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HEAR IT: Millionaire's Crazy 911 Call After Wife Vanishes. BUSTED IN MEXICO · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. You know what it would
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Speaker 1: take hell and high water. Children standing there strand outside
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Speaker 1: of school waiting for me to pick them up. That
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Speaker 1: is not going to happen, all right. So it was
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Speaker 1: a big clue when QC que Chadwick leaves her children
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Speaker 1: standing there strand outside of school, that should have been
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Speaker 1: red flag to everybody. Then let me just go ahead
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Speaker 1: and tell you she's dead. And for four long years,
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Speaker 1: four years, the prime suspect has been nowhere to be found,
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Speaker 1: although his image was everywhere. It's amazing how a lot
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Speaker 1: of money can buy your whole new life, Imancy Grace,
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Speaker 1: this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
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Speaker 1: I don't like crimes on women, on mothers. How awful
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Speaker 1: to steal a mother away from her children that will
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Speaker 1: affect them forever. In the last hours, a major major
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Speaker 1: break in the case of the murder of QC Queen Chadwick.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen, our friends at Inside Edition busted. A
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Speaker 1: fugitive multi millionaire accused of killing his wife nabbed after
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Speaker 1: nearly five years on the run. You can run, but
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Speaker 1: you can't hide. Peter Chadwick made a fortune in real
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Speaker 1: estate twenty twelve, he and his wife QC. Vanished from
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Speaker 1: their two million dollar home in Newport Beach, California. The
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Speaker 1: next day, Chadwick called nine one from a gas station
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Speaker 1: near the Mexican border with a hard to believe kidnapping tale.
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Speaker 1: Detectives were suspicious from the start. One big reason Chadwick
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Speaker 1: couldn't explain the cuts on his arm and neck. One
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Speaker 1: week later, his wife's body was found in a dumpster.
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Speaker 1: She'd been strangled. Chadwick was charged with murder. He was
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Speaker 1: released on one million dollars bond, and then he was
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Speaker 1: gone for nearly five years. It was a mystery what
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Speaker 1: happened to the accused wife killer, and international manhunt was launched.
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Speaker 1: Chadwick was added to the US Marshall's Most Wanted list.
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Speaker 1: The fifty four year old tycoon was returned to the
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Speaker 1: US from Mexico after authorities received a crucial tiff. Cops
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Speaker 1: say his time on the run was a far cry
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Speaker 1: from his ritzy California lifestyle. He turned to more modest
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Speaker 1: accommodations in motels. In hostels, Peter also worked at number
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Speaker 1: of od jobs to supplement the cash that he had
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Speaker 1: brought with him. Police say Chadwick also used a string
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Speaker 1: of aliases. After four years outsmarting the cops, multi millionaire
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Speaker 1: real estate investor husband Peter Chadwick has bid failed. But
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Speaker 1: how the world did we end up on this wild
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Speaker 1: goose chase? Okay? So where is they chuck her? They
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Speaker 1: chuck her. The guy broke into my house. He drove
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Speaker 1: me here, he had a friend. They've just gone. They've
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Speaker 1: gone in the pickup truck. Okay, so your what, she's dead.
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Speaker 1: They got an old house her course, Yeah, they killed
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Speaker 1: killed her yesterday. They killed her yesterday. Yeah, we we
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Speaker 1: we We've been driving uh in New Park Beach. Okay,
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Speaker 1: hold on, let me okay, you're hearing one of the
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Speaker 1: most bizarre nine one one calls I have ever heard.
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Speaker 1: And that's a lot of nine one one calls. Let's
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Speaker 1: hear the rest of that nine one one call. He
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Speaker 1: said that his wife is dead the house and sold it.
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Speaker 1: He said her. Yeah, Okay, who is he? Um one?
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Speaker 1: How do you know? One? I picked him up to
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Speaker 1: look at some painting work at the house. I brought
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Speaker 1: him to the house. And when did this happen? Yesterday?
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Speaker 1: Middle of the day. Yesterday, in the middle of the day,
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Speaker 1: when did she die yesterday middle of the day? Okay?
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Speaker 1: And where is she now? Like eleven? They have her body?
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Speaker 1: They say they're gonna cut her up. Who has her body? One?
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Speaker 1: And she okay? So when she died at eleven o'clock
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Speaker 1: they took her Yeah, yeah, they maybe put her in
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Speaker 1: the car. Now do you know she's dead? She drowned.
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Speaker 1: It's drowned. The body was deaf. Even I've been driving
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Speaker 1: with ava. They say they're going to cut her up.
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Speaker 1: What's your name? Peter Chick? Wow? Peter Chadwick calling nine
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Speaker 1: one one, multimillionaire married twenty one years to his sweetheart,
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Speaker 1: his college sweetheart, and now these nine one one calls
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Speaker 1: straight out to Wendy Patrick joining me California prosecutor, author
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Speaker 1: of red Flags on Amazon. Sounds like he doesn't know
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Speaker 1: the time or the date his wife was murdered, and
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Speaker 1: that he hired these two guys he's referred to as
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Speaker 1: one and Chay, and somehow they've taken his wife's body.
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Speaker 1: How did that happen? I got a lot of problems
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Speaker 1: with a nine one one call, Wendy Patrick. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: and that now when an operator is asking a lot
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Speaker 1: of great class examination questions. You know, you talk about
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Speaker 1: a picture being worth a thousand words, and a video
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Speaker 1: has even more priceless. Sometimes you can even hear in
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Speaker 1: somebody's voice what they are thinking, what they're feeling, and
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Speaker 1: the credibility and all the rest of it. This is
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Speaker 1: one of the reasons we have to hear these types
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Speaker 1: of nine one one calls instead of just having somebody
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Speaker 1: recite what somebody said on the phone. Everything about the voice, intonation,
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Speaker 1: the hesitation, the lack of what you might expect somebody
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Speaker 1: to be feeling after just witnessing the death of a
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Speaker 1: spouse after all those years. That is one of the
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Speaker 1: things that makes this type of a call so valuable
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Speaker 1: for a jury. Okay, well, put on your seat belts.
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Speaker 1: Here's some more. Are you on any kind of medication? Sir? Okay,
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Speaker 1: it's not that, okay, because I think they're going They
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Speaker 1: might be going to Mexico or somewhere. Okay, but this
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Speaker 1: happened yesterday at eleven. You're now calling us at five
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Speaker 1: thirty in the morning. I know I want you to
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Speaker 1: get him. Yeah, so here, okay, good talk to one. Okay,
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Speaker 1: thank goodness, the cops got there. So how many hours
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Speaker 1: up past joining me an all star panel, Dave Max,
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Speaker 1: indicated talk show host, detective at Stephen Lampley dot com.
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Speaker 1: Stephen Lampley, renowned psychologist Karen Start dot com. Joining us
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Speaker 1: from Manhattan, retired chief medical examiner doctor Chris Sperry, and
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Speaker 1: California prosecutor author of red Flags on Amazon, Wendy Patrick
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Speaker 1: Dave Mac. Let me just start with the facts. What
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Speaker 1: happened that we know of, Who's dad? Where did the
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Speaker 1: incident occur? Who is one and chay? And who's this
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Speaker 1: guy calling nine one one? All right? The guy on
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Speaker 1: the phone with nine one one is Peter Chadwick. He
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Speaker 1: and his wife QC were married for almost twenty one years.
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Speaker 1: They were college sweethearts and they had three children. One
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Speaker 1: child was away at boarding school. The other two came
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Speaker 1: home for a school and we're at the stop and
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Speaker 1: nobody picked them up. Okay, wait right there, hold on,
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Speaker 1: I heard you say children come home from school waiting
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Speaker 1: at the bus stop and nobody shows up. Listen, So
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Speaker 1: these boys got out of school and what happened? So
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Speaker 1: they get out of school and a bus drops them
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Speaker 1: off at a bus stop near their house, and the
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Speaker 1: sergeant Bryan Peters remembers that day and a neighbor song
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Speaker 1: sitting at the bus stop past the time that they
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Speaker 1: typically get picked up by either Peter or QC. So
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Speaker 1: she stopped and asked, have you reached your mom and dad?
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Speaker 1: And they said no, they haven't been able to reach them.
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Speaker 1: They were calling them nobody's answered. But that's not all.
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Speaker 1: What about the scene of the crime. Investigators combed the
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Speaker 1: Chadwick home for clues, and then when they go upstairs
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Speaker 1: and they walk into the master bath, and that's when
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Speaker 1: patrol realizes there's more to the story. Prime Stories with
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace welcome back. In the last hours. A stunning
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Speaker 1: twist in the search for a multi millionaire Peter Chadwick,
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Speaker 1: long suspected of strangling his beautiful young wife, the mother
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Speaker 1: of his children. From what they've already told us, they
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Speaker 1: got a tip that led them to Mexico, where Chadwick
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Speaker 1: was living. He was arrested Sunday Sunday, and he had
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Speaker 1: numerous fake IDs on him. Peter Chadwick returned to California
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Speaker 1: Monday in handcuffs and shackled at the waist after more
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Speaker 1: than four years on the run. Authorities alleged the father
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Speaker 1: of three, strangled his wife QC in their Newport Beach
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Speaker 1: home in October twenty twelve, before placing her body in
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Speaker 1: a dumpster in San Diego County. Karen Thorpe was QC's
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Speaker 1: close friend. We showed her the images of Chadwick in custody.
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Speaker 1: What's it like to see that. I'm angry, I'm repulsed.
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Speaker 1: I want to make him know the pain that everybody
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Speaker 1: else suffered, our friends at CBS. Four years on the run.
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Speaker 1: How did he do it? Dave Mac You know, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: it's interesting. It's not like he went on the LAMB,
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Speaker 1: left the United States of America and went to Mexico
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Speaker 1: and you know, bought a house and just stayed put.
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Speaker 1: This is a guy who went to Mexico and police
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Speaker 1: believe that he spent his entire time there, that he
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Speaker 1: started off by staying in very expensive luxury resorts. But
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Speaker 1: he didn't have proper identification. And you know, in many
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Speaker 1: places they do require some type of identification of who
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Speaker 1: you are and where you're from. And so after the
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Speaker 1: cash bought him clearance for a certain amount of time,
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Speaker 1: he would have to either you give up the actual
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Speaker 1: identification they asked for or leave. Well, he just kept leaving.
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Speaker 1: So he moved around a lot and stated a number
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Speaker 1: of luxury resorts, and then he started staying at more
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Speaker 1: moderate places, and eventually when he was caught, he was
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Speaker 1: staying in a residential community in a duplex. And again
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Speaker 1: we know that he used a lot of different and
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Speaker 1: IDs in a lot of different names, and during that
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Speaker 1: four years on the run, he was always looking over
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Speaker 1: his shoulder and constantly on the move. So starting off
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Speaker 1: at luxury resorts and slowly moving down to more moderate
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Speaker 1: accommodations and then eventually into a residential community of duplexes.
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Speaker 1: Peter Chadwick Lung suspected of strangling his beautiful young wife,
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Speaker 1: the mother of his children. But how do we land
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Speaker 1: here today? What about the scene of the crime in
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Speaker 1: the master bathroom. They initially saw the broken glass, decorative
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Speaker 1: glass that was around the bathroom tub, the edging. We
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Speaker 1: had blood at the bottom of the bathtub. As you
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Speaker 1: continue through the downstairs, the safest clearly a jar. So
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Speaker 1: it's starting to look like more than just a welfare
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Speaker 1: check situation. Yeah, obviously, whoever left left in haste. It
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Speaker 1: looked quite suspicious. Okay, everything about the scene is very disturbing.
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Speaker 1: We find out that deary broken glass, there was a
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Speaker 1: blood as safe was open. A big problem for me
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Speaker 1: is that nobody was tipped off Stephen Lampley detective at
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Speaker 1: Stephen Lampley dot com. Until the little boys were stranded
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Speaker 1: at the bus stop. Nobody ever picked them up, and
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Speaker 1: that is how they find out that things have gone sideways.
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Speaker 1: I mean, according to this guy, this millionaire realtor, he's
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Speaker 1: been in the car with these two men who he
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Speaker 1: hired to paint as painters one in Shay for many,
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Speaker 1: many hours. Why are we just hearing about the wife
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Speaker 1: being dead and he doesn't have a story straight and
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Speaker 1: the lacadotical tome on the nine one one call even
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Speaker 1: actually Nancy sounds like he's making the story up as
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Speaker 1: he goes. And because I don't know that to be fact,
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Speaker 1: but that was my impression. This story seems like something
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Speaker 1: It was just a crudely made up Listen. What's more,
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Speaker 1: Chadwick's own body had some incriminating injuries. He had scratches
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Speaker 1: on his neck and arms, in a bite mark on
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Speaker 1: his forearm. To doctor Chris Berry, to retire Chief Medical Examiner,
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Speaker 1: Doctor Chris Berry. When I see scratches on arms and
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Speaker 1: neck that screams out one thing, Chris, Yes, he did
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Speaker 1: it himself. And I've seen the photographs and those are
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Speaker 1: we call factitious, meaning that they're that he did this
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Speaker 1: to himself to try to make it look like he
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Speaker 1: was attacked. But those do not have any of the
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Speaker 1: features that I would associate with someone attacking someone else.
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Speaker 1: They're very superficial. They looked back. They were done with
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Speaker 1: either the point of a knife or even the edge
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Speaker 1: of the knife, just scraping the skin. Tack. You tell
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Speaker 1: this with self inflicted versus possibly the wife QC doing
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Speaker 1: it to him, Well, you have to look at the
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Speaker 1: injuries to start with. Most often, uh, facial injuries are
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Speaker 1: going to come from fingernails, as someone scrape, grabbing the
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Speaker 1: face and scraping the face, and those leave very distinctive
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Speaker 1: marks behind little semicircular or slightly curved abrasions from the
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Speaker 1: fingernail edge or broad scrapes from the fingernails themselves. These
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Speaker 1: are actually cuts, their incised wounds, meaning that they came
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Speaker 1: from the sharp edge of something. And also all of
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Speaker 1: them are very superficial. They're you know, your your child
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Speaker 1: falling on the driveway and scraping his knee is going
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Speaker 1: to get deeper injury in his knee than what those
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Speaker 1: injuries are on his face, that they're typically done, you know,
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Speaker 1: for dramatic effect, but also you know, something like this,
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Speaker 1: it's done without understanding that experts should look at injuries
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Speaker 1: like this and really tell how they are made, what
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Speaker 1: kind of instrument, whether it's a knife or fingernails. And
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Speaker 1: these just don't don't add up. They immediately they looked
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Speaker 1: like they were self inflictive to me. Well, he claims
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Speaker 1: that these two One and Shay had taken him on
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Speaker 1: a long, long car ride with his wife's body in
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Speaker 1: the car. But take a listen to what technology uncovers.
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Speaker 1: He interstated that he had been driving with One from
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Speaker 1: Anaheim to Newport Coast. During that trip, he was stopped
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Speaker 1: by a police officer. We told him to move along
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Speaker 1: from the side of the road. We ran to contact
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Speaker 1: that police officer who remembered the stop and recorded the
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Speaker 1: license plate and remember telling Peter to move along. He
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Speaker 1: also remembered that for sure Peter was the only person
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Speaker 1: that vehicle one or anyone else. There's no one else
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Speaker 1: inside that vehicle. And for us, that was the first
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Speaker 1: open shut lin that he had told us that I
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Speaker 1: was sure about. They tried to confirm everything that he
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Speaker 1: was saying and at point five point every aspect of
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Speaker 1: it where they were able to locate a video camera
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Speaker 1: or they were able to find a cell phone record
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Speaker 1: or in this case interview at California High Control officer
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Speaker 1: and the contacted him. His story kept falling apart. Wow, Okay,
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Speaker 1: explain to me Stephen Lampley detective. You can find him
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Speaker 1: at Stephen Lampley dot com. How technology is used to
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Speaker 1: destroy his story that these two guys had him on
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Speaker 1: the run, essentially in him, I guess as a hostage
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Speaker 1: with his wife's dead body in the car. Yeah, and see,
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Speaker 1: the technology has come a long way even since when
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Speaker 1: I first started as a police officer in the late eighties. DNA,
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Speaker 1: I mean, the technology and then forensics has just has
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Speaker 1: blown open investigations to a new level. You know, with
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Speaker 1: the holds that you pass, you can retrieve the video.
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Speaker 1: There is a camera on you when you go through
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Speaker 1: a toll even if you've got easy pass. There are
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Speaker 1: tag grabbers on the side of the road that can
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Speaker 1: grab your license tags. There are cameras everywhere. If you're
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Speaker 1: like me, I couldn't care less if a camera catches
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Speaker 1: me zooming by on my minivan. But for people that
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Speaker 1: have a dead body of the trunk, it's a whole
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Speaker 1: another can of worms. And there's one other problem, a suitcase.
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Speaker 1: And then there was this a packed suitcase in Chadwick's
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Speaker 1: car our friends at CBS. We had a suitcase all
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Speaker 1: milk clothing inside that was just kind of thrown in
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Speaker 1: there as if somebody kind of packed hastily. I'm sorry
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Speaker 1: there was a bag in the car of men's clothes.
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Speaker 1: What kind of kidnapper says, hey, go ahead and pack
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Speaker 1: yourself an overnight bag, which is part of the problem.
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Speaker 1: That's not the thing that happens. During the initial contact,
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Speaker 1: Peter was kind of all over the map. His story
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Speaker 1: was very disjointed. He'd go through the range of emotions, crying, however,
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Speaker 1: the officer never saw a tear, two moments of anxiety,
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Speaker 1: and just complete quiet. And the most interesting thing was
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Speaker 1: during the entire contact with law enforcement and with our detectives,
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Speaker 1: he never once asked about his kids. He never asked
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Speaker 1: about the boys. No, no, we're talking. He hasn't seen
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Speaker 1: them since the morning prior when he dropped him off
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Speaker 1: for school. What did that say to you? To me,
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Speaker 1: it means that he's more concerned with his story creating
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Speaker 1: an alibi that he is about his own sons. It
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Speaker 1: appeared so yes to all you moms and dad's out
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Speaker 1: there listening. If you're like me, you pour all your love,
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Speaker 1: all your dreams, all hopes, all your energy, all your money,
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Speaker 1: all your everything into your children. Can you imagine you
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Speaker 1: go out of town for just a couple of days
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Speaker 1: and you get a call your baby's missing. I cannot
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Speaker 1: even think about it, but that is what happened to
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Speaker 1: Michael Stern. He gets a call that his only child,
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Speaker 1: his beautiful girl, Sarah Stern, is missing and her car
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Speaker 1: has been found abandoned on a remote bridge. At first,
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Speaker 1: they tell him they think she committed suicide. He's like,
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Speaker 1: no way, she didn't do that. That couldn't happen. What
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Speaker 1: join me? Thank you friend. I'll see a Saturday nine
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Speaker 1: o'clock Eastern, A brand new time injustice with Nancy Grace,
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Speaker 1: Prime stories with Nancy Grace joining us, a major break
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Speaker 1: in the case, and the murder of a beautiful young mom.
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Speaker 1: Que QC. Chadwick, a millionaire accused of killing his wife,
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Speaker 1: is expected in court in California today after more than
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Speaker 1: four years on the run. We told you yesterday about
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Speaker 1: Peter Chadwick. He vanished after he was charged with murder,
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Speaker 1: but was caught in Mexico Sunday. Well, today prosecutors will
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Speaker 1: ask a judge to deny bail. Our friends at CBS,
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Speaker 1: how in the world did this? I state on the lamp.
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Speaker 1: We believe that Peter Chadwick has been in Mexico since
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Speaker 1: his disappearance. Law enforcement says Peter Chadwick used aliases and
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Speaker 1: fake IDs to live off the grid for more than
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Speaker 1: four years. The fifty five year old vanished in twenty
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Speaker 1: fifteen after being charged with murdering his wife QC in
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Speaker 1: their Newport Beach home while their children were at school.
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Speaker 1: At a news conference Tuesday, authority said Chadwick tried throwing
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Speaker 1: off investigators. Chadwick strategically placed indicators that he was headed
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Speaker 1: to Canada at his father's residence. They say he was
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Speaker 1: actually hiding out in Mexico, first at high end resorts,
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Speaker 1: then at motels and hostels, working odd jobs to make money.
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Speaker 1: Even though he fled with nearly a million in cash.
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Speaker 1: He went from a real estate millionaire to bussing tables, right.
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Speaker 1: I think he was just desperate to fit in and
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Speaker 1: stay on the run. So this is where he stopped.
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Speaker 1: Officials say intense coverage by media, including forty eight hours,
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Speaker 1: put pressure sure on Chadwick. The media coverage made him
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Speaker 1: trip up. I believe so. Yeah. I think that caused
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Speaker 1: an incredible amount of stress in his life. Dave matt
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Speaker 1: Way in big question, Nancy, why was this guy give
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Speaker 1: him bail? You know, Haines's crime killing his wife of
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Speaker 1: seventeen years, the mother of his three boys. And the
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Speaker 1: answer for that was that his attorneys and the judge
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Speaker 1: all believed that he not only had the close ties
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Speaker 1: to the community that they looked for, but that he
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Speaker 1: had a real affection for his sons. Well, think about
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Speaker 1: this for a minute. When when he killed his wife. Okay,
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Speaker 1: it was a Wednesday afternoon and the two younger boys,
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Speaker 1: nine and twelve, they get off their school bus where
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Speaker 1: they're normally picked up at this bus stop on the
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Speaker 1: way home from school. Mom is usually there to pick
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Speaker 1: him up, and Chadwick, well, he's gone. We don't know
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Speaker 1: exactly where he went, but we know that he had
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Speaker 1: killed his wife and they were nowhere to be found.
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Speaker 1: So his affection for his children, he didn't care that
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Speaker 1: they were at a bus stop all by themselves. He
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Speaker 1: didn't care that they had to find their own way home.
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Speaker 1: He didn't care that they didn't have a key to
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Speaker 1: get inside their house. A neighbor picked them up at
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Speaker 1: the bus stop and took them to the house. When
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Speaker 1: they couldn't get in and couldn't get anybody on the phone,
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Speaker 1: she then takes them the boys to her house, feeds
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Speaker 1: them dinner, then goes back to their house again where
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Speaker 1: I can't find mom and dad can't get him on
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Speaker 1: the phone. That's when she That was like seven o'clock
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Speaker 1: at night. She's the one who called the police. So
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Speaker 1: this man who cared so much about his kids, never once,
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Speaker 1: you know, worried about or concerned about what was going
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Speaker 1: to happen when they got off the school bus, couldn't
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Speaker 1: get into the house. As a matter of fact, all
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Speaker 1: the way through the next till the next morning when
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Speaker 1: he makes that crazy nine one one call, not one
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Speaker 1: time did he mention that he's got young children at home.
23:41
Speaker 1: You know, he tells that crazy story about you know,
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Speaker 1: his wife being murdered by wand and him being kidnapped
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Speaker 1: and driving around for sixteen hours and all that. Never
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Speaker 1: once does he say, hey, man, send the cops to
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Speaker 1: my house and my kids. You know, never once a
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Speaker 1: matter of fact, through all of this, I don't think
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Speaker 1: he's asked about them yet. So that whole concern for
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Speaker 1: his children right out the window. The guy never cried
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Speaker 1: and never asked any questions about those little boys. Karen Stark,
24:06
Speaker 1: we need to shrink big time. I Mean, the first
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Speaker 1: thing I think of in the morning is where are
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Speaker 1: the twins? What are the twins doing? Are the twins
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Speaker 1: asleep all during the day? Are they okay? Howd their
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Speaker 1: tasks go? How did this? Blah blah blah blah blah.
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Speaker 1: If I'm remotely in the area, I swing by too,
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Speaker 1: you know, just very innocently spy on them lost. Why
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Speaker 1: would the I mean, if my wife had been murdered,
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Speaker 1: my spouse had been murdered, my paramount concern would be
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Speaker 1: what about my children? Are they? Okay? Fanancy, you have
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Speaker 1: authentic feelings, so of course you would be thinking about
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Speaker 1: the twins. You'd be concerned about your mother. This is
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Speaker 1: somebody who can't feel that way. He has no emphathy.
24:58
Speaker 1: So while he's concerned, bad is Kenny stick to his story.
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Speaker 1: If you hear the way he sounded on the nine
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Speaker 1: one one call, his voice was totally flat. There's no emotion.
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Speaker 1: He didn't even take emotion, so he cannot feel. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: he's not worried about his children at all. You know what.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of the nine one one call, let's take a
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Speaker 1: little listen to that. Against Yeah, my wife, My wife's dead. Okay,
25:27
Speaker 1: so where did they chuck her? They chuck her? Who
25:34
Speaker 1: the guy broke into my house? He drove me here,
25:38
Speaker 1: he had a friend. They've just gone. They've gone in
25:43
Speaker 1: the pickup truck. Okay, So your wife, she's dead, they
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Speaker 1: got Yeah, they killed killed her yesterday, child her yesterday. Yeah.
26:02
Speaker 1: We we we've been driving in New Park beach. You know,
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Speaker 1: you are hearing a nine one one call placed by
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Speaker 1: a multi millionaire, a real estate investor. You know, with
26:17
Speaker 1: all that education, all that acumen, all that money, you
26:22
Speaker 1: think he could do a little bit better on the
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Speaker 1: nine one one call. So what do we know about
26:28
Speaker 1: their relationship? Listen, the Chadwicks lived a very suburban life.
26:34
Speaker 1: Peter was very quiet, very self spoken, QC. She was
26:40
Speaker 1: bubbly and vivacious. When you say bubbly and vivacious, did
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Speaker 1: she have a sense of humor? She was very funny. Yes,
26:47
Speaker 1: it's so smart and talented. She could do anything. Our
26:52
Speaker 1: kids started the same school as her children. They were
26:55
Speaker 1: all friends. You see. She came from Malaysia, not speaking English,
27:00
Speaker 1: and she met Peter in school. She told us Peter
27:05
Speaker 1: would work out of the home managing the family investments.
27:09
Speaker 1: You know, they lived well. So from the outside, did
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Speaker 1: it seem like the Chadwick's had this idyllic life. Yes,
27:15
Speaker 1: from the outside, it definitely seemed that way. You're hearing
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Speaker 1: our friend Tracy Smith at CBS. And there's more. Peter
27:21
Speaker 1: came from a wealthy family. He was born in Britain
27:24
Speaker 1: and had dual citizenship. QC's family was also affluent. They
27:29
Speaker 1: met at Arizona State University. Did you get the sense
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Speaker 1: that she was very in love with him, Yes, she
27:35
Speaker 1: was in love with him, and that she depended on him. Also,
27:39
Speaker 1: what do you mean depended on him? QC. Found our
27:42
Speaker 1: country to be a bit new and strange, different from
27:45
Speaker 1: where she had come from, and she was learning about
27:49
Speaker 1: how to do things here. Did you get the sense
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Speaker 1: that Peter liked her depending on him? Yes, yeah, we
27:56
Speaker 1: definitely all felt that he was completely comfortable with that.
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Speaker 1: She was definitely less independent than many of her friends.
28:03
Speaker 1: You're hearing our friend Tracy Smith over at CBS. That
28:06
Speaker 1: was the family dynamic, Dave Mack. So many times we
28:10
Speaker 1: think we know what a married couple is like, what
28:12
Speaker 1: their family life is like, because of the image that
28:14
Speaker 1: they project to others. The image that this family had
28:17
Speaker 1: was that they weren't showoffs, but they had money. You know.
28:21
Speaker 1: Chadwick worked at home, managing and working with his company's
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Speaker 1: real estate company. She was a stay at home mom.
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Speaker 1: They had three boys. One the oldest, I think was
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Speaker 1: fourteen at the time this happened. He was away at
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Speaker 1: boarding school, while the two younger boys were twelve and nine.
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Speaker 1: And they attended a fairly exclusive private school in Orange County.
28:41
Speaker 1: Beyond that, inside the home, it was meticulous, very organized.
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Speaker 1: She ran an incredible home. And you could if you
28:49
Speaker 1: look at the pictures of the boys, all of they're
28:51
Speaker 1: always smiling. These boys were they knew their mom loved them.
28:56
Speaker 1: And I think about that when I realized what this
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Speaker 1: Chadwick did to his family. He took this mother, this
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Speaker 1: loving mom who did everything she could for her boys,
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Speaker 1: and he stole her from them. But beyond that, the
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Speaker 1: guy never once asked about the boys. He never checked
29:13
Speaker 1: on you know, think about it, they through all of this.
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Speaker 1: I don't think he's asked about them yet. And he's
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Speaker 1: left them without the mother that they loved, and he
29:21
Speaker 1: left them destitute. This guy, I'm so thankful he's caught.
29:24
Speaker 1: I'm just ready for the trial. I'm ready for him
29:27
Speaker 1: to you put under the jail. This is the guy
29:29
Speaker 1: who doesn't deserve to share the same oxygen that we
29:31
Speaker 1: breathe crime stories with. Nancy Grace, Queen Chadwick. She's dead
29:52
Speaker 1: and for four long years, four years, the Pride suspect
29:58
Speaker 1: has been nowhere to be found. I'm Nancy Grays. This
30:02
Speaker 1: is crime stories, Thank you for being with us. How
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Speaker 1: awful to steal a mother away from her children? In
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Speaker 1: the last hours, A major, major break in the case
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Speaker 1: of the murder of QC. Que Chadwick. Take a listen
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Speaker 1: our friends at Inside Edition, A fugitive multi millionaire accused
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Speaker 1: of killing his wife nabbed after nearly five years on
30:26
Speaker 1: the run. What happened to the accused wife killer? An
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Speaker 1: international manhunt was launched. Chadwick was added to the US
30:32
Speaker 1: Marshall's Most Wanted list. The fifty four year old tycoon
30:35
Speaker 1: was returned to the US from Mexico after authorities received
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Speaker 1: a crucial tip. Cops do it all. They check cell
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Speaker 1: phone records, they check everything regarding social media, computers, cameras
30:48
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood, everything, and they still can't find QC
30:52
Speaker 1: or her body. What she just disappears off the face
30:54
Speaker 1: of the earth until a tip. We started finding two
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Speaker 1: s's items. We found nice bags, we found a really
31:01
Speaker 1: nice purse, so we set those aside. When we opened
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Speaker 1: up the bag, that's when we found QC's ID, her
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Speaker 1: permanent residency card, ten dozen dollars cash, and all of
31:09
Speaker 1: this stuff is the stuff that he described Juan taking
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Speaker 1: with QC's body into Mexico and wrapped in that green
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Speaker 1: blanket QC's body. It was a huge break for us.
31:23
Speaker 1: The dumpster was scheduled to be picked up a Thursday morning,
31:27
Speaker 1: which was the next morning after we believe Peter disposed
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Speaker 1: of QC's body. The issue with that was there was
31:32
Speaker 1: some kind of billing disputes, so they were supposed to
31:34
Speaker 1: pick up the dumpster, but they didn't. Once detectives finally
31:38
Speaker 1: found QC, the medical examiner was able to determine how
31:41
Speaker 1: she died. There was a pretty violent struggle which resulted
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Speaker 1: in strangulation and possible drowning. Wow, so how could they
31:48
Speaker 1: determine from that? To doctor Chris Sperry, chief Medical Examiner,
31:52
Speaker 1: that there have been a possible drowning. I think that's
31:54
Speaker 1: based on the scene evidence back at the house where
31:57
Speaker 1: there's a deep bath hot tub and with a broken
32:02
Speaker 1: vase and some blood and the evidence of a struggle
32:06
Speaker 1: around that area. Drowning with a diagnosis of exclusion, it's
32:10
Speaker 1: very difficult from a pathology for you to actually establish
32:14
Speaker 1: that someone has truly drowned. But strangulation injuries should be
32:18
Speaker 1: very straightforward and fairly fairly easy to detect with a
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Speaker 1: good autopsy. So I think the medical examiner was basically
32:25
Speaker 1: covering all bases, knowing that there was a struggle in
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Speaker 1: and around a tub at the home with broken broken
32:33
Speaker 1: vase and other evidence. So that was added on, as
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Speaker 1: I would say, I'm back up in a sense to
32:41
Speaker 1: indicate the drowning may have occurred, and if so, that
32:44
Speaker 1: would place probably QC back at the house. So let
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Speaker 1: me understand, Dave Matt, syndicated talk show host. Her body
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Speaker 1: is found wrapped inside of a green blanket. Do we
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Speaker 1: know where the blanket came from and where exactly what's
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Speaker 1: her body found? The blanket apparently came from inside the
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Speaker 1: home Nancy, and her body was actually found in that
33:04
Speaker 1: dumpster as was described a while ago, that was supposed
33:07
Speaker 1: to have already been taken to the dump but due
33:09
Speaker 1: to a filling dispute, it was actually still there with
33:13
Speaker 1: the body and tact. If you think the nine one
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Speaker 1: one call was bizarre, listen to this. Peter Chadwick's explanation
33:18
Speaker 1: of QC's death has always been problematic. The story changes
33:22
Speaker 1: often and the details are bizarre. For example, when asked
33:27
Speaker 1: to described the knife that Juan used to threaten him.
33:30
Speaker 1: During their sixteen hour long ordeal, Peter describes a small
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Speaker 1: Swiss Army utility knife with a blade two inches long,
33:37
Speaker 1: and he points out that the knife blade was very dull.
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Speaker 1: His demeanor is also peculiar, as recorded in a detective's report,
33:46
Speaker 1: I noticed that Peter appeared unemotional and almost sleepy throughout
33:48
Speaker 1: her contact. He spoke very quietly and with a British accent.
33:52
Speaker 1: Peter was very slow to answer my questions and would
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Speaker 1: take frequent long pausits. During his answers, he frequently put
33:58
Speaker 1: his hands over his face, as if he was going
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Speaker 1: to cry, but when he removed his hands, he did
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Speaker 1: not appear emotional. His eyes were not red and or watery.
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Speaker 1: In one version of the one story, the killer sits
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Speaker 1: on Peter's chest for a solid five minutes so that
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Speaker 1: he can't attempt CPR on his dying wife. In another
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Speaker 1: one forces Peter to disrobe, but after quc is dead,
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Speaker 1: Peter then tries to charge at one but one grabs
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Speaker 1: his testicles and squeezes them to subdue him. Okay, though,
34:30
Speaker 1: that's where our friends that count down to capture Karen
34:33
Speaker 1: start with a guy's story. How does it always boil
34:35
Speaker 1: down to his testicles. Something to do with his testicles,
34:39
Speaker 1: his penis is sex life. Here we go. First of all,
34:42
Speaker 1: the guy sits on him, okay, while his wife is dying.
34:46
Speaker 1: He subdued because one sits on him. Then he grabs
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Speaker 1: his testicles. You know it never ends with this guy, Karen,
34:51
Speaker 1: start was this telling you? And also, Karen, while I've
34:54
Speaker 1: got you, what about the fact that he appears like
34:57
Speaker 1: he's about to fall asleep while coots are trying to
34:59
Speaker 1: talk to him about his wife's murderer. Well there's that
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Speaker 1: lack of emotion again, Nancy, where you know he could
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Speaker 1: care less. So he's trying to act as though this
35:08
Speaker 1: is important to him, that it's killed him, that he's
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Speaker 1: putting his hands over his face, but meanwhile he's falling asleep.
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Speaker 1: He's boring himself. And his story is unusual for a psychopath.
35:21
Speaker 1: And the reason I'm saying that is that they're usually
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Speaker 1: very planned and exact, and they know exactly what they're
35:27
Speaker 1: going to say, even if you and I don't think
35:29
Speaker 1: it'll make sense, they've worked it out. This guy hasn't
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Speaker 1: worked it out at all, So his story becomes very
35:35
Speaker 1: involved and all of a sudden, his manhood comes to
35:38
Speaker 1: question and they're restraining him and what's the worst ways
35:43
Speaker 1: We're having testicles right to a man joining me right now.
35:47
Speaker 1: Crime online dot Com investigative reporter Dave Dave Matt, what
35:51
Speaker 1: more can you tell me? A couple of things that
35:53
Speaker 1: we've found out during the investigation in this is while
35:57
Speaker 1: Chadwick was on the lamb for four years, the Newport
36:00
Speaker 1: Beach Police Department never gave up on it. They kept
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Speaker 1: this front and center. They actually were very aggressive digitally
36:08
Speaker 1: in trying to keep the guy's picture out there, his story.
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Speaker 1: They wanted people to know this guy was on the
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Speaker 1: LAMB and was trying to avoid justice. Once he did
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Speaker 1: get to a place where he could stay under the radar,
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Speaker 1: he moved around a lot. He probably had to change
36:23
Speaker 1: his name a lot. He had to constantly be working
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Speaker 1: on a new backstory and new fake IDs, and was
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Speaker 1: able to accomplish that for a number of years. But
36:32
Speaker 1: eventually it led to the tips that came in by
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Speaker 1: the Newport Beach Police Department keeping it front and center
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Speaker 1: digitally by aggressively going after him with using a podcast
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Speaker 1: and things like that. There that's how they got the
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Speaker 1: tip to where he was in Mexico. It was just
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Speaker 1: good old fashioned police work seeking out information from the
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Speaker 1: public and the public responding and they were able to
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Speaker 1: follow up on it and boom, they got him. Nancy
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Speaker 1: Grace Crime Stories, signing off goodbye friend,