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Supermom Sherri Papini Admits to Hoax, Now Demands More Time With Her Children · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 2: The so called supermom turned kidnap hoaxer Shery Peppini is
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Speaker 2: back in court. She is battling for child visitation with
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Speaker 2: her ex husband. Good luck, Sherry Peppini. I'm Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 2: This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
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Speaker 2: The California mom who pled guilty to charges related to
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Speaker 2: faking her own kidnapping, showing up on Thanksgiving covered in bruises, starved,
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Speaker 2: even branded. She branded herself with a curling iron. Okay,
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Speaker 2: tell that to a judge. He's not going to give
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Speaker 2: you more visitation or custody with your children. Forget it.
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Speaker 2: But that said, she's back in court. She is whining.
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Speaker 1: Quote.
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Speaker 2: For eight years, our family has been followed, stalk to
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Speaker 2: rest and bullied by the media. Really could it be
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Speaker 2: because you led everyone on a wild goose chase, spending
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Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers money, torturing your family,
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Speaker 2: your husband and children, thinking you were probably dead before
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Speaker 2: you came back like a stray cat on Thanksgiving morning.
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Speaker 1: Oh. She said this to Kate orc R.
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Speaker 2: Quote, I've done my best to stay private, to focus
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Speaker 2: on my children and healing what she's healing from her
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Speaker 2: own hoax, healing from the.
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Speaker 1: Events that transpired.
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Speaker 2: She makes it sounds like something happened to her, not
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Speaker 2: that she actually did something pretty evil. Pretending you've been
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Speaker 2: kidnapped and your children having to endure the possibility you
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Speaker 2: could be dead.
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Speaker 1: For many years.
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Speaker 2: After my arrest, I was the primary caregiver of our
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Speaker 2: children before serving my time in prison. You mean, before
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Speaker 2: you played guilty. My children have always been my primary focus.
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Speaker 2: Oh was that what you were thinking about when you
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Speaker 2: pretend I need to be kidnapped, slung up with your
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Speaker 2: old boyfriend? What ordering pizza, watching movies? I guess at
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Speaker 2: that point from Blockbuster. Peppini wants to be able to
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Speaker 2: see her children again. After an eight year saga that
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Speaker 2: got worldwide press attention. There was even a Hulu documentary
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Speaker 2: the ex Keith Peppini is fighting to shelter the children
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Speaker 2: from their mother. Why is he so hell bent on
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Speaker 2: sheltering his children?
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Speaker 1: This is why?
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Speaker 3: Hello, can I help you?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? So I just call home from work and my
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Speaker 4: wife wasn't there, which is unusual, and my kids should
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Speaker 4: have been there by now from like daycare. So I
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Speaker 4: was like, oh, maybe she went on a walk, I
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Speaker 4: couldn't find her, so I called the daycare to see
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Speaker 4: what times she picked up the kids. The kids were
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Speaker 4: never picked up, so I got freaked out. So I
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Speaker 4: hit like to find my phone app thing and it
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Speaker 4: said that her. It showed her phone like at our
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Speaker 4: end of our driveway. Wen I'm really good service. Okay,
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Speaker 4: not the end of our in our street, but just
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Speaker 4: drove downer and I saw her phone with her headphones
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Speaker 4: because she started running again, and it's town her phone.
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Speaker 4: It's got like hair ripped out of it, like in
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Speaker 4: the headphones. So I'm like totally freaking out, thinking like
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Speaker 4: somebody like, what's her?
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Speaker 5: Grab her?
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Speaker 1: Thanking, someone grabbed her?
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Speaker 2: Now take a listen to our cut one from Channel
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Speaker 2: seven kr c R.
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Speaker 6: Keith Pappini came home last Wednesday and his wife, Sherry Pappini,
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Speaker 6: was nowhere to be found.
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Speaker 7: In normal days, I would open the door and my
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Speaker 7: families comes and runs and gives me a hug.
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Speaker 6: But there were no welcoming hugs. So he searched in
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Speaker 6: the house and their property, but learned the children were
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Speaker 6: still at daycare. He found Sherry's phone down the street.
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Speaker 7: That's when I knew she'd been, in my opinion, taken
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Speaker 7: or abducted.
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Speaker 6: Now days later, family, friends, the community, and law enforcement
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Speaker 6: are still looking for Sherry.
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Speaker 7: It's the worst thing in the world. It's the worst
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Speaker 7: thing ever.
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Speaker 6: Time going by slowly and they're children don't know their
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Speaker 6: mother is missing.
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Speaker 1: It's hard waiting.
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Speaker 8: You know, you're waiting.
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Speaker 7: You're waiting for a phone call, You're waiting for something
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Speaker 7: to tell us. You know, this is the direction, or
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Speaker 7: this is the house, or this is the car, and
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Speaker 7: that is that is very difficult right now.
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Speaker 6: But Keith is determined to find her.
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Speaker 7: If she's listening, I wanted to say that we're trying
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Speaker 7: the best we can and I'm so sorry that I'm
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Speaker 7: not there.
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Speaker 6: The family believes she was abducted and has this message.
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Speaker 1: Bring her home, Bring her home, just bring her home.
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Speaker 2: We all know that Peppinie was on a very tight
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Speaker 2: schedule that she never missed picking up her children. Take
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Speaker 2: listen to her sister in law, Sherry Peppini are cut five.
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Speaker 9: There's no way she would do anything to disrupt her
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Speaker 9: children's routine, you know, the being that the phone was
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Speaker 9: found and she wasn't on her routine there, Yeah, there's
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Speaker 9: no way she wouldn't have gone and picked up the children.
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Speaker 9: They're on a very they're on a very tight schedule,
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Speaker 9: and she's extremely close with them. She's here with them
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Speaker 9: every day, gardening and doing projects, and there's just no
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Speaker 9: way that.
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Speaker 7: She would take off.
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Speaker 1: It's terrible.
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Speaker 9: She's an incredible human being, best mom I've ever seen.
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Speaker 2: You're hearing the sister in law, Suzanne Peppini speaking.
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Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation
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Speaker 2: in series XEM one eleven. Sherry Peppini a name that
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Speaker 2: echoes and echoes and echoes. She's been in the news
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Speaker 2: so much. With me an all star panel to make
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Speaker 2: sense of what we know right now. Matthew Mangino, former prosecutor,
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Speaker 2: highly respected attorney, author of The Executioners Toll, Doctor Angela Arnold, psychiatrist,
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Speaker 2: joining us out of the Atlanta jurisdiction at Angela Arnold,
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Speaker 2: MD dot com. Mona Kay private investigator at Mona Ka Investigations,
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Speaker 2: joining us out of Omaha. Emmy Award winning investigative reporter
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Speaker 2: Christy Massurich and special guests joining us. Sheriff Michael Johnson
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Speaker 2: from the Shasta Counties Sheriff's Office to Sheriff Michael Johnson,
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Speaker 2: this case has been hanging around the Sheriff's office neck
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Speaker 2: an albatross, so to speak. Sheriff Michael Johnson familiar with
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Speaker 2: the extensive search for Sherry Peppini. Take a listen to
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Speaker 2: the Shasta County Sheriff presser.
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Speaker 10: The deputies last night when they responded, they conducted a
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Speaker 10: search of the area and canvas area with local neighbors
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Speaker 10: and residents there and they worked throughout the night and
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Speaker 10: into the early morning hours along with Shasta County Sheriff
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Speaker 10: investigators as well. They were also able to utilize the
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Speaker 10: Reach helicopter as the HP Air Operations helicopter was not available,
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Speaker 10: and they Reached helicopter.
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Speaker 11: Came out and illuminated the area.
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Speaker 10: And checked to the fields in the side of the
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Speaker 10: roads for her and assisting us in the search operations
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Speaker 10: last night. They also used for search canines for scent work.
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Speaker 10: Local area hospitals were checked and of course the sides
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Speaker 10: of the roadways were checked as well. Ms Peppini has
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Speaker 10: been entered into a national computer for missing persons. She
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Speaker 10: is considered at risk due to the suspicious circumstances.
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Speaker 2: To Sheriff Michael Johnson joining us in Shasta County Sheriff's Office.
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Speaker 2: It's a real honor and privilege to have you with us, Sheriff.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for taking time away from your extremely busy
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Speaker 2: schedule to be with us, Sheriff. You guys went all
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Speaker 2: out and your search for Sherry Peppini.
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Speaker 1: Explain what your search entailed.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Nancy, there was three really different parts to this investigation,
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Speaker 5: and when you're talking about the search, that's really like
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Speaker 5: what we call the phase one of the investigation. She
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Speaker 5: went missing and immediately you heard there was several different
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Speaker 5: resources deployed to find her. The location of Cherry Peppini
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Speaker 5: was absolutely the first phase where we just want to
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Speaker 5: Time's never on your side when somebody goes missing. So
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Speaker 5: the sooner you can locate them or get a lead
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Speaker 5: on locating them, the better chances you are recovering that
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Speaker 5: personal live. So there was allied agencies asked to lend
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Speaker 5: us resources and most of those resources were in personnel.
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Speaker 5: As you heard, we had dogs, we had helicopters, we
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Speaker 5: had everything, an all out search in the community. The
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Speaker 5: community even joined in, you know, printing flyers and volunteer
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Speaker 5: people coming out and looking for her. It was an
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Speaker 5: all out effort to find Cherry at the beginning.
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Speaker 2: I remember exactly how this whole thing went down, and
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Speaker 2: the Sheriff's office and other agencies spared no resources trying
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Speaker 2: to find Cherry Pepinie. And what I hear about the
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Speaker 2: helicopter on my people have never seen it in real life,
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Speaker 2: but you've seen in the movies the helicopter flying close
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Speaker 2: to the ground overhead, which you know, helicopters can be
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Speaker 2: a pretty risky mode of transportation, but if you've got
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Speaker 2: to do it, you got to do it. But in
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Speaker 2: a suburban area, looking for her, flying over phone wires
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Speaker 2: and cell phone towers, looking for her at night with
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Speaker 2: a light shining down.
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Speaker 1: Describe how that works, Sheriff.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's you know, they have infrared technology. They have
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Speaker 5: a lot of different high end technology that goes into this,
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Speaker 5: not just in the helicopter, but on the ground as well.
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Speaker 5: There's efforts, there's people where a night vision, there's everything,
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Speaker 5: all all expense paid to locate this woman. And that's
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Speaker 5: one of the keys here, Nancy, is when you talk
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Speaker 5: about the exhausting efforts of all the agencies into this
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Speaker 5: initial search and throughout this investigation and the resources and
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Speaker 5: time and money spent on this all to find out
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Speaker 5: in the end that it's a fraud. It's very frustrating
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Speaker 5: and one thing I should tell you also to remember
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Speaker 5: that during the time Sherry Peppini went missing, I was
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Speaker 5: actually the neighboring police chief at the time, I was
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Speaker 5: not the sheriff, so I was lending resources from my
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Speaker 5: department to the sheriff's office in the attempt to find charity.
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Speaker 5: So everybody was.
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Speaker 2: Involved, and now to find out it's nothing but a
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Speaker 2: big fat lie.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this.
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Speaker 2: Woman knows no bounds in her lies. Take a listen
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Speaker 2: to our cut eight. Allison Sutton, a motorist who spots
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Speaker 2: the missing mom on the.
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Speaker 1: Side of the road.
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Speaker 12: I saw a blonde woman standing in like that V
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Speaker 12: shaped area that gets created between the right shoulder and
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Speaker 12: the left side of an off ramp. But I wasn't
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Speaker 12: quite sure where I was.
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Speaker 1: When I saw her.
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Speaker 12: I just caught a glimpse of her. The area where
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Speaker 12: she was is not well lit, so I didn't actually
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Speaker 12: see her until I was right up on her, which
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Speaker 12: really startled me, and it kind of took me a
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Speaker 12: few minutes to figure out what I'd seen.
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Speaker 1: And I went a couple.
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Speaker 12: Miles up the road to figure out where until I
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Speaker 12: saw a road sign so I knew where I was,
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Speaker 12: and then I pulled off onto the shoulder and I
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Speaker 12: called nine one one.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever done that? You've driven by something and
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Speaker 1: you went whoa, whoa, whoa? What was that?
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Speaker 2: That's what Alison Sutton is telling our friend Craig Melvin.
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Speaker 1: Take a listener, cut nine.
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Speaker 12: I saw her very very quickly. Her face looked. I
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Speaker 12: thought her face was dirty, but based on what I
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Speaker 12: know now, I'm guessing that what I thought was dirt
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Speaker 12: on her face was the bruises. But it was it
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Speaker 12: was very very dark. I did not notice restraints. It
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Speaker 12: just it was so dark. I barely barely saw her.
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Speaker 12: And like I said, it was a flash because that
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Speaker 12: area is so dark and it was four thirty in
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Speaker 12: the morning.
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Speaker 11: Called you didn't go back after that?
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Speaker 1: I did not know.
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Speaker 12: I had my fourteen year old daughter in the car
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Speaker 12: with me, and we talked about going back, but the
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Speaker 12: nine to one one operator had me feeling confident that
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Speaker 12: law enforcement would take care of the person that I saw.
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 2: Think back, it was In November, Sheery Peppini left her
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Speaker 2: home for a jog and never came back for twenty
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Speaker 2: two days. Her family went through hell. She reappeared beaten,
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Speaker 2: tied up with a brand on her shoulder, one hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty miles away from home, claiming she was kidnapped
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Speaker 2: a gunpoint by two female Hispanics. Yeah, what if somebody
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Speaker 2: had been arrested based on her big fat lie. Finally,
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Speaker 2: she was linked to her ex boyfriend through DNA evidence.
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Speaker 1: He came clean.
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Speaker 2: Her husband, Keith Peppini, rightfully filed for divorce and custody immediately.
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Speaker 2: Later that year, she accepted a plea deal admitted to
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Speaker 2: what she had done. She managed to plead to only
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Speaker 2: one count of mail fraud and to one count of
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Speaker 2: lawn to le law enforcement. And now she wants the
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Speaker 2: children that husband is fighting this tooth and nail. You
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Speaker 2: want to know why, take a listen to.
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Speaker 1: Hour cut sixth the Shasta County Sheriff pressor.
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Speaker 13: We are very estatic to report that Cherry Pepinie has
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Speaker 13: been located and has been reunited.
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Speaker 11: With her husband and family. On this day of Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 13: I'm happy to say that Sherry is now safe and
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Speaker 13: She has been treated at a area.
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Speaker 11: Hospital outside of Shasta County and for non life threatening injuries.
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Speaker 11: At about four point.
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Speaker 13: Thirty this morning, Chascuty Sheriff's office was notified that Cherry.
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Speaker 11: Peppini had been located. We learned that she was released
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Speaker 11: by her cap on a rural road from near High
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Speaker 11: five in Yolo County.
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Speaker 13: She was bound with restraints but was able to summon
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Speaker 13: from a passing help from a passing motorist on I
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Speaker 13: five near County Road seventeen, again in northern Yolo County.
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Speaker 2: Peppini admits it's all a big lie to Christie, Missouri
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Speaker 2: joining US Emmy Award winning investigative reporter. Do you remember
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Speaker 2: everybody looking for Sherry Peppini, The grid surges, the neighbors
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Speaker 2: in fear, no woman would go for a walk by yourself,
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Speaker 2: on and on, and it was all a big lie.
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Speaker 1: Christy Massurich.
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Speaker 14: It was the safe scene around the world. On billboards signs,
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Speaker 14: people were donating to go fund me so to pay
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Speaker 14: for neighborhood searches. And now, unfortunately people are having to
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Speaker 14: deal with the grim fact that this woman has now
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Speaker 14: been deemed a master manipulator.
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Speaker 2: I mean, whoa take a list in our cut eight.
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Speaker 2: Take this as Susie Suscbsla.
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Speaker 15: After years of sticking to her story that she was
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Speaker 15: abducted by two women, Sherry Peppini is reportedly ready now
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Speaker 15: to come clean and admit that she faked it all.
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Speaker 15: Cherry Peppini vanished from her reading home in twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 15: Weeks later, she was found wandering along the five Freeway,
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Speaker 15: bruised and branded. Now. At that time, she told police
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Speaker 15: two women had kidnapped and tortured her, But last month,
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Speaker 15: prosecutors charged her with making it all up. They say
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Speaker 15: instead of being abducted, she was actually hiding out with
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Speaker 15: an ex boyfriend in Costa Mesa. And now Peppini has
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Speaker 15: reached a deal with prosecutors and will admit that she
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Speaker 15: planned the entire hoax. Her lawyer says Peppini signed a
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Speaker 15: plea deal with federal prosecutors. Today she will plead guilty
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Speaker 15: to lying to a federal officer and to mail fraud.
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Speaker 2: You know what.
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Speaker 1: Joining me, Sheriff Michael Johnson.
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Speaker 2: It was the Shasta County Sheriff's office and your then
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Speaker 2: jurisdiction and so many others that joined together. There is
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Speaker 2: no way to count the man hours spent on finding
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Speaker 2: this spoiled brat mom of two that goes missing on
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Speaker 2: her stay at home day.
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Speaker 1: Both of her kids are in daycare. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what she's doing all day long.
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Speaker 2: She's obviously fabricating a crime in her pink jogging suit.
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Speaker 2: I wonder if she had her hair blow dry before
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Speaker 2: she took off. But long story short, to go shack
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Speaker 2: up with her ex boyfriend for weeks on end, starve herself,
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Speaker 2: beat herself, cut all our hair off.
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Speaker 1: I'm so mad at you. Anl and a half sheriff.
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Speaker 5: Doesn't tell them much like a supermom to me, does
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Speaker 5: it to you?
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Speaker 1: Oh no it doesn't, No, it doesn't.
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Speaker 12: I mean.
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Speaker 1: There are plenty of times moms feel tired. They don't want.
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Speaker 2: To clean the guinea pig cage, or cook dinner or
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Speaker 2: go to work.
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Speaker 1: They're exhausted.
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Speaker 2: But hiding in your ex boyfriend's apartment for several weeks
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Speaker 2: leading up to Thanksgiving, having your entire family and abject
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Speaker 2: fear that you're dead, I mean, and what it did
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Speaker 2: to the sheriffs and the local police out in a
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Speaker 2: helicopter at night. Is set at home with their own
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Speaker 2: families or solving real crimes sheriff with real victims that
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Speaker 2: are suffering.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you've hit all the points. It's frustrating to
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Speaker 5: us that, you know, at some point we created a code,
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Speaker 5: a finance code to start tracking our resources that we
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Speaker 5: had into this investigation. And it wasn't till well into
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Speaker 5: this investigation that that was done, and it got up
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Speaker 5: to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for us, just
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Speaker 5: as our agency. By the time this thing concluded, I'm
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Speaker 5: sure we had well more than that into the investigation.
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Speaker 5: And that's not even counting all the other agencies. And
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Speaker 5: that is the frustration, Nasty is who we put all
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Speaker 5: these this effort into Sherry Peppini and trying to recover
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Speaker 5: her and do it well bratt and chasing down false
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Speaker 5: suspects and oh yeah, what if.
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Speaker 2: You had actually made an arrest? She tried to blame
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Speaker 2: it on what too hispanic females.
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Speaker 5: Yes, she sure did. And you know what, in the
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Speaker 5: meantime all this is going on, we have other legitimate
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Speaker 5: cases that are not getting the attention that they should,
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Speaker 5: are being kind of pushed to the side because the
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Speaker 5: ex agency of this circumstance are so we thought.
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Speaker 2: Reminds me of Jesse Smollett, the big race faker and
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Speaker 2: his face hate crime. At least we knew he was alive, Okay,
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Speaker 2: we didn't have to worry that he was dead and
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Speaker 2: that his children would be left without a father to
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Speaker 2: raise them. I mean, here's another thing. It's not just
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Speaker 2: the money Mona CA joining me private investigator or Mona
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Speaker 2: Q investigation inside of Omaha Mona when used or at
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Speaker 2: least me, but I would work a case in the
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Speaker 2: District Attorney's office.
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Speaker 1: I worked it.
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Speaker 2: I worked it hard, out on the street till one
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Speaker 2: two o'clock in the morning, up at five o'clock with
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Speaker 2: my investigator, trying to find witnesses in court at eight o'clock,
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Speaker 2: trying to get my evidence lined up so there would
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Speaker 2: not be any glitch in front of the jury, riding
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Speaker 2: out my direct and cross examinations, my closings, my openings,
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Speaker 2: getting the law to make sure my evidence got in
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Speaker 2: and to keep.
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Speaker 1: Their evidence out, anything I could do to further justice.
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Speaker 2: There was no rest, there were no dinners out nothing.
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Speaker 2: It was proved the cave. Investigate the case, and by
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Speaker 2: the time you're in it, you're so emotionally attached to it,
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Speaker 2: that anything other than a resolution is a personal sale.
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Speaker 1: I mean that's how I looked at my cases. They
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Speaker 1: were like my children at the time, very attached to
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Speaker 1: finding the truth.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true.
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Speaker 3: I mean you become very invested in the case that
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Speaker 3: you work, the people you work for, you know, her family,
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Speaker 3: the community. But you work endlessly and tirelessly day and night,
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Speaker 3: trying to track down leads, trying to find witnesses, locate people,
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Speaker 3: you know, walking through the you know, the ditches the area,
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Speaker 3: just looking for any signs.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and it's exhausting, Monaque and to you, Sheriff Michael Johnson,
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Speaker 2: joining us, the Chassa County sheriff, the elected sheriff, you know, sheriff.
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Speaker 2: It's not like on TV and movies or in one
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Speaker 2: saying you're covered in dirt and sweat, blood, the next
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Speaker 2: one you're like lounging in a hot tub.
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Speaker 1: It's not like that. You go days, weeks, months working
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Speaker 1: a case.
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Speaker 2: I've had cases where I had to go to crackhouses
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Speaker 2: with a bunch of crack addicts in there, got a
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Speaker 2: shotgun pulled on me and somebody's front porch. Exhaustive hours
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Speaker 2: digging through glass shards and syringes to try to find
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Speaker 2: a projectile from a shotgun. I mean, I can't even
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Speaker 2: tell you what criminal investigators, lawyers, and sheriffs like yourself
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Speaker 2: go through to make a case and to think the
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Speaker 2: whole time, Sherry Peppenia is propped up on the sofa
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Speaker 2: at her ex boyfriend's house watching what Mary Povich.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't get it what she put you
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Speaker 1: guys through and her own family is it's I don't
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Speaker 1: get it, Sheriff. Why am I the only one angry here?
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Speaker 5: You're not? I do feel I do feel sorry for
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Speaker 5: her unsuspecting family, because she did do her family as well.
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Speaker 5: But when you talk about this woman had a very
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Speaker 5: elaborate deception scheme. Going to we been talking about the investigation,
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Speaker 5: our investigators had to chase down so many leads and
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Speaker 5: vet out so many facts across state lines at times
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Speaker 5: because she had put all these other stories and misdirections
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Speaker 5: into place. That that's why it took so much time
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Speaker 5: in this investigation. We didn't want to falsely accuse anybody,
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Speaker 5: but as we started to unhold the mistruth to this
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Speaker 5: and her deception, we had to make sure that we
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Speaker 5: vetted out every single lead, and everything you're talking about
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Speaker 5: is right. It's exhausting, long.
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Speaker 1: Hours, mentally exhausting.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Do you know how many times that I would comment
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Speaker 2: and send out please help find Sherry Peppini and I'd
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Speaker 2: read the facts. I still got pages and pages and
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Speaker 2: pages of notes and analysis, and so much of it
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Speaker 2: did not fit together from me. For instance, the fact
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Speaker 2: that her cell phone was sitting there and the earbuds
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Speaker 2: were neatly folded up and just sitting on top of
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Speaker 2: her phone, and I think the phone may have been
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Speaker 2: found on top of a mailbox or somewhere very it
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Speaker 2: was like thrown into the bushes. I had so many
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Speaker 2: problems with her story, But then Sheriff, I kept thinking, well,
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Speaker 2: I mean, would she goes so far to beat herself
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Speaker 2: and starve herself, break her own nose, brand herself. Didn't
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Speaker 2: she brand herself, chop off all her hair? Was she branded?
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Speaker 1: Sheriff? Yes, she was, Oh dear Lord in Heaven.
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Speaker 2: With what It's never been told what she was branded?
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Speaker 2: What were the letters?
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Speaker 1: What did it say?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I was acurrence. It was a religious saying, and
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Speaker 5: I don't really recall exactly.
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Speaker 1: What religious saying. Yeah, yes, Oh, you know this.
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Speaker 2: Is straight Matthew Mangino, former District Attorney Lawrence County now
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Speaker 2: high profile lawyer, former member of the parole board, which
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Speaker 2: I don't like one bit that you paroled people and
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Speaker 2: author of the executioners told me and Gino it's straight
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Speaker 2: out of like a fifth grade girl's novel. Being abducted
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Speaker 2: and branded in your hair, chopped off a blah blah blah.
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Speaker 2: It sounded heinkey at the beginning, but I would not
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Speaker 2: come out and say it because the woman had a
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Speaker 2: broken nose, she was starved, she had cut off all
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Speaker 2: her hair, she was covered with bruises, even branded, and
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Speaker 2: I thought, okay, the facts are off, But.
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Speaker 1: Which she actually brand herself?
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Speaker 2: Would you go through all that break her own nose
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Speaker 2: and that was the other side to a.
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Speaker 5: Scale, Well, yeah, that's extraordinary.
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Speaker 16: I mean, you know she, you know, she.
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Speaker 8: Went to great measures to make this hope seem real,
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Speaker 8: you know, to physically harm herself, to brand herself, to
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Speaker 8: have her nose broken, all for the attention that she
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Speaker 8: that she might get after she comes back twenty two
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Speaker 8: days later. I mean, you know, this extravagant hoax is
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Speaker 8: wrong on so many different levels.
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Speaker 16: You know, it inhibits people for money to get involved
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Speaker 16: in the future.
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Speaker 8: When someone says they're missing, it's a diversion of police efforts.
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Speaker 8: You know, it's costly to the community.
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Speaker 2: Hey, hey, Manjeno, I want to analyze something you just said.
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Speaker 2: A diversion of police efforts. You know, that's really like
26:50
Speaker 2: putting perfume on the pig. You know, it's a little
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Speaker 2: bit of a euphemism. Hey, Sheriff Michael Johnson, did you
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Speaker 2: hear that, Matthew Mangino, police efforts?
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Speaker 1: Think about it.
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Speaker 2: How many women were being raped at that moment, how
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Speaker 2: many stores or homes were being robbed or home invaded,
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Speaker 2: How many missing children were being abducted at that moment?
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Speaker 1: What other crimes were happening?
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Speaker 2: Were people domestic violence, people women getting beaten, children getting
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Speaker 2: beaten and molested. That's what was happening when Sherry Peppini
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Speaker 2: had the sheriffs up in their helicopter and doing grid
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Speaker 2: searches and putting up flyers.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what about that, Mangino?
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Speaker 7: All right?
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Speaker 16: And I agree with you, And it goes beyond that.
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Speaker 16: I mean the fear that they created in the community
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Speaker 16: that hey, you know this this young woman was abducted
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Speaker 16: and no one knows where she's at. And then when
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Speaker 16: she finally returns, there's this racist element that she creates
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Speaker 16: two gun wielding his Spanish cap for three weeks.
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Speaker 2: You know, I remember when Susan Smith killed her children
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Speaker 2: and blamed the black guy.
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Speaker 1: Blame the black man, all right.
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Speaker 2: So I was sitting in court, Jackie, with my trial partner,
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Speaker 2: who helped me a great deal turn into a judge.
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Speaker 2: By the way Herman Slim and the composite of the
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Speaker 2: fake kidnapper of the children came out of Mike Herman.
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Speaker 2: That looks a lot like you. Look at this, he went, Oh,
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Speaker 2: I said, actually, I think you were.
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Speaker 1: Born with me when a children were i'mductan, so you
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Speaker 1: know you're safe.
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Speaker 2: But what he just said, Sheriff Johnson, did you hear that,
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Speaker 2: the element of blaming the Hispanic women.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, of course. And you know what that doesn't You
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Speaker 5: got a nerve? What that does a law enforcement is
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Speaker 5: it gives us. You know, she created this, these sketches,
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Speaker 5: and so now we're contacting people and questioning people that
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Speaker 5: even resemble that falsely. You know, it's unfair.
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Speaker 2: He just gave me a flashback. Sheriff Johnson.
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Speaker 1: You know the.
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Speaker 2: Big albums of purps mugshots. I remember sitting up at
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Speaker 2: like one o'clock in the morning, I found a witness
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Speaker 2: and just going through page after page after page looking
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Speaker 2: to see if any of these people look familiar as
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Speaker 2: the killer.
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Speaker 1: It was triple homicide of my dad.
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Speaker 2: But I could just see you putting together those two
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Speaker 2: composites I remember them well, and showing them to this
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Speaker 2: person and that person. Oh it's so intensive, Sheriff Johnson.
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Speaker 1: I know it is, you know, Sheriff Johnson.
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Speaker 2: I've still got you. We heard Matthew Mangino. I think
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Speaker 2: it's a pretty good guess on his part. Two say
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Speaker 2: she did it for attention?
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Speaker 1: Did we ever figure out why she did it not?
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Speaker 5: You know, that's the one thing that I was waiting
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Speaker 5: for to come out in the trial. No, all I
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Speaker 5: can tell you is that calculated, narcisistic type of behavior
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Speaker 5: that she did displayed through this whole thing is all
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Speaker 5: self serving right up now until the end when she
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Speaker 5: enters a flee agreement. The only reason she pled in
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Speaker 5: this case is because she's trying to save herself for
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Speaker 5: selfish reasons. Again, and they put out this statement of
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Speaker 5: remorse by her, which I'm quite sure she didn't say.
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Speaker 5: It was crafted, probably by her attorney, and just don't
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Speaker 5: buy any of it. So I was hoping in the
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Speaker 5: trial we would get a better idea of why she
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Speaker 5: did it. But if I had to guess, I'd just
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Speaker 5: say it's that same typical selfish behavior.
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Speaker 2: Oh, the whole thing about Oh, I'm bored, I'm bored
30:39
Speaker 2: being a stay at home mom. You know how many
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Speaker 2: working moms that have to work would love to be
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Speaker 2: a stay at home mom because they're trying to be
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Speaker 2: the stay at home mom and do all the things
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Speaker 2: that mom does and work at the same time.
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Speaker 1: I mean it's hard.
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Speaker 17: Nancy.
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Speaker 1: Uh oh, here it comes, and she arnold. I just
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Speaker 1: did it for attention.
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Speaker 2: There's something else there, and don't Yes, there is something else.
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Speaker 2: Insane because she's not she's crazy. She's crazy like a fox.
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you that.
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Speaker 17: And she is also not a narcissist. She is a sociopath.
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Speaker 17: She is the definition of a sociopath. She knows the
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Speaker 17: difference between right and wrong, and she has no conscience.
31:26
Speaker 17: Because this is not the first bad thing that she's
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Speaker 17: done to her family. It has escalated and escalated and
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Speaker 17: now this and like you said, how selfish? And then
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Speaker 17: how could you be thinking of anyone? She's not thinking
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Speaker 17: of anyone.
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Speaker 1: And by the.
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Speaker 17: Way, typically sociopaths and narcissist are not really capable of love.
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Speaker 17: So she's got this family you know that she can
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Speaker 17: portray and of course she looks like the best mom
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Speaker 17: in the world.
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Speaker 2: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Sherry Peppini back in court.
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Speaker 2: I recall when she was confronted with evidence of her hoax. Man,
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Speaker 2: this woman can lie. Would you let your children be
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Speaker 2: with a mom like that? I'm not the church lady.
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Speaker 2: I'm not making a moral judgment. I'm talking about the
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Speaker 2: safety of children. When you don't know a horse, look
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Speaker 2: at her track record, when you don't know what's going
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Speaker 2: to happen, look at what has already happened. Do you
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Speaker 2: blame Keith Peppeni for fighting over visitation? Let me refresh
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Speaker 2: your recollection. Sheriff Michael Johns from the Shasta Counties Sheriff's
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Speaker 2: Office or.
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Speaker 1: Christy jump in if you know this.
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Speaker 2: There have been a lot of issues with her before
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Speaker 2: this is that she had kicked in her family home,
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Speaker 2: like her our original family, like mom and dad family
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Speaker 2: or thank to burglary, there have been some something in
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Speaker 2: her background that's it's like a waving a big wig
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Speaker 2: flag in front of a bull.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you can't.
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Speaker 2: Help but notice that what was it she had done
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Speaker 2: in the past, Sheriff Johnson.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't recall that one.
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Speaker 1: So I recall it.
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Speaker 5: Hey, I do?
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Speaker 14: I hate Nancy rolling back from the sheriff rolling back
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Speaker 14: from this case. She scams the ex boyfriend, telling him
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Speaker 14: that her husband is beating her and her family is
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Speaker 14: not helping her. And she weaves this narrative for almost
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Speaker 14: a year before she disappears. That's why he allows her
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Speaker 14: to hold up in his apartment.
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Speaker 2: Hey, speaking of the drama, the story she came up with,
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Speaker 2: take a listen to our cut eighteen SISSYSUCBSLA.
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Speaker 15: After years of sticking to her story that she was
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Speaker 15: abducted by two women, Sheery Peppini is reportedly ready now
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Speaker 15: to come clean and admit that she faked it all.
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Speaker 15: Chery Peppini vanished from her reading home in twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 15: Weeks later, she was found wandering along the five Freeway,
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Speaker 15: bruised and branded. Now. At that time, she told police
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Speaker 15: two women had kidnapped and tortured her, but last month
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Speaker 15: prosecutors charged her with making it all up. They say,
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Speaker 15: instead of being abducted, she was actually hiding out with
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Speaker 15: an ex boyfriend in Costa Mesa. And now Peppini has
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Speaker 15: reached a deal with prosecutors and will admit that she
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Speaker 15: planned the entire hoax. Her lawyer says Peppini signed a
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Speaker 15: plea deal with federal prosecutors today she will plead guilty
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Speaker 15: to lying to a federal officer and to mail fraud.
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Speaker 2: You know, what if you'd made an rare Sheriff Johnson,
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Speaker 2: What if you actually found a Hispanic woman, or, as
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Speaker 2: I believe she said, a two Mexican women. What if
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Speaker 2: you had actually found somebody that matched that sketch to
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Speaker 2: the point that you arrested them based on what Sherry
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Speaker 2: Peppini said, Well.
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Speaker 5: You know what had happened then, did not be in
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Speaker 5: a lawsuit for false arrest, A big.
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Speaker 1: Fat lawsuit too. I founded Sheriff lit'sten know to this.
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Speaker 2: When she was eighteen, her sister accused her of kicking
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Speaker 2: in the back door of the family schaste Lake home.
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Speaker 2: The same day, her parents, Richard and Loretta, called police
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Speaker 2: to document the incident as vandalism and claimed she had
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Speaker 2: taken off to somewhere in reading. When she was twenty one,
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Speaker 2: her parents made another call to the cops, saying she
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Speaker 2: stole money from.
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Speaker 1: The father's bank account.
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Speaker 2: Then the mother reported Sherry was harming herself and blaming
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Speaker 2: her injuries on her the mother, and the mother was
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Speaker 2: afraid that she, the mother would be get dragged into
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Speaker 2: defects Department Family Children's Services, So she called herself and went, hey, my.
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Speaker 1: Daughter is hurting herself and blaming me.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Sheriff Michael Johnson, when you don't know a horse,
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Speaker 2: look at a track record.
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Speaker 5: Yes, indeed, and all that was taken into consideration as
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Speaker 5: things started to unfold. And you know what another hard
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Speaker 5: part of this was Nancy is as we started to
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Speaker 5: unfold this lies that are being told by her, we
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Speaker 5: had to lay silent. Why we took you know, some
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Speaker 5: we took some criticism from the media, the family and
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Speaker 5: everybody else. And we were knowing that this was a lie,
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Speaker 5: and but we had to keep all I hope it
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Speaker 5: wasn't may whyet until we all the fact.
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Speaker 2: Now, I mean at the beginning, Sheriff. I find it
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Speaker 2: hard to believe I would have criticized.
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Speaker 1: You because I didn't see you at the beginning.
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Speaker 2: I know, but I always assume it's a Sheriff Johnson
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Speaker 2: because at the beginning her story stumped the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Something It just wasn't right.
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Speaker 2: The whole thing, And we thought, and then showing up
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Speaker 2: on Thanksgiving date, what now?
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Speaker 5: I said, yeah, and there was little and you hit
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Speaker 5: on a couple of them, some of the evidence. At
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Speaker 5: the front of the investigation, we were scratching our head
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Speaker 5: and not thinking thing for right as well.
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Speaker 1: But I mean, what are you gonna do?
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Speaker 2: Bad mouth a victim who's had her nose broken and
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Speaker 2: lost all that weight, chopped her hair off and branded herself.
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Speaker 1: I mean, who would have thought?
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Speaker 2: Then you've got the ex boyfriend dragged into the whole thing. Hey,
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Speaker 2: another thing, Sheriff Johnson, I agree with you. Her statement says,
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Speaker 2: you know, she didn't write this. I'm deeply ashamed from
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Speaker 2: my behavior and so sorry for the pain I caused.
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Speaker 2: I don't believe that for one minute. I don't think
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Speaker 2: she's sorry she did it. She's sorry she got caught.
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Speaker 5: Sheriff Yep, that's exactly right. That's what she's sorry about.
37:42
Speaker 5: She's sorry that she got caught.
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Speaker 2: It's like, I'm not sorry he did it, but I
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Speaker 2: sure don't want to go to hell for it. Okay, So, Christy,
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Speaker 2: Missourich the thirty thousand dollars she stole from a victim's
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Speaker 2: compensation fund to pay off her credit card.
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Speaker 14: What lovely?
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Speaker 1: Wait?
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Speaker 2: Tell me that she had thirty thousand dollars a credit
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Speaker 2: card debt and then paid it for the victims compensation fund.
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Speaker 14: Yes, and go fund be sites. Also that family and
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Speaker 14: friends had set up so when she returned back home
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Speaker 14: she had a payday. And again her story got so insane.
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Speaker 14: Her memory was hazy because her head was covered by
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Speaker 14: a pillow case. But she heard mariachi music playing. But
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Speaker 14: maybe that didn't happen because she might have been hit
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Speaker 14: by a stun gun.
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Speaker 1: Did you just say mariachi music?
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Speaker 14: I absolutely did.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Monique probably an investigator with moni Que investigations.
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Speaker 1: Omaha.
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Speaker 2: The not just stereotypes, but the harmful and hateful stereotypes.
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Speaker 2: This woman is conjuring up right now. I mean again,
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Speaker 2: It makes me think of Jesse Smilette. They star an
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Speaker 2: empire who conjures up hatred for black Americans.
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Speaker 1: Hatred for gay people and then claims.
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Speaker 2: He was attacked with bleach to make his skin white
39:04
Speaker 2: and put a noose around his neck. Some of the
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Speaker 2: most hateful things, just straight out of hell that you
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Speaker 2: could say. And now you've got this woman claimbing to
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Speaker 2: quote Mexican women abduct her, beat her, torture her, and
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Speaker 2: play mariachi music.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, I read that.
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Speaker 7: She.
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Speaker 3: I believe she said that she had to listen to
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Speaker 3: horrible mariachi or Hispanic music while she was being kidnapped
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Speaker 3: and tortured in a closet.
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Speaker 5: That was part of the torture.
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Speaker 3: Was listening to that type of music.
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Speaker 2: Well, not everyone would think that that was torture. Take
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Speaker 2: a listener. Cut twenty three. This is Lila Luciano at CBS.
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Speaker 10: Sure I described her assailants as two Hispanic female adults.
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Speaker 18: According to the FBI, she accused the women of brutally
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Speaker 18: torturing her. The hunt was on and new fears settled
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Speaker 18: in where Latinos were less than ten percent of the population.
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Speaker 5: A lot of.
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Speaker 2: People would tell me, you know, and they had to
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Speaker 2: be Spanic, and they had to be they said, Well, that
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Speaker 2: doesn't give.
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Speaker 4: Them a good name either, But so there was shame
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Speaker 4: in the community.
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Speaker 19: I guess she specifically picked out a gender and a
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Speaker 19: race to name us the suspect. So any Hispanic woman
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Speaker 19: at that time, I'm sure it's getting an eyebrow raised
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Speaker 19: and looking in there wondering, oh, where if she could
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Speaker 19: be connected or one of the suspects.
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Speaker 18: So people were being questioned and stopped and asked the
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Speaker 18: questions by law enforcement.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they were afraid to go out and together in
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Speaker 2: one car or a van, two women.
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Speaker 1: Who'd be suspicious, Yeah, to be suspicious or to.
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Speaker 2: Be stereotyped, to be insulted and take a listener twenty
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Speaker 2: Kelly Hartungu ABC.
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Speaker 20: Sherry Peppini says she's ashamed of her behavior and sorry
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Speaker 20: for the pain she caused. Just as she gets ready
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Speaker 20: to plead guilty in court, So the agencies who spent
40:50
Speaker 20: more than five years uncovering her lies, they feel some
40:53
Speaker 20: relief and closure, but also frustration because taking this plea
40:57
Speaker 20: deal means she'll likely spend months, not a year, in jail.
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Speaker 20: Shechery peppinie back in federal court to wave indictment, opening
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Speaker 20: the door to plead guilty.
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Speaker 1: In her own kidnapping hopes.
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Speaker 21: She had no other choice, because she's taught and she
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Speaker 21: knows as if this thing comes to actually goes to trial,
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Speaker 21: and we've started parading in the witnesses and all the evidence,
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Speaker 21: so we've got she's got nowhere to go.
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Speaker 11: I'm very confident we would have got a conviction.
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Speaker 19: If that went to trial.
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Speaker 20: Facing trial for thirty five felony charges and the possibility
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Speaker 20: of as many as twenty five years in jail, the
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Speaker 20: mother of two, accepting a plea deal, her recommended sentence
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Speaker 20: reduced to no more than fourteen months. Through tears in
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Speaker 20: the courtroom, Peppini dabbing her eyes with a tissue, her
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Speaker 20: attorney consoling her as she nervously answered the judges questions
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Speaker 20: to ensure she understands what happens next.
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Speaker 2: Dabbing her eyes in the courtroom. People aren't consoling her.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Sheriff Johnson is the one that needs to
41:53
Speaker 2: be consoled. And everybody that spent their time, blood, sweat
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Speaker 2: and tears trying to find Cherry Peppini.
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Speaker 1: Now she's like babbing her eyes in the court. You
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Speaker 1: know what, Just stop, Peppenie.
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Speaker 2: You've done enough, Angie Arnold, for Pete's sake, is is
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Speaker 2: this Sherry.
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Speaker 1: Pepenie's world and we're just living in it. Is it
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Speaker 1: all about her?
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Speaker 17: Well, she thinks it is, and she's creating this world
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Speaker 17: that she wants to live in. She feeds off of
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Speaker 17: this chaos, and she creates more and more chaos to
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Speaker 17: keep us all wondering, like we all are on this show,
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Speaker 17: right every I'm wondering.
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Speaker 3: This is terrible.
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Speaker 17: This is a terrible thought. I'm going to share with you.
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Speaker 1: Oh boy, go ahead, don't hold back now.
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Speaker 17: I'm wondering how much fun her and her boyfriend were
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Speaker 17: having shaving her head, giving her bruises. I mean, I wonder,
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Speaker 17: Oh my gosh, we're all going, oh my god, this
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Speaker 17: poor woman, her beautiful blonde hair was shaved and everything.
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Speaker 17: It was probably they were probably enjoying every minute of it.
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Speaker 17: They were getting some sort of ode satisfaction out of
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Speaker 17: doing this to her. On top of everything else.
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Speaker 14: The ex boyfriend went along with her tail because she
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Speaker 14: kept telling him her husband was going to do horrific
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Speaker 14: things if she went back home. And she's done this
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Speaker 14: in the past. And Nancy hate to bring up, you know,
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Speaker 14: the stereotyping, but you and I lived through Jennifer Wilbanks
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Speaker 14: the runaway bride outside of Atlanta when she went out
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Speaker 14: for a run and she was kidnapped by a Latino
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Speaker 14: man and turned up in New Mexico.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I remember it really well. Take a listen to this.
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Speaker 22: Police investigators made an afternoon visit to the lakefront home
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Speaker 22: in Georgia, where Jennifer Wilbanks is now in seclusion, last
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Speaker 22: seen publicly hiding under a blanket as she left for
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Speaker 22: New Mexico. The case of the runaway broad may now
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Speaker 22: lead to criminal charges and it did.
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Speaker 1: I remember it really well.
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Speaker 2: Christy Massa climbing that Hispanic male sex assault at her
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Speaker 2: and Winstanlye grabbed her the night before her wedding. She
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Speaker 2: was a runaway bron and she ended up cutting grass
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Speaker 2: for a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 14: At the end of it, she had absolutely no guilt
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Speaker 14: or remorse. When we were questioning her upon her return
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Speaker 14: back to Atlanta, she laughed at cameras and she basically
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Speaker 14: like this young woman Sherry thought the whole thing was
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Speaker 14: a game.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's not a game, and it was no game
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Speaker 2: for a law enforcement that literally spent blood, sweat and
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Speaker 2: tears trying to find this mom of two much less
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Speaker 2: what this whole thing did to her family.
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Speaker 14: Here is one final fact in this story. So after
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Speaker 14: this lengthy investigation and all of these lies are uncovered,
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Speaker 14: Keith Panini filed for divorce from Sherry and wants full
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Speaker 14: custody of their kids. His thought process that Sherry was
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Speaker 14: acting erratically for these past few years while telling this
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Speaker 14: sordid tale of lies to her own children about her kidnapping.
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Speaker 2: Cherry Peppinie is back in court fighting for more visitation
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Speaker 2: and cash. Says she doesn't want her ex to show
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Speaker 2: her children the Hulu docuseries about her crimes. After being
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Speaker 2: exposed for her very intricate hoax involving self inflicted bruises
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Speaker 2: and even branding her own skin, she got eighteen months
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Speaker 2: behind bars. Now recall, husband Keith Peppini divorced her and
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Speaker 2: got full custody of their two children. He said her
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Speaker 2: disturbance cause quote heartbreaking trauma for the children.
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Speaker 1: I guess it did.
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Speaker 2: He reiterated he was unaware of her scheme and even
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Speaker 2: sought help from a hostage negotiator during her disappearance. But
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Speaker 2: now Puppeni fires back, claiming her ex is quote reopening
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Speaker 2: old wounds to the detriment of their children. According to
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Speaker 2: court officials, Peppini appeared in a Shassa County court on
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Speaker 2: issues regarding visitation, child custody, and attorneys fees. While she's
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Speaker 2: battling that out in court, let's don't forget what she
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Speaker 2: put her family and everybody else through. We wait as
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Speaker 2: just as unfals.
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Speaker 1: Goodbye, friend,