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Speaker 1: The monastic candidates got a break from their routine. Instead

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Speaker 1: that Saturday morning, this candidate, Sasha Corsack, and another Mihailo Kofel,

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Speaker 1: who they called Misha, got dressed in their usual black

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Speaker 1: it was back to ordinary monastic life. After the youth Fare.

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Speaker 1: Did you come back to the monastery? What did you

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Speaker 1: do that? Yeah? Launch the us things? Oh? Is that

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Speaker 1: What happened in between the house? You know, to place

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Speaker 1: participate in the basketball game? Yes? After you make a basket,

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Speaker 1: do you guys congratulate each other? Yeah? How do you

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Speaker 1: you notice any injuries on Asia's hands at that time?

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Speaker 1: the next morning, even before anyone at Holy Cross noticed

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Speaker 1: Sister Michelle was missing, Sasha saw something different about me.

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Speaker 1: Halo testify the moment ago about some scratches on the space.

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Speaker 1: After you notice the scratches on his face, did you

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Speaker 1: notice anything else? Did you take a look at his hand? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: What could you say? That was just? Did you hear

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Speaker 1: that he caused himself on Friday? When did he tell

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Speaker 1: I asked him how he did this? So he explained?

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Speaker 1: What did he said? So that he was wasshing him

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Speaker 1: who loves and he dropped it? Did he tell you

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Speaker 1: Bartley and this is sacred scandal. Only from what I've

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Speaker 1: being involved. I've been to enough scenes where I didn't

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Speaker 1: Maybe they could have told me she had a lover,

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Speaker 1: maybe she was involved with the priest. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: and usually because there's so much passion, there's a strong

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Speaker 1: reason behind that. And that's the the other end of

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Speaker 1: this case, to set out the reasons why. In this episode,

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Speaker 1: We pick up our story after police knocked in a

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Speaker 1: Miami Dade homicide Detective Art Nanny, and I remember it

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Speaker 1: was dark going over to the monks uh quarters. The

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Speaker 1: Now you gotta remember, other monks are being talked to

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Speaker 1: I asked co Fell to step out of the monk's house.

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Speaker 1: This is where me and Larry were sitting in there.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to him and we're going back and forth,

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Speaker 1: found on sister Michelle's body. So here's what we're gonna do. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I believe set him back on his keyster a little bit,

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Speaker 1: back to Sacred Scandal. Within twenty four hours of the

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Speaker 1: Police wasted no time. He gave an official statement and

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Speaker 1: That's the path Mihailo Kofel was now heading down. She's

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