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Killers Amongst Us: David Temple beloved coach, murderer? (part 3) · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Hi, guys, Nancy Grace here, Welcome back to Killers amongst Us,
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Speaker 1: the production of iHeartMedia and Crime Online. It seemed like
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Speaker 1: a dream, the perfect job, a beautiful wife, a baby boy,
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Speaker 1: a happy home. Or was it David Temple cheating and
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Speaker 1: even worse, cheating openly with a new hot teacher at
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Speaker 1: his own school where he's a chief football coach. Belinda
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Speaker 1: Temple sees her marriage falling apart. I Nancy Grace and
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Speaker 1: this is Killers amongst Us. Soon, Heather becomes a regular
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Speaker 1: at the coach's weekly happy hour at the local bar.
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Speaker 1: David spends more and more time talking to her alone.
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Speaker 1: They were spending a lot of time kind of segueing
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Speaker 1: off on their own, separate from the group, and people
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Speaker 1: started to look at them like they were kind of
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Speaker 1: a couple. There were a lot of people who didn't
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Speaker 1: actually know that David was married. The romance escalates, Heather
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Speaker 1: invites David over to her apartment and the relationship goes
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Speaker 1: from exciting flirtation to a full blown erotic affair behind
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Speaker 1: David's pregnant wife's back. When I learned he was having
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Speaker 1: an affair, I was not surprised at all. David is
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Speaker 1: completely caught up in the exciting and beautiful English teacher
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Speaker 1: and she feels the same way. They were both lusting
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Speaker 1: after each other, almost addicted to one another. They couldn't
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Speaker 1: stay away, they didn't want to stay away. They were
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Speaker 1: each other's drug. Wow, how could anybody not know his
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Speaker 1: wife is pregnant? I mean? Catherine Casey, author of Shattered
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Speaker 1: on Amazon, an incredible dissection of this case. He was from,
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Speaker 1: this is his hometown, These are his peeps. How could
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Speaker 1: anybody be a teacher in that school and not know
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Speaker 1: David Temple's married with a child and a pregnant wife. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know he's hid it, Nancy. He didn't wear a
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Speaker 1: wedding ring, he didn't talk about his family, and he
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Speaker 1: was going out acting as if he was single. There
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Speaker 1: were some people on the teaching staff we thought that
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Speaker 1: he was probably separated. David and Heather were an item
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Speaker 1: for quite a while before people figured out that he
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Speaker 1: was married and that his wife was expecting a child.
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Speaker 1: M Take a listen to scorned. David Temple has been
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Speaker 1: having an affair with a beautiful new English teacher named Heather,
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Speaker 1: and she's just learned that not only as David married
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Speaker 1: to Belinda, but he has a three year old son
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Speaker 1: and another child on the way. Although the news of
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Speaker 1: David's family is upsetting to Heather, she doesn't end the affair.
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Speaker 1: She'd say that she felt sick to her stomach about
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Speaker 1: it thinking about it, but obviously not sick enough because
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Speaker 1: she didn't break off the relationship. Nothing changed. In fact,
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Speaker 1: Heather and David only become more deeply involved. Even Heather's
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Speaker 1: roommate can see that the relationship is heating up fast.
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Speaker 1: Heather's roommates started noticing that David was showing up at
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Speaker 1: their own house and spending a lot of time with Heather,
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Speaker 1: and that gifts who were arriving flowers and perfume and
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Speaker 1: jewelry for Heather from David. David really gave her that
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Speaker 1: impression that she was the special one. So not only
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Speaker 1: was there the sexual chemistry, this feeling that they had
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Speaker 1: the perfect union, added on top of that was the
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Speaker 1: extra charge that she was winning. She was winning this
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Speaker 1: man away from a wife who was giving him a child,
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Speaker 1: and as the affair continues, she wants to understand his
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Speaker 1: exact situation. Heather asked David, well, do you have any kids?
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Speaker 1: And he told her that he had a little boy
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Speaker 1: and another little baby girl on the way that his
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Speaker 1: wife was pregnant. Heather is shocked by the news. This
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Speaker 1: is more than she is prepared for. Does she really
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Speaker 1: want to share Dandy with his wife and expanding family?
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Speaker 1: You are hearing scorn and the voices of Katherine Casey,
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Speaker 1: Robbie Ludwig, and Debbie Burger perfect union. I mean, Katherine Casey,
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Speaker 1: author of Shattered Right. I'm sure that David Temple and
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Speaker 1: his girlfriend, Heather and Belinda we'll be very happy together.
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Speaker 1: No way. I mean, if she says she feels sick
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Speaker 1: to her stomach, why didn't she stop? Catherine? You know,
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Speaker 1: I don't think she wanted to, Nancy. I don't think
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Speaker 1: she really, really, sincerely wanted to. At one point in
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Speaker 1: January on actually I think it's around the fifth of January,
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Speaker 1: she says to David, I can't go on this way,
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Speaker 1: and his response to her is you won't have to. Wow, Wow,
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Speaker 1: listen to this. After their romantic weekend together, David begins
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Speaker 1: this new year by declaring his deepening feelings for Heather.
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Speaker 1: In the war for David's affections, it's Heather who's winning,
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Speaker 1: he told her he had fallen totally in love with her,
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Speaker 1: and she said that she felt the same way, and
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Speaker 1: their relationship seemed to be moving to the next level.
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Speaker 1: Straight out to doctor Robbie Ludwig, Arthur till Death Do
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Speaker 1: Us Part and the host of Talking Live with Doctor
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Speaker 1: Robbie Ludwig at Facebook watch way in, Robbie, I believe
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Speaker 1: that was you that uttered the words perfect union. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is what happens when you choose a
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Speaker 1: relationship that is entirely based on fantasy and think that
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Speaker 1: you can actually live in that fantasy picture. It is
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Speaker 1: just a bad setup. But people have very poor judgment
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Speaker 1: when they are overcome with feelings of what they think
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Speaker 1: is extreme love or a unique love that they feel,
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Speaker 1: you know that they would do anything to keep the
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Speaker 1: relationship alive. Let's go to January eleven. That January, the
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Speaker 1: relationship with Heather is you know, as hot as ever,
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Speaker 1: boiling over. David Temple has already told Heather the English
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Speaker 1: teacher that she wouldn't have to live this way much longer.
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Speaker 1: To Brandy Keoncini, the owner of The Katie Times, Brandy,
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Speaker 1: that day started off as normal, Tell me about it, Well,
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Speaker 1: it was a Monday, they were getting ready to go
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Speaker 1: to work. Their son, Evan, had not been feeling well overnight,
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Speaker 1: so he went to daycare. Blenda warned the workers that
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Speaker 1: daycare that he might not make it through the day
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Speaker 1: and that David will pick the little boy up in
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Speaker 1: case he didn't, and off they went to work. At
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Speaker 1: some point during the day they called and said that
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Speaker 1: he was not feeling well, and so she went and
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Speaker 1: picked him up, met David at home with Evan, and
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Speaker 1: off she went back to work. That day was a
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Speaker 1: normal day in Katie, Texas. Everyone went their separate ways.
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Speaker 1: Their little boy goes to his regular daycare, David Temple
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Speaker 1: heads to work, Blenda Temple goes about her business, Who's
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Speaker 1: about to give birth? And then to Catherine Casey, author
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Speaker 1: of Shattered what Happens Well. The phone rang at eleven
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Speaker 1: thirty and it was Tiger Land Daycare and they said
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Speaker 1: that Evan had a temperature that was above one hundred
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Speaker 1: point six, which was the highest they would allow children
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Speaker 1: to stay. So Belinda tried to put into action the
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Speaker 1: plan she had with David, where David would go pick
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Speaker 1: Devin up if he became ill again. So she started calling.
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Speaker 1: She called once, twice, three times, five times that morning,
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Speaker 1: David didn't answer, and she kept trying to get in
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Speaker 1: touch with him, and she got frustrated and left school
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Speaker 1: and went to pick Evan up and kept trying to
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Speaker 1: get in touch with David. When she finally reached him
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Speaker 1: around noon, he agreed to meet her at the house,
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Speaker 1: but by then she was angry. And I've been told
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Speaker 1: by people who saw him as he walked out of
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Speaker 1: work that day that he was angry with Belinda. But
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Speaker 1: why was he angry with Belinda? He was angry because
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Speaker 1: his life had been interrupted that day. He hadn't wanted
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Speaker 1: to be there the Friday before, he Heather had pledged
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Speaker 1: their love for each other. This was the following Monday,
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Speaker 1: the first time he was seeing Heather again after they
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Speaker 1: had said that, and this was an interruption in his day,
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Speaker 1: and in general, he was angry with Belinda. She knew
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Speaker 1: well enough that she was telling people she thought her
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Speaker 1: marriage was coming to an ad It's a normal start
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Speaker 1: to what looks like a typical day. After dropping her
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Speaker 1: son off at daycare, Belinda and David had to work,
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Speaker 1: But just hours later, the daycare center calls Belinda her
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Speaker 1: son is sick and needs to go home. Her son
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Speaker 1: was running a temperature. She got a hold of David
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Speaker 1: and he said he would meet her at the house.
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Speaker 1: Belinda left work, picked up her son, and had made
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Speaker 1: arrangements to meet David at the family home so she
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Speaker 1: could return to work because she was pregnant and didn't
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Speaker 1: want to lose her sick leave. David meets Blinda at
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Speaker 1: their house and he takes over and caring for their
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Speaker 1: son for the rest of the day. She returned to
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Speaker 1: the school at one o'clock. I remember looking at the
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Speaker 1: clock and I said, oh, you were fast, Blenda. You
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Speaker 1: did a good job. Now the boy, the baby boy,
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Speaker 1: Evan has come home from daycare with over a hundred
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Speaker 1: degree fever. Okay, so he's at home sick, but then
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Speaker 1: suddenly a dichotomy. He was sent home early that day
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Speaker 1: with a fever, and David came home to watch him. Men.
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Speaker 1: He took a bath, Matchris, temperature was good, and we
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Speaker 1: just played and waited from on to get home. When
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Speaker 1: Belinda returned around four o'clock, David says she went upstairs
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Speaker 1: to rest, and that's when he took Evan out to play.
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Speaker 1: We went to the park in our neighborhood, which we
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Speaker 1: spent a lot of time. He enjoyed being ale, so
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Speaker 1: that's where we went first. After that, he says, they
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Speaker 1: made their trip to the grocery store and then the
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Speaker 1: home team. You're hearing our friend Richard Schlessinger at forty
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Speaker 1: eight hours. Now, I've got a problem. Jo's got Morgan
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Speaker 1: and you've raised his son along with your wife. You
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Speaker 1: bring him home with one hundred plus degree fever. He's
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Speaker 1: too ill to stay at school. But then you take
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Speaker 1: him outside in January to play and then running errands.
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Speaker 1: Shouldn't he be at home in bed? Yeah, he should be.
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Speaker 1: Should be at home, you know, laying in bed, probably
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Speaker 1: taking on fluids, maybe taking a little baby ass from
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Speaker 1: along the way. He shouldn't be out playing and he
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Speaker 1: you know, he sures heck, shouldn't be going to the
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Speaker 1: store because you don't know what's going on with his child.
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Speaker 1: You need to be able to take care and watch
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Speaker 1: care over him like any good parent would. But when
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Speaker 1: David temple It gets home to be with his wife
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Speaker 1: just about to give birth to their second child, he
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Speaker 1: finds something very unexpected. Listen, when David returns home around
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Speaker 1: five thirty, he finds something very disturbing. Before he even
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Speaker 1: walks into the house, Temple noticed that the glass in
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Speaker 1: the window of the back door had been broken. He
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Speaker 1: then went immediately over to his next door neighbor's house,
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Speaker 1: pounded on his door, carrying his son, and when the
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Speaker 1: neighbor entered the door, he said, someone's broken into my house.
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Speaker 1: Can you take care of my son for me? And
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Speaker 1: went back over to his own house. Fearing that something
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Speaker 1: terrible has happened. David Temple drives into his home. David
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Speaker 1: Temple said that he went inside the house, he went upstairs,
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Speaker 1: and when he got upstairs, he saw Belinda in the closet.
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Speaker 1: David is met with a horrifying sight. Belinda is lying
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Speaker 1: face down on the floor with a massive wound to
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Speaker 1: her head. You know, Randy Kessler to fits lawyer, family
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Speaker 1: law specialists, why is it the husband always finds the
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Speaker 1: wife dead? Interesting? Right? An interesting choice of words, And
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Speaker 1: it's interesting, it's dradic it's it's terrible. Even if we
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Speaker 1: get two used to sing it over and over and
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Speaker 1: never makes it just interesting to me. It's terrible. You
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Speaker 1: were just hearing our friends that scorned. Let's hear it
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Speaker 1: from the horse's mouth listen to David Temple. She got
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Speaker 1: home about four o'clock. We just um said I would
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Speaker 1: take Heaven out and run around. We stopped at Brushi,
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Speaker 1: but it's just to get a drink. We stopped got
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Speaker 1: two drinks and I picked up a bag of cat
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Speaker 1: food while we were in there getting the drinks. And
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Speaker 1: then we decided to go to home depot. We'd have
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Speaker 1: time to do that, make it home, the time to
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Speaker 1: take one to eat dinner before the end of the garage.
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Speaker 1: You got my son. I started to walk towards the
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Speaker 1: back door, and I could see that the backdoors opening,
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Speaker 1: it's cracked with glass. And took my son a Foss
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Speaker 1: Street and bangoring my friends south and handed them to
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Speaker 1: Heaven and asked if they were going on. One morning,
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Speaker 1: somebody had spoken into my neighbor's house and then ran
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Speaker 1: back across the street and into the dated and into
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Speaker 1: my house the street from me and making an upstairs
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Speaker 1: to her at hunting him full of blood and recalls
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Speaker 1: their knees up underneath her stomach. Did you protect her? Hey?
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Speaker 1: So across the bed and you got the phone to
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Speaker 1: call on nine on the line Harris County, and I
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Speaker 1: don't want to believe tri ambulance. Somebody's broken into my
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Speaker 1: and my wife's shocked. I just walked in my wife.
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Speaker 1: I believe she's been shot. It's cut blood everywhere. Okay, sir,
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Speaker 1: is she breathing? Her brain is on the floor. I
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Speaker 1: think she's already did she's eight munch break? She did? Okay,
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Speaker 1: she's eight months. We got a baby though, right, we're hype. Okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: but I don't how to do CPR, Yes, okay, I
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Speaker 1: want you to do CPR for that baby. Okay, okay, yes,
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Speaker 1: let's do. Are you doing CPR for me? And she's gone? Okay,
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Speaker 1: well let's see if we eat her? Okay for the baby.
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Speaker 1: Is there any way that you could do this? There's
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Speaker 1: just no way. She's got a brandage. His bloody was
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Speaker 1: covered on the floor. I got a policeman that's pulled up.
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Speaker 1: You were hearing the nine one one call where David
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Speaker 1: Temple calls to report his wife dead, curled up in
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Speaker 1: the closet. To Brandy Keionsini, owner of the Katie Times
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Speaker 1: Way in Well, the neighborhood was a was a nice neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: I would say it was fairly middle class. Parts of
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Speaker 1: it were nicer than others, and they were smack dab
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Speaker 1: in the middle. He by all reports, he was not
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Speaker 1: very friendly with the neighbors, except for one family, which
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Speaker 1: happens to be the family that he took his son too.
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Speaker 1: You know, everybody reacts in different ways, but it is
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Speaker 1: very unusual that he would do that, although he did
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Speaker 1: have a reputation for absolutely wanting to be in control,
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Speaker 1: and it would not be out of character for him
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Speaker 1: to control that situation invest in the best way he could,
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Speaker 1: which would be to remove Evan from the scene and
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Speaker 1: then go in and see what's what listen to this.
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Speaker 1: When they got back, Temple says he saw the broken
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Speaker 1: back door, dropped Evan off at the neighbors, then ran
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Speaker 1: up the stairs and found Bullinda's body sprawled on the
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Speaker 1: floor of the bedroom closet. When you have something like
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Speaker 1: that traumatic happened in your life that you've never seen before,
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Speaker 1: it's incapable of putting into words how you feel. What
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Speaker 1: were you told about the scene before you got there,
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Speaker 1: that there was a female open found dead in her
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Speaker 1: closet with an apparent gunshot wounded. The head crime scene investigator,
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Speaker 1: Dean Holkey was surprised that a burglar would be so violent.
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Speaker 1: You're hearing our friends at forty eight hours, and you're
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Speaker 1: also hearing Dean Holkey, the investigator, and David Temple himself.
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Speaker 1: Joining me, the author of Shattered, Katherine Casey dissects the
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Speaker 1: case the murder of Belinda Temple. Catherine tell me about
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Speaker 1: the home and the same that David Temple came home to. Well,
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Speaker 1: the back door was open and the window was shattered,
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Speaker 1: and when he walked inside there was glass splattered across
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Speaker 1: the carpeting. As he went upstairs and went into the master,
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Speaker 1: master bedroom and went into the closet, Belinda was sprawled
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Speaker 1: out there. Her body was just kind of hunched up
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Speaker 1: at that point and she was faced down against the rugs.
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Speaker 1: It was just horrific. There was blood everywhere, there was
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Speaker 1: brain matter everywhere. It was just a horrendous see joining me,
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Speaker 1: forensics expert and author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon,
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Speaker 1: Joseph Scott Morgan just got a very curious about your
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Speaker 1: analysis of the scene so far as we know it
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Speaker 1: weight in. Yeah, obviously, going back to this door, I
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Speaker 1: think this is a key piece of evidence in this case,
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Speaker 1: and the idea that you have this glass that is
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Speaker 1: kind of strewn about on the floor relative to the
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Speaker 1: position that the door is in. And that's key because
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Speaker 1: you have to understand if someone, let's just say, for instance,
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Speaker 1: someone is trying to gain access to a home where
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Speaker 1: they've punched out the glass, okay, and then stuck their
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Speaker 1: hand in, and you open the door with a door knob,
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Speaker 1: the glass will fall in that position. That's not what
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Speaker 1: they're seeing at the scene here, the door is literally
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Speaker 1: a jar. And then past that area where the door
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Speaker 1: is a jar, glass is strewn all about the floor
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Speaker 1: as if something else has happened here other than simply
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Speaker 1: a forced entry. Nancy, this is a nine pain glass door.
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Speaker 1: That means there's nine individual brackets are panes of glass.
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Speaker 1: Did you know that every single one of these pains
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Speaker 1: is fractured with radial fractures. That means that this takes
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Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of fords. Who wa whoa slow it down, Mustang, Sally,
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Speaker 1: what do you mean radial fractures? Well, we've got these
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Speaker 1: little fracture lines that kind of go out from one
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Speaker 1: central spot to the other. The glass is kind of
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Speaker 1: fractured in place, not all of it has fallen out,
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Speaker 1: but every single pain is fractured. It's not just the
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Speaker 1: one that has actually strewn where the glass has been
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Speaker 1: strewn from. That means that when this door was manipulated,
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Speaker 1: it was a tremendous strike that occurred because all of
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Speaker 1: these things fractured at one time. If we were just
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Speaker 1: talking about a common burglary that's knocking one pain out,
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Speaker 1: sticking your hand in and opening the doorknob, that's not
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Speaker 1: what happened in this case. To Catherine Casey, author of
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Speaker 1: Shattered on Amazon, Catherine, I'm curious about the door, the
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Speaker 1: closet door where she is balled up in a ball
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Speaker 1: but now face down when you walk into their bedroom.
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Speaker 1: Is the bedroom upstairs? Is it downstairs? Do you have
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Speaker 1: to walk through the bedroom to get to that closet door.
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Speaker 1: Is that one of those closets where you walk through
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Speaker 1: the bedroom, then you walk through the bathroom and it's
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Speaker 1: on the other side. Tell me about that closet. I'm very,
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Speaker 1: very curious as to the burglar that would go all
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Speaker 1: the way through the home and find that closet. The
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Speaker 1: bedrooms on the second floor, Nancy, you walked up the stairs,
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Speaker 1: walked into a hallway, and then walked into the master bedroom.
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Speaker 1: The bed was straight ahead. There was a window to
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Speaker 1: the left, and when you turned a leno through the
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Speaker 1: window to the right, and when you turn to the left,
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Speaker 1: you walked into the master bathroom. Right off to the
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Speaker 1: left of the master bath is the closet we're below
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Speaker 1: this body was the door opened right and her legs
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Speaker 1: would have been visible as they walked as he walked
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Speaker 1: in interesting, Randy Joncinikenytimes owner. I thought that she had
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Speaker 1: barricaded herself in the in the closet and was hiding
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Speaker 1: in there. Wouldn't the door had been closed. Depends. It's
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Speaker 1: very possible that the person that shot her opened the
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Speaker 1: closet door and pulled the stir, but you would not
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Speaker 1: think so. So, Jessica Morgan, you do this for a living,
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Speaker 1: analyzing death scenes. What about it? You know? I look
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Speaker 1: at that closet, Nancy, from the perspective of trying to
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Speaker 1: corral somebody, of trying to get them into a tiny,
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Speaker 1: tiny area where they're going to be confined. And I think,
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Speaker 1: and another part of this is that when you get
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Speaker 1: them in this area and you've got all of this
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Speaker 1: clothing that's in there, is this has the potential to
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Speaker 1: muffle muffle sound. You can't hear many times. You can't
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Speaker 1: hear screaming, arguing, glass breaking, you can't hear furniture breaking,
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Speaker 1: and maybe maybe you can't hear gunshot. The police investigation
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Speaker 1: immediately begins. Listen. Police respond to the urgent call. Just
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Speaker 1: moments later, they arrive at the Temple house, but they
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Speaker 1: have difficulty getting past the family's protective dog, Shaka. Shaka
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Speaker 1: was this round dog that David had Headson's College, and
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Speaker 1: it had a reputation going back to college as being
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Speaker 1: a vicious animal. People of Katie were afraid of that dog.
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Speaker 1: Shaka charged the fence at the gate. They wanted to
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Speaker 1: get in the house. They didn't know what was going on.
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Speaker 1: They had a report of a woman in distress upstairs.
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Speaker 1: They needed to get in there. The only option they
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Speaker 1: had at one point was to consider shooting the dog,
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Speaker 1: but the dog heals. Once David walks out of the house,
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Speaker 1: police make their way to the bedroom and find Belinda.
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Speaker 1: They quickly determined that she'd been shot once in the
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Speaker 1: back of the head. Both Belinda and her baby girl
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Speaker 1: are pronounced dead at the scene. There's no way with
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Speaker 1: a shooting in the back of the head, that this
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Speaker 1: could have been a suicide or an accidents, that she
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Speaker 1: was at home alone at the time of the death.
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Speaker 1: But long story short, it wasn't just the dog that
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Speaker 1: presented a question. The investigation into the tragedy begins immediately.
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Speaker 1: The house appears to have been ransacked, suggesting to police
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Speaker 1: that Belinda could have been the victim of a robbery
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Speaker 1: gone wrong. A cordless phone was found alongside Belinda's body,
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Speaker 1: suggesting she grabbed the phone and hidden the closet and
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Speaker 1: wanted to call for help. But there are some details
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Speaker 1: that don't quite make sense. Inside the house. You all
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Speaker 1: some drawers a little open in the dining room area
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Speaker 1: with things kind of peeked out of them a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Nothing really rifled through in much depth. But in the
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Speaker 1: entire house they didn't take anything. They didn't take a
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Speaker 1: VCR at TV, no jewelry, no money, no dishes, they
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Speaker 1: took nothing at all. Out from the house. You're hearing
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Speaker 1: observations about the crime scene. Well, there were just multiple problems.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Shaka is a big red flag. The fact
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Speaker 1: that the police officers couldn't get in the house, the
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Speaker 1: glasses they walked through. The police officers are walking into
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Speaker 1: the house, and the glasses not in front of the door.
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Speaker 1: When the doors closed, It's off to the side in
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Speaker 1: the living room. They stood there scratch their heads and
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Speaker 1: wondered why would that be that way. Then they walked upstairs,
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Speaker 1: followed the pass that Blenda would have taken that day,
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Speaker 1: and they see her car keys laying on one of
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Speaker 1: the steps, just dropped there. Moms don't leave their car
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Speaker 1: keys found steps when they have toddlers. Toddlers pick them
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Speaker 1: up and they disappear. They continued upstairs and walked through
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Speaker 1: the house. In addition to things not being strewn around,
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Speaker 1: they saw jewelry sitting out in the open. They saw money,
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Speaker 1: a little bit of money. David's heavy Championship gold ring
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Speaker 1: is sitting on a dish. I mean, there were multiple
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Speaker 1: things and it just kept multiplying. They got into the
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Speaker 1: closet and this was a horrendous wound to Belinda's heads.
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Speaker 1: It's a horrendous wound, and they knew that there should
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Speaker 1: have been a lot of brain matters splattered around, but
25:47
Speaker 1: they couldn't find it, so they started. As they started investigating,
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Speaker 1: they moved the clothing to the side, and they found
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Speaker 1: the brain matter on the wall behind a rack of slacks.
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Speaker 1: Somebody had pushed the slacks back can place after they
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Speaker 1: shocked the Linda. Somebody must have been wanting to hide
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Speaker 1: the evidence of what they had done. Wow, Joseph Scott Morgan.
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Speaker 1: A random killer does not stage the scene. A random
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Speaker 1: killer breaks in, they try to get what they can
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Speaker 1: carry out, they come upon by a person, they either
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Speaker 1: rape them and kill them or just kill them and
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Speaker 1: get the hay out of there. There's no staging the scene.
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Speaker 1: That's not right, Joe Scott. No, No, it's not Nancy.
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Speaker 1: And that's what we refer to as a disorganized crime scene,
26:37
Speaker 1: where you have someone that literally burst through a house.
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Speaker 1: They're subduing somebody that presents in their mind at least
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Speaker 1: as a threat. Then they begin to rifle. And when
26:46
Speaker 1: I say rifle, I mean I'm talking about pulling drawers out.
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Speaker 1: There's stuff strewn everywhere because they are actively hunting for
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Speaker 1: things of value that they can take with them. You
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Speaker 1: see this lots of times, for instance, with drug act
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Speaker 1: that break into houses. They're one focused is to try
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Speaker 1: to get things of value. If you happen to get
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Speaker 1: in their way, you're going to get hurt. But you know,
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Speaker 1: that's the weird thing about this Nancy. When you take
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Speaker 1: a look at say that dish that contains and there's
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Speaker 1: a dish, a great photo of a dish containing a
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Speaker 1: large championship ring, and this thing is gigantic, and it's gold,
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Speaker 1: and it's got diamonds in it and all kinds of stuff.
27:23
Speaker 1: There's necklaces. None of that stuff is gone. There's a
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Speaker 1: half hearted attempt of a television that one of the
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Speaker 1: big old tube televisions that's laying on its face, that
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Speaker 1: looks like it was just pulled off of a console.
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Speaker 1: But beyond that, there's nothing to indicate that this is
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Speaker 1: somebody that's actively looking for items of value so that
27:43
Speaker 1: they can sell it or pawn it, or do whatever
27:45
Speaker 1: they need to do in order to feed a habit
27:47
Speaker 1: something that's not right in its crimes. Well, maybe the
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Speaker 1: burglar was interrupted mid burglary. Based on the time of
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Speaker 1: the incident, listen to Richard slushinger Bone growing up ed
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Speaker 1: and Herman Roberts lived in the house behind the temples.
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Speaker 1: This is Herman Roberts. He's six years old. The police
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Speaker 1: spoke with them shortly after the murder. How many times
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Speaker 1: did you hear that? Why? I thought it was against that.
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Speaker 1: I was sure it was a gay shot. But when
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Speaker 1: exactly did the boys hear that? Bang? Hello? They happened
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Speaker 1: to be watching Doctor Doolittle at the time, and nine
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Speaker 1: years later they remember the exact point in the film
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Speaker 1: when they heard the sound right here, stop it here.
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Speaker 1: That scene is twenty four minutes and fifty seconds into
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Speaker 1: the movie. With that information, police could calculate roughly when
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Speaker 1: the boys heard that noise. They were dropped off here
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Speaker 1: at the bus stop at about three forty five, They
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Speaker 1: went home, did about ten or fifteen minutes worth of homework,
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Speaker 1: horsed around a little, and started the video. That would
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Speaker 1: mean if the boys are correct that the shot was
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Speaker 1: fired at about to Wendy Kionsini, owner of the Katie Times,
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Speaker 1: what do you make of the fact that nothing was
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Speaker 1: taken from the home, And if these neighbors we are
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Speaker 1: hearing are correct, the shooting occurred around four thirty in
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Speaker 1: the afternoon. Temple would have still been out with baby Evan.
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Speaker 1: Maybe a bad parent parenting call, but that's what the
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Speaker 1: neighbors say. Well, detectives believe it it was staged. They
29:26
Speaker 1: said it didn't look right. As other people have said.
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Speaker 1: There there was nothing missing from the home. Even David
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Speaker 1: Temple said there was nothing missing from the home. So
29:40
Speaker 1: if it was an actual burglary, the supposition is that
29:46
Speaker 1: there would have been much more damage and destruction downstairs.
29:54
Speaker 1: And usually burglars leave as soon as they realized someone
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Speaker 1: else is in the house. That was not the case
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Speaker 1: in this instance. Yeah, Brandy Kion's say, Katie, times are
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Speaker 1: absolutely right. As soon as a burglars sense is somebody's there,
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Speaker 1: they normally leave. But almost immediately someone is in the
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Speaker 1: middle of police crosshairs, someone you wouldn't suspect. The night
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Speaker 1: his wife, Belinda was murdered in January nineteen ninety nine,
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Speaker 1: David Temple told police he had no idea who did it.
30:28
Speaker 1: Everybody liked Blenda, didn't matter where she was, but later
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Speaker 1: he wondered about one of her students. The Temple's next
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Speaker 1: door neighbor, Riley Joe Sanders. They had had several battles
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Speaker 1: that I was aware of At the time. He was
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Speaker 1: sixteen and perpetually truant. Belinda had reported him to his parents.
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Speaker 1: Do you think he killed BOLM? Honestly don't know, Riley.
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Speaker 1: Joe Sanders told a reporter he was in school all day,
30:56
Speaker 1: but later admitted to the police he cut out to
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Speaker 1: smoke with friends. He was known to use his father's
31:03
Speaker 1: twelve gage shotguns without permission. His friends had stolen shotguns
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Speaker 1: a few weeks earlier, and Sanders was in the area
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Speaker 1: around the time that other neighbors heard a sudden and
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Speaker 1: startling noise. It's been pointed out over and over that
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Speaker 1: an adulterer does not a killer. Make who murder pregnant
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Speaker 1: mom Belinda Temple, Nancy Grace Killers, amongst us signing off
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Speaker 1: goodbye friend