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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. How does a beautiful, vivacious,

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Speaker 1: a dead body. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. This is

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Speaker 1: where it all starts. Take a listen. A farmer is

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Speaker 1: The girl's face was obliterated. One bullet hole was in

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Speaker 1: hearing our friend John Linley from Crime Online dot Com

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Speaker 1: with me an all star panel to make sense of it.

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Speaker 1: First of all, high profile lawyer joining me out of

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Speaker 1: La Troy Slayton. You can find him at Troy Slayton.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Michael Donner, PhD, psychoanalyst, clinical and forensic psychologist and

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Speaker 1: author of Tearing the child apart, doctor Kendall Crown's Deputy

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Speaker 1: Chief Medical Examiner of Travis County. That's Austin, Texas and

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Speaker 1: lecturer University of Texas and of course forensic sciences. Justin Boardman,

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Speaker 1: former Special Victims Unit detective West Valley City author, I

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Speaker 1: was wrong, an investigator's battlecry for change within the Special

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Speaker 1: Victims Unit. You can find him ajut a Boardman dot com.

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Speaker 1: But first, Peter Meyer, author of Blind Love, The True

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Speaker 1: Story of the Texas Cadet murderer. Peter, thank you so

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Speaker 1: for this unidentified sixteen year old girl's body was found.

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Speaker 1: Certainly Nancy, nice to be here. Um. It was a

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Speaker 1: morning out in the middle of us what's what's scrub

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Speaker 1: An architect named Gary Foster was getting up early in

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Speaker 1: And he saw what looked like a person in a field.

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Speaker 1: get that visual image with me. Peter Meyer, the author

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Speaker 1: and you can find it on Amazon where there are

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Speaker 1: fields as far as the eye can see. Certainly he

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Speaker 1: whatever happened happened overnight. And you're hearing Peter Meyer describe

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Speaker 1: But who else would know of this location? Who would

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Speaker 1: Deputy Chief medical examined Travis County. That's Austin. Did you

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Speaker 1: hear the way the injury was described Shot in the head,

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Speaker 1: You're right, doctor Kendall Crowns, because that's exactly what it did.

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Speaker 1: online detectives found no sign of struggle at the crime scene,

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Speaker 1: have changed. You know, that's we think about it a

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Speaker 1: little differently. The one night stand for the adult but

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Speaker 1: for teenagers is romance and love crime stories with Nancy Grace.

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Speaker 1: Long story short, the two meet and they do, in

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Speaker 1: fact have sex. Take a listen to our cut. Eleven.

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Speaker 1: About a month after they started dating, Diane tells her

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Speaker 1: parents that she and David are engaged, with plans to

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Speaker 1: get married after they both graduate from military academies. But

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Speaker 1: David has a secret. He cheated on Diane with Adrian Jones,

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Speaker 1: a fellow track team member. It was a one night stand. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: he confesses and Diane feels betrayed, he says. Diane then

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Speaker 1: gave him an ultimatum. Hill Adrian, dear Lord in Heaven.

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Speaker 1: First of all, Peter Meyer, you're the author. You literally

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Speaker 1: wrote the book blind Love. Why in the world did

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Speaker 1: he confess want to get it off his chest and

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Speaker 1: make Diane's the moral feel terrible. I don't, No, I

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Speaker 1: really don't. I mean he davidkay Me just asked the

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Speaker 1: whole panel a question. Did anybody ever read Dear Abby?

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Speaker 1: I mean I read Dear Abbey growing up, and this

446
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Speaker 1: is what Dear Abby says. Dear Abbey said. Every time

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Speaker 1: somebody writes singing goes, oh, my best friend's husband's having

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Speaker 1: an affairs. Should I tell her? No, don't tell her,

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Speaker 1: It's none of your business. Or a woman writes, sin,

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Speaker 1: I had an affair. It's over. I'm sorr afraid I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna lose my husband. Should I tell him? Abby said no,

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Speaker 1: don't tell him. It makes you feel better to relieve

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Speaker 1: your conscious and your guilt. It ruins a marriage, and

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Speaker 1: it will ruin his thought of you forever. Just don't

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Speaker 1: do it again. For Pete's sake. Why in the world

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Speaker 1: what is it, doctor Donner? Why do people feel they

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Speaker 1: have to unload everything on their loved one. What is

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Speaker 1: it may still feel belt a apolge and it makes

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Speaker 1: the love one feel terrible. That's it your abbey every day.

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Speaker 1: It's it's a relief. You can get it. You can,

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Speaker 1: you know, unload your own sense of shame and guilt

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Speaker 1: and share it with someone else and beg for forgiveness

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Speaker 1: and say I'm sorry. It'll never happen again. But it

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Speaker 1: is selfish. People do it all the time, but it

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Speaker 1: is selfish and the pain to someone else. Now, the

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Speaker 1: one thing I do not like, among many things, is

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Speaker 1: anybody to start preaching at me. But it's my understanding

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Speaker 1: that when you ask for forgiveness, you're supposed to not

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Speaker 1: only ask for forgiveness, but change your ways. Otherwise, your

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Speaker 1: request for forgiveness its worth a hill of beans. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's just a way of hurting somebody another time. So

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Speaker 1: if you really want to make amends to the one

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Speaker 1: you love, except what you've done wrong, feel bad about it.

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Speaker 1: You should feel bad about it and don't do it again.

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Speaker 1: Now that's coming from me. Point out that psychological band

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Speaker 1: came from a broken home. Sorry, but David David his

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Speaker 1: parents were divorced. He was a kind of a loner.

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Speaker 1: So among he worked on his what was a kind

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Speaker 1: of a passiveness, and he worked very hard to overcome

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Speaker 1: that passiveness. Pardon me, doctor Donner, and by stepping out

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Speaker 1: of my territory here. But and and so we haven't

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Speaker 1: even talked about the guns and the military um propensities

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Speaker 1: that come along with that. So there was there was

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Speaker 1: a lot, but there was a lot of this business

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Speaker 1: of taking orders, David and being a bit passive. Um

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Speaker 1: uh as thus runs into your old notebook and this ultimatum,

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Speaker 1: kill her or lose me. Okay, what is that, doctor

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Speaker 1: Michael Donner? Kill her or lose me. That's easy, bye bye.

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Speaker 1: You know, not everybody really thinks about other people as

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Speaker 1: being completely human. Their their objects for their own personal gratification.

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Speaker 1: They're objects that get in their way that they are

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Speaker 1: objects that help them. But there but there's no real empathy.

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Speaker 1: Now I don't know Diane Zamora, so I can't speak

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Speaker 1: about her a specific. You know, we know that's the

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Speaker 1: kind of person that we run into where they just

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Speaker 1: don't care about other people. So, choyce light, let me

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Speaker 1: understand something. You're a veteran criminal defense attorney. I bet

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Speaker 1: you would have a field day with this if you're

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Speaker 1: representing Davey Graham. She told me to do it or

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Speaker 1: should break up. How's that coercion? Well it depends. But

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Speaker 1: you know they say, hell hath no fury? Oh here

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Speaker 1: we go, and here you know, I can see you

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Speaker 1: prancing that banner around the courtroom till the cows come home.

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Speaker 1: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorn. Well, I

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Speaker 1: wonder who beat her skull in and pull the trigger?

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Speaker 1: You think Samoura did all that on her own, Well,

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Speaker 1: it was Graham who said that it was Samoura who

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Speaker 1: took a dumbbell and smashed it into Adrian's head. And

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Speaker 1: as she stumbled out of the car, it was Graham

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Speaker 1: who who pulled the trigger. And well, isn't it true

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Speaker 1: Troy Layton that for coercion to work, in other words,

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Speaker 1: they made me do it, you have to be under

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Speaker 1: threat of death or a third party has to be

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Speaker 1: under threat of death. Yes, you have to have what

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Speaker 1: a reasonable person would believe to be fear of imminent

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Speaker 1: mortal danger to yourself. So basically, Diane Samoura was holding

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Speaker 1: herself hostage. If you don't murder sixteen year old All

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Speaker 1: American girls scrubbed in Sunshine that you seduced one time.

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Speaker 1: If you don't kill her, I'm going to commit suicide

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Speaker 1: or leave you. So she's basically holding herself hostage. As

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Speaker 1: ridiculous as that sounds, take a listen to this. Our

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Speaker 1: cut twelve, David Graham tells police he called Adrian and

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Speaker 1: said he wanted to see her. He picked her up

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Speaker 1: in a Master Protege owned by Diane's parents, with Samora

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Speaker 1: hiding in the hatchback. Adrian reclined the passengers seat. According

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Speaker 1: to David, while he held Adrian, Diane hit her in

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Speaker 1: the head with a dumbbell, but she didn't die. Adrian

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Speaker 1: managed to crawl through the window and ran off. David

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Speaker 1: says he grabbed a gun and followed. When Adrian fell,

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Speaker 1: Graham pulled the trigger. Hiding in the hatchback. This reeks

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Speaker 1: of pre meditation. Just In Boardman and former Special Victims

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Speaker 1: Unit detective you can find them at Justin Boordman dot com.

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Speaker 1: They plan this whole thing out and they're victim a

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Speaker 1: sixteen year old little girl. Absolutely they did, and I

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Speaker 1: think gathering some of this evidence before we were talking

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Speaker 1: I would also be taking a look at some of

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Speaker 1: the grooming at one night stand like that just does

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Speaker 1: not usually happen, just just of thee. Yeah, so you

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00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: think he was cajoling her or as you say, grooming

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Speaker 1: her before that occurred. Absolutely, and I think that would

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Speaker 1: be something to take a look at. They probably did, um,

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Speaker 1: I don't have the information on that, but I'm sorry

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00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: you were saying, Well, I'm thinking about how they lured

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Speaker 1: her into the car. While Diane Zamora throws caution to

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Speaker 1: the wind and highs in the hatchback of the vehicle

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Speaker 1: and her boyfriend and David her fiance, David Graham, lures

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Speaker 1: the sixteen year old to the car all in order

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Speaker 1: to kill her. And guess what, they came that close

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Speaker 1: to getting away with it. Remember no sex attack, no DNA,

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Speaker 1: no fingerprints, no tire tracks. But you know what, The

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Speaker 1: Constitution protects you from statements you make without a warrant

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Speaker 1: to police, but it doesn't protect you from yourself. Listen

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Speaker 1: to our cut thirteen. The distance between Zamora and Graham

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00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:39,399
Speaker 1: grew as they pursued their military careers, until one night

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00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: when Zamora had a late Mike gabfest with her two roommates,

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Speaker 1: Mandy Gotch and Jennifer Mcarney. One of the girls mentioned

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Speaker 1: that Diane and David seems so in love that they

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Speaker 1: would do anything for each other, even kill. Diane paused

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Speaker 1: and said, we have. The roommates were skeptical at first,

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Speaker 1: but the next day told the Navy chaplain about the conversation.

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Speaker 1: The chaplain contacted a Navy attorney, who then began calling

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Speaker 1: police departments in the Dallas Fort Worth area to ask

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Speaker 1: if they had an unsolved murder of a teenage girl.

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Speaker 1: On August twenty ninth, he contacted the Grand Prairie Police Department.

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Speaker 1: The next morning, detectives were on a flight to Annapolis.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine that moment, all these girls in their

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Speaker 1: pj's having a gab fest in their dorm room. Man,

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Speaker 1: you guys are so in wef I bet you kill

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Speaker 1: for each other. Then Zamora, in her dramatic manner, says,

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Speaker 1: we did, and the case bus wide open. You know what,

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Speaker 1: why would you blurt out a secret like that to

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Speaker 1: your dormi's Well, listen to this. Look, what did you

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Speaker 1: make him do that, Diane? Had you ever asked him

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Speaker 1: to kill? Later in Jones for you, oh dear Lord

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Speaker 1: in heaven. The crying and the snodding and the no, no,

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Speaker 1: no choice Lake, and she could try out cross she

577
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Speaker 1: wants to right now. But the law is you may

578
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,760
Speaker 1: immediately regret the deed. But what matters is the intent

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Speaker 1: at the time of the act. You want to tell

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Speaker 1: me she didn't mean to kill when she's hiding in

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Speaker 1: the hatchback, driving with her lover out there with a

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Speaker 1: loaded gun to get the sixteen year old girl in

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Speaker 1: the car. It's too late for all that snodding. In

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Speaker 1: front of a jury, it would appear to be and

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Speaker 1: a skilled prosecutor like you, Nancy, would would be arguing

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Speaker 1: all these special circumstances. In this case, she was lying

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Speaker 1: in wait. There was premeditation, and she clearly showed an indifference,

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Speaker 1: a depraved indifference to human life. And so if if

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Speaker 1: I was a prosecutor in this case and took off

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Speaker 1: my defense attorney hat, I'd be circue. I'd be seeking

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Speaker 1: the death penalty if it was available. Guys, more testimony. Listen,

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Speaker 1: she said, Um, this is a girl they had sex

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Speaker 1: with and they had planned her murder. Could I have

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Speaker 1: been planned murder? At first? They were planning to snap

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Speaker 1: her neck and drop the body the like they didn't

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Speaker 1: go as planned. Mhmm, snap her neck can drop a

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Speaker 1: body in the light. You're hearing Samora's former best friend

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Speaker 1: testifying at court that was Christina Mason. Well none of

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Speaker 1: that worked. Listen, we the jury find the defendant Diane

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Speaker 1: Michelle's are more guilty of the offense with capital murder

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Speaker 1: as alleged indicton Soi and Monty Winship. It's not just

602
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:08,280
Speaker 1: as Zamora the mastermind of the murder. What about David

603
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Speaker 1: Graham who follows along like a little sheep murdering a

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Speaker 1: sixteen year old girl. May they wrought in hell? Nancy

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Speaker 1: Grace grum Story signing off Goodbye friend,