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Topless woman crushed in trash chute of luxury apartments. Dad says it's NO ACCIDENT! · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: You know what, I am very familiar with trash shoots
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  Speaker 1: in Manhattan apartment of Buildings. I have a trash hute
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  Speaker 1: just like that myself. I don't think there's any way
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  Speaker 1: because the trash huote is up at about chest level
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  Speaker 1: number one. This woman was partially naked, which defies everything
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  Speaker 1: we know about female suicide and what was she Nadia
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  Speaker 1: Combin needs that she could make a giant leap and
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  Speaker 1: go down head first down the trash hute that's only
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  Speaker 1: about fourteen inches by fourteen inches. I'm not buying it.
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  Speaker 1: This Manhattan woman, come say dies after falling into a
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  Speaker 1: trash ute in a luxury apartment, But now they're revising that,
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  Speaker 1: saying she may have been strangled to death. Crime Stories
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  Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace. The building goes by two different names,
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  Speaker 1: one Irving Plaza and Zecondorf Towers and workers made that
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  Speaker 1: grizzly discovery about four thirty this afternoon, the body of
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  Speaker 1: a forty eight year old woman, a resident of the building,
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  Speaker 1: found stuffed in the building's trash compactor. If they know
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  Speaker 1: how she got there, police aren't yet, saying crime scene
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  Speaker 1: investigators got to the second doorf Towers tonight to try
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  Speaker 1: and figure out how the body of a forty eight
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  Speaker 1: year old woman ended up in a trash compactor in
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  Speaker 1: the building. They had the barricades up around in the entrance,
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  Speaker 1: and I have never seen twenty detectives wandering around anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: So it had to be some serious thing with suspicious circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: because why else or twenty detectives show up. But police
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  Speaker 1: were not giving many details. Some residents believe the garb
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  Speaker 1: and shoot is big enough to put a body in,
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  Speaker 1: and residents did get this email instructing them not to
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  Speaker 1: use the shoots for the time being. The shoots are
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  Speaker 1: now locked shut. You were just hearing our friends at
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  Speaker 1: ABC seven Eyewitness News. That was Jim Dolan. I mean, see, Grace,
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  Speaker 1: this is crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: I say, there's no way in h double l that
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  Speaker 1: a half naked woman is going to jump down a
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  Speaker 1: trash shoot in New York City. I'm not buying it
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  Speaker 1: with me. At All Star Panel, Ashley Wilcot, judge, trial lawyer,
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  Speaker 1: anchor Court TV at ashe Wilcot dot Com, John Wagner,
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  Speaker 1: Chief of Police, Warner Robbins, Georgia. Doctor Michelle Dupree, renowned
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina medical examiner, author homicide investigation Phiel died. Doctor
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  Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst to the stars, joining us from LA.
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  Speaker 1: You can find her at doctor Bethany Marshall dot com.
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  Speaker 1: But right now to investigate. Every reporter with the New
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  Speaker 1: York Post, my favorite newspaper, Tina more. Tina, I mean, really,
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  Speaker 1: a half naked woman throws herself down a tiny trash shoot.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me what happens. Start at the beginning, Tina, help
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  Speaker 1: me make some sense out of this thing. It's really suspicious.
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  Speaker 1: Her death, that was definitely strange, and we're all were
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  Speaker 1: looking for more. But all the local officials told us
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  Speaker 1: that there was no south place suspected, so that's sort
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  Speaker 1: of where it ended. We were concerned, but obviously her
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  Speaker 1: family they really wanted to the want of people, to
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  Speaker 1: investigators to do more, so they wouldn't got an outside investigator.
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  Speaker 1: Enter renowned pathologist doctor Michael Boden. He's been on many,
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  Speaker 1: many high profile homicide investigations. He has a completely different
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  Speaker 1: take on it. He says she may have been asphyxiated.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to our friends at CBS two. This is New
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  Speaker 1: York reporter Jessica Layton. People who live here say, coming
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  Speaker 1: home and seeing the NYPD's mobile crime scene unit outside,
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  Speaker 1: along with getting an email that said don't use the
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  Speaker 1: trash shoot, we're both pretty good indicators that something pretty
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  Speaker 1: bad happened here today. The NYPD has been swarming the
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  Speaker 1: building for hours after the discovery of a body in
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  Speaker 1: the compactors shoot of Grammercy Tower here at one Irving Place.
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  Speaker 1: Police say just before five o'clock tonight, the body of
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  Speaker 1: a forty eight year old woman was found in the
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  Speaker 1: trash compactor. We don't know how she got there or
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  Speaker 1: who found her. Now. The building has had some pretty
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  Speaker 1: high profile residence. This is where Anthony Weener and his
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  Speaker 1: wife Huma Abadeen used to live together. Residents say the
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  Speaker 1: incident and the police presence have been very alarming. It's scary.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, when I texted my boyfriend about this, he
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  Speaker 1: told me to get out of the building because he
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  Speaker 1: was worried. Police are not releasing the name of the
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  Speaker 1: woman who died until all of her family members have
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  Speaker 1: been notified, and at this point tonight, it's unclear whether
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  Speaker 1: police are searching for a suspect. There have been two
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  Speaker 1: names linked to her, Laura Prechenko and beginning now Laura Prijotko.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Boden concludes that she may have died of homicidal
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  Speaker 1: ligature strangulation, then placed in the garbage shoot. Tina More
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  Speaker 1: joining me, New York Post reporter, Tina, I mean, there
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  Speaker 1: are reasons that safety reasons throughout New York City that
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  Speaker 1: trash utse must be x amount of feet above the
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  Speaker 1: ground so children don't fall down into them, because say
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  Speaker 1: you're up on the twenty first floor and then you
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  Speaker 1: go down to trash, you'd fall to your death. And
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  Speaker 1: I remember distinctly, you can hardly get anything into them
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  Speaker 1: because they're so small. You have to cram trash into
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  Speaker 1: those trash shoots, and that's for a safety reason too.
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  Speaker 1: These are specifically designed so a person cannot fit down them.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure that's why her father wanted to bring
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  Speaker 1: in doctor Boden, because it's just defied logic how that
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  Speaker 1: could have happened to get in there, and it was.
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  Speaker 1: She was on the twenty seventh floor, so she fell
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  Speaker 1: that far to this, wow, twenty seventh floor down a
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  Speaker 1: trash shoot. Tina Moore, New York Post reporter. Can you
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  Speaker 1: tell me was she clothed. They say that she was topless,
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  Speaker 1: which is really strange. If you're going to your trash
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  Speaker 1: compact or to put trash in there, that would see
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  Speaker 1: something most people would do. You know, do Doctor Michelle Dupree,
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina medical examiner and author of Homicide Investigation Field Guide,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Dupree, I don't attempt to explain it. I don't
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  Speaker 1: understand why or why not. But I do know statistics
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  Speaker 1: women in general, and this crosses all ethnicities, It crosses
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  Speaker 1: race barriers, socioeconomic levels, education levels. Women never, or let
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  Speaker 1: me just say extremely, rarely commit suicide unclothed. Would you agree, Nancy?
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  Speaker 1: That is true. It is rare. However, as you said,
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  Speaker 1: it is not never, and there is always an exception.
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  Speaker 1: So that just in and of itself really doesn't tell
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  Speaker 1: us a whole lot, but it certainly is an indication
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  Speaker 1: that this would be very strange. Char Senior producer Jackie
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  Speaker 1: Howard Jackie Way in Nancy. This is a high rise
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  Speaker 1: luxury building where Prijenko we're living at the time, and
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  Speaker 1: others who lived there told police and the New York
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  Speaker 1: Posts that they had seen Prjenko intoxicated in the past. However,
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  Speaker 1: since the divorce proceedings began, Prijenko was undergoing court mendated testing.
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  Speaker 1: In their time, all findings came back negative. Take a
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  Speaker 1: listen to our friends at the Daily News. Forty eight
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  Speaker 1: year old Laura Pricardco's body has been found stuffed inside
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  Speaker 1: a trash compactor artside an upscale apartment building in New
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  Speaker 1: York City where Hillary Clinton's top aide whom Abeddon and
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  Speaker 1: her estranged husband Anthony Weener lived. Pricardco was spotted on
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  Speaker 1: surveillance videos stumbling a loan out of the elevator on
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  Speaker 1: the Zegedorf Towers twenty seventh floor. It was not immediately
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  Speaker 1: clear how she got into the trash shoot, but to
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  Speaker 1: maintenance man discovered her body crushed from multiple angles in
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  Speaker 1: the compactor. The New York Police Department said Pricardco and
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  Speaker 1: her husband, davidy Christopher Schlachet, split up after thirteen years
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  Speaker 1: of marriage. She filed for divorce in twenty fourteen. The
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  Speaker 1: two have a son. She was a marketing manager for
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  Speaker 1: web Bendi for about ten years until leaving the company
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  Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen. According to hurling Tin, Page two people
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  Speaker 1: who live in the building where Ricardco and her husband
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  Speaker 1: used to reside. Told The New York Post it appeared
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  Speaker 1: Pricardco had a drinking problem. She would come home drunk
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  Speaker 1: like she couldn't walk. I don't remember a specific time,
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  Speaker 1: but I remember many times, more than once a week.
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  Speaker 1: This was about three years ago, a source said. Several
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  Speaker 1: residents at Berzekdorff Towers told The New York Post they
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  Speaker 1: did not know her very well. Pricard Co moved into
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  Speaker 1: the building about two years ago after splitting from her husband.
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  Speaker 1: It's just crazy. The buildings sent out an email saying
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  Speaker 1: not to use the trash suite. What a terrible, terrible
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  Speaker 1: way to go, said a resident. Mister Schlachet did not
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  Speaker 1: immediately comment on his ex wife's death. A source who
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  Speaker 1: lives in the apartment building told The New York Post
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  Speaker 1: they saw Schlatchet and his son on Tuesday before Pricardco
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  Speaker 1: was identified as the victim. The sauce said the two
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  Speaker 1: were acting normally, time stories with Nancy Grace. This grieving
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  Speaker 1: father is certain his daughter's death was no accident. He
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  Speaker 1: believes she was murdered. I'm dedicated to finding justice for her.
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  Speaker 1: Forty eight year old Laura pra Hodco met a horrible end.
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  Speaker 1: She plummeted twenty seven stories to her death inside her
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  Speaker 1: building's trash shoot. Her mangled body was found in the
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  Speaker 1: basement compactor. Police claims she was drunk. The New York
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  Speaker 1: City Medical Examiner ruled no suspicion of foul play. Laura's father, Nicholas,
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  Speaker 1: who lives in Toronto, says he strongly disagrees. I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe it. I didn't believe it, and I continue not
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  Speaker 1: to believe it. Nicholas Brahadko says his daughter and her husband,
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  Speaker 1: David slaw Hit, were divorcing and fighting over millions of
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  Speaker 1: dollars in real estate. Do you think it's possible that
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  Speaker 1: Laura's estranged husband had something to do with her death.
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  Speaker 1: It's not something that I could dismiss. Clearly, he had
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  Speaker 1: the most to gain financially from her death. Usually the
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  Speaker 1: rule of thumb is to follow the money. Faint pathologist
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  Speaker 1: Michael Boden, who recently investigated Jeffrey Epstein's death, volunteered to
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  Speaker 1: reevaluate Laura's autopsy. Baden says she had ligature marks on
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  Speaker 1: her neck, leading him to believe she may have been strangled.
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  Speaker 1: And was then thrown down the trash shoot. If it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a homicide, could it have been accidental? How is
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  Speaker 1: it even possible for someone to fall into one of
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  Speaker 1: these garbage shoots. As you can see, it's designed to
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  Speaker 1: snap shut if you don't hold it open, and could
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  Speaker 1: have grown man or woman even fit inside. Now her
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  Speaker 1: father is hoping to have the case reopened. You are
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  Speaker 1: hearing or for an inside edition. This is a beautiful woman.
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking a look at Lauren pro Jodco, pictured with
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  Speaker 1: her husband. They looked so happy, but they were divorcing
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  Speaker 1: at the time of her death. To Tina More, New
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  Speaker 1: York Post reporter, what can you tell me about the divorce?
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  Speaker 1: But it was contentious and there was some arguments going
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  Speaker 1: on over properties. They owned most properties in Southampton and
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  Speaker 1: Manhattan show. There was definitely a bit of a battle
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  Speaker 1: going on there. Although her lawyer said she was she
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be winning. She seemed to be what winning,
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  Speaker 1: doing well. She was doing well in the case. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: then suddenly, bam, she's shoved down a trashy. I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: at a photo of the trash shoot. It is exactly
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  Speaker 1: like our trash shoot in New York exactly. It cannot be.
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  Speaker 1: It can't be two feet wide, and there is a
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  Speaker 1: reason for that. Safety reasons helped me out. Doctor Bethany Marshall,
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  Speaker 1: psycho analysts joining us. Doctor Bethany, I mean, here is
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  Speaker 1: this wealthy lady. She's just like a redhead, perfect smile.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody's had orthodonic work. Why in the world would you
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  Speaker 1: go half naked out of trash shoote How could you
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  Speaker 1: cram your own body and less than two feet wide
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  Speaker 1: opening of a trash hute? Okay, so let's say worst
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  Speaker 1: case scenario, she lost her diamond earing down the trash
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  Speaker 1: shoot She a ring fell off, you know, something fair,
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  Speaker 1: and she's digging and digging and trying to get it.
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  Speaker 1: She's not going to do that without her top on,
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  Speaker 1: you know, she's not going to be in the hallway
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  Speaker 1: of this fancy building where Humandine and Anthony Weener lived.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, waite, I'm inute. Wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, doctor Bethany. Back to Utina Moore. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's one of the first things you said, or did
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  Speaker 1: I hear that from another news agency. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that I'd be bragging about living in the same apartment
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  Speaker 1: building as Anthony Weiner, the child molester. Huh is that
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  Speaker 1: his building? That's what he lives at one point? No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even think the timing isn't really something clear
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  Speaker 1: to me. I'm not sure that he was still living
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  Speaker 1: there when that's happened or not. So I guess right
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  Speaker 1: now I will have to rule him out as a suspect.
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  Speaker 1: But that aside, I do know this though, if he
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  Speaker 1: was living there with his wife, Huma, it must have
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  Speaker 1: been a really expensive, luxurious apartment building. She had one
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  Speaker 1: toe in the oval office Tina Moore, What kind of
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  Speaker 1: high rise was this? Oh, yeah, it's a luxury building.
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  Speaker 1: It's an ming twere. You know that's not a place
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  Speaker 1: reporters can afford to love, so you know, it's a nice,
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  Speaker 1: very nice building. So yeah, it's Zecondorf Towers. And just
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  Speaker 1: like our much much cheaper apartment building, there is a
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  Speaker 1: door or leading into it. They're always tiny, tiny room
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  Speaker 1: like a closet, and in that closet is the trash shoot.
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  Speaker 1: But back to you, doctor Bethany, just the mental imagery
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  Speaker 1: they desire to somehow cram yourself head first in a
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  Speaker 1: two foot why trash shoot alive? That doesn't even make
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  Speaker 1: any sense to me, Doctor Bethany, There's no way. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I cannot think of any scenario. I did think, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: the diamond earring goes down the trash shoot, you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to dig for it. But even that is trust unlikely.
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  Speaker 1: And if she was going to suicide, are she really
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  Speaker 1: going to suicide by trash trash shoot? What I'd really
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  Speaker 1: be interested in this case is what is the behavioral
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  Speaker 1: evidence of what's going on between her and her husband?
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  Speaker 1: What is the nature of the finances. Forty four percent
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  Speaker 1: of all crimes are as a result of life or
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  Speaker 1: in spots over property and money, Like, how did that
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  Speaker 1: enter into all of this? What was her state of
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  Speaker 1: mind because of the divorce? Was she an unstable person?
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  Speaker 1: Did she have a history of trying to harm herself?
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  Speaker 1: Was she a cutter? You know, if this is a
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  Speaker 1: woman who was completely stable, enjoying her life and together
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  Speaker 1: enough psychologically to be prevailing in some kind of a
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  Speaker 1: court proceeding against her husband, that would not fit the
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  Speaker 1: profile of someone who's suicidal. Also, I'd want to know
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  Speaker 1: was she making future plans, like when she talked to
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  Speaker 1: her girlfriends and her children, was she making references to
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  Speaker 1: the future and to planning vacations. Because if that's the
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  Speaker 1: case and she wasn't impulsive and she wasn't aggressive, then
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  Speaker 1: since it's hard to believe that she would try to
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  Speaker 1: kill herself anyway besides in a trash shoot, take a
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  Speaker 1: listen to our friends at Daily Mail Justice for my
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  Speaker 1: favorite daughter. Nicholas Brehatco has been seeking justice for a
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  Speaker 1: year and a half. In July twenty eighteen, his daughter
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  Speaker 1: Lara was found at the bottom of a trash shoot,
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  Speaker 1: crushed for multiple goals by the trash compactor. She had
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  Speaker 1: to be pulled out of the rubble with a shovel.
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  Speaker 1: Because there was little blood, it would suggest she was
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  Speaker 1: dead before she went down That trash shoot. Investigator said
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  Speaker 1: she was last seen alive, stumbling and intoxicated, and the
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  Speaker 1: six months leading up to her desk she had been
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  Speaker 1: clean on all sobriety tests. The chief medical Examiner said
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  Speaker 1: the circumstances around the death are unclear, but there is
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  Speaker 1: no suspicion of foul play. In two months after her death,
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  Speaker 1: the case was closed with no resolution. Lara's father, Nicholas,
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  Speaker 1: was not satisfied and hired doctor Michael Boden to review
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  Speaker 1: the autopsy. You'll recall Doctor Boden controversially claimed Jeffrey Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: suicide may have been murdered. In a letter to Lara's family,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Boden wrote, Lara may have died because of homicidal
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  Speaker 1: ligature strangulation and was then placed in the garbage shoot.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Boden was also concerned about the fact that Lara
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  Speaker 1: was topless in the crime scene photos. There's no surveillance
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  Speaker 1: video from the hallway outside Lara's apartment where the trash
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  Speaker 1: shoot was located. The forty eight year old was embroiled
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  Speaker 1: in a bitter divorce and lost custody of her son.
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  Speaker 1: She was also required to undergo regular drug and alcohol testing.
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  Speaker 1: Her husband owned a debt ridden construction company, and the
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  Speaker 1: pair had purchased property together. I think there's further digging
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  Speaker 1: that couldn't be done follow the money. Clara's father is
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  Speaker 1: hiring a private investigator to help uncover new evidence in
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  Speaker 1: his daughter's death. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: see Grace, this is crime Stories. Thank you for being
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  Speaker 1: with us. I say, there's no way in h double
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  Speaker 1: il that a half naked woman is going to jump
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  Speaker 1: down a trash shoot in New York City. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: buying it with me an all star panel. Ashley Wilcot, judge,
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  Speaker 1: trial lawyer, anchor Court TV at ashe Wilcot dot com.
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  Speaker 1: John Wagner, Chief of Police, Warner Robbins, Georgia. Doctor Michelle Dupree,
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  Speaker 1: renowned South Carolina medical examiner, author, homicide investigation field died.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst to the stars, joining us from LA.
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  Speaker 1: You can find her at doctor Bethany Marshall dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Investigative reporter with The New York Post, my favorite newspaper.
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  Speaker 1: Tina Moore, Tina, take a listen to this. Our friends
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  Speaker 1: at CBS, people who live here say, coming home and
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  Speaker 1: seeing the NYPD's mobile crime scene unit outside, along with
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  Speaker 1: getting an email that said don't use the trash shoot,
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  Speaker 1: we're both pretty good indicators that something pretty bad happened
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  Speaker 1: here today. The NYPD has been swarming the building for
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  Speaker 1: hours after the discovery of a body in the compactor
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  Speaker 1: shoot Grammercy Tower here at one Irving Place. Police say,
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  Speaker 1: just before five o'clock tonight, the body of a forty
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  Speaker 1: eight year old woman was found in the trash compactor.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know how she got there or who found her. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the building has had some pretty high profile residence. This
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  Speaker 1: is where Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma Aberdeen used
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  Speaker 1: to live together. Residents say the incident and the police
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  Speaker 1: presidents have been very alarming. It's scary. In fact, when
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  Speaker 1: I texted my boyfriend about this, he told me to
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  Speaker 1: get out of the building because he was married. Police
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  Speaker 1: are not releasing the name of the woman who died
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  Speaker 1: until all of her family members have been notified, and
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  Speaker 1: at this point tonight, it's unclear whether police are searching
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  Speaker 1: for a suspect. Now, I've had very few, if any
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  Speaker 1: opportunities to disagree with a renowned medical examiner and author,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Michelle Dupree, But I now have some backup because
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  Speaker 1: renowned pathologist doctor Michael Boden, He's been on many, many
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  Speaker 1: high profile ale homicide investigations. He has a completely different
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  Speaker 1: take on it. He says that striangulation may have been
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  Speaker 1: the reason why there was very little bleeding from Protoco's
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  Speaker 1: body when it went down the shoot and was crushed.
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  Speaker 1: He also was concerned about Laura being topless in the
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  Speaker 1: crime scene photo. Quote. One of the first things he
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: said was that her blouse was off. This is according
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  Speaker 1: to family. Biden felt that was extremely unusual and a
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  Speaker 1: potential indication of a struggle before she died. Take a
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: listen to our friends at pis E eleven. This is
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  Speaker 1: Henry Rossoff. Police rushed to one Irving Place yesterday evening
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  Speaker 1: after a maintenance worker made a horrible discovery in the
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  Speaker 1: compactor room. Armed with a shovel, they recovered the remains
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  Speaker 1: of forty eight year old Laura Praichenko, described by Dorman
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  Speaker 1: as someone who was always pleasant and treated them with respect.
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  Speaker 1: She lived on the twenty seventh floor and had arrived
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  Speaker 1: back to the building only a few minutes before her
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  Speaker 1: body was found. I means something terrible. It's something shocking.
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  Speaker 1: It's not clear to you know this is would happened.
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  Speaker 1: It's very unfortunate though. It's very unsettling, especially that is
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  Speaker 1: coming so close to home. Surveillance video shows her walking
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  Speaker 1: the hallways before entering the trash room on the twenty
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  Speaker 1: seventh floor. She somehow appears to have gone down the
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  Speaker 1: chuote into the compactor. Neighbors familiar with the building set
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  Speaker 1: up say they're not really sure how that could have happened.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's small shooting. I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how you do it. I mean it never occurred to me,
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  Speaker 1: and try to go into the barbage shot. So let
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  Speaker 1: me clarify. Video footage shows Laura entering the elevator at
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  Speaker 1: four ten, and a neighbor on the twenty seventh floor
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  Speaker 1: claims she returned to her own apartment. They came out
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes later when she heard a noise in the hallway.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the video shows her going into the
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  Speaker 1: trash shoot. I think it shows her coming in and
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  Speaker 1: out of the elevator before she went into the trash shoot.
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  Speaker 1: Let me get clarification on that. To New York Post
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  Speaker 1: reporter Tina Moore, what do we know about the video? Well,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: two of my coworkers were a story in our Sunday paper.
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  Speaker 1: But her dad said that there was no footage of
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  Speaker 1: her entering the shoot, and there's no video in the
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  Speaker 1: hallway at all. Video camera the halliway, So I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if that the initial reportments just wrong because the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: dad says, no, there's no videoway the video showed her.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: If there was such a video, would it probably instead
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  Speaker 1: be explaining what you see instead of saying there's not
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  Speaker 1: any video, you know, I want to go to chief
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  Speaker 1: of police one of Robins, Georgia, Chief John Wagner. You
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  Speaker 1: heard doctor Bethany state that forty four percent of crimes
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  Speaker 1: are based on possessions money finances. I happen to know
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  Speaker 1: that in this case, Laura's estranged husband owned a struggling
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  Speaker 1: debt ridden construction company that had filed bankruptcy the same
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  Speaker 1: year he filed for divorce. Would you, as I do,
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  Speaker 1: consider this a critical piece of information most certainly so. Um,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: you know, he still wants to have a living and
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't want her to have all of the the assets,
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  Speaker 1: so you go ahead and for bankruptcy, and then perhaps
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: you go ahead and pay off while your debts. She
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: does not get the money then, so yes, it's very
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: peculiar that he would go hid and you know, go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and fill for bankruptcy in regards to this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she's the one with the money. So if what you
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: add what doctor Bethany are saying is true, that could
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  Speaker 1: provide a very powerful motive. He has not been named
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: a suspect or a person of interest in this case.
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  Speaker 1: We also know actually Willcott Judge and trial lawyer anchor
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  Speaker 1: Court TV that the two of them owned a lot
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  Speaker 1: of properties together, and almost immediately after his wife's death,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: he the estranged husband in the middle of a divorce,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: sold one property and started renting out another. My that
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: was quick, wasn't it. Yeah. There's a lot of pointing
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: to a motive in this case, and that's one of them,
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  Speaker 1: because they had multiple properties. Like you said, I want
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: to point out, she had a lot of money. This
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  Speaker 1: is not a situation where she had nothing. He had
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  Speaker 1: all the money. He starts selling things in order to
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: prevent her from getting it. My opinion is, hey, he's
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: selling these things for him to get money because he's
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: in financial trouble. He knows that she stands to benefit
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: to get to keep a lot of lam Keith, but
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: to have a lot of the money, and he's trying
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: to get at it. It gives the motive as to
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: why he may have killed her, if in fact he did.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: There's also something I want to point out about the
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  Speaker 1: real estate, which you know, when you get married, you
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: should go into it and say we're in love, we're
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: going to be married. It's all good, but recognize this.
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  Speaker 1: All of these properties it's my understanding we're held jointly
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  Speaker 1: by both of them, and if she's no longer there,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: it's a lot easier. You don't go through divorce to
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: get the property, but rather it becomes yours time stories
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  Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace. This grieving father is certain his daughter's
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: death was no accident. He believed she was murdered. I'm
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: dedicated to finding justice for her. Forty eight year old
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Laura pa Hodco met a horrible end. She plummeted twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven stories to her death inside her building's trash shoot.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Her mangled body was found in the basement compactor. Police
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: claim she was drunk. The New York City Medical Examiner
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: ruled no suspicion of foul play. Laura's father, Nicholas, who
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: lives in Toronto, says he strongly disagrees. I don't believe it.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I didn't believe it, and I continue not to believe it.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Nicholas Brahadko says his daughter and her husband, David slaw Hit,
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  Speaker 1: were divorcing and fighting over millions of dollars in real estate.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it's possible that Laura's estranged husband had
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: something to do with her death It's not something that
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I could dismiss. Clearly he had the most to gain
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: financially from her death. Usually the rule of thumb is
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: to follow the money. Fame pathologist Michael Boden, who recently
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: investigated Jeffrey Epstein's death, volunteered to reevaluate Laura's autopsy. Baden
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: says she had ligature marks on her neck, leading him
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: to believe she may have been strangled and was then
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: thrown down the trash shoot. If it wasn't a homicide,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: could it have been accidental? How is it even possible
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: for someone to fall into one of these garbage shoots?
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: As you can see, it's signing to snap shot if
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: you don't pulled it open, and could have grown man
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: or woman even fit inside. Now her father is hoping
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: to have the case reopened. You are hearing or for
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: an inside edition. This is a beautiful woman. I'm taking
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: a look at Laura Prochotco pictured with her husband. They
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: looked so happy, but they were divorcing at the time
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  Speaker 1: of her death. Let's take a look at his finances.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Laura Prochoco's ex construction exact. David Schlache was co founder
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: of Tao Khan Inc. A construction company. The company owed
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: more than three point four million dollars to creditors and
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: assets were about five hundred thousand ouch. I know that
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: from documents filed in bankruptcy court. That same year he
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: files for a divorce. These two traveled in high society.
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  Speaker 1: They were seen throughout Manhattan social circuit and the Hamptons.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Their wedding was announced by the New York Times. Now
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: they end up in mediation to divide up properties that
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: have got a home in the Hamptons apartments in Chelsea
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: and Williamsburg at the time that she fell to her death.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Now we also know another clue that her pocketbook was
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: found abandoned out on the floor, wasn't around the trash shoot.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I'm very curious to Teina Moore, New York Post reporter,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: if she was gonna kill herself, why take her pocketbook
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: right right? And it was outside the trash shoot in
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the hallway on the floor. So I don't know, but
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I five her mental stake goes. It's probably important to
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: point out that she had lost cut to be a
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: patrol son, so you know, so probably I'm sure he
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: was on progn hobby about that fact. So we also
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: know that the husband immediately took control of their shared property,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: selling the Toronto condo for seven hundred grand and renting
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: another home for seventy five thousand dollars a month. Seventy
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: five thousand dollars a month. Okay, what about that, doctor
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall Nancy. When I read that they keep rented
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: a place for seventy five thousand dollars a month, I
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: was blown away. I would love to see the inside
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: of this place. But you know, often when there's domestic homicide,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: the spouse that kills the victim does so because they
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: want an idealized life. They think that once that other
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: person is out of the way, their life, their romantic opportunities,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: their financial opportunities are going to improve. And if Ben
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: deep that was a motivation in this crime, or this
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: alleged crime, could it be that the husband wanted access
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: to all of that property. As Ashley Woodcot just pointed out,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: it was in both of their names. It's like he
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: started with the idealized life right away. It's like the
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: husband who kills his wife and then he's sort of
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: glad handing at the funeral and you know, acting happy
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: and believed. We do know after domestic homicide there's often
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: a period of relief that lasts from six to nine months.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: And so in terms of behavioral evidence, I would want
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: to know a little bit about how is he acting?
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Is he dating? Is he purchasing a lot of items?
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Did he start to decorate the seventy five thousand dollars
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: a month's place right away? Like? What is his behavior
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: following the tragic death of his wife. We also know
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: to Ashley Wilcot judge and trial may either just before
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: her death, according to her father, Nicholas Prochoco, that the
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: financial talks were turning and her her favor. What a
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: coincidence that she somehow ends up dead in the trash
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: shute just as she's about to get the majority of
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: the money. Yeah, exactly right. So here's the other part.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Not only that, it's my understanding, there's a twelve year
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: old that custody was also an issue of. And so
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: when you have those, you know, parents with custy of
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: a children in addition to those other facts and coincidentally
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: right that that happened, then you have a whole other
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: set of motives. Potentially, we wait as justice unfalls right now,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: the Manhattan DA has done nothing as far as seeking charges.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: But to Tinamore, New York Post reporter, I assume the
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: DA is still sires vanc He's the one that wouldn't
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: bring a case against Weinstein, right well, Dring decided that
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I would. I think two months that it was not
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: nothing suspicious about her death. But her dad has hired
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: day you know, produate investigators, So you never know, right,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: you know you're right, You never know. Tina More, New
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: York Post reporter, doctor Bethany Marshall, doctor Michelle Dupree, John Wagner,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: and Ashy Wilcott. We wait as justice unfolds Nancy Grace's
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  Speaker 1: crime story, signing off goodbye friend,