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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A gorgeous young Myrtle Beach

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Speaker 1: her car still running. What happened to Amber? I'm Nancy Grace.

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Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.

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Speaker 2: A young South Carolina woman runs errands on her way

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Speaker 2: to work. She stops to pay her cable bill, gets gas,

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Speaker 2: but never makes it to work.

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Speaker 1: She's absolutely stunning and was just days away from graduating

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Speaker 1: from college. What happened to Amber? This is how it

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Speaker 1: all starts. Listen.

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Speaker 3: The Myrtle Beach area of South Carolina gets very busy

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Speaker 3: on the weekends, and at around four thirty pm on

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Speaker 3: a Friday, a call comes into nine one one. The

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Speaker 3: caller says there appears to be an injured person outside

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Speaker 3: of a car on Old Sanders Road under the Robert

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Speaker 3: Edge Parkway overpath in North Myrtle Beach. Officers arrived quickly

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Speaker 3: and find the woman lying next to her still running

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Speaker 3: car and no witnesses. The woman has a cell phone

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Speaker 3: inches away from her fingertips that is actively beeping with

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Speaker 3: missed calls, texts, and email messages.

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Speaker 1: With all that evidence, it seems so hard to comprehend.

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Speaker 1: We still don't have Amber answers as to what happened

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Speaker 1: to this gorgeous young co ed. Joining me an all

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Speaker 1: star panel to make sense of what we know right now,

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Speaker 1: including Amber's mother, her sister, and her very best friend.

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Speaker 1: I want to go straight out first to Amber's mother,

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Speaker 1: Michelle Robinson, when did you learn that Amber had passed away?

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Speaker 4: I and bang bag big?

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Speaker 5: I said you go. So I crossed the group and

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Speaker 5: a little bit barged away in. He said, uh, we're

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Speaker 5: investigating homicide Amber Paviilion. I said homicide, but over my head,

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Speaker 5: I said, Amber, where's she? Where's she? One of us

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Speaker 5: said she's been shot. I'm like what? And she grabbed

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Speaker 5: my arms. She's right? He said no.

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Speaker 6: I want to fall back and said no, and.

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Speaker 5: Then asked me questions. I couldn't think straight. I needed

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Speaker 5: to call my mother. My mom was on her way Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 5: I said, Mom. The officer took the boat. I couldn't die.

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Speaker 7: It was a nightmare.

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Speaker 1: Since also with miss Robinson is amber sister Amanda. Amanda,

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Speaker 1: when did you learn that your sister? She's absolutely beautiful

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Speaker 1: and so much ahead of her in life? When did

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Speaker 1: you learn that she had been killed. I was at work.

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Speaker 8: I had gotten a few phone calls throughout the night.

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Speaker 8: I was waitressing at the time, and it was a

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Speaker 8: busy Friday night and I didn't answer my phone. So

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Speaker 8: me that she had been shot. And I didn't think

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Speaker 8: I didn't think it was possible other than you know,

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Speaker 8: just like, well, where is she, how is she doing?

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Speaker 8: And he just said, I'm sorry, honey, she's gone.

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Speaker 1: What went through your mind when you heard the phrase,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, honey, she's gone. It was.

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Speaker 8: Not comprehendible. I just kind of like fell to the ground.

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Speaker 8: There were still customers in the restaurant.

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Speaker 4: And nobody knew what was going on.

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Speaker 8: And my coworkers just kind of picked me up and

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Speaker 8: blurted it out. My sister was shot. She's dead, And

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Speaker 8: my mother said, it's been a nightmare ever since.

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Speaker 1: When you first learned, Amanda that Amber had been shot,

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Speaker 1: in your mind, what did you think had happened?

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Speaker 8: I had no idea. You know, there were so many

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Speaker 1: Also joining us, in addition to Amber's mother and sister,

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Speaker 1: her best friend Karen Ritchie. Karen described for us when

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Speaker 6: Someone at the scene recognized Amber and called my manager

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Speaker 5: Told me it was unbelievable.

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Speaker 9: And you know, he spends because some new world to

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Speaker 1: Let me understand, Karen, when you were first told that

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Speaker 1: imagine a scenario under which that would happen. Neither one

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Speaker 1: first heard this news that Amber had been shot, what

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Speaker 1: did you think happened? And I have a reason for asking,

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Speaker 6: You know, like something random or possibly a robbery or

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Speaker 1: Just days away from graduating college, her life cut down,

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Speaker 1: What more do we know? Listen.

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Speaker 10: First responders find a female victim line outside her still

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Speaker 10: running car. Injuries to her face are so severe at

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Speaker 10: first glance it appears she has been shot in the face.

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Speaker 10: The woman has died before help arrives, and no witnesses

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Speaker 10: Investigators find the victim's purse inside the car with money

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Speaker 10: still in it, and rule out robbery as a motive.

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Speaker 10: They also find the victim's identification, Amber Bbilia, joining us US.

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Speaker 1: In addition to Amber Burbilia's family, Michelle Robinson, Amanda Barbilia,

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Speaker 1: her sister and best friend, Karen Ritchie. Barry Hutchinson Senior

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Speaker 1: now joining US twenty six years in law enforcement, veteran

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Speaker 1: detective now chief investigator with Barry and associates. Barry Hutchison,

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Speaker 1: thank you for being with us well. Immediately, police rule

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Speaker 1: out robbery because her purse, her pocketbook is still there,

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Speaker 11: I think it was somebody that was that she was

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Speaker 11: My first instinct is telling me that it's probably somebody

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Speaker 12: Hoory County Police Detective Jonathan Martin says, Amber Rebilia's body

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Speaker 12: injuries to our face appeared to be gunshold wounds. The

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Speaker 12: coroner reveals that Amberverbilia wasn't shot as previously thought. She

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Speaker 1: Get there, they believe that Amber has been shot, but

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Speaker 1: then they realize she was beaten so badly she appeared

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Speaker 1: a renowned chief medical examiner out of Terran County. That's

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Speaker 1: Fort Worth and esteemed lecturer at the Burnett School of

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Speaker 1: Medicine at TCU, doctor Kendall Crown's. Doctor crowns thank you

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Speaker 1: for being with us. Explain to me in medical terms

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Speaker 1: what the that means.

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Speaker 13: So, sometimes gunshot wounds can be or blunt force injuries

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Speaker 13: You can get these kind of stellate tears or star

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Speaker 13: but instead are from blunt force injuries, especially if they've

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Speaker 13: The other thing is is often with blunt force trauma,

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Speaker 13: also causes a significant trauma to the head as well.

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Speaker 1: So you're telling me a person can be beaten so

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Speaker 1: badly that it actually resembles a gunshot wound.

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Speaker 13: Yes, they can be beaten so badly that the destruction

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Speaker 13: the appearance of the massive trauma caused a gunshot wound.

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Speaker 1: Do we know what time of the day or night

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Speaker 1: she was attacked? Let me go out to Karen Ritchie

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Speaker 1: we know what time of the day or night this occurred.

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Speaker 1: It was broad daylight. My understanding, it was closer to

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Speaker 1: that's very significant because to Barry Hutcheson Senior joining us

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Speaker 1: again twenty six years in law enforcement, this person that

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Speaker 1: It's blunt force trauma so severe her skull was fractured.

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Speaker 1: of the attack. This glsen is brazen to commit a

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Speaker 1: Wam bam, you're done. She has to get out of

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Speaker 11: it has all the hallmarks of something to where there's

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Speaker 11: just really stands out as somebody that knew her and

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Speaker 11: she was there for a very specific reason. Maybe that

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Speaker 11: the case it's pretty much hush hush with the Horay

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Speaker 11: But to me, it has a lot of key indicators

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Speaker 11: She was very happy with the person she was with,

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Speaker 11: had plans on getting married, and I think this was

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Speaker 11: kind of a confrontation by that person as the last

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Speaker 11: ditch effort to say, hey, why not me instead of

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Speaker 11: I think that passion just overcame that person and the

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Speaker 14: Tack, a beautiful young woman found beaten to death lying

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Speaker 1: Who could do this?

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Speaker 3: Amber Bbilia is originally from New York, but calls South

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Speaker 1: That casts some light on the theory. A quote jilted

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Speaker 8: No, there's no information that there was anybody on the side.

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Speaker 8: I don't think you know, she would have had anybody,

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Speaker 1: Now, thinking all of this through, let me figure out,

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Speaker 8: She was very excited to get married and start her future.

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Speaker 1: Michelle Robinson, this is Ambermilia's mom, Michelle. What was she

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Speaker 1: Where was she working?

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Speaker 15: She was working in Austria and Growth, which is very

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Speaker 5: Here's the picture me and her mother grandmother went and

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Speaker 1: thank you for being with us tonight. I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: analyze what I've just heard. Now. You and I, Alexis,

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Speaker 1: thing I've always been puzzled with is that it seems

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Speaker 1: Anothery're saying, elzis terrestrict any light you could shed on this.

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Speaker 1: Many people, including the mom, Michelle Robinson, believe that this

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Speaker 1: And I'm going to go back to you on this,

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Speaker 1: Barry Hutchinson Senior, If you want money, you want to

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Speaker 1: job in a Ramsey case, all right, where somebody said

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Speaker 1: in labor here. That doesn't make sense. So if you're

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Speaker 1: going to commit a robbery, why don't you mug somebody

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Speaker 1: beat her in the face, fracture her skull. It's a

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Speaker 1: vicious beating, okay, to her face. That's full of all

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Speaker 1: make sense, alexis what facts can you shed on this?

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Speaker 14: Well?

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Speaker 7: Also, there was not a weapon found as as far

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Speaker 7: not take the money, So you think maybe something went wrong,

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Speaker 7: Maybe she owed somebody money for some reason, they felt

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Speaker 7: they followed her. They said to get the money back,

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Speaker 7: but they left the purse. And again it is broad daylight.

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Speaker 7: While this isn't a heavily trafficked area, as you can

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Speaker 7: so she was very surprised when this happened and they left. No,

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Speaker 7: they didn't take anything. So if she was let's just

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Speaker 7: say she owed somebody some money, she was going to

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Speaker 7: meet them with the money. Something happened, she didn't give

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Speaker 7: it to them. They didn't take the money, they didn't

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Speaker 1: Alexis Teraeschak I specifically asked if you could shed light

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Speaker 1: Are you actually saying you have any facts to support

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Speaker 7: I am just guessing, But I'm saying that she did

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Speaker 1: Sh no facts support that. As a matter of fact,

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Speaker 3: Listen Amber Vermilia's mother, Michelle, says the murder simply happened

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Speaker 3: to the wrong person, saying, quote, Amber was a social butterfly.

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Speaker 3: She had friends from school, she had friends from work.

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Speaker 3: She put herself through school. Her mother says she was

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Speaker 1: What more do we know about the scene that can

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Speaker 10: Investigation into the murder of Amber Rebilia is difficult. From

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Speaker 1: It sounds to me like a crime of opportunity. Now,

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Speaker 1: Alexis Tereschuk, I just attacked you about your claim that

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Speaker 1: That she owed somebody money. She even she's one of

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Speaker 1: What I was expecting you to describe, Alexis Terestchuk is

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Speaker 1: video surveillance. What can you tell me about video surveillance

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Speaker 7: The video has not been released by the police. After that,

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Speaker 7: She's wearing black pants, leperprint shirt. She has cute little

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Speaker 7: She's driving her car. She turns a corner, they lose

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Speaker 7: Described is that this passenger appeared to be a dark

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Speaker 1: This is what was.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let me understand something like this stress chuck off

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Speaker 7: We do not know what kind of I think it was,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay. It sees her turn off the roadway

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Speaker 7: Correct, correct, He appears to be a blackmail from the video.

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Speaker 1: Amanda, what have you been told about the video?

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Speaker 8: Exactly what she just said, just that they have video

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Speaker 1: We understand that the cameras were those installed along the roadway.

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Speaker 1: Alexis Treestchik, you're right about that, Michelle Robinson, Amber's mom.

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Speaker 1: Were you ever told what is down the street or

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Speaker 1: Is law enforcement telling you they believe it's a person, yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: And how quickly after seeing what they believe is a

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Speaker 3: The mother of Amber Burbilia, Michelle Robinson says her daughter

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Speaker 1: Doctor Kendall Crowns joining us out off Fort Worth, Texas.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Crowns, I want to understand something we earlier heard

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Speaker 13: So your skull can fracture from a punch, depending on

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Speaker 13: But the type of injuries that are being described to

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Speaker 1: This is where I'm going, Doctor Kennel Crown's, and I

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Speaker 1: veins have venous the face is that would produce a

437
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Speaker 1: lot of bleeding to resemble a gunshot wound. But we're

438
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Speaker 1: talking about potential fractures. We're talking about whether a weapon

439
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: was used. She was off camera, Doctor Kendall Crowns for

440
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:11,199
Speaker 1: about thirty minutes. The highway cam, what we've learned was

441
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:15,120
Speaker 1: a highway cam sees her going down the highway. The roadway,

442
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 1: she turns off into the side street, Doctor Kendall Crowns.

443
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: She's not seen for thirty minutes. When she comes back

444
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:27,159
Speaker 1: on camera, Doctor Crowns, according to law enforcement, there is

445
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: a male sitting in her front seat. Within an hour,

446
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:37,440
Speaker 1: she's dead. I'm trying to figure out was a weapon

447
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 1: used and if so, what weapon. It seems to me

448
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 1: that's the guy we need to be looking for now,

449
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: Doctor Kindall. Crown's. Two fractures to the skull. If the

450
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: fractures can a skull fracture be to the front of

451
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:57,919
Speaker 1: the face. Who doesn't have to be saved from the

452
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: eyebrows back? What would the nose, the mouth, the cheeks,

453
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,160
Speaker 1: Would that be the skull? Is that considered the skull.

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Speaker 13: So yeah, again the skull can be any portion of

455
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 13: this could be a skull fracture, So facial skull here, nose, cheek,

456
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 13: side ahead where your ear would be can also be

457
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 13: considered a skull fracture. So any of that can be

458
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 13: considered a skull fracture.

459
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Speaker 1: In a description, okay, doctor Kennel crowns, it looked like

460
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Speaker 1: a gunshot wound. Was that bad? Would there be more

461
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,439
Speaker 1: bleeding if the attack was to the veinous area in

462
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: the mouth and the nose, in the eyes they bleed

463
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: so profusely.

464
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Speaker 13: So your head actually has a lot of vascularity to it,

465
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 13: your nose, your face, even your scalp has a tremendous

466
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 13: amount of vasculature. So anytime there's injuries to the facial

467
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 13: or head area, there is always going to be a

468
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 13: lot of bleeding. It doesn't care, it doesn't matter what

469
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 13: exactly the area is. It just if it's part of

470
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Speaker 13: the head, it'll bleed quite profusely.

471
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 12: Hory County Police Detective Jonathan Martin says Amber Babilia's body

472
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 12: is found along Old Sanders Road under the Robert Edge

473
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 12: Parkway overpass. There are no witnesses onseen. Although the injuries

474
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 12: to her face appeared to be gunshot wounds, the coroner

475
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 12: reveals that Amber Verbilia wasn't shot as previously thought. She

476
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 12: was beaten to death and cause of death is blom

477
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 12: Force trauma.

478
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 10: First responders find a female victim laying outside her still

479
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 10: running car. Injuries to her face are so severe at

480
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 10: first glance it appears she has been shot in the face.

481
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 10: The woman has died before help arrives, and no witnesses

482
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 10: are around to provide any context for what has taken place.

483
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 10: Investigators find the victims perse inside the car with money

484
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 10: still in it, and rule out robbery as a motive.

485
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 10: They also find the victim's identification, Amber Barbilia.

486
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 2: Hey mom, I just wanted to call and tell you

487
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 2: I love you. Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar

488
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 2: is sweet, and so are you.

489
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: I love you. Good night.

490
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 2: A mother cherishes the last voicemail from her daughter.

491
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 1: Alexis Teresschuk if l E Law enforcement is correct, that

492
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: could very well be her killer caught on video. So

493
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: I'm trying to learn more about that, Alexis what's the

494
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: car fully processed for DNA and fingerprints.

495
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 7: The police have said that they've investigated all of it.

496
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 7: They have never released a suspects name. They have never

497
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 7: released any information saying they're looking for a suspect they

498
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 7: and even if so, they could run this through if

499
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 7: there was DNA anywhere found, they could run it through

500
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 7: one of the genealogy sites and maybe get a match

501
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 7: on somebody else, but they have never released any information

502
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 7: about that.

503
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: Back to doctor Kendall Crowns, I'm still on the Skillfrichur,

504
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: And the reason I'm asking doctor Crowns is I'm trying

505
00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 1: to determine if you or someone like you, another medical

506
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 1: examiner would be able to tell if she was beaten

507
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: with Let's just say, was she pistol whipped? Was she

508
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: attacked with a pipe? If we could figure out from

509
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: her injuries, what was the murder weapon, what was the

510
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: type of murder weapon? A hammer? For peace sake, like

511
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: doctor Teresa sever you can look at the wounds sometimes

512
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: and you can determine what type of weapon was used

513
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: isn't that true?

514
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 13: That's correct. So with blood force injuries, there can be

515
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 13: patterns that are left by the weapon. Pipes can leave

516
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 13: like what we call tram track bruisings where you see

517
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 13: bruising on either side of the wound. Hammers actually leave

518
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 13: kind of circular or kind of almost Mercedes Bin type

519
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 13: symbol of alesions as well. That can be mistaken for

520
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 13: gunshot wounds. It just depends what the object is, but

521
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 13: it will. It can leave pattern injury, but a fist

522
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 13: doesn't usually, but other objects can. So you can't get

523
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 13: kind of an impression of it based on what the

524
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 13: wounds look like.

525
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: If this was not to the nose or the face

526
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: facial area and it left skull fractures, this was not

527
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: done with a fist, that tells me the person that

528
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: got in her car, the man in her car had

529
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: some sort of a weapon. Was it a pipe, Was

530
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: it a hammer? Was it a gun used to pistol

531
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: whip her? I don't know, but I do believe. Barry

532
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: Hutchinson Senior joining me, Private Eye, chief investigator for Burying

533
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: Associates Investigative Services in Kansas and Missouri. Barry, we say

534
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: that you know statistics teach us you look first at

535
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: those closest to her, and that would be the fiance.

536
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 1: It's not the fiance. I've already investigated it myself. He's

537
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: ruled out. He has a rock solid alibi. He was

538
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: in Europe at the time, No question, it's not him.

539
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: But I'm very interested in your theory about a romantic

540
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: interest she worked as her mom just told us at

541
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: a very high end restaurant. Who was watching her, who

542
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: was sitting at the bar, watching her every move? Who

543
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: could have been obsessed with her? Because, Barry, I'm very

544
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: torn right now. Did she give some random guy a

545
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: ride and he attacked her? Because nobody can identify who

546
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 1: this person is, or is it someone that had been

547
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: watching her and she agreed to give him a ride.

548
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: The fact that we know it's not a robbery, we

549
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: know it's not a sex assault, we know that it's

550
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: in broad daylight. So who would have been so bold

551
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: to attack this beautiful young co ed just a couple

552
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: of weeks away from her wedding. I really want to

553
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: hear your thoughts, Barry.

554
00:33:55,960 --> 00:34:00,040
Speaker 11: The police had the ability they know a timeline of

555
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 11: her disappearing for thirty minutes or so. You know, there

556
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 11: are elements that they can use to investigate too, like

557
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 11: her vehicle. I don't know if her vehicle was equipped

558
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:12,399
Speaker 11: with on Star. I don't know if she had her

559
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 11: cell phone with her. I'm assuming she did. I think

560
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 11: in the earlier conversation you said that she had her

561
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 11: cell phone with her.

562
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: Yes, she did.

563
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 11: That phone can also be pinged and they could find

564
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 11: out where she was in that immediate area that she

565
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:29,280
Speaker 11: went missing for those thirty minutes. And then at that point,

566
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 11: what I would do, it's just good old fashioned police work.

567
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 11: I would canvass that area door to door, find out

568
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 11: anybody and everybody in that area that has a criminal record,

569
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:43,359
Speaker 11: anybody that could match, you know, theoretically the type of

570
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 11: crime that was committed, if they have a history of that.

571
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 11: Look for people that just got out of the penitentiary,

572
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 11: Look for people to have that kind of a vicious

573
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 11: background or violent background, and see if I could come

574
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 11: up with a list of viable subjects that could be

575
00:34:56,200 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 11: possible suspects. It just does not make sense to me

576
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 11: that a young lady like this would get out of

577
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 11: her vehicle and have a confrontation with somebody in a

578
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 11: remote area where she's not safe and not know that person.

579
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,280
Speaker 11: It just does not add up to me at all.

580
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 11: I think that again, I'm going to stick with my

581
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 11: idea that it's somebody that she's familiar with, and I

582
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 11: think that it's somebody that probably had an interest in

583
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 11: her that she just did not reciprocate because she was

584
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 11: very happy with whom she was with.

585
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 3: Amber Rebilia is originally from New York but calls South

586
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 3: Carolina home now. She is a college student at Horay

587
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,720
Speaker 3: Georgetown Technical College with designs on becoming a costume designer.

588
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 3: Studying abroad in London for part of her education, she

589
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 3: meets Jose Tulsar and comes back home in love. After

590
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 3: two years of dating. Amber and Jose make plans to

591
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 3: marry weeks after she graduates from college, and that time

592
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 3: is fast approaching.

593
00:35:54,640 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 2: Years later and still no suspects. Her family deserves closure.

594
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 2: What happened to Amber Berbilia?

595
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: When you don't know where to go, you start over

596
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: and you look at who is your victim? Listen?

597
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 3: Amber Burbilia is originally from New York, but calls South

598
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 3: Carolina home now. She is a college student at Hora

599
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 3: Georgetown Technical College with designs on becoming a costume designer

600
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 3: studying abroad in London for part of her education. She

601
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 3: meets Jose Tulsar and comes back home in love. After

602
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 3: two years of dating, Amber and Jose make plans to

603
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,919
Speaker 3: marry weeks after she graduates from college, and that time

604
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 3: is fast approaching.

605
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: What more do we know? Listen?

606
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,879
Speaker 10: At age twenty three, Amber Burbilia doesn't live at home,

607
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,359
Speaker 10: but talks to her mother daily. When one of her

608
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 10: calls to her mother isn't answered, Amber leaves a message

609
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 10: for her mother. Roses are red, violets are blue, Sugar

610
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 10: is sweet, and so are you. I love you good night.

611
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: Oh my stars, Roses are red violence or blue, sugar

612
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: is sweet and so are you. I love you, good night,

613
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 1: a message she leaves her mom and joining me right

614
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 1: now is Amber's mother, Michelle Robinson. Miss Robinson. I almost

615
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: hated to say those words back, because I know it's

616
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 1: like a knife to your heart to hear that rhyme,

617
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: that message she left to you, that little poem. But

618
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about the facts. We keep

619
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 1: saying she went to go pay a cable bill, but

620
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 1: there is something very probative about her paying the cable bill.

621
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 1: Have you been informed about the video from inside the

622
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 1: Time Warner Cable office where she paid her bill, that

623
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 1: while she's in there, there is a man standing behind

624
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 1: her staring at her, and it's been described as in

625
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: an aggressive manner. But it's my understanding, Miss Robinson that

626
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: the guy, for all I know he's angry about having

627
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: to wait in line, has been investigated thoroughly and he

628
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: has been cleared. Correct. That's what I was still to

629
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:14,240
Speaker 1: Karen Ritchie joining us, Amber's best friend, and to her sister,

630
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: Amanda Rebelia. Amanda, was there anything else happening in her

631
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: life that she seemed disturbed about or worried about that

632
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: you know?

633
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 11: Of No, not at all.

634
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,240
Speaker 8: I just a couple of weeks before she was killed,

635
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 8: she came to visit me for Easter. I had to

636
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 8: I had some things I had to take care of,

637
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,240
Speaker 8: so she had come to take care of my daughters

638
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 8: while I was away. And then when I came home,

639
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 8: you know, we spent Easter Sunday together before she went

640
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 8: back home.

641
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 15: And you know, she didn't mention at all anything.

642
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: Nothing at all. Would she have told you she was

643
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: worried about someone or something. Yeah, we were pretty close.

644
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 8: She used to call me all the time, but she

645
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 8: would have made me aware if there was something bothering her.

646
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 1: Alexis Tereschuk crimeonline dot com. Where does the case stand

647
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: right now?

648
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 7: The case is still open. There have been no suspects

649
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 7: released to the public. There has been nobody arrested for it.

650
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: Nothing.

651
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 7: The police have not given any leads as to what

652
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,439
Speaker 7: anybody should look for. They have not said anything. They've

653
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 7: never identified publicly a murder weapon at all. So this

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Speaker 7: is a case that is still very open and still

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Speaker 7: all of the evidence has not been released, and they're

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Speaker 7: still looking for the murderers or murderer.

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Speaker 1: To ease their broken hearts, Amber's family erected a memorial photos, mementos,

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Speaker 1: flowers underneath the freeway overpass where she lost her life.

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Speaker 1: They've also set up a website with information about her murder.

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Speaker 1: Justice for Amber dot org. Repeat Justice for Amber dot org.

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Speaker 1: If you know or even think you know anything about

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Speaker 1: the murder of this beautiful young co ed, please call

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Speaker 1: eight two seven four sixty three seven two eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight two seven four sixty three seven two. There is

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Speaker 1: a six thousand dollars reward for information leading to the

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Speaker 1: discovery of the facts behind the murder of Amber Rebelia.

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Speaker 1: We wait as justice on false. Goodbye man

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