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  Speaker 1: I'm Chris Hansen right now on Crimewatch Daily. From here
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  Speaker 1: in New York City, a cheating husband sets up a
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  Speaker 1: twist with a twist.
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  Speaker 2: This is all too much. I'm beyond uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: So what is his truly indecent proposal? Not say, is
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  Speaker 1: to murder his wife?
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  Speaker 3: Got some money and I need someone gone.
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  Speaker 1: But is he being framed? I have done nothing wrong
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  Speaker 1: that it's all a lie. Detectives are about to get
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  Speaker 1: a double surprise.
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  Speaker 4: And he introduced himself as the twin brother.
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  Speaker 1: Then mask gunman storm a superban New York house, take
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  Speaker 1: the homeowner's hostage, and then.
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  Speaker 5: I need a police officer.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty one year old college student Dimitri Hampton is ruthlessly killed.
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  Speaker 1: God hold, someone takes someone life like that? Was it
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  Speaker 1: a and him home invasion?
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  Speaker 6: Do you think that your house was targeted?
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  Speaker 1: A mystery woman comes forward exposing who was underneath the mask.
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  Speaker 1: But one huge mistake is about to let a suspected
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  Speaker 1: killer off the hook.
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  Speaker 6: You physically fell to the floor.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's like another stab in that right now.
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  Speaker 2: So look Jason Mattella with Prime Watched Daily, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Let's be smart from Crimewatch Daily. It's Ana Garcia
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  Speaker 1: from Crime Watch Daily.
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  Speaker 4: You got anything to say?
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  Speaker 1: He is crime Watch Deal.
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  Speaker 6: Don't know if she's thirteen?
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  Speaker 1: You're running away now. Welcome to crime Watch Daily. Everyone,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Chris Hansen. Today's top story is all about murder
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  Speaker 1: and money. We've got the new details on the outrageous
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  Speaker 1: plot to kill so someone could collect a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: of cash. He's a man willing to pay for a
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  Speaker 1: murder for in.
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  Speaker 5: A deal right now.
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  Speaker 8: This is a goat.
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  Speaker 1: She's a lady who suddenly finds herself as his hired gun.
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  Speaker 1: This is all this undercover cop will put his life
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  Speaker 1: on the line to try and stop it before it's
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  Speaker 1: too late.
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  Speaker 3: Immediately when he got the call.
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  Speaker 1: And haul the kill her husband in for questioning.
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  Speaker 7: I feel as that I have done nothing wrong.
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  Speaker 1: His name is a fac Menejuala and he will never
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  Speaker 1: forget meeting the woman who changed his life forever. According
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  Speaker 1: to Belize, she's a call girl he found on Craigslist
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  Speaker 1: who he paid all of forty dollars for a certain
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  Speaker 1: sexual favor.
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  Speaker 4: Afterwards, he offered her additional ways to make money.
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  Speaker 1: This lady of the night may have heard some unusual requests,
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  Speaker 1: but this one takes the cake.
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  Speaker 4: He referenced that he wanted to off somebody and this
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  Speaker 4: would be beneficial to both of their needs.
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  Speaker 1: So who does he want dead?
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  Speaker 4: Originally he referred to the victim in this case as
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  Speaker 4: a roommate, then it turned into a girlfriend. Then he
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  Speaker 4: finally admitted that the target was in fact his wife.
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  Speaker 1: His wife, the mother of his three year old son,
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  Speaker 1: the woman he has cut out of their honeymoon. Photo
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  Speaker 1: text messages reveal a bitter custody battle, his wife threatening
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  Speaker 1: to take their son and leave the country, writing at
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  Speaker 1: the airport, goodbye, my phone is going dark. Shoe, things
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  Speaker 1: can't be any other way, af Fok writes back. Please
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  Speaker 1: don't go with him, Please just make a mature decision.
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  Speaker 1: You're taking him away from his father. Police say he
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  Speaker 1: desperately wants sole custody of the boy and his wife gone.
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  Speaker 4: There was the financial aspect where he was in debt.
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  Speaker 4: There was a million dollar life insurance policy on the victim.
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  Speaker 1: So is this call girl the kind of girl who
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  Speaker 1: would kill a man's wife. Well, for fifteen thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: paid in installments, it's a deal sort of.
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  Speaker 4: Her initial idea was possibly duping him after obtaining a
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  Speaker 4: million up front cut.
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  Speaker 1: Run Please say that over these of several meetings, he
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  Speaker 1: lays out every detail of how he wants the job
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  Speaker 1: done at the couple's gated community townhouse in Laurel, Maryland.
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  Speaker 4: He gave specific instructions how to make entry where his door.
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  Speaker 1: Was man asullas thought of everything, even to the point
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  Speaker 1: where he's telling her, you know, if you wear yoga pants,
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  Speaker 1: they're more flexible and you'll be able to move around more.
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  Speaker 1: He even considers having her do the job with a car.
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  Speaker 4: I think at one point you might have suggested a
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  Speaker 4: runner over, but.
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  Speaker 1: The unlikely lady killer from Craigslist has to think of
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  Speaker 1: her own safety too. In later meetings, cops say she
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  Speaker 1: actually records the conversation on her cell phone in case
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  Speaker 1: something should happen to her.
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  Speaker 7: I want's swing by my house, just like going to
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  Speaker 7: show you a couple of things.
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  Speaker 8: I really really really want you to know that I
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  Speaker 8: will be a regular source of inform you and then
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  Speaker 8: I'll hitch you up with the mumpstone going to you
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  Speaker 8: once I do this deal to give you money. Right here,
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  Speaker 8: we officially announced that our helped up.
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  Speaker 5: We're in a deal right now.
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  Speaker 1: This I gotcha. He's intoxicated with dreams of a dead wife.
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  Speaker 1: When get this, they actually get pulled over at a
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  Speaker 1: sobriety checkpoint. What the hell?
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  Speaker 9: What happened here?
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  Speaker 5: Reason I stop?
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  Speaker 6: You get a hit? Light out?
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  Speaker 10: Are you aware of that? Yeah, that's why I have
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  Speaker 10: my flashes on the bottom on.
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  Speaker 1: I do know that it's out. So let me give
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  Speaker 1: you my license right now.
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  Speaker 11: Give me.
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  Speaker 3: That's really it is too much.
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  Speaker 2: They have light on on both sides.
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  Speaker 5: They're blocking this whole street right now.
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  Speaker 7: The cool I gotcha, Let it go out, grab a flight.
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  Speaker 3: So what I did today is I just gave you
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  Speaker 3: a repair order.
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  Speaker 8: So you have ten days to get it done and
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  Speaker 8: get it signed.
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  Speaker 5: We're sure your cooperation.
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  Speaker 1: Have a good night, but not so fast. Suddenly, as
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  Speaker 1: they pull away, the officers back at the window.
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  Speaker 2: Are you serious, man?
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  Speaker 8: Just let you know you got a break.
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  Speaker 10: Lay out of passion.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna I'll get that look at too, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: But the call girls slash hit woman is rattle.
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  Speaker 2: This is all too much.
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  Speaker 1: I'm beyond uncomfortable. Next reality hits home for the would
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  Speaker 1: be killer and she's about to make a decision that
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  Speaker 1: stuns even the police.
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  Speaker 4: Anytime a story comes up like this, it is hard
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  Speaker 4: to believe.
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  Speaker 1: And an identical twin brother has cops wondering is there
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  Speaker 1: a double cross in the works.
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  Speaker 4: One of the issues that we had was being able
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  Speaker 4: to prove that this is mister Manezuela. It's not the
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  Speaker 4: twin brother that's doing all of this.
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  Speaker 1: We're back with more on the cheating husband who meets
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  Speaker 1: a girl on Craigslist, but he's got more in his
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  Speaker 1: mind than hooking up. It's more like taking out. Oh fuck,
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  Speaker 1: Manajuala wants his wife dead.
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  Speaker 12: He had plans in place. It was no doubt in
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  Speaker 12: our minds that he was wanting to be successful in this, and.
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  Speaker 1: Now the call girl he's hired not for sex but
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  Speaker 1: to kill his wife, is having second thoughts. At one
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  Speaker 1: point during their harrowing traffic stop, she prays in fear,
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  Speaker 1: even while holding the two hundred dollars down payment for
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  Speaker 1: murder in her hand. Police say she first planned to
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  Speaker 1: take that upfront money and run, but now she's having
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  Speaker 1: an attack of conscience about leaving manage while his wife
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  Speaker 1: and child in mortal danger.
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  Speaker 12: She had nothing to gain from it by reporting it,
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  Speaker 12: and she was in our area doing an illegal activity.
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  Speaker 1: In an incredible turn of events, she bolsters her courage,
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  Speaker 1: takes the plunge, and goes to police.
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  Speaker 4: It's hard to believe, but she produced. She actually showed
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  Speaker 4: us text messages and the audio recording that she had done,
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  Speaker 4: which obviously complete credibility to her story.
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  Speaker 1: Comps need to use her to set a trap, but
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  Speaker 1: also to keep her out of danger while going after
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  Speaker 1: manage Walla, and they're on a risky learning curve with
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  Speaker 1: no room for error.
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  Speaker 12: Murder for hire cases are extremely rare. I had never
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  Speaker 12: seen that before, and this was the first one we'd
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  Speaker 12: ever worked.
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  Speaker 1: And they have to come up with something quick before
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  Speaker 1: he finds someone else to kill his wife.
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  Speaker 4: She was advised to suggest that she had a cousin
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  Speaker 4: that could do the job. He's not in town at
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  Speaker 4: the moment, but he will be coming up soon.
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  Speaker 1: The supposed cousin is actually an undercover cop and it
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  Speaker 1: will be his first time in a murder for hire
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  Speaker 1: sting as well.
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  Speaker 12: Make no mistake the undercover officer in this case. You
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  Speaker 12: know he was putting his life in danger for the
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  Speaker 12: protection of this woman and her child.
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  Speaker 1: Please are certain that Manejoala will not hesitate to active
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  Speaker 1: threaten if.
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  Speaker 12: He changes his mind or if he thinks he's exposed,
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  Speaker 12: and then the one person he's going to get rid
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  Speaker 12: of is the person he's telling this information to, which
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  Speaker 12: in this case with the undercover officer.
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  Speaker 1: Now the courageous call girl is in no less danger,
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  Speaker 1: but means Manejoala one last time alone, he agrees to
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  Speaker 1: meet her cousin.
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  Speaker 4: The very next day, we had the from a text
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  Speaker 4: mister Manzuela stating that her cousin had arrived and that
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  Speaker 4: he wished to meet with mister Manezhula.
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  Speaker 1: We sat down with the undercover cop posing as the
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  Speaker 1: hitman cousin and was agreed to keep him undercovered.
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  Speaker 3: I knew it was gonna be a challenge, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: I was definitely up for it and looking forward to him.
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  Speaker 1: At their first meeting in the undercovers car, Manuala gets
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  Speaker 1: down to business quickly.
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  Speaker 10: I got some money, Okay, I need some money going.
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  Speaker 1: Lock on Helen know Later Manajulla breaks out his phone
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  Speaker 1: and shows the undercover a real home video of exactly
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  Speaker 1: where to find his wife in the house. It's a
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  Speaker 1: literal roadmap to murder.
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  Speaker 3: He kind of opened the door, walked up the steps,
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  Speaker 3: showed me that he laid on the left side of
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  Speaker 3: the bed, and this is where I could find it.
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  Speaker 10: It needs it like an accident, like a house for
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  Speaker 10: operator or anything else you suggest, girlfriend.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, just.
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  Speaker 1: Manage Wallace says he'll take his son to the boy's
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  Speaker 1: grandparents on the night of the murder, but he will
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  Speaker 1: be there himself when it happens, and he wants to
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  Speaker 1: be a victim to anything to make it look convincing.
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  Speaker 13: Event Yeah, even even like dabbing the arm or.
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  Speaker 1: Like the gods. At another meeting, a detective inside the
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  Speaker 1: unmarked car follows the two men as they take a
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  Speaker 1: look at Manage Walla's house.
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  Speaker 7: Give me two hundred feet up.
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  Speaker 1: That's the gated community.
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  Speaker 8: The only way to get chance.
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  Speaker 1: They Once you do job, come back up to the
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  Speaker 1: woods over here.
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  Speaker 8: To get parked.
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  Speaker 1: And he'd also like the killer cousin to bring along
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  Speaker 1: a can of spray paint for some finishing touches on
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  Speaker 1: his way out the door, something to make it look
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  Speaker 1: like a hate crime.
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  Speaker 3: I believe he's Muslim, and he talked about spray paying
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  Speaker 3: something on the walls as well too, to kind of
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  Speaker 3: make it seem realistic.
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  Speaker 1: But detective are about to be thrown a curveball. A
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  Speaker 1: fox identical twin brother rsh seen here at his wedding
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  Speaker 1: in the arms of three women, could arsh be setting
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  Speaker 1: up a twin or vice versa. It gives a whole
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  Speaker 1: new meaning to the term dead ringer.
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  Speaker 12: We didn't know if we were dealing with some kind of,
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  Speaker 12: you know, weird family issue here or something like that.
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  Speaker 12: I don't think there was any way we weren't going
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  Speaker 12: to do this without making sure that, you know, we
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  Speaker 12: didn't have the twin brother trying to set his brother
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  Speaker 12: up for a crime.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, that becomes a major issue in the sting,
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  Speaker 1: making sure they had eyes on the twin while they
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  Speaker 1: went after a Fox. During a third meeting with the
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  Speaker 1: undercover manageuall forks over a one hundred dollars advance. It
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  Speaker 1: seals the deal and the fate of his ill begotten
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  Speaker 1: murder plans.
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  Speaker 3: Gave me the money.
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  Speaker 1: He got out the car, I pulled out, Cops swoop
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  Speaker 1: in and make the arrest.
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  Speaker 12: I was there when he was taken into Cussidy, and
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  Speaker 12: he was shocked and very upset. I think he thought
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  Speaker 12: he was going to get away with it.
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  Speaker 1: Back at the police station, cops have a talk with
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  Speaker 1: Manage Walla.
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  Speaker 4: What I have to do here is tell you the
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  Speaker 4: most of your starts against your solicitation and commit money.
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  Speaker 10: Wow, I feel as if I have done nothing wrong
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  Speaker 10: and everything that has gone on so far that in
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  Speaker 10: your investigation is all fabricated. It's all a lie.
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  Speaker 12: Do you think fabricating and lying? I was fabricating In line,
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  Speaker 12: He's trying to explain it as that this was a
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  Speaker 12: game he was playing and that he was just setting
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  Speaker 12: this up.
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  Speaker 4: He was going to be the big hero that came
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  Speaker 4: to the rescue and saved his wife, and I was
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  Speaker 4: going to help their marriage. That plan was completely not feasible.
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  Speaker 10: My family and I we have a beautiful relationship, We
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  Speaker 10: have a beautiful family. Everything is perfect in my life
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  Speaker 10: right now.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about mistake obviously obvious. But Manage Walla lawyers up
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  Speaker 1: detective sit down with his wife and tell her the
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  Speaker 1: whole story. Despite their bitter custody battle, she could not
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  Speaker 1: believe the man she married wanted her dead.
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  Speaker 4: Her reaction was just absolutely shocked. She had no idea
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  Speaker 4: her life was basically being turned upside down in an instant.
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  Speaker 4: It took a lot of convincing to get her to
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  Speaker 4: understand what was going on. She really didn't believe us,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't blame her. I probably wouldn't believe me either, But.
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  Speaker 1: Even now, the surprises keep coming. Cops wanted to keep
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  Speaker 1: Manage Walla up behind bars until his trial, and they're
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  Speaker 1: worried about that twin brother.
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  Speaker 4: During bail review process, there was a concern that he
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  Speaker 4: might be able to actually take his brother's identity and
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  Speaker 4: flee the country.
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  Speaker 1: But Detective Brannigan is stunned to find Manage Walla free
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  Speaker 1: in the courthouse even as he's trying to keep him
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  Speaker 1: in jail.
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  Speaker 4: I looked at him, and how is how did he
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  Speaker 4: make bail already?
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  Speaker 1: How is he?
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  Speaker 4: I was very confused and I actually had to went
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  Speaker 4: up and introduce myself. Then he introduced himself as the
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  Speaker 4: twin brother.
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  Speaker 1: It's harsh. That's a relief, and cops say he was
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  Speaker 1: never implicated in any wrongdoing. But while being held manage
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  Speaker 1: Wallaw also gets a visit for from a longtime secret
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend who also gets the shock of her life.
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  Speaker 12: She had no clue he was married, and it was
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  Speaker 12: kind of odd because even when she found out, she
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  Speaker 12: was still trying to figure a way to stand by him.
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  Speaker 1: Later, in front of a judge, manage Walla never tells
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  Speaker 1: that story about fabricating the crime.
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  Speaker 12: He pled guilty to solicitation commit first degree murder, in
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  Speaker 12: which he was sentenced to fifty years suspend all but twenty.
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  Speaker 1: In the end, it's the result of some fine police
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  Speaker 1: work and a tip from a call girl with a conscience.
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  Speaker 12: She could have never even reported it and we would
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  Speaker 12: have been an underwiser. There's no doubt in my mind
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  Speaker 12: that if she hadn't reported this, his wife would have
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  Speaker 12: ended up deceased.
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  Speaker 1: And along with that good samaritan, cops say they also
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  Speaker 1: caught a little bit of a lucky break. While talking
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  Speaker 1: to the informant, managed Walla confessed that this was not
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  Speaker 1: his first time he tried to hire someone to kill
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  Speaker 1: his wife, telling the undercover officer he even provided that
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  Speaker 1: person a truck to commit the act. The hired man
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  Speaker 1: took the truck and ran, never to be seen again.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up a college student destined to serve and protect, do.
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  Speaker 6: You know why he was passionate about criminal justice?
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  Speaker 14: He wanted to help his community in other people's.
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  Speaker 1: Command until a violent home invasion ends in gunfire. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, this is the man police say pulled that trigger.
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  Speaker 1: But he is a legal mistake about to blow the
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  Speaker 1: whole case.
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  Speaker 13: Someone got away with murder.
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  Speaker 1: We're breaking news on the controversial murder of Dmitri Hampton
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  Speaker 1: that's coming up. Welcome back to Crime Watching Daily. It's
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  Speaker 1: a word we use often, justice, defined as the quality
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  Speaker 1: of being fair and reasonable. Well, when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: the murder of Dmitri Hampton, there's certainly nothing fair and
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  Speaker 1: reasonable going on, that's for sure. Our special legal correspondent
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  Speaker 1: Amy Dash as the details.
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  Speaker 8: Chris.
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  Speaker 6: It's there's a story of murder and heartache with an
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  Speaker 6: almost unbelievable ending, one that cost a lawyer his job.
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  Speaker 7: I wanted to keep them safe.
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  Speaker 1: They are the painful sights and sounds of those who
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  Speaker 1: loved a twenty one year old Dmitri Hampton.
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  Speaker 6: He had bold and what did he talk to you
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  Speaker 6: about wanting to become and do with his life?
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  Speaker 1: The main thing he said was military. Dmitri's family tells
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  Speaker 1: our special legal correspondent Emy Dash his dream was to
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  Speaker 1: join the Air Force and work in criminal justice.
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  Speaker 6: Do you know why he was passionate about criminal justice.
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  Speaker 14: There's a lot of violence out there that's going on.
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  Speaker 14: So he wanted to help to his community, in other
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  Speaker 14: people's community.
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  Speaker 1: And it made sense. Dmitri was raised to serve and protect.
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  Speaker 11: When my mother died, he said to me, Mommy, who's
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  Speaker 11: going to keep the family together now? And I said,
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  Speaker 11: you are, That's your responsibility, Dmeitri.
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  Speaker 1: Little did Dmitri know that call to duty to protect
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  Speaker 1: his own family would come sooner than expected, and it
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  Speaker 1: would cost this young hero his life.
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  Speaker 11: Most precious thing that we had, they took it from you,
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  Speaker 11: They took it.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: All was quiet inside Letitia Diego's modest home in Flanders,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: New York. It was frigid mid January.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: Were you sleeping? I was?
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: It was like three o'clock in the morning.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Letitia's boyfriend, Eric Walker was by her side down the hall.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Letitia's sixteen year old daughter was tucked safely in her bed. Dimitri,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Letitia's cousin was still away, His girlfriend, Frances was down
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: in the basement of the home. In a split second,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: a peaceful night is shattered by horrifying sounds of terror.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Let me kicked my door in, came in the house,
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: help myself from my boyfriend hostage.
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: Skia masks yeah.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: A raging, masked invader points a gun at Letitia and
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: her boyfriend Eric.
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: Me, where is it? Where is it? That's what I said,
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: Where is what?
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: He's shaking his gun. I just covered my face with
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: the pillow. I thought he was gonna shoot me. And
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: then I hear someone in the other room screaming, don't move,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: don't move. I'm screaming because I thought it was my
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: daughter too. My sixteen year old was home at the time.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: But the teen is huddled in her bedroom closet. She
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: stays quiet in the basement. Dmitri's girlfriend francis, here's all
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: the chaos upstairs and calls out Dmitri's name, inadvertently giving
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: herself away to the gunman.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: That this fella went down the stairs and pointed a
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: shotgun at her and told her to come upstairs and
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: sit on the living room couch.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: From the kitchen, the sounds of a knockdown, drag out fight.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: There was an immense physical struggle that had occurred. There
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: was a door knock down.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: It's Dmitri cornered by one of the armed intruders, but
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: unwilling to give in, he fights to pry the weapon
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: from the gunman's hands.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I heard all of the yelling and rumbling around.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Then the distinct and deafening sounds of gunfire, and a
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: voice crying out from the kitchen, a painfully familiar voice.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: The next thing I heard was Dmitri yelling. I still
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: have my face buried in a pillow. When I heard
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Dmitri yelling, and he came in a room. He was saying,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: call the police. I reached out for him. It's home,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: to just sit down.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: Had they left at that point?
• 19:35
  Speaker 14: Whoever was in the house was gone.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: It was only then that Letitia realized her beloved cousin
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: had been shot, blood gushing from his chest.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Yes, I need a police officer, I need somebody here.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, okay reading Yes.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Dmitri would hang on to life all the way to
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the hospital.
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: My mom quote me, says Dmitri staking me at the hospital.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: What are you thinking at that time?
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: I'm hoping that he's going to be all right.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: You pray yeah.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: But minutes later, the valiant young man would take his
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: final breath. Dmitri Hampton died trying to be the protector
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: he had promised his mother he would be.
• 20:27
  Speaker 14: He was gonna fight, and that's what he did.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: Do you think that he was fighting to protect you
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: and your daughter?
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: I know he was.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: He loved his family.
• 20:37
  Speaker 11: He was gonna do what he had to do.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Coming up, the alleged killing crew is unmasked by police.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Their depraved deeds.
• 20:45
  Speaker 11: A family affair, two brothers, a sister, and a step son,
• 20:50
  Speaker 11: all criptals, But.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: The wheels of justice take a crushing wrong turn.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: Another stab in the back, another stab in.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Nor Dmitri Hampton had goals to serve and protect his community,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and in his last moments alive, he did just that,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: protecting his family from several armed men who stormed into
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: their home. Our Special Legu correspondent Amy dashes back now
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: with more on the search for the trigger man and
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: his accomplishment. Dmitri Hampton fallen victim to the very kind
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: of senseless violence. He's so despised.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: What would you say that your brother.
• 21:27
  Speaker 14: Stood for positivity, togetherness in the community. He always wanted
• 21:31
  Speaker 14: to help.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: He was just twenty one, a college student, destined for
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: a career in the air force and criminal justice, but
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: cut down in a violent home invasion.
• 21:44
  Speaker 11: Listen to me, do you know who the person was not.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: Jenny Chamber were masked a gun and there was a gentleman.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Dimitri's family shares their heartbreak with our special legal correspondent
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: to Amy dash Leon here.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: I couldn't believe. How the hell excuse me, god, how
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: would someone take someone life like that?
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: Do you think that this was random? Or do you
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: think your house was targeted?
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Eric had hit the lotto a couple of times, so
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: they thought the money was in there.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Eric Walker, Letitia's boyfriend had hit the lottery, But was
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: there something more sinister that would he listed a home invasion?
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Eric Walker himself admitted that he had dealt drugs.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: Did he say crap?
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Yes? But Walker insisted his drug dealing was all the past.
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: Do you know if your boyfriend was dealing drugs out
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: of the house, this is a ruler.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: No, that would make my house a crack house. Nobody
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: was selling anything.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Even police radio exchanges that night confirmed there was no
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: evidence of dealing.
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: This is a drug house, burgoing drug where the history
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: in Nicole doesn't show.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Any real drug activity. As for Dimitri, there's no obvious
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: reason he would be the intended target.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: We don't have anything on him.
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: He was never a sip.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Really, with no visual witness identification and an uncertain motive,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the mass men in black remain in the dark. But
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: what if it was sound not sight that would provide
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: a clue police get a break. The teen who hid
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: in the closet during the home invasion said she recognized
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: the voice of one of the assailants, a man she
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: knew as Matthew Messiah Booker.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: How did your daughter know him?
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know what kind of relationship they had. I
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: just heard that she was hanging out with him.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: So did he know where you lived?
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: He did, and it wouldn't be long before investigators say
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: they could place Messiah Booker near the scene of the crime.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Police had reason to believe that his cell phone was
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: pinging off of a tower. You're the home at the
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: time of the murder?
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Yes? Around town, the rumor mill was repeatedly churning out
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: the name Messiah Booker as the killer. Dimiti's mother remembers
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: one tortureis anonymous phone call.
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: I had the phone to my air and they said
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: I can't get involved personally killed. Your son is Matthew Booker.
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: They call him Messiah, and I dropped the phone on
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: the floor I was screaming to the top of my head.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: But there's still not enough to make an arrest until
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: a surprise witness blows the lid off the case.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: My name is Onnka Walker.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Oneika Walker was Messiah Booker's girlfriend. She was there that night.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: She spoke about a planning of a burglary that she
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: had witnessed.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: In fact, Oneika said she even drove one of the
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: getaway cars the night of the murder.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: In terms of the prosecution theory, she put the code
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: defendants and herself at the timeplace of the.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Offense from court transcripts. Messiah came running into my car.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I kind of asked him, like what happened. Messiah and
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: this guy were tussling back and forth. Messiah said that
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: he pulled the trigger. He said that he shot him
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: and he saw blood. In exchange for her testimony, Oneika
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: was charged with misdemeanor hindering prosecution, but four others would
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: face charges of murder and burglary. Messiah Booker, his brother,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Cory Wallace, his sister Danielle Hall, and Wallace's step son
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Michael Parrish. The motive armed robbery. Corey Wallace would rat
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: out his sibling, Messiah as the shooter. For Messiah Booker's attorney,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: it wasn't exactly an act of brotherly love.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: What did your client think when he found out that
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: his own brother was willing to testify against him?
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: As you might imagine, that was a distressing moment to
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: find out that your own flesh and blood is willing
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: to do such an app I think he felt betrayal.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: But for prosecutors, blood is not thicker than a solid conviction.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: The Suffolk County da is good to go.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: So the prosecutor made you feel confident that this was
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: an opening, shutcase. Yes, and they had all the evidence
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: that they needed to get their conviction.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Yes. Coming on the.
• 26:20
  Speaker 13: Travesty of justice unfortunately occurred right before my very eyes
• 26:26
  Speaker 13: in this courtroom.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: The skills of justice would come crashing down on the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: family of Dmitri Hampton.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: You physically fell to.
• 26:33
  Speaker 14: The floor and just started screaming.
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: Can you answer whether you hid evidence from defend and
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: Matthew Booker.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Twenty one year old Dmitri Hampton is gunned down in
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: a violent home invasion. Police and the prosecution are convinced
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: they know who the trigger man is and he's going
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to go to prison for a long time. However, no
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: one was ready for what happened in that court room.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Once again, here Special Legal Correspondent Amy Dash.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: In all my years as a lawyer, I don't think
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: I've ever seen a legal mistake this bit.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I want my freedom, my family back, I want justice.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Matthew Messiah Booker, the man police say callously fired a
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: nine millimeter weapon in the chest of a promising young
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: college student. He's defiant. I am innocent of all, Charger,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: and in his mind above the law.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: Every time they put on an enroll suit.
• 27:28
  Speaker 14: Uniform badge is only a costume of decession.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: He has a philosophy that he is a sovereign citizen,
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: that the American system of justice does not necessarily have
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: jurisdiction over him.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: But the Messiah's mantra falls on deaf years. He is
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: alleged cohorts face murder Chargers Messiah thought to be the
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: actual shooter. An English mother tells our Special Legal correspondent
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Amy Dash, she prays for a conviction.
• 27:59
  Speaker 11: He's a master manipulator for the man.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: She believes is his soul as killer.
• 28:05
  Speaker 11: He's a social path. Sociopaths usually don't feel anything they
• 28:08
  Speaker 11: have no regards for human life.
• 28:10
  Speaker 13: Mister Aaron, did you have an opportunity to speak with
• 28:13
  Speaker 13: your client?
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Brendan Ahern is a former prosecutor turned defense lawyer.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: As a criminal defense attorney, this was my first jury trial.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: And Messiah Booker is the first of four co defendants
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: to face judge and jury for the botched but murderous
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: home invasion. Ahern knows his client is up against two
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: compelling eyewitnesses who made deals with prosecutors.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: It was the mother of his child that they had
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: been together for a substantial period of time, and the
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: brother of my client that were cooperated as witnesses and
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: testified against him at trial.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Prosecutor Glenn kirch Rock was also armed with damning cell
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: phone tracking.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: There were cell tower evidence that indicated that the phone
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: of some of the alleged participants were pinging off of
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: a tower nearby at her around the time of the offense.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: In a sixteen year old witness and the home invasion
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: claims she recognized Messiah's.
• 29:14
  Speaker 11: Voice the prosecutor who was telling us the whole time,
• 29:16
  Speaker 11: don't worry about it. You know this is a slam dog.
• 29:19
  Speaker 11: We got all the evidence, you know, We don't want
• 29:22
  Speaker 11: these guys to turn on each other's and they already.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Did, but there would be no slam done. In fact,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: the case against Matthew Messiah Booker would end in a
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: bombshell blog.
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: How can something like this happen?
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: The prosecutor is accused of egregious misconduct, allegations that rocked
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the court. A Hearn discovers Middriw that prosecutor kurtz Rock
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: withheld critical evidence from the defense.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: It was a great volume of materials. It was hundreds
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: of pages of notes and statements taken from witnesses.
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: Did you think the failure to turn over evidence was intentional?
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: The only way that that could have been done is deliberately, methodically,
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: and systematically, and I stand by my position in court
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: that it was intentional.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Eharn argued that the evidence was held by Glenn kurtz
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Rock named other potential suspects.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: These were people that had made admissions to family members,
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: that admitted that they played a role and gave details
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: that in my view, could only be known by people
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: who had entered that home or had intimate knowledge of
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: what had occurred inside the home. But I didn't see
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: a single shred of paperwork that indicated that those people
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: had been interviewed and closed out as suspects.
• 30:34
  Speaker 9: The appearance is obviously that somebody went through and surgically
• 30:38
  Speaker 9: removes items that they felt would be harmful to their case.
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: At this point, this trial is a mess.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Without a doubt, it was more than a mess. The
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: case against Booker was, for all intents and purposes, decimated,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: as was Glenn Kurtzrock's career in the DA's office. As
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: for Booker's charge, it was just too much of a
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: gamble for prosecutors.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: When you heard charges dropped, what was your reaction?
• 31:07
  Speaker 14: I fell to the floor.
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: You physically fell to the floor, Really yeah.
• 31:11
  Speaker 14: At work and just started screaming. Felt like they told
• 31:15
  Speaker 14: me that my brother was killed all over again.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Booker gets the deal of a lifetime murder charges dropped.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: He'll plead to five years for attempted burglary.
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: It's like another stab in the back, another stab.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Nor Dimitri's mother has a message for the world's luckiest
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: formerly accused killer.
• 31:35
  Speaker 11: Matthew has a dark soul, no concern for the life
• 31:39
  Speaker 11: that he took from our family.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: He is heartless.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: But in this case, the more poignant message is the
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: one his heartbroken mother gave to the Suffolk County DA.
• 31:49
  Speaker 11: This is not justice, nor will we ever get justice
• 31:52
  Speaker 11: for our loved one. This court have taken the only
• 31:55
  Speaker 11: thing that truly mattered to me, and that is trust
• 31:59
  Speaker 11: for the criminal system, it has failed.
• 32:04
  Speaker 9: It's a culture where sometimes the idea of seeking justice
• 32:08
  Speaker 9: gets lost in the idea of seeking a conviction.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: The DA wrote a letter of apology to Dimitri's family, stating,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: in part, the conduct of the prosecutor was inexcusable. The
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: consequences are devastating and unnecessarily inflict more pain on those
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: left behind to cope. Even though prosecutors apologized, they're convinced
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: they nabbed the right killer, but without his defense being
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: permitted to see all the required evidence, the state's case
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: is destroyed.
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: What do you have to say to the District Attorney's office?
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Why, you know what, I probably could have did a
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: better job than they did. The DA's office did not
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: respond to our requests for comment, but we tracked down
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the former prosecutor.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: I tried for a couple months to get you to comment.
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: Can we talk to you now? You know what?
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: Like I said, I'm not going to.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Be making any public comments on you looking for an
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: explanation to offer the Billiard family of Dmitri Hampton.
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: Can you answer whether you hid evidence from defendant Matthew Booker.
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: Is there anything you can say as to how more
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: than one hundred pages of evidence was missing from the file.
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: I'm not going to be making any public comments.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: And on this day the scales of justice deliver a
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: five year punishment that in no way equals the value
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: of Dmitri Hampton's life.
• 33:30
  Speaker 13: Someone got away with murder.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Still not good enough for Messiam. He tried to withdraw
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: that plea on the day of sentencing, causing a raucous
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: scene in the courtroom with constant interruptions.
• 33:42
  Speaker 13: You want to remain in his fortright for the remains
• 33:45
  Speaker 13: this proceeding, Why all right, take them out?
• 33:49
  Speaker 9: Take him out.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Siah Booker is not about to have the last word
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: or the last memory of a murder case gone wrong.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: That's a privilege reserved only for Dmitri Hampton.
• 34:09
  Speaker 13: Everything that I learned about Dmitri Hampton indicated to me
• 34:14
  Speaker 13: that he was a fine young man with a bright future.
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: Do you think you'll ever get justice?
• 34:24
  Speaker 11: No, it's not about the justice. At this point. We
• 34:27
  Speaker 11: know that's gone. Dmitri is at peace. Dmitri don't know
• 34:30
  Speaker 11: anything about the justice.
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: So would you say that your brother was undoubtedly a hero.
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, It in my mind is like, yeah, I'm proud
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: of you, brocause he took your business, you know,