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Lady Bird Lake And The Fear Of A Serial Killer In Austin · Beyond The Horizon

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the program. So
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  Speaker 1: it looks like there's a serial killer loose in Austin,
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  Speaker 1: Texas as two women's bodies have been found and both
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  Speaker 1: of the bodies have been connected to the same perpetrator.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is, even though they have these DNA samples
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  Speaker 1: and they have an idea of who the person might be,
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  Speaker 1: they haven't been able to connect this person using the
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  Speaker 1: DNA through any of the databases. The good news though
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  Speaker 1: is it looks like they have them on surveillance footage.
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  Speaker 1: So let's dive into this article from the Daily Mail
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  Speaker 1: and let's see what the hell's going on down in Austin, Texas. Headline,
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  Speaker 1: Texas serial killer on the loose after two women's bodies
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  Speaker 1: are found. And honestly, when I first saw this, I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking that it might have something to do with
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  Speaker 1: Lady Bird Lake, but it looks like there's more than
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  Speaker 1: one sicko running around down here in Austin. This article
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  Speaker 1: was authored by Joe Hutchinson. Authorities in Texas are hunting
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  Speaker 1: for a suspected serial killer, after linking the DNA between
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  Speaker 1: two murder scenes six years apart. And if it's six
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  Speaker 1: years apart, do you really think he cooled down with
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  Speaker 1: that period, or did he kill someone else elsewhere? Remember,
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  Speaker 1: when we're talking about serial killers, these are people that
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  Speaker 1: are built for this. They're wired for this. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like somebody that committed a murder in a throw of passion.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody was arguing over a relationship, a fight in a bar,
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  Speaker 1: something like that. These people are wired differently. They're defective
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  Speaker 1: right off of the line and they don't just stop killing.
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  Speaker 1: That is not how they roll. That's not how they're made.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not what they do. So my guess is
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  Speaker 1: this person has killed other people. And hopefully when the
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  Speaker 1: authorities apprehend this dude, they're able to run that all
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  Speaker 1: down and figure out what's what. But I have a
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  Speaker 1: hard time believing that it's only two people, especially when
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  Speaker 1: I take into account the large gap in time between
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  Speaker 1: the discovery of the two bodies. So, chances are this
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  Speaker 1: scumbag has hurt other people. The Austin Police Department said
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  Speaker 1: that they had been investigating the recent killing of Alyssa
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  Speaker 1: Ann Rivera when they linked DNA with a previous unsolved case. Rivera, 34,
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  Speaker 1: was found dead inside an abandoned home on June 21st
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  Speaker 1: with her death now linked to the six-year-old case of
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  Speaker 1: Alba Janice Alves, officials said. Avalis 28 was found inside
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  Speaker 1: a silver Ford sedan in Bastrop County in 2018, just
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  Speaker 1: a few miles from where Rivera was found. Authorities say
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  Speaker 1: it isn't just the DNA at the scene that links
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  Speaker 1: the two, with the women both being strangled and their
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  Speaker 1: murders sexual in nature. So not only is this person
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  Speaker 1: a murderer, a serial killer, he's a sexual abuser as well.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're a woman and you're in Austin, my
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  Speaker 1: suggestion would be, Like always, keep your head on a swivel,
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  Speaker 1: pay attention to your surroundings, and be very, very careful
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  Speaker 1: who you're associating with. And obviously, that's all good advice
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  Speaker 1: in the best of times, but if there's a serial
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  Speaker 1: killer on the loose, probably a good idea to take
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  Speaker 1: some precautions. Investigators also said that Avila's killer met her
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  Speaker 1: at a bar in Austin called Club Carib just three
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  Speaker 1: miles from where Rivera was killed. So this dude's obviously
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  Speaker 1: trolling bars and looking for women to pick up in
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  Speaker 1: these bars and then killing them. which is a very
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  Speaker 1: bold move. You're going to be on surveillance. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to have footage of you. And if they can tie
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  Speaker 1: the DNA to you, well, you're cooked. So my guess
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  Speaker 1: is this person who's responsible here is going to be
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  Speaker 1: caught eventually, especially considering that I doubt that they're going
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  Speaker 1: to stop doing what they do. So they're going to
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  Speaker 1: get nailed. And when they do get nailed, the police
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  Speaker 1: are going to have all of this evidence already. The
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  Speaker 1: burning question, however, is are the police going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to stop this person before they do it again?
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  Speaker 1: Police have also since released a video that shows Rivera
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  Speaker 1: walking with a male person of interest just before she
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  Speaker 1: was killed. Sergeant Nathan Sexton of the Austin Police Department
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  Speaker 1: said there was a DNA link found between this case
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  Speaker 1: and April 14th, 2018 and the unsolved murder of Alba
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  Speaker 1: Janice Aviles. Both victims are believed to have been sexually assaulted.
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  Speaker 1: It was DNA found at both scenes, like multiple sources
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  Speaker 1: of DNA at both scenes. So I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: out on a limb and say that they went to
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  Speaker 1: the bar already and talked to people, looked for evidence,
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  Speaker 1: and I guess they haven't come up with nothing. Which
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  Speaker 1: is wild to think that they have nothing, considering this
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  Speaker 1: dude was caught on video, and they have DNA, but
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  Speaker 1: they have no idea who this person is. Yeah, that's reassuring.
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  Speaker 1: Even with the new DNA evidence, they have been unsuccessful
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  Speaker 1: in using DNA index system to track the person, meaning
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  Speaker 1: they likely haven't been arrested before. And of course, we
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  Speaker 1: have to keep in mind, it might be somebody from
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  Speaker 1: out of this country. That's always something that we have
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  Speaker 1: to consider, especially in a place like Texas or a
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  Speaker 1: place like California, where you're right on the border. You know,
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  Speaker 1: who the hell knows who's coming in? And it's certainly
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  Speaker 1: something that has to be investigated. But it makes things
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  Speaker 1: a lot more difficult when there's no match, obviously, in CODIS.
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  Speaker 1: So if they've never been arrested before, never been in
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  Speaker 1: trouble before, you might have their DNA, but you have
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  Speaker 1: nothing to match it to. So it's a good first step.
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  Speaker 1: but it's not going to get you over the finish line.
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  Speaker 1: Sexton added, unfortunately, that suspect does not come back to CODIS,
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  Speaker 1: what we call the national database, so they're not in
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  Speaker 1: the system. Yeah, and that's what I was just mentioning earlier.
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  Speaker 1: And if you remember, when we were talking about Rachel
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  Speaker 1: Morin's murderer, we were talking about some of the other killers.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing, right? Comes back, they have the DNA, but
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  Speaker 1: that's all they have to go on. And while it's
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  Speaker 1: strong evidence, if they can match it to a suspect,
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  Speaker 1: Without any suspect to match it to, it does them
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  Speaker 1: no good. So it's important that they continue on with
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  Speaker 1: their investigation, obviously, track down their leads, and find this dude.
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  Speaker 1: And if and when they do that, then that DNA
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  Speaker 1: evidence that they've collected already is going to be worth
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  Speaker 1: its weight in gold. According to Sexton, the department and
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  Speaker 1: Bastrop County Sheriff's Office are working closely together to turn
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  Speaker 1: the DNA into a suspect. And if and when they
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  Speaker 1: do find a suspect and they convict somebody, helicopters, volcanoes.
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  Speaker 1: Is it even a discussion? You're running around murdering women?
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  Speaker 1: Murdering anyone? People like this do not deserve to breathe
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  Speaker 1: air with the rest of us. So yeah, helicopters, volcanoes.
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  Speaker 1: He added, we're trying to compare notes to see if
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  Speaker 1: there's anyone that comes up in both cases or may
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  Speaker 1: have lived here, so it will take quite a bit
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  Speaker 1: of research in going through the data. When asked if
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  Speaker 1: there were any more murders that were linked, he replied,
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  Speaker 1: there could be more. Yeah, no shit. Anytime you're dealing
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  Speaker 1: with a suspected serial killer, you know that the chances
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  Speaker 1: of them being honest with you, if you capture them
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  Speaker 1: about how many people they killed, are slim to none.
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  Speaker 1: And you know that serial killers, for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: and when I say the most part, I mean the
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  Speaker 1: vast majority of serial killers, they might have cool down periods,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't stop. So there's no doubt in my
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  Speaker 1: mind that this sicko has killed before and probably will
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  Speaker 1: kill again. A GoFundMe has since been set up for
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  Speaker 1: the family of Rivera, who said in a post to
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  Speaker 1: the fundraiser, As many know, our daughter, Alyssa Rivera, was
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  Speaker 1: found murdered. And every single time that we read a
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  Speaker 1: story like this or go through one of these articles,
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  Speaker 1: I say to myself, how do the families do it?
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  Speaker 1: How do they manage with their new normal in the
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  Speaker 1: wake of a tragedy like this? I would have PTSD
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of my life. I'd be doing the
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  Speaker 1: whole entire, what could have I done better? What could
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  Speaker 1: have I done to protect my kid? Even though that's
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  Speaker 1: all illogical, right? You can only do so much. Once
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  Speaker 1: your children become adults, well, that's pretty much where it
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  Speaker 1: stops for you, right? As far as making decisions for
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  Speaker 1: them or, you know, guiding them as far as what
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  Speaker 1: they're going to do in their day to day. So
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  Speaker 1: as a parent, that must be just unbelievably painful. I
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  Speaker 1: can't even imagine, honestly. First of all, I don't have
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  Speaker 1: any kids. Second of all, That is a type of
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  Speaker 1: pain that nobody should ever have to go through. No
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  Speaker 1: parent should ever have to bury their child, no matter
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  Speaker 1: the circumstances. We still have no answers as to how
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  Speaker 1: or why, but in the meantime, we need to layer
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  Speaker 1: to rest, and we're asking for any assistance in doing so.
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  Speaker 1: And when I see these kinds of GoFundMes, I wish
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  Speaker 1: I was just filthy rich, because I would just pay
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  Speaker 1: for the whole entire thing. The last thing that you
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  Speaker 1: should be worrying about when a situation like this arises
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  Speaker 1: is your finances. But unfortunately, the real world don't stop
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  Speaker 1: when we have to deal with tragedy. So I hope
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  Speaker 1: that they meet their goals with this GoFundMe and they're
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  Speaker 1: able to do what they want to do as far
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  Speaker 1: as the send off for their daughter. Alyssa was the
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  Speaker 1: most kind and big hearted soul and anyone who knew
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  Speaker 1: her knew that. Please help us give our daughter the
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  Speaker 1: burial she deserves. Every bit helps and is greatly appreciated.
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  Speaker 1: An anonymous family member also told CBS Austin, we love
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  Speaker 1: her so much and we can't even imagine that this
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  Speaker 1: happened to her. If you met Alyssa one time, you
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  Speaker 1: would never forget her. She didn't deserve this, and neither
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  Speaker 1: did we. Well, there's no doubt about that. Truer words
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  Speaker 1: have never been spoken. Because nobody deserves to go through
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  Speaker 1: something like this. Have your life snuffed? For what reason?
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  Speaker 1: Some sick, degenerate bastard has a deviancy and wants to
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  Speaker 1: kill you and molest you? Really? I'm so tired of
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  Speaker 1: people like this in our society, folks. I've had my fill.
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  Speaker 1: I've told you a million times. And I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: a million more times, if you're committing violent crimes out
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  Speaker 1: here in these streets, especially if you're a repeat offender,
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  Speaker 1: I have no tolerance for it. And I want the
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  Speaker 1: most harsh penalty every single time for somebody like that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want them in the streets with my grandma.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want them in the streets with my mom,
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  Speaker 1: my girlfriend, my little sister. But somehow, these disgusting animals
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  Speaker 1: continue to get out of jail. and don't serve even
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  Speaker 1: a full term. Now, I know that that probably isn't
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  Speaker 1: going to be relevant here considering they're not in CODIS,
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  Speaker 1: but overall, how many repeat offenders do we see on
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  Speaker 1: these streets out here doing all kinds of unspeakable things?
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully, with the attention that this is getting now,
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  Speaker 1: and the fact that they're looking at it seriously as
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  Speaker 1: a serial killer situation, they're going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: find this perpetrator and bring them to justice. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: keep an eye on this one, and when we have
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  Speaker 1: some more information, obviously, we'll get it added to the catalog.
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