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Dad Discovers Daughter's Body Was Found In His Garbage Can · The conspiracy

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Whoa you gun? There's an her, She's in there?
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: What here?
• 0:26
  Speaker 3: Police are at the home of Keith and Amber Zatto.
• 0:30
  Speaker 3: Amber's mother, Betty, had called nine one one earlier that day,
• 0:35
  Speaker 3: asking officers to check on her daughter. Amber hadn't responded
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  Speaker 3: to any calls or messages in two days, and Betty
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: feared the worst. The officers arriving at the scene initially
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  Speaker 3: expected a routine missing person's call, but what's set inside
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: the house would be far more twisted and disturbing than anyone.
• 0:54
  Speaker 4: Could have imagined. I got the dog round off.
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  Speaker 3: When police first arrive at the Zotto home, they encounter
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: something strange. Only Keith and Damber's children answer the door,
• 1:13
  Speaker 3: claiming their parents are gone and they don't know when
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  Speaker 3: they'll be back. This alarms the officers, so they decide
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  Speaker 3: to call Betty, the person who originally dialed nine one one,
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  Speaker 3: hoping she can shed some light on the situation. But
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: what Betty reveals to officers would quickly transform this simple
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  Speaker 3: welfare check into one of the town's most disturbing mysteries yet.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Betty's auto Carley a Royal Police Department. I'm at
• 1:36
  Speaker 5: the Milan surpla address I'm talking to the kids.
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: What's your relation to this family? Just so I know
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  Speaker 1: I'm their grandma.
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  Speaker 6: She didn't take her truck.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: Because, yeah, I was wondering about that her home.
• 1:53
  Speaker 6: The house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Betty, how many times do you think she's done that?
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  Speaker 7: Well, she's come over to my house.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, It's.
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  Speaker 5: What I'd like to do is start where we always start,
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  Speaker 5: and that's the last place she was seeing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to ask these.
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  Speaker 5: Kids for permission to go in the house, so I
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  Speaker 5: may have to call your son in law, talk to
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  Speaker 5: him on the phone and see if you'll give me
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  Speaker 5: permission to go inside.
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  Speaker 3: Betty would mention that she had been to the house
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  Speaker 3: earlier that day and noticed a few strange details. Amber's
• 2:27
  Speaker 3: car was still in the driveway of the home, and
• 2:29
  Speaker 3: her phone was left inside the house, as well as
• 2:32
  Speaker 3: all of her credit cards and important documents. These minute
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  Speaker 3: details would prove to be much more important later on.
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  Speaker 3: Shortly after this call, Betty and her husband, Ronald, arrived
• 2:42
  Speaker 3: at their daughter's home to meet with the police. It's
• 2:45
  Speaker 3: here where Betty would reveal what she believed really happened
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  Speaker 3: to her daughter.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I'm up so Carley, thanks for coming out so
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  Speaker 1: I called him and I left him a message.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't pick the phone up.
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  Speaker 5: So I can't just go inside, and neither need a
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  Speaker 5: warrant or permission to go inside the house in the
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  Speaker 5: tin your residence, and I can't ask you for permission
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  Speaker 5: obviously the kids are too young.
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  Speaker 1: So I just want to do it the right way
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  Speaker 1: before anything else that that makes sense. Yep, when's lesson.
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  Speaker 8: That you saw the Saturday acting when the kids they've
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  Speaker 8: spent the night.
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  Speaker 5: Was there any problems at that point or is it
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  Speaker 5: just picked the kids up? The kids are going to
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  Speaker 5: stay at her house for the weekend.
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  Speaker 9: Everything fine, she said, hope you feel better, We'll see
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  Speaker 9: you tomorrow. Okay, pretty Had there been any drinking at
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  Speaker 9: that point, drink in the evenings?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: And then no sound that there have been any argument
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, As you can see, I'm not I don't think
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  Speaker 5: that I jumped any conclusions, but I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 5: put a kind of a piece of timeline and kind
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  Speaker 5: of behavior as both too.
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  Speaker 3: According to Betty, the family typically had dinner together on
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  Speaker 3: the weekends, and although Keith and Namber occasionally argued, things
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  Speaker 3: never turned physical at least not to her knowledge. No
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: parents home. Officers still couldn't legally enter the residence, so
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  Speaker 3: they continued speaking with Betty, hoping she'd reveal something that
• 4:07
  Speaker 3: could explain Amber's sudden disappearance. Betty explained that Amber was
• 4:12
  Speaker 3: highly active in the community, volunteering at her children's elementary
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  Speaker 3: school as the treasurer of the parent organization, and everyone
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  Speaker 3: around town knew her as a family first mother, spending
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  Speaker 3: most of her time with her children. That's why Amber's
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  Speaker 3: disappearance was so puzzling. It simply wasn't like her to
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  Speaker 3: spontaneously leave her kids alone. But this confusion would only
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  Speaker 3: heighten when Betty showed officers something that made the case
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  Speaker 3: even more unsettling, a note suggesting Amber might have harmed herself.
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  Speaker 9: The note is, what concerned do you want?
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  Speaker 4: If I read that, I don't have a problem.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, I made a copy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know this was the original, Okay, I did
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  Speaker 1: want to just from a report.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to take the original for evidence of
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  Speaker 5: property at some point, okay, okay, but I'm gonna sit
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  Speaker 5: and read this in the mean sense.
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  Speaker 3: The note Betty had to discovered earlier read in.
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  Speaker 10: Part I haven't been the best wife. I deserve everything
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  Speaker 10: and all the horrible thoughts you think of me. I
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  Speaker 10: have always had that in my mind. Make sure my
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  Speaker 10: mom has to identify my body. Everyone would be better
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  Speaker 10: off without me.
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  Speaker 3: At first glance, the note appears as a tragic, heartfelt
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  Speaker 3: goodbye Amber, seemingly detailing years of self doubt, despair, and
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  Speaker 3: emotional pain. But something about this note didn't align with
• 5:29
  Speaker 3: what police knew about Amber. According to her mother, whenever
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  Speaker 3: Amber and Keith fought, Amber always stayed at her parents'
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  Speaker 3: house and had never just disappeared, certainly not without contacting
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  Speaker 3: her family first. And although Betty clarified that her daughter
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  Speaker 3: had a history of self harm, idiation, and emotional struggles,
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  Speaker 3: the note's tone sounded off, especially the disturbingly specific instructions
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  Speaker 3: for her own mother to identify her body, which seemed
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  Speaker 3: strangely cruel to investigators. These unusual details hinted at the
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  Speaker 3: chilling possibility that the note wasn't exactly what it appeared.
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  Speaker 3: They began to suspect Amber might not have written these
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  Speaker 3: words freely. Something wasn't right, So, based on these signs,
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  Speaker 3: officers decided to speak with Betty again. This time on
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  Speaker 3: the oddities found inside the note.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think it's something that would he harm her
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  Speaker 5: in any way? Would you have any either information or
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  Speaker 5: thinkling that that might happen. No, okay, if she'd walked away,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm just wondering where else or how far
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  Speaker 5: she could have gone.
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  Speaker 1: She has walked to our house.
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  Speaker 4: When she drinking canna.
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  Speaker 1: I understand, of course, I agree.
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  Speaker 5: That's why I'm so constructive, And that's where that's why
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  Speaker 5: I searched Sunrise Park because that's the closest part to hear.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't know why. In my head, it's you're
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  Speaker 4: not gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Do it in your home.
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  Speaker 3: Betty would also find the note strange, but doesn't think
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  Speaker 3: Keith would have anything to do with Amber's disappearance. At
• 7:15
  Speaker 3: this point, nothing makes sense, so without any further clues,
• 7:19
  Speaker 3: officers decide to move to the next step in their investigation,
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  Speaker 3: searching the property. As we know, without the homeowner's permission,
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: officers still can't go inside the house without a proper
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  Speaker 3: search warrant. Fortunately, by using the kids, they were able
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  Speaker 3: to get on the phone with Amber's husband, Keith, hoping
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  Speaker 3: to get the permission they needed.
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  Speaker 1: Good the talking is this Keith. Keith is also cry
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  Speaker 1: with your place?
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  Speaker 5: Are you? I'd like to wear a couple series of
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  Speaker 5: events and then ask you for permission if I could
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  Speaker 5: go inside your house. And where we start searches is
• 8:03
  Speaker 5: the last place you was seeing, and that would be
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  Speaker 5: your house. But I don't even warrant to ask you
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  Speaker 5: for permission to go inside your house to help.
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  Speaker 3: Luckily, Keith seemed to have no problem letting officers search
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  Speaker 3: his home. While one officer continued his conversation with Keith,
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  Speaker 3: another would immediately begin searching the property, completely unaware they
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  Speaker 3: were both minutes away from uncovering the horrifying truth. But
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  Speaker 3: to the investigation. One of the officers was about to
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  Speaker 3: search the family's home with no idea just how close
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  Speaker 3: they were to discovering the gruesome scene hidden in plain sight.
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  Speaker 4: So you gave a.
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  Speaker 1: Verbal consent for us to go in the house. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just gonna go in.
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  Speaker 11: You want to come with me, I'm just down. Okay,
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  Speaker 11: where did you come the notebooks in? They literally lived? Okay,
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  Speaker 11: let's start there then, So Keith, What's I mean in
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  Speaker 11: a bigger picture?
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  Speaker 1: What's going on?
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  Speaker 7: Man?
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  Speaker 4: Lean?
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  Speaker 12: Amber drinks a lot, cried a lot, and she liked
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  Speaker 12: to walk away or actually drive away. And I took
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  Speaker 12: her keys summer so she could not drive away. She
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  Speaker 12: grabbed her her slammed her phone on the ground and left.
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  Speaker 4: And I have not seen her.
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  Speaker 1: Say did you actually see her leave or you just
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  Speaker 1: assumed she loved.
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  Speaker 4: Also, I made her to stay on the couch.
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  Speaker 12: We fought a little bit more, and I said, we'll
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  Speaker 12: want to have a rapper lay down here on the couch.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going inside, and I'm going inside. I was like
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  Speaker 4: trying to her in the morning, and when I woke up,
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: I was block. Saturday morning, there was a letter on
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  Speaker 4: fucking on passing table.
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  Speaker 1: Has she ever threatened to hurt herself in the past?
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  Speaker 7: Or was this she has?
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  Speaker 4: Last five years at skinner go to I t telling
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  Speaker 4: Grandma and Grandpa too. She does this to me all
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: the time, almost every week.
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  Speaker 12: And she'll leaves and as she walked up back till
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  Speaker 12: Monday or Tuesday, and then my kids get all mad
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  Speaker 12: at because I let her back in.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you don't mind me ask your personal questions,
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  Speaker 1: But is it possible she's seen somebody else and she
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  Speaker 1: stays there as.
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  Speaker 12: Another That's why we might all the time somebody for
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  Speaker 12: about five years now, and we don't pen our bills.
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  Speaker 4: We're always that's why we always like that.
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  Speaker 3: Based on Keith and Betty's statements, both were aware Amber
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  Speaker 3: had struggled emotionally in the past, but neither realized just
• 11:52
  Speaker 3: how serious the situation had become, or how tragically wrong
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  Speaker 3: their assumptions would soon turn out to be.
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  Speaker 11: Where exactly what the book?
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  Speaker 7: When you found that?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and you recognize her handwriting?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, Okay, it's unmistakable.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, this argument, I mean, you guys are arguing about
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  Speaker 5: about her seeing somebody?
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  Speaker 1: Who are you guys arguing about lots of stuff.
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  Speaker 12: Well, that always comes into play, but this particular argument
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  Speaker 12: was about her not paying my mortgage for six months.
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  Speaker 12: I gave her all my mond and I just cashed
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  Speaker 12: my tracks on the bills, and lately she hasn't been
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  Speaker 12: paying our bills.
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  Speaker 1: But did he get physical at all? Or was it
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: just arguing.
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  Speaker 4: Physical a couple of times? But I want to say
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  Speaker 4: Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you know this is a fair question. Is there
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  Speaker 1: any chance that you you heard her anyway?
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  Speaker 12: I fucking hope not. They don't fucking hope not. Yeah,
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  Speaker 12: there's a possibility. I mean, I'm hoping or not. But
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  Speaker 12: like I said, I don't remember ship, and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 12: go through this ship all the time and she always
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  Speaker 12: comes to that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: The only thing I'm worried about it she always loves
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  Speaker 4: her fucking mom. Faw.
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  Speaker 12: She doesn't go anywhere. She does go somewhere else, but
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  Speaker 12: she always ends up at her mom's house.
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  Speaker 3: Listening carefully to Keep's account, the officer initially found him
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  Speaker 3: credible as he described an argument about money and Amber's
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  Speaker 3: alleged infidelity, but the officer's concern grew when Keith admitted
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  Speaker 3: he'd been heavily intoxicated and couldn't remember if things turned physical. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 3: the possibility that Amber hadn't actually walked away became disturbingly real.
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  Speaker 3: Officers now suspected more clues were hidden inside the home,
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  Speaker 3: a drunken fight, maybe getting physical. Whatever happened, the answers
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  Speaker 3: were likely somewhere inside.
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  Speaker 1: He gave me permission. I have on my body camera
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  Speaker 1: recorded it. Okay, he gave me full permission to look
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  Speaker 1: book in the house, So.
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  Speaker 9: Let him out.
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  Speaker 1: Are they generally friendly normally?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Okay?
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  Speaker 11: Good?
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  Speaker 1: Just because ye are you looking there?
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  Speaker 7: It look like.
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  Speaker 4: The problem that we want to work love.
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  Speaker 3: As officers continued their search, their body language indicated something
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  Speaker 3: was off. Careful not to alarm the family, Neither officers
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  Speaker 3: openly acknowledged it yet, but they both recognized the unmistakable
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  Speaker 3: stench hanging in the air, the odor of decay. At
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  Speaker 3: this point, the only thing they were looking for was
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  Speaker 3: the source of that disturbing smell.
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  Speaker 7: No, it's just that right here. Whoa gun?
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  Speaker 4: Oh magazine? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Do you.
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  Speaker 1: Do we want to call someone?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Okay, wow, we'll have you say it inside place.
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  Speaker 3: She's in there, inside the trash can in the garage
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  Speaker 3: was a gun, and underneath that was Amber's decane body
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  Speaker 3: with a gunshot wound to the head, carted with the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the garbage. This was now a crime scene,
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  Speaker 3: and police immediately began to suspect that this was far
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  Speaker 3: from self inflicted.
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  Speaker 1: But when I searched the house, you know something funky.
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  Speaker 9: I looked in that trash man.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there was nothing in it. I was here about
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  Speaker 1: nine am.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, there was not.
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  Speaker 1: I would have noticed that, Okay.
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  Speaker 4: The cat was the carpets and pith of the snail.
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  Speaker 1: I literally, I'm going to forensic files. It was not there.
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  Speaker 9: So somebody's been here.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, and the kids were sleeping and they are unaware
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  Speaker 7: of being here.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but so someday Okay did that?
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  Speaker 11: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Ready, Ron, can you get the kids. I'll just go
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  Speaker 1: awaiting your house.
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  Speaker 3: Strangely, although Betty had noticed the same foul odor of
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  Speaker 3: decay earlier, she didn't realize its implications, instead believing, or
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  Speaker 3: perhaps choosing to believe, that all this concern was simply
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  Speaker 3: because of the firearm police discovered in the trash can.
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  Speaker 3: Betty didn't know it yet, but her statement would soon
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  Speaker 3: cast serious suspicion on her, making detectives question whether she
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  Speaker 3: herself had played a role in Amber's death. For now, though,
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  Speaker 3: officers had to secure the area and move Amber's family
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  Speaker 3: away from the gruesome scene.
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  Speaker 11: I don't want the kids.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, this isn't nast so if you lived here,
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  Speaker 5: and obviously there's a gun there, but if you lived here,
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  Speaker 5: you can see her foot.
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  Speaker 1: She weighs about one.
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  Speaker 5: Hundred and sixty one hundred and seventy pounds.
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  Speaker 4: Right there where your hand is body so.
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  Speaker 1: Called Reno. He's calling him to you, and I know
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  Speaker 1: he sent you.
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  Speaker 3: To While officers waited for the Major Crimes Unit to
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  Speaker 3: arrive and process the scene for forensic evidence, they began
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  Speaker 3: to grapple with several troubling inconsistencies surrounding Amber's family. Keith
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  Speaker 3: had admitted to being heavily intoxicated the night Amber disappeared.
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  Speaker 3: He couldn't save her, certain whether his argument with Amber
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  Speaker 3: had turned violent, only that things had gotten heated and
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  Speaker 3: that much of the night was a blur. But Keith
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  Speaker 3: wasn't the only one officers considered a suspect. Amber's mother, Betty,
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  Speaker 3: claimed she had checked the trash can earlier that morning,
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  Speaker 3: and had seen no sign of Amber's body or the gun.
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  Speaker 3: Yet just hours later both appeared right there in plain sight,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: exactly where she swore she'd already searched. Even stranger to
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: officers was Betty's demeanor. Despite the horrifying situation unfolding around
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: her and the possibility that her daughter had taken her
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: own life, she remained unusually calm, at times even casual.
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  Speaker 3: And then there was the note supposedly written by Amber.
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  Speaker 3: Its wordings struck investigators as strange, too, composed, almost performative,
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  Speaker 3: still in a situation as dark and desperate as contemplating,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: side of people sometimes writ in ways that defy logic
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: or expectations. At this point, everyone's stories seemed suspiciously incomplete,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: and anyone could be responsible. In the eyes of detectives.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Investigators started realizing that Amber's murder might be far more
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: complicated than they initially thought, so to investigate these disturbing possibilities,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: police knew they'd soon need to sit down with Amber's
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  Speaker 3: family and carefully interview each member to uncover who might
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: be hiding something. But before doing that, officers needed to
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: finish one crucial step, a final thorough search of the
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Zoto home, carefully looking for any signs of violence or
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: attempted cover up, and sure enough, it didn't take long
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: before they started noticing blood spatter throughout the house.
• 20:06
  Speaker 11: So a lot of these carpet peepsers meant Leon to
• 20:09
  Speaker 11: start it all the way back, I see like spattered word.
• 20:18
  Speaker 11: So the book we've right here, there was space open
• 20:23
  Speaker 11: with the last page showing, and that bill was on
• 20:26
  Speaker 11: top of it. You know, red pain, get blood on
• 20:36
  Speaker 11: the light switch.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: We've got.
• 20:44
  Speaker 11: A lot of blood on the scene.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, So we loved I mean, we loved it the
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: way we found it as well too, you know, the
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: way the door was when we searched.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: But yeah, she found a little bit of obvious blood
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: in in the kitchen and the sink as well too.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: So within minutes, officers found clear evidence that something violent
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: had occurred before Amber's body ended up in the trash can,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: their first sign that foul play was likely involved. Additionally,
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: the Major Crimes Unit documented critical forensic evidence, including the
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: silver revolver found over Amber's concealed body, blood spatter around
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: the trash can, and debris deliberately placed to hide her remains.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Despite these findings pointing towards foul play. A detective still
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: needed clarity on whether Amber's death was a premeditated act
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: or the result of a heated argument that spiraled violently
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: out of control. But they had two major issues preventing
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: them from answering this crucial question. First, Keith was nowhere
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: to be seen and his phone had gone completely unreachable. Second,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: and most important, detectives had yet to determine exactly who
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: was responsible, because at this point, several people remained under suspicion,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: including Amber's mother and even her own children. Police didn't
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: know it yet, but in the coming hours, these questions
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: would be fully answered and the case would take a
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: completely unexpected turn. So to fill in these gaps, all
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: of Amber's closest family members were transported to the police
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: station for questioning. Detectives hoped they could uncover each member's
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: potential motives, credibility, and who was hiding secrets and finally
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: reveal who might actually be responsible for Amber's murder.
• 22:29
  Speaker 13: I don't want to falsely alarm you, but I also
• 22:33
  Speaker 13: believe in being as honest as we can with the
• 22:37
  Speaker 13: long ones.
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: We may have.
• 22:41
  Speaker 13: We may have found Amber, no, yeah, but we're not
• 22:45
  Speaker 13: we're not. We're not completely sure yet.
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: We're just just do it, just do it.
• 22:56
  Speaker 13: We're not pining fingers or making accusations at this time.
• 22:59
  Speaker 13: But is there a reason Keith would hurt her?
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I really don't. I wish I could
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: tell you more.
• 23:07
  Speaker 13: I told either accidentally or intentionally, when he heard or
• 23:11
  Speaker 13: kill her if he were a mistreat her, would she
• 23:13
  Speaker 13: protect him? She probably would.
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: So I went out there and I seen the letter
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: or the it was a four and a half page note,
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: and it's very important. I looked in that trash bin. Okay,
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: it had an ungodly trasholder, honestly, but I tried to
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: there's some carpet square where on the top. I tried
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: to lift up make sure there was nothing under it that.
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: I don't know what I was expecting, but I did so.
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: I absolutely looked in that bin. That'll be important, and
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: didn't see anything that I went out.
• 23:53
  Speaker 13: Let's talk a little bit about I guess the fighting
• 23:57
  Speaker 13: and what do you do?
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: You know why? I do know why?
• 24:01
  Speaker 10: Okay, my mom cheats and my dad and like she's
• 24:04
  Speaker 10: not good at it again, and like so he finds
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: out and then they just go at it because she
• 24:09
  Speaker 10: like tries to lie about it.
• 24:11
  Speaker 13: He has evidence of her doing it, and so like
• 24:14
  Speaker 13: it's like, yeah, okay, and the last Saturday is in
• 24:18
  Speaker 13: just a couple of days ago.
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: Yeah, last Friday was last time I've seen her.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 24:23
  Speaker 13: Did you talk to her at all on the phone
• 24:24
  Speaker 13: or anything. No, she came over for dinner because my
• 24:27
  Speaker 13: grandma was cooking dinner, and.
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: She came over, and then she left, and then and
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: then you were there Patriday all the way to Sunday.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: After speaking with Amber's family, investigators finally had some clarity.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Betty remained adamant she'd checked that trash can that morning,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: insisting the gun and Amber's body weren't there, which made
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: her case seem more suspicious. Meanwhile, Amber's father, Ronald, was
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: shocked by his daughter's death and found it was hard
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: to believe Keith was capable of harm her. As for
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Amber's children, Annabel explained they'd both been staying at their
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: grandparents' house during the weekend, clarifying why they didn't hear
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: the gunshot that ended their mother's life. However, Annabel's unusual
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: calmness and detailed awareness of her parents unstable marriage raised
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: some concerns about exactly what else the children might know
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: or could still be protecting. After concluding the interviews, investigators
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: were preparing to search for Keith z Otto, the one
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: critical piece still missing, But just before they could act,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: they received unexpected news from Keith's sister, Susan Rots. It
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: turns out Keith had visited her just hours earlier, and
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: what he confessed would finally expose the horrifying truth behind
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Amber's murder.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: I saw my brother park up there, and so I
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: got the dogs out.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: I didn't know the front door was open, and he
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: just came in and I see it on his face
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: and he goes, you know, I don't hate you. That
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: was first thing out of his mouth. And I said,
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: I know, I love you.
• 26:09
  Speaker 13: You're my best okay.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: And then I said it's Amber and it's trying to
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: keep us apart, okay.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: And he just looked at me, returned crying, and he said.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, what did you do?
• 26:20
  Speaker 13: Okay?
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: And I asked him if Amber was looking at me,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: and then he looked at me and he said, you
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: know what, I don't remember anything, okay.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: I just remember waking up and seeing her, okay. And
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: he asked him what the hell happened to tell me
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: when he did?
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Okay said they had been drinking and fighting all night
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: head it was over money, I guess, keep opening some
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: bills and found out that the house had been poor
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: closed down, and the Amber pulled out the gun, handing
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: at my brother with it, and Keith said he took
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: it away.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: It just dapped.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: He said, he blinked his eyes and that was it. Say,
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: I bleak my eyes so in that I opened him.
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: An ice caater on the ground.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Susan's testimony finally cleared up everything for investigators. Keith himself
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: admitted he'd woken up from a blackout to find Amber
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: dead and openly acknowledged a violent confrontation that spiraled completely
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: out of control. It was now clearer than ever that
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Keith Zotto was at the heart of Amber's murder, and
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: it was time to track him down. Just a couple
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: of hours after detectives left Susan's house, Aurora police received
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: a call they never expected. Keith Zotto had surfaced at
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: his sister's house again, ready to surrender. By now, officers
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: knew Keith had already killed once and for all. They
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: knew he was still armed and dangerous, so they came paired.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: A swamp team descended upon the location, ready to take
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Keith down if he made even the slightest wrong move.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: It's gotta be up.
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: One more?
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Is this one?
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Seven? Nine? Seven?
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: This one?
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 28:13
  Speaker 12: Sorry?
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Ready, watch out?
• 28:18
  Speaker 14: Bubba up front door, man, Come to me. I see him,
• 28:28
  Speaker 14: I see him. Come to me, Point to me, Come
• 28:31
  Speaker 14: to me.
• 28:33
  Speaker 12: I got a guy out.
• 28:35
  Speaker 14: Hands up, everybody, hands up, please, very good. Walk to
• 28:37
  Speaker 14: my voice, go hands up.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Just walk towards me, nice and easy, okay, all right,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you. No, no, we're not we're not.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: We're not gonna hurt him. Okay, walk towards me.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, just keep walking towards.
• 29:03
  Speaker 15: Very good, good man, very good, very good.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Good right.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Long, yeah, feel free to go ahead of me. Here.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: It all looks warm. Brush. You just want to hold
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: and I'll be back with you. Good. Is that your mom?
• 29:29
  Speaker 15: And who else is the other?
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: Lady?
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: Got you?
• 29:31
  Speaker 15: Okay? Man, very good. We appreciate you coming out, Bud.
• 29:35
  Speaker 15: We'll explain it all to you. Okay, okay, buddy, okay,
• 29:41
  Speaker 15: okay there remember.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: But finally, after hours of uncertainty, Keith z Otto surrendered
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: to our Rarah Police without incident. He was immediately taken
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: into custody and formally processed for the murder of his wife, Amber.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Keith would go on to it SDNT to killing Amber
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: late Saturday night, claiming his gun accidentally went off during
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: a drunken argument over money and infidelity. Though he insisted
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: he couldn't remember placing her body in the trash or
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: concealing the crime, Keith accepted responsibility for her death. However,
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Betty's earlier statement surrounding the infamous trash can remained unclear,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: and investigators were never able to determine why she didn't
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: see the gun or Amber's body that morning. In May
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: of twenty twenty one, Keith Zado was found guilty of
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without the
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: possibility of parole.