WEBVTT - Death & Deceit in Alliance | 14. The Reckoning

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<v Speaker 1>Hi is see Fishman. I hope you're enjoying Death in

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<v Speaker 1>the Seat in Alliance. We've got a bonus episode coming

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<v Speaker 1>for you. It's not going to be this Tuesday. It's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna be the following Friday. Please look for it. Maggie

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<v Speaker 1>Freeling is going to be our guest. She's bringing along Danny,

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<v Speaker 1>one of the Private Eyes, and we're gonna go deep

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<v Speaker 1>both in the plot and on how Maggie feels, how

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<v Speaker 1>Maggie feels about feeling so publicly.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, please tune in.

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<v Speaker 3>Previously on Death and Deceit in Alliance.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, I think there's a lot of questions that

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<v Speaker 4>have never been asked of him. Who was he really?

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<v Speaker 5>And I don't want him to try to bullshit us.

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<v Speaker 6>You know, when you leave an interview and you feel

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<v Speaker 6>like you've shared more information than the person who's fighting

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<v Speaker 6>for their life, there's a reason behind that.

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<v Speaker 4>And I said a point blank did that happen?

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<v Speaker 1>No?

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<v Speaker 2>And then he changed the subject pretty quickly.

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<v Speaker 7>Man, Then.

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<v Speaker 8>That's fine.

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<v Speaker 9>You know, we know memories on tape recorders.

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<v Speaker 7>Just tell us what you do remember.

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<v Speaker 3>And he left out he was not going to bring

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<v Speaker 3>up the fact that he was with Joe at the innings.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, hello, is this mister Toole, Charlie Toole. I don't

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<v Speaker 4>know who's this.

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<v Speaker 3>This is death and Deceit and Alliance, a real time

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<v Speaker 3>investigation into whether David Thorne killed Yvonne Lane. I'm Maggie Freeling.

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<v Speaker 4>Hi, Banky, Hi.

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<v Speaker 10>How are you?

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<v Speaker 4>I'm good? How are you? Oh?

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<v Speaker 3>I wish I could be better. This case has destroyed me.

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<v Speaker 6>I told you, well you did so, I guess told you.

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<v Speaker 3>After we get home from our meeting with David Thorne,

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<v Speaker 3>I called one of the only other people who has

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<v Speaker 3>put as much time and effort into this as we did,

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<v Speaker 3>Dwayne Pullman, the award winning investigative TV journalist. If you remember,

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<v Speaker 3>I spoke to Dwayne at the beginning of the season

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<v Speaker 3>and he warned me this case would consume me and

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<v Speaker 3>it did.

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<v Speaker 10>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 11>So, you know, we've you know, been doing this for

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<v Speaker 11>about a year now, and uh have come to some

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<v Speaker 11>really interesting findings that I just wanted to let you

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<v Speaker 11>know about and just see if you had any insight

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<v Speaker 11>on anything.

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<v Speaker 3>I wanted to see if you could help process it

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<v Speaker 3>all or let us know if we were totally off base.

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<v Speaker 11>Well, you you know, you spent a very very good

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<v Speaker 11>amount of time on it and had some you know,

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<v Speaker 11>really interesting thoughts last time.

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<v Speaker 4>So it's been the being of my existence, trust me.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 11>Well, I uh, I've had a full emotional meltdown over it.

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<v Speaker 9>So I guess you know. We talked to everybody we

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<v Speaker 9>could all the key.

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<v Speaker 3>I started telling Dwayne about everyone we spoke to, plenty

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<v Speaker 3>of whom didn't make it into the podcast. We also

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<v Speaker 3>put up three billboards directing people with information to an

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<v Speaker 3>anonymous tip line, and we tracked down every lead that

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<v Speaker 3>came from that. I told him about Chris Campbell that

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<v Speaker 3>we were always told he's a snitch and an informant,

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<v Speaker 3>but we didn't find that. We also talked about Rose, and.

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<v Speaker 9>Rose said too.

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<v Speaker 11>Rose sent a text that said, I'm not talking to you,

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<v Speaker 11>but I stand by what I said.

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<v Speaker 9>And that's just interesting.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, so this sounds, yeah, I know, what is

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<v Speaker 4>starting to sound like.

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<v Speaker 3>The guys spoke to the Enochs who said they stood

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<v Speaker 3>by everything they said at trial. In fact, they told

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<v Speaker 3>the guys they're scared of Joe getting out because they're

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<v Speaker 3>convinced he's a murderer. These are the people who took

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<v Speaker 3>him in and cared for him. I told Dwayne how

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<v Speaker 3>once we were on the ground in Alliance, we realized

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<v Speaker 3>that it's nearly impossible for the tiny Alliance police force,

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<v Speaker 3>where a lead investigator had only worked one homicide case ever,

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<v Speaker 3>could have somehow mastermind a multi town cover up and

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<v Speaker 3>convinced all these people who didn't know each other to lie. Sure,

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<v Speaker 3>maybe people in Alliance were afraid of the police department,

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<v Speaker 3>but all these other people from different towns who didn't

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<v Speaker 3>know each other to all be coerced to lie against

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<v Speaker 3>two kids for what. Dwayne agreed, it's not very Okham's razor.

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<v Speaker 3>And then I brought up sam Peg, who was really

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<v Speaker 3>the turning point for the guys.

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<v Speaker 11>She sticks by it too, and she's like, I don't

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<v Speaker 11>think Joe did it. I love him, I don't think

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<v Speaker 11>he did this, but he did tell me this.

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<v Speaker 3>She still said that Joe told her before the murder

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<v Speaker 3>David wanted him to kill Yvaughan, and after the murder

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<v Speaker 3>that Joe said he did.

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<v Speaker 6>It get too contemporaneous then, and continuing that's interesting, that's

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<v Speaker 6>pretty important.

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<v Speaker 11>I mean, And after that we were like, all right,

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<v Speaker 11>it seems pretty clear Joe was involved.

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<v Speaker 9>Whether he blacked out and didn't.

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<v Speaker 11>Remember being his involvement and how made up stories, right,

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<v Speaker 11>it's just like he It's very unlikely that Joe was

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<v Speaker 11>not involved at this point.

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<v Speaker 9>So if we believe Joe.

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<v Speaker 11>Was involved, then we have to look at did he

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<v Speaker 11>do it on his own or did someone else.

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<v Speaker 3>In the Enox testimony, they say when Joe came to

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<v Speaker 3>live with them on March twenty seventh, he only had

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<v Speaker 3>fifty cents to his name. Karen Enoch testified to buying

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<v Speaker 3>Joe five dollars cigarettes because he couldn't afford anything. The

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<v Speaker 3>night of the murder March thirty first, when he got

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<v Speaker 3>dropped at the mall, Joe told the Enox he was

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<v Speaker 3>going to clean out David's grandpa's garage. David told me

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<v Speaker 3>that never happened. There was no garage cleanout. Plus, we

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<v Speaker 3>know that David was at shoot fighting and mostly accounted

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<v Speaker 3>for that night and none of it involved or left

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<v Speaker 3>time for garage cleaning. But in the days after the murder,

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<v Speaker 3>the Enox testified that Joe was waiting around for David

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<v Speaker 3>to give him money for a garage cleaning, which, according

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<v Speaker 3>to David, never happened.

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<v Speaker 11>All three Enochs say in the days after the murder,

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<v Speaker 11>Has David come by with my money?

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<v Speaker 9>Has David come by with my money?

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<v Speaker 11>The Enochs in their statements say he had fifty cents

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<v Speaker 11>before the murder, like he had no money. They were

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<v Speaker 11>buying him cigarettes. So somehow he comes up with this money,

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<v Speaker 11>which points to someone paid him for something.

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<v Speaker 6>Sure, and I remember that was absolutely yeah, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 6>that all makes sense.

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<v Speaker 3>A few days later, on April fifth, the Enoch said

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<v Speaker 3>that David stopped by their house. He and Joe talked

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<v Speaker 3>in the car and after that conversation, the Enoch said

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<v Speaker 3>Joe was ready to go shopping. He asked their daughter,

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<v Speaker 3>Summer Enoch, to take him. The next day, Summer took

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<v Speaker 3>Joe shopping.

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<v Speaker 8>We went to k there n he Kent and he

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<v Speaker 8>bet a pair of ringer blades and a pair of

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<v Speaker 8>work booth competer gonnas. Start working with my cousin Abby.

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<v Speaker 7>We went to school and after where he got.

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<v Speaker 8>Fax and he bet a pair of Nike shoes and

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<v Speaker 8>I want did I tell you about there? And he

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<v Speaker 8>wanted to hurry up and change into his new tennis.

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<v Speaker 7>Shoes and he took Kicks old tennis shoes back and

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<v Speaker 7>Ike paid that he had on and he put them

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<v Speaker 7>in the bag and he changed and put a new

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<v Speaker 7>parents back then, and he said he wanted to hurry

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<v Speaker 7>up and hur them shoes away.

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<v Speaker 8>And I said, manage to say why when we get home?

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<v Speaker 8>He said, no, I want to get rid of him.

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<v Speaker 4>Neck told that how much she take peached them? How

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<v Speaker 4>about you?

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<v Speaker 3>I want to say, is it a coincidence that this kid,

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<v Speaker 3>who didn't even have enough money to buy cigarettes was

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<v Speaker 3>talking for days about David coming by to pay him

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<v Speaker 3>for something David said never happened, and then after he

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<v Speaker 3>sees David suddenly spends around two hundred dollars shopping. I

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<v Speaker 3>don't know.

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<v Speaker 9>I literally I could not say, yes, David Thornton did this.

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<v Speaker 9>I don't think you know.

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<v Speaker 11>I would never want to ruin a man's chance at

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<v Speaker 11>freedom if he didn't do this. I think there's enough,

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<v Speaker 11>if there, but what is the percentage of that he

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<v Speaker 11>keeps getting?

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<v Speaker 4>As they say, it gets worser and worser.

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<v Speaker 3>And it's true David's own conversation with the guys made

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<v Speaker 3>things worse. When he was given a chance to speak

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<v Speaker 3>for himself without looking at timelines or having Sue explain

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<v Speaker 3>things couldn't do it. It's not up for debate whether

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<v Speaker 3>he was with Joe the day of the murder. The

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<v Speaker 3>Enochs are credible. Yet David, he.

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<v Speaker 11>Fully removed Joe from that day. He has built a

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<v Speaker 11>counter narrative and every part of his day removes Joe.

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<v Speaker 11>And so they finally circle back after letting him talk

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<v Speaker 11>and whatever and go. But David, we know you're with

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<v Speaker 11>Joe at five o'clock.

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<v Speaker 3>At the Nuchs.

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<v Speaker 9>Oh yeah, you know what, I guess. I did run

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<v Speaker 9>into him. I was buying a soda.

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<v Speaker 4>It's valuable information. A lot of this is.

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<v Speaker 6>Freaking good on you, man. Here's what we're paying attention to.

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<v Speaker 6>And this is where the pis are really crucial. Here

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<v Speaker 6>is you look for continuity, and you look for clarity,

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<v Speaker 6>and you look for a lack of obfuscation and stuff

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<v Speaker 6>like that, all the stuff that you know we do intuitively.

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<v Speaker 6>He's failing every measure.

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<v Speaker 4>Isn't he.

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<v Speaker 3>I told Dwayne how David's explanation of when he knew

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<v Speaker 3>Yvonne was selling sex kept shifting to me. He said

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<v Speaker 3>he didn't know until after she died. But David told

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<v Speaker 3>the guys he knew when he was taking her to

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<v Speaker 3>those conventions. What Yvonne was doing. I told Dwayne how

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<v Speaker 3>even when David did acknowledge that he saw Joe the

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<v Speaker 3>day of the murder, the story was different than what

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<v Speaker 3>it had been in the past. I also told him

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<v Speaker 3>about Angie's allegations and the incidents of violence David did

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<v Speaker 3>not voluntarily divulge, and that he minimized.

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<v Speaker 4>It's excellent work there, you did.

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<v Speaker 5>It's just.

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<v Speaker 10>It's just really shook me.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, Like, but truth is what truth is, isn't it.

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<v Speaker 6>I mean, that's the whole job here. If Chris Campbell

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<v Speaker 6>stands by the story, Sam stands by the story, do

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<v Speaker 6>you have contemporaneous and continuing verification and then we have

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<v Speaker 6>a hidden domestic violence situation which was violent? Holy shit?

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<v Speaker 6>So this sounds Sam, you know, I know what it's

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<v Speaker 6>starting to sound like.

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<v Speaker 3>You can hear the sadness in Duyne's voice too, Maggie.

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<v Speaker 6>Let me be clear on it. You know, I've always

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<v Speaker 6>tied my belief in this that at some point, some way,

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<v Speaker 6>the truth will reveal itself. And I've tried and tried

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<v Speaker 6>and tried, and I'm pretty good at what I do

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<v Speaker 6>and couldn't do this. So this has haunted me I

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<v Speaker 6>told you that, you know, I'm thankful that you're doing

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<v Speaker 6>what you're doing, especially on the level God. I mean,

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<v Speaker 6>my loyalty is to truth, it's not to individuals. The time,

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<v Speaker 6>given all the input and given all of the the

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<v Speaker 6>points of reference, I concentrated on an ft UP murder

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<v Speaker 6>scene and an ft UP trial.

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<v Speaker 4>That was the right call, And.

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<v Speaker 3>I agree with Duyne here. That's why we were all

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<v Speaker 3>drawn to this case in the first place. This was

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<v Speaker 3>a sloppy investigation conducted at a botched crime scene by

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<v Speaker 3>inexperienced and frankly problematic officers, followed by a trial that

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<v Speaker 3>left room for a lot of reasonable doubt. And in

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<v Speaker 3>a court of law, people cannot be convicted if there

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<v Speaker 3>is reasonable doubt.

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<v Speaker 6>But you know, we were inconclusive on whether he did it.

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<v Speaker 6>There was enough doubt about it, obviously, But the point is,

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<v Speaker 6>you know, we took some runs at it and there

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<v Speaker 6>were big questions.

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<v Speaker 3>For example, we still don't know who Yvonne's neighbor George

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<v Speaker 3>Hale saw leaving her house the morning after the murder,

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<v Speaker 3>and there's still the Brady violation. The prosecution withheld George

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<v Speaker 3>Hale's statement from David's defense team though the guys feel

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<v Speaker 3>sure that the person George Hale saw was likely not

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<v Speaker 3>the killer. As I've said before, her house was highly

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<v Speaker 3>trafficked enough that a person could have been totally separate

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<v Speaker 3>from the murder. Could have been a friend who was

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<v Speaker 3>supposed to stop by in the morning for a coffee,

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<v Speaker 3>stumbled on her dead body and fled. Or maybe it

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<v Speaker 3>was an officer with a scheduled sex appointment who preemptively

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<v Speaker 3>cleaned up any evidence of having had relations with her,

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<v Speaker 3>not to cover up her murder necessarily, but maybe just

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<v Speaker 3>to save his job.

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<v Speaker 4>We raised the.

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<v Speaker 6>Questions, they're getting answered, at least in part thanks to

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<v Speaker 6>your work. I mean, do I feel itchy about it?

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<v Speaker 6>I feel itchy about all parts of this. Yeah, and

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<v Speaker 6>I always have from the minute I started.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, Maggie, I think you know this.

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<v Speaker 6>I'm not like, I'm just supporting. The truth is the truth,

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<v Speaker 6>whether we are comfortable with it or not, that's what

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<v Speaker 6>it is. And if things don't add up, they don't

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<v Speaker 6>add up. And sorry, that's one of those indications. I mean, he,

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<v Speaker 6>on all appearances, seems to be a nice, kind of

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<v Speaker 6>all American boy. Does any now and man you know

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<v Speaker 6>or an older man but you know, it's not about

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<v Speaker 6>appearances and it's not about charm. It's about the truth.

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<v Speaker 6>But you know, as I absorb it, all I really

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<v Speaker 6>care about is the closure of it all. And I mean,

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<v Speaker 6>you know, I can't imagine have you can't Sue yet?

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<v Speaker 3>And what was her reaction at this point? The answer

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<v Speaker 3>was yes, Sue, David's wife, an advocate, had been told,

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<v Speaker 3>but not by me. After everything we found or hadn't found,

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<v Speaker 3>John and Danny decided they could not take David's case. Remember,

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<v Speaker 3>all of this was preliminary work to see if there

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<v Speaker 3>was enough meat to David's claim of innocence to invest

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<v Speaker 3>more time and money into the case. And after a

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<v Speaker 3>year of research, hundreds of hours, invested five trips to Ohio,

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<v Speaker 3>two separate prison interviews, tip lines, billboards, we found absolutely

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<v Speaker 3>nothing that could help prove David or Joe's innocence, and

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<v Speaker 3>what we did find was more damning than helpful. The

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<v Speaker 3>guys wrote David and Joe explaining their position and had

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<v Speaker 3>a long phone call with Sue explaining everything they told her.

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<v Speaker 3>Anytime she wanted to call or ask questions, they'd be there.

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<v Speaker 3>I told her the same thing, and I was for

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<v Speaker 3>a while up until this episode when she stopped speaking

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<v Speaker 3>to me. No one expects Sue, who invested most of

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<v Speaker 3>her life, including years of marriage, and who went nearly

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<v Speaker 3>bankrupt trying to help her husband, to accept our conclusion.

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<v Speaker 3>It's clear she's frustrated with the outcome and looking for

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<v Speaker 3>flaws in our investigation, saying we didn't do enough and

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<v Speaker 3>didn't follow the new leads we found. But truthfully, the

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<v Speaker 3>guys didn't see a reason to start going down that

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<v Speaker 3>road when nothing pointed us away from Joe. That's why

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<v Speaker 3>they did this investigation to see if it was worth it. Still,

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<v Speaker 3>I can't blame Sue. This isn't just another investigation for her.

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<v Speaker 3>It's her life, and all I can say is that

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<v Speaker 3>I get it, and if she ever reaches a point

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<v Speaker 3>where she wants to talk it over, I'll be here.

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<v Speaker 3>To be clear, John and Danny are not labeling David

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<v Speaker 3>Thorn a killer, and neither am I. Any case adopted

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<v Speaker 3>by any innocence project has to have evidence, something new,

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<v Speaker 3>something missed to help clear the person convicted. We can't

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<v Speaker 3>find that in this case. So while the guys packed

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<v Speaker 3>it up and moved on to other cases, I still couldn't.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey going on?

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<v Speaker 10>You can hear me?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 10>Okay, awesome?

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<v Speaker 9>How are you?

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<v Speaker 8>I just do?

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<v Speaker 3>I decided I still needed to give David one last

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<v Speaker 3>chance to explain to me what happened. Why was the

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<v Speaker 3>story he told me different than what he told the guys.

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<v Speaker 3>Was he lying? Why did he omit?

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<v Speaker 2>Joe?

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<v Speaker 3>Maybe he had a good explanation. Why did the guys

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<v Speaker 3>leave there feeling the way they did?

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<v Speaker 5>So you know, you could tell me your side of it,

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<v Speaker 5>like that's I want to hear your side of their great.

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<v Speaker 2>Things, Jiggins. My only problem was whenever they start to

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<v Speaker 2>ask me a question, I started to answer, as I'm

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<v Speaker 2>in the answer, then something I say or a secondary

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<v Speaker 2>question comes up, and then like the flow of the

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<v Speaker 2>conversation was kind of convoluted, I guess, because then I'm

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I'm just chasing my puts on the answered.

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<v Speaker 3>David said, John and Danny were confusing him, asking one

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<v Speaker 3>question on top of another. But I've heard them do

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<v Speaker 3>dozens of interviews. You've heard it too. That's not their style.

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<v Speaker 3>Their slow, methodical and even played dumb. As Danny likes

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<v Speaker 3>to say, Colombo the person to get the answers, badgering

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<v Speaker 3>is just not their style. And on top of that,

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<v Speaker 3>David had his attorney present. It was a legal visit.

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<v Speaker 3>If the guys had been steamrolling him, certainly she would

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<v Speaker 3>have stopped it. That's why she was there. I told

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<v Speaker 3>David he needed to find a better explanation for why

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<v Speaker 3>he couldn't answer questions because I wasn't buying it. So

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<v Speaker 3>he tried explaining why he had multiple versions for how

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<v Speaker 3>he wound up with Joe on the thirty first after

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<v Speaker 3>initially omitting him, and not.

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<v Speaker 2>Be honest, I'd blended two different events. But then I guess,

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<v Speaker 2>for lack of a better way of saying, in my defense,

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<v Speaker 2>the time that they're questioning me of is before anything

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<v Speaker 2>ever happened. So to me, that's just another normal day

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<v Speaker 2>in my life. I don't know how else they explain it.

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<v Speaker 2>There was nothing exciting going on, nothing to be truly remembered.

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<v Speaker 2>That's just bluffing something out for months prior and trying

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<v Speaker 2>to play, trying to put it together.

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<v Speaker 3>But remember, on April second, the day after Yvonne's body

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<v Speaker 3>was found, David was in the precinct with his attorney

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<v Speaker 3>for questioning. That's just two days after he would have

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<v Speaker 3>been with Joe. It's unlikely he just forgot about that,

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<v Speaker 3>especially when he's being pressed for an alibi. Here's one

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<v Speaker 3>of our first conversations.

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<v Speaker 12>By the time they started talking to me, I'm going

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<v Speaker 12>in to try to help them figure this out, and

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<v Speaker 12>all of a sudden they're telling me, you know, help us,

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<v Speaker 12>help you, and I don't need the help, don't you know.

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<v Speaker 4>What I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm here to help you.

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<v Speaker 12>And then whenever I saw that they were actually looking

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<v Speaker 12>at me, then that's whenever I had well, actually, my

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<v Speaker 12>grandfather contacted and attorney.

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<v Speaker 3>The David knew immediately he was a suspect, and usually

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<v Speaker 3>that means you start scrambling for an alibi? What was

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<v Speaker 3>I doing when this person was killed? So they know

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<v Speaker 3>it wasn't me. Imagine someone ask you today, what were

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<v Speaker 3>you doing on some nondescript day two months ago? Of

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<v Speaker 3>course you'd struggle. But the first time David was asked

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<v Speaker 3>to recount his day was the day after Yvonne's body

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<v Speaker 3>was found. And if he was racking his brain for

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<v Speaker 3>an alibi what he was doing that day, surely being

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<v Speaker 3>with Joe and the cub would have popped into his head. Granted,

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<v Speaker 3>David didn't answer those questions. At the time, his lawyer

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<v Speaker 3>shut down the interview, but he knew he needed to

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<v Speaker 3>get that information ready. He was suspect number one in

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<v Speaker 3>a murder case who at some point might have to

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<v Speaker 3>argue his innocence.

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<v Speaker 10>I mean, their big hang up it wasn't even the blending.

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<v Speaker 5>It was that you were not going to say you

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<v Speaker 5>were with Joe that day at the Enoch And they said,

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<v Speaker 5>they asked you multiple, multiple times, what your.

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<v Speaker 2>David like shipping there, because is what they kept asking

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<v Speaker 2>me is saying that I was there beforehand, And I said,

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<v Speaker 2>I was never there beforehand because that was the first

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<v Speaker 2>time that I was ever there, because that's the first

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<v Speaker 2>time that I ever met Karen.

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<v Speaker 3>Because David went on to talk about something completely different,

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<v Speaker 3>so I circled back.

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<v Speaker 5>That's not the issue though. Their issue was they said,

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<v Speaker 5>lay out your timeline of that day. That day, you know,

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<v Speaker 5>you were in the Enochs driveway at five o'clock whisked

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<v Speaker 5>the lion, And they said they asked you multiple times,

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<v Speaker 5>and they finally said, well, you.

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<v Speaker 10>Were with Joe that day and you They did not

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<v Speaker 10>like that you were not going to tell them you

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<v Speaker 10>were with Joe that day.

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<v Speaker 2>See, I don't get that. Whenever they asked me what

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<v Speaker 2>I was doing by the time I left, I told

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<v Speaker 2>them I said, I don't know exactly what time that

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<v Speaker 2>I was there. Other than that I never said I

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't there.

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<v Speaker 10>But you did, you, David, That's what they're saying. You

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<v Speaker 10>didn't tell them that you kept omitting that information.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, why else was I there? Though that's nothing

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<v Speaker 2>given them.

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<v Speaker 5>It looks like you're trying to actively not put yourself

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<v Speaker 5>with the person who likely did this.

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<v Speaker 10>They said, they asked you multiple times, what else happened?

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<v Speaker 10>What else happened?

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<v Speaker 3>He starts circling again, and they.

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<v Speaker 10>Said, it said, you didn't see Joe, And then you said, oh, yeah, I.

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<v Speaker 2>Saw Joe because on that one they were asking me

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<v Speaker 2>about the money from UH summer, and I said I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't give any money to him whenever I saw him.

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<v Speaker 2>And they said, so you saw him, and I said yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>But I don't think at the time that they're saying

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<v Speaker 2>because that part I don't recall. You know, this one

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<v Speaker 2>piffic day, I think. But and then he asked me

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<v Speaker 2>going back to the thing, So it wasn't that I

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<v Speaker 2>was denying being there, because that's the only reason I

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<v Speaker 2>was there because I happened right, reason to be at

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<v Speaker 2>the Enochs other than Joe, because I don't know there

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<v Speaker 2>are people from Adam.

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<v Speaker 10>Right, which yeah, exactly.

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<v Speaker 5>I mean, that was just their hang up that you

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<v Speaker 5>weren't going to tell them that you were there even

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<v Speaker 5>though they knew you were there.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't deny it, that's just it. I didn't. I

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<v Speaker 2>still don't understand.

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<v Speaker 5>How, but that's how they felt. The whole conversation was,

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<v Speaker 5>is you weren't giving information. They had to pull information

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<v Speaker 5>out of you, is how they felt.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but I don't know what it is that you

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<v Speaker 2>want me to say to you unless you asked me

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<v Speaker 2>the question.

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<v Speaker 5>The timeline of your day? They said, what is the

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<v Speaker 5>timeline of your day? You know you were at the Enochs.

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<v Speaker 5>Why didn't you put that in your timeline?

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<v Speaker 2>It wasn't my timeline.

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<v Speaker 10>They said, you did not tell them you were with

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<v Speaker 10>when you were laying out the timeline.

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<v Speaker 3>And then finally, after all the circling, I.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't know that I have to tell them that I'm

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<v Speaker 2>standing there with him because that's the only reason that

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<v Speaker 2>I'm there.

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<v Speaker 10>But you do, David, You have to tell them everything.

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<v Speaker 5>They asked you to tell them everything, and that's their

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<v Speaker 5>problem is you didn't tell them anything.

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<v Speaker 10>They said. They left that conversation feeling like they told

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<v Speaker 10>you more than you told them.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, I don't know. I'm sorry that they feel

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<v Speaker 2>that way, but I was just trying to answer the

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<v Speaker 2>questions as they came, and that was that.

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<v Speaker 3>David said he didn't tell them he was in the

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<v Speaker 3>Enochs driveway with Joe just hours before Yvonne was killed

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<v Speaker 3>as part of the timeline. They asked him to lay

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<v Speaker 3>out because he didn't know he had to. My hope

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<v Speaker 3>of David fighting for his innocence was out the window.

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<v Speaker 10>Do you want to tell your side of the Angie story?

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<v Speaker 3>David denied the allegations Angie made and gave an explanation

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<v Speaker 3>for why, according to him, she made it all up.

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<v Speaker 3>He said that she had started dating someone new her

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<v Speaker 3>now husband.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know if he found out or when he

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<v Speaker 2>found out that they were already engaged, and she paid

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<v Speaker 2>for a hotel on Ralph five for us to go

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<v Speaker 2>to whenever they were dating.

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<v Speaker 3>He said that the reason Angie lied about it all

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<v Speaker 3>is because her now husband told her to because he

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<v Speaker 3>was pissed she cheated on him with David years earlier.

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<v Speaker 3>According to David, this is why she made up multiple

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<v Speaker 3>incidents of abuse. However, David did admit to something. He

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<v Speaker 3>admitted to shooting out the car tires while Angie was

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<v Speaker 3>in the car, like she claimed. Well, Angie said it

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<v Speaker 3>was four tires. David said, actually it was just one.

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<v Speaker 3>But let me repeat. He admitted to shooting at a

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<v Speaker 3>car that a woman his girlfriend was sitting in.

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<v Speaker 2>But she was leaving in my car, and I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>after all, it was my car.

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<v Speaker 3>And then I asked David why his story about the

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<v Speaker 3>sex work changed, So I.

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<v Speaker 5>Guess one of my questions though, you specifically told me,

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<v Speaker 5>but I will send you the tape that you had

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<v Speaker 5>no idea why she was going to conventions and when

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<v Speaker 5>you told the guys, you told the guys that you

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<v Speaker 5>knew why she was going and you just had to

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<v Speaker 5>put it out of your mind.

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<v Speaker 2>That was afterwards. Her and I went together twice when

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<v Speaker 2>I was taking her for the conventions and everything, I

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<v Speaker 2>had no idea when her and I got back together

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<v Speaker 2>after Brandon is when she came queen.

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<v Speaker 10>Okay, they said it was very clear that you said

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<v Speaker 10>no I told them.

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<v Speaker 2>Why you were because they asked me what it was

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<v Speaker 2>like for me being with her on the second time around.

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<v Speaker 2>I had to put that out of my mind because

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<v Speaker 2>that was part of whether her and I were really

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<v Speaker 2>getting get together and be together the second time around.

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<v Speaker 2>That's where we aired out all of our dirty laundryf

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<v Speaker 2>with each other. But then whenever they asked me if

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<v Speaker 2>I knew, yeah, I knew not whenever we were together

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<v Speaker 2>the first time, but I knew the second time.

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<v Speaker 3>So if this is confusing for you, it's confusing for

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<v Speaker 3>me too. I've never been able to get a straight

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<v Speaker 3>answer on when he knew about the conversations and why

0:26:29.960 --> 0:26:33.000
<v Speaker 3>he told the guys he knew exactly why he was

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<v Speaker 3>dropping her off, and why he told me he had

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<v Speaker 3>no idea. David had written a letter to me at

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<v Speaker 3>the end of August saying, had I known Yvonne was

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<v Speaker 3>working conventions, then yes, I would have tried to get custody.

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<v Speaker 3>I'd have led with that, no questions asked. Who would

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<v Speaker 3>subject their child to a revolving door of unknown people

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<v Speaker 3>and access And this is just incredible because David did know.

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<v Speaker 3>Now I'm thinking if the police got this right, maybe

0:27:02.119 --> 0:27:05.600
<v Speaker 3>the motive wasn't about money or paying Yvonne child support.

0:27:06.280 --> 0:27:08.880
<v Speaker 3>Maybe it was that David did not want his son

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<v Speaker 3>to be in that kind of environment. Maybe David had

0:27:12.600 --> 0:27:17.880
<v Speaker 3>a decent, I guess noble motive. David's grandfather said David

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<v Speaker 3>wanted custody in his police interview after April seventh, but

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<v Speaker 3>added that David couldn't prove Yvonne an unfit mother because

0:27:24.840 --> 0:27:27.320
<v Speaker 3>the kids were always clean and the house was clean.

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<v Speaker 3>So was David just desperate enough to get custody of

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<v Speaker 3>Brandon that he had Yvonne killed. The more we dug,

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<v Speaker 3>the more we found out that David seemed to have

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<v Speaker 3>minimized or omitted some pretty key details. That he was

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<v Speaker 3>with Joe the day Yvonne died, that he'd been violent

0:27:47.400 --> 0:27:49.800
<v Speaker 3>or alleged to be violent towards women in the past,

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<v Speaker 3>that he knew about Yvonne's sex work. And at first

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<v Speaker 3>all of this may seem innocuous, but when you start

0:27:57.600 --> 0:28:03.000
<v Speaker 3>piecing it together, it's not. Key stories fit together. The

0:28:03.160 --> 0:28:08.199
<v Speaker 3>police were not sophisticated enough to mastermind a cover up.

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<v Speaker 3>John Danny and I discussed this.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean sometimes the bubblin idiots get it right.

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<v Speaker 4>By axit well, a broken clock is right twice a day.

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<v Speaker 3>It seems they formed their theory that David Thorn recruited

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<v Speaker 3>someone to Killy Vaughan, and then looked for evidence to

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<v Speaker 3>support the theory. We know the police were getting desperate

0:28:26.720 --> 0:28:29.960
<v Speaker 3>from the psychic interview. Eventually the case fell right in

0:28:30.040 --> 0:28:34.399
<v Speaker 3>their lap, starting with Rose. If her building manager hadn't

0:28:34.440 --> 0:28:37.560
<v Speaker 3>called the police to say Rose knew something, the police

0:28:37.680 --> 0:28:41.080
<v Speaker 3>may never have known about Joe. After that, the pieces

0:28:41.120 --> 0:28:43.840
<v Speaker 3>all fell into place. Rose and Chris told the police

0:28:43.840 --> 0:28:46.120
<v Speaker 3>about Joe, telling them he was in town to murder

0:28:46.160 --> 0:28:48.920
<v Speaker 3>a girl. Joe told the police about Sam Peg, his

0:28:49.040 --> 0:28:51.720
<v Speaker 3>best friend. Sam told the police that Joe was telling

0:28:51.760 --> 0:28:54.520
<v Speaker 3>her months ahead of time about this. The Enuchs confirmed

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<v Speaker 3>Joe had no money until he saw David. David's alibi

0:28:58.000 --> 0:29:01.320
<v Speaker 3>had holes in it. It's all right there, But yet

0:29:01.640 --> 0:29:04.120
<v Speaker 3>all of us have been drawn to the case because

0:29:04.120 --> 0:29:08.840
<v Speaker 3>the arrests came from a notoriously corrupt department with detectives

0:29:08.880 --> 0:29:12.880
<v Speaker 3>that had less than stellar reputations, and a botched crime

0:29:12.960 --> 0:29:16.520
<v Speaker 3>scene and Brady violations, and multiple people who could have

0:29:16.720 --> 0:29:19.720
<v Speaker 3>done this who were never looked into, and all of

0:29:19.800 --> 0:29:25.440
<v Speaker 3>this corroborated by their own police records. The trial left

0:29:25.480 --> 0:29:29.360
<v Speaker 3>what I would certainly consider reasonable doubt. There was no

0:29:29.640 --> 0:29:33.040
<v Speaker 3>conclusive physical evidence linking Joe to the scene. Had the

0:29:33.200 --> 0:29:36.400
<v Speaker 3>jurors heard from George Hale, the neighbor who saw an

0:29:36.520 --> 0:29:39.880
<v Speaker 3>unknown man leave Yvonne's house after she was dead, perhaps

0:29:40.080 --> 0:29:43.280
<v Speaker 3>the verdict would have been different. But they didn't. They

0:29:43.400 --> 0:29:47.200
<v Speaker 3>didn't know about Hale because the prosecution didn't tell them,

0:29:47.680 --> 0:29:52.480
<v Speaker 3>despite being obligated to disclose information like that. If David's

0:29:52.520 --> 0:29:55.360
<v Speaker 3>team had called an expert to refute the state's evidence,

0:29:55.920 --> 0:30:00.440
<v Speaker 3>maybe we wouldn't be here. But none of that happened.

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<v Speaker 3>And if there's one thing I can say for sure

0:30:02.680 --> 0:30:06.160
<v Speaker 3>about this case, it's that David Thorne did not get

0:30:06.280 --> 0:30:10.520
<v Speaker 3>a fair trial, and there are still lingering questions we

0:30:10.680 --> 0:30:14.280
<v Speaker 3>may never get answers to the crime scene certainly does

0:30:14.360 --> 0:30:17.520
<v Speaker 3>not match Joe's statement, and neither does a knife, which remember,

0:30:18.200 --> 0:30:21.640
<v Speaker 3>didn't have any blood on it. Why has Joe's story

0:30:21.800 --> 0:30:25.440
<v Speaker 3>changed so many times? It's possible today he's confused by

0:30:25.560 --> 0:30:29.280
<v Speaker 3>how many people have questioned him, asked him different versions,

0:30:29.360 --> 0:30:32.480
<v Speaker 3>told him different stories. He doesn't know what's true anymore.

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<v Speaker 3>But I do know that Joe believes He is the

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<v Speaker 3>kind caring person we heard so much about who was

0:30:38.920 --> 0:30:43.000
<v Speaker 3>severely abused and just wanted someone to love him, and

0:30:43.120 --> 0:30:47.120
<v Speaker 3>in this case, David was that someone. I think Joe

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<v Speaker 3>did go there with the folding knife, the only folding

0:30:50.600 --> 0:30:54.320
<v Speaker 3>knife of that kind bought that year on March thirty first,

0:30:54.400 --> 0:30:57.040
<v Speaker 3>nineteen ninety nine, at the exact time Joe said he

0:30:57.160 --> 0:30:59.959
<v Speaker 3>bought it, but after Chris Campbell made fun of him

0:31:00.120 --> 0:31:01.840
<v Speaker 3>and said, who are you going to kill with that?

0:31:02.520 --> 0:31:05.920
<v Speaker 3>He ditched it and used the kitchen knife. That's why

0:31:06.120 --> 0:31:08.680
<v Speaker 3>there was no blood on the folding knife, and that's

0:31:08.720 --> 0:31:12.480
<v Speaker 3>why a kitchen knife was missing, because Joe used it

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<v Speaker 3>for me. That's a reasonable explanation for some of the

0:31:16.440 --> 0:31:22.160
<v Speaker 3>lingering questions. Others may just never be answered. And so

0:31:22.680 --> 0:31:26.800
<v Speaker 3>we have no new evidence pointing to innocence. And once

0:31:27.040 --> 0:31:31.200
<v Speaker 3>someone is convicted by a jury, it's nearly impossible to

0:31:31.360 --> 0:31:35.440
<v Speaker 3>get out without that new evidence. So there was nowhere

0:31:35.600 --> 0:31:39.800
<v Speaker 3>left for us to go after the investigation. The billboards

0:31:40.080 --> 0:31:43.960
<v Speaker 3>expired and came down, and the tip line was shut off.

0:31:49.360 --> 0:31:53.320
<v Speaker 3>I have recovered since twenty twenty one. After losing trust

0:31:53.400 --> 0:31:56.520
<v Speaker 3>in myself, I dusted off my shame, picked up my

0:31:56.640 --> 0:31:59.360
<v Speaker 3>head and kept going at what I know. I'm good

0:31:59.400 --> 0:32:03.520
<v Speaker 3>at finding the truth and telling stories. I went on

0:32:03.640 --> 0:32:07.040
<v Speaker 3>to win a Pulitzer for my reporting on mandatory minimums

0:32:07.440 --> 0:32:11.800
<v Speaker 3>and juvenile lifers in the podcast Suave in twenty twenty two.

0:32:12.680 --> 0:32:15.920
<v Speaker 3>Since then, I've learned about and poured my heart and

0:32:16.040 --> 0:32:20.920
<v Speaker 3>soul into reporting on countless innocent people in prison and

0:32:21.400 --> 0:32:26.120
<v Speaker 3>telling their stories. A conservative estimate is that there are

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<v Speaker 3>more than twenty thousand innocent people in prison, but experts

0:32:30.680 --> 0:32:34.760
<v Speaker 3>say numbers are more likely in the hundreds of thousands.

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<v Speaker 3>One of those people. I recently released a new investigation

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<v Speaker 3>on the first since Yvonne's, called Graves County, where not

0:32:43.840 --> 0:32:46.920
<v Speaker 3>only do I get it right, but much of my

0:32:47.120 --> 0:32:51.880
<v Speaker 3>reporting and series was inspired by processing the aftermath of

0:32:52.080 --> 0:32:55.280
<v Speaker 3>getting it wrong. I found a case where a journalist

0:32:55.640 --> 0:32:59.040
<v Speaker 3>got it wrong like I did, yet he refuses to

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<v Speaker 3>speak to me or acknowledge his mistakes or worse. I

0:33:03.320 --> 0:33:06.840
<v Speaker 3>think it's crucial to talk about our fallibilities as journalists.

0:33:07.440 --> 0:33:10.640
<v Speaker 3>Not only does it keep us honest, but it keeps

0:33:10.720 --> 0:33:14.920
<v Speaker 3>us humble and human. And ultimately, at the end of

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<v Speaker 3>all this, there was a woman, a mother, a friend,

0:33:18.600 --> 0:33:23.560
<v Speaker 3>a daughter who was brutally murdered, and her family has

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<v Speaker 3>had to live with that for going on three decades,

0:33:28.280 --> 0:33:32.080
<v Speaker 3>and a police department who did them no justice, allowing

0:33:32.280 --> 0:33:37.040
<v Speaker 3>countless people to spend time and resources looking into what

0:33:37.360 --> 0:33:42.600
<v Speaker 3>was very likely correct, but so poorly investigated it left

0:33:42.880 --> 0:33:47.440
<v Speaker 3>too many questions for confidence. We went into this in

0:33:47.640 --> 0:33:51.240
<v Speaker 3>part to get justice for Yvonne Lane and her family.

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<v Speaker 3>They deserve to know the truth, and now I think

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<v Speaker 3>the truth was there. The whole time, I believed this

0:33:59.640 --> 0:34:03.600
<v Speaker 3>was very very likely a wrongful conviction. So did many others,

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<v Speaker 3>meaning we also believed that there was someone else out

0:34:08.640 --> 0:34:13.280
<v Speaker 3>there getting away with Yvonne's murder. That's why I recruited

0:34:13.400 --> 0:34:17.279
<v Speaker 3>investigators to take a look. But now we believe that

0:34:17.680 --> 0:34:23.240
<v Speaker 3>broken clock was right, and Yvonne's friends and family finally

0:34:23.440 --> 0:34:27.359
<v Speaker 3>deserve to have their mother, daughter, and loved one rest

0:34:27.520 --> 0:34:31.279
<v Speaker 3>in peace. If the police had just done their job,

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<v Speaker 3>if they hadn't left so much room for doubt, I

0:34:34.880 --> 0:34:38.360
<v Speaker 3>believe Yvonne's family would not have had the worst moment

0:34:38.400 --> 0:34:43.000
<v Speaker 3>of their lives brought up countless times for nearly three decades,

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<v Speaker 3>and I want to repeat discussions about whether Yvonne was

0:34:48.440 --> 0:34:50.880
<v Speaker 3>or was not a sex worker or a dancer, or

0:34:51.040 --> 0:34:54.400
<v Speaker 3>use drugs are important to the case, but beyond that,

0:34:55.040 --> 0:34:58.840
<v Speaker 3>it doesn't matter. Her life was worth more than a

0:34:59.080 --> 0:35:03.600
<v Speaker 3>pair of Nikke shoes and some roller blades, regardless of

0:35:03.680 --> 0:35:07.080
<v Speaker 3>what choices she made in her life and her children.

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<v Speaker 3>I hope at least that Evonne's five boys can conclude

0:35:11.520 --> 0:35:16.920
<v Speaker 3>what they want and remember her how they want. Tony, Vinnie, Brandon,

0:35:17.040 --> 0:35:19.799
<v Speaker 3>Trenton and Preston deserve that.

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<v Speaker 9>If you could correct everything that's been said about her.

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<v Speaker 3>What do you want people to know?

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<v Speaker 4>I think that's the thing what I did for from

0:35:49.280 --> 0:35:51.719
<v Speaker 4>a lot of people. Honestly, I don't I really know

0:35:51.880 --> 0:35:53.960
<v Speaker 4>you the damn what they think about her? I know

0:35:54.080 --> 0:35:56.440
<v Speaker 4>how I feeled about her. Why do I kill what

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<v Speaker 4>anyone else thinks?

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<v Speaker 6>Whether she slept the people, dnsely with people, whether she

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<v Speaker 6>did drugs andrew drugs.

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<v Speaker 4>Why do I kill anyone? Thanks for me?

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<v Speaker 3>Well, what do you think about her?

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<v Speaker 4>I loved her, she was crazy, A loved her.

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<v Speaker 3>Death and deceit In The Alliance is produced and reported

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<v Speaker 3>by me Maggie Freeling, with editorial consulting from Amber Hunt.

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<v Speaker 3>Aaron Case is our legal researcher, our executive producer is

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<v Speaker 3>Steve Fishman. Our engineer and production coordinator is Austin Smith.

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<v Speaker 3>Eric Axelrod is our assistant producer.