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What Will It Take? "Don't Be A Victim!" · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: I grew up in a world where there was nothing
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  Speaker 1: but tall pine trees and soybean fields as far as
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  Speaker 1: the eye could see, where a violence was something unknown
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  Speaker 1: and very very far away. We could ride our bikes
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  Speaker 1: anywhere we wanted after school. We could build forts between
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  Speaker 1: pine trees and only come home when we'd hear chimes
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  Speaker 1: in the church deeple telling us it was six o'clock
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  Speaker 1: in time for supper. I could explore rushing streams and
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  Speaker 1: pastures full of cows munching grass. As with trees, I
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  Speaker 1: could swing from a rope out in a circle over
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  Speaker 1: a gully full of water, crash or running once I
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  Speaker 1: hit the soil when the circle ended. Keith's murder changed
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  Speaker 1: all that I found out about an alternate universe, a
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  Speaker 1: world of violence and hate. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't stand to hear the music or the TV.
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  Speaker 1: My mother had to stop the clocks because I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: air the tick ticking. I dropped out of school weeks
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  Speaker 1: than months past. I'd sit for days on our front
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  Speaker 1: porch in the sun. I was fading away mentally and physically.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing mattered. Having threw me a rope and even though
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  Speaker 1: I didn't realize it at the time, I had grabbed it. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I went back to school, but teaching literature was no
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  Speaker 1: longer an option. My one goal was to somehow get
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  Speaker 1: into law school and then fight crime with all my might.
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  Speaker 1: I only had one reference to present to law school
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  Speaker 1: admissions department from my Sunday school teacher, but they let
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  Speaker 1: me in, and after a period of years I made
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  Speaker 1: it to the District Attorney's office. I Nancy Grace, I
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  Speaker 1: just read you one of the first passages from Ernie book,
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  Speaker 1: Don't Be a Victim, fighting back against America's crime wave.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in all the years I prosecuted violent felonies
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  Speaker 1: in inner city Atlanta, I knew I was doing something right.
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  Speaker 1: Every time a jury would return a guilty verdict, I
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  Speaker 1: knew for that moment, just that moment I did a
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  Speaker 1: good thing, one more bad guy was off the streets.
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  Speaker 1: And all the time I've been covering cases at court, TV,
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  Speaker 1: on cockriting Grace with Johnny Cochrane on HLN, and now
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  Speaker 1: on crime Stories, I don't want to just stand back
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  Speaker 1: and cover cases. I want to do something about it.
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  Speaker 1: That is the reason I wrote Don't Be a Victim
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  Speaker 1: fighting back against America's crime wave. At this time in
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  Speaker 1: our country and in our world, were so much of
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  Speaker 1: swirling all around us. I don't want you, or me,
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  Speaker 1: or my children to feel power less fight back in
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  Speaker 1: don't be a victim. I take every case I ever investigated, personally, prosecuted,
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  Speaker 1: or covered, and from them I get tips ideas for
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  Speaker 1: you to stay safe in a way to protect yourself
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  Speaker 1: and your children, your family. I started writing the book
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  Speaker 1: about saying staying safe while you're exercising, but somehow at
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  Speaker 1: morph To, how do I protect my child? Part one?
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  Speaker 1: Your child safe at school, at parks, playgrounds, amusement parks, malls,
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  Speaker 1: safe while shopping, bathroom attacks, nanny's and babysitters from hell,
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  Speaker 1: daycare dangers, cyber threats on your child, so called accidental deaths?
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  Speaker 1: And what about you save while exercising? Do I have
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  Speaker 1: to save Molly Tippets and Karinavatronto? Safe out shopping, elevator assaults?
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  Speaker 1: Safe in your own home? How many burglaries, rapes and
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  Speaker 1: home invasions do we have to cover until we finally
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  Speaker 1: learn what we can do to protect ourselves and fight back?
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  Speaker 1: Driving dangers, wearing your car with or without your children,
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  Speaker 1: crimes at concerts and live events, parties gone wild, staying
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  Speaker 1: safe in bars and restaurants, traveling south of the border abroad,
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  Speaker 1: domestic camping, r ving, cruise ships, and of course, cyber crimes, threats,
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  Speaker 1: internet dating and online ad dangers, burglar alarm backfires. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my eighty nine year old mother moved in with us
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  Speaker 1: after my dad passed away and she got scammed for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money. I don't want that to happen
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  Speaker 1: to your mom or dad. I also cover our seniors
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  Speaker 1: in danger. This book covers it all. This is not
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  Speaker 1: for profit for me, my money, all of it is
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  Speaker 1: going straight to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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  Speaker 1: Please won't you help me and help yourself? Read this
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  Speaker 1: and give it to a friend. Please. All the victims
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  Speaker 1: that I talk about and talk to during the research
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  Speaker 1: and writing of this book want you to know, want
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  Speaker 1: you to learn from what happened in their world. Here
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  Speaker 1: are facts and evidence to keep yourself safe. You can
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  Speaker 1: find it at Nancy gracebook dot com and if you
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  Speaker 1: order before or September twenty one, midnight, we are having
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  Speaker 1: the book publisher is throwing a pre order event in
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  Speaker 1: live time for you to come to with all the
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  Speaker 1: other crime fighters and sleuths. Give me your questions, give
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  Speaker 1: me your theories on cases. I'd love to talk to
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  Speaker 1: you in real time. Go to nancygracebook dot com. It
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  Speaker 1: took me over two years to research and write this
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  Speaker 1: and it is all for you, for you and your family.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks friend,