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This Story Will Give You Chills! No Movie Can Top This Story! True Crime Documentary · Weird Darkness:True crime & The unexplained

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Speaker 1: What if the most disturbing lie wasn't a scream in
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Speaker 1: the night, but a quiet phone call on a Tuesday morning,
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Speaker 1: a crumpled car on a country road, and a husband
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Speaker 1: with tears on his face telling police that a pipe
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Speaker 1: had flown through the windshield and killed his wife? That's
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Speaker 1: the story of Barbara Kendammer, a school cafeteria worker from
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Speaker 1: West Salem, Wisconsin, a mother of two, a brand-new grandmother
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Speaker 1: who had just celebrated 25 years of marriage, a woman
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Speaker 1: whose co-workers said was always at work by 8 o'clock.
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Speaker 1: On September 16, 2016, Barbara didn't show up. She didn't
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Speaker 1: call in. She didn't answer. And by the time people
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Speaker 1: started asking questions, she was lying on a rural road
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Speaker 1: with catastrophic injuries to her head and neck. while her
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Speaker 1: husband stood a few feet away, saying it was all
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Speaker 1: a terrible accident. Was it? Or had the man who
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Speaker 1: knew everything about broken glass just used that knowledge to
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Speaker 1: get away with murder? This is the Todd Kendammer case.
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Speaker 1: understand what happened on County Road M... You first have
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Speaker 1: to understand who Barbara and Todd Kendammer were before the
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Speaker 1: world ever heard their names. Barbara Kendammer was born on
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Speaker 1: March 4, 1970, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, to Merlin and
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Speaker 1: Joyce Adams. She grew up in West Salem, a tight-knit
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Speaker 1: small town where families knew each other across generations, where
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Speaker 1: churches anchored the community. and where everybody eventually recognized everybody's routine.
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Speaker 1: Barbara graduated from West Salem High School in 1988. Everything
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Speaker 1: people said about her from those years carries the same warmth. Dependable, generous, easygoing,
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Speaker 1: always smiling. She wasn't dramatic or attention-seeking. She was steady.
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Speaker 1: The kind of person you noticed not because she demanded it,
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Speaker 1: but because she made things better just by being in
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Speaker 1: the room. She loved animals the way some people love causes,
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Speaker 1: deeply and practically. She kept pets safe and warm in
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Speaker 1: the garage during Wisconsin winters. She had a special way
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Speaker 1: with dogs, cats, donkeys, and chickens alike. She cared for
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Speaker 1: living things that couldn't speak for themselves. Her hobbies were
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Speaker 1: rooted in Wisconsin seasons. She loved camping and snowmobiling up north.
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Speaker 1: She made lefty with friends. She went to Warren's Cranberry
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Speaker 1: Fest and Country Fest every year. She tended flowers with
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Speaker 1: quiet dedication. Her life was built from small joys stacked
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Speaker 1: carefully together. And sometime in those teenage years in West Salem,
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Speaker 1: she fell in love with a boy named Todd Allen Kendammer.
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Speaker 1: Todd was a La Crosse native, born around 1969 or 1970.
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Speaker 1: Like Barbara, he wasn't someone who drew headlines. He was
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Speaker 1: mechanically inclined, good with his hands, the kind of person
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Speaker 1: who figured out how things worked and then fixed them.
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Speaker 1: He made his career in manufacturing at Crown Cork and
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Speaker 1: Seal Company in La Crosse and supplemented his income doing
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Speaker 1: windshield replacement work on the side. Neighbors and family described
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Speaker 1: him as hard-working and deeply involved in family life. People
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Speaker 1: who knew them together used the word devoted. They said
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Speaker 1: Todd and Barbara were close in a way that went
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Speaker 1: beyond ordinary. From the outside, the Kendammers looked like exactly
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Speaker 1: what they appeared to be, a couple who had built
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Speaker 1: something real and lasting and in the place they had
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Speaker 1: always called home. On August 3, 1991, Barbara Adams and
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Speaker 1: Todd Kendamer were married at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in
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Speaker 1: West Salem. She was 21 years old. They had known
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Speaker 1: each other since they were teenagers, and now they were
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Speaker 1: making it permanent, in the same church, in the same town,
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Speaker 1: surrounded by the same community that had watched them grow up.
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Speaker 1: Over the next two and a half decades, they built
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Speaker 1: the life that small-town marriage is supposed to look like.
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Speaker 1: They had two children, a daughter, Jessica, and a son, Jordan.
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Speaker 1: Todd worked steadily. Barbara found her place in West Salem's
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Speaker 1: school system, taking a job in the food service program
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Speaker 1: at West Salem Middle School, a position she would hold
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Speaker 1: for 14 years. That job says a lot about Barbara.
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Speaker 1: She wasn't there just for the paycheck. Her co-workers remembered
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Speaker 1: her as warm, present, and genuinely happy to be there.
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Speaker 1: Her supervisor, Sherry Elliott, knew Barbara's schedule by heart. She
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Speaker 1: was always at work by eight in the morning, always.
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Speaker 1: Her arrival was something you could set a clock by.
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Speaker 1: Barbara also had a daily ritual that her mother, Joyce
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Speaker 1: Adams knew intimately. Every morning before leaving for work, Barbara
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Speaker 1: called Joyce. Not some mornings. Every morning. It was one
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Speaker 1: of those small habits that quietly anchors a relationship. A
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Speaker 1: daughter checking in. A mother knowing her child was safe
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Speaker 1: and heading into the day. By 2016, the Kendammers were
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Speaker 1: entering what everyone around them described As a genuinely happy chapter,
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Speaker 1: their children were grown, and that summer, something wonderful happened.
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Speaker 1: Barbara and Todd became grandparents for the first time. Their granddaughter,
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Speaker 1: Carlin Rochelle Servais, arrived, and Barbara, who had always had
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Speaker 1: a way with living things that needed care, became Grammy
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Speaker 1: with unmistakable joy. Her obituary would later use the phrase,
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Speaker 1: little peanut. To describe Carlin, the kind of language that
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Speaker 1: tells you your grandmother had already fallen completely in love.
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Speaker 1: The family was already planning fall traditions. Apple orchard visits
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Speaker 1: with Carlin. That particular outing mattered because it would have
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Speaker 1: been the first one with the new granddaughter. A milestone
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Speaker 1: Barbara was genuinely looking forward to. Todd and Barbara had
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Speaker 1: just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. with a surprise party
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Speaker 1: organized by their children. Jessica would later tell reporters that
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Speaker 1: the family felt like it was in a genuinely good place.
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Speaker 1: Their parents seemed close. The marriage looked solid. The future
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Speaker 1: looked warm. No one around them saw what was coming.
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Speaker 1: Barbara was supposed to be at work. Her shift began
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Speaker 1: at 8 o'clock, and in 14 years, She had never
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Speaker 1: just not shown up without a word. She also hadn't
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Speaker 1: called her mother that morning. Joyce Adams, who expected that
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Speaker 1: call every single day before Barbara left for work, didn't
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Speaker 1: hear from her daughter. Something was already wrong before anyone
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Speaker 1: knew to say so out loud. Todd's explanation for why
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Speaker 1: they were on County Road M became one of the
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Speaker 1: most scrutinized details of the entire case. He told investigators
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Speaker 1: that before dropping Barbara off at work, he was going
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Speaker 1: to pick up a truck belonging to a man named
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Speaker 1: Justin Heim, complete a windshield replacement job, and then take
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Speaker 1: Barbara in afterward. That was why they were driving away
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Speaker 1: from West Salem Middle School rather than toward it. But
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Speaker 1: investigators contacted Justin Heim. Heim said he had not arranged
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Speaker 1: any windshield job with Todd. He was not expecting him.
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Speaker 1: Todd then shifted his account, mentioning a friend of Himes.
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Speaker 1: But that person also had no knowledge of any appointment.
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Speaker 1: At trial, Todd introduced yet another name, Jared Loging, who
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Speaker 1: he said he may have been trying to reach that morning.
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Speaker 1: Loging said the same thing. No arrangement, nothing planned. At
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Speaker 1: approximately 7.57 in the morning, a surveillance camera from a
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Speaker 1: nearby horse ranch captured what appeared to be the Kendammer
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Speaker 1: vehicle passing along the road. According to Todd's account, everything
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Speaker 1: changed in an instant. He was driving when he saw
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Speaker 1: something coming at the windshield. He thought at first it
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Speaker 1: was a bird. Then he realized, too late, that it
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Speaker 1: was a metal pipe. He said it flew off an
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Speaker 1: oncoming truck or trailer, struck the windshield, and came through
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Speaker 1: into the vehicle. Barbara, in the passenger seat, was struck.
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Speaker 1: Todd said chaos followed immediately. He told investigators he pulled over,
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Speaker 1: removed the pipe, got Barbara out of the car, attempted
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Speaker 1: CPR for several minutes, and then called 911. His call
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Speaker 1: described the scene frantically. A pipe or something had come
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Speaker 1: through the windshield and hit Barbara in the head and
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Speaker 1: throat area. When emergency responders arrived... They found Barbara outside
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Speaker 1: the vehicle, critically injured. A 10-pound galvanized steel pipe was
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Speaker 1: on the ground. Barbara was transported to Gundersen Health System
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Speaker 1: in La Crosse. She was alive, but barely. She died
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Speaker 1: the following morning, September 17, 2016. She was 46 years old.
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Speaker 1: In the immediate aftermath, the case looked like a tragedy.
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Speaker 1: a freak accident on a rural road. But investigators at
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Speaker 1: the La Crosse County Sheriff's Office found details that didn't fit.
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Speaker 1: The most fundamental problem was the truck. Todd's entire account
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Speaker 1: depended on a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction, an
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Speaker 1: older flatbed-style truck or trailer, from which the pipe had flown.
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Speaker 1: Investigators reviewed surveillance footage from available cameras along the route.
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Speaker 1: The Horse Ranch camera had captured the Kendammer vehicle at 7.57 a.m.,
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Speaker 1: but investigators said they saw no truck matching Todd's description
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Speaker 1: traveling the opposite way at that time. No witnesses came forward.
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Speaker 1: The truck, if it existed, had left no trace. A
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Speaker 1: passerby who had been in the area around 8 o'clock
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Speaker 1: told investigators something troubling. He had seen the Kendammer car
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Speaker 1: near the ditch, with the passenger door open, but he
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Speaker 1: had not noticed obvious windshield damage, and he had not
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Speaker 1: seen anyone moving around the vehicle. Then there were Todd's injuries,
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Speaker 1: bloodied knuckles and scratches on his neck and chest. He
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Speaker 1: explained them as the result of striking the windshield reflexively
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Speaker 1: and from working with auto glass. prosecutors saw them differently,
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Speaker 1: they believed those injuries were consistent with a physical struggle,
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Speaker 1: that Barbara had fought back. The medical examiner, Dr. Kathleen McCubbin,
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Speaker 1: examined Barbara's injuries carefully. She testified that Barbara died from
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Speaker 1: blunt impact injuries to the head and neck, but that
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Speaker 1: she did not find evidence of the pipe-striking Barbara in
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Speaker 1: the way Todd described. More significantly, She testified that a
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Speaker 1: single pipe impact could not explain the number and variety
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Speaker 1: of injuries on Barbara's body. Severe head trauma, skull fractures,
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Speaker 1: a broken nose, bruising across her face, and significant damage
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Speaker 1: to her neck, including a fracture of the cricoid cartilage,
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Speaker 1: a ring-shaped structure in the lower throat. Prosecutors argued this
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Speaker 1: specific injury was consistent with strangulation or direct manual violence,
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Speaker 1: not a flying object. Investigators also examined the pipe itself.
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Speaker 1: It reportedly had no blood on it, and blood and
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Speaker 1: glass patterns inside the car raised questions about whether Barbara
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Speaker 1: had been seated normally in the passenger seat when the
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Speaker 1: windshield was broken. Todd Kendammer was arrested and charged with
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Speaker 1: first-degree intentional homicide. The prosecution's theory He had assaulted Barbara
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Speaker 1: before reaching County Road M, then used his knowledge of
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Speaker 1: auto glass to manually force the pipe through the windshield
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Speaker 1: and stage what he hoped would look like a freak accident.
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Speaker 1: Todd went to trial in December 2017, more than a
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Speaker 1: year after Barbara's death. The nine-day trial was a battle
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Speaker 1: between two competing interpretations of the same physical evidence. The
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Speaker 1: prosecution built its case around the convergence of failures in
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Speaker 1: Todd's account. No truck, windshield damage inconsistent with a high-velocity projectile,
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Speaker 1: the pipe with no blood, Barbara's injuries too numerous for
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Speaker 1: a single flying object, the cricoid fracture suggesting strangulation, Todd's
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Speaker 1: changing destination story indicating fabrication, his own injuries suggesting a fight,
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Speaker 1: The defense countered at every point. Glass expert Mark Mishulam
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Speaker 1: testified that the windshield fracture pattern was actually consistent with
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Speaker 1: Todd's account, that the damage could be explained by Todd reacting,
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Speaker 1: the pipe penetrating, and then Todd removing it. Defense attorneys
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Speaker 1: argued investigators had developed tunnel vision, building a case around
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Speaker 1: a conclusion rather than following the evidence. Todd made the
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Speaker 1: unusual decision to testify in his own defense. He denied
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Speaker 1: ever striking Barbara. He explained his inconsistent statements by saying
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Speaker 1: he was traumatized, not thinking clearly, consumed by fear for
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Speaker 1: Barbara rather than by attention to detail. He told the
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Speaker 1: jury he simply was not in the right state of
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Speaker 1: mind during his police interview, that his thoughts were on
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Speaker 1: his wife. not on the precision of details about an
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Speaker 1: errand he couldn't even confirm. It was a risky move.
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Speaker 1: Jurors could now evaluate his composure, his memory, his credibility directly.
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Speaker 1: And the prosecution needed them to see not a grieving
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Speaker 1: husband trying to explain away trauma, but a man trying
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Speaker 1: to explain away evidence. The jury deliberated for approximately 10 hours.
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Speaker 1: On December 15, 2017, Todd Allen Kendammer was found guilty
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Speaker 1: of first-degree intentional homicide. He was sentenced to life in prison,
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Speaker 1: with parole eligibility set for March 9, 2048, 30 years
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Speaker 1: from sentencing. His children, Jessica and Jordan, continued to support
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Speaker 1: him publicly. They had lost their mother. and they believed
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Speaker 1: they were also losing their father to a conviction they
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Speaker 1: did not believe was just. At sentencing, family members spoke
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Speaker 1: before the court. Todd thanked them for standing by him.
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Speaker 1: Technical Analysis The Kendhammer case is one of the most
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Speaker 1: technically contested true crime cases in recent Wisconsin history. And
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Speaker 1: understanding why requires looking carefully at what each piece of
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Speaker 1: evidence actually showed and what it failed to prove conclusively.
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Speaker 1: The pipe. Prosecutors argued a 10-pound galvanized steel pipe couldn't
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Speaker 1: have penetrated a moving windshield from a passing truck with
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Speaker 1: the force needed to cause Barbara's injuries. And that the
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Speaker 1: absence of blood on the pipe contradicted Todd's version. The
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Speaker 1: defense said the lack of blood could be explained by
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Speaker 1: Todd removing it, and that the force of initial impact
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Speaker 1: rather than continued contact caused the trauma. Legitimate competing interpretations.
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Speaker 1: The windshield damage. Prosecutors said the fracture pattern suggested the
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Speaker 1: glass was broken from outside by a stationary or slow-moving force,
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Speaker 1: not a high-velocity projectile. Defense expert Meshulam said the pattern
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Speaker 1: was consistent with a dynamic event. Todd reacting, the pipe
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Speaker 1: coming through, Todd removing it. Autoglass fracture analysis is not
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Speaker 1: simple science. Both experts had genuine credentials. The cricoid fracture.
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Speaker 1: Prosecutors framed it as evidence of strangulation before the stage
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Speaker 1: scene was created. Post-conviction defense pathologist Dr. Shaku Tease disputed
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Speaker 1: this and said Barbara's injuries were overall consistent with a
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Speaker 1: car accident, suggesting some trauma could have resulted from medical
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Speaker 1: treatment or body handling. Even a forensic expert consulted by
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Speaker 1: CPS 48 Hours, Dr. Lindsay Thomas, said publicly she could
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Speaker 1: not state with certainty whether the medical evidence proved homicide
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Speaker 1: or accident by itself. The missing truck. In a rural
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Speaker 1: area with limited early morning traffic, A vehicle leaving no
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Speaker 1: photographic trace and no witnesses is a serious problem. Absence
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Speaker 1: of evidence is not proof of absence. But for a
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Speaker 1: jury evaluating the totality of Todd's story, it was a
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Speaker 1: gap that couldn't be explained away. The pipe bounce experiments. Post-conviction,
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Speaker 1: the defense pointed to state tests dropping a similar pipe
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Speaker 1: from trucks on the same road. Eight of nine tests
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Speaker 1: indicated did not recreate Todd's scenario. One produced a near match.
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Speaker 1: The defense said this proved the accident was physically possible.
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Speaker 1: The prosecution said eight failures spoke for themselves and that
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Speaker 1: the one partial result involved too many unknown variables to
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Speaker 1: mean anything. What this evidence collectively shows is a strong
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Speaker 1: circumstantial case with no single definitive piece. No murder weapon
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Speaker 1: with Barbara's blood. No witnesses to an assault. No confession.
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Speaker 1: No established motive. But also, no truck. No consistent story
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Speaker 1: from Todd. Medical findings that experts couldn't fully reconcile with
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Speaker 1: the accident theory. And a pattern of injuries that multiple
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Speaker 1: professionals found difficult to explain with a single flying object.
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Speaker 1: Psychological Analysis The Todd Kendammer case defies the familiar domestic
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Speaker 1: violence profile in almost every way. There was no reported
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Speaker 1: history of abuse, no known affair, no financial crisis or
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Speaker 1: impending divorce, no life insurance when fall waiting, and the
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Speaker 1: people who knew this marriage most intimately, their own children
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Speaker 1: who grew up in that house, continued to insist on
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Speaker 1: Todd's innocence long after the conviction. That level of family
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Speaker 1: loyalty in a domestic homicide case is genuinely unusual. The
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Speaker 1: prosecution attempted to reframe some of Todd's behaviors. The fact
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Speaker 1: that friends described him as always communicating with Barbara, always
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Speaker 1: checking in, always present, was interpreted by some observers as
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Speaker 1: potentially reflecting control rather than devotion, but this was never
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Speaker 1: established in court and remained speculative. What the behavioral evidence
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Speaker 1: does show clearly is that Todd, under pressure, became inconsistent,
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Speaker 1: multiple explanations for the same question, claims of trauma and
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Speaker 1: fragmented memory. Psychologically, this cuts both ways. genuine trauma does
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Speaker 1: disrupt memory, produce inconsistencies, and make people unreliable narrators of
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Speaker 1: their own experience. A man who had just watched his
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Speaker 1: wife suffer catastrophic injuries, whether by a pipe or by
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Speaker 1: his own hand, could plausibly produce fragmented shifting accounts for
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Speaker 1: entirely different reasons. But there is another pattern worth examining,
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Speaker 1: the staging impulse. If Todd did commit this crime, choosing
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Speaker 1: to stage it as a road accident rather than something
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Speaker 1: simpler reflects a particular kind of calculation, one that leveraged
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Speaker 1: specialized knowledge. His expertise in auto glass was not incidental.
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Speaker 1: The pipe, the windshield, the fracture patterns, these were not
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Speaker 1: random props. They were materials from a professional world Todd
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Speaker 1: understood deeply. People who commit planned domestic homicides often use
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Speaker 1: professional knowledge as the architecture of concealment. That coherence in
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Speaker 1: the prosecution theory is real, and it cannot be dismissed
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Speaker 1: simply because Todd seemed like a devoted husband. What the
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Speaker 1: case leaves us with psychologically is a portrait of someone
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Speaker 1: who either had extraordinary trauma-induced memory failure or extraordinary premeditated control.
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Speaker 1: The jury had to choose. They chose. And yet the
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Speaker 1: people closest to both Todd and Barbara, the children who
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Speaker 1: grew up in that house, who watched those two people
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Speaker 1: love each other for decades, chose differently. The question, The
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Speaker 1: verdict didn't answer. There is a dimension to this case
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Speaker 1: that gets lost in the forensic debate, a dimension that
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Speaker 1: is neither legal nor scientific but purely human, and it
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Speaker 1: may be the most haunting part. Jessica and Jordan Kendammer
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Speaker 1: lost their mother on September 17, 2016. That loss was
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Speaker 1: immediate and permanent. Barbara, the woman who called Joyce Adams
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Speaker 1: every morning, who kept animals warm in the garage during winter,
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Speaker 1: who was just beginning her life as a grandmother, was gone.
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Speaker 1: There is no version of this story in which that
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Speaker 1: isn't a tragedy. But in the version the jury accepted,
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Speaker 1: they also lost their father to a life sentence, and
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Speaker 1: they don't believe he should be there. Jessica said publicly
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Speaker 1: that she believed her father because, in her understanding of him,
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Speaker 1: He didn't lie. Jordan raised the question of whether the
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Speaker 1: supposed staging made practical sense. If Todd truly wanted to
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Speaker 1: kill Barbara, why construct such an elaborate, improbable accident rather
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Speaker 1: than something far simpler? These are not irrational questions. They
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Speaker 1: are the questions people who loved both Barbara and Todd
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Speaker 1: have been living with since 2016. Meanwhile, Barbara's mother, Joyce,
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Speaker 1: who waited every morning for that phone call that didn't
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Speaker 1: come on September 16th, presumably believes the verdict was just,
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Speaker 1: that her daughter was robbed of her life by the
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Speaker 1: man she had loved for 25 years. Two families, one verdict,
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Speaker 1: completely incompatible experiences of the same outcome. Todd sits in
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Speaker 1: a Wisconsin prison, eligible for parole in 2048, when he
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Speaker 1: will be nearly 80 years old. The Wisconsin Court of
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Speaker 1: Appeals rejected his ineffective assistance claims in June 2024 and
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Speaker 1: affirmed the conviction. The pipe that either killed Barbara or
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Speaker 1: condemned Todd, depending entirely on which version of events you believe,
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Speaker 1: keeps its silence. This case is worth your time not
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Speaker 1: because it gives you answers. It is worth your time
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Speaker 1: precisely because it doesn't. It forces you to sit with
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Speaker 1: the discomfort of a conviction built on circumstantial evidence, divided
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Speaker 1: expert opinion, and a man's changing story. It asks you
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Speaker 1: to decide whether beyond reasonable doubt was reached, and to
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Speaker 1: reckon with the fact that reasonable people with access to
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Speaker 1: the same evidence have reached completely different conclusions. Barbara Kendammer
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Speaker 1: was not a supporting character in Todd Kendammer's story. She
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Speaker 1: was the whole story. She deserved the rest of her life.
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Speaker 1: Whatever truly happened on County Road M took that from her.
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Speaker 1: If this case left you going back and forth, if
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Speaker 1: you found yourself switching sides between guilty and innocent, You
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Speaker 1: already understand why it has stayed alive for nearly a decade.
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