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  Speaker 1: I'm Chris Hansen right now on Crimewatch. Haley from here
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  Speaker 1: in New York City.
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  Speaker 2: A beautiful bluesinger.
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  Speaker 3: She could belt, she had power in her voice.
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  Speaker 1: Mysteriously murdered in her home, her killer leaving bizarre clues
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  Speaker 1: at the crime scene.
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  Speaker 4: She was killed in very violent manner, which had been
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  Speaker 4: tied up with Christmas lights.
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  Speaker 5: Whoever killed her knew her?
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  Speaker 2: She knew The only witness her beloved dog Ruby.
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  Speaker 5: If only Ruby could talk.
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  Speaker 2: I know today a break in this? Who done it?
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  Speaker 6: The bect her to stop talking to him.
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  Speaker 1: Anna Garcia hunts down the newly named person of interest.
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  Speaker 7: We've been told by her family and friends that you
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  Speaker 7: were abusive.
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  Speaker 1: Then she dreamed of being a fashion designer until she
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  Speaker 1: was found dead in the mud. Her car is still idling,
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  Speaker 1: her cell phone still pinging.
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  Speaker 8: It seems pretty random.
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  Speaker 1: Surveillance cameras capture her her final hours a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Could this be a deadly loved triangle?
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  Speaker 9: There was a dark figure in her passenger side.
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  Speaker 6: Right now, let's go.
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  Speaker 10: Jason Mottower with Crimewatch Daily, I'm miss.
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  Speaker 9: Also going to from Crimewatch Dailey.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, let's bit smart from Crimewatch Daily.
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  Speaker 7: It's Ana Garcia from Crime Watch Daily.
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  Speaker 5: You got anything to say?
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  Speaker 2: He is Crime Watch Daily.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know if she's thirteen. You're running away now.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Chris Hansen today on Crime Watch Daily. Two young women,
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  Speaker 1: two murders, two killers still on the loose. Let's first
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  Speaker 1: head to Michigan, where stunning singer Egypt Covington was preparing
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  Speaker 1: for a big news step in her life when tragedy
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  Speaker 1: would strike. Ana Garcia is here now with our top story,
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  Speaker 1: Justice for Egypt, Chris.
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  Speaker 4: It's in this Michigan neighborhood where a man goes to
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  Speaker 4: check on his girlfriend because she's been off the grid
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  Speaker 4: all day. What he would find would shock friends and
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  Speaker 4: family and baffle police.
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  Speaker 11: When Covington walked into a room, people noticed she was
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  Speaker 11: so beautiful. Men flocked around her, and when she'd sing Ye,
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  Speaker 11: people listened.
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  Speaker 3: She had a voice that could roll out there, She
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  Speaker 3: could belt, She had power in her voice.
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  Speaker 4: Although blues was her favorite, Egypt could sing anything.
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  Speaker 6: She went country idol here in Michigan.
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  Speaker 4: Off stage, her career was also hitting a high note.
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  Speaker 12: She had finally found a job that she really liked.
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  Speaker 12: She was working for a beverage distribution company and she
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  Speaker 12: knew that she had a future there.
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  Speaker 4: She was also passionate about Curtis Meadows.
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  Speaker 6: She loved Curtis.
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  Speaker 4: The two met nearly a decade ago, and the attraction
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  Speaker 4: was immediate.
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  Speaker 13: Since she met him and knew him, he had a.
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  Speaker 5: Crush on her.
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  Speaker 14: Yes, Stefine Mo Stefin.
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  Speaker 4: But in the beginning, there's schedules made dating difficult.
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  Speaker 14: She was a bartender. I have a daughter.
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  Speaker 10: That was more of what you say at nine to
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  Speaker 10: five and I'm going to work, she's coming home from work.
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  Speaker 4: For years, they were on and off, out of sight,
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  Speaker 4: but never out of mind.
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  Speaker 14: I thought about her constantly.
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  Speaker 10: Every scenario and situation I was in my life, I
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  Speaker 10: thought how much better it would be if she was there.
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  Speaker 13: Even when they were broken up, she loved Curtis. She
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  Speaker 13: always wanted to be with Curtis.
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  Speaker 4: And after almost ten years, Curtis was finally ready to commit.
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  Speaker 15: I think Curtis finally got to a point where he said,
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  Speaker 15: I can't let you go.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I'm in love with you.
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  Speaker 5: What had changed.
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  Speaker 14: We were on the same schedule.
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  Speaker 10: We could have a dinner and the eight pm together,
• 3:47
  Speaker 10: which she would say, a normal relationship.
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  Speaker 14: So it was great.
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  Speaker 4: It was perfect, so perfect, the two decided to take
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  Speaker 4: the next step.
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  Speaker 14: I was moving in in July.
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  Speaker 4: My lease was up, Lindsey Briley says Egypt was excited
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  Speaker 4: about the move. In fact, it was the last thing
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  Speaker 4: the two talked about the night her best friend was
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  Speaker 4: violently murdered.
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  Speaker 5: What is the last thing you said to her?
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  Speaker 13: That I was too tired to come over and she
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  Speaker 13: should try to come over my house.
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  Speaker 5: And she said that she had to go clean and
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  Speaker 5: get ready for Curtis to move in.
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  Speaker 4: A text to Curtis a couple of hours later, is
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  Speaker 4: the last time he'd ever hear from the love.
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  Speaker 5: Of his life.
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  Speaker 14: I lay down.
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  Speaker 10: It was a little after ten o'clock and I told
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  Speaker 10: her good night, and I loved her, and she said
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  Speaker 10: ninety night.
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  Speaker 4: The next day, his usual good morning text got no reply.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, usually she's pretty quick within responding, you know, within
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  Speaker 10: five minutes, ten minutes, So I sent her another one.
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  Speaker 4: Throughout the day, his texts and phone call strangely went unanswered.
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  Speaker 4: So after a late Father's Day dinner with his daughter,
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  Speaker 4: Curtis headed over to Egypt's house.
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  Speaker 10: Tried calling her one last time on the way to
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  Speaker 10: her house, and no answer.
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  Speaker 4: When he turned onto her street.
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  Speaker 10: Seen her car in the driveway, and my stomach just
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  Speaker 10: sank just.
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  Speaker 14: He something was right.
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  Speaker 10: I knew the ideal of her fricketting her phone was
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  Speaker 10: no longer there.
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  Speaker 4: Egypt lived in a duplex with her little dog Ruby.
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  Speaker 4: When Curtis walked up, he noticed the door was open.
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  Speaker 10: I took a step in two steps, and I yelled
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  Speaker 10: her name, Egypt and her dog Ruby bart.
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  Speaker 4: Ruby comes running into the kitchen, and Curtis immediately notices
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  Speaker 4: something is off.
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  Speaker 10: Usually when you see Ruby, she just can't wait to
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  Speaker 10: like chump in your lap and kiss you. But she
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  Speaker 10: just looked at me, made eye contact and turned around,
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  Speaker 10: like follow me.
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  Speaker 4: What Curtis saw when he followed Ruby will haunt him
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  Speaker 4: for the rest of his life.
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  Speaker 10: And I've seen her feet and then I took one
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  Speaker 10: more and I've seen her.
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  Speaker 14: She was bound.
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  Speaker 10: With her heads behind her back in a feetal position,
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  Speaker 10: laying on the ground.
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  Speaker 14: Like covering her head in a.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 14: You just know she's.
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  Speaker 4: Gone horrified at the sight, Curtis runs outside to call
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  Speaker 4: nine one one.
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  Speaker 10: I don't remember any of that call. I don't remember
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  Speaker 10: anything thereafter. It was just like I clinked.
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  Speaker 4: Egypt Covington had been shot one time in the back
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  Speaker 4: of the head. Her depraved killer didn't stop there. Her
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  Speaker 4: sister said that she had been tied up with Christmas lights.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, was she tied to the front of.
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  Speaker 6: The back back.
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  Speaker 10: She was laying with her left side up, her face down,
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  Speaker 10: kind of like in a fetal position, with her hands
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  Speaker 10: bound behind her back.
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  Speaker 4: There was no sign of forced entry or of a robbery.
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  Speaker 4: Ruby is believed to be the only witness to the killing.
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  Speaker 15: Poor Ruby was there by herself with her the entire time.
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  Speaker 5: If only Ruby could talk.
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  Speaker 6: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 15: I called around to experts to find out if she
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  Speaker 15: ran into the person that did it, would they react differently,
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  Speaker 15: and they said she could. She could shy back from them,
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  Speaker 15: but it's not a proven style.
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  Speaker 4: Had Egypt's neighbors across the hall and her duplex been
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  Speaker 4: home that night, her family says they surely would have
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  Speaker 4: heard the gunshot. They believe it's no coincidence they were
• 7:53
  Speaker 4: out of town.
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  Speaker 16: The person who did this new her schedule, knew her
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  Speaker 16: neighbor's schedule.
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  Speaker 12: And they knew that her neighbors were out of town.
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  Speaker 12: Because everybody knew that her neighbors went to this festival.
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  Speaker 4: From day one, cops have said Egypt likely knew her killer.
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  Speaker 4: Her father Chuck agrees.
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  Speaker 5: Do you believe that she was killed by someone she knew?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: And if she knew her killer, then perhaps so do you?
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  Speaker 5: Probably who would want to kill your sister?
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  Speaker 6: That's what I'd like to know. That's really what I'd
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  Speaker 6: like to know.
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  Speaker 4: Initially, cops had one person in mind. Generally, when someone
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  Speaker 4: is found murdered, the police always look at the significant other.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, which would be you in this case?
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  Speaker 4: Up next, interrogated for the murder of his girlfriend.
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  Speaker 14: And I was strapped down taking a light attacker test.
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  Speaker 4: Plus troubling signs in the weeks leading up to Egypt's
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  Speaker 4: killing very terrifying.
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  Speaker 6: I was scared for her her.
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  Speaker 1: We return now to today's story, Justice for Egypt once again.
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  Speaker 1: Here is Ana Garcia in Michigan.
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  Speaker 5: Chris Bluesinger.
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  Speaker 4: Egypt Covington has been shot and killed in her own home.
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  Speaker 4: As police try to track down the gunman, her family
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  Speaker 4: would reveal troubling details about her life in the months
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  Speaker 4: leading up to the murder. At twenty seven years old,
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  Speaker 4: Egypt Covington's life was taking off.
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  Speaker 12: She had finally found a job that she really liked.
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  Speaker 12: She had just bought a new card. She had started
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  Speaker 12: dating a new boyfriend.
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  Speaker 4: And not just any boyfriend.
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  Speaker 5: She was in love with him.
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  Speaker 6: She was in love with him.
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  Speaker 4: Egypt and Curtis Meadows had dated on and off for years,
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  Speaker 4: but now both were ready to take the next step.
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  Speaker 16: She and Curtis were going to move in together, and
• 9:51
  Speaker 16: she was very excited about that.
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  Speaker 4: Just days before he was supposed to move in, Curtis
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  Speaker 4: Meadows found his girlfriend shot to death inside her home
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  Speaker 4: in Van Buren Township, Michigan.
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  Speaker 14: I was a wastate of my life, the beginning of it.
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  Speaker 4: The beautiful Blues singer had been bound with Christmas lights,
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  Speaker 4: a chilling detail Curtis didn't think he'd ever share.
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  Speaker 10: I didn't want people to have that image in their
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  Speaker 10: head and having, you know, affect them the way it
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  Speaker 10: did me.
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  Speaker 4: Police say there was no sign of forced entry and
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  Speaker 4: no sign of robbery. They believe Egypt knew her killer,
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  Speaker 4: and probably very well. The cops are pretty clear that
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't a robbery. Whoever killed her knew her, No,
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  Speaker 4: she knew naturally. The first person questioned by cops her boyfriend, Curtis.
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  Speaker 5: The police say they grilled you.
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  Speaker 10: I was strapped down taking a light attacked or test.
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  Speaker 10: Three days later I think of finding her.
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  Speaker 14: It has been hell.
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  Speaker 10: You know, the only thing I'm guilty of is loving her.
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  Speaker 4: Cops quickly determined Curtis had no involvement in Egypt's murder.
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  Speaker 4: Did you even for a moment consider the possibility that
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: Curtis may have been involved? No? But then who wanted
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  Speaker 4: Egypt Covington dead? Who had a motive and enough rage
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  Speaker 4: to murder the beautiful twenty seven year old?
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  Speaker 5: Does that?
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  Speaker 13: I mean, anybody that knew her and knew the situation
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  Speaker 13: that found out that she got murdered had one thought
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  Speaker 13: in her.
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  Speaker 4: That thought pointed to who, and it was kept tightly
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: under wraps until now.
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  Speaker 6: That makes me sick to my stomach.
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  Speaker 4: Just as Crime Watch Daily starts to investigate Egypt's killing,
• 11:53
  Speaker 4: police for the first time name a person of interest.
• 11:57
  Speaker 4: The name comes as no surprise to the most of
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  Speaker 4: Egypt's family and friends.
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  Speaker 6: I begged her to stop talking to him.
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  Speaker 4: During Curtis in Egypt's time apart. Beth Covington says the
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: only person her sister ever dated was Kenny mitchellac At
• 12:13
  Speaker 4: times she claims the relationship was volatile.
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  Speaker 17: He was so crazy and would look through her phone
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  Speaker 17: and would blow up her friends, like if she didn't
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  Speaker 17: answer where she at where she at? I found out
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  Speaker 17: about how many of her friends he slept with to
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  Speaker 17: be little heard to make her feel worthless.
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  Speaker 4: But Beth says she had no idea just how strained
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  Speaker 4: the relationship had become until their last family vacation on
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  Speaker 4: board a private yacht in the Caribbean.
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  Speaker 17: She just started spooing, like everything that has occurred over
• 12:54
  Speaker 17: the years, What did she say? Onm I heard about
• 12:57
  Speaker 17: times where he would get mad and punch the wall
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  Speaker 17: next to her head.
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  Speaker 6: He really liked to shove her a lot. From what
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  Speaker 6: she told me.
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  Speaker 17: At a wedding that she attended, he threw her up
• 13:07
  Speaker 17: against a wall.
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  Speaker 4: Egypt didn't confide in many people about the alleged abuse,
• 13:13
  Speaker 4: but she did tell Curtis what happened at the wedding.
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  Speaker 10: After the wedding, I guess back at the hotel, there
• 13:19
  Speaker 10: was a get together and he got physical with her.
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  Speaker 10: What she'd explained, it was more or less grabbing her,
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  Speaker 10: pushing her up against the wall, you know, and kind
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  Speaker 10: of restraining her things.
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  Speaker 4: According to Curtis, the cops were called, but no charges
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: were filed.
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  Speaker 10: From what she said, the wedding party, in their way,
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  Speaker 10: kind of made her feel guilty of like ruining the celebration.
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: Looking back on it, you wish that she had filed charges. Now.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know if it would have changed the outcome
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  Speaker 10: or anything, but maybe that would have got more people
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  Speaker 10: like her parents aware of the situation.
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  Speaker 5: Did Egypt ever share any problems as far as physical
• 14:01
  Speaker 5: violence or.
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  Speaker 16: She didn't mention to me about any physical violence. She
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  Speaker 16: did speak of arguments verbal abuse.
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  Speaker 4: Chuck Covington says his daughter certainly never told him about
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  Speaker 4: any of the alleged abuse, and he believes he knows why.
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  Speaker 3: She might not have wanted him to get into more
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  Speaker 3: trouble than he would sharing. It would have brought reaction,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe she didn't want the reaction.
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  Speaker 5: Are you upset that no one told you what was
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  Speaker 5: going on?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've never really thought about. It's what happened, it's
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  Speaker 3: how it worked.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and you could have helped.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 4: With no police reports ever filed, crime Watch Daily cannot
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  Speaker 4: verify the allegations of abuse made by her family and friends.
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  Speaker 4: We do know that Egypt eventually ended the relationship and
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  Speaker 4: the two remained friends.
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  Speaker 13: It took a long time for her to actually make
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  Speaker 13: him understand that they were broken up, and I think
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  Speaker 13: that maybe she could have been more stern when.
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: Egypt told Kenny she was back with Curtis. Her sister
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  Speaker 4: claims he didn't.
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  Speaker 6: Take it well all call her was really upset.
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  Speaker 4: The month before her murder, Curtis claims Kenny showed up
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  Speaker 4: at his house early one Sunday morning. He says, as usual,
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  Speaker 4: Egypt had spent the night.
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  Speaker 10: I was on the third story, and she parked right
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  Speaker 10: in the parking lot, which is just right outside my window.
• 15:37
  Speaker 10: I'd looked at her car, and I noticed his truck
• 15:39
  Speaker 10: parked right behind it, and he was snooping around her vehicle,
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  Speaker 10: looking in the windows, and just kind of went around
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  Speaker 10: at one circle and then got in his truck and
• 15:50
  Speaker 10: took off.
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  Speaker 5: That's crazy, very crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Curtis claims Egypt confronted Kenny about it, and he told
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: her that he was in the area for work when
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: he noticed her sun roof open in the rain.
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  Speaker 5: What did your gut tell you was going on?
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  Speaker 10: I thought possibly that he had some kind of tracker.
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  Speaker 4: Kristen Covington claims her stepdaughter was starting to wonder the
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: same thing.
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  Speaker 16: She did, mention that he was always when she would
• 16:18
  Speaker 16: go somewhere, that he would be there in the background.
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  Speaker 4: The last time anyone saw Egypt and Kenny together was
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: at the Belleville Strawberry Festival.
• 16:27
  Speaker 14: I let her know.
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  Speaker 10: I was like, hey, listen, you know, Kenny's here with
• 16:30
  Speaker 10: so and so. And she's like, oh really where I'm like, well,
• 16:32
  Speaker 10: he's by where you get your drinks.
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  Speaker 4: Curtis claims the encounter was explosive.
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  Speaker 10: Out of corner my eye, I can see her coming,
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  Speaker 10: storming up to our table. He was right on her heels,
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  Speaker 10: like following her.
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  Speaker 4: Curtis claims Kenny was enraged.
• 16:48
  Speaker 10: She said he found out that you were moving.
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  Speaker 5: In, and he was upset about it.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, I guess, you know, he h. I don't know.
• 16:58
  Speaker 14: Maybe he felt like all hope is gone.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: Did you get a sense from her that she was
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: worried or really upset by him?
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  Speaker 10: No, no, no, I never got the feeling that she
• 17:15
  Speaker 10: was threatened by him.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: But Egypt's stepmom claims she was in fact scared to
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: tell Kenny that Curtis was moving in.
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  Speaker 6: She was fearful.
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  Speaker 16: I said, do you think that this could be concerning?
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  Speaker 16: And she said, Mom, he's like a lost puppy. You know,
• 17:31
  Speaker 16: I feel bad. And I said, well, we can't always
• 17:33
  Speaker 16: say all lost puppies.
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  Speaker 4: Egypt may not have been worried, but her sister Beth was.
• 17:39
  Speaker 17: It's very terrifying, like I was scared for her. Like
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  Speaker 17: I really kept begging her, please stop talking to him.
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  Speaker 6: She was like, I promise to see it. I'll stop
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  Speaker 6: talking to him.
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  Speaker 4: As far as anyone knows, the last time Egypt and
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Kenny talked was at the Strawberry Festival. One week later,
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: she was found shot to death. Up next, Kenny mitchellac
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: now officially a person of interest. Will he respond to
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: the allegations against him.
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  Speaker 7: We've been told by her family and friends that you
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: were abusive towards her.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: And a surprising show of support for Egypt's ex he.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: Was not abusive to her. I don't care what anybody says.
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  Speaker 2: Now back to our murder mystery.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: In Michigan, Blues singer Egypt Covington has been shot and
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: killed in her home. Please have just named her ex
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: boyfriend as a person of interest when her family claims was.
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  Speaker 2: Obsessed with her.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Today, our Ana Garcia went looking for him to see
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: what he's saying about Egypt's murder.
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  Speaker 4: When Egypt Covington was found bound with Christmas lights and
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  Speaker 4: shot to death inside her home last June, many people
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  Speaker 4: in her life immediately pointed a finger at the same person.
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  Speaker 5: Did you suspect anyone right away?
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  Speaker 13: Yeah? I mean the one person that she had decided
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  Speaker 13: to leave behind because there's nobody else that would want
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  Speaker 13: her dead.
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  Speaker 4: They claim. Egypt's ex boyfriend, Kenny mitchellac couldn't handle the
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  Speaker 4: fact that she was back with her longtime love Curtis Meadows.
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  Speaker 5: Was it difficult to.
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  Speaker 4: Have him constantly in the background while she was starting
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  Speaker 4: her relationship again with Curtis?
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  Speaker 6: That made it very difficult.
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  Speaker 4: They allege Kenny's temper exploded when he learned Curtis was moving.
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  Speaker 16: In with her, telling him to not go all that well.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly one week later, Curtis found Egypt's body. Do you
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  Speaker 4: think any of those allegations of the abuse that may
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  Speaker 4: have been going on in her relationship with that ex
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  Speaker 4: boyfriend had anything to do with her murder?
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  Speaker 3: It would be connecting the dots. Those examples of violence
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  Speaker 3: are fact and those are the only examples of violence
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  Speaker 3: that I know of in any of her relationships.
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  Speaker 4: Is it really hard for you and your family to know,
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  Speaker 4: if in your hearts you believe he is the one
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  Speaker 4: who killed her sister, that he is still out there.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 17: It makes me sick to my stomach, makes me sick
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  Speaker 17: to my stomach that other people support him.
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  Speaker 4: In an interesting twist, one of the people who supports
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  Speaker 4: Kenny is Egypt's own mother, Tina Covington. She doesn't believe
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  Speaker 4: Kenny was ever abusive toward her daughter.
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  Speaker 15: She would come to my house and cry, They would
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  Speaker 15: get into arguments. He was not abusive to her. I
• 20:37
  Speaker 15: don't care what anybody says. She would have told me
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  Speaker 15: and I've never seen a mark on her.
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  Speaker 5: However, in her.
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  Speaker 4: Very next sentence, she seems to confirm some level of
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  Speaker 4: abuse in the relationship.
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  Speaker 15: There might have been an incident of pushing that I
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  Speaker 15: had heard about.
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  Speaker 4: In the months following her daughter's murder. Tina allowed Kenny
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  Speaker 4: to babysit Egypt's dog, Ruby.
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  Speaker 15: He loves Ruby. I know Egypt would have let him
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  Speaker 15: have Ruby. She let him take her anytime, and I.
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  Speaker 6: Just I couldn't say no.
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  Speaker 5: But that upset your family.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, And it wasn't that I was trying to
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  Speaker 15: do anything except he had to be suffered.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you think they feel so strongly that he
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  Speaker 4: was involved in you feel so strongly he wasn't you know?
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  Speaker 15: I was raised to believe that you don't ruin somebody's
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  Speaker 15: life without proof.
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  Speaker 4: Our interview with Tina Covington came weeks before cops officially
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  Speaker 4: named Kenny MITCHELLAC a person of interest in her daughter's murder,
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  Speaker 4: but that hasn't changed Tina's opinion. She believes after nine months,
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  Speaker 4: cops simply felt pressured to name someone.
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  Speaker 15: I don't want to be judgmental with it, but I
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  Speaker 15: think we have a small department. If they've come to
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  Speaker 15: a spot where they can't get any further evidence, I
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  Speaker 15: think they need to do the right thing and turn
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  Speaker 15: it over to the state police or somebody else.
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  Speaker 4: She feels other potential suspects are being overlooked.
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  Speaker 15: She worked in a job that everybody loved her, but
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  Speaker 15: she also was in a field that anybody could have
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  Speaker 15: followed her home.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think that whoever killed your daughter that it
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  Speaker 4: was a random person.
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  Speaker 15: I think that Egypt was in the wrong place at
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  Speaker 15: the wrong time.
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  Speaker 5: But it was her house.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 4: She claims. Egypt no longer felt safe in her own home.
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  Speaker 15: She lived in a duplex. There was so much traffic
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  Speaker 15: going next door. And that's all I'm gonna say.
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  Speaker 4: But cops in Van Buren Township tell Crime Watch Daily
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  Speaker 4: that right now Kenny Mitchillak is their only person of
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  Speaker 4: interest in the case.
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  Speaker 7: Now the police have named Egypt's ex boyfriend is a
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  Speaker 7: person of interest in her murder.
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  Speaker 5: We've got some questions for him.
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  Speaker 4: With so many accusations flying, we tracked down Kenny at
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  Speaker 4: the home he now shares with a new girlfriend to
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  Speaker 4: see if he talk with us.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Kenny, Hi Anagar Saa from Crime Watch Daily.
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  Speaker 4: This is audio of our conversation.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mind answering questions. They just have to go
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: to my lawyer.
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  Speaker 5: But you've been named a person of interest in her murder.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I'd have to talk.
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  Speaker 1: To my lawyer.
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  Speaker 4: When's the last time you saw her?
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  Speaker 5: Could you take all the questions from my lawyer?
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  Speaker 17: Please?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? But is there anything you can tell us?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, we've been told by her family and friends
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  Speaker 7: that you were abusive towards her.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Was Kenny denied ever abusing Egypt, but didn't want to
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  Speaker 4: talk about her murder abusive.
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  Speaker 5: My questions through my lawyer, Please we will call him again.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you so.
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  Speaker 4: In a statement to Crime Watch Daily, Kenny Mitchellac's lawyer,
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Dan gurn writes, Van Buren Township Police noted in their
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: recent press release that my client was not currently in
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: communication with the department, which is a bit misleading. He
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  Speaker 4: fully cooperated with police, interviewed with them on multiple occasions,
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  Speaker 4: provided a full timeline of his whereabouts during the days
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  Speaker 4: surrounding Miss Covington's death, and has remained in town the
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  Speaker 4: entire ten months of this investigation. Further, since being retained
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  Speaker 4: to represent him in late June twenty seventeen, I have
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  Speaker 4: reached out to and spoken with Van Buren Township Police
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  Speaker 4: on dozens of occasions, asking for updates and seeing if
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: they needed anything from us. He goes on to be
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: certain he continues to maintain his absolute innocence regarding anything
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  Speaker 4: to do with Miss Covington's death, as he has from
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: the very beginning, and but yet beyond publicly naming Kenny
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: in this still unfolding case, investigators have taken another rather
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: strategic step advising people who have donated billboards where to
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  Speaker 4: place them to help solve Egypt's murder. We spotted several
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  Speaker 4: in Kenny's neighborhood, even on his street. Are you hoping
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  Speaker 4: that that is pressuring this person, keeping this crime in
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: the foremost of their mind.
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  Speaker 3: This is where I break from what my daughter would
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  Speaker 3: want me to say. But I hope the killer walks
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  Speaker 3: by there, drives by there, and gets laggravated, that they
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: put a gun in their mouth.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: Take care of it for all of us.
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  Speaker 4: For Egypt's boyfriend, Curtis Meadows, the billboards serve as a
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: painful reminder of what he lost.
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  Speaker 14: Sometimes I just put my hand over my heart. Sometimes
• 25:50
  Speaker 14: I blow him a kiss, you know.
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: Sometimes it's just a little saying that I got you, Egypt,
• 25:57
  Speaker 10: I got you.
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  Speaker 17: You know.
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  Speaker 4: One thing everyone in Egypt's life agrees on. Her killer
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  Speaker 4: must be brought to justice.
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  Speaker 12: My sister deserved better than this, and my sister deserves justice.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: You deserve to know what happened.
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  Speaker 17: I think that the police are doing everything that they can.
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  Speaker 17: I really truly believe that, and I know that when
• 26:23
  Speaker 17: they make that arrest that it's going to stay.
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  Speaker 4: But sadly, even when that day comes, it won't do
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  Speaker 4: anything to fix the whole that's left in their hearts
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  Speaker 4: by Egypt's absence.
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  Speaker 10: She is irreplaceable. This world is less without her in it,
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  Speaker 10: and that's what hurts the most.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators tell us they're waiting on the results of quote
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  Speaker 1: sensitive DNA testing to come back, and they believe it
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: will go a long way in helping to bring Egypt's
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: killer to justice. Will, of course, keep you posted on
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: those results until then. If you know anything about Egypt's murder,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: you're asked to call Crime Stop a Michigan. That number
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: is one eight hundred.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Speak up.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: Up.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Next, A mystery in Myrtle Beach.
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  Speaker 9: She was studying fashion.
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  Speaker 5: She really was very artsy.
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  Speaker 1: A young college student just days away from graduation is
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: out running errands when she was hit in the face.
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: With something so hard that the injury looked like a
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: gunshot wound.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Who killed Amber? The clues caught on surveillance video.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: There was a.
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: Dark figure in her passenger's side.
• 27:30
  Speaker 14: That's next.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: R a Crime Watch daily.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: We get hundreds of letters and emails every week from
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: families looking for our help with unsolved crimes. This next
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: story came to us from Amanda Burbilia. Her sister Amber
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: was just twenty three years old when she was murdered,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: and today Amanda and her family are hoping one of
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: our viewers can help bring them closure.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: They so desperately need. A horrifying sight.
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: We got a call around for clock here at the
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: station that a body had been found in.
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  Speaker 1: The mud, a dead body of a young woman laying
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: near her car under a freeway overpath.
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  Speaker 9: She was hit in the face with something so hard
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: that the injury looked like a gunshot wound.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: The perplexing evidence.
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: You know, she wasn't sexually assaulted, she wasn't robbed.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: And that desperate haunt for Amber Babilia is to kill her.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: It's a mystery that has baffled Amber's family. Who killed her?
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: And why haven't police solved the crime.
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: I don't think that the investigation ever really took off,
• 28:38
  Speaker 9: you know, I feel like they immediately started, you know,
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: coming up against walls.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: At twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: Amber was a social butterfly, a petite young woman who
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: loved to sing and dance. Her sister Amanda says, as
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: teenagers there were little devils who gave their parents constant headaches.
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  Speaker 9: She would get caught sneaking out, she'd get grounded, and
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: she would have to sneak out again and she would
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: get grounded. She was grounded for the entire summer, but
• 29:08
  Speaker 9: she probably had the best summer that year.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Amber dreamed of one day becoming a costume designer and
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: worked to achieve her goal in London at design.
• 29:17
  Speaker 9: School, she was studying fashion. She really was very artsy.
• 29:22
  Speaker 9: She loved anything having to do with art in fashion.
• 29:26
  Speaker 9: She had her own style, so she was having in
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: that direction.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: After completing her studies abroad, Amber returned to her home
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and on the last day
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: of her sister's life, Amanda remembers working the lad shift
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: waitressing when she noticed her phone blowing up.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Family members were desperate to reach her.
• 29:47
  Speaker 18: My aunt's husband told me that there had been an accident,
• 29:52
  Speaker 18: that Amber had been shot. It didn't register yet what
• 29:57
  Speaker 18: he was telling me, and I said, well, is she okay?
• 29:59
  Speaker 18: Where she What do you mean she was shot?
• 30:01
  Speaker 9: And he said, I'm sorry, honey, she's gone.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Amber talked to her family the day before she died.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Her mom now cherishes the last voicemail Amber left her.
• 30:18
  Speaker 19: Silence.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: Tuggar and so are you.
• 30:23
  Speaker 10: I love you, good night.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: But the question that hangs in the air, who would
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: want Amber dead? It's a mystery that leaves a grieving
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: family struggling for answers.
• 30:35
  Speaker 9: She had a great soul and she would never hurt
• 30:38
  Speaker 9: anybody or do anything to hurt anybody.
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: Okay, I'll go first.
• 30:44
  Speaker 9: Then she would give her last dollar if that, you know,
• 30:50
  Speaker 9: helping somebody else or making somebody else happy.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Caitlin Stancil from our Myrtle Beach affiliate WMBF has been
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: covering Amber's murder case since her body was found, and
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: recalls even comps were baffled from the very beginning.
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  Speaker 8: It seems pretty random. Amber wasn't someone that was involved
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: in criminal activity. She wasn't doing anything illegal. She had
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: a bright future ahead of her, and this just kind
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: of happened out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 6: It seemed.
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  Speaker 1: The brucive murder scene was called in to police by
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  Speaker 1: a random person who just happened to be passing by.
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  Speaker 8: It was really a disturbing scene. The car was running
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: right there by her body, and her cell phone still
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: getting text messages and email alerts, was just a few
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: inches from her fingertips.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: And even more disturbing the brutal way Amber met her
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: tragic in.
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: Originally, Or County detectives thought that she had been shot,
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: but after an autopsy, they came back and said that
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: she had been beaten to death, that she had been
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: hit twice in the head.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: The autopsy also revealed that Amber didn't go down without
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: a fight.
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: It had bruises and cuts up and down her arms,
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: showing that she did right back when all this was happening.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: As comps dig deeper into the case, they soon learn
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Amber has a fiance, but is there another mystery.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Man top nice.
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  Speaker 1: Amber's final moments with these images hold the key to
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: solving her murder.
• 32:15
  Speaker 9: There's cameras all over the city in Middle Beach, so
• 32:17
  Speaker 9: they have her, you know, in her car that day
• 32:20
  Speaker 9: running her errands, and there was a dark figure in
• 32:24
  Speaker 9: her passenger's side.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: These are the last public images of Amber Reblia, alive,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: apparently on her way to work. Hours later, this pretty
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: young woman in the prime of her life is found.
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  Speaker 2: Dead, murdered in broad daylight.
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  Speaker 1: Her body found lying under a freeway overpass in Myrtle Beach,
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina.
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: She's been then jured severely and was deceased.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: When we arrived, she was near a vehicle and there
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: was no witnesses on scene.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: At first, cops thought Amber had been shot twice in
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the head. The corner's report soon reveals she actually died
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: from blunt force trauma.
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: Originally, Or County detectives thought that she had been shot,
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: but after an autopsy, they came back and said that
• 33:11
  Speaker 8: she had been beaten to death and that it was
• 33:14
  Speaker 8: a pretty brutal murder.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: The cops know how she died, but the identity of
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: the killer is still a mystery.
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  Speaker 9: It's just such a confusing situation, it really is, you know,
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: for her to be found dead in the middle of
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: the day on a Friday afternoon, you know, on the
• 33:30
  Speaker 9: side of the street.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Police cordon off the area and scour the muddy clearing
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: where Amber's body was found looking for clues, but their
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: search comes up empty.
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: They were looking into every little single piece of evidence there.
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: But the issue was is that there wasn't a lot
• 33:48
  Speaker 8: for them to even look for them.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: So cops turned to Amber's personal life and quickly learned
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: the twenty three year old had a fiance, a guy
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: she met while studying in.
• 33:59
  Speaker 9: London, and it was like a whirlwind, you know, one
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: of those movie romances.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Jose Soulaire, a handsome college student from Spain, swept Amber
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: off her feet. Her family loved Jose, and by all accounts,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: the couple had a fairy tale relationship.
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: They had the relationship that everybody wishes that they could find.
• 34:22
  Speaker 9: He just loved every every bit of her, and you
• 34:24
  Speaker 9: can tell when he looked at her that he saw
• 34:30
  Speaker 9: everything good about her.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: After two years of dating, the couple got engaged. Her
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: mom shares the early morning phone message with the happy.
• 34:38
  Speaker 9: News as Amber, I just want to tell you.
• 34:46
  Speaker 16: God getting verri.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: Ingage and wanted to call you.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: And tell you.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: And when Amber returns to the States, there's a flory
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: of pre wedding activity.
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: I know that her and my mother and my grandmother
• 35:02
  Speaker 9: had come shopping for the dress.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Dreams of that white wedding would turn dark. Amber was
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: killed just six weeks before she was set to walk
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: down the aisle with Jose.
• 35:12
  Speaker 19: She was shown her wedding dress off to some friends
• 35:17
  Speaker 19: the night before the next say she was murdered.
• 35:19
  Speaker 9: She you know, was always making jokes and he just
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: loved every bit of her.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Cops immediately focus on Jose, but it didn't take long
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: to run into a dead end.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Jose had an airtight alibi. He was in Europe.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: At least it's a helpful clue. Cops now Tracey Amber's
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: steps just hours before her death. Amber's family claims police
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: show them surveillance video of Amber paying her cable bill
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: at about one thirty in the afternoon of her murder.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Amber's body was found a little more than a mile
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: away about two hours later.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Cops wonder if those.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Security cameras in the cable office identify a possible suspect.
• 36:02
  Speaker 9: They noticed in the cameras at the time Warner Place
• 36:05
  Speaker 9: that the person in line behind her was looking at
• 36:09
  Speaker 9: her kind of in a aggressive manner.
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: I guess.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Police haven't publicly released the surveillance video, but when they
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: track down a question that mystery man, the family says
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: he's clear. Detectives then pick up Amber's trail to a
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: gas station where surveillance cameras capture the last released images
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: of her.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: A lot.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: That's Amber wearing black pants, a lever top and glasses.
• 36:34
  Speaker 8: The surveillance footage shows Amber they are making a purchase.
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: You see or go up to the counter.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: But much to the frustration of cops and Amber's family.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Nothing comes from that video. The investigation is at a
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: stands film. Then investigators find other videos.
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: There may have been two.
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: African American people that men that she have had some
• 37:00
  Speaker 9: sort of association with.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Copsei's footage from security cameras mounted all along the highway,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: though they're not releasing those videos either. The footage apparently
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: shows Amber's SUV and cop say she wasn't alone that day.
• 37:14
  Speaker 9: So they have her, you know, in her car that
• 37:17
  Speaker 9: day running her errands and she went off on a
• 37:21
  Speaker 9: side street where there weren't any cameras for like a
• 37:24
  Speaker 9: half hours all they lost her for or something like that,
• 37:28
  Speaker 9: and when she came back they into camera view there
• 37:34
  Speaker 9: was a dark figure in her passenger's side. They were
• 37:38
  Speaker 9: never able to identify.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: No identity and also no explanations.
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: There are a lot of missing pieces in this case.
• 37:47
  Speaker 8: We don't know what she was killed with, what she
• 37:49
  Speaker 8: was doing in that area, who she was with at
• 37:52
  Speaker 8: that time, so a lot of the circumstances around it,
• 37:56
  Speaker 8: those pieces are missing.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: The family is frustrated with what they say is this
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: slow investigation. After just three months, the strange murder hits
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: the cold case file. We reached out to the Horra
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: County Police Department, but they declined our request for an interview.
• 38:12
  Speaker 9: I don't think that the investigation ever really.
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: Took off, you know.
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: I feel like.
• 38:22
  Speaker 9: They immediately started, you know, coming up against walls that
• 38:30
  Speaker 9: they you know, couldn't figure out, and gave up too quickly.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: And now five years later, still no answers.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: All.
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  Speaker 1: Amanda has to hold on to faded pictures of her
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: beloved sister who was taken too soon.
• 38:47
  Speaker 9: I was about seven and she was about five here
• 38:51
  Speaker 9: and we were getting ready to go to the pool
• 38:53
  Speaker 9: with our colored sunscreen on her faces.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: To ease their broken hearts, family has erected a memorial
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: in her memory, a collection of photos, flowers, and mementos
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: arranged under the freeway over paths.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Where she died.
• 39:09
  Speaker 19: To come here, I start crying all the way down.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: The passing of time marked by holidays, and Amber's mother, Michelle,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: will endure without her daughter.
• 39:22
  Speaker 19: And I get here an all idea is just fall apart.
• 39:31
  Speaker 9: So much.
• 39:33
  Speaker 19: I'm trying to be your voice.
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: You did not deserve this.