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  Speaker 1: He didn't have a clue what was gonna happen. You
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  Speaker 1: should be safe in your own castle. And he wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: A brutal killing.
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  Speaker 3: He was a great father and a good husband.
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  Speaker 4: This was premeditated. It was planned.
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  Speaker 2: A dark mystery with multiple suspects.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't want us to know that they were sleeping together.
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  Speaker 1: I think he was Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Gigolo. He was a career criminal.
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  Speaker 5: He's been known to shoot people before.
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  Speaker 2: The truth will be revealed.
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  Speaker 1: He finally said, look, I'm not killing nobody, but I'll
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  Speaker 1: hook you up with a guy who will.
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  Speaker 2: Every day in North America, dozens of people are murdered.
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  Speaker 2: The key to solving the toughest of these homicides lies
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  Speaker 2: in the final 24 hours of the victim's life. To
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  Speaker 2: crack the case, detectives must reconstruct that critical timeline. The
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  Speaker 2: minutes and hours containing evidence that can help unlock the
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  Speaker 2: mystery and catch the killer. It's a searing summer day
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  Speaker 2: in Addis, Louisiana.
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  Speaker 4: Addis is a growing community.
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  Speaker 5: It started off as a very small little town, but
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  Speaker 5: has grown. A lot of people that are moving in
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  Speaker 5: there with children.
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  Speaker 2: But residents of this usually quiet town are in for
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  Speaker 2: a horrific shock.
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  Speaker 5: First responders arrived.
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  Speaker 1: On scene and cleared the home to make sure.
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  Speaker 3: No suspects were still present.
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  Speaker 2: Close behind are Detective William J. Starnes, and investigator Richie Johnson.
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  Speaker 5: As we made our way to the bedroom, that's when
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  Speaker 5: we made our first contact with Monique Kitts. Monique was screaming,
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  Speaker 5: and we tried to talk to her, but she was
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  Speaker 5: not very audible when she answered us back.
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  Speaker 2: In the bed is Monique's husband, Corey Kitts.
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  Speaker 4: We could tell something major happened because of the blood.
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  Speaker 1: Corey was shot three times. And one of the shots
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  Speaker 1: severed his spinal cord. There was blood on the comforter.
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  Speaker 3: There was blood all along the body. side of the bed,
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  Speaker 3: down onto the ground. A large portion of that blood
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  Speaker 3: had just slowly leaked out of Corey's body.
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  Speaker 1: He was found laying on his back in the bed
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  Speaker 1: as if he had been shot while he was sleeping.
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  Speaker 1: With the appearance of no struggle whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: Corey's wife, Monique, along with their daughter, Dory, and son,
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  Speaker 2: Corey Kitts, Jr., are removed from the scene.
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  Speaker 4: Corey Kitsch Jr.
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  Speaker 5: he was traumatized where he just didn't even acknowledge anything.
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  Speaker 4: Dori, I think she was kind of fighting.
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  Speaker 5: With the thought of, is he dead or is this
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  Speaker 5: something that's not really happening? Monique, she was constantly babbling.
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  Speaker 5: Something tragic happened to her, and she's very distraught over it.
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  Speaker 4: We interviewed her. She said, I didn't really have any enemies.
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  Speaker 1: By all accounts, Corey Kitts was a likable guy. The
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  Speaker 1: neighbors liked him. His family liked him. His in-laws liked him.
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  Speaker 1: He was a great father, good worker, good provider.
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  Speaker 5: The people that he dealt with, they said if he
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  Speaker 5: needed money and he had it, he would give it
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  Speaker 5: to you.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody loved him. He would literally give you the shirt
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  Speaker 4: off his back to help you out.
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  Speaker 1: It was just strange. We don't commonly see someone killed
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  Speaker 1: in their home in their sleep. That's just not normal
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  Speaker 1: for our area.
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  Speaker 2: They examine the house, looking for clues. as to the
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  Speaker 2: identity of the killer.
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  Speaker 1: The door was unlocked when officers arrived. So there was
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  Speaker 1: no way that someone forced their way into the home
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  Speaker 1: to commit this homicide. That we knew for sure.
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  Speaker 5: It didn't look like a burglary. Normally, you'd find drawers open.
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  Speaker 5: You'd find things tossed around. Laptops, computers, the whole house
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  Speaker 5: would have been in a disarray and there'd have been
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  Speaker 5: a lot of stuff stolen. Basically, everything was still in
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  Speaker 5: the house.
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  Speaker 1: There was some broken glass.
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  Speaker 3: It was a vase that was knocked over. I believe
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  Speaker 3: the things that were broken was as the intruder was
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  Speaker 3: exiting in a hurry.
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  Speaker 1: So no force entry, the closeness of the gunshot. Those
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  Speaker 1: are all really personal things.
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  Speaker 6: If it had been a violent struggle with blunt force injury,
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  Speaker 6: the list of suspects would be narrowed because of the
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  Speaker 6: difference in build and strength.
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  Speaker 4: But that this.
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  Speaker 6: Is a murder committed by handgun means that anybody is
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  Speaker 6: capable of having committed this crime.
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  Speaker 4: There's something here. There's more to it.
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  Speaker 1: You had this guy who was this upstanding guy. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: liked him, but he's dead. and we need to figure
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  Speaker 1: out why.
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  Speaker 2: To solve the case, investigators must unravel Corey Kitts' last
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  Speaker 2: 24 hours.
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  Speaker 7: The significance of the 24-hour timeline, those last movements of
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  Speaker 7: your victim, are often critical to what happened. They become
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  Speaker 7: instrumental in every homicide case to going backwards from there
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  Speaker 7: to investigate who, where, when, and why.
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  Speaker 5: We knew that Corey Hitz had been working that evening.
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  Speaker 4: He worked a night shift.
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  Speaker 1: He came home from work from the plant that morning,
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  Speaker 1: early 5-ish, 5.15 in the morning. No rigor mortis had
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  Speaker 1: set in. So his time of death was sometime between
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  Speaker 1: 6 in the morning and noon that day. We felt
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  Speaker 1: that it had to be someone who knew his schedule.
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  Speaker 5: And that's where you really start looking around, especially at family, friends.
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  Speaker 7: Whenever... There's a domestic homicide, whether that be a husband,
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  Speaker 7: a wife. You start with the partner first.
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  Speaker 1: You don't call Monique a suspect just because she lived
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  Speaker 1: in the house, but you have to include her or
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  Speaker 1: exclude her.
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  Speaker 2: They questioned Monique about her movements that day.
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  Speaker 1: Monique accompanied Corey's sister, Clonice, for a walk at the
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  Speaker 1: track at like 6 in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: And Colleen Stewart informed us that she had walked with
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  Speaker 3: Monique Kitts that morning.
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  Speaker 5: After her walk, Monique came home, talked with Corey for
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  Speaker 5: a few minutes, took.
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  Speaker 4: A shower, got dressed.
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  Speaker 5: He was still watching television at the time when she left.
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  Speaker 3: Then she said, She went to her daycare down in Plaquemine.
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  Speaker 5: And when we looked at the neighborhood video, you see
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  Speaker 5: the vehicle.
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  Speaker 4: Going out toward the highway. and turning in the direction
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  Speaker 4: of Plaquemine.
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  Speaker 3: She had worked her normal business morning hours. We confirmed
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  Speaker 3: with video that she did go to a local laundromat.
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  Speaker 3: and was just coming home with the two kids for
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  Speaker 3: lunch on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: That's when she walked in and found her husband dead.
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  Speaker 1: So it appeared that she had a solid alibi.
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  Speaker 2: Monique then tells police that when she left the home,
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  Speaker 2: her daughter Dory was still there.
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  Speaker 5: When we asked Dori about the time she left to
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  Speaker 5: go to work, she said it was around 8.40.
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  Speaker 4: She got up. She got dressed. Daddy's door was closed.
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  Speaker 5: And that when she left, she went straight on to
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  Speaker 5: work at the daycare in Plattenham. And nothing appeared out
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  Speaker 5: of the unusual. She didn't see anything or anyone.
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  Speaker 2: But when asked about the discovery of her father's body,
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  Speaker 2: things become muddled.
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  Speaker 5: Some of the answers she gave didn't add up to
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  Speaker 5: the ones that Monique would give. And this included about
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  Speaker 5: the door when they got there. Her statement was she
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  Speaker 5: went to the door and opened it. And when you
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  Speaker 5: look at Monique's account, it was the she opened the
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  Speaker 5: door and that the other two followed. So we had
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  Speaker 5: kind of a different scenarios given.
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  Speaker 6: When you have someone who can't remember the details, it
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  Speaker 6: can be challenging for investigators in determining whether this individual
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  Speaker 6: is telling the truth and they really don't remember, or
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  Speaker 6: if they're trying to hide something. I think it takes
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  Speaker 6: experienced detective work to discern the two.
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  Speaker 1: We tried to polygraph Dory, but she refused. He wasn't
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  Speaker 1: very cooperative. That heightened my suspicions because it's, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't have anything to hide, it's pretty indicative of some
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  Speaker 1: type of knowledge or guilt.
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  Speaker 2: Detectives scour the neighborhood surveillance video, looking to prove or
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  Speaker 2: disprove Dory's account.
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  Speaker 5: It did show her leaving the residence about the time
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  Speaker 5: she said she had left.
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  Speaker 1: But there was another person in the vehicle with Dory.
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  Speaker 2: Detectives questioned Dory Kitts about the mystery man she was
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  Speaker 2: with on the morning of her father's murder.
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  Speaker 1: We were able to determine it was Marlon, which was
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  Speaker 1: her boyfriend.
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  Speaker 8: Once the police find out that the boyfriend was in
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  Speaker 8: the house the day of the murder, he's automatically a suspect.
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  Speaker 8: You're going to have to convince the police that you
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  Speaker 8: did not do it, because you are immediately a person
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  Speaker 8: who has the opportunity to kill him.
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  Speaker 2: When asked to explain herself, She changes her story.
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  Speaker 4: The night before, Marlon had supposed to have gone home.
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  Speaker 5: But Dory actually told us that Marlon had spent the
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  Speaker 5: night with her.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you lie about having your boyfriend at your house?
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  Speaker 1: You might lie to your parents, but why would you
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  Speaker 1: lie to the cops? So that was the first indication
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  Speaker 1: to me that, you know, maybe we got the suspects
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  Speaker 1: right here.
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  Speaker 3: She said Corey did not like Marlon being upstairs in
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  Speaker 3: the house when he didn't know he was there.
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  Speaker 5: Corey had made the statement, if he ever caught the
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  Speaker 5: person being with his daughter in not the proper manner,
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  Speaker 5: that he would do something.
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  Speaker 2: But Dory is adamant. that the two of them left
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  Speaker 2: the house that morning without incident.
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  Speaker 4: She said she came down the stairs.
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  Speaker 5: She kept Marlon to stay up there in case her
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  Speaker 5: daddy was awake. And if that door was open, she
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  Speaker 5: didn't want him seeing Marlon there. Because then there would
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  Speaker 5: have been trouble. According to her, the door was closed.
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  Speaker 5: She motioned for Marlon to come down. and got in
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  Speaker 5: the car, left, and she took him to his job
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  Speaker 5: and then continued on to her job.
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  Speaker 2: The only way to confirm this is to speak to Marlon.
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  Speaker 8: I think there's a certain tension always between a father
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  Speaker 8: and the boyfriend of the daughter, that there is a.
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  Speaker 1: Lack of trust.
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  Speaker 8: If they don't like each other, That dislike can lead
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  Speaker 8: to hate in some circumstances, and that could lead to
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  Speaker 8: one of them wanting the other one dead.
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  Speaker 5: Marlon had told me that he was at home the
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  Speaker 5: morning of the murder, that he had an uncle who
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  Speaker 5: drove him to his workplace. He told me, he said,
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  Speaker 5: I went there, I worked, I didn't see Dory until
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  Speaker 5: when we heard about the homicide.
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  Speaker 2: Marlon's denial directly contradicts Dory's version of events.
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  Speaker 4: So that kind of raised suspicions about him.
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  Speaker 1: But we're being careful, of course, at the time that
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  Speaker 1: we're talking to him because he's a suspect. Is he
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  Speaker 1: feeding us bullshit?
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  Speaker 2: They convince Marlon to do a polygraph.
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  Speaker 7: There's a reason why polygraph is used in my experience.
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  Speaker 7: It is to send messages to the person that you're
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  Speaker 7: having interviewed.
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  Speaker 1: You don't believe them. Why would you ask them to
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  Speaker 1: take a polygraph otherwise?
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  Speaker 5: They would ask him questions like, did you murder Corey Kitts?
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  Speaker 2: Under pressure, Marlon comes clean.
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  Speaker 1: Marlon just basically admitted he spent the night there, but
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  Speaker 1: he didn't know anything about the death.
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  Speaker 5: And he passed a perfect polygraph where he didn't, did not,
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  Speaker 5: he was telling the truth.
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  Speaker 3: And a lot of things he probably bumbled off to
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  Speaker 3: us were because he was scared.
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  Speaker 5: They didn't want us to know that they were sleeping together.
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  Speaker 5: Dory wanted to keep that out of the picture. And
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  Speaker 5: that one little lie got both of them to be
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  Speaker 5: looked at.
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  Speaker 4: She loved her daddy.
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  Speaker 2: Dory then provides detectives with a new lead.
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  Speaker 5: She said, I do know my father had spoke about
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  Speaker 5: a red car that was parked across the street a
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  Speaker 5: while back.
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  Speaker 4: That he had never seen before.
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  Speaker 5: When he approached, it left and went on out of
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  Speaker 5: the subdivision. And he felt there was something strange about that,
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  Speaker 5: and he was warning us to be careful.
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  Speaker 4: It was the month prior to the murder.
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  Speaker 2: Police must determine if anyone saw the red car return
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  Speaker 2: the day Corey was killed.
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  Speaker 7: Canvases are done almost in radiuses. So you take a
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  Speaker 7: short distance around your crime scene. You canvas within that area. Very,
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  Speaker 7: very important because people do see things. You have to
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  Speaker 7: find a way to use their information.
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  Speaker 5: A neighbor was found who lived directly across the street
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  Speaker 5: He did see a vehicle in the driveway that morning
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  Speaker 5: of the homicide between 8.30 and 9 o'clock.
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  Speaker 4: But it appeared to be.
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  Speaker 5: A silver SUV, not a red car. He said, I
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  Speaker 5: was in and out of the house, loading up my vehicle,
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  Speaker 5: getting ready to go to work. He said, by the
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  Speaker 5: time I did leave, the car was gone. He said,
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  Speaker 5: so never paid much more mind to it. It got
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  Speaker 5: in my vehicle and left for work.
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  Speaker 1: There should have been no vehicle parked in the driveway
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  Speaker 1: that morning that didn't belong to a Kitts family member.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, everyone's away at work, and Mr. Kitts is
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  Speaker 1: in his bed sleeping. No one should have been in
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  Speaker 1: the driveway.
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  Speaker 4: We believe whoever was in that vehicle had likely committed
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  Speaker 4: the murder.
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  Speaker 2: Police now have a description of a vehicle seen during
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  Speaker 2: the window Corey Kitts was killed.
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  Speaker 5: We had this gentleman talking about a silver SUV.
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  Speaker 7: So people are filling in the gap. Why was the
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  Speaker 7: car there? Knowing the behavior of the victim, especially any patterns,
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  Speaker 7: becomes very helpful.
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  Speaker 2: To determine if Corey was expecting someone at the house
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  Speaker 2: that morning, They pull his phone records.
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  Speaker 5: We were looking for any contacts, numerous contacts that he
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  Speaker 5: might have had with somebody.
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  Speaker 4: We also had a dump done on the phone.
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  Speaker 5: To see who he might have been texting, pictures that
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  Speaker 5: might have given us a clue on what occurred. We
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  Speaker 5: found some text messages that were quite revealing.
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  Speaker 2: The messages suggest Corey was involved in several affairs.
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  Speaker 1: We learned that Corey had a pretty extensive extracurricular love life.
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  Speaker 1: So he was a man about town, for lack of
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  Speaker 1: a better term. It's something you need to look at.
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  Speaker 1: It's outside the norm of someone's lifestyle to have these affairs,
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  Speaker 1: especially long-term, multiple affairs.
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  Speaker 7: Jealousy is a legitimate motive for murder. It clouds the
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  Speaker 7: thinking of the individuals involved. Let's say it's just easy
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  Speaker 7: to kill someone, get them out of the way so
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  Speaker 7: we can carry on our relationship. It's a crime of passion.
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  Speaker 7: If you can show me a love triangle, I'll tell
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  Speaker 7: you have a potential homicide.
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  Speaker 4: On your hands.
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  Speaker 2: On closer inspection, one number appears significantly more often than
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  Speaker 2: the others.
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  Speaker 4: This might be a lead for us.
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  Speaker 5: And we started subpoenaing records on this number.
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  Speaker 2: They trace it to a woman named Lucy Williams.
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  Speaker 5: We end up calling this young lady in, and it
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  Speaker 5: basically started off questioning about what was your relationship to her.
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  Speaker 4: Corey Kitts, how did you know him? She finally ends
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  Speaker 4: up telling us.
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  Speaker 5: That they did have an affair, that they were close,
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  Speaker 5: they were seeing each other on numerous occasions. She could
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  Speaker 5: have found out about one of the other mistresses, could
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  Speaker 5: have probably gotten mad.
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  Speaker 2: Detectives attempt to link Lucy to the car spotted in
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  Speaker 2: his driveway at the time of the murder.
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  Speaker 3: Her vehicle was certainly background checked, but it didn't fit
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  Speaker 3: in the silver SUV.
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  Speaker 5: We never had her around that area around the time
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: of the murder. And we found no motive from her whatsoever.
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  Speaker 5: This woman loved him. You could tell in her emotions,
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  Speaker 5: she really loved him. She got to a point where
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: she knew that it was never going to be, so
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: they ended up becoming what you would consider best of friends.
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  Speaker 4: It hurt her when she found out that he was murdered.
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  Speaker 4: She had nothing to do with it. So that was
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  Speaker 4: another door closed.
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  Speaker 2: But the discovery of infidelity turns attention back to Corey's wife, Monique.
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  Speaker 5: Wife finding out that her husband was doing something that
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: actually just drove her to the point where she couldn't
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  Speaker 5: take it no more. There would be reason for murder.
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  Speaker 2: Detectives must determine if she's more than just a grieving widow.
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  Speaker 7: Investigating families are difficult. You have to ask a lot
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  Speaker 7: of questions, and you have to realize at the same
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  Speaker 7: time you're dealing with the victims, potentially.
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  Speaker 4: And one of them could be the killer.
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  Speaker 1: She came in and said, look, you know, I want
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  Speaker 1: to make a complaint. I want somebody to take this
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  Speaker 1: case over. I can't believe they don't have a suspect.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: They don't have someone in jail. And you're not solving
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the crime quick enough. She said something about Dory's boyfriend,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: taking a polygraph. And I said, well, that's interesting because
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  Speaker 1: I have one in the other room. That's one of
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  Speaker 1: the other things I do. Will you take one?
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  Speaker 4: She said, I got to talk to an attorney about that.
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  Speaker 4: She didn't want to take it, and that kind of
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: puts up the red flags.
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  Speaker 5: Normally, if you're innocent, you're going to say, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I want to prove my innocence here.
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  Speaker 1: But she refused to do it. And that spoke volumes
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  Speaker 1: to me.
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  Speaker 2: They looked deeper into the dynamics of Corey and Monique's relationship.
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  Speaker 5: She didn't play the bills. It was always Corey that
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: had to catch the bills. Any of the school's bills,
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  Speaker 5: he had to get in there and do it himself.
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  Speaker 4: She was more of a spender.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: She's broke. Living the dream on the outside and there's
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: no money.
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  Speaker 2: They discover something even more inflammatory.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Corey's kids did in fact have a.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Death policy.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Monique Kiss was a beneficiary of that policy. We also
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: learned that the death policy would be paid even in
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: the event he was murdered.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: We spoke with the insurance company out of New York.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: They had claimed that five days after Corey Kitts' homicide,
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: that a Monique Kitts was calling, trying to get the
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: claim on that. Best way I could describe it, you
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: saw the smoke, and you knew there was a fire,
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: and that sooner or later, the flames were going to break.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Police now believe Monique Kitts has motive for killing her husband, Corey.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I absolutely believe that she was involved. But she had
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: an alibi that we couldn't ignore. You could probably exclude
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: her as the person who did the actual killing. But
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: not as being involved, because she could have hired someone.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: It's an outlandish theory, but would explain Monique's potential involvement.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Monique Kitts' cell phone records were subpoenaed. It enabled us
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: to track her movements the day of the murder, as
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: well as her correspondence before and after.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: They focused their attention on who she was speaking to
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: during that time.
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: The police can determine down to five or six yards
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: of where you were at any given time by tracing
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: your cell phone. So if you're an innocent person, all
• 29:48
  Speaker 8: you got to do is hand over your cell phone,
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: and most of the time, you'll be cleared of that charge.
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: If you're a guilty person and the police sees your
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: cell phone, They can put you at a location at
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: a specific time.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: When investigators were able to pull all the phone records together,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: some of the conversations were between her and a man
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: called David Johnson. And there was thousands and thousands of
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: contacts between them. It was such an astronomical number that
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: even the investigators were like, this is crazy. We've never
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: seen as many contacts between people. David Johnson was the
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: milkman for her childcare business in Plaquemine.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: We learned they began seeing each other and having an affair.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Monique Kitts' cell phone records indicated there was, in fact,
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: communication between the milkman and Monique on the morning of
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: the murder.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Detectives tracked David Johnson down.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: He wasn't too good of a character, and we knew
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: that we were going to get lies from him. He
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: tried to distance himself from Monique. And I asked, why
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: were you constantly calling her? He said, because basically I'm
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: a friend of hers, and I just check.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: In to see how she's doing.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: We also asked, do you know who did, or did
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: you see who killed, or did you in any way
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: participate in the death of Corey Kitts? He said, I
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: didn't kill him. I don't know what the hell's going
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: on here.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: He provides police with an alibi.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: David was on his milk delivery route, and we were
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: able to confirm through his cell phone that he was
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: actually on those routes during the time of the murder.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: So he was excluded as a shooter. But in the
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: phone analysis, there was some three-way communications between David Johnson
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: and Monique. and another person, Carl Howard.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Some of those three-way calls also came on the morning
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: of Corey's murder.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: David Johnson was friends with Carl Howard from some years back,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: and he introduced Monique and Carl. So we sent detectives
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: up to Atlanta, Georgia, where Carl Howard was now living
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: to do an interview. And one of the things that
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: they observed was that he had a red vehicle. They
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: remembered a red car reported by Corey outside of his
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: home before the murder.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Detectives questioned Carl on his whereabouts the day Corey is
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: actually killed.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: During the interview with Carl, he told detectives that he
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: was in Baton Rouge with his sister-in-law and he was
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: attending a birthday party party for his niece.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Police turned to his sister-in-law to verify his story.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: She says, I do not lie for anyone. She said, no,
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: he was not with me.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: So that kind of blew that little scenario.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Out of the water.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: We tracked Carl Howard's cell phone records They showed that
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: he was in fact in Addis, Louisiana on the day
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: that Corey Kitts alleged to have seen a suspicious red
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: car out front of his house. They also showed that
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: he was in the area the day of the murder.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Almost to the minute, except for about a 20 minute,
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: 30 minute gap where there's no communication.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: This gap of time where his phone is turned off
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: is directly within the time frame of Corey's murder.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: So now you have this triangle of Carl Howard and
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: David Johnson and Monique. You have these time frames of
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: telephone conversations and communications can't be explained away.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: As they continue to dig into the cell phone records,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: they make a disturbing connection. Calls made from Howard's phone
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: to that of a violent criminal.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: Cory Knox was that number that just showed up out
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: of nowhere.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: And was constantly contacting Carl Howard.
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: Cory Knox was your average career criminal. He's been known
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: to shoot people before.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: He ran with a local gangster and had a pretty
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: extensive record himself.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: With an alleged history of gun violence, police must determine
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: how Knox fits into this crime.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: His mother had a vehicle that matched the vehicle that
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: was seen that morning. It was a silver SUV.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: And it was just like, oh, God, we got a
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: piece of the puzzle in.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: At that point, we couldn't say he was a shooter,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: but he was involved. So now we think we have
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: all the proper puzzle parts, and now we need to
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: put those pieces together.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Police believe they have identified the conspirators behind the death
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: of Corey Kitts, but one key detail remains a mystery.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Basically, we had the roadmap. We had the players, and
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: we had the phone records. We still couldn't tell you
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: who the trigger man was.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: In custody, Monique Kitts, Carl Howard, and Corey Knox refused
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: to cooperate. So police turned back to the milkman, David Johnson.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: We told him he was going to probably face charges
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: if he didn't get on board with us and start
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: telling the truth.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: And.
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: He started giving us the more details of what went on.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: He outlined the entire deal from day one. He was
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: able to tell us that Monique had confronted him about
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: killing her husband several years back. And he said, look,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I played along. Yeah, I took $ 1, 000 from her as
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: a down payment. She kept on and kept on. And
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: he finally said, look, I'm not killing nobody, but I'll
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: hook you up with a guy who will. He mentioned
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: it to Carl Howard. And Carl ended up hooking up
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: separately with Monique. And they hatched this plan to kill
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: her husband. He said there was a down payment of $ 4, 000.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: and that Carl Howard had made an attempt on an
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: earlier date, and that that attempt was foiled. But he
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: said she was hell-bent to have her husband killed.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Using David's testimony... Police are now able to construct the
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: timeline of what happened when Carl Howard returned for a
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: second attempt at Corey Kitts' life.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: So the morning of the murder, Carl Howard told Corey
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Knox that his vehicle wasn't running right and he needed
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: a ride over to Addis.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Knox then took his mother's silver SUV and drove up
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: to the kids' home.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Cory came home after a long night's work and went
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: to bed.
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: When Dory and Marlon was leaving, Carl Howard and Cory
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: Knox were in the vicinity. They were quite aware of
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: the car that Dory drove and not to do anything
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: until they were sure that particular vehicle vehicle was no
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: longer at the scene.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: They parked in the driveway, which coincides with what the
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: neighbor said he saw.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: Carl Howard went up to the house, went in, and
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: shot Corey Hitz in the head.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: He came back out, got in the car, and they
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: drove off.
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: Then when he completed her scenario by having her children
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: with her.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: And putting on an act, crying, being distraught.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: That is just about as diabolical as you can get.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: To bring your kids home knowing that your husband would
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: be found dead and your kids would see that. Now
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: that's cold.
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: It speaks volumes about her and her wickedness. That's the
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: only way I can say it. there are some very
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: evil people in this world.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I think the motive in the end with Monique was money.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: It was greed. It was about money. You should be
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: safe in your own castle. And he wasn't because of Monique.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: In March 2013, the three conspirators finally face charges.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Corey Knox pled guilty to accessory after the fact of
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: those crimes. Got a five-year sentence.
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: Carl Howard, who did the shooting, and Monique Kitts, they
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: were both charged with conspiracy to commit murder and second-degree murder.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: Both were found guilty and both received life without parole.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: They remain eligible for appeal.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: David, for his testimony, he wasn't charged. It was like
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: a big weight lifted off his shoulder.
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: I think the thing that really got to me was
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: the family, Corey Kitts' mother, father, his sisters, All the
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: family that was there, we were standing by them. It's
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: hard to put into words when you could see in
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: their eyes and their expressions that justice had come. I'll
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: never forget, his mother, she said, you told me you
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: weren't going to quit, and she said, I knew you weren't.
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: When you have someone tell you something.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: Like that, it really, it got to you. It was
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: a dark cloud lifted off of him.
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: Thank you.