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  Speaker 1: And then the next thing I see is I'm Sawa.
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  Speaker 1: You were going to dance.
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  Speaker 2: Hi everyone, I'm Kevin and this is just thought. Lounge
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  Speaker 2: Jtail is the true crime channel that delivers serious, well
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  Speaker 2: balanced coverage of the cases that really make you think.
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  Speaker 2: We're about to take a look at a case that
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  Speaker 2: played out in Maricopa County, Arizona, where a man in
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  Speaker 2: a seemingly loving relationship was found brutally murdered and the
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  Speaker 2: main suspect his beautiful partner. Hours of interviews in weeks
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  Speaker 2: of investigation would uncover a web of lies and reveal
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  Speaker 2: the secret life of a woman that would go to
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  Speaker 2: extreme lengths to get what she wants. If this sounds familiar,
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  Speaker 2: I should clarify this is not the case of Jodi Arius.
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  Speaker 2: Though only one year on, Marissa Doubois would find herself
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  Speaker 2: in the same courtroom on trial for her life. This
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  Speaker 2: is the disturbing case of Marissa Duvois in the murder
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  Speaker 2: of Dale Harrel. Let's take a look. Dale Harrell and
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  Speaker 2: Marissaduvois first met as teenagers at Lake Havasu High School
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  Speaker 2: in the nineteen nineties. Dale and Marissa were not an
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  Speaker 2: item when they attended high school together. Years later, though,
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  Speaker 2: when they were both in their early twenties, they reconnected
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  Speaker 2: after a chance meeting in Phoenix. Marissa was a single
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  Speaker 2: mother to a young daughter and paid the bills working
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  Speaker 2: as a stripper at a gentleman's club. Back then, she
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  Speaker 2: went by the name recy Cupp, a spin on her
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  Speaker 2: nickname Reese, which was given to her as a teenager.
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  Speaker 2: Dale was a graduate in refrigeration and was launching a
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  Speaker 2: promising career. Their relationship developed while the two lived together
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  Speaker 2: in Phoenix. After some time, Marissa gave up her job
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  Speaker 2: at the strip club and the two settled down. Later,
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  Speaker 2: they married and settled in Gilbert in Maricopa County. Together,
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  Speaker 2: they had two more children. At around two forty five
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  Speaker 2: am on January fourteenth, two thousand and nine, a frantic
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  Speaker 2: call came through to nine one one. A woman's voice
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  Speaker 2: on the other end of the line was hysterical and
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  Speaker 2: barely coherent. The operator was unable to get even basic
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  Speaker 2: information from the caller before the line disconnected from that end.
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  Speaker 2: The concerned operator called the number back and eventually reached
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  Speaker 2: Marissa de Wis. Dale had been attacked. She said he
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  Speaker 2: had been struck in the head and was in urgent
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  Speaker 2: need of medical assistance. Police were the first to respond
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  Speaker 2: to the house, where they found Marissa alongside a man
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  Speaker 2: they learned was the couple's roommate, Stanley Cook, awaiting their arrival.
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  Speaker 2: All three children were in the house, but in their bedrooms,
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  Speaker 2: the youngest two still fast asleep. In the master bedroom,
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  Speaker 2: Dale was found on the floor next to the bed,
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  Speaker 2: his head propped up slightly on the side of the nightstand.
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  Speaker 2: He was alive but struggling. As the fire department in
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  Speaker 2: paramedics rushed in, law enforcement rapidly took photos in an
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  Speaker 2: fat to preserve evidence of the crime that had taken place.
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  Speaker 2: A bloodstained hammer was sitting in plane view on the
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  Speaker 2: desk in front of the side wall. This instrument was
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  Speaker 2: almost certainly the weapon used to attack Dale. Harrell Dale
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  Speaker 2: was rushed to the hospital at the house. Marisa was
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  Speaker 2: placed in the back of one police car and stan
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  Speaker 2: was placed in another. An audio recorded interview with Marissa
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  Speaker 2: then took place at the hospital, where she was taken
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  Speaker 2: to check for injuries. Through tears, Marissa told detectives how
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  Speaker 2: she and Dale had been arguing that evening. Sometime around midnight,
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  Speaker 2: the two fought after Marisa declared that she wanted a divorce.
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  Speaker 2: She had spoken to an attorney the month prior and
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  Speaker 2: had the process underway.
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  Speaker 3: So he grabbed a hammer. He was angry, I'll kill.
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  Speaker 4: You or you.
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  Speaker 3: Or was it more right?
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  Speaker 1: Every day? Every week sometime.
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  Speaker 2: When the fight subsided, they slept for about two hours
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  Speaker 2: before Marissa awoke to find Dale over top of her,
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  Speaker 2: hand on her throat. She felt her life was at risk.
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  Speaker 2: It was standing overheard the commotion, entered the room, grabbed
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  Speaker 2: the hammer from where Dale had left it and came
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  Speaker 2: to her aid. The attack was the culmination of years
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  Speaker 2: of abuse. According to Marissa, Her boss, Alan Flores, could
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  Speaker 2: verify this. Alan had even purchased a gun for Marissa
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  Speaker 2: to keep for her own protection. This gun, a pistol,
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  Speaker 2: was found in the possession of Stan Cook when the
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  Speaker 2: police arrived at the house.
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  Speaker 5: When you said, when they handed him down, I found
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  Speaker 5: the twenty two pistol in his pocket.
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  Speaker 1: Does he carry that out the time or.
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  Speaker 4: Get that pistol or specifically to protect you?
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  Speaker 1: Did know what was what's your boss's name? And all that?
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  Speaker 2: The scene inside the master bedroom was analyzed to determine
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  Speaker 2: what the physical evidence could reveal about the attack. Aside
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  Speaker 2: from the area beside the bed, there were three spots
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  Speaker 2: where light spatter was visible on the wall above the
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  Speaker 2: bed itself, on a lamp shade next to the same
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  Speaker 2: side of the bed, and on the wall just above
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  Speaker 2: where the hammer had been found resting on the desk.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators deduced that Dale had been lying in bed on
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  Speaker 2: his left side, likely sleeping, when the attack occurred. One
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  Speaker 2: responding officer reported that he saw light red marks on
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  Speaker 2: Marissa's neck, though these are barely discernible in the photographs
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  Speaker 2: taken of her. When she reached the hospital, she told
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  Speaker 2: detectives that Dale had choked her and that she had
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  Speaker 2: in response bit at him, clawed and scratched. Curiously, thought investigators,
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  Speaker 2: her hands showed a flawless manicure and no visible injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Stan Cook confessed to the attack. He gave very few details,
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  Speaker 2: but verified what Marissa had recounted. The only problem was
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  Speaker 2: that Stan had suffered an injury to his brain in
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  Speaker 2: a motorcycle accident years prior that had left him with
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  Speaker 2: issues relating to short term memory loss. This meant that
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  Speaker 2: much of what he could recount to the police was
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  Speaker 2: somewhat questionable by his own admission. After conversing with Stan
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  Speaker 2: for several minutes at the house, detectives became very wary
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  Speaker 2: of taking him out at his word. Despite the full confession,
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  Speaker 2: investigators were not buying the story. The physical evidence, notably
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  Speaker 2: the blood spatter patterns above the bed and on the
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  Speaker 2: side lampshade, dictated that Dale was in bed alone on
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  Speaker 2: his side at the time of the attack, not on
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  Speaker 2: top of Marissa. She had been cleaned up prior to
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  Speaker 2: the photographs that were publicly released, but police said that
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  Speaker 2: she and her clothing did not indicate that she was
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  Speaker 2: underneath Dale when the attack occurred. In fact, the stains
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  Speaker 2: on her clothing were consistent with someone who had been
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  Speaker 2: above the victim swinging an object repeatedly. Roughly twelve hours
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  Speaker 2: after the first nine to one to one call was placed,
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  Speaker 2: Marissa was brought in for a second interview, this time
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  Speaker 2: at the Gilbert Police Department. Risa's calm and at times
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  Speaker 2: even joyful demeanor throughout her discussion with the detectives also
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  Speaker 2: raised red flags. Not only was her story inconsistent with
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  Speaker 2: the physical evidence, but by her own account, she had
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  Speaker 2: been in a life or death struggle only hours before,
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  Speaker 2: and witnessed to a brutal attack on her husband that
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  Speaker 2: had left him in critical care. At the onset, the
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  Speaker 2: tone of the discussion was relaxed. Marissa recalled the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of her relationship with Dale, the fun dynamic the couple
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  Speaker 2: shared with the roommates Stan, and the nature of the
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  Speaker 2: life they had built together, and so.
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  Speaker 1: About Dale's similar in that you make fun of it.
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  Speaker 1: So them.
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  Speaker 2: Over several hours, however, the tone shifted. Marissa suggested that
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  Speaker 2: Dale was unhappy with their financial situation and instigated fights
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  Speaker 2: over money. He always wanted more, she said slowly. The
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  Speaker 2: happy narrative that Marissa had been providing gave way to
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  Speaker 2: accusations of physical and emotional abuse, a marriage that appeared
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  Speaker 2: happy but was in fact, for Marissa a living nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: Kay, but let's let's talk about it. Let's go with you.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned something a little bit, but you about the
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  Speaker 1: accompany that he's looking forward. He's working towards become a partner.
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  Speaker 1: And that's stressful, I mean, which is now he's having
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  Speaker 1: to prove while he wants a partnership. Yet he's been
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  Speaker 1: out going in to define airport. But of course he
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  Speaker 1: has improved that he's gonna.
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  Speaker 5: Be defining for so he's working so much over times,
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  Speaker 5: putting arounds or powers.
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  Speaker 1: He's having to stepping up and I feel like a
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  Speaker 1: cruise ship leader. And and even though that's something he's
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  Speaker 1: too that it's a lot more than what he's used
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  Speaker 1: to and he saw it all the time a lot.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel about that?
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Look to say that, it just gets me. That means
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  Speaker 1: going in the school and Unapolis starts.
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  Speaker 5: So the more he's away from the house, the better
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  Speaker 5: that it's good, cause you net fighting in that area.
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  Speaker 1: And then he sends to the kids from the place
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  Speaker 1: of them that students stuff, last papils and place you
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  Speaker 1: know about what he did cause she said guy time
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  Speaker 1: with Maurissa it has been recently, but it seems to
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  Speaker 1: be recently after I had episode, So I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it's doing to call out a time or ice
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  Speaker 1: cream up and trains okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: By this time, investigators at the scene had determined that
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  Speaker 2: Marissa's initial assertions must be false. They did not believe
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  Speaker 2: that stan Cook was responsible. The interviewer began to lead
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  Speaker 2: Marissa through the sequence of events in details of that night,
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  Speaker 2: seeking to align her account with the evidence at the
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  Speaker 2: scene or catch her in a contradiction. Eventually, Marissa confessed
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  Speaker 2: to bludgeoning her husband with hammer, but only after she
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  Speaker 2: said he had assaulted her earlier that night. After exiting
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  Speaker 2: the bathroom sometime around two thirty am, she retrieved the
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  Speaker 2: hammer from where it had been left after recently hanging
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  Speaker 2: pictures on the bedroom wall. Through incoherent sobs, she explained
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  Speaker 2: how she held the weapon, pushed her husband from the
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  Speaker 2: bed afterwards so she could not see what she had done,
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  Speaker 2: and then she had the hammer taken away from her
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  Speaker 2: by Stan, who rushed into the bedroom and came upon
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  Speaker 2: the scene only moments later.
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  Speaker 1: And don't know what it started, like me about it
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  Speaker 1: and put it over. He came out of the room
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  Speaker 1: inside the hammer sitting there and grabbed it and walked
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  Speaker 1: over and him for every time. Then he abused you
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  Speaker 1: did what he did? You hurt you? And then he
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  Speaker 1: went and kid stand and stand. He didn't okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: what did you yell before? Because she said he yelled someone.
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  Speaker 2: Ursa was charged with attempted homicide and immediately placed into custody.
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  Speaker 2: Her claim of self defense was based upon the premise
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  Speaker 2: that she had been a victim of her husband's for
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  Speaker 2: eight years. She felt that she had no choice.
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  Speaker 5: About if we submiss under the count during her self
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  Speaker 5: defense and they realize he doesn't mention the story. So
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  Speaker 5: given everything intactet origeas the old situation, as what you
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  Speaker 5: said in.
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  Speaker 1: That be honest with you, we have a tode.
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  Speaker 2: While Dale hung onto life despite very steep odds, Marissa
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  Speaker 2: was released after her bill was posted by the man
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  Speaker 2: that she called her boss, a wealthy management consultant who
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  Speaker 2: had done well for himself analyzing big data from big corporations.
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  Speaker 2: His name was doctor Alan Flores. The nature of their
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  Speaker 2: relationship would later come under intense scrutiny when investigators learned
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  Speaker 2: that Marissa had become indebted to her boss for an
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  Speaker 2: exceptionally large sum of money. Small amounts issued to Marissa
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  Speaker 2: for various purposes over the course of two years totaled
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  Speaker 2: a debt of over three hundred thousand dollars, an amount
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  Speaker 2: that she had agreed in writing to repay him. Detectives
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  Speaker 2: learned that more recently, Alan had begun to pressure her
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  Speaker 2: to hold up her end of the agreement, but Marissa
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  Speaker 2: did not have the means to come up with enough
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  Speaker 2: money to pay off that large of a loan. Roughly
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  Speaker 2: three weeks after her release on bond, Marissa was found
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  Speaker 2: alone in a field, eaten by a surprise attacker, and
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  Speaker 2: left with a broken jaw and ankle. In the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the night. Police found her about eight to ten
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  Speaker 2: feet from the road in a damp and muddy blue
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  Speaker 2: sweatsuit after she called nine one one. A set of
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  Speaker 2: tire tracks led from the roadside near to where they
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  Speaker 2: found her. Marisa said she was heading toward her home
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  Speaker 2: when someone jumped her from behind. She had been at
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  Speaker 2: home watching movies with Stan earlier in the evening when
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  Speaker 2: she decided that she wanted to go out for a jog.
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  Speaker 2: After some time, Stan became concerned about her extended absence
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  Speaker 2: and began calling her cellphone repeatedly, but he received no answer.
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  Speaker 2: It was three a m. When Marissa was found and
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  Speaker 2: emergency services brought her to the hospital to attend to
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  Speaker 2: her many injuries. She appeared to have been hit repeatedly
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  Speaker 2: with a heavy object in the same twenty four hour period.
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  Speaker 2: Dale Harrel succumbed to his injuries in hospital. He was
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  Speaker 2: thirty four years old. Investigators were initially confounded by the
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  Speaker 2: attack on Marissa, but a picture of what deceit may
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  Speaker 2: be at work began to emerge after discussions with a
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  Speaker 2: familiar source, the roommate Stan Cook. There had been no
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  Speaker 2: evidence supporting his confession to Dale Harrel's murder. There were, however,
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  Speaker 2: some indications that he was behind the later attack on Marissa.
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  Speaker 2: A detective questioning Stan noticed mud on his jacket and
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  Speaker 2: blood on his pants. The roommate said that the mud
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  Speaker 2: came from his suv and that the blood was from
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  Speaker 2: his fingers where he had bitten his fingernails. His clothing
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  Speaker 2: was seized as evidence, and another plot began to unravel.
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  Speaker 2: Seeking to make a claim on her own life insurance,
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  Speaker 2: Marissa had reportedly attempted to convince Stan to paralyze her
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  Speaker 2: by shooting her in the spine. When he refused, it
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  Speaker 2: was agreed that he would instead attack her with a
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  Speaker 2: sledgehammer and dumper on the side of the road. The
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  Speaker 2: extremes that Marissa was willing to go to in order
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  Speaker 2: to claim insurance funds likely to repay the debt she
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  Speaker 2: owed to Alan Flores, seemed to provide a clear motive
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  Speaker 2: for the murder of her husband. Two life insurance policies,
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  Speaker 2: one taken out by Marissa on Dale for seven hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty thousand dollars only two weeks prior to the attack,
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  Speaker 2: along with the second, longer standing policy, totaled one point
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  Speaker 2: two five million dollars, which Marissa was set to receive unless,
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  Speaker 2: of course, she was convicted of the charge that had
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  Speaker 2: now been upgraded to first degree murder. Marissa faced the
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  Speaker 2: death penalty if convicted of killing her husband. Attempts to
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  Speaker 2: reach a plea deal and avoid a trial over the
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  Speaker 2: next few years failed. These delays meant that jury's selection
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  Speaker 2: did not commence until January twenty fourteen. The trial took
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  Speaker 2: place in the Maricopa County Courthouse in Phoenix, roughly one
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  Speaker 2: year after the same courtroom saw the trial of the
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  Speaker 2: remarkably similar and well publicized case of Jodi Arius. The
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  Speaker 2: media attention surrounding Marissa Deuois, however, was tempered comparatively. The
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  Speaker 2: judge wanted to avoid a media circus. There was a
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  Speaker 2: little mention made of Marissa's past as a stripper, and
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  Speaker 2: any potential juror that was deemed a Jody Arius fanatic
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  Speaker 2: was struck from jury service. When opening arguments began, Marissa's
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  Speaker 2: defense argued that she suffered from both battered woman syndrome
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  Speaker 2: and post traumatic stress disorder.
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  Speaker 6: Dan had a gun on him, he had a gun
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  Speaker 6: hand him, and there were other guns in the house.
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  Speaker 6: Why would she take a hammer and hip him over
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  Speaker 6: the head if there were guns now and she's planning.
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  Speaker 2: She did not want to hurt her husband, but she
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  Speaker 2: had no choice after falling victim to him for nearly
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  Speaker 2: a decade. Her actions at the time were self defense
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  Speaker 2: that went too far. Investigators had been unable to substantiate
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  Speaker 2: any of her claims. However, they lacked hospital records for
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  Speaker 2: injuries she said that she had sustained there were no
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  Speaker 2: reports made to police relating to incidents that she said
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  Speaker 2: had occurred. Prosecutors would also parade a long line of
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  Speaker 2: friends and family members to the witness stand who insisted
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  Speaker 2: Dale Harrell was not the man that his wife was
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  Speaker 2: making him out to be.
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  Speaker 7: Christ was a woman who likes money, but more than that,
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  Speaker 7: she likes easy right.
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  Speaker 1: In February two.
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  Speaker 7: Thousand and seven, to defend the man by the name
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  Speaker 7: of Alan Flores. Now, Ali Flores is a man who's
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  Speaker 7: about twenty years that he pretty much immediately became an
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  Speaker 7: award that defended.
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  Speaker 8: And as they throughout this trial.
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  Speaker 1: She was often blinded by her beauty.
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  Speaker 2: The key witness for the prosecution was the man that
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  Speaker 2: Marissa claimed to have worked for over two years leading
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  Speaker 2: up to Dale's death, and to whom she owed hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of thoms thousands of dollars. Alan Flores had been introduced
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  Speaker 2: by Marissa to the Harrold family and other friends as
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  Speaker 2: the ex romantic partner of her deceased stepfather. Questions about
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  Speaker 2: her relationship with this man, however, later emerged when it
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  Speaker 2: was apparent that Marissa's stepfather was neither gay nor dead.
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  Speaker 2: Although Marissa claimed that she worked for Alan as a
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  Speaker 2: secretary in a real estate business, this proved to be
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  Speaker 2: simply a front for a very different type of arrangement.
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  Speaker 2: Alan and Marissa, whom he knew by her nickname Reese,
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  Speaker 2: had met via a website called Seeking Arrangements dot com,
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  Speaker 2: a site that is understood to connect attractive younger women
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  Speaker 2: with older, well off men to establish a mutually beneficial relationship.
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  Speaker 1: Typically the women to go on but saying that there's
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  Speaker 1: five scial assistance of some seward and typically the men
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  Speaker 1: as far as the age would offer them contribution. You
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  Speaker 1: were their sciences.
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  Speaker 8: When you saw her profile on the seeking arrangements? Was
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  Speaker 8: there some sort of financial requirement from her?
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  Speaker 1: And not once? Was it s But if the information
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  Speaker 1: like that you had a financial exists.
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  Speaker 2: Over the two year period of their relationship, Alan had
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  Speaker 2: paid Marissa's bills, given her money for gambling, and generally
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  Speaker 2: supported any financial need real or imagined that Marissa had required.
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  Speaker 8: And you said that you're not a sucker when it
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  Speaker 8: comes to business, would you consider yourself a sucker in
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  Speaker 8: other areas?
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  Speaker 1: I do not have cop in law.
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  Speaker 8: You consider yourself having been suckered by the defender? Yes,
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  Speaker 8: you were sucking out of your money. Now from that
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  Speaker 8: I guess from that first meeting, did you offer it
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  Speaker 8: all to give her money?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I be part of the contact which we had met.
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  Speaker 3: I asked him if she wanted to discuss an arrangement
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  Speaker 3: and what was her response?
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  Speaker 1: She said no, she didn't want that to be the
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  Speaker 1: asiest of all relationship.
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  Speaker 5: And her friends are out and handed her up to
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  Speaker 5: putting the profile on the website.
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  Speaker 1: And she felt the connection with me as well and
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  Speaker 1: didn't want your arrangement. Did see your own relationship can.
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  Speaker 8: Since I don't know the dynamics of your relationship or
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  Speaker 8: how you were feeling. If she had just asked and said,
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  Speaker 8: you know, hey, look, did I need help paying my bills.
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  Speaker 8: I'll see you as much as you want if you're
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  Speaker 8: paying my bills, would you have done it? Yeah, so
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  Speaker 8: I wouldn't have been an issue for him.
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  Speaker 2: Alan knew about Dale and had even visited the family
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  Speaker 2: home on more than one occasion, but he was led
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  Speaker 2: to believe that he and Marissa were divorced. Dale lived
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  Speaker 2: at the house out of the goodness of her heart
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  Speaker 2: after falling on hard times, she told Alan, but she
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  Speaker 2: claimed did not support her or the children financially. She
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  Speaker 2: had signed multiple promissory notes to repay the balance on
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  Speaker 2: the loans that he had given her. She claimed this
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  Speaker 2: would be possible once her multimillion dollar inheritance was released
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  Speaker 2: from the estate of her late stepfather, but yet again,
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  Speaker 2: her stepfather was not dead. The most damning portion of
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  Speaker 2: Allan's testimony came when he admitted to giving Marissa seven
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars for the intended purpose of hiring a hitman
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  Speaker 2: to kill Dale. One man that she reached out to
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  Speaker 2: for this purpose was not taking her up on the offer. However,
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  Speaker 2: a former boyfriend and bouncer at the strip club where
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  Speaker 2: Marissa previously worked, Travis Tetro, testified that she had asked
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  Speaker 2: him to take care of her husband. Travis was taken
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  Speaker 2: aback by the request, and not only because of its
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  Speaker 2: vague and ominous implications, but because she had previously told
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  Speaker 2: Travis that her husband was already dead. She had claimed
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  Speaker 2: to him that Dale had passed away years earlier from
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: stomach cancer. After the realization that she had been lying,
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  Speaker 2: he testified that he cut off all ties with Marissa.
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  Speaker 2: Marisa's eldest daughter, Rihanna, was eighteen years old by the
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: time of her mother's trial. Unlike those that testified outside
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  Speaker 2: of the immediate family, Rihanna supported the claims of abuse
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  Speaker 2: that were being asserted by the defense. She told the
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  Speaker 2: jury that both of her parents could behave in this way,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: but that her father was mostly at fault. This testimony
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  Speaker 2: cast doubt on the state's black and white depiction of
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  Speaker 2: Marissa's motivation. Was it possible that in this instance, Marissa
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  Speaker 2: was being truthful? The jury deliberated six full days. During
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  Speaker 2: this time, the prosecution and Dale Harrell's family became concerned
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  Speaker 2: that the jury was either considering an acquittal or weighing
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  Speaker 2: the possibility of a lesser charge, but this would not
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  Speaker 2: be the case. The verdict was returned. Marissa Devois was
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  Speaker 2: found guilty of first degree murder. She pled for her
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  Speaker 2: life during the sentencing portion of the trial.
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  Speaker 1: Children will have to carry this for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the You have to carry your tool image. Truly heartbroken.
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  Speaker 3: This trial, everything that's come out about it, that others
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  Speaker 3: have to wrestle with figuring.
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  Speaker 1: Out who were Sorry, Sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Sidney, We're going to break for launch.
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  Speaker 2: All three of Marissa's children read letters to the jury
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  Speaker 2: on behalf of their mother. Each of them acknowledged the
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  Speaker 2: brutality of their mother's actions, as well as the terrible
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  Speaker 2: loss of their father. They also asked that they not
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  Speaker 2: lose the one parent that they had left. These pleas
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  Speaker 2: were heard by the jury. Won Jer later reported that
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  Speaker 2: if it had not been for her children, they would
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  Speaker 2: have voted to place Marissa on death row. It was
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  Speaker 2: left to the trial judge to determine if the mandatory
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  Speaker 2: life sentence handed down would allow for the possibility of
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  Speaker 2: parole after twenty five years. He decided that this would
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  Speaker 2: not be an option aniplative.
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  Speaker 8: She will continue to be an impolative circumstances of his
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  Speaker 8: crime for soul, forific.
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  Speaker 3: And in my view, were.
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  Speaker 8: Done out of nothing more than breed. Accordingly to court,
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  Speaker 8: has been a sponsor to life without the possibility of parole.
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  Speaker 2: The first appeal of her conviction was to Marissa in
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: an opinion published by the Arizona Court of Appeals in
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. She is serving her life sentence in Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: And that was the story of the brutal killing of
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  Speaker 2: Dale Harrell and the case against Marissa de Vois. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for watching. I'm Kevin. This is just thot lounge and
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  Speaker 2: I'll see in the next one.