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Speaker 1: Crime a art hourly update breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton. The first witness in the sex trafficking

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Speaker 2: trial involving three brothers, two of whom our prominent real

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Speaker 2: estate brokers, recounted her harrowing experience on Tuesday. The excitement

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Speaker 2: of attending a party at actor Zach Ephron's apartment swiftly

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Speaker 2: turned into a nightmare when hours later one of the

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Speaker 2: brothers assaulted her in their residence, taunting her throughout the ordeal.

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Speaker 2: The woman who spoke under a fictitious name is among

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Speaker 2: several alleged victims slated to testify against tal Orrin and

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Speaker 2: Alan Alexander, who faced accusations of drugging and raping women

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Speaker 2: and girls over several years. Defense attorneys for the brothers

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Speaker 2: assert that the encounters were consensual. Prosecutors alleged that the

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Speaker 2: Alexander brothers exploited their connections to wealthy and influential people

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Speaker 2: to entice multiple victims. The witness explained that she was

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Speaker 2: just twenty years old and studying anthropology when she met

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Speaker 2: two of the brothers at a party at Ephron's New

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Speaker 2: York City apartment. She had accompanied a friend who had

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Speaker 2: recently befriended Tal Alexander, who invited them to watch the

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Speaker 2: final game of the twenty twelve NBA Finals. She noted

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Speaker 2: that their interaction with Ephron was minimal, as he is

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Speaker 2: not implicated in any wrongdoing. After the game, she attended

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Speaker 2: an after party at a Manhattan nightclub, where she accepted

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Speaker 2: a drink and lost consciousness. She later woke up in

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Speaker 2: a different apartment, naked with a lawn, Alexander standing over her,

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Speaker 2: also unclothed. Despite her attempts to rise, he repeatedly pushed

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Speaker 2: her back down, leading her to declare, I don't want

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Speaker 2: to have sex with you, she said. He laughed and responded,

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Speaker 2: you already did. She recounted how he then forced himself

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Speaker 2: on her during the assault. Tal Alexander briefly entered the

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Speaker 2: room but did not intervene, leaving her feeling that he

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Speaker 2: was quote super nonchalant about the whole thing. Assistant US

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Speaker 2: Attorney Madison Smires, in her opening remarks to the juris ury,

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Speaker 2: described the Alexander brothers as perpetrators masquerading as party boys.

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Speaker 2: She stated that they employed various tactics, including luxury accommodations, flights, drugs, alcohol,

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Speaker 2: and sometimes physical force to manipulate women into compromising situations.

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Speaker 2: Defense attorney Teeny Garaghos, representing or In Alexander, urged the

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Speaker 2: jury to dismiss the prosecution's monstrous story. Garaghos portrayed the brothers,

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Speaker 2: who graduated from college in two thousand and eight, as

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Speaker 2: ambitious and occasionally arrogant young men navigating the nightlife scene

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Speaker 2: in search of romantic encounters, arguing that while their behavior

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Speaker 2: may seem immoral, it is not criminal. She suggested that

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Speaker 2: some accusers were pursuing lawsuits for financial gain and only

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Speaker 2: labeled themselves as victims after regretting their choices, such as

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Speaker 2: using illegal drugs or engaging in sexual activities outside their

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Speaker 2: current relationships. Attorney Deana Paul, representing Talent Alexander, cautioned the

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Speaker 2: jury that the trial's subject matter could be distressing, like

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Speaker 2: to an R rated movie, and emphasizing the prosecution's portrayal

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Speaker 2: of the brothers's quote monsters. In a courtroom sketch, the

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Speaker 2: three brothers, alan Or and tal Alexander were seen in

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Speaker 2: Manhattan Federal Court on the opening day of trial January

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Speaker 2: twenty seven. Taal and Orr, and Alexander specialized in high

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Speaker 2: end real estate in cities like Miami, New York, and

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Speaker 2: LA while their brother Alan earned a law degree and

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Speaker 2: managed the family's private security business. Tall is thirty nine.

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Speaker 2: The twins Alan in Orran are thirty eight. The indictment

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Speaker 2: claims the men conspired to lure women to vacation spots

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Speaker 2: like the Hamptons by offering flights and luxurious accommodations. Since

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Speaker 2: their arrest in Miami in December of twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 2: the brothers have been held without bail. During her testimony

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Speaker 2: Despite the emotional weight of her testimony, she maintained her

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Speaker 2: composure for the most part, though she became visibly upset

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Speaker 2: at times, particularly when she reflected on reaching out to

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Speaker 2: a friend years later after the incident to remind herself

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Speaker 2: that she was still loved. The judge in Georgia has

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Speaker 2: once again denied bond for a seventeen year old girl

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Speaker 2: accused of murdering her mother and stepfather. During a recent hearing,

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Speaker 2: Carroll County Superior Court Judge Dustin high Tower expressed that

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Speaker 2: there had been no significant changes in the circumstances that

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Speaker 2: would justify freeing Sarah Grace Patrick from her solitary confinement

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Speaker 2: since her arrest in August twenty five. The judge highlighted

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Speaker 2: ongoing concerns regarding her potential to flee, the risk of

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Speaker 2: witness intimidation, and the safety of the community. Patrick faces

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Speaker 2: two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault

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Speaker 2: related to the deaths of James and Christine Brock. She

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Speaker 2: Her trial is set to take place in August twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six. During the hearing, Patrick's defense attorney argued that

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Speaker 2: she has no criminal prior record, lacks a driver's license

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Speaker 2: also pointed out that Patrick voluntarily turned herself in and

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Speaker 2: has significant support within the community, as evidenced by twenty

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Speaker 2: filled with supporters. Patrick's maternal grandfather, Dennis Nolan Senior, testified

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Speaker 2: Lewenne Bruce, who has guardianship of Patrick's younger sister, shared

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Speaker 2: her daily communication with Patrick and expressed confidence that she

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Speaker 2: would not run away. However, during cross examination, prosecutors revealed

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Speaker 2: that both grandparents, along with Patrick's biological father DJ, had

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Speaker 2: signed contracts with a media company worth one hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars for content related to the trial. They clarified that

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Speaker 2: none of the funds would directly go to Patrick or

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Speaker 2: her sister, but the state argued that these media deals

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Speaker 2: heightened concerns about Patrick's potential flight risk. Judge high Tower

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Speaker 2: acknowledged this new information about the media contracts and his decision,

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Speaker 2: expressing that he must consider the possibility that the grandparents

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Speaker 3: If I weigh these witnesses testimonies, and now weigh would

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Speaker 3: I hear today, I believe those closest and I say

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Speaker 3: closest in family relationship expressed that they had vast concerns

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Speaker 3: that she would have the ability to flee, that she

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Speaker 3: would be a danger to the community, that she would

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Speaker 3: a significant risk of intimidating or actually, I think the

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Speaker 3: state steered away from intimidating or influencing and manipulating witnesses

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Speaker 3: by finding that. I find the state has met their

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Speaker 3: burden today by preponderance to the evidence and miss miss Patrick.

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Speaker 3: Because of that, I'm bound by the law and I

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Speaker 3: do not believe that you would be a proper candidate

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Speaker 2: The defense proposed several strict conditions for her potential release,

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Speaker 2: with witnesses and victims' families. They suggested that Patrick could

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Speaker 2: shared a statement from Kim Bowling, James Brock's sister, who

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Speaker 2: The defense maintained that the opinions of Bruce and Nolan

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Speaker 2: the matter. They also emphasize Patrick's age and the detrimental

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Speaker 2: impact of solitary confinement on young individuals, arguing that the

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Speaker 2: delay in her trial to August twenty six and additional

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Speaker 2: eight months should be taken into account. Judge high Tower

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Speaker 2: addressed Patrick directly, explaining the necessity of the continuance to

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Speaker 2: for a murder case. He indicated plans for monthly conference

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Speaker 2: Sarah Grace Patrick remains in custody at the Carroll County Jail.

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Speaker 1: A Missouri house of horrors has been exposed after a

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Speaker 1: so called hard working mother allegedly traded her children for

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Speaker 1: sick adult sanctioned fight club. Chantelle Hayford, thirty eight, and

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Speaker 1: her boyfriend Jerry Manie, are rotting in the Washington County

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Speaker 1: that sounds more like a depraved survival movie than a

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Speaker 1: home in Potosi, Missouri. Authorities from the Washington County Sheriff's

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Speaker 1: office described the allegations as so disturbing that Sheriff Zach

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Speaker 1: Jacobson initially questioned their credibility. He spoke to the media,

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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 4: Know that I've even heard of a case like this,

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Speaker 4: locking them in a chicken coop and shooting at him

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Speaker 4: with a BB gun, making meat bugs, and it's just bizarre.

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Speaker 1: The real life nightmare, which spanned from twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: to late twenty twenty five, involved Hayford's thirteen fourteen year

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Speaker 1: old children being treated like livestock. The couple allegedly refused

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Speaker 1: or pelted with rocks, the malnourished siblings were allegedly forced

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Speaker 1: Even more bizarre, the couple reportedly organized fight nights, even

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Speaker 1: during children's birthday parties, where the teens were compelled to

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Speaker 1: physically beat each other while adults watched. The depravity only

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Speaker 1: begging for food. In a final act of betrayal, Hayford

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Speaker 1: a cell phone and a service plan. Despite the years

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Speaker 1: receiving zero reports or hotline tips regarding all the atrocities.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, both Hayford and Manise are facing twelve

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Speaker 1: felony counts each, including kidnapping, sexual abuse, and armed criminal action.

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Speaker 1: The pair is being held on half million dollar bonds each,

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Speaker 1: while the children, who cannot read or write after being

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Speaker 4: A Texas man is executed for the nineteen ninety eight

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Speaker 4: killings off his ex girlfriend and her new boyfriend, bringing

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Speaker 4: closure to a case that stretched nearly three decades. Charles

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Speaker 4: Victor Thompson was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday

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Speaker 4: night at the Huntsville He was fifty five. Family members

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Speaker 4: of the victims watched from inside the prison. They emerged

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Speaker 4: just before seven pm, after waiting nearly twenty eight hours.

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Speaker 4: Harris County District Attorney Shawn Tears spoke afterward, this is an.

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Speaker 5: Incredibly solemn moment when the state takes a life, but

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Speaker 5: the relief that this is over for them was palpable.

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Speaker 6: The murders happened April thirtieth, nineteen ninety eight. Thompson went

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Speaker 6: thirty one year old Darren Keith Kane. Police were called

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Speaker 6: and made Thompson leave. He returned about three hours later

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Speaker 6: with the gun. Thompson shot and killed Cain inside the apartment.

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Speaker 6: He then shot Glinda Denise Hayslip in the face. She

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Speaker 6: days later in the hospital. Thompson's case drew national attention

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Speaker 6: years later. After his escape from the Harris County jail,

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Speaker 6: he slipped out of handcuffs during a meeting with his attorney.

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Speaker 6: He changed out of his jail clothes into civilian clothing.

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Speaker 6: He used a fake identification badge and walked right past deputies.

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Speaker 6: Thompson then jumped onto a freight train and traveled to Louisiana.

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Speaker 6: He was arrested three days later outside a liquor store

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Speaker 6: in Shreveport while using a payphone. As the lethal injection began,

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Speaker 6: witnesses reported Thompson gasped loudly. He then took about a

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Speaker 6: later at six fifty pm Central time.

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Speaker 5: He said he was sorry for what happened. He said

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Speaker 5: he was sorry for his actions. He apologized to his children,

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Speaker 5: and he asked his children to find Jesus.

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Speaker 6: From his final statement quote, there are no winners in

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Speaker 6: this situation. It creates more victims and traumatizes more people.

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Speaker 6: Twenty eight years later, DA Tier says Thompson never fully

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Speaker 6: accepted responsibility for the killings. More crime and justice news

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Speaker 6: After this