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Cops Make the Worst Discovery of Their Lives · Weird Darkness:True crime & The unexplained

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  Speaker 1: On May 22nd, 2019.
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  Speaker 2: Police in Sturgis, Michigan listened to an anonymous 911 caller
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  Speaker 2: read them an address. Inside this home, the caller explained,
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  Speaker 2: they would find the missing 42-year-old Kelly Jean Warner Miller.
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  Speaker 2: Little did authorities know, that single phone call would launch
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  Speaker 2: the most shocking investigation of their careers, one that required
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  Speaker 2: uncovering secret after haunting secret, all buried within an exceptionally
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  Speaker 2: twisted and sadistic mind. The following footage has never been
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  Speaker 2: seen before. When Kelly Jean, known as KJ, went missing
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  Speaker 2: in April 2019, no red flags went up, there were
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  Speaker 2: no frantic phone calls to 911, and no weary search parties.
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  Speaker 2: But it wasn't because KJ wasn't loved. The trouble was
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  Speaker 2: that her lifestyle was transient. She was estranged from her
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  Speaker 2: family and had untreated mental health struggles. This meant that
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  Speaker 2: sometimes long periods of absence were the norm for KJ. So,
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  Speaker 2: when police received a 911 call sending them to an
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  Speaker 2: address to look for her, and officers found themselves standing
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  Speaker 2: on the doorstep of an ordinary-looking apartment, it was hard
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  Speaker 2: to believe the call was even real. After all, this
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  Speaker 2: wasn't the kind of thing one saw in the small
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  Speaker 2: town of Sturgis, Michigan. But there was only one way
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  Speaker 2: to find out.
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  Speaker 3: She said, inside on the left.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, she's right. Hi, Wade.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Wade.
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  Speaker 4: How you doing, man? Hey, how you doing? Doing good.
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  Speaker 4: I remember you from the Speedway.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: What are you up to now?
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  Speaker 2: Not much. Answering the door is 35-year-old Wade Allen.
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  Speaker 4: Um, we're looking for Kimberly.
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  Speaker 5: Kelly?
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  Speaker 4: Or Kelly. You know Kelly? Kimberly or Kelly. From the shelter, maybe? KJ? KJ? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: At first, Wade seems confused, and for good reason. It's
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  Speaker 2: close to midnight, and he's been startled awake by several
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  Speaker 2: armed officers knocking on his door. Wade recently came to
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  Speaker 2: live in this apartment after a period of homelessness, and
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  Speaker 2: KJ was an acquaintance from a shelter he frequented in Kalamazoo.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't heard from that person in some months. Do
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  Speaker 4: you know her?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: I haven't heard from her in a while.
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  Speaker 4: The last time I've seen her is a couple months.
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  Speaker 4: The last I heard, she's in Kalamazoo. I think the
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  Speaker 4: best way for me to help you get a hold
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  Speaker 4: of her is through the shelter.
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  Speaker 2: The eerie atmosphere is palpable. With a call like this,
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  Speaker 2: officers can't simply take Wade's words as fact. They need
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  Speaker 2: to confirm what, if anything, is behind his front door.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we just need to talk to her. Do you
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  Speaker 4: mind if we come and make sure she's not here?
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  Speaker 4: I could tell you she's not. I mean, you know.
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  Speaker 2: According to Wade, he and KJ had lost touch recently
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  Speaker 2: after she suddenly stopped responding to his Facebook messages.
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  Speaker 5: As far as here, I don't like this.
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  Speaker 4: My place is a mess and I don't like this.
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  Speaker 4: People come and go all the time. We don't care.
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  Speaker 4: We see all sorts of. apartments and homes and... Well, um...
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  Speaker 4: All we gotta do is verify she's not here and
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  Speaker 4: then we can get out of here and be done
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  Speaker 4: with it. I don't know. I feel it for you.
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  Speaker 5: If you guys want to come by another time, just
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  Speaker 5: not right now.
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  Speaker 10: Let me at least have a date where I can
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  Speaker 10: clean up and do things.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. Well, here's the deal, Wade.
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  Speaker 11: Um.
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  Speaker 5: If.
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  Speaker 4: We gotta get a search warrant, we will.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 4: We don't want to go that route. I know.
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  Speaker 9: Um.
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  Speaker 4: That's a lot of work for all of us, including you.
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  Speaker 12: So if we got to do that, we're going to
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  Speaker 12: have to detain you and put you in the car
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  Speaker 12: for a little while.
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  Speaker 13: All right.
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  Speaker 14: Until we get that search warrant.
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  Speaker 4: It'll take a couple hours.
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  Speaker 14: If she's in there, could you just have her come
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  Speaker 14: out and say, I'm fine?
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  Speaker 4: Well, she's not, though. That's the thing.
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  Speaker 15: Like, I mean, I can open up and I'll say, hey, KJ, Kelly,
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  Speaker 15: and there's no Kelly or KJ.
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  Speaker 4: Do I have eyes to stand here looking? You can.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't have her here.
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  Speaker 16: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Eventually, Wade agrees to let one officer, one he's met
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  Speaker 2: in the past, search his apartment.
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  Speaker 4: Not much of anything. And then I got all this.
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  Speaker 4: This is my bedroom. You see?
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  Speaker 16: Not here.
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  Speaker 4: I had her suitcase from when she was here. Just me.
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  Speaker 4: And if I do have a guest, I have a bed.
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  Speaker 2: As Wade guides the officers through his home, nothing in
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  Speaker 2: particular is jumping out. But just as it seems the
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  Speaker 2: search is coming to a close, one thing catches the
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  Speaker 2: officer's eye.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have anyone here.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: All right, man.
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  Speaker 9: What's in the cooler?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's for when the summer comes around. I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to have parties and stuff.
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  Speaker 16: All right, no problem.
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  Speaker 4: Can you open that for me, and then we'll get
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  Speaker 4: out of here? Well, not right now I can't. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I want to save that for later. Okay. For when
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  Speaker 4: the summer gets here. But I showed you, she hasn't
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  Speaker 4: been here in forever. Okay.
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  Speaker 12: Why don't you just open that cooler, and we'll get
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  Speaker 12: out of here.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to.
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  Speaker 9: Make sure anywhere that she could be hiding... He's not
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  Speaker 9: going to be hiding.
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  Speaker 4: Well, okay, I just need to know.
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  Speaker 14: That, okay?
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  Speaker 4: No, I mean, I can help you out there, but
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  Speaker 4: I've shown you everything. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Wade seems eager to end the search and get back
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  Speaker 2: to bed, but his strangely evasive behavior is only working
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  Speaker 2: against him.
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  Speaker 4: You want to open that cooler for me?
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 9: Can you open the fridge for me?
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  Speaker 4: Make sure she's not hiding in there.
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  Speaker 11: There's no point in the fridge either.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's just food and stuff.
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  Speaker 9: I understand.
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  Speaker 4: All right, why don't you throw your shoes on real quick? Well,
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  Speaker 4: I helped you out.
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  Speaker 9: You did partially, but do you have shoes you can
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  Speaker 9: throw on real quick?
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  Speaker 4: A little bit, but here, I'll help you out. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: I'll help you out.
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  Speaker 17: Go on out.
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  Speaker 4: You're detained right now, okay? Go on out.
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  Speaker 7: I'm detained?
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  Speaker 9: You're detained.
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  Speaker 4: Walk out there. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: As the walls seem to close in on Wade, he's
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  Speaker 2: forced to make a decision. He can stick to his
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  Speaker 2: guns or prove to the police that they really have
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  Speaker 2: nothing to worry about.
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  Speaker 14: I said you're not going to get them on now.
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  Speaker 9: I'm giving you the opportunity to walk out there.
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  Speaker 4: Do it now. You got anything illegal on you? No,
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  Speaker 4: I don't. Okay, put your hands behind your back. You
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  Speaker 4: got a knife or anything like that? No. Okay, why
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  Speaker 4: don't you turn around against the wall real slowly. Being
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  Speaker 4: the 10, I'm just.
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  Speaker 9: I just want the opportunity to look the rest of
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  Speaker 9: the way through the apartment, okay?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I showed you everything. Here, let me... Do you
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  Speaker 4: want to show me?
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  Speaker 10: I will.
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  Speaker 4: I showed you everything. Why don't you walk back in
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  Speaker 4: there and show me then? But I did. Let me see.
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  Speaker 4: Can I look in that fridge?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. It's something... Okay. I see she's not in there.
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  Speaker 4: But she wouldn't be in the fridge. I understand that,
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  Speaker 4: but we got to look.
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  Speaker 9: We found people in some crazy places.
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  Speaker 2: With no sign of KJ, Wade makes no attempt to
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  Speaker 2: hide his frustration with police.
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  Speaker 4: She wouldn't have to hide. Well, I don't know her.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know anything about her. I don't know if
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  Speaker 9: she's hiding from the law or hiding from her family
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  Speaker 9: or what she's doing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't think she would.
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  Speaker 9: I just want to verify.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: Can I look in that cooler over there?
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  Speaker 18: Um, that, that's kind of, like I said, later on
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  Speaker 18: and Summer stuff, but I'm trying to keep my stuff
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  Speaker 18: kind of private.
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  Speaker 9: Well, that's fine.
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  Speaker 12: All I want to do is open it, say, KJ,
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  Speaker 12: you in there, and then close it right back up,
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  Speaker 12: and I'll get out of here.
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  Speaker 4: You'll be out of handcuffs, and we'll be gone. Well,
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  Speaker 4: let's have a warrant for the rest of this, and
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  Speaker 4: I'll just get detained. Okay. I don't understand why all this.
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  Speaker 2: Seemingly confused at the invasion of his personal space, Wade
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  Speaker 2: agrees to wait it out while officers request a search warrant.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't you just have a seat right there?
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  Speaker 5: Well, do you mind if I wait out here?
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  Speaker 4: I mean.
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  Speaker 14: No, we're going to.
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  Speaker 9: I got to pipe up search warrant. But at this point,
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  Speaker 9: I'm suspicious that she is in there.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 12: Because you won't let me look in that cooler or
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  Speaker 12: any other big boxes in there.
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  Speaker 9: I didn't see anything else I need to look through.
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  Speaker 14: But a big cooler, you know, I have no idea
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  Speaker 14: what size she is.
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  Speaker 9: If she's a little person.
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  Speaker 12: You could probably put two of her in that cooler.
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  Speaker 4: That cooler was that big.
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  Speaker 9: So basically, I'll make sure she's not hidden in there.
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  Speaker 12: It took you a little while to answer your door,
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  Speaker 12: so I don't know if she was.
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  Speaker 5: The reason why it took a while is because I
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  Speaker 5: had to get dressed.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. Yeah, I understand that. If you were in bed, yeah.
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  Speaker 9: But in the meantime, you could have been telling somebody
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  Speaker 9: to go hide in the cooler.
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  Speaker 14: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: She's not in trouble.
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  Speaker 9: We just have a job to do.
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  Speaker 2: As officers repeatedly ask, Wade to wait in the cruiser,
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  Speaker 2: he does everything he can think of to avoid the
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  Speaker 2: back seat.
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  Speaker 4: I'd actually like to stay out here if that's okay.
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  Speaker 9: Well, we can't.
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  Speaker 8: Sit right here if that's okay. You can sit long
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  Speaker 8: ways across the seat, but you've got to get all
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  Speaker 8: the way in. You want to put your back towards
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  Speaker 8: the other door if you can, or... Whatever's more comfortable
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  Speaker 8: for you.
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  Speaker 2: Once Wade finally gets settled, officers catch up a few
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  Speaker 2: feet away, and they're quick to voice concerns.
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  Speaker 17: Meanwhile, a somewhat cooperative Wade is still squirming in the
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  Speaker 17: back of.
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  Speaker 4: The squad car.
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  Speaker 5: I feel claustrophobic.
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  Speaker 17: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: I really am.
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  Speaker 9: All right, we'll head back there, okay?
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  Speaker 4: I'm really feeling claustrophobic right now. Okay.
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  Speaker 9: Well, we could end this all.
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  Speaker 12: You can take me in there and let me look
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  Speaker 12: around more, or I've got to take you back and
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  Speaker 12: put you in.
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  Speaker 9: A cell while I'm doing the search warrant.
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  Speaker 4: All right, well, let me go back then.
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  Speaker 2: As Wade silently leads the officer back to his apartment,
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  Speaker 2: a strange energy hangs heavy in the air.
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  Speaker 12: All I'm concerned about is any closets or any coolers.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, just in here. Watch. Okay.
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  Speaker 9: Can I pop it open and just take a peek?
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, if you want.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 14: Why don't you step back for a second?
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: What's in there?
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  Speaker 4: Just stuff. Okay. All right. Let's head out here.
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  Speaker 7: Head out.
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  Speaker 4: Head out here. Yep. Yep.
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  Speaker 14: Everything's good.
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  Speaker 4: Should I do everything?
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  Speaker 7: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: You're under arrest, okay? Under arrest? Yes, you are.
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  Speaker 19: All right.
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  Speaker 14: I'm going to get the crime task force out here.
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  Speaker 4: Can I have a soda, please? Um, just keep walking.
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  Speaker 2: Once outside and back in the patrol car, Wade seems
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  Speaker 2: eager to fill the silence.
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  Speaker 4: This situation happened and... Yeah. Yep. And that's probably because
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  Speaker 4: that's why somebody.
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  Speaker 13: Put it here.
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  Speaker 2: The officers already seemed to have an idea that something
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  Speaker 2: horrible happened in that apartment, but they couldn't yet know
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  Speaker 2: just how twisted things will get by the end of
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  Speaker 2: this disturbing case.
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  Speaker 13: I am currently sitting on a car with a guy
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  Speaker 13: in the back seat who has done something bad.
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  Speaker 2: As some of the officers begin searching the apartment, others
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  Speaker 2: transport Wade to the station and settle in for a
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  Speaker 2: long night, doing their best to put him at ease.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever happened, they need to know the full story. When
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  Speaker 2: he does start to talk, the story he has to
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  Speaker 2: tell is only a small piece of the truth, and
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  Speaker 2: what really happened to KJ is far more disturbing than
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  Speaker 2: anyone could have ever imagined.
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  Speaker 9: We got some homemade cookies in there that are really good.
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  Speaker 4: You want a couple cookies? I'd rather pass on that.
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  Speaker 4: You want a couple of them, or? Yeah, I'm agreed.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 9: We will get you hooked up.
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  Speaker 14: All right, man.
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  Speaker 4: Here's some cookies. I can get started on those.
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  Speaker 2: Soon, the detective arrives. While Wade insinuated earlier that KJ
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  Speaker 2: was merely a distant friend, it's not long before that
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  Speaker 2: story changes.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it goes back to, like, 2013, I think. Okay.
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  Speaker 5: And we started being friends, but we started probably dating
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  Speaker 5: sometime after that.
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  Speaker 20: So would it be fair to say that you've known
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  Speaker 20: Kelly Jean since 2013?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I've known.
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  Speaker 5: Her before that, but that was just when she added.
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  Speaker 4: Me on Facebook.
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  Speaker 2: Recently, according to Wade, he even lived with KJ in
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  Speaker 2: his current apartment.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Wade, so what I would like to know
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  Speaker 3: from you is, in your own words.
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  Speaker 4: What happened to Kelly Jean? I know she's been through
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  Speaker 4: a lot.
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  Speaker 21: It might take a little bit to describe, but there's
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  Speaker 21: a lot. Please take your time. I have nowhere else
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  Speaker 21: to be. So I will bear with you, Officer Wire
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  Speaker 21: will bear with you.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely. If you need a tissue, there's plenty of tissues there.
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  Speaker 2: Earlier, the search of Wade's apartment revealed some chilling discoveries.
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  Speaker 4: So there's a rope, there's a bungee cord. We have
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  Speaker 4: the trash bag. Some type of ribbon. Bungee with a
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  Speaker 4: female belt. Girl's shoes, those green ones. I'll start with
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  Speaker 4: saying that she's hyperglossy neck.
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  Speaker 5: All right, so her eating levels are important. She has
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  Speaker 5: to have a certain amount of sugars or whatever. I
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  Speaker 5: only bring that to attention because I know at one point,
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  Speaker 5: while she was making cereal, she fainted and really hurt
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  Speaker 5: her head and really concerned me. Because a little after that,
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  Speaker 5: I started seeing impairment issues, that her speech, memory, things
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  Speaker 5: like that.
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  Speaker 3: I was concerned.
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  Speaker 4: How long ago would you say that was? Wow. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's good.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, right here.
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  Speaker 13: You seeing this?
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  Speaker 5: For her, that incident had to have happened.
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  Speaker 4: In March. Okay, so it's been a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: When she fell, did she become unconscious? Did she knock
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  Speaker 4: herself out? Did she just kind of stomp herself? She
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  Speaker 4: was unconscious for a little bit. Okay. About how long
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  Speaker 4: would you say a little bit would be?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I would say five to ten minutes, even though
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  Speaker 5: that might seem like a little bit to.
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  Speaker 4: Me, that's a long time for somebody to be unconscious.
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  Speaker 2: And as Wade tells it, KJ's symptoms lingered in the
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  Speaker 2: days after her fall, and they weren't subtle. She had
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  Speaker 2: no memory of what happened, and she struggled to carry
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  Speaker 2: out daily functions that weren't a challenge for her before.
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  Speaker 2: Though KJ did suffer from these symptoms, what Wade is
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  Speaker 2: saying happened isn't the full story, and what really happened
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  Speaker 2: to her is far more disturbing than just a fall.
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  Speaker 5: And I was trying to take care of.
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  Speaker 2: Her with her Wade isn't the only person police spoke to.
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  Speaker 2: They also asked his neighbor Sherry, who lived right next door,
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  Speaker 2: to come to the station to answer some questions and
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  Speaker 2: hopefully shed some light on what really happened to KJ.
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  Speaker 2: According to Sherry, she and Wade had a cordial relationship,
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  Speaker 2: occasionally spending evenings watching TV together in her apartment. But
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  Speaker 2: Wade made a comment about KJ that left Sherry feeling concerned.
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  Speaker 22: Also, he told me that she had fallen in the
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  Speaker 22: bathroom and that thought she might have a skull fracture.
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  Speaker 22: And I said, well, you need to take her to
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  Speaker 22: the emergency room. He goes, I'm taking.
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  Speaker 4: Care of her.
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  Speaker 2: This development immediately put officers on high alert. In the
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  Speaker 2: story he told officers, Wade explained KJ fell in the
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: kitchen while making cereal. In this version, Wade said she
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: fell in the bathroom. This is only the first of
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: many red flags in this story.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: She wasn't able to feed herself.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: And that really.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: I did my best to try to help feed her.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: So one time I came in, I saw her sitting
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: on the tub and I tried to feed her this meal.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: I want to be freezer better because I have a
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: bunch of those. And it was chilly. And she was
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: just kind of like holding it like this. And then
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: she just moved so slow. And there was just chilly
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: all over her.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Wade explained that KJ even struggled to drink water at times,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: despite his attempts to help her.
• 18:56
  Speaker 20: Did you try to get some medical treatment for her,
• 18:58
  Speaker 20: see what was going on, anything like that?
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: I didn't take her, no.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: I didn't know if she could move or get around.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: What do you mean by that? She just wasn't walking.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: Like I said, her motor skills were.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: I did start talking to her caseworker about how she
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: might need.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Adult foster care.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Because before even that, there were issues of bladder control problems.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Like on my bed, I've got a big old yellow
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: stand for where she'd be on that. In the kitchen,
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: like I have. She had issues with bladder control.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Sherry, Wade's neighbor, had more to share. Over time, she'd
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: grown to feel extremely uneasy in his company. It wasn't
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: long before an eerie and unprompted confession validated her strange
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: feelings about Wade. From here, the story takes an even
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: darker turn, suggesting that what police know about Wade so
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: far barely scratches the surface.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: He told me that he hit women.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: He told you that he hit women?
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that he was working on it.
• 20:20
  Speaker 22: Because I've been through domestic violence, and I told him,
• 20:24
  Speaker 22: you can't do that, you know?
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I said, you can go to jail for that. He goes,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I know I'm working on it.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: After Wade's comments, Sherry remained friendly, but guarded, and she
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: decided to ease off of their visits.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: I thought, I don't.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Want him in my house because he'd be dragging me.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Within two weeks of KJ's supposed fall, Wade claims that
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: something terrible happened. Keep in mind that he knows the
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: officers are working their way through his apartment, and he
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: knows what they're going to find. He's setting himself up
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: with a story he thinks will explain away the stomach-churning evidence.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: I figured she'd be okay in a bathtub, just taking
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: a bath.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: So I started the water for her. I thought she'd
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: be okay if she was laying.
• 21:17
  Speaker 19: Down, not standing up.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't have to watch over her. She wouldn't fall. Right.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: So when I see her in the morning, she was breathing,
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: and I just What really shocked me is when I
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: saw her feet. And it means that she started with
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: hot water and I don't know, didn't have the strength to.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Turn the knob. I can't understand why she didn't turn
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: it or adjust it or... And I don't know if
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: that was the cause of death, if it's.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: Hot water, or if maybe she tried to get out
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: and fell or something.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: I seriously do want to know what the cause of
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: death was, because I really don't know.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: With this claim, Wade has confirmed that KJ isn't missing.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: She's dead.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: When you left the bathroom, how was she positioned? She
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: was laying in the tub. Okay.
• 22:45
  Speaker 13: So this is where I don't see anything on the
• 22:57
  Speaker 13: outside of the fridge.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: The naked eye. See the thing underneath? And did you
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: go back in there? I went to sleep. You went
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: to sleep? I thought she was going to be okay.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Authorities struggle to understand Wade's logic. In what world would
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: someone leave a person who was incapable of eating, drinking,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: or moving around without help alone in a tub full
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: of water? There's one very good reason for this. Wade
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: isn't telling them the truth. While on a break in
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: the back room, officers wrestle with ideas about what's really
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: going on.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: This guy, like, not all there. He's not all there.
• 23:47
  Speaker 12: We thought we'd, like, I figured he'd choke him up
• 23:50
  Speaker 12: pretty easy, but he's either really good or he's just,
• 23:53
  Speaker 12: I don't like he's, yeah, I don't like he's all there.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: As the police will soon learn, it isn't that Wade
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: is out of his mind. Rather, he's attempting to manipulate
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: them in order to hide the truth of what really
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: happened to KJ. But the horrors uncovered back at his
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: apartment will reveal an entirely different version of events.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: So you're cast off. Something's right there, because that's CS.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: It's over here. Watch this way down. See it on a.
• 24:23
  Speaker 23: Yeah.
• 24:23
  Speaker 14: That looks like it hit pretty level.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: It's almost like it's all the way across.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: When the officers interviewing Wade return to speak with him,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: they press him further, hoping to get a story that
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: makes sense. What Wade soon tells them is chilling.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: And then when did you go back into the bathtub?
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Or the bathroom, I'm sorry. Not till morning when I
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: woke up and realized she wasn't back with me.
• 24:51
  Speaker 14: Was the water still running or was the water off?
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: Uh, water was off so she had to have turned
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: it at some point.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Had to have.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Was her head above water or below water?
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Below water.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Below water. Okay. What happened at that point?
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: Did you.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: If KJ's death was truly an accident, it's hard to
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: fathom why Wade wouldn't immediately call for help. Wade has
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: also just lied to police. Or at the very least,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: he's leaving something integral out of this story. Given the
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: 911 call reporting KJ's death, Wade had to have told
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: someone about KJ's death.
• 25:43
  Speaker 15: It turns out that Wade had no question in his
• 25:46
  Speaker 15: mind about the identity of the mysterious caller who reported.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Him to the authorities. And Wade was right. The caller
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: was his own best friend.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Stephen Ryan Russ. Wade explained that after everything had happened,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: his only way to cope with KJ's death was to
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: tell someone, so he confided in Stephen. But what he
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: told him was so disturbing that Stephen couldn't keep it
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: to himself. When police bring Stephen in for questioning, it's
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: clear from the start he has reservations about speaking up.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Is this going to be in court? This could possibly
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: be used in court, yeah. So Wade's going to know
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: about this? Here he goes. All right, so the whole.
• 26:41
  Speaker 20: Case came to light when the central dispatch got a call.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: Regarding Wade and KJ. Do you know about that call? Yes,
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: I do. Did you place that call to central dispatch? Yes,
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: I did. And what was that call in reference to?
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: My family was getting very scared of him, and.
• 27:04
  Speaker 24: It was to the point that they couldn't even sleep,
• 27:07
  Speaker 24: so I had.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: To do something.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Stephen continues, explaining the series of Facebook messages that turned
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: his world upside down.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: He said that he did something and that he can't
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: talk to.
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: Anyone about it.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: And I was like, well, I'm your brother. You can
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: talk to me.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: According to Stephen, Wade then explained that KJ had passed
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: away unexpectedly and he didn't report her death to the police.
• 27:33
  Speaker 18: He wanted us to help him move the body with
• 27:35
  Speaker 18: the car and we both told him no.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: That we can't do that. And I was like, you know,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: you're one of my closest friends, and I'll keep your
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: secret for you, but obviously I couldn't.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: In interrogation, Wade tries to explain his choice to hide
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: KJ's death, hoping to ease detective suspicions.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: It's hard to feel like I can be honest if
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: I feel like I go through scenarios all the time
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: where I'm accused.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Well, I can tell you we're not here making any accusation.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: We're just here to... By now, Wade knew he was
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: in trouble. KJ's body was still in his apartment, and
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: he needed it gone. Stephen eventually paid him a visit,
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: and things only got worse. He's asked me if I
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: wanted to see the body, and I told him no.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: I really didn't want anything to do with it. I
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: didn't even want to be in there. It felt like
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: there was an elephant sitting on my chest.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: When asked why Wade would keep KJ's body in the apartment,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Stephen gave an answer that only hinted at the truth.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: My guess is because he didn't have the means of
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: getting rid of it.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: I treated it like I was guilty of the situation.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Wade's desire to give KJ a proper burial is chilling,
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: and his next comments stir up the eerie feeling that
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Wade desires some sort of control, a theme that will
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: surface again soon. As disturbing as this story is, it's
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: only the beginning of the sickening revelations because Wade still
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: isn't telling the full story.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: At least wherever I'll put her, I would visit her.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't want her to have, like, nobody visit.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: Her, you know?
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know what you guys would do
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: with her now, but if I could know where she
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: was buried, I'd like to.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: Go. Yeah. A couple paper stuff.
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: I want to look, so.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: The police then question Wade about what happened after he
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: claims he found KJ dead, and he launches into a
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: truly sickening timeline. But no matter how shocking his revelations seem,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: they pale in comparison to what's to come when the
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: truth is revealed.
• 30:27
  Speaker 20: So let's get back to our sequence of what how
• 30:31
  Speaker 20: things kind of played out and what happened.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: So, wake up in the morning, she's in the bathtub,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: she's not breathing.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: What transpired from there? Well, it's not pretty, I'll tell
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: you that.
• 30:54
  Speaker 24: Seeing things that I can't unsee, but.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: Okay, so I... It took me a while to get
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: some coolers. In the process of that, I would run
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: cold water on her until I got some coolers. Because
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: I was like....
• 31:18
  Speaker 23: I mean, you have a lot of detective shows, right?
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 31:22
  Speaker 14: They're good.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: If you keep the body cold or something, maybe.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: They'll preserve it.
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: Maybe I'm ignorant of what I'm thinking, but that's TV, right?
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: I've seen the whole decompensation process. And I'll come in.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: I'll come in and check on her. I know she's passed,
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: but I still talk to her.
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: Which probably makes you greatly... I definitely don't think there's
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: something that makes you crazy. I mean, I.
• 31:55
  Speaker 20: It's no different than someone who goes to a gravesite
• 31:57
  Speaker 20: and talks to one of their loved ones who's passed.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: First couple days, she's movable, right? Right.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: Then after that, you see, like, the blood kind of
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: settle where she was laying at. And then after that,
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: that's when I started seeing, like, black around her fingertips
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: and her groin.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: Waistline and by then she was pretty stiff for a
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: good while because when she was.
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: Laid in the tub she kind of laid like against
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: the wall I think or something but even after a
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: while the stiffness faded away and she just kind of you.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Know laid on her.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Shoulder Now, Wade was in a pickle. With a decomposing
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: body in his bathtub and with Stephen's refusal to help
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: him move it, it was only a matter of time
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: until someone caught on. So, he hatched a plan. On
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: April 12th, around six days after KJ's death, Wade saved
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: up the money to buy a large cooler, air freshener,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: and 30-gallon trash bags.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: So what happened at that point?
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: You said that you bought one and then realized you
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: needed a second.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: What do you mean by that? But I wanted to
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: put her all in one so she could be whole.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: But I couldn't.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Really move her in any kind of way to keep
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: her whole. Nothing I could do to keep her remain whole.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: That's where I really got hurt. So is it a
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: bloodbath in there?
• 33:54
  Speaker 14: What happened at that point?
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: When I had to get the second cooler, I had
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: to put her legs in that one.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to lie, that was the grossest thing ever.
• 34:09
  Speaker 20: I guess help me understand how she was in one
• 34:13
  Speaker 20: and her legs were in another.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: I had to cut her legs.
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: When Wade couldn't fit KJ's body into one large cooler,
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: he decided dismemberment was his only option.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: But he didn't exactly keep a low profile. Instead, he
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: asked to borrow a saw from his neighbor Sherry, not
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: an unusual request, if it weren't for his bizarre explanation.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: According to Sherry, Wade claimed he needed the tool to
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: cut his mattress in half. When he wasn't able to
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: use someone else's saw, he purchased his own from a
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: local supermarket and then got to work.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Where did you come from, by the way?
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: This is the most disgusting thing ever. Hopefully you never
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: have to see something like.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: This in your life, ever. All right, so here and
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: then here.
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: I started here, but then I realized her knees were
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: still over the edge.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: I had to go here, too.
• 35:57
  Speaker 23: What I would have wanted to do, except she was
• 36:00
  Speaker 23: too heavy for me, is take her under a shower,
• 36:05
  Speaker 23: get her washed off, because after she passed on, she
• 36:09
  Speaker 23: crapped herself.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: I was like, man. I didn't even know that until
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: I got into the cooler.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: The police working their way through Wade's apartment eventually confronted
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: the sickening discovery hidden in his cooler.
• 36:22
  Speaker 20: Now, remember, when we opened this, This is something that
• 36:26
  Speaker 20: we're not ever going to be able to unsee.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. Her head, her arms, her breasts. She's been
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: gone for a while.
• 36:43
  Speaker 16: Yep.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: Her legs are detached. It's above the knee. Yep. Bugs
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: have made their way in. Yep. There's a large amount
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: of food for them. Definitely female. Appears to be Caucasian. Naked,
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: no clothes.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. And cut up. Nice.
• 37:16
  Speaker 14: Okay, now it stinked.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: Well, so there's a lot more evidence in here somewhere. Yeah,
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: now it does.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: The officers have only discovered part of what they believe
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: to be KJ's body, but it won't be long before
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: they find the rest.
• 37:33
  Speaker 14: Get a picture of that.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: So that's where it is. So we are going to
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: move this. So this cooler is what we think Might
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: have the other parts in it. I will lift it up.
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: It is tied in a knot up here. I will
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: cut right here.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, those are her legs.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: I saw some toes and an ankle. Are you able
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: to open that up? Yeah, there's two of them in there. Okay,
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: this is probably not the best place to puke.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: From his apartment, authorities also collected clear safety goggles, rubber gloves,
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: and several small items, including bungee cords, a black belt,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: and a white ribbon. This white ribbon, a seemingly innocuous
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: discovery compared to the horrors already uncovered, would turn out
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: to be a clue to the stomach-churning truth of what
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: really happened to KJ.
• 38:56
  Speaker 14: Was her head attached?
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah. She's in the cooler. Yeah.
• 39:04
  Speaker 14: That's all I've seen was her arm and part of
• 39:06
  Speaker 14: her chest, and I just shut it.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: Through the femur.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Authorities shift focus to the saw, which wasn't recovered from
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Wade's apartment during the initial search. Wade says that shortly
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: after he dismembered KJ's body, he contacted a friend he
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: knew through the local shelter system to negotiate a trade,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: a saw for a DVD player. Is there a reason
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: they got rid of it? or just had it and didn't.
• 39:27
  Speaker 15: Really need it?
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: And how did that whole thing play out with Bill?
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: He needed it, and I needed a DVD player.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: While Wade describes trading the saw as a casual, serendipitous event,
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: police catch up with the man who received the saw,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: and he describes an entirely different scenario.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: Like, he really was wanting to hear it to me.
• 39:54
  Speaker 10: I'm like, well, just wait until I bring you the DVD,
• 39:55
  Speaker 10: because I don't like doing deals where I owe somebody,
• 39:58
  Speaker 10: because then I've got it on the back of my
• 39:59
  Speaker 10: mind constantly. So I was like, just wait. And he's like, no, no, here,
• 40:03
  Speaker 10: just take it out.
• 40:04
  Speaker 20: Would you say that he was insisting that you take
• 40:06
  Speaker 20: the saw?
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: Pretty much, yes, he was insisting. Because I even said no,
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: not right now. Did you notice anything about the saw
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: that was weird? I was looking at the.
• 40:19
  Speaker 10: You can see, like, in the serration, there looked like a.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: Chunk of something in there.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: DNA testing of the saw blade did reveal the possibility
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: of blood present, although further details could not be confirmed.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not proud of anything at all.
• 40:35
  Speaker 14: Sure, but stuff happens, and we're just trying to get the.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: That's not how this should be. Okay. He kept saying
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: that word, like, this is not how you should have went.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Upon reflection, Bill explained this wasn't the only thing that
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: seemed off when he was around Wade.
• 41:00
  Speaker 20: And then when you heard about Wade getting arrested, what
• 41:03
  Speaker 20: was the first thought in your mind?
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: I didn't believe it.
• 41:05
  Speaker 10: I'm like, because I've been hanging out with him.
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: I freaked out because I was sitting on the cooler
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: and I didn't know. I smelled it. Like, you know,
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: now I know what a dead body smell is, but I,
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: you know, that smell was there. As soon as I
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: walked in, it was bad. You know, I was just thinking, man,
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: this guy's got some nasty bowels or something. But that's
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: what I honestly thought that was. But now I know
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: that it.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Was a body smell.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: By now, the police are more than suspicious that the
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: story Wade is telling them isn't the truth, but just
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: what exactly he was hiding remained to be seen. Still, Sherry,
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Wade's neighbor, may have had some idea about what was
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: really going on behind the closed door of Wade's apartment.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: In her interview, she recalled one of the few interactions
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: she ever had with KJ. One day, she stopped by
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Wade's door to ask for coffee and was surprised when
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: KJ greeted her at the door. Sherry didn't know it
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: at the time, but as KJ peered out from behind
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: the front door, she didn't have a stitch of clothing on.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: KJ agreed to send Wade over shortly. When he showed
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: up on Sherry's doorstep, coffee in hand, he wasn't happy.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: According to Sherry, Wade admitted to forcing KJ to walk
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: around their home naked, and by answering the door that day,
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: she'd apparently crossed the line.
• 42:16
  Speaker 22: He said, uh, she shouldn't have opened the door like that.
• 42:21
  Speaker 22: I said, well, I didn't see anything. And he goes,
• 42:24
  Speaker 22: I'm gonna have to get.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: The belt out.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: But back in the interrogation room, Wade doesn't do much
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: to refute his neighbor's accusations. In fact, he expands on them.
• 42:33
  Speaker 14: You've never gone to jail for.
• 42:36
  Speaker 15: fighting somebody or pushing somebody or any kind of domestic
• 42:41
  Speaker 15: violence or anything crazy like that.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: But domestic things in the past have been dismissed and courted.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: A pattern is beginning to emerge. While Wade admits fault
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: in some instances, the admissions almost seem calculated, as if
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: they're designed to distract from the larger questions at hand.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: I said, if I hear any domestic violence, I'm going
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: to call the police.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Sherry never called the police, but Wade eventually admits to
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: the officers that he did hurt KJ.
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: All right, I kicked her in the butt because I
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: was ashamed of her cheating on me and such.
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: You know, I shouldn't have, but I did.
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: And then when I find out in court she tried
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: to blame these bruises of her ankles on me, I
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: thought it had nothing to do with her ankles.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: That's false evidence.
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: Because what happened was she fell down by the railroad, again,
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: the balance issue, by the railroad tracks.
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: And that caused the bruises from her ankles rolling.
• 43:45
  Speaker 14: Not from you kicking her, though.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: No.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: Gotcha. I guess she had reason for concern.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Soon, officers place Wade in a holding cell while they
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: continue to investigate, and as if it were everyday conversation,
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Wade nonchalantly confirms his neighbor's allegations. Earlier, when Wade was
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: first brought in, he contemplated his choice to hide KJ's death.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: Most disturbingly, despite knowing what the officers at his apartment
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: were going to discover and knowing what he had done,
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: he somehow still had an appetite to eat the cookies
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: offered to him.
• 44:22
  Speaker 20: All right, Wade, so what I would like to know
• 44:26
  Speaker 20: from you Is, in your own words, what.
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: Happened to Kelly Jean?
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: On the day I found her like that, if I
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: had called her then, would there be a different outcome?
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: Anything different?
• 44:43
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I don't know. It just depends on, you know,
• 44:46
  Speaker 14: when it was and all that.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: His indifference was yet another subtle sign of the horrors
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: to come. But still, no one can prepare themselves for
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: the nauseating story that is eventually revealed.
• 44:59
  Speaker 14: When was the last time you used a belt on her?
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Probably a day or two before.
• 45:06
  Speaker 14: Before she died?
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but that couldn't cause death.
• 45:10
  Speaker 14: I wouldn't think it would. Why did you use a
• 45:13
  Speaker 14: belt on her? Because I had one in his hands.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: Okay. What did she do to deserve the belt?
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Her coming back type thing.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 45:24
  Speaker 14: So it's punishment to her.
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: But that's my point.
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: I started using the belt because I didn't want to
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: use hands anymore.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: Okay. That's why I'm not saying it's that much better.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: It shouldn't be physical anyways.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Sherry had a different theory, one that was sickeningly close
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: to the truth.
• 45:45
  Speaker 22: I never really saw her because I think that he
• 45:51
  Speaker 22: was keeping her in there and not wanting anybody to
• 45:54
  Speaker 22: see her.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: By now, authorities know more than they're letting on. And
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: with one question, they signal to Wade that his house
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: of lies is about to collapse around him.
• 46:04
  Speaker 14: We're not going to find any belt marks around her neck,
• 46:06
  Speaker 14: are we? That's just a question I got asked.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: I don't think you all know.
• 46:14
  Speaker 9: What if we do?
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: With Wade's history of alleged violence, authorities are hoping for
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: first-hand witnesses, and when they catch up with his most
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: recent ex-girlfriend, Katie, they get more than they bargained for.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Katie explained that she'd known Wade since childhood, and their
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: relationship became romantic in 2018, just one year prior, but
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: it was short-lived, ending abruptly after only three months.
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: So what happened that ended your guys' relationship?
• 46:47
  Speaker 11: Okay, so.
• 46:49
  Speaker 16: My kids had just started school again and I needed
• 46:52
  Speaker 16: to be home with them. And so I couldn't do
• 46:55
  Speaker 16: whatever he was asking me to do, like pick him.
• 46:57
  Speaker 11: Up or something.
• 46:58
  Speaker 16: And he ended up showing up here, but I had
• 47:02
  Speaker 16: my kids and I could not take him. And he
• 47:06
  Speaker 16: started to fight out here. And I finally was like, okay,
• 47:09
  Speaker 16: just get in the car. Like, I'll take you just
• 47:11
  Speaker 16: to get you away from me. And my kids were
• 47:15
  Speaker 16: in the backseat and he was in the front seat
• 47:18
  Speaker 16: with me. And we were driving towards Hale-Mizzou and he
• 47:22
  Speaker 16: realized that I was going to leave him there. And
• 47:25
  Speaker 16: he said something and I just put my hand across.
• 47:29
  Speaker 11: I didn't even touch him.
• 47:31
  Speaker 16: I just was like, stop, like, just stop. My kids
• 47:34
  Speaker 16: are right there. Like, you're freaking out. And he told
• 47:37
  Speaker 16: me that he would break my arm if I ever
• 47:39
  Speaker 16: did that again. And so my daughter, she's.
• 47:42
  Speaker 11: A diabetic, and she started.
• 47:46
  Speaker 16: I didn't know at the time, but she was like, Mom,
• 47:48
  Speaker 16: my sugar's going well.
• 47:50
  Speaker 11: But she was just thinking it to get back home.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: Smart girl.
• 47:56
  Speaker 11: So I got us back here. My kids got in
• 47:58
  Speaker 11: the house. I got.
• 48:01
  Speaker 16: away from him out of the car. And he's like,
• 48:05
  Speaker 16: just get back in the.
• 48:05
  Speaker 11: Car and take me. And I'm like, no, I'm not
• 48:07
  Speaker 11: getting back in the car.
• 48:08
  Speaker 16: And I put like a bicycle and a chair between
• 48:11
  Speaker 16: us and I wouldn't let him get close enough.
• 48:13
  Speaker 11: He's like, no, I'm not going to hurt you. Just
• 48:16
  Speaker 11: come here. Let's just figure this out. And I was like, no, no, no.
• 48:19
  Speaker 11: You need to find like somewhere else to go somewhere.
• 48:22
  Speaker 11: Like get away from me. I don't want anything to
• 48:24
  Speaker 11: do with you.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: And before the detective leaves, she suggests something far more
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: sinister may be at play.
• 48:31
  Speaker 11: If I wouldn't have ended things when I did, that
• 48:33
  Speaker 11: would have been me. And that's terrifying to me.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: As police slowly gather more pieces to this puzzle, a
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: clearer picture starts to emerge. Authorities are ready to confront Wade. Unsurprisingly,
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: Wade uses the opportunity to smooth over his story. But
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: in the process, he trips up.
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: He says, well, why didn't she scream or anything? I've
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: never seen that woman scream.
• 48:59
  Speaker 25: Never.
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: Never. I might have only seen her cry maybe four times. Okay.
• 49:09
  Speaker 14: What caused her to cry?
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: Two times.
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: It was pain-related. Like, where she got hurt, she cried.
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: How'd she get hurt? Was it she cut herself bad, or.
• 49:20
  Speaker 14: was it a broken bone?
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't even want to really talk
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: about that.
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: I just know that that's the only time I've ever
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: seen her cry.
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: She was twice out of pain. And twice, when I
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: left her alone.
• 49:39
  Speaker 17: You don't want to talk about it? Did you cause
• 49:42
  Speaker 17: the pain to her? And you can be honest with me.
• 49:48
  Speaker 17: It's all about getting everything.
• 49:50
  Speaker 14: Off your chest.
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: When I left her alone, I know when she cried
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: being alone, I caused that emotional pain.
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: Physical pain. I don't think me causing her physical pain
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: caused her to cry. I think, well, maybe.
• 50:26
  Speaker 12: Maybe it was a little physical pain from you?
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: Talking about causing pain to people is just.
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: Not something I get a thrill out of.
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: It's not.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I understand that. I just don't want to talk
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: about it. That's it.
• 50:42
  Speaker 11: It's not appropriate.
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: It's not.
• 50:47
  Speaker 21: No.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: Ironically, despite Wade's claims here, he would eventually talk about
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: this very subject, and it would be what law enforcement
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: needed to break his case wide open. Soon, the officer
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: stands to leave the room. Sensing Wade's desperation, he presses
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: a little more.
• 51:04
  Speaker 17: When we do the autopsy, what marks are we going
• 51:06
  Speaker 17: to find that was from scuffles between the two of you?
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: Like her lips might be messed up.
• 51:13
  Speaker 14: Why would her lips be messed up?
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: And you can speak to me, man. It's just between
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: me and you.
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: It was not something that would cause her to go
• 51:26
  Speaker 5: through it.
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: Like, that night was a peaceful night. Okay, I want
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: that very clear. Well, we're getting somewhere now.
• 51:32
  Speaker 14: Now I'm starting to see a little bit.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Before wrapping up, the officer gives Wade one last chance
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: to come clean.
• 51:39
  Speaker 14: I got 30 seconds before I gotta walk out of here, okay?
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 51:44
  Speaker 17: Sue, you look me straight in the eye and tell
• 51:46
  Speaker 17: me that you're not the cause of her death.
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: No, I'm not.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: While police know Wade isn't telling them everything, they never
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: could have imagined the stories of depravity that would follow
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: this interrogation, and eventually KJ's autopsy would reveal a sickening story.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: After Wade was booked, The disturbing, stomach-churning truth was revealed.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: Authorities received statements from several of his cellmates requesting to
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: speak with them. One by one, these men explained that
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: Wade had shared every gruesome detail about what really happened
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: to KJ. And proudly, what they revealed shocked everyone.
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: What did Wade Allen tell you guys? Man, dude, this guy.
• 52:32
  Speaker 15: Is.
• 52:35
  Speaker 7: Let me just put it to you like this. He's
• 52:36
  Speaker 7: a serial killer. He told us that he physically had this.
• 52:44
  Speaker 26: Girl down on the bed with a white ribbon around
• 52:49
  Speaker 26: her neck, watching the clock for five minutes until she
• 52:58
  Speaker 26: was dead. And he brought her back to life.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: If you recall, police found ribbon while in Wade's apartment.
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: Some type of ribbon.
• 53:10
  Speaker 7: And when he did, the torture that he put her through, oh,
• 53:17
  Speaker 7: it's gross. It's disgusting.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: This is only the beginning of the horrifying reveals. Although
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: Wade's alleged jailhouse stories vary slightly, several of his cellmates
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: agree on a few particularly gruesome details about what happened
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: to KJ.
• 53:32
  Speaker 26: He told her, he says, you're going to die by
• 53:35
  Speaker 26: someone that loves you and not somebody that hates you.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: Curiously, investigators discovered that KJ's very last Facebook message was
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: to Wade on March 18th. The same day she suddenly
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: dropped all activity, the message read, I love you, you
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: are mine, and I am yours forevermore. I know that
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: you can't reply, but I wanted to tell you this
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: every day. This ominous message was just the beginning.
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: And you said he brought her back? What do you
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: mean by that?
• 54:03
  Speaker 7: He gave her CPR. That dude needs to be put
• 54:07
  Speaker 7: away for a long time, man.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: As police interview cellmate after cellmate, they each build on
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: the same story, and as they continue, what was already
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: a tragic story evolves into one of pure, unbridled evil.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: According to the men housed with Wade, his sick actions
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: may have started long before KJ's death. They claim Wade
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: had a jealous and controlling streak, and as one cellmate
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: tells it, KJ's life changed drastically after she confided in
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: a mutual friend about her relationship troubles.
• 54:38
  Speaker 25: His friend had a conversation with him and said that
• 54:42
  Speaker 25: Kelly had told his girlfriend that Wade was being too
• 54:45
  Speaker 25: rough with her as far as sexuality went. Wade said
• 54:51
  Speaker 25: that from that point on, he was furious because his
• 54:55
  Speaker 25: sexual matters weren't to be discussed with his friends, they
• 55:00
  Speaker 25: were personal.
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: So he said he.
• 55:02
  Speaker 25: Never let her go to whoever's house that it was again,
• 55:06
  Speaker 25: that from that day on when he went to work,
• 55:09
  Speaker 25: he started tying her up and placing her in the closet.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: And if binding KJ alone in a dark closet for
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: hours on end wasn't sickening enough, another inmate describes an
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: unthinkably heinous act.
• 55:20
  Speaker 19: He gagged her with a screwdriver and a horse rag,
• 55:24
  Speaker 19: and he would put a horse rag around into the
• 55:26
  Speaker 19: screwdriver and made it like a horse bit. That's why
• 55:31
  Speaker 19: you would have to take the bit out of her
• 55:32
  Speaker 19: mouth because he could wet the horse rag into her
• 55:34
  Speaker 19: water so he'd keep her tied up longer without having
• 55:37
  Speaker 19: to untie her.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: And what was the purpose of that?
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: So she couldn't yell and scream.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: According to Wade's cellmates, KJ initially fought back against Wade's mistreatment.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: When she threatened to go to the police, Wade amped
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: up his efforts to silence her.
• 55:51
  Speaker 25: Wade started tying her up and keeping her to where
• 55:53
  Speaker 25: she couldn't go anywhere.
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: Like, she didn't go outside, she didn't go nowhere. Mm-hmm.
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: It seems that Sherry had been right all along.
• 56:02
  Speaker 7: I think that.
• 56:06
  Speaker 22: He was keeping her in there and not wanting anybody
• 56:09
  Speaker 22: to see her.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: According to his cellmates, the truth behind KJ's death was
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: so twisted, so unimaginably brutal, that it kept them up
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: at night. In fact, after they heard Wade's latest retelling
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: of events, the men took shifts sleeping, making sure there
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: was always someone keeping an eye on him. His cellmates
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: said that after Wade choked KJ to the brink of death,
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: she lost her motor function, the ability to speak, and
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: the ability to control her bowels and bladder.
• 56:36
  Speaker 14: Then.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: She remained alive in this helpless state for around two
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: weeks before her death.
• 56:42
  Speaker 24: He said he didn't know if it killed her, but
• 56:45
  Speaker 24: he had to smack her to get her to come back.
• 56:49
  Speaker 24: And I guess she never actually came back. She came back,
• 56:52
  Speaker 24: but she wasn't there. So, and that's, you know, she
• 56:57
  Speaker 24: wasn't coherent.
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: You know, she was.
• 57:02
  Speaker 24: She never talked again to him, but he got her
• 57:06
  Speaker 24: to breathe again.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: And in the meantime, according to another cellmate, she suffered unspeakably.
• 57:12
  Speaker 19: A couple times he went in there and just put
• 57:14
  Speaker 19: his hand over her face and nose to see if
• 57:16
  Speaker 19: he could, he said, but she wouldn't die, like she.
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: Didn't want to die.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: According to another man housed with Wade, he even seemed
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: to regard her suffering as an inconvenience for him. Bit
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: by bit, police are beginning to piece together the gut-wrenching
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: reality of KJ's last days. While Wade claimed to have
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: been attempting to feed her and care for her in
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: her state of helplessness, this was a complete lie, and
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: in fact, he was torturing her.
• 57:49
  Speaker 27: They got to the point where he was laying in
• 57:50
  Speaker 27: bed one day, and he felt the need to take
• 57:54
  Speaker 27: a torch that he had, and he said he burned
• 57:56
  Speaker 27: her tongue, her clothes, and her nipples so that she
• 58:03
  Speaker 27: would never feel arousal from another male again.
• 58:06
  Speaker 19: He said he even put her in a bathtub and
• 58:08
  Speaker 19: dumped scalding hot water on her feet to see if
• 58:10
  Speaker 19: she had any movement, and she wouldn't move, scream, or nothing.
• 58:13
  Speaker 19: He said it was so hot that he boiled the
• 58:15
  Speaker 19: water and dumped it on her. He said it burnt
• 58:17
  Speaker 19: her skin and everything right off of her.
• 58:19
  Speaker 27: Since she was not bothered by it no more, he
• 58:22
  Speaker 27: had to take it a step further to show her
• 58:24
  Speaker 27: that when she was in the wrong, she was in
• 58:26
  Speaker 27: the wrong.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: The informants say that this is precisely when Wade injured
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: KJ to the point of her incapacitation and eventual death.
• 58:33
  Speaker 19: He said no matter what he did to her, that
• 58:35
  Speaker 19: she had no movement.
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: Eventually, she just passed on her own.
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: Somehow, even after KJ's death, the hellish scene in Wade's
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: apartment wasn't over. In fact, according to his cellmate, he
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: wasn't even close to finished with KJ. It was then
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: that Wade sunk to a low so unbelievable that his
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: cellmate struggled to find the words.
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: He'd warm the body up and.
• 58:57
  Speaker 24: Have sexual relations with it or whatever you want to
• 59:01
  Speaker 24: call it.
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: You know, that's just, I didn't, you.
• 59:04
  Speaker 24: Know, I didn't, I was like, geez, you know, I
• 59:06
  Speaker 24: wasn't trying to hear any of that, but I'm just.
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: yeah, he's a monster.
• 59:12
  Speaker 7: I don't, I mean.
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: Can we back up to that part? What do you
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: mean he warmed the body up?
• 59:21
  Speaker 24: In the tub, he would run warm water on it
• 59:23
  Speaker 24: and then cool it down with cold.
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: Water after he did whatever he did with it.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: And according to another informant, Wade shared sick details about
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: his horrific actions openly.
• 59:33
  Speaker 7: He was like, yeah, he was like, it was kind
• 59:36
  Speaker 7: of rough at first. He was like, well, her jaw
• 59:38
  Speaker 7: just eventually.
• 59:39
  Speaker 26: Opened up and I just took advantage of it before
• 59:43
  Speaker 26: I had to chop her up.
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: I was like, whoa.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, as this nightmarish scenario took place, Wade's next door neighbor, Sherry,
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: started to notice a foul odor drifting into her own apartment.
• 59:55
  Speaker 22: But then like over the last two weeks, And he
• 59:59
  Speaker 22: was even sitting there. I said, what is that smell?
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 22: It smells like something died. Like something's dead. I thought
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 22: maybe an animal or something. And he goes, well, there's
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 22: a mouse in my wall.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Maybe it died.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 22: First it smelled like gas and it smelled like feces.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 22: And then it smelled like death.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: It also seemed that the five or so weeks KJ's
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: body was hidden in the coolers was no accident.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: He was hoping that sitting in the totes for.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 19: Whatever, however long he kept her in there, that.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 26: She would decompose enough that it wouldn't show the signs
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 26: of the bolts on her back and the bruising from him.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 7: Wade told you that?
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: AKJ's autopsy revealed multiple areas of bruising, including her chin, neck,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: and right ear. Her hyoid bone, situated at the top
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: of the neck underneath the chin area, was fractured. This
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: is considered a strong indicator of strangulation due to the
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: rarity of fractures from other types of trauma. Ultimately, her
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: death was ruled as a homicide by unspecified means.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 26: He would sit and watch Criminal Minds and talk about,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 26: if I had it, I wish I had watched this
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 26: and I could have done it differently.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: The way he talked, it seemed like he had done
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 4: it before.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: According to his cellmates, it was Wade's total lack of remorse,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: even bragging, that set them off the most.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 27: It's out there, man. He's just laughing about it. He
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 27: can talk about it like it's nothing to it. I mean,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 27: he jokes about it, um, Breaks out a police report
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 27: and lets people, if you're interested in reading something that way,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 27: he'll let you read it. And it's just, it's beyond me.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 27: I mean, and he said he loved the girl. I mean,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 27: you don't love somebody that can do this kind of
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 27: stuff to a man.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 19: Right.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: One cellmate explained that, in addition to Wade's sick, unmerciful behavior,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: he was so proud of his actions that he felt
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: he deserved notoriety. He nicknamed himself Chops, and he even
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: hoped to write a book. Despite Wade's claims, KJ did
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: have a family, one that was concerned about her well-being
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: and wanted to see her be happy in life.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 7: She had a family.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: And that's good to know, you know.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 19: I got to get the emotional part of it, you know.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 7: I feel for that.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: I feel for her family. I completely agree.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 7: So do I.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just happy that I got to talk to you.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: Sherry expressed her horror that she didn't see this coming.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: I didn't think he could do something like that. But
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: you don't know people. I mean, Ted Bundy, everybody liked him, too.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: When Wade's case went to trial, the first two searches
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: of Wade's apartment were deemed unconstitutional on the grounds that
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: Wade may have felt threatened during his detainment. It was
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: also discovered that police officers falsely claimed to notice an
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: odor coming from Wade's apartment in their reports. These claims
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: were later recanted. Although Wade's defense aimed to suppress evidence
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: obtained as a result of these initial searches, the appellate
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: court ultimately ruled against them, stating that the discovery of
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: the coolers was inevitable with a warrant. which at that
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: point was already justified. In 2023, Wade was convicted of
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: murder in the second degree, as well as mutilation of
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: a dead body. He pled no contest and was sentenced
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: to 39 to 60 years in prison. But Wade's brutality
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: didn't stop with KJ. He was also convicted of third
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: degree criminal conduct after assaulting a fellow inmate in 2020.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: Once he discovered that his cellmates had spoken to police,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: he attacked one of the men.