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Ex-NFL star Rae Carruth free 18 years after conspiring in pregnant girlfriend's murder · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Do you know another parent or a soon to be
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  Speaker 1: parent and expecting mom or dad. Please don't give them
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  Speaker 1: protecting your child. What do you love the most in
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  Speaker 1: protect your child's life. Payment starting at six. Give that
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  Speaker 1: as a gift, not another one that you're a plastic toy.
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  Speaker 1: Give them something that matters. Find out how to protect
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  Speaker 1: your child out and about at the mall, at the store,
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  Speaker 1: at the grocery store, in the parking lot, at home,
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  Speaker 1: by doubt about protection regarding babysitters, in daycare, even online
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  Speaker 1: cyber security. Oh yes, my children are online, and you
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  Speaker 1: better bet I'm doing everything within my power to protect them.
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  Speaker 1: Payments starting six. I would much rather have that than
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  Speaker 1: yet another plastic baby doll, or God forbid, a toy gun.
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  Speaker 1: Just what I don't want. Joined the Justice Nation. Crime
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  Speaker 1: stops here dot com Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Based
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  Speaker 1: on our investigation thus far, we believe Jamie was in
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  Speaker 1: the home at the time of the homicides. We believe
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  Speaker 1: she is still endangered. This remains an active investigation. We're
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  Speaker 1: following up on every tip We've received over tips in
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  Speaker 1: our community and from across the nation. We have closed
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  Speaker 1: of those bombshell news in the search for a missing
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  Speaker 1: little girl, Jamie Class. In the last hours, the Wisconsin
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff announces two vehicles of interest are being sought in
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  Speaker 1: connection with the missing Wisconsin girl, Jamie Class. Jamie has
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  Speaker 1: just turned thirteen. I Meancy Grace, this is Crime Stories.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us. Okay. Done. Now the
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  Speaker 1: examination of video camera footage, both from businesses and homes,
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  Speaker 1: we have determined two vehicles that were in the in
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  Speaker 1: the Class home near the Class home at the time
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  Speaker 1: of the incident. You'll see three photos up here. The
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  Speaker 1: first vehicle is likely a two thousand eight to two
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  Speaker 1: thousand fourteen Dodge Challenger redd or orange and color. The
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  Speaker 1: second vehicle is likely either a two thousand and six
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  Speaker 1: to two thousand and ten Ford Edge Black or a
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and four to two thousand and ten Aca
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  Speaker 1: m d X black in color. Again, I want to
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  Speaker 1: stress these are vehicles of interest only. If anyone sees
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  Speaker 1: or has seen these two vehicles in and around Baron
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  Speaker 1: Coney over the past two weeks, they were asked to
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  Speaker 1: call our tip line with the time it was observed,
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  Speaker 1: location and license plate number if available. Once again, we
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  Speaker 1: were only gonna take tips based on the above information,
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  Speaker 1: nor other makes and models of vehicles are being followed
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  Speaker 1: up on. Also for the community, this is a good
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  Speaker 1: time now that we have some vehicles of interest to
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  Speaker 1: look for changes in behavior or routine of people. We
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  Speaker 1: have the two cars described, either they don't drive them anymore,
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  Speaker 1: they've changed their routine and what they drive, or where
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  Speaker 1: they drive. Sightings of Jamie you should call nine on one.
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  Speaker 1: Sightings of this vehicle you should call our tip line.
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  Speaker 1: We need your help. Jamie's family needs your help. Her
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  Speaker 1: parents can no longer help her. When police arrived at
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  Speaker 1: their home just minutes after apparently a pocket dial nine
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  Speaker 1: one one, both parents day head, the front door kicked in,
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  Speaker 1: the parents shot dead, neighbors here two gun shots, and
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  Speaker 1: within the minutes after the nivel one call is made,
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  Speaker 1: the little girl is gone straight out to Alan Duke,
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  Speaker 1: joining me, Alan, this is major. I'm assuming they're getting
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  Speaker 1: this from neighboring surveilla's video. It's from surveillance video, not
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  Speaker 1: just from neighbors, but also some from businesses in the area.
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  Speaker 1: These vehicles were seen in the area on video and
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  Speaker 1: they believe they could very well be connected to calling
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  Speaker 1: them vehicles of interest. There's a lot happening in this
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  Speaker 1: case today. This two thousand volunteer search is something that
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  Speaker 1: I'm interested in. You don't just call for two thousand
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  Speaker 1: volunteers to walk over one area unless you've got a
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  Speaker 1: reason to. When the sheriff says investigators think there is
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  Speaker 1: a reason, there is a reason. According to sources inside
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  Speaker 1: the investigation, joining me, New York psychologist Karen Stark Vince
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  Speaker 1: and Hill cop turned private eye, author of playbook to
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  Speaker 1: a Murder also with me, renowned criminal defense attorney Jason
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  Speaker 1: Oceans who works in the Tri State area. To you,
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  Speaker 1: Vincent Hill, private investigator, what does this mean? Interpret the
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  Speaker 1: tea leaves for me, Well, Nancy, looking at these two
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  Speaker 1: vehicles that are vehicles of interest, what this tells me?
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  Speaker 1: This is a very small town three square miles, So
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  Speaker 1: it tells me that these vehicles probably don't belong there.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking about a dog Challenger, which is a very
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  Speaker 1: flashy vehicle and possibly an accurate Those would stand out
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  Speaker 1: to those people in that small community. So it tells
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  Speaker 1: me and maybe someone that came in went into that home,
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  Speaker 1: they knew exactly what or should I say, who they
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  Speaker 1: were looking for to uh go into that home. So
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  Speaker 1: I think these vehicles are key in this case. Right now, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: at this hour, we know the sheriff has been using
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  Speaker 1: drones and infrared to search the area, including nearby densely
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  Speaker 1: wooded forest. Jamie class missing from her home, and this
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  Speaker 1: morning we are finding out that the investigation is honing
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  Speaker 1: in on a local hollow as police beg for two
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  Speaker 1: thousand volunteers to help with search efforts. And this is
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  Speaker 1: just before the teens classmates gathering for a vigil in
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  Speaker 1: the Barron County Sheriff's office asking for volunteers to gather
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  Speaker 1: in order to search the Hungry hollow grounds. How have
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  Speaker 1: they come up with that specific spot a local hollow.
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  Speaker 1: It's not clear if the search is related to a
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  Speaker 1: tip regarding the location of Jamie or other evidence that
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  Speaker 1: may lead to Jamie. What could that be straight out
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  Speaker 1: to Jason Ocean's Jason. I just every time I think
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  Speaker 1: of Jamie, I see her face and then I see
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  Speaker 1: Lucy's face, my daughter Nancy. That's that's normal for as
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  Speaker 1: I think nationally, whenever we hear that the child is
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  Speaker 1: missing in Europe us your heart and makes you think
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  Speaker 1: of your own. So you're not alone in associating that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I think the fact that as all mentioned the town
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  Speaker 1: as mobilized as small town, uh, is you know, testament
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  Speaker 1: to testament to them and their commitment to the family
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  Speaker 1: for sure. Now, when we refer to a hollow, a
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  Speaker 1: hollow is for instance, a dip in the ground. It
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  Speaker 1: is kind of like, um, how would you describe it,
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  Speaker 1: Alan Duke, I would say, coming across the hill and
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  Speaker 1: then you go down the hill and that whole area. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it would be referred to as a hollow. In this
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  Speaker 1: particular hollow is what the Sheriff's office is asking for
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  Speaker 1: volunteers to come. It's Hungry Hollow grounds. The Baron County
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff asking for volunteers to gather today to search the
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  Speaker 1: Hungry Hollow grounds there, Wisconsin. While at the same time
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  Speaker 1: the FBI expanding it searched nationwide after placing Jamie at
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  Speaker 1: the top of the missing person's list. You know, to Karen,
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  Speaker 1: start yourk psychologists joining me. Many people suggested that this
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  Speaker 1: little girl was part of the murder of her parents
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  Speaker 1: and her own disappearance. I do not believe that the
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  Speaker 1: cops have clearly stated that she is in danger. I
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  Speaker 1: don't believe that for one minute someone targeted this girl.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing was stolen, no one was sex attacked. There was
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  Speaker 1: not a burglary in the middle of the night or
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  Speaker 1: when nobody was home. They specifically came after midnight when
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  Speaker 1: the lights were all cut off, to get in there
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  Speaker 1: and get the girl. If they wanted to steal, they
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  Speaker 1: could have done it while everybody was gone during the day.
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  Speaker 1: Karen start, Why do people always think the worst? Well,
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  Speaker 1: because that's human nature and Nancy and UM, I guess
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  Speaker 1: that everybody. Um it's much more exciting sometimes to think
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  Speaker 1: that some kind of plot has evolved then and include
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  Speaker 1: this girl. Then to see the reality of the fact
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  Speaker 1: that there was no nothing that was stolen. There was
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  Speaker 1: She's thirteen years old. Um, this this little girl is missing,
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  Speaker 1: and um, let's hope really meant that she's alive, because
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  Speaker 1: it's a long time already and what she has to
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  Speaker 1: endure when she's finally found. God Willie, she's found. This
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  Speaker 1: is the second mass search for Jamie class the only
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  Speaker 1: one hundred gathered last week. But now the sheriffs are
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  Speaker 1: honing in on a particular area. This is they announced
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  Speaker 1: cars of interest a Dodge Challenger red or orange, a
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  Speaker 1: forward edge black in color or an accurate black in color.
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  Speaker 1: The tip line so significant seven five, three, seven, three
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  Speaker 1: zero six or eight five seven four four three eight
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  Speaker 1: seven nine. Go to crime online dot com for updates
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  Speaker 1: throughout the day. In the search for Jamie, Please help
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  Speaker 1: us bring her home and if you cannot help us physically,
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  Speaker 1: please pray for Jamie. Do you know another parent or
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  Speaker 1: a soon to be parent and expecting mom or dad,
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  Speaker 1: Please don't give them another onesie or another toy that
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  Speaker 1: you know is going to end up in the garage
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  Speaker 1: or at the goodwill. Give them something that matters and
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  Speaker 1: what matters the most protecting your child. What do you
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  Speaker 1: love the most in the world? Your children? I do,
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  Speaker 1: and I will do anything to protect my twins. Go
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  Speaker 1: to crime stops here dot com. It is a five
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  Speaker 1: part series with action in for Nation that you can
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  Speaker 1: use to change your life and protect your child's life.
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  Speaker 1: Payments starting at six nine. Give that as a gift,
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  Speaker 1: not another one that you're a plastic toy. Give them
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  Speaker 1: something that matters. Find Out how to protect your child
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  Speaker 1: out and about at the mall, at the store, at
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  Speaker 1: the grocery store, in the parking lot, at home. Find
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  Speaker 1: out about protection regarding babysitters, in daycare, even online cyber security.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, my children are online, and you better bet
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing everything within my power to protect them. Payment
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  Speaker 1: starting six I would much rather have that than yet
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  Speaker 1: another plastic baby doll, or god forbid, a toy gun.
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  Speaker 1: Just what I don't want. Joined the Justice Nation, Crime
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  Speaker 1: stops here dot com. Where are you at the happened?
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  Speaker 1: I was down. I think he did it. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what to think. You are hearing the sound of
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  Speaker 1: Sharika Adams the night that she was shot. She died
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  Speaker 1: eight months pregnant with NFL star the number one draft pick,
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  Speaker 1: Ray Caruth, who went on to play who was playing
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  Speaker 1: for the Carolina Panthers. That night, he had invited his girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: the mother of his baby, out to a movie. They
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  Speaker 1: went to a movie, but they were in separate cars.
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  Speaker 1: At his request, they were going to meet there. He
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  Speaker 1: was in front of her as they left a late
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  Speaker 1: night movie and as they drove away, he suddenly hit
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  Speaker 1: the brakes. She hit the brakes behind him, and as
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  Speaker 1: she did, a car pulled up beside her. Someone came
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  Speaker 1: out and shot her. She died. Her baby was left
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  Speaker 1: with cerebral palsy. That baby is now nineteen year old Chancellor.
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  Speaker 1: He has lived with Shrika's mother, Sandra all this time,
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  Speaker 1: and in the last hours, Ray Carruth walks from jail,
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  Speaker 1: walks from jail free free. Take a listen to Chancellor's grandma,
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  Speaker 1: who has been raising him all this time, as she reacts,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even want to see Ray Caruth go to hell.
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  Speaker 1: I want him to come to repentance because Ray is
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  Speaker 1: never going to have peace in his life until he
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  Speaker 1: tells the truth. In the past, I didn't think it
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  Speaker 1: mattered that he just do his time, get out, be free,
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  Speaker 1: going along his way. But I think as the time
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  Speaker 1: gets closer for him to get out, I am feeling
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  Speaker 1: very differently. Part of me wants to be there the
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  Speaker 1: day he walks out so he can acknowledge his son.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's part of me that just wants to
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  Speaker 1: be chilling out on a beach somewhere on October two
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  Speaker 1: and not even thinking about that it's October twenty. You
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  Speaker 1: are hearing the woman that has raised baby Chance for
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  Speaker 1: all these years. Well as it all boiled down. You
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  Speaker 1: know how drowning rats are. They'll grab onto anything. Take
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  Speaker 1: a listen to the known to trigger me and testifying
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  Speaker 1: under oath and the death, the murder of an eight
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  Speaker 1: month pregnant mob Sharika Adams, the detention officer grimly two
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  Speaker 1: weeks after you caused that, I hope the bitch dies.
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  Speaker 1: You see that. That's the bitch I was talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I see break a ruf. Oh that's the bitch
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  Speaker 1: I was referring to. Who got me into this? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is the bitch I was referring to. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: stand up. I stood up for mine. I said, I
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  Speaker 1: did it. I did it because he made me do it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he made the other two. Also, what about that, Jason Oceans,
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  Speaker 1: you're the veteran criminal defense attorney. How do you get
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  Speaker 1: around testimony like that? And to this day the number
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  Speaker 1: one draft pick making forty thousand dollars a game. Still
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  Speaker 1: says he was not involved. He says he's sorry for
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  Speaker 1: his part, but he's never really comes very very huge,
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  Speaker 1: come clean. Uh oh oh oh, Jason Oceans. So you've
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  Speaker 1: got children, so you go along with they did it.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing it, dad, Can I do it? Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever said if they jumped off a cliff, would you
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  Speaker 1: jump off a cliff too? I bet you have. But
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  Speaker 1: you're telling me right now they all do and nobody
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  Speaker 1: comes clean. That's your defense, Jason Oceans. I expected more.
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  Speaker 1: That made defense. He's done. He's done his time, subject
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  Speaker 1: to the court eat years. We look on profile of
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  Speaker 1: a lot of cases pop killers who get loose eventually. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we just don't throw you in a goolag forever. As
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  Speaker 1: much as the publicity of a heinous crime like this
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  Speaker 1: grabs at us, there's there's regular crime and people being
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  Speaker 1: released all the time. You understand the system. It's what
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  Speaker 1: you telling me. I'll understand the system like that somehow
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  Speaker 1: makes it okay. You're prosecutor man. No, I think you
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  Speaker 1: should have gotten the death penalty for killing her and
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  Speaker 1: leaving the baby forever. It was cerebral paul sy. You
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  Speaker 1: know what listen to vam Brett Watkins at trial. That's
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  Speaker 1: your client the bit at the time that you made
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  Speaker 1: that statement, Sharika Adams was fighting for her line, right.
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  Speaker 1: Did the captain tell you what happened that day? My
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  Speaker 1: question is Sharika Adams was fighting for her life, wasn't she?
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  Speaker 1: She was? But this this wasn't about Sharika Adams. It
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  Speaker 1: was about the president who got me involved in all
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  Speaker 1: this for six months. Your client did this. This wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a one day affair. It was for six months. He
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  Speaker 1: dragged me into something that I didn't want to be
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  Speaker 1: involved with. Cling Have you ever referred to women as
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  Speaker 1: it's not It's not something I would do all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, right. He's such a choir boy. He's never
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  Speaker 1: called a woman a bit, right, Karen Stark. He is
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  Speaker 1: lying through his teeth. That was the proven trigger man
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  Speaker 1: who was arranged by Ray Caruth, the NFL star, and
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  Speaker 1: he wanted Shrinka Adams dead. I remember it like it
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  Speaker 1: was yesterday. I sat there and watched that testimony come
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  Speaker 1: from the stand. Because he referred to Sharika Adams his
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend as they quote, who chie mama that was after
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  Speaker 1: him for money. So what's his answer, killer, kill her
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  Speaker 1: and the baby. But what he didn't count on is
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  Speaker 1: Sharika Adams making that nine one one call and fingering
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  Speaker 1: him Karen Stark. And now the trigger has up there
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  Speaker 1: saying while Sharika Adams is lying in the hospital with
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  Speaker 1: her baby inside of her, fighting struggling to live, to
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  Speaker 1: save the baby, he says, I hope the bitch dies.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's trying to twist that around and make me
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  Speaker 1: think he was talking about Ray Caruth. Well, the whole
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  Speaker 1: story is like that, Nancy. It's so awful that this
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  Speaker 1: woman is pregnant. What's incredible is that the baby even lived,
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  Speaker 1: although the baby has cerebral pauses as a result of
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  Speaker 1: what happened. But when you think about this, you think
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  Speaker 1: about this guy who's it's like a superstar. He's getting
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  Speaker 1: to be really famous, and this is all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden and albatross on his neck to have this girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: and instead of saying, let me break up with her
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  Speaker 1: and do the right thing, he decides it's a good
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  Speaker 1: idea to have her killed. Until this day he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: admit it yet. He asked to be forgiven and thought
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  Speaker 1: somehow at one point that he should raise, blab blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: You know to Vincent Hill, former cop turn p I
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  Speaker 1: author of playbook to Murder. You know the title of
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  Speaker 1: your book right there tells me you're all about sports
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  Speaker 1: and you're all about murder. Vincent Hill, he was already
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  Speaker 1: supporting one child um out of wedlock, not judging, don't care.
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  Speaker 1: What I care about is motive for murder. So he
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  Speaker 1: did not want to support another baby. Well, what happens
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  Speaker 1: to these guys? They finally make it big and then
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  Speaker 1: they want lose their mind when they get all that money. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you can give a man as much money as you want,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't take the hood out of them if
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  Speaker 1: you will. I mean, let's be clear. He took the
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  Speaker 1: cowards way out, not only for not wanting to pay
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  Speaker 1: for this chance. Do you mean but you can't take
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  Speaker 1: the hood out? Are you suggesting it because he's African America?
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  Speaker 1: Because let me tell you something. We just covered a
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  Speaker 1: rich millionaires that murdered his wife. What he's full of
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  Speaker 1: hood to what I'm saying, Nancy, I mean something or
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  Speaker 1: just uh predisposed to be evil? And this guy he
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  Speaker 1: took the coward's way out, not only and not wanting
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  Speaker 1: to pay for this child. But he went and hired
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  Speaker 1: this hit man to do it. He wasn't even brave
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  Speaker 1: enough to do it himself. He got this guy who says, oh,
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  Speaker 1: well he made me do it. Well, that's just like saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's the dude's pants. I didn't really want to do it,
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  Speaker 1: but he made me do it. He was a coward,
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  Speaker 1: all right, right right, this is Van Brett Watkins you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about. Listen, I hope the bitch that's a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a talking about. Oh I see, where are you at,
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  Speaker 1: a brit I think he did it. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what you are hearing the sound of Sharika Adams. She
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  Speaker 1: had gone to a late night movie with her boyfriend,
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  Speaker 1: the father of her baby. Eight months pregnant. She was
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  Speaker 1: when the dad, Ray Caruth, high flying football star, slammed
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  Speaker 1: on the brakes. She stopped behind him, and at that
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  Speaker 1: exact moment, another car pulled up an opened fire, shooting her.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: She lingered in the hospital for a period of days,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and it was then she continued to say, Ray Carruth,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: the father of her child, was involved. I mean, see, Grace,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: this is crime stories. Thank you for being with us
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: as we have reported on crime online dot com. Ray
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Carruth has just walked free. He walked out of that
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: correctional institute into a waiting white suv. He wasn't so
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: worried about Sharika adams murder and his child living a
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: life with cerebral paulse that he didn't have time to
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: smile and nod at all of the cameras. But the
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: woman left to raise the little boy was Shaika adams mother.
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  Speaker 1: Sandra listens, pretty, mommy, A Ray would never come back
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: here and do anything, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: send someone. So I am a little anxious and I'm
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: not going to live in fear, but I'm taking a
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: lot of precautions because he usually gets somebody else to
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: do his dirty work. And we're going to protect arly.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: You are hearing Sandra Adams and she has taken the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: little boy Chancellor to his mom's grave. There was a
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: big flurry of activity when Ray Caruth said that he
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: wanted to take custody of the little boy Chancellor. Jason
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Oceans has he lost his mind? He tried to the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: little boy, he can't have custody. I certainly don't think
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: that anyone who's going to afford him custody. That could
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: have been a quick sound by relative to catching on
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: his way out. You know, eighteen years is a long
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: time to be in prison and reflect certainly uh Shrieker's
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: mom uh comments on repentance, and you know, I'll certainly
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: echo that focused relative to that, I don't think he'd
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: be a good caring father based on the facts and circumstances.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: So I think it's really a red herring and more
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: food for fadder in terms of our discussion. Well, wait
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: a minute, I don't know about it being a red hearing.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Jason Oceans. You may be a veteran defense lawyer in
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: New York City in New Jersey, but let me tell
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: you something. He wrote a jail house letter to Sandra Adams,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Chancellor's grandmother, saying, quote, you know you're not gonna live
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: forever because she's the grandma, and I want custy. I
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: want to take Chancellor, you know what, over my cold
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: dead body, Jason Ocean. And so it's just not some
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: uh pipe dream he planned to take the boy. I
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: would imagine at that point when when Grandma passes in
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: a hundred years, that the stay or some other family
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: members would come in and protect Chancellor some m You'd
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: think so, right, you'd think so, But you wouldn't think
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: somebody would gun down the mother of his baby, with
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: her eight months pregnant. Let me jog everyone's memory. Let
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: me jog Alan Duke's memory as to what exactly happened
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: with an Alan door wide receiver. Ray Ruth found hiding
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: in the trunk of a car in and arrested and
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: charged with hiring a hit man to kill his pregnant girlfriend,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Sharika Adams. Sharika dial nine one one, telling the operator
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: of someone drove by and shot her on Ray Road
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: in November. She later died in the hospital, her unborn
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: son delivered by emergency C section. Can you imagine what
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: they all went through? Alan, Do do you remember when
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: this happened and this guy had it all Alan forty
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars a game. I remember it quite well. In fact,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I remember after she died in the hospital he flat
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: and I think that's an admission of guilt right there.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: They founded hiding in a trunk in West Gennessee, surrounded
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: by bottles of urine. I just want to throw that
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: in there. His pants were down around his knees. Talk
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: about a glorious arrest. They find him, like in the
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: parking lot of a gas station or something. They opened
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: the trunk. Caruth is in the trunk. Yeah, I always
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: do that, hang out in the trunk with my pants down,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: t teen in a coke bottle. But there he was,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: his pants down. Um oh, if I could only be
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: in there for the arrest with bottles full of urine
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: around him? What about that Vincent Hill. That's a pretty
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: long fall from glory. Forty dollars a game to hiding
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: in the back of your trunk with your pants down
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: surround about bottles of urine Vincent Hill. Yeah, you talk
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: about a fall from grace, Nancy. I mean, it's clear
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: he was trying to get to California. That's where he
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: told Wendy Call to take them so he could flee
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: to Mexico. They were on I forty westbound and Nancy,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: let me point this out. Can you imagine if Sharika
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: did not make that nine one one call where we
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: would be would Ray have gotten away with this? Because
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: keep in mind back in nine why are you calling
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: him Ray like your best friends? What do you hav
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: him over for dinner tonight. Well, I mean, that's that's
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: his given name. But back in nine cell phone towers
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: and all that was in its infancy stage. Could you
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: imagine if she had not made that nine one one
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: call and died there on the scene, rayk Ruth could
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: have very well have gotten away with this. But thankfully
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: she had all the evidence right there in that nine
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: one one call. He hit the brakes, someone pulled up
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: behind me and shot me. I think that sealed his
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: fate and I'm glad she was able to make that call. You,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: as I mentioned, has never admitted guilt, but he wrote
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: this really complicated fifteen page letter to CBSF Philly, at
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: w b TV and Charlotte and he wrote, quote, I
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: feel responsible for everything that happened, and I just want
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Sandra Adams to know that, truly, I'm sorry for everything
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I wanted. That says she won't sue his pants off
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: for wrongful death action, or you know, maybe she already did.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: So he's still can't come clean. He's still even to
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: this day, can't come clean. Karen start, what's that all about? Denial? Nancy?
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: And it reminds me of Scott Peterson, cried, Yes, it's
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: just like Scott Peterson. That was really good. And of
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: course you've covered both of those. And then in that
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: respect you're looking at criminal. Wait a minute, hold on,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Jackie Howard, did you actually shake your head no? When
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I said it reminded me of j Scott. You're saying
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: your head because he could not admit to his family
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: and friends and adoring public he did it. He so
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: did it. He could not accept the concept that he
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: was not the Scott Peterson. They all had come to
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: know the same thing here. What about it, Karen start,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I mean contradictions. If you look at the contradictions between
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: the evidence and in the case of this man, how
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: he's saying, you know, please forgive me. But what are
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: we supposed to forgive him for if in fact he's
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: not guilty and he's hiding in the trunk of a
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: car and he's trying to escape, and and he's teaching
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: into a coke bottle. Let me just throw that in
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: attempt of Okay, I'm going to say that I'm Jason Notions.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Jason notions, I want you vincent, he'll Karen start, Jackie
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Howard and aland to all imagine him in the dark
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: of a trunk trying to t te directly into a
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: coke bottle. Yeah, I'm going to keep bringing it up
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: because it makes Jason Notions evincent. He'll cringe, all right,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: That's why I'm doing it. But well, hey, Nancy, maybe
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: he'll write a book and say Charlie did it, and
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: he'll get a hypothetical like someone you're talking about, O J. Simpson.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: And that's what's irritating me because I was just asked
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: recently on Daily Mail TV, what's going to happen? You know,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: he's a licensed barber and he cuts hair or a
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: dollar a cut behind bars. He could go out watch, watch,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: watch and open like um, a luxury barber shop where
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: they sell like booze and food or whatever, like a
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: sports barber. Why am I giving this guy ideas like
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: TVs all around it to watch football games and sports
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: games while you get your hair cut. Just keep watching
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: and he's gonna be lauded and put on a pedestal,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: just like O. J. Simpson. And you know what that
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: that may be true, But when I think of Raker Ruth,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: this is what I think of. Where are you at? Happened?
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I was down at my boot I think he did it.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know where to think of. Rayker Ruth down
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: to the Seamson Correctional Institute right at eight am, trading
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: that prison jump sued for normal clothes, a black snow
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: cap in a leather jacket. He was escorted by several
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: corrections officers into this white suburban that immediately sped off.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Ruth was convicted of being the mastermind behind the murder
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: of his pregnant girlfriend, Serika Adams, who was shot four
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: times while driving down the street in Charlotte. Thankfully, doctors
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: were able to save her son, Chancellor, who's now eighteen
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: years old and suffers from cerebral palsy. Cerebral policy will
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: afflict him for the rest of his life. Now. We
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: also heard from ray Caruth himself. Take a listen to
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the former NFL star and convicted killer speaking to WU
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: s o c t V. Out of here. Um nervous.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: It's about how we received by the public. I still
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: have to work, I have to live, I have to
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: exist out there, and it just seems like there's so
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: much hate and negativity towards me. Actually somewhat frightened, so
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I just you know, it's a lot of it's mixed emotions,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: but mainly I'm just worried about how to be received.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: So coming out of here what means supposed to be
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: isn't regaining my freedom, but hopefully handy an opportunity to
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: find different ways to be there for my son that
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: I hadn't had a while I was incarcerating. I just
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: wanted to really be forgiving. You know, I noticed in
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: the sound he's very worried about how he is going
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: to be received, what people think of him, Karen start
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: you the New York psychologists put a shrink on that. Well,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: because he's narcissistic, Nancy, he's a pathological liar. He can
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: believe his lies even if it's contradictory, and it's all
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: about him. Then he frozen at the end that he
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: wants to be a good father to the son whom
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: he actually wished was dead, or he went to try
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: to shoot the mother while she was pregnant. So if
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: you look at what he's saying, it's just a bunch
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: of hogwash. None of it makes any sense at all.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Pathological liar, narcissists, and did you know that's a lot
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of very impressive terms. Let me go to Jason, Ocean's
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: criminal defense lawyer. Jason to me, what it boils down to,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: he just does not want to admit what he did
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: well on the head the narcissism, I mean, these are
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: star athletes, were come from an early agent, put on
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: a pedestal, and the fact that he could think that
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: in that stage of his life, that this is what
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: he needed to do and move forward. Um, you know,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: just highlights the narcissism. You know, he spocused about him,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: his look and all he's received. I don't know, you know,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: that's I think what goes into what really happened to
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: start with. He did not want to be saddling another child.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: He did not want to pay child support. Take a
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: listen to Careu's teammate Frank Garcia speaking to w you
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: z y t V. I don't know if you think
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: of anybody that's working in you know, next to you,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: or that you speak to every day, is capable of
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: doing something like that. He's going to be out in public,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: and you know, I don't know if you've ever sat
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: next to a convicted uh, you know, killer or somebody's
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: success as I haven't, and I don't know how I
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: would react to that it would be a little nerve racking,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: to say the least. I'm guessing you know what birds
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: of a feather flought together. Listen to vam Brett Watkins,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: and you've you've got a gun there that he said
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: he told you to get down Atlanta, right. The purpose
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: of that gun, according to you, is to carry out
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: the shooting, right exactly. And so you get this call
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: and you're and you're petrified, and so you go over
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: there because you feel petrified, but you don't bring the
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: gun that you supposedly bought for purposes of this kid,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: right exactly. So you're sort of a hit man without
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: a weapon. That what you are. If that's what you
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: want to say, Well, that's what you were according to you.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: If that's what you I could kill you with my hands, Okay,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: is that what you were? I could kill you with
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: my hands. I don't need again, and I didn't need
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: a gun, Okay, I put I left the gun in carry.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Can I just point out that that really doesn't help anything, uh,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Vincent hill cop turn p I author of playbook to
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: a murder? That really doesn't help you on the stand
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: when you look at the lawyer ago, I don't need
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: a gun to kill you. I can kill you with
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: my own hands. I'm sure the jury went home with
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: that ringing in their ears, probably had nightmares. Yeah, Nancy,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: I think one of the jurors described the best that
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: he was glad that Marshams were in the courtroom. He
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: actually went on to say, I could rip you apart
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: with my bare hands like a rag doll. So you're
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: paying yourself as very violent and brutal killer. So why
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: would you go on the stand and say that it
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: didn't help it? On? It shows there's no self control.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: But my point with this is birds of a feather
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: flock together. You lay down with a dog, you wake
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: up with a flee That's just how it goes. So
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: if he's such an angel and he had nothing to
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: do with Rika Adams murder, what was he doing hanging
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: out with Van Brett Watkins, the trigger man? I mean,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: look around and who your friends are? And I am
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: not because Lord, you know, think think about it, Alan,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: do you you know? I am certainly no Bible scholar,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: all right? But Christ hung out with hookers and tax
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: collectors and bad guys and and good guys and and
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: great people and the disciples me hanging out with everybody.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: My point is not to look down on people in
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: any way, but look at who you are choosing to
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: be with. Who are your children choosing to be with?
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: The school bully or the a student? Who who are
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: your children hanging out with? Who are you hanging out with?
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Because that is a reflection of you. I think, um
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: am I crazy here and start of course not Nancy,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: That's exactly true. And if you think about the fact
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: that here's somebody who is actually bragging about the ability
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: to kill and yet saying I had nothing to do
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: with it. For all, the contradictions here are outrageous, and
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: it's it's no surprise that they wound up going to jail.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Is everybody sitting down, y'all better lay down, because let
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: me tell you something. When Raker Ruth walked out of
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: that CI people actually started clapping. They were clapping. Okay,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: I don't really know what to make of that, that
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: people were lapping when Ray Carruth walked out of jail.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: You know what, I'm all happy for second chances, you
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: know what. And let's just see what Ray Carruth does
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: with his second chance, because he's got it. He is
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: a young man. He is out free, he's walking amongst
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: us right now, at this very minute. He can start
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: all over. But I just wonder, based on what he
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: was saying, is he really going to start over or
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: is it just more of the same. I remember this
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: one about where are You're at? I don't Nancy Grace
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Crimes Stories, signing off goodbye friend.