker 2: know that is Detective.
Speaker 1: One Anthony one.
Speaker 8: Earlier tonight, around ten something, a friend from out of
Speaker 8: town called and said that she hadn't been able to
Speaker 8: get a hold of her friend since Monday. I think
Speaker 8: she's not answering her phone and all that. So an
Speaker 8: officer came out here, I think a leap few officers
Speaker 8: came out did a wellness check. Well, when they did
Speaker 8: a wellness check, the husband says, no, I haven't heard
Speaker 8: from her either. Her phone's here, her purse is here,
Speaker 8: her meds or here, everything's here, but I haven't heard
Speaker 8: from her, and I don't know where she's at. And
Speaker 8: the friend that called from out of town said that
Speaker 8: she's afraid that the husband did something to her because
Speaker 8: they have a history of I guess, domestic issues.
Speaker 1: So she's already coming in with the knowledge of what
Speaker 1: the first officers responding to the wellness check should have
Speaker 1: had in their pocket.
Speaker 2: Yes, she's taken the time to review the call card
Speaker 2: and get the incoming information. The information the dispatcher took
Speaker 2: over the phone.
Speaker 1: And she's already preparing a detective that she is there,
Speaker 1: and this is what's going on before she even approaches justin.
Speaker 7: Yes, I mean that's that's exactly what you should do.
Speaker 8: The husband's like, yeah, everything's here, she left everything here.
Speaker 8: I know we have contact contacting her. No, we have
Speaker 8: none where she is because I guess she left everything
Speaker 8: like phone, keys, that, sir.
Speaker 3: Is her car here? Yeah?
Speaker 8: Her car is here too, her purse, her wallet. When
Speaker 8: is the last time you saw.
Speaker 3: Her, sir?
Speaker 8: Twelve thirty?
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, like like noon, correct, around thirty.
Speaker 8: You saw her in You saw her in person, right, yeah,
Speaker 8: he saw her in person. She was here at the house.
Speaker 3: Nothing else.
Speaker 8: She no, no, no, that's not what I said.
Speaker 3: I said that.
Speaker 1: So we got like these dual conversations going on because
Speaker 1: you can tell he's talking to Officer Griffin outside and
Speaker 1: she is talking to Detective Lawn and somehow Detective lun
Speaker 1: Is misconstrued something she said and she's like no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's not what I said, right, And I'm curious at
Speaker 1: some point would it be her duty or detective ones
Speaker 1: at a later point in time, or even like you
Speaker 1: said earlier, a detective one coming out at this point
Speaker 1: to say, hey, is your daughter or your daughter or
Speaker 1: your father home? Can we talk to him see, you know,
Speaker 1: to make sure that they didn't see something that they
Speaker 1: hadn't told you yet, or.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, that needs to be done. That should be
Speaker 2: done here at some point. Especially armed with the information
Speaker 2: that the daughter is fifteen years old, she's gonna be
Speaker 2: able to offer good information if she saw something or
Speaker 2: even if she didn't, that's important because that can help
Speaker 2: narrow down time windows.
Speaker 8: No, he's really not it, does it Like he's just
Speaker 8: rolled nonchalant, like, oh, you know, I have the officers
Speaker 8: come to the polk straight side. My dad and my
Speaker 8: daughter are sleeping. I don't want to wake them up.
Speaker 8: But then when we get here, he's like, do you
Speaker 8: guys need to do this in the car or do
Speaker 8: you want to come in? You can come look through
Speaker 8: the house if you want. You know, he's just being
Speaker 8: like really weird about it. I've tried to call the
Speaker 8: friend from out of state to see if she can
Speaker 8: to see if she'll talk to me, but it's just
Speaker 8: bringing and going to voicemail.
Speaker 3: She's probably asleep.
Speaker 2: She's using her observations in her common sense and her
Speaker 2: experience as a police officer to detect that, but then
Speaker 2: more importantly, to report it, to document it. She's passing
Speaker 2: it on to the detective, which we didn't see during
Speaker 2: the wellness check. It was recognized and acknowledged and then
Speaker 2: quickly dismissed and forgotten about.
Speaker 1: And then she went one step further and tried to
Speaker 1: reach out to Maria.
Speaker 2: Correct, she's investigating. She's not a detective at this point.
Speaker 2: She's a field training officer. She's a patrol officer, and
Speaker 2: she is conducting an investigation. And that's what we discussed
Speaker 2: earlier with the other one. Just because you're in uniform
Speaker 2: doesn't mean you're not an investigator yourself.
Speaker 8: Oh, do you have a picture of her, like a
Speaker 8: current picture?
Speaker 3: Okay? Can you get that in your idea please? Mad
Speaker 3: I have everything? Yeah, that's fine. Else, do you mind
Speaker 3: if we walk in with you? Okay? I have my
Speaker 3: Belgians in there, so okay.
Speaker 8: So what prompted you to say, okay, I need to
Speaker 8: report her missing?
Speaker 6: Like around eight o'clock it was starting to get dark.
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 8: What else did you wake up for me? Now?
Speaker 3: From here about four o'clock.
Speaker 2: She got home at three Okay, so we according to
Speaker 2: his statement, he went and took a nap sometime around noon,
Speaker 2: between noon and twelve thirty that afternoon, and he says
Speaker 2: he wakes up at four. His daughter gets home from
Speaker 2: school at three.
Speaker 1: So there's an hour where potentially Grace and Jessica spent
Speaker 1: an hour alone together. Correct, Therefore Grace has potentially pertinent
Speaker 1: information about Jessica or her whereabouts exactly.
Speaker 2: So just based on that statement right there, that's what
Speaker 2: the officers armed with right now.
Speaker 8: And you you did talk to your daughter and ask
Speaker 8: your daughter if she for her or actually seen her.
Speaker 3: Or you want me to get her.
Speaker 8: I will, No, I don't don't have to.
Speaker 3: Wake her up.
Speaker 4: It's two ATOD morning.
Speaker 3: She has to go to school tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Okay, So he just he said, I don't want to
Speaker 2: wake my daughter up, but I will if you want
Speaker 2: to speak to her. An Officer Gantner says, now, you
Speaker 2: don't have to do that. She probably has school tomorrow.
Speaker 7: That's I mean.
Speaker 2: I love Officer Gantner. I think she's a really good
Speaker 2: police officer and she's doing so well with this. That's
Speaker 2: just one thing to point out that I feel as
Speaker 2: a mistake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because we we established before there is an our window.
Speaker 1: If he was sleeping until four, Grace gets home at three,
Speaker 1: then he created an our window of Grace and Jessica
Speaker 1: alone time that she can account for that he cannot.
Speaker 2: Yes, and she's a juvenile. You need the parents' permission
Speaker 2: to speak to her.
Speaker 1: She just gave.
Speaker 7: He just gave it.
Speaker 2: And now if at some point he goes from a
Speaker 2: report party to a suspect and lawyers up, he's not
Speaker 2: going to allow access to the daughter either. So this
Speaker 2: was your window. Alf sh Gantner said when they were
Speaker 2: first walking there that she would she wants to walk
Speaker 2: through the entire house, and I think she should have
Speaker 2: stuck with that plan and just kind of insisted on it.
Speaker 2: He would have, he would have allowed her, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: And if he would have all of a sudden he
Speaker 2: allowed her to search everywhere in the house except this
Speaker 2: one place, then that would have become concerning for her
Speaker 2: and probably step things up on her behalf. Also, the
Speaker 2: easiest place to work your way into in the house
Speaker 2: is the bathroom, at least the common area bathroom. Maybe
Speaker 2: you can't it doesn't make sense to go to the
Speaker 2: master bathroom, but it's a trick we always use all
Speaker 2: the time, and anything like this where you think someone
Speaker 2: would have been injured, is for the officer who's not
Speaker 2: speaking directly to the person to ask to use the restroom.
Speaker 2: And then you get to go in the bathroom and
Speaker 2: you just kind of look a little bit. You don't
Speaker 2: go outside the scope of your duties, but you look
Speaker 2: around everywhere that you're lawfully allowed to look around. Once
Speaker 2: you're allowed access to the bathroom. You don't start opening
Speaker 2: cabinet drawers because a body can't fit in the cabinet
Speaker 2: drawer yet, but you look around very closely to see
Speaker 2: if there's something out of.
Speaker 7: The ordinary, right right.
Speaker 2: And this is a bit of armchair quarterbacking because she
Speaker 2: did a great job overall, but it's something she missed
Speaker 2: that I would have expected her to utilize. Now she
Speaker 2: doesn't have the benefit of being with another experienced officer
Speaker 2: to be that second person who would usually come up
Speaker 2: with that idea, and she's handling everything herself, so she's
Speaker 2: probably a little more distracted than she would have been
Speaker 2: with another veteran person to work with her. But I
Speaker 2: just felt like those are two fairly sizable mistakes or
Speaker 2: things that weren't done, and one was to talk to
Speaker 2: the daughter when given the opportunity, and to try to
Speaker 2: get a lot at more of the house, especially.
Speaker 1: The bathroom, especially since he offered up both of those things.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: I agree, I think that might be the only mistake here,
Speaker 1: because I believe after this the doors are closed.
Speaker 2: Yes, and she you know, overall, I wish Officer Gantner
Speaker 2: was investigating this case. I wish she was the detective
Speaker 2: in this case because so far, in this entire thing,
Speaker 2: she has been the best part of the law enforcement
Speaker 2: side of this thing, like she really knows.
Speaker 7: What she's doing.
Speaker 1: We've mentioned this before, but the police bodycam audio raises
Speaker 1: a serious accusation about previous domestic violence between Justin and Jessica.
Speaker 1: But it's important to understand that Justin has never been
Speaker 1: charged with any crimes of domestic violence against Jessica, so
Speaker 1: we need to maintain an open mind. Investigation like this
Speaker 1: are complex and they happen in real time, which can
Speaker 1: expose challenges when looked at in hindsight. If this had
Speaker 1: been the first police unit to respond to Jessica's home,
Speaker 1: Todd and I are confident that her case may be
Speaker 1: in a very different status today. One takeaway for Todd
Speaker 1: and me from reviewing this body cam footage is that
Speaker 1: we are now more committed than ever to determine what
Speaker 1: really happened in the days prior and the day's following
Speaker 1: Justin's interaction with the NOPD. Ultimately, our investigation is still
Speaker 1: ongoing and will continue until we exhaust every avenue. Hopefully
Speaker 1: this has been as insightful to you as it was
Speaker 1: for me. Be sure to follow along with our investigation
Speaker 1: as we continue to unpack this story in our next episode.
Speaker 1: Undetermined is a production of Resonate Recordings and Tenderfoot TV
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Speaker 1: Jessica Nole and produced by Dennis Cooper and Todd McComas,
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