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Speaker 1: Late at night on August fifteenth, twenty nineteen, two police
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Speaker 1: officers in England were driving in an unmarked police car
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Speaker 1: along this narrow, winding road when all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: right in front of them, another car came bombing down
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Speaker 1: the road towards them, and so both cars came to
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Speaker 1: a screeching stop, and then one occupant from this other
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Speaker 1: car got out of their vehicle and one of the
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Speaker 1: officers got out of their vehicle. What happened next was
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Speaker 1: so horrific that a special law was passed to make
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Speaker 1: sure it never happened again. But before we get into
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. On July eighteenth, twenty nineteen,
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Speaker 1: twenty eight year old Andrew Harper scrawled a little note
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Speaker 1: inside of a card, and then he folded the cart up,
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Speaker 1: he slipped it into its envelope, and he handed that
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Speaker 1: envelope off to a nearby friend. And this friend, after
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Speaker 1: getting this envelope and Andrew's directions for what to do
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Speaker 1: with it, he left Andrew's room and began walking down
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Speaker 1: the hall all the way towards the other side of
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Speaker 1: the Ardington House. The Ardington House where they were staying,
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Speaker 1: is this beautiful mansion built in the seventeen hundreds that
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Speaker 1: sits on about thirty acres of gardens and parklands, and
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Speaker 1: it's located about an hour west of London in the
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Speaker 1: English countryside. Once Andrew's friend, with this letter in hand,
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Speaker 1: had walked all the way across the mansion and had
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Speaker 1: found the room he was looking for. He gently knocked
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Speaker 1: on the door, and then after being let inside, he
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Speaker 1: made his way right over to twenty eight year old
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Speaker 1: Lissy Beckett and he handed her the envelope. Lissi and
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Speaker 1: Andrew had grown up in the same town of Wallingford,
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Speaker 1: which is a small rural town about ten miles away
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Speaker 1: from where they were at the Ardington House, and from
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Speaker 1: the time Lissi and Andrew had met each other when
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Speaker 1: they were fifteen years old, they had become totally inseparable.
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Speaker 1: It was truly love at first sight. And now thirteen
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Speaker 1: years later they were finally getting married. And so Lissi,
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Speaker 1: after getting this envelope, she saw the writing on the
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Speaker 1: outside of it and knew it was from her fiance,
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Speaker 1: and so she smiled. She opens up this letter and
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Speaker 1: she reads what's inside, and it just said life is slippery.
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Speaker 1: Here take my hand. While on the surface, this little
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Speaker 1: note seemed like nothing more than a romantic gesture from Andrew,
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Speaker 1: in reality, those seven words contained in that card were
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Speaker 1: a great representation of who Andrew really was. He was
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Speaker 1: a protector. Ever since Lizzie could remember, Andrew had always
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Speaker 1: been so concerned with her safety and for that matter,
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Speaker 1: anybody around Andrew. Andrew was just worried about wanted to
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Speaker 1: make sure everybody was taken care of. And as Andrew
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Speaker 1: got older and grew to be this massive six foot
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Speaker 1: five inch tall man, his natural inclination to protect other
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Speaker 1: people only became more pronounced. While Andrew was known for
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Speaker 1: being incredibly charming and friendly and approachable, at a moment's notice,
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Speaker 1: he could flip the switch and literally step in and
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Speaker 1: use his big frame to protect anybody that needed protecting,
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Speaker 1: no questions asked, and so it came as no shock
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Speaker 1: to Lissie or really anybody who knew Andrew when Andrew,
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Speaker 1: at the age of nineteen, became a special constable or
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Speaker 1: volunteer police officer for the Tims Valley Police Department. This
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Speaker 1: police department was the same one that oversaw Wallingford, where
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Speaker 1: he and Lissie had grown up and also these surrounding areas,
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Speaker 1: and just a year after becoming a special constable, Andrew
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Speaker 1: had done such an amazing job that he was hired
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Speaker 1: on by the Tims Valley Police Department to be a
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Speaker 1: regular constant, so a full fledged police officer, and over
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Speaker 1: the following years that he was a regular constable, Andrew's
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Speaker 1: hard work and dedication would quickly make him one of
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Speaker 1: the most well respected and well liked police officers on
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Speaker 1: the force. In fact, just a few weeks before he
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Speaker 1: sent off that letter to Lyssi on the day of
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Speaker 1: their wedding, Andrew had been promoted. He had been assigned
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Speaker 1: to the road Policing Unit within the Tims Valley Police Department,
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Speaker 1: and what that meant was, in addition to a host
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Speaker 1: of new responsibilities, on a day to day basis, Andrew
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Speaker 1: would now become one of the police officers who would
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Speaker 1: immediately respond to any emergency call that came in. He
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Speaker 1: was basically a front line's police officer now, and so
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Speaker 1: of course this meant Andrew's job just became a lot
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Speaker 1: more dangerous. But for Andrew that didn't matter at all,
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Speaker 1: because to him, the most important thing was protecting people
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Speaker 1: in need, and so this promotion just gave him a
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Speaker 1: bigger opportunity to do that. And so LISSI, after reading
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Speaker 1: this little note that Andrew had just sent her, she
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Speaker 1: set it down on the table, and now with a
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Speaker 1: big grin on her face, she finished getting ready. And
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Speaker 1: then that afternoon she and Andrew would walk down the
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Speaker 1: aisle and they would say I do in front of
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Speaker 1: their families and their closest friends. And then that evening,
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Speaker 1: after the newlyweds had had their first dance as a
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Speaker 1: married couple, they would tell each other that this was
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Speaker 1: the happiest day of their lives. Twenty eight days later,
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Speaker 1: on August fifteenth, Andrew, along with his partner who also
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Speaker 1: was named Andrew. His name was Andrew Shaw. They were
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Speaker 1: conducting a surveillance operation in a town called Reading. Reading
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Speaker 1: is a town about thirty minutes south of Wallingford. Just
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Speaker 1: after eleven pm, the men finally decided it was time
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Speaker 1: to shut down their operation and head back home. Their
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Speaker 1: shift had actually ended four hours earlier, but being hard
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Speaker 1: working and diligent police officers, they had worked overtime because
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Speaker 1: they knew it would help their unit. But now at
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Speaker 1: eleven pm they were totally exhausted, and so as they're
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Speaker 1: kind of yawning and packing up their thing's, Shaw who
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Speaker 1: was driving, would fire up the engine of the unmarked
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Speaker 1: BMW car they were in, and then once it was
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Speaker 1: on he would pull away from the curb and they
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Speaker 1: would start heading north. At the same time, a very
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Speaker 1: distressed man who lived not far from where Andrew and
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Speaker 1: Shaw had just been doing surveillance. He called nine to
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Speaker 1: ninety nine and he told the dispatcher that just a
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Speaker 1: few moments ago, this gray sedan had pulled up his
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Speaker 1: driveway and stopped right outside of his property. Now, this
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Speaker 1: man's property was off of a road called Admore Lane,
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Speaker 1: which was this winding one lane country road that had
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Speaker 1: very little traffic and there was not that many properties
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Speaker 1: off of it, and so for anybody to pull on
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Speaker 1: to this man's property would have caught his attention, let
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Speaker 1: alone a car pulling onto his property in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the night. And so as soon as the man
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Speaker 1: had seen these headlights coming up his driveway, he had
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Speaker 1: gone to the window and watched, wondering, you know, what
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Speaker 1: is this person doing? Had they turned onto the wrong property?
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Speaker 1: You know, are they going to turn around and leave?
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Speaker 1: But to his horror, once this car had stopped right
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Speaker 1: out outside of his house, three masked men who were
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Speaker 1: carrying weapons of some kind got out of the vehicle,
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Speaker 1: and so at that point the man had frantically dialed
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Speaker 1: nine ninet nine, and as he's trying to describe the
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Speaker 1: situation to the dispatcher, he suddenly tells the dispatcher as
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Speaker 1: he's looking out the window that he thinks these men
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Speaker 1: are here to steal his quad bike. His quad bike
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Speaker 1: was parked right outside of his detached garage and he
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Speaker 1: saw them walking towards it, and so he tells the dispatcher,
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Speaker 1: who's already told him that police are on the way.
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Speaker 1: He tells the dispatcher, I can't wait any longer. I'm
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Speaker 1: going out to confront them and stop them from stealing
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Speaker 1: my bike. The dispatcher yells at him not to and
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Speaker 1: says they have weapons. Stay in your house. But this
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Speaker 1: guy's not listening, and so he runs to his front door.
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Speaker 1: He opens the front door up, but by the time
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Speaker 1: he's looking outside, the gray car, the three masked men,
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Speaker 1: they're all gone, and so too is his quad bike.
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Speaker 1: And so he goes back in the house. He's talking
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Speaker 1: to the dispatcher, and the dispatcher says, look, just stay
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Speaker 1: at your house. The police are on the way. They
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Speaker 1: will intercept that car. They'll get your quad BikeE back.
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Speaker 1: So seconds later a call went out over the radio
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Speaker 1: to Tim's Valley Police to go and intercept this gray
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Speaker 1: car on Admore Lane. So whoever was closest go over there,
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Speaker 1: but be advised the occupants of this car are three
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Speaker 1: masked men that are armed and dangerous. Now, Andrew and Shaw,
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Speaker 1: when they heard this call, they would have known that
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Speaker 1: they were not the only officers that could have taken
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Speaker 1: this call, and they also would have known that they've
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Speaker 1: been off the clock now for like four and a
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Speaker 1: half hours. There was no expectation that they would continue
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Speaker 1: to work and go take this call. But they didn't
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Speaker 1: care at all. When that call came across. The only
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Speaker 1: thing they thought about was do your job. And so
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Speaker 1: Shaw he whips the car around and he speeds towards
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Speaker 1: Admore Lane and he pulls off of the main road
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Speaker 1: called the A four. He gets on too Admore Lane
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Speaker 1: and he starts driving north. Now, as soon as they
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Speaker 1: turned onto that road, their vehicle effectively blocked the way
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Speaker 1: for anybody coming there. And so at this point they're
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Speaker 1: expecting this gray car full of these masked men to
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Speaker 1: be coming in their direction, and they are now blocking
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Speaker 1: the way. And so Andrew and Shaw, as soon as
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Speaker 1: they get on that road, they know a close quarters
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Speaker 1: confrontation is almost guaranteed. But when you listen to the
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Speaker 1: dashcam footage from the front of their vehicle that picked
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Speaker 1: up the voices of Andrew and Shaw as they turn
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Speaker 1: onto this road, there is no nerves, there's no fear,
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Speaker 1: there's no hesitation. They are commas can be. This is
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Speaker 1: what they have trained for. They were ready. And so
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Speaker 1: Shaw he's making his way up this winding road. It's
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Speaker 1: totally pitch black. The trees are practically on top of
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Speaker 1: the road. It's like a tunnel of trees. And so
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Speaker 1: they're driving along this road and then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: up in the distance, you can see on the dashcam
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Speaker 1: footage you see headlights bombing toward them. They're way off
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Speaker 1: in the distance. And then all of a sudden, that car,
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Speaker 1: these headlights, they come flooring out right in front of them,
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Speaker 1: and both cars come to a screeching stop. You can
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Speaker 1: hear the screeching of the brakes on the dashcam footage.
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Speaker 1: And so this car in front of them comes to
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Speaker 1: a full stop, and Shaw he stops, but then he
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Speaker 1: moves up just a little bit closer before fully stopping
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Speaker 1: the car. And so now the two cars are only
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Speaker 1: maybe ten or fifteen feet apart. At this point. It's
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Speaker 1: important to understand that the vehicle that Shaw and Andrew
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Speaker 1: were in was an unmarked car, and they had intentionally
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Speaker 1: not put on their blue lights as they're cruising up
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Speaker 1: this road because they didn't want the suspects to see
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Speaker 1: the blue lights in the distance and turn around and
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Speaker 1: get away. And so now they come face to face,
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Speaker 1: and so Andrew and Shaw they're looking at this vehicle
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Speaker 1: and they can see that one it's a gray sedan,
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Speaker 1: so it matches the description of the car they're looking for.
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Speaker 1: And two behind this gray sedan is what looks like
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Speaker 1: a quad bike that they are towing, and so they
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Speaker 1: know this is the car they were looking for. It's
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Speaker 1: on ad More Lane. This is going to be it,
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Speaker 1: and so Shaw he flips on the blue lights, and Andrew,
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Speaker 1: who's in the passenger seat, he opens the door and
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Speaker 1: begins y at the occupants to stay where they are,
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Speaker 1: but they don't listen because now the masked men in
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Speaker 1: the gray car they know they've been caught. There's police
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Speaker 1: right in front of them. And so suddenly one of
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Speaker 1: the masked men in the back seat of this car,
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Speaker 1: he leaps out of the vehicle and he runs around
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Speaker 1: to the back of the gray car and he unhooks
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Speaker 1: the quad bike and then the gray car. Without even
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Speaker 1: waiting for this third masked man to get back inside,
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Speaker 1: it just begins driving forward on the left side of
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Speaker 1: Shaw and Andrew basically trying to drive around them, despite
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Speaker 1: the fact there's nowhere to drive. It's a ditch on
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Speaker 1: either side of the road. But obviously these guys are
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Speaker 1: desperate and willing to do anything to get away, and
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Speaker 1: so this gray car has driven down into this ditch
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Speaker 1: before Andrew and Shaw could do anything, and then the
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Speaker 1: third masked man, who's realizing he's being left behind, he
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Speaker 1: starts running around the right side of the police car,
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Speaker 1: so he's trying to go around the other way. And amazingly,
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Speaker 1: as soon as the third masked man made it around
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Speaker 1: to the back of the police car, the gray car
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Speaker 1: somehow managed to pop out of the ditch and got
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Speaker 1: back onto the road and it starts driving away from
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Speaker 1: Shaw and Andrew. And as they're driving away, the third
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Speaker 1: masked man is just on the road running after them,
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Speaker 1: and so Andrew, seeing an opportunity to potentially grab this
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Speaker 1: third masked man that was out on foot, he jumps
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Speaker 1: out of the police car. He turns and starts running
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Speaker 1: down the road after the suspects. And so Shaw he
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Speaker 1: doesn't have enough space on this road to turn around
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Speaker 1: and drive after them, and so all he could do
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Speaker 1: was put the car into reverse and then look over
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Speaker 1: his shoulder and start driving in reverse after them. And
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Speaker 1: so as Shaw is driving backwards down this road, he
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Speaker 1: can see out of his rear window Andrew, who is
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Speaker 1: chasing the third masked man, who is chasing the gray car,
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Speaker 1: and so we can see all this happening out his
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Speaker 1: back window. And then something totally strange that just defied
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Speaker 1: logic happened. The third masked man suddenly leaps as if
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Speaker 1: he's trying to jump into the moving car, and at
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Speaker 1: the same time, Andrew, who's closed the distance on him,
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Speaker 1: kind of lunges for the third masked man. And then
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Speaker 1: just as suddenly as these two maneuvers have happened, both
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Speaker 1: men just vanish and then the gray car just drives
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Speaker 1: away and disappears. And so Shaw he's watching this happening,
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Speaker 1: and he has no idea what he's just witnessed. He's thinking,
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Speaker 1: where did Andrew go? Where the third mast man go?
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Speaker 1: What's happened? But he still can only drive in reverse,
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Speaker 1: and so he's just driving and driving, and then finally
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Speaker 1: he reaches a point in the road that's just wide
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Speaker 1: enough that he's able to turn the car around. And
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Speaker 1: as he's doing that, you hear over dispatch that someone
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Speaker 1: is asking Shaw, what's going on? Where are you? And
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Speaker 1: all Shaw is able to say is my partner, Andrew
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Speaker 1: has gotten out of the vehicle and I lost him.
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Speaker 1: I don't know where he is. And so after Shaw
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Speaker 1: has turned the vehicle around, he begins driving now facing
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Speaker 1: the proper direction and as he's driving down this creepy,
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Speaker 1: dark road, you don't see anything. It's eerily quiet. Andrew's
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Speaker 1: nowhere to be found. The car is nowhere to be found,
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Speaker 1: the third mass man. There's no one, and so Shaw
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Speaker 1: is just driving down the road, hoping that as he
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Speaker 1: makes one turn or the next, he's gonna see his
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Speaker 1: partner just kind of running on the road somewhere, but
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Speaker 1: he doesn't. But as he's driving along, what Shaw didn't
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Speaker 1: realize was that there were things in the road that
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Speaker 1: belonged to Andrew. They were kind of small, so we
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Speaker 1: didn't see him, but the footage would later reveal that
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Speaker 1: it was almost like there was this trail of Andrew's
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Speaker 1: things kind of littered all over the road. There was
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Speaker 1: his wallet, then there was his badge, and there was
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Speaker 1: this license and other ID cards, and then there was
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Speaker 1: his glove, and then there was this piece of plastic
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Speaker 1: that looked like it belonged on Andrew's vest. And then
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Speaker 1: a little farther down the road. Because Shaw is still
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Speaker 1: driving and scanning for his partner and scanning for anything,
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Speaker 1: and there's just nothing. As he's driving along, he would
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Speaker 1: in real time notice something of Andrews and it was
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Speaker 1: Andrew's stab vest that he wore over his chest, and
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Speaker 1: so he stops the vehicle and he gets out and
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Speaker 1: again he's on this totally pitched black road where it's
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Speaker 1: weirdly quiet, and he's walking up and he grabs the vest.
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Speaker 1: He comes back into his vehicle and he puts it
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Speaker 1: down inside of his car. And at this point, over
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Speaker 1: the radio, people are asking Shaw, you know what's going on?
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Speaker 1: Where are you? And you hear in Shaw's voice a
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Speaker 1: bit of panic as he's like, I've found Andrew's stab
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Speaker 1: vest was on the side of the road, and he
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Speaker 1: can't make sense of that. He has no idea why
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Speaker 1: it's there, and dispatch they don't know what to make
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Speaker 1: of that. And so Shaw just continued driving down this road,
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Speaker 1: thinking to himself what's happening here. Meanwhile, less than a
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Speaker 1: mile away, at the end of Admore Lane where it
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Speaker 1: joined up with a four, which is where Andrew and
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Speaker 1: Shaw had originally come in, two other Tim's Valley Police
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Speaker 1: cars had arrived at that intersection. They had gone there
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Speaker 1: specifically to try to intercept this gray car as they fled,
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Speaker 1: and so they're sitting at this intersection and they're looking
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Speaker 1: up Admore Lane and they see headline it's bombing towards them.
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Speaker 1: It's the gray car. And the gray car comes speeding
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Speaker 1: out onto A four. It makes a hard turn and
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Speaker 1: it speeds away from these two police cars. And so
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Speaker 1: one of these two police cars that were waiting out
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Speaker 1: on the A four, one of them takes off following
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Speaker 1: the gray car. But the other police car they stay
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Speaker 1: right there because unbelievably, they had just spotted Andrew. It
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Speaker 1: would turn out when Shaw first put the BMW into
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Speaker 1: reverse and he began going in reverse towards his partner
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Speaker 1: who was chasing the third masked man who was chasing
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Speaker 1: the gray car. When he was doing that, and he
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Speaker 1: was watching out his back window, and he saw the
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Speaker 1: third masked man jump and then disappear, and then Andrew disappeared.
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Speaker 1: That was not a figment of his imagination. That really happened.
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Speaker 1: The third masked man had attempted to jump into the
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Speaker 1: moving vehicle and he had been successful. As for Andrew,
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Speaker 1: why he suddenly vanished. The reason for that is truly horrific.
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Speaker 1: The three masked men were eighteen year old Henry Long
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Speaker 1: and seventeen year olds Albert Bowers and Jesse Cole. All
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Speaker 1: three of them, prior to this night, had fairly extensive
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Speaker 1: criminal records, and they proudly referred to themselves as career thieves,
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Speaker 1: which basically just meant they spent all day and all
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Speaker 1: night stealing from people. And so that night they had
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Speaker 1: gone out with the intention of stealing that man's quad bike.
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Speaker 1: It's unclear how they knew he had a quad bike,
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Speaker 1: but they definitely showed up prepared because they knew they
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Speaker 1: would have to get onto his property and very quickly
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Speaker 1: tow that bike out of there before the homeowner could
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Speaker 1: stop them. And so they had attached this long, very
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Speaker 1: thick rope to the back of their gray car. It
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Speaker 1: was basically like this big loop of rope, almost like
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Speaker 1: a lasso. And so when they pulled up onto that
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Speaker 1: man's property, they backed up to the quad bike and
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Speaker 1: they looped that stretch of rope over the handlebars of
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Speaker 1: this quad bike, and then all three of them piled
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Speaker 1: back into the gray car and they sped off with
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Speaker 1: the quad bike in tow. But when they were on
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Speaker 1: ad Moore Lane and came face to face with Andrew
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Speaker 1: and Shaw and realized those are police officers and were
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Speaker 1: caught the third masked man aka Jesse Cole. He hopped
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Speaker 1: out of the gray car. He ran around to the
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Speaker 1: back and he unhooked the loop of rope from this
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Speaker 1: quad bike, ditching the quad bike by the side of
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Speaker 1: the road so that it would be easier for the
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Speaker 1: gray car to make their getaway. And so once it
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Speaker 1: was free, the gray car kind of took off without Jesse,
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Speaker 1: and so Jesse ran around the cop car. But Jesse
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Speaker 1: would get back up to the side of the gray
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Speaker 1: car and he would leap into the window. Then as
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Speaker 1: soon as he was inside, and Henry, who was driving,
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Speaker 1: he knew he was insides, they're all good. Henry hit
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Speaker 1: the gas and who was standing with both feet inside
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Speaker 1: of that loop of rope dangling off the back of
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Speaker 1: the gray car when the gray car suddenly accelerated Andrew Harper.
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Speaker 1: Andrew was swept off his feet as the rope grabbed
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Speaker 1: onto his legs, and so his head came back and
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Speaker 1: smell into the ground. And then he was dragged for
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Speaker 1: ninety one seconds at an average speed of forty two
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Speaker 1: and a half miles per hour down Admore Lane. It
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Speaker 1: was only after he had been dragged for over a mile,
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Speaker 1: whipping violently side to side, smashing not only into the
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Speaker 1: ground but into trees and fence posts and shrubs, just
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Speaker 1: getting destroyed on this road. That finally, when they pulled
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Speaker 1: off of Admore Lane and got onto A four, that
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Speaker 1: turn swung Andrew around and he smashed into a curb
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Speaker 1: that dislodged him from the rope and sent him careening
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Speaker 1: into traffic. At that point, one of those two police
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Speaker 1: cars took off after the gray car in pursuit, but
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Speaker 1: the other car they saw Andrew as he was thrown
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Speaker 1: off the back of the gray car and launched onto
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Speaker 1: a four. Now, initially they actually thought that these suspects
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Speaker 1: were just hauling a dead deer behind them, because it
19:54
Speaker 1: looked like a bloody deer carcass was dangling behind the car,
19:58
Speaker 1: But when they ran up to see what it was,
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Speaker 1: they saw it was their colleague. It was Andrew, and
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Speaker 1: so immediately they tried to save his life, but Andrew's
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Speaker 1: injuries were catastrophic. He had been destroyed, and so Andrew
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Speaker 1: Harper would die at eleven forty five PM on the
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Speaker 1: side of the A four, about twenty minutes after he
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Speaker 1: and his partner had so selflessly agreed to go after
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Speaker 1: this car, despite the fact they didn't have to. The
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Speaker 1: three killers were arrested about one hour after Andrew had died.
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Speaker 1: A police helicopter had spotted their car parked amongst some
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Speaker 1: buildings about four miles away from where Andrew was found.
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Speaker 1: During their trial, the three teens would say they had
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Speaker 1: no idea that Andrew was attached to that toe rope
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Speaker 1: as they sped down Admore Lane. This is despite the
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Speaker 1: fact that the prosecution they went out and recreated the
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Speaker 1: exact scene that played out on Admore Lane. They used
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Speaker 1: the same car, they used the same toe rope, and
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Speaker 1: they used a very lifelike dummy that was the same
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Speaker 1: eyes as Andrew Harper. It was six foot five, two
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Speaker 1: hundred pounds, and they strapped it on the back of
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Speaker 1: the car and they drove the same mile stretch to
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Speaker 1: see what it would be like to drive with Andrew
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Speaker 1: attached to the back. And these experts that went through
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Speaker 1: this recreation over and over and over again they said
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Speaker 1: the same thing. It was nearly impossible to drive the
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Speaker 1: car because as soon as the dummy would start to
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Speaker 1: shift one way or the other, it would tug and
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Speaker 1: pull on this little gray car. And so handling this
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Speaker 1: car would have been a nightmare, not to mention the
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Speaker 1: fact that the sound of Andrew grinding against the cement
21:36
Speaker 1: and smashing into trees and posts would have been extremely loud,
21:42
Speaker 1: and so the prosecution attested that there was absolutely no
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Speaker 1: way that those three teens wouldn't have known that there
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Speaker 1: was a person connected to the back of their car. Also,
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Speaker 1: the prosecution said that all along ad More Lane they
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Speaker 1: found blood on both sides of the road, high up
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Speaker 1: into bushes and on trees, indicating that as Henry had
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Speaker 1: driven along with Andrew behind him, he must have been
22:06
Speaker 1: swerving violently side to side, most likely at least, according
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Speaker 1: to the prosecution, to try to dislodge the person that
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Speaker 1: was stuck on the back of his car. But the
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Speaker 1: three teens never changed their story. They also never once
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Speaker 1: said they regretted what they did. They showed absolutely no remorse.
22:25
Speaker 1: And when the verdict was read and these three teens
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Speaker 1: were not found guilty of murder, they were found guilty
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Speaker 1: of manslaughter, But everybody knew that was significantly better because
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Speaker 1: the sentences were so much shorter. When that verdict came back,
22:39
Speaker 1: these three teens were punching the air and cheering and laughing,
22:42
Speaker 1: just making a complete spectacle out of it. And then
22:45
Speaker 1: after being led out of the courthouse with the devastated
22:49
Speaker 1: family of Andrew Harper basically watching them, they were smirking
22:52
Speaker 1: and smiling at the cameras and waving and just treating
22:55
Speaker 1: the whole thing like it was one big joke. Still
22:57
Speaker 1: to this day, none of them have apologized or expressed
23:01
Speaker 1: any regret or remorse about what happened. In fact, two
23:04
Speaker 1: of the killers, Jesse and Albert, they've come out publicly
23:08
Speaker 1: and said they're going to write a book about this crime,
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Speaker 1: about killing Andrew Harper. And there's no indication that this
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Speaker 1: book is being written because they feel bad. It's almost
23:17
Speaker 1: certainly being written because it's an opportunity to make money.
23:20
Speaker 1: Following the verdict, Andrew's wife, Lissie, who was totally devastated
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Speaker 1: not only by the loss of her husband but also
23:28
Speaker 1: by what she viewed as total injustice with regards to
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Speaker 1: the fact that these three killers had not been convicted
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Speaker 1: of murder. She would go on to lobby for years
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Speaker 1: to pass a brand new law called Harper's Law, that
23:41
Speaker 1: would give an automatic life sentence to any criminal that
23:45
Speaker 1: killed an emergency worker while they were committing a crime,
23:49
Speaker 1: meaning this law would not differentiate between whether it was
23:51
Speaker 1: manslaughter or murder. If you killed an emergency worker while
23:55
Speaker 1: committing a crime, you're going to jail for life. And
23:58
Speaker 1: this year Harper's law was past. However, it will have
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Speaker 1: no effect on the sentences of Andrew Harper's killers. Henry
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Speaker 1: would be sentenced to sixteen years in prison, and the
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Speaker 1: other two, Albert and Jesse, would be sentenced to thirteen
24:12
Speaker 1: years in prison each. All three of them will be
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Speaker 1: eligible for parole by the time they are twenty eight
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