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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. The happiest day of her

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Speaker 1: life the day of her wedding. The decorations were beautiful,

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Speaker 1: family and friends were present at a destination wedding spot.

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Speaker 1: After the reception, the bride and groom head off for

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Speaker 1: their honeymoon night. When the bride is murdered, still in

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Speaker 1: her wedding dress. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us here at Vaccination and

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Speaker 1: Serious exem one eleven. In the last hours, the drunk

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Speaker 1: driver Jamie Lee Kamowski in court in court seeking bond

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Speaker 1: after she mows down the bride and groom and their

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Speaker 1: golf cart while drinking. According to police, how did we

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Speaker 1: get to this a bond hearing?

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Speaker 2: First of all, take a listen to our friends at

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Speaker 2: wc IV.

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Speaker 3: Sam Miller and her fiance, Eric Hutchinson had been together

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Speaker 3: for three years.

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Speaker 4: I've never seen the light in her eyes shine as

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Speaker 4: bright as that day.

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Speaker 3: April twenty eight. Samantha Miller and Eric Hutchinson vowed to

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Speaker 3: spend the rest of their lives together.

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Speaker 5: It was the best day of her life.

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Speaker 3: A beach ceremony, dancing and drinks to follow.

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Speaker 6: And now it's a surprise dance for the most important person.

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Speaker 7: In Sam's life, which was me, and we danced to

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Speaker 7: Bruno Mar's just the Way You Are, Mesurs.

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Speaker 3: The happy couple left the reception under a canopy of sparklers.

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Speaker 6: On the beginning of the golf cart ride. She said,

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Speaker 6: I wish this night could go on forever.

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Speaker 7: It's the best matter of her life.

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Speaker 1: You were hearing the voice when you heard someone say

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Speaker 1: it was the best day of her life. Now is

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Speaker 1: a surprise dance for the most important person in Sam's life.

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Speaker 1: You're hearing the voice of Sam Samantha mother Lisa Miller,

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Speaker 1: and joining us right now is Lisa Miller, mother of

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Speaker 1: the bride, Samantha Miller.

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Speaker 2: Miss Miller. First of all, we are.

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Speaker 1: So sorry, deeply, profoundly sorry for what you and your

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Speaker 1: family in the groom are living through right now. It's

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Speaker 1: really hard to put words to it. It's not just

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Speaker 1: a passing, it's the end of a whole future.

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Speaker 2: Together.

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Speaker 1: Describe Miss Miller that night, the reception, the dance, you

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Speaker 1: are describing Bruno Mars.

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Speaker 7: The night was incredible. She typical Sam. I don't know

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Speaker 7: if you guys have seen the picture, but she got

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Speaker 7: to the wedding, and of course it's a beach venue,

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Speaker 7: so there's nowhere for her to hide, you know, in

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Speaker 7: her dress. So she literally when I knew they were here,

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Speaker 7: her dad brought her in his Forerunner, and she was

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Speaker 7: with her legs up in the air, smiling so big,

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Speaker 7: so happy, rewriting her vowels because they were messy.

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Speaker 8: She didn't want them to be messy.

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Speaker 2: So let me understand.

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Speaker 1: Sam was lying on her tummy in her wedding dress

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Speaker 1: in the back of Dad's Forerunner with her feet up

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Speaker 1: her vows.

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Speaker 7: It was the funniest sight ever.

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Speaker 9: But that's Sam, like she she doesn't.

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Speaker 7: Care about you know, she just quirky maybe is the word.

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Speaker 2: A free spirit, yes, a free spirit for sure.

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Speaker 7: And away moving forward, the wedding started. Their vows ended

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Speaker 7: up being almost exactly alike, which is pretty cool, and

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Speaker 7: they did not write them together. And then the energy,

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Speaker 7: I mean, there was food and drinks and all that,

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Speaker 7: They did their first dance to John legend. I think

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Speaker 7: it's called you Move, I Move. Sammy's never been a dancer.

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Speaker 7: Her sister's dancer. Like she used to dance like a

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Speaker 7: song and she's swaying like to the music and just beautiful.

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Speaker 7: It's a beautiful video. Sorry, but anyway, So she danced

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Speaker 7: with her her both her days after that, and then

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Speaker 7: But we're not traditional people for sure. And her and

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Speaker 11: I mean, she's just my best friend. And then.

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Speaker 7: I keep thinking of these interjections like.

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Speaker 1: So that dance was for you, That dance was for

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Speaker 7: Yeah, And at the end when he's saying you're amazing

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Speaker 7: that was our song and it was a moment that

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Speaker 7: I'm so thankful for and that just tells what who

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Speaker 7: Sam is I mean. And then after that it was

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Speaker 7: so a lot of people didn't know. It wasn't like

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Speaker 7: everybody knew everybody, but it was like everybody was one

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Speaker 7: and everybody was celebrating Sam. Damn.

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Speaker 2: Then what happened?

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Speaker 1: Did they do the traditional They cut the cake, they

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Speaker 1: ate the cake, They danced the night away.

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Speaker 7: Her sister made her cake for her, and she didn't

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Speaker 7: want like a wedding cake, wedding cake. She just wanted

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Speaker 7: so Eric loved pineapple. So that's another They were doing

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Speaker 7: the cake on their own. It was just for them.

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Speaker 7: It wasn't for anybody else, So they just did that

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Speaker 1: You are hearing the voice of Sam's mom, Lisa Miller.

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Speaker 1: How could something so wonderful go so wrong? Take a

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Speaker 1: listen to our friends at crime Online.

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Speaker 12: The Pelican Watch Pavilion is a public beachfront facility in

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Speaker 12: Folly Beach. The twelve hundred square foot facility is a

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Speaker 12: popular wedding spot. After their five pm wedding, Eric Hutchinson

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Speaker 12: and Samantha Miller enjoy their reception. At about nine to

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Speaker 12: forty five pm, the couple is ready to leave. The

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Speaker 12: The vehicle has lights and is legal to drive on

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Speaker 12: The speed limit is just twenty five miles an hour.

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Speaker 12: It should have taken them just minutes to travel the

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Speaker 1: House, Miss Miller, when your left, they had a very

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Speaker 2: Go from the ceremony from the reception. Yes, what happened,

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Speaker 1: Their Sparkler exit was a sparkler exit where everybody lines

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Speaker 11: It was beautiful.

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Speaker 7: She was the happiest I've ever seen her in her life.

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Speaker 7: They got on the golf cart. They left. Ten minutes later.

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Speaker 7: We went to our airbnb, which was before there, so

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Speaker 7: they were still traveling. I started hearing sirens. We were

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Speaker 7: and literally I looked at my daughter and I said,

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Speaker 2: What do you mean you looked at your daughter? What

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Speaker 7: I just knew that that's what happened, like my intuition

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Speaker 1: Looked at your other daughter and you said, something has

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Speaker 7: You knew something happened to Sam. I knew that the

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Speaker 7: Right after that happened. Eric's sister in law team drove

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Speaker 7: I haven't heard, but I just said, I know something

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Speaker 13: Sam was like I had a really bad movie. Anyway,

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Speaker 11: And that she had been killed.

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Speaker 7: And like the dog gets plowed down by a drunk

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Speaker 1: No, I don't know that anything can be any worse

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Speaker 1: Christmas Miller. So you get to the scene, you're told

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Speaker 1: Sam is still at the scene.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and that I mean he literally has words where

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Speaker 7: she's been killed on those phone calls. I won't ever

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Speaker 1: Did you leave the hospital and go to the scene.

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Speaker 7: at that point I did not go to the scene.

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Speaker 7: know that there was a person there was some people

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Speaker 7: on Folly four ladies that when the accident happened, they

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Speaker 7: so that they wouldn't be alone suffering and sat with them.

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Speaker 7: And the lady that sat with sam was an r N.

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Speaker 7: And she said she was already gone. So silver lining

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Speaker 7: if there is any she didn't suffer.

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Speaker 2: Stories with Nancy Grace.

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Speaker 1: Jamie Lee Komorowski shows up in court asking to be

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Speaker 1: let out from behind bars on bond. The judge brings

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Speaker 2: But how did we get to this?

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Speaker 1: Joining us in addition to Miss Miller. This is Samantha's mom.

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Speaker 1: Is Sidney Heiberger with the Queen City News in Charlotte. Sidney,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for being with us who plowed

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Speaker 1: into a golf cart because hold on, hold on, said

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Speaker 1: Stephen Eisenberg is with us. Expert in golf and golf

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Speaker 1: cart related accidents and president and founder of Golf Concepts.

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Speaker 2: Stephen thanks for being with us.

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Speaker 1: I don't think a golf cart can't even go that fast,

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Speaker 1: even if you floored it.

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Speaker 10: No, this type of you're right, Nancy, This type of

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Speaker 10: a vehicle, a low speed vehicle is the term, and

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Speaker 10: it would go at a maximum twenty miles per hour.

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Speaker 1: So what I'm saying, Sidney Heiberger, and I'm going to

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Speaker 1: circle back to Jason Jensen, who's PI with Jensen Investigations

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Speaker 1: to try to figure out how you put this back

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Speaker 1: together again. Sidney Heiberger with the Queen City News, how

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Speaker 1: does someone plow in to a vehicle that cannot go

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Speaker 1: barely going. For obvious reasons, you don't want a golf

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Speaker 1: cart speeding on a golf course where there are a

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Nnty, you're absolutely right, and for that very reason,

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Speaker 8: because that there are so many golf cars and low

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Speaker 8: speed vehicles on Folly Beach. The speed limit on the

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Speaker 8: So for this driver to be going sixty five miles

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Speaker 8: Of course, and law enforcement on Folly Beach have said

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Speaker 8: that this really was not Samantha's fault or anyone in

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Speaker 8: that golf cart's fault. Of course, they were allowed to

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Speaker 8: They had their lights on. They were going, of course,

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Speaker 1: Trying to figure out where everyone is seated take us

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Speaker 14: The couple lived on James Island. On Friday night, friends

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Speaker 14: and family from all over came to Foley Beach to

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Speaker 2: Exchange their vowels.

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Speaker 14: Jenkins says she's never seen her sister so excited. The

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Speaker 14: couple wed at five o'clock, then celebrated into the night.

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Speaker 14: Jenkins says the newly weeds left the venue around nine

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Speaker 14: forty five to go back to their airbnb on a

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Speaker 14: golf cart. The bride's brother in law and nephew were

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Speaker 14: in the front and the couple in.

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Speaker 1: The back, So let me circle back to you, Sidney

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Speaker 1: Heiberger joining us Quinn City News. The bride was in

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Speaker 1: the back and brother and net, brother in law and

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Speaker 8: That's my understanding. Yes, and I understand that the groom

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Speaker 8: was also in the back with Samantha.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, miss Miller, is that you?

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Speaker 7: Yes, that's it.

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Speaker 1: Tell me what you understand happened, Miss Miller.

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Speaker 7: The eric's brother in law offered to drive them back

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Speaker 7: to the Airbnb. That golf cart, by the way, was

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Speaker 7: lent to stand by her very nice boss, and he

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Speaker 7: let her use it for the departure of the wedding.

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Speaker 7: And my understanding of what happens this person was intoxicated,

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Speaker 7: had had some kind of confrontation or belligerent behavior at

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Speaker 7: say anything about where, It's not my business to say that.

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Speaker 15: And.

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Speaker 7: Left intoxicated or on drugs or something, and just was

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Speaker 7: I guess she was angry, would be my guess if

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Speaker 7: she was being belligerent and just got in her car,

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Speaker 7: and we don't know where in the world she was going,

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Speaker 7: because she lived on James Island as well, and this

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Speaker 7: on folly was going the opposite direction from her going home.

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Speaker 8: If that's where she was going.

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Speaker 7: There was nothing really down that way except house for

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Speaker 7: her to go to.

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Speaker 2: Take a listener. Our cut ten from wc Ivy.

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Speaker 3: According to Fawley Beach Public Safety, twenty five year old

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Speaker 3: Jamie Lee Comoroski hit the LSB, discharged with three counts

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Speaker 6: She literally ran into my daughter going sixty five miles

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Speaker 6: an hour because Sam and Eric were on the back

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Speaker 7: And so she basically just ran my child.

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Speaker 3: The groom's mom, gofund Me says the hit forced the

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Speaker 3: LSB to travel over one hundred yards and rolls several times.

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Speaker 5: And I never thought it would happen to us and

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Speaker 5: to my beautiful sister, your beautiful daughter, at all the

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Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty people that were there and our

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Speaker 3: Sam and Eric were two blocks away from their home

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Speaker 4: Got in our pajamas sitting on the balcony of beside

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Speaker 4: Berts at our place where we're staying, and started to

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Speaker 4: hear the sirens, and the sirens kept going.

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Speaker 3: They texted Sam but got no response.

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Speaker 6: And we just got out of the truck and just running,

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Speaker 6: no shoes, screaming Sam.

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Speaker 3: Sam, a real life nightmare caution date.

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Speaker 4: So many lights, Yeah it was dark, but there's so

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Speaker 1: Sam, I want to go straight back to Sydney. Heiberger

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Speaker 1: with Queen City News. I'm just trying to figure out, Sydney.

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Speaker 1: Who is this person who slammed in to Sam Does

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Speaker 2: Who is this person?

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Speaker 8: Well, Anthey, she's a twenty five year old who has

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Speaker 8: previous DUI charges. At the scene, she admitted to officers

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Speaker 8: that she had had at least two drinks before getting

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Speaker 8: when officers on the scene asked her, on a scale

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Speaker 8: of one to ten, how intoxicated are you, she answered an.

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Speaker 2: Ate joining in right now is Stacey D.

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Speaker 1: Stewart, CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving known as MAD Stacy.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us in every HV habitual

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Speaker 1: violator case or vehicular homicide DUI case I have ever

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Speaker 1: investigated or prosecuted, which are many. If the perp admits

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Speaker 1: least two or three. So she said, I had a

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Speaker 1: five tequilas or something along those lines. But what tells

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Speaker 16: And thank you Nancy. And first let me just say this, Miller,

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Speaker 16: we are so deeply sorry for your loss. This is

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Speaker 16: you know, the issue drunk and drug driving is a

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Speaker 16: completely one hundred percent formidable tragedy. It never had to happen,

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Speaker 16: This never should have happened. And you know, Matt, is

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Speaker 16: part of our laws now. And unfortunately today still too

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Speaker 16: many people get behind the wheel and drive drunk and

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Speaker 16: it's unfortunate, and it leads to crashes, it leads to

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Speaker 16: death and injury. Unfortunately the way we've lost Sam, and

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Speaker 1: I want to go to Doctor Tim Gallagher, joining US

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Speaker 1: Medical Examiner for the State of Florida at pathcaremed dot com,

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Speaker 1: Lecturer University Florida Medical School and Forensic Medicine, and the

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Speaker 1: Doctor Gallagher, thank you for being with us. It's my understanding,

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Speaker 1: and Miss Miller correct me if I'm wrong that when

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Speaker 1: Samantha's golf cart was hit, it caused a rollover that

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Speaker 1: went at least one hundred yards. It's my belief and

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Speaker 1: my hope that Samantha died instantly, as Miss Miller suggested

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Speaker 15: So my understanding is this was a rollover accident. But

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Speaker 15: my empathies to the Miller family for their loss of

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Speaker 15: SAMANTHI this is just an awful, terrible story. I don't

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Speaker 15: know how it could be worse, Nancy. What we have

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Speaker 15: here is a rollover type accident, and typically what we

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Speaker 15: And typically these patients or these decedents, these victims die instantaneously.

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Speaker 15: They have no recollection, no feeling that they're doing. It's

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Speaker 1: So you're a wait one moment and the next moment

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Speaker 1: you're in heaven.

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Speaker 15: Absolutely so there is no suffering in this type of

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Speaker 15: a high impact rollover type accident.

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Speaker 1: Sidney Heiberger, did you tell me that this woman, this

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Speaker 1: driver who, by the way, refused a breathalyzer, Although when

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Speaker 1: at all. Did you tell me, Sidney Heiberger, she had priors?

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Speaker 8: Yes, Nancy, that is my understanding. She had a prior or.

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Speaker 8: At least we've seen a prior mumpshot for another DUI incident,

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Speaker 8: and you're absolutely right in that she didn't with use

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Speaker 1: Joining me right now in addition to Miss Miller, Sam's

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Speaker 1: mom is Jason Jensen, a renowned private investigator, joining us,

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Speaker 1: cold case expert, co founder of the Cold Case Coalition. Jason,

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Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. According to reports, the

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Speaker 1: driver the defendant in this case, Jamie Lee Kamarowski, was

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Speaker 1: quote reeking of alcohol, reaking of alcohol when she's slammed

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Speaker 1: It's not like you hit a car where you've got

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Speaker 10: A low speed vehicle typically would have either the option,

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Speaker 1: it may or may not have had seat belts, correct,

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Speaker 1: because I've never seen seat belts in a golf cart

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Speaker 1: But I've never for today, I've never seen them on

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Speaker 10: Ever, Well, this type of vehicle is not really for

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Speaker 10: definitional low speed vehicle is for use on roads or

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Speaker 1: So you're saying it may have had a seat belt

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Speaker 1: correct made you Jason Jensen, private investigator Jason if she

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Speaker 1: reaked of alcohol the suspect Jamie Lee Komarowski, there is

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Speaker 1: no way she had one beer and one drink with

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Speaker 2: If you are raking you've had a lot more.

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Speaker 11: Than that, I would agree with the Nancy. I mean, typically,

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Speaker 11: everyone would expect you to learn your lesson and not.

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Speaker 7: Do it again.

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Speaker 11: But here she's progressed to where now she's refusing breathalyizer.

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Speaker 11: She's not cooperating. She's clearly left in an agitated state,

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Speaker 11: well beyond her alcohol levels that are permissible by most dates.

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Speaker 11: So you know, she didn't learn anything from her prior offense.

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Speaker 11: Here she is now she's gone to the extreme of

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Speaker 11: killing people in the process. So it is a motorbilical

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Speaker 11: accident in the context that vehicles were involved, but there's

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Speaker 11: criminal elements because she was reckless.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's an accident.

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Speaker 1: I may be parsing words with you, Jason Jensen, but

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Speaker 1: I call this a crash. Yeah, because and I guarantee

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Speaker 1: you Stacy D. Stewart is going to agree with me.

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Speaker 1: CEO of Mad Mother's against drunk driving because it's a

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Speaker 1: decision to go to a bar and drink. Officers noted,

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Speaker 1: and I quote Komarowski was quote a very unsteading on

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Speaker 1: her feet and almost fell down. They asked her to

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Speaker 1: rate her level of impairment one to ten. She said

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Speaker 1: in eight. The officer states, and I quote, I smelled

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Speaker 1: an odor of alcohol coming from her breath and person. Yes,

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Speaker 1: So this woman was literally stinking drunk.

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Speaker 2: Stacy Stewart.

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Speaker 1: For her to add two drinks means she's had a

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Speaker 1: whole lot more. But she knows enough, Stacy not to

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Speaker 1: take the breathalyzer. I mean, one night, I was coming

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Speaker 1: home from an investigation on an arson murder, and I

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Speaker 1: stayed with the victim's friend, a piano teacher, till eleven

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Speaker 1: thirty at night, and was just talking, looking at pictures,

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Speaker 1: talking about their friendship and about the victim. I was

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Speaker 1: driving home now is about a quarter of twelve. I

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Speaker 1: got pulled over. The officer actually asked me to do

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Speaker 1: a breathalyzer, and I know better than to argue.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, sure, I'll do a breatha lizer.

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Speaker 1: You have to know better, or know why you should

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Speaker 1: tell a cop who's giving you a directive to say no.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, this ain't her first time at the rodeo.

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Speaker 2: Stacy Stewart, Well, this is.

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Speaker 16: A crash that again could have been forventable. One of

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Speaker 16: the things that we're working on at MAD in South

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Speaker 16: Carolina in particular, because the past year's Nancy, we have

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Speaker 16: seen an extra ordinary increase and drunk driving fatalities in

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Speaker 16: the country and especially in South Carolina. You know the

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Speaker 16: past two years we've seen double digit increases in drunk

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Speaker 16: driving fatalities in by fourteen percent each year in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 16: twenty twenty one, and then even more in South Carolina.

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Speaker 16: The laws in South Carolina has to be changed right now.

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Speaker 16: If you're if you are found that your BAC level

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Speaker 16: is above one point eight or even above one point

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Speaker 16: one five, which is even higher than legally allowed, that's

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Speaker 16: that is the trigger for what we call ignition interlock,

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Speaker 16: the kind of technology that would disable your car if

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Speaker 16: you are if you are intoxicated.

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Speaker 8: Right now, you can.

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Speaker 16: Be below one point five still get in the car

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Speaker 16: drunk and your car will still go. And that is

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Speaker 16: part of the laws that we need to change we're

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Speaker 16: working on in South Carolina. It possibly could have prevented

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Speaker 16: this from happening.

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Speaker 1: This occurred in Folly Bait, South Carolina, where I believe

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Speaker 1: the legal eminis point zero eight.

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Speaker 2: If that's wrong, somebody correct me.

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Speaker 1: It is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a development in

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Speaker 1: the case of a beautiful bride mowed down dead still

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Speaker 1: in her wedding dress. Samantha Hutchinson and new husband Eric

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Speaker 1: head Off in the final stretch of a night, now

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Speaker 1: infamous for a horrible crash that claimed the bride's life,

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Speaker 1: her body taken from the scene, again still in her

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Speaker 1: wedding dress. As we go to air today, never before

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Speaker 1: seen footage shows the golf cart carrying the South Carolina

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Speaker 1: Neelyweds from their incredible wedding reception, followed by drunk driver

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Speaker 1: Jamie Lee Kumarowski, twenty five years old, and her speeding

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Speaker 1: camray ending in a horrific crash that takes the life

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Speaker 1: of the young bride. The surveillance footage clearly shows the

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Speaker 1: golf cart carrying the Neelyweds as they leave the wedding reception.

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Speaker 1: The footage then shows twenty five year old Kumarowski's car

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Speaker 1: her camera speeding down the road just moments before she

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Speaker 1: crashes into the golf cart, killing the bride. How can

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Speaker 1: she possibly say I didn't do it when the video

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Speaker 1: is so clear what happened that night. Sarah Ford, Legal,

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Speaker 1: director of South Carolina Victims Assistance Network, Sarah, this is

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Speaker 1: your neck of the woods. This is Foley Beach, South Carolina.

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Speaker 1: Isn't the legal limit point zero eight?

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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 1: No, that's correct, Sarah Ford. We heard someone earlier state

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Speaker 1: that this was an accident. That's total bs. This is

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Speaker 1: no accident. This is a crash. And I frankly believe

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Speaker 1: and have advocated that cases just like this one should

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Speaker 1: not be a vehicular homicide. This should be a murder.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why. Because it takes intent, Sarah.

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Speaker 1: It takes intent for you to belly up to a

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Speaker 1: bar and not have one, but two, and we believe

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Speaker 1: many more drinks.

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Speaker 2: Then you get the key to your.

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Speaker 1: Car, You walk to your car, get into your car,

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Speaker 1: crank it up, knowing you've been drinking, put it in reverse,

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Speaker 1: and start driving.

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Speaker 2: She knew perfectly well that she was driving drunk.

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Speaker 1: And as you know, under the law, we are too

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Speaker 1: infer that the defendant intends the natural consequence of their act.

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Speaker 1: Those are not my words. That's the black and white

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Speaker 1: letter of the law. The law presumes you intend the

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Speaker 1: natural consequence of your act when you are driving drunk

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Speaker 1: to the point that you literally stink a booze. The

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Speaker 1: natural consequence is a wreck. That means intent. You don't

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Speaker 1: have to get in the car and say, oh, I

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Speaker 1: intend to mow down Sam on the night of her wedding.

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Speaker 2: No, that's not what intent is. Under the law.

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Speaker 1: I believe this should be a flat out murder thoughts.

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Speaker 17: In Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. You know, there

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Speaker 17: are choices that were made by this defendant, and these

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Speaker 17: choices that tribe consequences, you know, towards for these people,

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Speaker 17: for these families is absolutely horrific. And being a you know,

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Speaker 17: a South Corona residents go in the Colley Beach is

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Speaker 17: a comprehensible probably sixty five miles per hour on that road.

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Speaker 17: You know, it's it's absolutely horrific. Absolutely tried to and

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Speaker 17: I agree. I do believe they should should increase the

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Speaker 17: charges against this suspect and charge her with felny d

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Speaker 17: ui with death. That's a mandatory minimum of one year

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Speaker 17: to twenty five years.

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Speaker 1: That's a good way to approach it, Sarah, That's a

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Speaker 1: very good that's a brilliant legal thought. Actually, felony murder

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Speaker 1: which means a death occurred during the commission of a felony.

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Speaker 1: Miss Miller joining us and Miss Miller. If I hear

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Speaker 1: the facts again, I think that I will break down

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Speaker 1: and cry right along with you. To doctor Tim Gallagher.

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Speaker 1: When this woman, Jamie Lee Komrosky, plowed into Sam and Eric,

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Speaker 1: it pushed the golf cart one hundred yards.

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Speaker 2: Rollover, rollover, rollover.

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Speaker 1: What would have caused the brain injury on the young groom.

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Speaker 10: Well, it's a good question.

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Speaker 15: Typically what we see and I'm looking at the picture

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Speaker 15: of him laying in the hospital bed, and if you

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Speaker 15: look at his eyes, you can see that his eyes

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Speaker 15: underneath his eyes are black and blue with something we

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Speaker 15: would call raccoon eyes. Typically, what means is that the skull,

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Speaker 15: the skull and the bones of the face have been fractured,

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Speaker 15: and the face and the.

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Speaker 10: Are fractured.

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Speaker 15: The shards of the bone, of the fractured bone actually

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Speaker 15: penetrate into the brain itself, and that's what causes a

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Speaker 15: lot of the injury.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm looking at a lot of the posts

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Speaker 1: to doctor Sherry Schwartz forensics psychologist Kamarowski. In almost every

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Speaker 1: post I see she's holding alcohol. This is the woman

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Speaker 1: who refused to take a field sobriety test after the

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Speaker 1: fatal crash, not accident crash. Here she is standing on

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Speaker 1: a deck outside drinking alcohol. Here she is, and this

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Speaker 1: is what she's posting off herself. Here she is just

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Speaker 1: as bud light Year and a pair of hotpants. Here

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Speaker 1: she is drinking. I mean everyone is related to alcohol.

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Speaker 1: Every one of these pictures explain that.

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Speaker 9: Well, here's what we know about drivers who drive well intoxicated.

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Speaker 9: Two thirds, more than two thirds tend to have alcoholism problems.

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Speaker 11: Or drug abuse problems.

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Speaker 9: They tend to have more than one do UI.

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Speaker 1: Let me add something, doctor Schwartz, you need to know

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Speaker 1: this fact too. She posts a photo of herself just

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Speaker 1: as bud light Year, a play on the toy story

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Speaker 1: character antit shorts crop top with bud light boxes wrapped

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Speaker 1: around her legs and ankles, and the caption raised to

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Speaker 1: infinity and be wronged in other words, just drunk out

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Speaker 1: of your mind.

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Speaker 9: Well, the other thing that we know is that these

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Speaker 9: are individuals who are low in conscientiousness and high in

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Speaker 9: antisocial characteristics, such that they are unconcerned about consequences of

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Speaker 9: their behavior. And hearing about that particular post right with

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Speaker 9: bud light Year. What this tells me is this is

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Speaker 9: someone who has incorporated as part of her identity the

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Speaker 9: humor in being having this relationship with alcohol and unhealthy,

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Speaker 9: clearly unhealthy relationship. And as someone who has previously been

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Speaker 9: in legal trouble with a DUI, she's savvy enough to

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Speaker 9: say I'm not going to blow into a breath, Eliza,

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Speaker 9: which tells me that she had consciousness of mind to

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Speaker 9: know that she shouldn't be driving.

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Speaker 8: And this is Sydney Hiberger again with Queen City News.

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Speaker 8: Let me jump in here. I just was going through

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Speaker 8: her record, and I do see at least three different

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Speaker 8: speeding violations previously, or two different speeding violations and one

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Speaker 8: failure to use a turn or stop signal. She pled

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Speaker 8: guilty to all of those, but I do not see

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Speaker 8: a prior d UI.

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Speaker 7: I think it was because she was under age. It

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Speaker 7: was twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Yes, who is speaking right now? Is that miss Miller? Yes,

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Speaker 2: Miss Miller.

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Speaker 1: On her adult record, we see a lot of speeding

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Speaker 1: and other traffic violations, but there seems to be evidence

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Speaker 1: that there may be a prior DY when she was

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Speaker 1: a minor.

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Speaker 7: Yes, we saw another mug shut. I'm a drug and

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Speaker 7: alcohol counselor, so it's kind of crazy, but.

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Speaker 18: I think that what we have here is a young

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Speaker 18: lady that has been bailed out because she her family

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Speaker 18: has money and is not been held accountable for any

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Speaker 18: of her poor choices that she's made.

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Speaker 7: And when you continue to bail somebody out. They're never

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Speaker 7: going to learn, and she has not suffered any consequences,

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Speaker 7: so she continues the same behavior. And unfortunately it happens

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Speaker 7: a lot and a lot of my patients that I

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Speaker 7: deal with. They've been enabled and their parents take care

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Speaker 7: of everything and fix it and trying to protect them,

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Speaker 7: but they're not really protecting them because now my daughter's dead.

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Speaker 1: Thinking only of herself as usual, Jamie Lee Kumarowski appears

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Speaker 1: before a judge demanding she'd be let out on bond. Well,

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Speaker 1: the judge put the kaibosh on that cam Rowski is

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Speaker 1: still behind bars. This is a story worry that pains

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Speaker 1: so many to hear. Again, it's not a story, it's

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Speaker 1: the truth. This really happened. These are real people undergoing

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Speaker 1: intense suffering after this beautiful bride, sam Samantha Hutchinson is

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Speaker 1: mowed down dead in her wedding dress. The pain that

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Speaker 1: this allegedly drunk driver Jamie Lee Kamarowski has cost in

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Speaker 1: the last hours, a judge denying Kamarowski bell a night

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Speaker 1: that was so beautiful, so splendid, so happy, turned to

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Speaker 1: pure devastation. We wait as justice unfoalds Nancy Gray's crime story,

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Speaker 1: signing off goodbye, friend

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Speaker 15: One,