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Speaker 1: In the summer of twenty ten, on an otherwise quiet
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Speaker 1: and calm Sunday afternoon near Saint Petersburg, Florida, two men
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Speaker 1: placed frantic emergency calls for help. One calls placed by
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Speaker 1: a son, the other from his stepfather. Both men accused
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Speaker 1: the other of a murder, with a wife and mother
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Speaker 1: dead in her home and only her son and husband present.
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Speaker 1: One of them had to be lying, Hi everyone, I'm
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Speaker 1: Kevin and this is just Thought Lounge. We're the true
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Speaker 1: crime channel that delivers serious, well balanced coverage of the
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Speaker 1: cases that really make you think. Today we're examining the
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Speaker 1: bewildering murder of Diane Kine. This case takes us from
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Speaker 1: a chaotic disturbance in front of the kind family home
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Speaker 1: in Seminole, through conflicting interviews, perplexing physical evidence, and leads
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Speaker 1: us to not one, but two murder trials. Let's take
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Speaker 1: a look. The city of Seminole is in Pinellas County, Florida,
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Speaker 1: only a short drive from the beach and containing a
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Speaker 1: few lovely parks. It is a beautiful area and popular
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Speaker 1: amongst retirees. It was here that William Kine, who goes
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Speaker 1: by Bill, was living with his wife, Diane and her
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Speaker 1: twenty three year old son, Kevin. He had met Diane
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Speaker 1: in the early two thousands after he spotted Diane through
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Speaker 1: the window of the nail salon that she ran with
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Speaker 1: her twin sister. After using his daughter as an excuse
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Speaker 1: to frequent the business, he finally worked up the courage
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Speaker 1: to ask Diane out.
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Speaker 2: On a date.
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Speaker 1: It had been a whirlwind romance. After dating for not
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Speaker 1: quite two years, the couple married in two thousand and two.
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Speaker 1: At that time, her son Kevin was fifteen years old.
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Speaker 1: By twenty ten, young Kevin was twenty three and Bill
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Speaker 1: was over sixty. Bill was the owner of five Star
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Speaker 1: Automotive in Saint Petersburg for a time, and Diane had
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Speaker 1: started a business on eBay. She had filled the bedrooms
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Speaker 1: of their home with her merchandise. Diana adored animals and
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Speaker 1: kept two Yorkshire Terriers, two Malteses, and a goat named Lacey,
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Speaker 1: named after Lacy Peterson, the California woman who was murdered
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Speaker 1: by her husband. Outwardly, the family appeared happy. Four years
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Speaker 1: after the marriage, Kevin had chosen to take his new
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Speaker 1: stepfather's family name, Kevin Karrakesh became Kevin Kine. August fifteenth,
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Speaker 1: twenty ten was a Sunday. The day began relatively normally
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Speaker 1: in the kind family's quiet, Seminole neighborhood. The calm of
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Speaker 1: this pleasant Sunday afternoon would not last, however. At just
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Speaker 1: before three pm, baffled neighbors peered through their windows in
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Speaker 1: shock and confusion to view young Kevin and his stepfather,
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Speaker 1: Bill tumble from their house and continue a physical, chaotic
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Speaker 1: struggle with each other on their front lawn. Articles of
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Speaker 1: clothing were being discarded on the ground as the two fought.
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Speaker 1: Bill was able to get a hold of Kevin for
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Speaker 1: a time, but it would not last. At one point,
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Speaker 1: the two appeared to struggle while Kevin reached for his
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Speaker 1: cell phone. Witnesses later recounted that the altercation seemed to
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Speaker 1: go on forever, but in retrospect, the stepfather and son
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Speaker 1: likely struggled for only a few minutes. Kevin managed to
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Speaker 1: break free of Bill's grip. He ran two doors down
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Speaker 1: to a neighbor's home, dressed only in his boxer shorts. Bill,
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Speaker 1: also only partially dressed, returned to the house. There were
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Speaker 1: two nine to one one calls placed, which brought police
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Speaker 1: to the home within minutes of the scuffle outside. The
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Speaker 1: first call was placed by Kevin on his cell phone
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Speaker 1: as he fought with Bill. The older man had managed
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Speaker 1: to get Kevin into a chokehold intermittently, but not to
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Speaker 1: fully restrain him. The police, fire or medical emergency? What's
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Speaker 1: going on?
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Speaker 2: Where are you at, sir?
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Speaker 3: He's outside of the rock, he stoke. Okay, calm down, Okay,
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Speaker 3: what's going on there, sir?
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Speaker 2: What's going on?
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Speaker 3: I can't believe?
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, and I'll throw an appartment.
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Speaker 1: Kevin told the operator that he had been taking a
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Speaker 1: nap when he was awoken by his stepfather and told
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Speaker 1: that his mother needed to speak with him immediately. But
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Speaker 1: when he approached the bedroom where his mother was lying down,
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Speaker 1: her face appeared discolored. It was black and blue. He
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Speaker 1: knew something was wrong, but in that moment Bill approached
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Speaker 1: him from behind. The older man managed to restrain Kevin
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Speaker 1: in a chokehold, he claimed while he struggled to break free.
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Speaker 1: The altercation then overflowed onto the front lawn, and Kevin
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Speaker 1: made desperate attempts to flee from his stepfather.
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Speaker 4: Laying on the couch.
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Speaker 1: So when I went into the room, he started choking
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Speaker 1: me out.
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Speaker 3: And I tried to wake her up as he was
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Speaker 3: delos to her face and her face was black.
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Speaker 1: Four minutes after Kevin placed his call accusing his stepfather
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Speaker 1: of killing his mother, Bill Kind returned to the house
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Speaker 1: and also phoned nine to one one.
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Speaker 4: Listen, we've got help on the way, but I needed
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Speaker 4: to do a couple of things for me.
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Speaker 3: Okay, okon, are you right there with her?
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Speaker 4: Okay, I want you to check it she awake?
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Speaker 3: Is she breathing at all?
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Speaker 1: So okay, I want you to stay in the line
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Speaker 1: with you and say, I'm gonna walk you through something.
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Speaker 3: Do you have a the fibrillator available?
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Speaker 1: In Bill's version of events, he walked into the bedroom
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Speaker 1: to find Kevin leaning over Diana strangling her. Acting quickly,
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Speaker 1: he placed Kevin in a chokehold and pulled him from
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Speaker 1: the room. The struggle continued as Bill pursued Kevin outside.
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Speaker 1: Bill said he was then overpowered by the younger man,
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Speaker 1: who threw him around like a rag doll as Kevin
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Speaker 1: ran from him down the street. Bill returned to the
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Speaker 1: house and called nine to one one. He went into
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Speaker 1: the kitchen to place the call. To that point, he
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Speaker 1: had not paused to check on his wife or to
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Speaker 1: see if she was still breathing. Bill met with police
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Speaker 1: when they arrived at the house at about three pm.
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Speaker 1: Kevin Kine was still at the neighbors when the deputies arrived.
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Speaker 1: He was located quickly in the house. They found Diane,
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Speaker 1: forty nine years old, deceased in the bedroom, laying face
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Speaker 1: up on her bed, and autopsy would later reveal that
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Speaker 1: she had either been strangled or smothered. The EMT that
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Speaker 1: first responded to the scene noted that Diane was already
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Speaker 1: cold to the touch, which should indicate that she had
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Speaker 1: been murdered some time before the emergency calls were placed.
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Speaker 1: There was some physical evidence collected at the scene which
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Speaker 1: would prove pivotal to the investigation. First, five small droplets
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Speaker 1: of blood were located in two locations in the bedroom,
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Speaker 1: a few small specks on the comforter that lay on
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Speaker 1: the bed as well as on Diane's thigh. A single
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Speaker 1: sandal was on the floor at the end of the bed,
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Speaker 1: its pair was found by the door, and a pair
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Speaker 1: of eyeglasses were sitting next to the bed. DNA testing
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Speaker 1: was also conducted in the room and swabs taken to
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Speaker 1: match that of Diane, Bill and Kevin. The two men
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Speaker 1: were brought in by the police for questioning. Both of
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Speaker 1: their stories are inconsistent not only with each other, but
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Speaker 1: with their nine to one one calls and the physical evidence.
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Speaker 1: In both nine to one one recordings, the callers imply
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Speaker 1: that they entered the bedroom with Diane at some point.
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Speaker 1: Kevin when he claims to have approached his deceased mother,
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Speaker 1: and Bill when he claims to have encountered the murder.
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Speaker 1: Kevin stated clearly that he went into the room and
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Speaker 1: that he had been in the process of trying to
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Speaker 1: wake his mother when Bill attacked him.
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Speaker 3: So when in the room, he started choking me out
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Speaker 3: and I tried to wake her up well.
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Speaker 1: When questioned by police, he denied entering the room at all,
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Speaker 1: claiming instead that he only paused at the doorway before
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Speaker 1: Bill came up behind him. Bill was interviewed on three
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Speaker 1: separate occasions. In the first two instances, he also denied
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Speaker 1: entering the room after the encounter with Kevin, but on
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Speaker 1: his nine to one one call, he very clearly sounded
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Speaker 1: as though he was right next to his wife trying
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Speaker 1: to assist her.
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Speaker 4: Are you right there with her? Okay, I want you
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Speaker 4: to take a she awake.
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Speaker 1: Confronted with this recording, Bill's third and final statement to
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Speaker 1: police was that he thought it would sound better if
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Speaker 1: he had not re entered the room.
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Speaker 2: I wish you'd have gone back and shack daughter instead
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Speaker 2: of chasing him.
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Speaker 1: I thought it would look better if I didn't make
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Speaker 1: it back into the room, that Kevin was the only
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Speaker 1: one in the room.
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Speaker 5: Why would that look better?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: When the DNA testing was returned, the blood found inside
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Speaker 1: the room was determined to be Kevin's. It was not
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Speaker 1: clear how it came to be there. Police at the
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Speaker 1: filmed that he had visible cuts on his neck after
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Speaker 1: the struggle with Bill, but he did not re enter
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Speaker 1: the house after that altercation. DNA testing on the sandal
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Speaker 1: matched Kevin as well. He initially denied to law enforcement
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Speaker 1: that these were his shoes. Bill insisted that he and
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Speaker 1: Diane had purchased them for Kevin a year prior, and
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Speaker 1: that he frequently wore them around the house. The eyeglasses
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Speaker 1: were also determined to be Kevin's. Investigators believed that all
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Speaker 1: this placed Kevin inside the room before his mother's death.
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Speaker 1: The sun was almost certainly lying as I pushed her
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Speaker 1: door open, he grabbed me from the back of the
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Speaker 1: neck and started choking me. And I saw my mom
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Speaker 1: on her back. Her face was absolutely blue.
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Speaker 5: Did you kill your mother?
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Speaker 3: No, sir, I did not.
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Speaker 1: Bill further explained to investigators that Kevin had grown increasingly
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Speaker 1: angry and volatile with his mother, which had culminated in
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Speaker 1: multiple violent incidents. On the day of the murder, the
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Speaker 1: three of them had been arguing over kevin use of
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Speaker 1: the computer, a small issue, perhaps, but one that was
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Speaker 1: representative of the already embedded animosity in the household. Bill
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Speaker 1: and Diane had wanted twenty three year olds Kevin to
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Speaker 1: leave the house and get a job, not to spend
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Speaker 1: all day on the computer. Kevin's behavior had been unstable,
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Speaker 1: but was that enough to lead to murder. Bill's DNA
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Speaker 1: was also found inside the room, and, perhaps most crucially,
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Speaker 1: a match of Bill's DNA was found on Diane's neck.
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Speaker 1: Aside from the blood droplets, Kevin's DNA was not found
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Speaker 1: anywhere on his mother. Law enforcement largely disregarded the match
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Speaker 1: to Bill. However, despite its location on the neck. It
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Speaker 1: was not unreasonable, after all, to find the husband's DNA
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Speaker 1: on his wife and in their shared bedroom, but Bill
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Speaker 1: had also failed to be upfront with the investigators. Both
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Speaker 1: men were given polygraph tests. Kevin passed his test without issue. Bill, however,
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Speaker 1: tested as to sept on three questions, two of which
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Speaker 1: pertain to Diane's death. The first question that registered as
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Speaker 1: deceptive asked Bill directly if he caused the death of
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Speaker 1: his wife. The second inquired as to whether he had
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Speaker 1: lied to law enforcement about finding Kevin on top of Diane.
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Speaker 5: I have told you what really have Which version are
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Speaker 5: we supposed to believe you have been truthful to us
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Speaker 5: at this point? You see how this is going? M M.
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Speaker 2: You fail a polygraph?
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Speaker 5: Your DNAs on our neck isn't.
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Speaker 1: As Bill stuck to his story, police were left with
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Speaker 1: little to go on. Polygraphs may serve as a useful
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Speaker 1: indicator of deception, but may just as likely prove false.
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Speaker 1: Investigators turned their attention towards the Kind family history, the
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Speaker 1: dynamic amongst family members, and any potential motive these two
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Speaker 1: men may have had for murder. The third question that
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Speaker 1: Bill Kind failed on his polya did not directly address
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Speaker 1: Diane's murder, but rather the death of his first wife,
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Speaker 1: Christa by the year of her death. In two thousand,
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Speaker 1: Bill and Christa had been married for twenty two years.
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Speaker 1: The two were raising five children in the same seminole
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Speaker 1: house where Bill and Diane would later reside with Kevin.
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Speaker 1: At the age of forty four, Christa was found drowned
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Speaker 1: in the family swimming pool with what was described as
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Speaker 1: gardening equipment tied around her neck. She was found by
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Speaker 1: her husband, then forty two years old, at nine am
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Speaker 1: the next morning, a Sunday. Their daughter called nine one
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Speaker 1: one while Bill pulled Christa from the pool, but it
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Speaker 1: was too late. She was no longer conscious. It was
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Speaker 1: unclear how long she had been in the water. Investigators
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Speaker 1: determined that Christa had tripped, hit her head, and fell
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Speaker 1: into the pool. Bill was never considered a suspect. The
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Speaker 1: death was deemed a tragic accident. He would tell the
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Speaker 1: examiner in his polygraph that he did not cause the
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Speaker 1: death of his first wife, and the examiner assessed that
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Speaker 1: he was lying. After Chris's death, Bill received a life
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Speaker 1: insurance payout of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and
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Speaker 1: this was just one of multiple insurance payouts that Bill
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Speaker 1: would receive over the years. It seems that Bill Kine
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Speaker 1: has had some exceptionally bad luck in both his personal
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Speaker 1: life and business ventures. Both Bill's autoshop as well as
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Speaker 1: a separate investment property burnt to the ground, leading to
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Speaker 1: additional insurance funds of undisclosed amounts, and at least one
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Speaker 1: of these cases, the cause was suspected arson, though nothing
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Speaker 1: was ever conclusively proven. Each one of these instances, taken individually,
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Speaker 1: were deemed unsuspicious, but taken as a whole, these payments
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Speaker 1: were a red flag. When investigators in Diane's murder case
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Speaker 1: looked into her life insurance, they found Bill had taken
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Speaker 1: out policies on her, totaling seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: Kevin Kind also had a motive to kill his mother.
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Speaker 1: In fact, he had a history of being argumentative, abusive,
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Speaker 1: and threatening towards Diane, behaviors that were escalating in the
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Speaker 1: months prior to her death. According to witnesses and other
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Speaker 1: family members, including Bill's brother Jeremy, Kevin had a habit
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Speaker 1: of goading his stepfather, go ahead, hit me, then I
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Speaker 1: can call the police and you can go to jail,
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Speaker 1: he is quoted as saying, and the police were called
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Speaker 1: to the home many times. In each instance, the officers
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Speaker 1: would determine that although Kevin had called them out to
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Speaker 1: accuse his stepfather, he was the problem, and Kevin was
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Speaker 1: a problem to both of his parents. Kevin had dropped
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Speaker 1: out of Seminole High School, but later got a high
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Speaker 1: school equivalency. He had been arrested several times, starting at
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Speaker 1: age twelve, on charges that include battery, marijuana possession, resisting arrest,
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Speaker 1: and criminal mischief. According to Bill, Kevin liked pain pills
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Speaker 1: and the anti anxiety drug xanax, and he could become violent.
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Speaker 1: His mother and stepfather entered him into drug treatment, set
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Speaker 1: him up in jobs, and paid for his apartment. In
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Speaker 1: a documented case, Kevin had gotten into an intense argument
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Speaker 1: with his aunt, following which authorities had to arrest him.
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Speaker 1: He kept a job at a neighboring circle K for months,
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Speaker 1: but most jobs lasted just days or weeks. Without a job,
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Speaker 1: Kevin had no place to stay except home. Two years
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Speaker 1: before the murder, the living situation had gotten so bad
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Speaker 1: that Diane had a formal eviction notice served to her son,
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Speaker 1: and with the help of the Sheriff's office, he was
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Speaker 1: forced out. But Diane always took him back. It had
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Speaker 1: been a rough time for Kevin. A month prior, he
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Speaker 1: had an operation to remove a benine tumor from his brain.
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Speaker 1: On the day of the murder, he had been resting
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Speaker 1: on the couch as he was still in recovery. This
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Speaker 1: is counter to Bill's recollection of that day. Kevin and
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Speaker 1: Diane had been fighting on and off while Bill claimed
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Speaker 1: to be watching Nascar in another room. Kevin had changed
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Speaker 1: the access code to the computer so that no one
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Speaker 1: else could use it. Diane wanted access restored, and she
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Speaker 1: wanted her son out of the house. She had imposed
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Speaker 1: a deadline again and gave Kevin only a few weeks
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Speaker 1: to leave the house. After a few minutes, when he
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Speaker 1: heard the arguing turn to silence, Bill went to check
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Speaker 1: on Diane. That is when he found Kevin with his
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Speaker 1: hands on his mother's throat. The blood found in the
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Speaker 1: room and on Diane, coupled with Kevin's history of anger issues,
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Speaker 1: was enough to push for an indictment of first degree
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Speaker 1: murder against him. Speaking to the grand jury, Kevin did
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Speaker 1: himself no favors when he testified that he and his
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Speaker 1: stepfather had a good relationship with few issues. This was
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Speaker 1: demonstrably false. He was indicted in twenty eleven and went
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Speaker 1: to trial. Kevin's public defenders strongly suggested that it was
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Speaker 1: his stepfather, Bill Kind, that committed the murder for the
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Speaker 1: life insurance money, but with the motives and stories so
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Speaker 1: directly opposed, it was the physical evidence that weighed most heavily.
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Speaker 1: The prosecution did not offer a logical explanation for the
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Speaker 1: small droplets of Kevin's blood inside the room, but they
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Speaker 1: did contend that this placed him in the room and
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Speaker 1: proved him a liar. The prosecution also pointed towards the
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Speaker 1: sandals that they claimed placed Kevin inside the room, though
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Speaker 1: he denied ever fully entering. In addition, the state of
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Speaker 1: Florida produced a jailhouse informant who claimed that Kevin had
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Speaker 1: admitted to the murder and provided details that they claimed
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Speaker 1: only Kevin could know. The jury found Kevin Kind guilty
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Speaker 1: of second degree murder, and he was sentenced to life
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Speaker 1: in prison. Juriors stated afterwards that they found no reasonable
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Speaker 1: doubt presented at trial, but two years into serving his sentence,
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Speaker 1: Kevin's appeal was heard by the court and his conviction
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Speaker 1: was overturned. The Second District Court of Appeals in Florida
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Speaker 1: found that it was unlawful to have allowed evidence of
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Speaker 1: Kevin's prior alleged violent or provocative incidents with his stepfather
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Speaker 1: as evidence against him at trial. The state sought to
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Speaker 1: prove a volatile pattern of behavior, and in doing so,
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Speaker 1: they introduced many disputes between Kevin and Bill that had
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Speaker 1: no connection to the anger that Kevin may have felt
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Speaker 1: towards his mother or the specific circumstances of her murder.
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Speaker 1: The state needed to try again. Kevin Kine's retrial commenced
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Speaker 1: in early twenty fifteen. There were a few key differences
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Speaker 1: between Kevin's first and second trial. First, of course, Kevin's
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Speaker 1: history of angry disputes with Bill was omitted. Second, the
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Speaker 1: defense team did not just suggest that Bill Kind was
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Speaker 1: responsible for Diane's death. They outright accused him of it.
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Speaker 3: Bill Kine has lied over and over and over again.
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Speaker 3: He's lied to save his own skin, he's lied to
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Speaker 3: protect himself. He's lied to set up my client for murder,
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Speaker 3: and the state expects you to convict Kevin based on
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Speaker 3: that man's word.
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Speaker 1: The third, and perhaps a crucial difference in this trial
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Speaker 1: compared to the first was that. Kevin chose to take
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Speaker 1: the stand in his own defense. When he did so,
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Speaker 1: the prosecution grilled him about his past behavior. He had
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Speaker 1: been a brat at the age of twenty three. He
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Speaker 1: admitted to acting immaturely. He had been rude and regularly
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Speaker 1: acting out against his mother. He also admitted that his
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Speaker 1: mother was all that he had, so why would he
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Speaker 1: kill her?
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Speaker 2: That's absolutely brady? Okay? But isn't brad a term usually
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Speaker 2: as applies to children. That's how I figure I was acting.
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Speaker 2: You're twenty three years old, right, correct, and so you'd
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Speaker 2: agree with you?
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Speaker 4: Would you not that a parent who has a brat
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Speaker 4: who's eight or ten years old, okay, would deal with that.
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Speaker 4: Then a parent that had a twenty three year old
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Speaker 4: that was still call himself a brat, right, correct? Because
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Speaker 4: you're old enough to be out of the house.
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Speaker 2: Correct. If your kids are brat when they're eight or ten,
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Speaker 2: you just got to live with it pretty much, don't you.
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Speaker 5: It's correct?
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Speaker 2: Okay? Your mother did not have to live with your behavior,
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Speaker 2: did she. She didn't have to know, but she had
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Speaker 2: no choice because you wouldn't leave, right. I was given
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Speaker 2: a date.
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Speaker 4: I mean, well, you've been giving a date on a
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Speaker 4: number of occasions, hadn't you?
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Speaker 3: They kept letting me come back because I had nowhere
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Speaker 3: to go.
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Speaker 2: Well, you just kept arguing with him. You didn't want
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Speaker 2: to get out of the house, did you. I just
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Speaker 2: wanted somewhere to stay.
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Speaker 3: When you opened the door, did you take any steps
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Speaker 3: into the bedroom?
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Speaker 2: I might have took one or two steps just opening
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Speaker 2: the door. This is taking one or two steps. This
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Speaker 2: is the first time you said that in four and
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Speaker 2: a half years. Right, I was always saying that I've
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Speaker 2: opened the door and that's as far as I've went.
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Speaker 2: You were always saying you never went in the bedroom.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: The secondary found a reasonable doubt that the first had not,
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Speaker 1: and kind supported by his paternal grandmother, Phyllis Karakesh was
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Speaker 1: found not guilty and released from custody after years of
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Speaker 1: imprisonment in.
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Speaker 4: The state of Florida.
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Speaker 1: Versus Kevin Lee Kine in a charge of murder in
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Speaker 1: the second degree, the defendant is found not guilty. Did
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Speaker 1: you kill your mother? No, sir, I did not.
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Speaker 3: For the first time ever, Kevin Kine answers that question
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Speaker 3: as a free man. Feels great.
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Speaker 1: It's been a long journey. Bill Kine was in court
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Speaker 1: with his new wife to hear the verdict, which delivered
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Speaker 1: a blow to him in more ways than one.
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Speaker 5: But I feel comfortable sitting here, and I feel comfortable
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Speaker 5: when I go to my grave that I didn't make
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Speaker 5: a mistake.
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Speaker 1: Geiger says he and the other jurors would have liked
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Speaker 1: to have heard testimony about the death of Bill Kine's
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Speaker 1: first wife in that same home. Bill Kine has been
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Speaker 1: cleared in the death of both of his wives. He
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Speaker 1: later remarried a woman named Tanya, who passed away of
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Speaker 1: cancer in twenty seventeen. Bill published an auto biography the
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Speaker 1: following year, detailing his many losses. It's entitled Love That
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Speaker 1: Lasts a Lifetime. The book description reads, through candid anecdotes
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Speaker 1: and inspirational advice, kind invites all of us to see
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Speaker 1: how with hope, love and faith, we too can reach
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Speaker 1: the highest mountaintops and survive the deepest valleys of despair.
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Speaker 1: The following year, Bill was charged with leaving the scene
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Speaker 1: of an accident after he drove his motorcycle through a
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Speaker 1: group of cyclists, sending one individual to intensive care. It
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Speaker 1: is not just Bill that found himself caught up again
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Speaker 1: with the law in the years after the second trial, Kevin,
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Speaker 1: who reverted back to his birth name Kara Kesh, was
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Speaker 1: arrested again in twenty sixteen on a felony battery charge
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Speaker 1: in relation to a fight in a pool hall. It
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Speaker 1: was reported that he struck a man with a triangle
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Speaker 1: rack as part of a brawl at a seminole pub.
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Speaker 1: The murder of Diane Kine remains unsolved. Her son and
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Speaker 1: husband continue to call the other a murderer, and there
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Speaker 1: is no doubt that one of them is correct. The
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Speaker 1: Penela's Pasco State Attorney's Office has stated publicly they were
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Speaker 1: confident that they put the right kind on trial. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for watching. I'm Kevin. This is just thot lounge and
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Speaker 1: I'll see in the next one.