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BONUS_ In Cold Pursuit _2 · Luke's English Podcast

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  Speaker 1: to In Cold Pursuit, a disturbed true horror production. Here
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  Speaker 1: we'll tell you the stories of those long forgotten whose
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  Speaker 1: sudden demise are tragic as they are intriguing. Here you'll
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  Speaker 1: learn about previously unsolved cases whose perpetrators went unknown for decades.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Doug Bailey, and this is In Cold Pursuit.
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  Speaker 1: Viewer discretion is advised. Thanks for your support, patrons. Let
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  Speaker 1: us know if you'd like to see more of this
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  Speaker 1: content in the future. Today we're examining a cold case
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  Speaker 1: that haunted Stanford University and Santa Clara County for decades.
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  Speaker 1: This is the story of Arles Perry, a young woman
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  Speaker 1: whose life was cut horrifyingly short. The year is nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy four. The country is in the throes of the
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  Speaker 1: Watergate scandal. Long before the Silicon Valley boom, Northern California
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  Speaker 1: was known for the summer of love, for counterculture and
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  Speaker 1: free thinking. It was also juxtaposed with a penchant for
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  Speaker 1: serial murder. In just the past five years, the Zodiac Killer,
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  Speaker 1: the Doodler, the Lady Killer have all left their mark
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  Speaker 1: on this region known for peace and love. At Stanford alone,
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  Speaker 1: there have been three murders in just the last couple years.
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  Speaker 1: All that being said, getting into Stanford is a huge opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: An IVY league on your resume meant the world in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four. Who could turn that down. Bruce Perry
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  Speaker 1: was from Bismarck, North Dakota, a world away from the
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  Speaker 1: turmoil of the Bay Area in the early seventies. At
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  Speaker 1: the start of his sophomore year at Stanford, Bruce brings
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  Speaker 1: his newly wedded high school sweetheart to live with him
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  Speaker 1: on campus, Arles. The young couple's future looked bright as
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  Speaker 1: they began their new life together, and Arles found work
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  Speaker 1: as a receptionist at a nearby law firm. The night
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  Speaker 1: of October two, Wealth, nineteen seventy four, seemed like any other.
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  Speaker 1: Around eleven thirty PM, Arles and Bruce had an argument
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  Speaker 1: over their car's tire pressure. Nothing dramatic. Every couple has
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  Speaker 1: arguments from time to time. Arles wanted to cool off
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  Speaker 1: get her head on straight, so she headed out to
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  Speaker 1: visit the Stanford Memorial Church on campus. She had always
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  Speaker 1: been religious and the church was open until midnight. She
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  Speaker 1: was liable to be seen there from time to time,
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  Speaker 1: praying in the late evening. Nothing out of the ordinary.
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  Speaker 1: Arles never came back that night. Around three am, Bruce's
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  Speaker 1: worry became too strong to bear. He called the police
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  Speaker 1: to report his missing wife. Officers went to the church
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  Speaker 1: but found the whole place shuddered for the night and
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  Speaker 1: no sign of Arles anywhere, well, at least that the
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  Speaker 1: police could see. Around five four five a m. The
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  Speaker 1: church's security guard, Stephen Crawford, called the police, his voice
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  Speaker 1: disturbingly indifferent. We've got a stiff here, he told them,
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  Speaker 1: reporting that he had locked all the doors at midnight
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  Speaker 1: and checked at two a m. To find them still locked.
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  Speaker 1: When he arrived later that morning to unlock the building,
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  Speaker 1: he found a door open, and there were no signs
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  Speaker 1: of forced entry. What officers would find when they arrived
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  Speaker 1: would haunt them for the rest of their lives. Arlas's
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  Speaker 1: body lied splayed at the foot of the altar, nude
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  Speaker 1: from the waist down. An ice pick was broken off
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  Speaker 1: and lodged in the base of her neck. Signs of
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  Speaker 1: strangulation from the necklace she wore around her neck, a
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  Speaker 1: candle had been pushed between her breasts, and another three
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  Speaker 1: foot long altar candle had been inserted into her genitals.
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  Speaker 1: A nearby cushion stained with seamen. Then Stanford's safety Captain
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  Speaker 1: Raoul Niemier said this about the scene. I could not
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  Speaker 1: believe what I was seeing. I had a few homicides
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  Speaker 1: in my day, but I had never seen anything so eerie.
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  Speaker 1: The things that were done to defile this woman were
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  Speaker 1: just unbelievable. The meticulousness of the scene made it clear
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  Speaker 1: that the murderer had time to arrange his victim without
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  Speaker 1: fear of being interrupted. It also seemed so elaborate as
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  Speaker 1: to be premeditated. The hunt for Arlas's deranged killer was on.
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  Speaker 1: Arlas's husband, Bruce was one of the first suspects in
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  Speaker 1: the case. He was a pre med student and would
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  Speaker 1: have had experience working with dead blue, and if his
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  Speaker 1: wires ever got crossed, Arles would have been the closest
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  Speaker 1: person to him. Well. Police soon ruled Bruce out as
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  Speaker 1: a suspect. He complied with their investigation fully and even
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  Speaker 1: passed a now debunked polygraph test. The next suspect was
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  Speaker 1: security guard Stephen Crawford, but there wasn't enough evidence to
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  Speaker 1: implicate him in the crime. Though his unsettling nine one
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  Speaker 1: one call loomed in investigator's minds, they believed he was
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  Speaker 1: likely not the perpetrator. At this time, DNA evidence and
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  Speaker 1: other advanced investigative tools were still unavailable to police, and
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  Speaker 1: all they had to go on was what they could
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  Speaker 1: see themselves. Along with the three previous murders at Stanford,
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  Speaker 1: Arlis's perpetrator was suspected to be a serial killer. Ted
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  Speaker 1: Bundy was even considered as a possible suspect, though his
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  Speaker 1: alibi held up. Arlas's murder felt different from theirs. However,
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  Speaker 1: Arles was so devoutly Christian and her murder was so
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  Speaker 1: gruesome that to some it even appeared satanic. The infamous
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  Speaker 1: son of Sam even claimed that her death was a
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  Speaker 1: part of a ritual conducted by a Satanic cult connected
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  Speaker 1: to his own crimes. As the Satanic panic swept the nation,
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  Speaker 1: Arlas's story was swept up by those pushing the narrative
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  Speaker 1: of a hidden, violent Satanic cult in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: In Maury Terry's book The Ultimate Evil, he speculated that
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  Speaker 1: Arles had been killed by a Satanic cultist because of
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  Speaker 1: her religious devotion. However, as we now know, there never
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  Speaker 1: was a grand Satanic conspiracy. David Berkowitz, the son of Sam,
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  Speaker 1: was found to be spreading sensational lies, making Arlas's case
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  Speaker 1: harder to make sense of. Journalist Scott Herhold said the
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  Speaker 1: following about Arles Perry's murder, I think one of the
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  Speaker 1: things with a murder as dramatic as this one, people
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  Speaker 1: felt obligated to try to explain what the motive was,
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  Speaker 1: what lay behind it? How could somebody do something so heinous?
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  Speaker 1: And I think they can push you to think that
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  Speaker 1: this is not simply a one off thing. This is
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  Speaker 1: a part of a whole string of terrible crimes in America.
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  Speaker 1: It's an easy jump to make, it's just not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: a logical one. For decades, the case sat on the
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  Speaker 1: shelves at the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office without any developments,
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  Speaker 1: no leads, and no new suspects. Despite the renewed attention
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  Speaker 1: on Arles's murder in twenty sixteen, the case would gain
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  Speaker 1: new energy as the Sheriff's office began to look more closely.
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  Speaker 1: Rick alanis a cold case detective began the slow process
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  Speaker 1: of examining each piece of evidence individually. His pace was
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  Speaker 1: more meticulous than most, possibly the reason he was able
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  Speaker 1: to identify a problem that had been looming over this
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  Speaker 1: investigation from the very beginning. He noticed that the pair
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  Speaker 1: of genes assigned to Arles weren't her size. After examining
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  Speaker 1: a pair of Bruce's genes, he found that the two
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  Speaker 1: had been mislabeled, and for over forty years, the pants
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  Speaker 1: that Arlas was wearing on the night of her murder
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  Speaker 1: had been sitting in an evidence designated Bruce Perry. For years,
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  Speaker 1: they had been trying to collect DNA evidence from Arlas's genes,
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  Speaker 1: and now they knew why they never made any discoveries.
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  Speaker 1: After testing the correct pair of genes from the night
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  Speaker 1: of the murder, police got a hit a Seaman sample.
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  Speaker 1: After forty four years, police finally had a breakthrough. Stephen Crawford,
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  Speaker 1: the security guard from the night in question, was a
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  Speaker 1: clear match to the DNA, his story about discovering the
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  Speaker 1: body seeming thinner by the second. When police arrived at
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  Speaker 1: Crawford's apartment on June twenty eighth, twenty eighteen, he knew
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  Speaker 1: the jig was up now seventy two years old, Stephen
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  Speaker 1: asked the police to wait for him to get dressed.
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  Speaker 1: When officers saw Crawford pull a gun out, they quickly
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  Speaker 1: backed away, but soon realized his intentions were not what
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  Speaker 1: they thought. He turned the weapon on himself, taking his
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  Speaker 1: own life in front of the police who were there
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  Speaker 1: to arrest him. As officers searched the apartment for clues,
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  Speaker 1: they found a copy of Maury Terry's The Ultimate Evil,
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  Speaker 1: and most importantly, a suicide note from two years prior. Evidently,
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  Speaker 1: he had been expecting this day would come, and he
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  Speaker 1: cemented his guilt by taking his life at the prospect
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  Speaker 1: of facing the crime he had committed so long ago.
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  Speaker 1: For decades, Crawford had gone about his life with the
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  Speaker 1: weight of Arlis's murder hanging over him. The guard of
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  Speaker 1: that sacred space, its defiler, the man entrusted with its care,
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  Speaker 1: the same person who did such damage to the psyche
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  Speaker 1: of the Stanford community. Upon further investigation, it seemed that
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Crawford had long resented his employers and the community.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy one, Crawford was hired as a police officer,
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  Speaker 1: but was demoted after he was found unqualified to wield
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  Speaker 1: a firearm. Frustrated and resentful, he would take every opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to get revenge. Over the next four years, he stole
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of dollars from the university in the
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  Speaker 1: form of rare books and antiquities. He even took a
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  Speaker 1: human skull once. He tried to forge a diploma for
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  Speaker 1: himself after swiping a blank certificate. In nineteen ninety two,
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  Speaker 1: he served a short six month suspension for the theft.
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  Speaker 1: Author Scott Herhold pointed out in his twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 1: book Murder under God's Eye that Crawford had ties to
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  Speaker 1: the local police department, which may have helped him elude
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  Speaker 1: investigators for so long. Though Stephen Crawford eluded judgment from
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  Speaker 1: the law, his life would have ended the same either way.
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  Speaker 1: His name in infamy and his death bloody. Arlas's family
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  Speaker 1: wasn't able to get the closure they deserved from his prosecution,
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  Speaker 1: but at least they could finally put the question of
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  Speaker 1: her murder to rest. Arlas's father passed away a mere
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  Speaker 1: three months before police closed the case, tragically missing the
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  Speaker 1: decades long closure he had always hoped for. Stephen Crawford's
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  Speaker 1: suicide cemented his guilt to the people of Stanford and
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  Speaker 1: the loved ones of Arles Perry. It's a clear reminder
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  Speaker 1: that justice is always worth pursuing, no matter the length
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  Speaker 1: or difficulty of its attainment. The victims and their transgressors
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  Speaker 1: are owed their day in court. Thank you for joining
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