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Cops Find Missing Teen's Body In Soldier's Bedroom · The conspiracy

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Hey, how you doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go busting yourself.
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  Speaker 3: This is US marine veteran Eric Banks. Moments after this
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  Speaker 3: bodycam footage, officers would find his horrifying secret stuffed inside
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  Speaker 3: his bedroom wall.
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  Speaker 1: Look in there, star laying on spot of drugging out
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  Speaker 1: where he is now?
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  Speaker 2: All right? Are you good?
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  Speaker 4: I'm flowing down.
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  Speaker 3: Eric, who is also an active officer for Baltimore p D,
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  Speaker 3: thinks he can use his experience to cover up his
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  Speaker 3: vile murder. What follows is amongst the most disturbing collections
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  Speaker 3: of criminal case files ever uploaded to YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: Stop up, buckling, you do my life?
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  Speaker 1: I don't can't stop.
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  Speaker 4: This person.
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  Speaker 5: And he also told me that Daddy may him interesting
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  Speaker 5: to go on the bathroom and cover their eyes straight.
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  Speaker 3: On July seventh, in Millersville, Maryland, two officers arrive at
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  Speaker 3: the home of Eric Banks Junior after his wife reported
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  Speaker 3: that their fifteen year old son, Jason, was potentially missing.
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  Speaker 3: The report was relatively standard for them, but the reality
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  Speaker 3: awaiting them is more horrifying than they could have imagined.
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  Speaker 6: Son I'm one was laying after.
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  Speaker 3: The officers report hearing loud bangs from the upstairs of
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  Speaker 3: the home. However, nobody comes to answer the door. After
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  Speaker 3: multiple minutes of waiting and out of breath, Eric finally
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  Speaker 3: greets the officers.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, how you doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go busting yourself. I know that.
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  Speaker 7: Uh at a quarter one, I'm out with them.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on today?
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  Speaker 5: Man?
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  Speaker 2: You will be serving this particular spendi to be serving
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  Speaker 2: on you or on post this. Okay, the judge just
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  Speaker 2: order us to stand away from each other. Okay, so now,
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  Speaker 2: but he.
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  Speaker 7: Said, we all have some sort of like cord order
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  Speaker 7: green that on custody or something wrong.
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  Speaker 2: It's my oldest I know. He ran out the back
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  Speaker 2: door somewhere all this stuffed out the back door. He
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  Speaker 2: ran out, what's going on? Bus? I know you get
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  Speaker 2: each I know you're getting tired of seeing us. Where's
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  Speaker 2: dhow she called him, and he went out the back
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  Speaker 2: doors out here.
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  Speaker 1: No, you want to me just let's know you're being
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  Speaker 1: an audience.
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  Speaker 2: I know. Let's see how I got the body can Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: She said. He was like, you have a phone I
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  Speaker 2: took I took my phones back.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, so all the phones are on my plan,
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  Speaker 8: separating everything, and you have no idea where if you
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  Speaker 8: just let a fifteen year old walk out of your
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  Speaker 8: house with all his.
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  Speaker 2: Backspack, no his bags at the back door. I would.
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  Speaker 2: I literally told him, wait for your mom to get here.
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  Speaker 8: She's supposed to police, supposed to come here to serve
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  Speaker 8: for her piece of tech card.
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  Speaker 2: The judge told her to call you guys before she
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  Speaker 2: comes to you. I'm not trying to get him to
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  Speaker 2: I understand.
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  Speaker 3: Eric and his wife Laterrece, had both individually filed a
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  Speaker 3: protective order against each other, making it illegal to speak
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  Speaker 3: to one another without a police escort. However, since Eric
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  Speaker 3: is not the biological father of Dayson, Latre's had custodial
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  Speaker 3: rights to him, which is why he was packing his
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  Speaker 3: belongings as he and LaTrece were preparing to leave the residents.
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  Speaker 3: Dayson's disappearance on the very day he and his mom
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  Speaker 3: were supposed to move out makes the situation even more unusual.
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  Speaker 3: So officers continue speaking with Eric, hoping to understand the
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  Speaker 3: family dynamic and gather any clues that might point to
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  Speaker 3: where Dayson is. But what Eric says next only raises
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  Speaker 3: their suspicions even further.
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  Speaker 8: So, she's supposed to called you to come meet, You'll
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  Speaker 8: have no idea where DJ is ousy.
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  Speaker 2: Bro, No, I like it with no phone, or you
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  Speaker 2: could check the eighty T he shows what he ran
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  Speaker 2: out the door. I believe you, but I mean.
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  Speaker 8: I'm like, I'm not gonna fight. I'm not gonna listen.
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  Speaker 8: It's a fifteen year old boy having a phone. Probably
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  Speaker 8: would have been if he's walking out of the house,
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  Speaker 8: probably would have been a good idea to leave him with.
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  Speaker 2: And you can work out those kings later. See this. Agree,
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  Speaker 2: this is getting messy, man.
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  Speaker 8: I tried to tell him, I say, sit here, wait
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  Speaker 8: for your mom to get you. I went upstairs. Before
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  Speaker 8: I could come outstairs, he's already going out the back door.
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  Speaker 8: So I guess she conated because she's somewhere in area.
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  Speaker 8: I'm Presumedah, so she pretty coo much cornated with him
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  Speaker 8: to come out here. Okay, all right, hiky, all right,
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  Speaker 8: all right.
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  Speaker 3: Sitting beside Eric are his two sons, five year old
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  Speaker 3: Evan Banks and three year old Tristan Banks. Officers didn't
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  Speaker 3: know it at the time, but these two would play
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  Speaker 3: a pivotal role in uncovering the horrifying scene that just
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  Speaker 3: happened inside their home. But for now, Officer Sutton goes
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  Speaker 3: back to his patrol vehicle to run a registration. He
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  Speaker 3: identifies the suspect as thirty four year old Eric Banks, Junior,
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  Speaker 3: an officer for the Baltimore Police Department. He's been an
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  Speaker 3: active officer since twenty eighteen and also carries ten years
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  Speaker 3: of service in the United States Marine Corps. After speaking
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  Speaker 3: with neighbors of Eric, who provided minimal additional information, officers
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  Speaker 3: would confront Eric once again, this time sternly to figure
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  Speaker 3: out what was going on. It's here that Eric would
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  Speaker 3: explain his alibi, one he had come up with just
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  Speaker 3: minutes ago.
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  Speaker 8: You don't know about the whole situation. His mom, that's
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  Speaker 8: that's that's just what I'm trying to tell you. Do
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  Speaker 8: you just me and him sit at the table. He
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  Speaker 8: cried to me yesterday. He said he don't want to
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  Speaker 8: he don't want this separation. She was like, you know
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  Speaker 8: what we separated for. He say he's tired of it.
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  Speaker 8: Decided to feel like he has the two sides. He's fifties,
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  Speaker 8: a teen, he knows where he don't want to be,
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  Speaker 8: and he's like, I don't want to be in separate.
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  Speaker 2: Home from that. And we said that.
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  Speaker 8: I said, DJ, it's it's nothing really we could do.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not gonna change you. I love you, care for you.
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  Speaker 8: We we had a.
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  Speaker 2: Whole deep cart to her conversation. Today we went to court.
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  Speaker 2: The judge awarded him and I called him.
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  Speaker 8: I said, DJ, I guess your mom told the judge
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  Speaker 8: you wanted.
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  Speaker 2: To go with her and you're going everywhere. He's like, what,
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 8: I was like, well, start packing your bags because you're
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  Speaker 8: going with Arab zone with your mom is Unfortunately, I
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  Speaker 8: guess you're not gonna lift here. And that's that was
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  Speaker 8: just that she called him. They had a conversation. I said,
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  Speaker 8: your mom said she only way to come pick you up.
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  Speaker 8: He said yeah, but she's supposed to come here. I said, well,
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  Speaker 8: we're gonna wait because before she come here and in
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  Speaker 8: some type of alification, there needs.
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  Speaker 2: To be cool.
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  Speaker 8: He's here, they can escort hers, grab and go box
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  Speaker 8: his piece.
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  Speaker 2: Next thing you know, I went upstairs, I come out.
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  Speaker 8: So do you think he did he leave.
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  Speaker 2: Here because he didn't want to go with his mom either.
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  Speaker 2: That could be. You could be like, hi, now at
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  Speaker 2: a friend's house. I mean, yes, that's a great, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it might be. I think that's what that probably is
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  Speaker 2: the best because if he told her that.
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  Speaker 8: I have food for you, okay, Yeah, so it sounds
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  Speaker 8: like he wanted to go be his mom.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, just put the bags inside for now,
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  Speaker 1: and okay, traffic out.
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  Speaker 3: Ali Brother officers would spend another fifteen minutes canvassing the
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  Speaker 3: area in hopes of finding Dayson, but would again come
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  Speaker 3: up clueless, so they decide to try calling Dayson's mother Latrees,
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  Speaker 3: but are unable to get a hold of her either.
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  Speaker 3: So in a desperate attempt to find a relevant lead,
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  Speaker 3: they decide to ask Eric if he'd voluntarily consent to
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  Speaker 3: a search inside the home, hoping Dayson may be hiding inside.
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  Speaker 3: No one expected that this simple request would soon alter
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  Speaker 3: both there and Eric's lives forever.
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  Speaker 6: I want to make sure he's not.
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  Speaker 1: I'll do it with you, that's what he Hey, Buck,
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  Speaker 1: all right, that's too long.
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  Speaker 2: The one with the right.
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  Speaker 6: This is the kid's room, he j this is my remains.
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  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, he's told an officer.
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  Speaker 3: Adam's report of the incident, he notes that at this
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  Speaker 3: point in their home search, Eric's demeanor had changed. He
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  Speaker 3: advised Eric to relax and let them freely search the home.
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  Speaker 3: They proceed to make their way to the third floor
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  Speaker 3: of the home with the floor which stores Eric's chilling
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  Speaker 2: Hi, yes, I'll see this up?
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  Speaker 4: Is it alla down?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 2: This is where my so? This is where?
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  Speaker 4: Getting a little way on your thought?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: I do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Back, okay?
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  Speaker 6: In my damn onion?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Hid inside the hole in Eric's bedroom lies station's deceased body,
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  Speaker 3: already cold to the touch. Eric forgot to fully close
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  Speaker 3: the hole before meeting with the officers. The gruesome discovery
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  Speaker 3: would leave the two officers and shock. They try to
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  Speaker 3: keep their composure while transporting Eric to a patrol vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: What's up?
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  Speaker 6: They came right up?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 4: Were I have one? D jake? My pig head?
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  Speaker 2: What does that? What happened?
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  Speaker 6: Let's go to the car, right, Let's go in.
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  Speaker 9: Both any one kind of problem?
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  Speaker 1: Alright?
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  Speaker 10: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: And held, par let me have one thing anyway?
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  Speaker 4: I agree?
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  Speaker 6: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Just park Well.
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  Speaker 3: Eric is being detained. Officer Voss attempts life saving measures
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  Speaker 3: on dayson, noting that his condition appeared consistent with an
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  Speaker 3: unresponsive individual. He also notes that Dayson was shirtless and
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  Speaker 3: that his jeans were heavily soaked with moisture from an
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  Speaker 3: unknown source outside the home. Eric is temporarily placed in
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  Speaker 3: the patrol vehicle, but within moments the situation begins to
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  Speaker 3: spiral out of the officer's control.
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  Speaker 2: And stay seated.
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  Speaker 6: I need to stay okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: I want the uh ohry ahead. I just guess my
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  Speaker 2: boys are goodness. Something in the car? Alright, listen, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I got you, Bro? Does kiss day in the car?
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  Speaker 2: Does someone kiss staying in the car. I'm just staying
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  Speaker 2: like some ky this some keep my boy?
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  Speaker 9: Bro?
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'm coming to call going I'm going away.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going on. I'm not going along faster. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going on. That's just listen.
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  Speaker 7: Listen, just standing there, turning around. Don't don't do anything.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not Stay in the car. Stay in the car,
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  Speaker 7: stay up.
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  Speaker 4: I guess I.
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  Speaker 1: Can't all right, No, get back in okay, bro, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not boring you do. I just want to kiss my
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  Speaker 1: boy brom go. Does some kids not getting back.
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  Speaker 2: In the car? Come on?
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  Speaker 1: Coome on.
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  Speaker 2: The mom is park at the corner of no cop okay,
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  Speaker 2: staying there, You're not coming out no matter what.
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  Speaker 9: Bro.
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  Speaker 3: Without additional units on scene, Officer Sutton struggles to keep
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  Speaker 3: Eric restrained. Sutton attempts to secure Eric's handcuffs using a
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  Speaker 3: double lock, a mechanism that prevents cuffs from tightening or
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  Speaker 3: being manipulated. However, Eric uses his police experience to exploit this,
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  Speaker 3: and while his previous attempts at evasion have failed, he'd
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  Speaker 3: make one more final, far more violent attempt to get away.
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  Speaker 2: Just do my life away? Just stop?
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I just do my LifeWay? Bro? Where you stop? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Stop, I'm buckling.
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  Speaker 2: What do you do my life away?
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  Speaker 11: Though?
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  Speaker 2: I don't care? Thanks, listen stopoke stop?
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  Speaker 12: What do you do?
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  Speaker 2: So? Get back a car?
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  Speaker 1: Just choke me.
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  Speaker 2: Just fop Tom.
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  Speaker 1: Why can you come back out here?
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  Speaker 2: Please?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're talking.
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  Speaker 1: Grab a cut.
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  Speaker 2: Shop, Get in the car, Get in the car.
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  Speaker 8: Hell there, Turn him out, turn them out, turn them out,
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  Speaker 8: curn him out.
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  Speaker 2: I want to around them upright, r okay? Three? Going out.
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  Speaker 1: Where I can't die, just can't on my wrists and
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  Speaker 1: I'm paying.
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  Speaker 2: On up Yeah, and I got in a shot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I have my hands going.
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  Speaker 7: Up all right, turn them what I got home.
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  Speaker 2: Man, hold on, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Told you, brother, no, all right, hey, where you're stay here?
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  Speaker 2: I am turning here, but I'm called them both. I'm
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  Speaker 2: over your lates, all right.
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  Speaker 7: I mean think you keep trying to listen, You're wait
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  Speaker 7: going around that it's gonna make it worse.
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  Speaker 1: I know, all right, Well I want you, We're done
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  Speaker 1: you though we're not here.
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  Speaker 2: I want him another day. Don't have to think we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna take you half Ay, all right, well, let's it's
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  Speaker 2: not wrestle anymore.
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  Speaker 8: It's a kind of ship today.
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  Speaker 2: I know he's slipping out, sliding. Can we be done?
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  Speaker 4: I want to be.
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  Speaker 2: I need to wrestle on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Is that hopeing?
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  Speaker 2: Any day?
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  Speaker 6: That?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 8: Okay?
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  Speaker 11: Come on.
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  Speaker 3: Eric attempts to unholster Officer Sutton's service weapon, eventually managing
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  Speaker 3: to loosen it and nearly knocking it to the ground. Fortunately,
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  Speaker 3: Eric's handcuffs prevented him from causing any further harm. As
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  Speaker 3: the chaotic scene finally settles, officers briefly discussed the frantic
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  Speaker 3: events that just unfolded.
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  Speaker 1: I go up the subway to be here, going to
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  Speaker 1: make sure he didn't go to subwhere in this communication
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  Speaker 1: come out here, so let me just check the house.
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  Speaker 2: They started getting real weird. I'm like, well, if he
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  Speaker 2: just stayed back, he's a good enough city. Time started
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  Speaker 2: to getting really weird. I'm like, no, I can check
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  Speaker 2: the house. You stay back, you stay back, stay back,
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  Speaker 2: stay back. I go the way it off because he
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't be up here.
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  Speaker 9: There's a event.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done. That's through up in there, and saw the
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  Speaker 2: boy laying there on his fine drug ing out where
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  Speaker 2: he is now and do what I could not nearly seen.
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  Speaker 7: I saw the boys lady ninety five minutes give him
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  Speaker 7: a half hear and after more units, so.
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  Speaker 2: To see you are drugging, go to see okay, all right,
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  Speaker 2: are you good?
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  Speaker 7: You you're good, You're not hurt.
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  Speaker 2: So I didn't I thought it. I thought it just
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  Speaker 2: that first, and then well I'm pick picks you that.
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  Speaker 9: I pick.
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  Speaker 7: One posting forty eight inside. Yeah, like okay, well we
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  Speaker 7: went upstairs with that there. Yeah, there's like a kind
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  Speaker 7: of seat area and went by burner looked.
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  Speaker 6: In there because ninety five.
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  Speaker 7: And speaking going on. And then when we took to
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  Speaker 7: my car, pay I gave an opportunity because I need
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  Speaker 7: to double August stuff and then up himself went out.
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  Speaker 3: Rap Im has attempted to perform CPR on Dayson, but
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  Speaker 3: it was too late. Dayson was declared deceased shortly after
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  Speaker 3: by EMS. What officers uncovered with Dayson was only the beginning.
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  Speaker 3: As the investigation deepens, Eric's children would reveal further secrets,
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  Speaker 3: painting an even darker picture of the reality behind closed doors.
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  Speaker 3: For now, the decision is made to take Eric, his children,
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  Speaker 3: and his ex wife Latrice to the police station. Police
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  Speaker 3: reports state that while Eric is being transported, he struck
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  Speaker 3: his head multiple times against the cage window bar, causing
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  Speaker 3: a welt to his head and damage to the patrol vehicle.
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  Speaker 3: Despite this, everyone would eventually make it to the station,
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  Speaker 3: each separated into their own individual rooms awaiting intense interrogation.
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  Speaker 3: Eric would be left alone to hopefully calm down and
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  Speaker 3: collect his thoughts. Meanwhile, detectives speak with both Latrice and
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  Speaker 3: her child Evan, hoping to collect more information that can
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  Speaker 3: be used when speaking with their main suspect. They start
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: with LaTrece, asking her what kind of person Dayson was.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: At this point, detectives are considering the possibility that he
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: and Eric may have gotten into a fight that's somehow
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: escalated into tragedy. But what Latrees describes denies that theory
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: completely and makes Dayson's case even more heartbreaking.
• 17:16
  Speaker 12: Can you see a little bit closer over here, There's
• 17:21
  Speaker 12: a lot of specific questions that I wanted to talk
• 17:24
  Speaker 12: to you about. Can you describe DJ Was he an
• 17:28
  Speaker 12: argumented person? Was he a quiet person?
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: So son was more of a quiet person until he
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: got to know you, But he was always mannered. He
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: talked to a lot of adults, but he never was
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: disrespectful or any of that. Teachers from his elementary, the
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: principal middle school, they all showed up for my son.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: He was that type of child, you know when teachers.
• 17:55
  Speaker 12: Come, would you say he was a sweet boy?
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: He was very sweet and always willing to help. That
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: was one of the things across the board, always willing.
• 18:03
  Speaker 12: To help in the loft, in the cross face and
• 18:07
  Speaker 12: the loft.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: What was normally kept him there? Nothing uh safe?
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: Nothing was that ever left open.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: No, it was always screwed.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: It was always close because I don't like it, Like
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: it freaked me out. There is a light switch in
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: the okay, So I was like, where is the light
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: coming from? When I turned the light switch off, but
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Maybe it was him, So let's talk about that.
• 18:32
  Speaker 12: You called me and you said that you saw him.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: You viewed him at the funeral alone. Okay, yeah, okay,
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: and it was before he was involved, because I wanted.
• 18:40
  Speaker 12: To see him, right, And you saw new bruises. Yes,
• 18:43
  Speaker 12: where did you see new bruises.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: On his nose?
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Like that circular dark mark on his upper nose. His
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: lo busted also, like that wasn't there. And then his
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: eyes were like purple. I don't like, they were puffy
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: and purple.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: It looked to me like he was in a fight,
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: and my son doesn't fight.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Dayson's autopsy report ruled his cause of death as asphyxiation, which,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: in combination with the bruises and marks on his face,
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: implied he was likely strangled to death.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I knew it, and he was my baby, so I
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: knew it.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: I still have those feelings that, no, I'm not happy
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: with it.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: As to me, it doesn't say I did it, but
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: it says there's enough evidence to say I did it,
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: So you know, let's just say you did it.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Latrice makes it clear she believes Eric is responsible, even
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: though she didn't witness the incident herself, but her son, Evan,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: seated just three doors down in his own interview room,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: has information that could take the investigation even further.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: How are you good?
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: You say your name is Evan?
• 19:56
  Speaker 11: That her?
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Do you know how to spell your name?
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: You can go ahead and write it them seven?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Nice handwriting?
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: And how old are you seven?
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: You want to write seven for me? So I don't forget.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Sometimes I forget.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Notice the harsh contrast between interview rooms. Evan is sitting
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: in the department's Safety room, a space created to provide
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: comfort and reduce stress for victims and young children involved
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: in sensitive cases. His interviewer, Miwa, is a forensic interviewer
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: from Maryland, trained specifically to speak with children and family
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: members connected to a criminal investigation, and because Evan is
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: only seven years old, you'll notice a drastic difference in
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: how his interview is conducted.
• 20:41
  Speaker 11: My dab is to talk to kids and families all
• 20:43
  Speaker 11: the time, and today I get to talk to you
• 20:46
  Speaker 11: and I you know, we talk about a lot of
• 20:48
  Speaker 11: different things in this room, and this is called the
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: safe room because anything we talk about is always safe and.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Not in any trouble.
• 20:57
  Speaker 11: You're just I'm just here to listen to you and
• 20:59
  Speaker 11: talk to you.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Nila explains to Evan that everything is being recorded and
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: that he is not in trouble, but rather just there
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: to help him out. She spends fifteen minutes talking about
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: movies and more of Evans interests to help him get
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: more comfortable, before discussing the day of Dayson's murder and Evan, who.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Do you live with?
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: My mom?
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: Your mom? Interesting? And you want else?
• 21:23
  Speaker 13: I live with teaching and then my dad.
• 21:27
  Speaker 14: Okay, okay, and do you know what you're here to
• 21:30
  Speaker 14: talk about today?
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: So tell me a little bit about your family?
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Mm hmmm, Tristan.
• 21:39
  Speaker 13: Tristan even likes to fight in play and still toys
• 21:46
  Speaker 13: from others. I like the color and then I often
• 21:51
  Speaker 13: like cats up.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Interesting and you said you also live with the DJ?
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Is that right?
• 21:59
  Speaker 13: In the mom from Tristan DJ? How does djuh fifteen fifteen?
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Tell me about DJ?
• 22:07
  Speaker 13: DJ like going in the water, jiggling me. Can't really
• 22:13
  Speaker 13: remember all the stuff he used to do this, but
• 22:16
  Speaker 13: he loved playing World Blocks Deans.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Tell me about the last time you saw DJ.
• 22:25
  Speaker 13: When mom wasn't at the house.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Tell me who was off the house.
• 22:29
  Speaker 13: Dad, and then DJ.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: And then me.
• 22:35
  Speaker 13: Dj is going in his own way, mommy, and then
• 22:39
  Speaker 13: Daddy was raiting at the door with DJ. DJ put
• 22:43
  Speaker 13: his bags in the basement, and then I don't remember
• 22:46
  Speaker 13: what happened next, That's all I remember.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Okay, me, what would tell Evan to draw the last
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: time he saw Jason? And he'd draw the staircase leading
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: to the homes loft, the same staircase Eric has dragged
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Jayson's body, And.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: So who is this person?
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: That was Dja?
• 23:06
  Speaker 13: Where was that?
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: So that was up here?
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: And then Djay was ready there? Okay? Where did they
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: go after?
• 23:16
  Speaker 13: They never went a waiting at the steps?
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, they were waiting at the stuff. Who was he
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: waiting for? Or what was he waiting for? Did that happen?
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Not yet?
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Was there anything that you worried about on that day?
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: I wonder if there's anything that you were scared about
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: that day?
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Scared Evan struggles to reveal the details of the events
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: he saw that day, likely due to the discomfort of
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: speaking with a stranger in a police station, but the
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: information he gave his mother on the day of the
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: incident provides far clearer insight into the disturbing events he saw?
• 23:58
  Speaker 12: Is that that one of your children's something to Evan?
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: And what did Evan say?
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: That he saw Daddy bringing DJ upstairs? And I said, well,
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: where are you? When he said he was in the
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: living room. I just didn't want to pride too much.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: But then I said, oh, it was DJ sleeping. He
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: said no, he wasn't snoring. And then I said was
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: he moving? And he was just like no. And then
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: he also told me that Daddy made him interesting go
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: in the bathroom and cover their eyes.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Okay, but this was before this was when the police
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: first knocked at the door.
• 24:35
  Speaker 14: Okay, Evan didn't say anything about the knock because he
• 24:39
  Speaker 14: told him to go in the bathroom first. So I'm
• 24:41
  Speaker 14: a little confused with like the order, So I don't
• 24:43
  Speaker 14: know if that's maybe when he was going to let
• 24:46
  Speaker 14: the police in. But Evan did say he saw that
• 24:49
  Speaker 14: and he he was in the living room because they
• 24:52
  Speaker 14: told me he.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Was watching low Key.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: In addition to these grim details, Laterce would go on
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: to explain how Eric's life had begun to collect lapse
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: all in synchrony due to the protective peace order Latrice
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: had filed. Eric was suspended from the Baltimore Police Department
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: the very same day of Dayson's death. He had just
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: separated from his wife, was about to lose his children,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: and was now left without a job. Latrice also explained
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: that the peace order she filed was not her first
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: attempt to separate herself from Eric. Months prior, Latrice filed
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: her first peace protective order, writing I am in fear
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: for my life and well being because Eric Banks keeps
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: trying to control, follow and emotionally abuse myself and my son's.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: The order was denied, however, and it wasn't until months
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: later that her second attempt was granted. It was clear
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Eric's life was falling apart. Leading up to Dayson's death,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Eric had hidden his body, lied to officers regarding his whereabouts,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: and had a violent outburst once the body was discovered.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: It'd be hard to assume that he wasn't directly implicated
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: in Dayson's death, but evidence alone wouldn't be nearly enough
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: to get him to confess. After all, he was a
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: police officer of ten years and knew how the criminal
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: justice system worked just as well as any interrogator working
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: against him. But unfortunately for Eric, the interrogation he was
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: about to undergo would crack even the most well trained
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: of suspects. Eric is placed into ann Rundell County Interview
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Room to Be. This room was designed for priority matters
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: exclusive to high profile cases. Because Eric had attempted to
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: attack an officer earlier in the day, he's been handcuffed
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: to the table to restrict movement. Eric is left alone
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: for multiple hours as the detectives prepare for his interrogation.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: While waiting, he can be seen glancing around the room
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: multiple times, likely searching for a camera. What Eric didn't
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: know is Interview Room to Be has a small camera
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: placed in an unusual location, which Eric never managed to spot.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: The primary investigator assigned so this case is Detective Lewis Adrian.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: His prior service in the United States Military likely factored
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: into the department's strategic choice to have him conduct the interview.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: This shared background enables Adrian to establish rapport with Eric,
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: a key component in the upcoming interaction.
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: So, you know, our heroes, we want to talk.
• 27:21
  Speaker 15: About what happened, why it happened, in anything surrounding that
• 27:26
  Speaker 15: whole situation.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: But you know, as well as all of us, that
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: we have to go through Miranda with you.
• 27:32
  Speaker 15: So what I'm gonna do is we're just gonna go
• 27:34
  Speaker 15: to Miranda first of all, and then I'll start getting
• 27:36
  Speaker 15: all the other information.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: After reading Eric his rights, the detectives would spend nearly
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: an hour connecting with Eric and bonding over their shared
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: military experience.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: He said, now you're coming. You're in front. Okay, you
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: go back, and were about to go in to Pilgrim,
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: like you're in front. She's like, why don't.
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: You say you Uh, some people were made, you know,
• 27:54
  Speaker 9: to do certain things, and they said, I'm not made
• 27:56
  Speaker 9: to be a front person.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: But so I'm running a black Dan and I remember
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: my sol. I just like, hey, whoever that.
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: Office is right, they're running, just keep going, keep going
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: because you're right to run ready to him And I
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: don't know where these two guys just come out, pop
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: out and I'm.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: Like, okay, I got it. And he's just falling over there.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and he was like he was like, yeah, whoever
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: that was worth?
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: He was moving and you just ring and just like
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: he's like, don't because I was slowing down, like trying
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: to look. He's like, no, keep going, and I'm really liked, Okay,
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: you're gonna tell me where.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: This friendly conversation appeared to take Eric out of the
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: tense mental stage. It appeared that Eric sharing his favorite
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: moments from the military gave him a sense of importance,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: like he had an identity he was proud of, or
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: at least used to be. But that moment is short lived,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: as he's quickly brought back to the reality of why
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: he's sitting inside a police interrogation room.
• 28:44
  Speaker 15: So you you spent three years and you you're still
• 28:48
  Speaker 15: active in the Baltimore City Police Department.
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: His So from where I hear you're spending.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: The suspending, now'm well suspending, ye.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: Okay, Why can you tell me what's what's going with that?
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: May I got a piece of tech where against my wife?
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: Okay, and you got one against her?
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess her.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: Same day, she took the firearms out of the house.
• 29:08
  Speaker 9: She took the safe out at home, you know, and
• 29:10
  Speaker 9: the county did press charges gets taking safe with the
• 29:16
  Speaker 9: fire on firearms?
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: And were they your duty.
• 29:20
  Speaker 9: Fire My whole full duty belt was in there, okay, firearm, taser,
• 29:25
  Speaker 9: magazine pouches, everything was in there. She turned around and
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: went out a peace on on me, saying that I
• 29:31
  Speaker 9: was following her. But when she got it pretty much,
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: I have to get spent. Her mom said, my mom
• 29:37
  Speaker 9: something talking about I was following her list, and I'm like,
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: how I'm here at work. How you see I was following.
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: I was like, there's no way. That's when we both
• 29:45
  Speaker 9: ended up at the courthouse and I was and I
• 29:48
  Speaker 9: was like, cause I have like I'm just gonna stop
• 29:50
  Speaker 9: to this.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: So I let the clerk.
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: You know, I was like, I don't know what's going on,
• 29:53
  Speaker 9: but every time that and my wife's trying to leave,
• 29:56
  Speaker 9: something something shining happened. Secretly there's a piece order for
• 30:00
  Speaker 9: me to get kicked out of the house.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: And I was like, that's you, Pete.
• 30:03
  Speaker 9: And that's when he he brought us both in, so
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: we both got seen by the judge and he granted this.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Peace football to the stay away from each other. Okay, yeah,
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: that was just was it two days ago?
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: Okay?
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: Was it no Monday?
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: No yesterday? It was just.
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: So you'all met with the judge Tuesday, and.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: You're still suspended. Up until this point, I was still suspended.
• 30:23
  Speaker 12: So when maybe maybe it's the way Baltimore works, and
• 30:25
  Speaker 12: I'll sell there and stuff so you have the peace order.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: She gets one on you and that gets deny, deny,
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: you have to do that. Yeah, so you're still suspended
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: even though it's been cleary.
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: Yes, gotcha?
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: At this point, the detectives had no reason to assume
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Eric was lying. He'd been open and honest with them
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: the entire time and seemed rather friendly. It isn't until
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: they begin discussing the day of the incident that investigators
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: realized Eric's perceived honesty had all been a calculated act.
• 30:56
  Speaker 9: So yesterday we go. Yesterday we go to court get
• 30:57
  Speaker 9: the piece of protective orders. They grant the whole emotion.
• 31:01
  Speaker 9: I mean for us to stay away from each other.
• 31:03
  Speaker 9: Unto you, I'm supposed to supposed stay with me. The
• 31:05
  Speaker 9: oldest he's going to Arizona with his mother and she's like,
• 31:08
  Speaker 9: she tells the jus like that's what you wanna do.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: But something.
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: So right after that, you know, call him. I was like, hey,
• 31:12
  Speaker 9: you start packing your bags. You know you're gonna be
• 31:14
  Speaker 9: going with your mom. He's like why why. I'm like,
• 31:17
  Speaker 9: your mom said you wanted this. He's he's supposed to
• 31:19
  Speaker 9: do you know, I guess I don't know.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: I didn't have that.
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: Conversation previously too that me and him hit literally just
• 31:24
  Speaker 9: sat down on the table cause I could tell that
• 31:26
  Speaker 9: my son was like depressed and he was schooling through
• 31:28
  Speaker 9: like necessarily without trip to on the first was like
• 31:32
  Speaker 9: just to try to get him away, him out. We
• 31:34
  Speaker 9: sat down at the table and I'm like, what's going
• 31:35
  Speaker 9: on with you? How how are you feeling about this?
• 31:38
  Speaker 9: Where are you at with this? And he's like, honestly,
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: He's like, I hate it.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: I don't feel like.
• 31:42
  Speaker 9: I don't wanna feel like I'm choosing sides. I just
• 31:45
  Speaker 9: wanna be left for lone everybody. Cause then it's like
• 31:47
  Speaker 9: they're calling me telling me this and this, this and that,
• 31:49
  Speaker 9: and it's like I gotta keep certain things from you.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: It's like I don't wanna keep I don't wanna be
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: a part of this. He's like, I'm tired. So I said,
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: just go and start packing your bags and he's like, okay,
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: we wait. I get my paperwork.
• 32:03
  Speaker 9: I come home, and on my way home, it's like
• 32:07
  Speaker 9: I just feel like I was done, Like you know what,
• 32:09
  Speaker 9: today's gonna.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Be there, able to do it? Okay. I feel like
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: my family's pulling apart. I'm suspended from work, possibly gonna
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: leave my job.
• 32:21
  Speaker 9: So it's like situations keepings like ven Data. I even
• 32:26
  Speaker 9: sit a Texas say, I don't know why you feel
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: like we have to be at war, right, we shouldn't
• 32:31
  Speaker 9: have to be at war.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: It's like if you are, we're.
• 32:33
  Speaker 9: Lying to these guys and like, you gotta guess what
• 32:35
  Speaker 9: are you where? You trying to move in with them,
• 32:36
  Speaker 9: you know, tell them that you're living in hotels when
• 32:38
  Speaker 9: you're not. You're staying with your mom, Like what are
• 32:39
  Speaker 9: you doing?
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: So at this point, it's like, you know what, I'm
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: just tired.
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you're tired of it.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's a way out to get the peace,
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: I guess.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: The people go through that and it was just like nothing.
• 32:50
  Speaker 9: I felt like everything was just coming to that And
• 32:52
  Speaker 9: I feel like that now, like honestly, everything was coming
• 32:54
  Speaker 9: to me.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: I was like, you know what, I'm just gonna do it.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: So when you got home yesterday, was there anyone in
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: the house, Yes, it was. The song was in the house.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: Evan was in the house in Tristans the house.
• 33:06
  Speaker 9: So you're going there and you're doing all this stuff, right,
• 33:08
  Speaker 9: I go in and I go, yeah, go in there.
• 33:10
  Speaker 9: I see him upstairs, like he got his bags packed.
• 33:13
  Speaker 9: I had to go and take your stuff downstairs when
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: your moms come. And she called him. It's like mom's calling.
• 33:18
  Speaker 9: He was like what I say to I say, well,
• 33:20
  Speaker 9: tell him what you do. Just talk to you, like
• 33:22
  Speaker 9: she called me whatever, and he answers the phone and
• 33:25
  Speaker 9: did he have a conversation. That's so, I'm like, okay,
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: what she said she said? He say, she says she's
• 33:30
  Speaker 9: gonna be in the area. Just bring my stuff downstairs.
• 33:32
  Speaker 9: I said, okay, cool, I said, so the police should
• 33:34
  Speaker 9: be coming. When he come, everything he goes smoothie.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: This is the moment where Eric's act begins. Notice how
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: he begins looking blankly into the ceiling as he recounts
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: critical moments for the last hour. Eric hardly looked up
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: to the ceiling.
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: Once I go downstairs and I'm in the kitchen, I
• 33:51
  Speaker 9: just made a big bowl of cool. Was it gatorade?
• 33:56
  Speaker 9: That big bull but big picture of Gatoray is blue.
• 33:58
  Speaker 9: It's probably still believe it was still on account. But
• 34:00
  Speaker 9: I like, I said, you say, you never went down.
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: The bag of crushed up hills that I have was
• 34:07
  Speaker 9: right there. The song came downstairs. He he aksed me
• 34:12
  Speaker 9: something and he was like, what's did he say?
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: He came upstairs?
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: If he came outstairs, he aksing something and I can't
• 34:20
  Speaker 9: remember say exact first, but he was like, aksed me,
• 34:23
  Speaker 9: what was it about?
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: I think it was a leave with something like that.
• 34:27
  Speaker 9: I said the song this, wait, lest were like, cause
• 34:30
  Speaker 9: he was like, I don't wanna go. He was just
• 34:31
  Speaker 9: telling me that he didn't wanna go, and she's like that.
• 34:32
  Speaker 9: I said, look, so just wait. We're not gonna talk
• 34:34
  Speaker 9: about shit.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: Cause I like, i'm'a take your brothers to your mom's house.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: And I was coming back. I said, your mom gets here,
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: which the police before I get back. I'm fortunate you gotta.
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: Go with her.
• 34:41
  Speaker 9: The sis the way it is. He he's upstairs. I'm
• 34:43
  Speaker 9: gonna Tristan. I told Trista and said, Tristan go get
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: your shoes. Tristan said, okay, So Tristan goes.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: He goes upstairs, he gets his shoes and he comes.
• 34:51
  Speaker 9: He's like daddy was from DJ and like, huh So
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: then I go upstairs and DJ's in the he's in
• 34:58
  Speaker 9: the bathroom.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: He's in the bathroom. He's in the tub.
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: That's right. I seen him.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: I was like, what the fuck.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: That's why I pulled him out the tub. As I'm
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: pulling him out the tub, played on flat on his
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: back on the floor.
• 35:12
  Speaker 9: And was it a at that time, I'm not sure.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: I think was electricity. He was like, daddy, somebody had
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: the door and I'm just looking at my feet.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: I'm like, what the.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: I'm like, what the fuck.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Eric makes his story clear he had planned to end
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: his life, but coincidentally Dayson had the same plan and
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: did it first. That's an extremely complex alibi and only
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: becomes more unlikely after Eric explains why Dayson's body ended
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: up hidden inside his bedroom.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: So I went downstairs go to the front door. The
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: officer said okay, and I panted. I was like, I
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: don't know what the fuck to say. So he asked me.
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: He was like, hey, what's going on. I started talking
• 36:00
  Speaker 9: to him, telling him what's going on? He was it
• 36:04
  Speaker 9: what do you say? He says, So it's the situation,
• 36:07
  Speaker 9: and I tell him on the situation, I was like,
• 36:09
  Speaker 9: you know, my wife, she's supposed to wait on y'all
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: to come.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: You know, y'all.
• 36:13
  Speaker 9: Sully serving hold a piece of protective order and whennot,
• 36:16
  Speaker 9: he's like, She's like, yeah, yeah she Sully.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: He was picking up else son and he.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Was like, uh, is she here?
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: And that's the time he was still he was upstairs
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: on the floor in the bathroom. When he said was
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: she here?
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: My mind?
• 36:27
  Speaker 9: I was like enough, okay, yeah, because it already looked
• 36:34
  Speaker 9: had I already moved.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: Him and I was like back, yeah, was it?
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: And when was it?
• 36:42
  Speaker 9: When I got out on the bathtub, I asked the author,
• 36:44
  Speaker 9: it's the most body on camera's room and you can see.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: I asked him like, can I go in the house.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: You don't use the bathroom? Quick?
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: Remember asking that? And he was like he's like no, no,
• 36:51
  Speaker 9: just wait his way, his way okay. Then the other
• 36:53
  Speaker 9: officer show up. And then when he show up, he's asking.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: He was like, so it's a.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: Song here, she'll the same thing, probably sure.
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: I said, yes, you know, yeah, I knew the matter
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: at world.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: I knew my state of mind, my state of house.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: Kill arey okay?
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: And the ilet me asking you this is that why?
• 37:12
  Speaker 15: Because I did watch some of the footage when they
• 37:14
  Speaker 15: went to loosen your handcuffs, you kind of got a
• 37:17
  Speaker 15: little silly on.
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: Do you remember that?
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: What was your I mean you went for the officers?
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: And what was up with that?
• 37:23
  Speaker 9: When I first before we get to that, when I
• 37:25
  Speaker 9: first went back in the house, when the officer told
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: me at the tall officer he told me, he said,
• 37:30
  Speaker 9: go get this on his phone. I ran upstairs. His
• 37:33
  Speaker 9: phone was in the in the bathroom on the counter. Okay,
• 37:35
  Speaker 9: So I run upstairs and I get the phone. Because
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: rate went back up be f I did that? I
• 37:40
  Speaker 9: asked him, I said, can I go upstairs?
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: You can't use me?
• 37:42
  Speaker 9: Can I go in to use the bathroom? Because I
• 37:44
  Speaker 9: initially wanted to shut the door. He said, he said no,
• 37:46
  Speaker 9: we just wait.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: And then the other house, he was like, well, go on,
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: I need you to go grab the song phone. I
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: ran up and grab it, and I'm staring and I
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: shoved the bathroom still.
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: The bathroom was it? Was it the one of the
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: master or the small?
• 37:56
  Speaker 9: No, the small, the small in the hall game. And
• 37:58
  Speaker 9: I'm still shaking. And when I come back the houstairs,
• 38:05
  Speaker 9: I go, I was it.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: I go out the door. I give him the phone,
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: and I'm still.
• 38:08
  Speaker 9: Shaking in my head, like and everything's in my head
• 38:11
  Speaker 9: is saying like us to say what you saw, but
• 38:14
  Speaker 9: then in my other part of him, like my son
• 38:18
  Speaker 9: just did this.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: Objectively, Eric's story hits all the points. He has an
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: excuse for almost every suspicious detail, even finding a way
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: to explain why blood was found all over his house.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: The issue is that these details are simply too coincidental
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: to ever sound believable, and even Eric knows this.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: I don't know why.
• 38:39
  Speaker 9: I just was like, I gotta move him. I did
• 38:42
  Speaker 9: to pick him up, did the fireman carry took him
• 38:44
  Speaker 9: out of the bathroom into the massive room up the stairs,
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: and I was like, because I know they're gonna want
• 38:49
  Speaker 9: to come back in the house and search it. I
• 38:51
  Speaker 9: was like, I'm gonna be cool. I'm fine with that.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: I was gonna let him search it. And I talked
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: him in hut. I talked him into the area and
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: left the thing.
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: Over a cross cross face.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, alright, But getting back to when they came.
• 39:06
  Speaker 9: In to search the house doing upstairs, and he seemed
• 39:09
  Speaker 9: the thing opens from the officer when he asks my panic,
• 39:12
  Speaker 9: and I was like, yeah, this is why I keep
• 39:14
  Speaker 9: my safe blah blah blah whatever, but just something.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: I said, man, and they put their handcuffs on me.
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: I went back downstairs. When he put.
• 39:23
  Speaker 9: Downstairs, I was like, my life is over because it
• 39:26
  Speaker 9: looks different. It's no matter what I say. From this point,
• 39:29
  Speaker 9: it looks like i'ma lie. I look like I lied
• 39:31
  Speaker 9: because I already lied twice. You asked me move to
• 39:33
  Speaker 9: sawn and the house.
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: I said no.
• 39:35
  Speaker 9: You asked him the don't know where he went? I
• 39:36
  Speaker 9: said no, I think he he bring out the back
• 39:38
  Speaker 9: door or something. And you know, so it always looked
• 39:41
  Speaker 9: bad because I'm already told you a lie, even though
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: in my head.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: It's like you probably should just set the truthfull.
• 39:46
  Speaker 9: He probably only should have left him where he was at,
• 39:49
  Speaker 9: called him cold police, shut down yeah or whatever?
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, cold police?
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: What times a week?
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: But I was already in his I was, I mean
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: not e.
• 39:57
  Speaker 9: I wasn't in them. I was already in the myset
• 39:58
  Speaker 9: of kid. Every skin out of the day I was
• 40:01
  Speaker 9: in seeing that he was there, that he was in
• 40:05
  Speaker 9: the tub, and he was like tot full. I was like,
• 40:09
  Speaker 9: I sounded this, No, I have to do it, okay.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: The detectives decide to take a break and discuss what
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: their next plans would be. At this point, they both
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: know Eric is lying to their faces, so the goal
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: for the rest of the interrogation will be to get
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: Eric to admit to his lies and ultimately confess to
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: the murder. To do this, they decide on Detective Adrian
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: conducting the rest of the interrogation alone, since one on
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: one confrontation is generally considered to be more effective. Adrian
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: would return with a clearly different demeanor from earlier. He's
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: stern and wastes no time in asserting that his nice
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: cop act is over.
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: Are you good?
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: You need anything?
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: Before we started again?
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: I'm good?
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: Are you sure?
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: All right?
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: So Detective Petre had to step aside his.
• 40:54
  Speaker 15: Four second But what I wanted to do, Like I
• 40:57
  Speaker 15: told you, I wanted to come back and go back
• 41:00
  Speaker 15: over some things with you.
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: I actually wanted.
• 41:02
  Speaker 15: I want to go back and in detail, just go
• 41:04
  Speaker 15: through some of these steps.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: Eric would recount his story exactly the same as before,
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: claiming he simply found Dason dead and had nothing to
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: do with it, and it seemed as though Detective Adrian
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: had nothing concrete to combat Eric's lives. That was until
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: he brought out Jason's autopsy report.
• 41:23
  Speaker 15: I'm gonna tell you this, I know that you spent
• 41:25
  Speaker 15: ten years in the military and you.
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: You were in the Marines, weren't you.
• 41:30
  Speaker 15: Yes, what's their whole thing of in the Marines, Like
• 41:34
  Speaker 15: what do they always teach honor? Yeah? And to be honestly,
• 41:41
  Speaker 15: I don't see that from you right now based on
• 41:44
  Speaker 15: what you're telling me, I think you're telling me something different.
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: But I know you a marine. I know a lot
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: of people deaths.
• 41:50
  Speaker 15: Marines, man, and and that's one thing that they would like, integrity, honor. No,
• 41:56
  Speaker 15: you don't mess with that if you're a marine. Yes,
• 41:58
  Speaker 15: I know you want to tell them the truth. And
• 42:00
  Speaker 15: you sitting here like giving me a story. You're giving me,
• 42:03
  Speaker 15: you're giving me what I want to hear just to
• 42:06
  Speaker 15: sound good.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: But that's not it.
• 42:08
  Speaker 6: That's not trusty.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to sound good.
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: And I'm gonna tell you that. I'm gonna tell you
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: the other thing. And I'm gonna be straight.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: Up with you.
• 42:14
  Speaker 15: Yeah, you keep talking about the autossy the autos. He
• 42:18
  Speaker 15: said he was strangled. He don't know Halas he said
• 42:24
  Speaker 15: he was strangled.
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: Hell do know? Hell to you no, no, no, no,
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: ham to no.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: DJ was more strangle Helm.
• 42:33
  Speaker 15: You know, I would just let it sink in and
• 42:37
  Speaker 15: and let you decide what you're gonna explain that to his.
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: No, DJ wasn't strangle when then what happened was tell
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: what happened. There's no no, DJ was not strangling DJ.
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: Like I told you, DJ went downstairs.
• 42:52
  Speaker 9: He came up upstairs, and DJ was he was in
• 42:55
  Speaker 9: that tub, like I said, when I came to that room,
• 42:58
  Speaker 9: he was in the tub when I when I grabbed
• 43:00
  Speaker 9: him out, igret him like this, We like pretty much
• 43:03
  Speaker 9: put him in a fire ress cary.
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: When they left, I could drag them up to my room.
• 43:07
  Speaker 9: If if that's the case, I would have left him
• 43:10
  Speaker 9: in there and I would say or had them come
• 43:13
  Speaker 9: in there to be like.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: But DJ wasn't no strangle. There was no way, no,
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: there was no way he was. DJ wasn't no strangle.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
• 43:22
  Speaker 6: That shit boy. You had pride in here, Yeah, yeah,
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: you had pride in here. You were trying to help
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: him out with his grades.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: We were getting them in stem classes and then this happened.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: But you're saying DJ was strangled.
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: No, Well, didn't tell me what happened. This didn't happen.
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna say that right now.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: This didn't happen.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: You saying he wasn't.
• 43:39
  Speaker 6: So no, no, I'm not saying that. I'm not saying
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: that I believe that far, but I believe thatthing else happened.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: Note Eric's lack of emotion when hearing this information. No
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: tears are shed, but rather an array of defensive rage. This,
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: alongside the other countless red flags, Eric is portraying as
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: a telltale son for detectives that a suspect is lying.
• 44:02
  Speaker 9: You need to tell me the whole story, Like I said, DJ,
• 44:05
  Speaker 9: when I when we came, when I came in there,
• 44:08
  Speaker 9: DJ was. DJ was literally in that tub. There was
• 44:11
  Speaker 9: no way I'm gonna sit there and strangle DJ.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: Not going tryst.
• 44:14
  Speaker 9: Why would I didn't have no I'm am going to
• 44:17
  Speaker 9: strangle this boy. I have no nothing against him to
• 44:21
  Speaker 9: want to strangle him.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: Nothing, no in my heart, no nothing.
• 44:25
  Speaker 9: Because then I said, if I was gonna do that,
• 44:27
  Speaker 9: why would I leave my other two boys?
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: If I was going to do that, I'm too all
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: of us out. DJ was not no strangling.
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: So now what happened?
• 44:36
  Speaker 15: Tell me the story to start we started for scratched.
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: Tell me your story.
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: DJ was not no strangle.
• 44:43
  Speaker 15: Did and tell me what happened. You're not telling me
• 44:45
  Speaker 15: the truth. Tell me what happened.
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: Bro, I'm right here, staying right now, giving you a chance.
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: Right now, you tell you asked me to tell you
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: that I strangled my No, I didn't.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: Eric understands the legal system well well enough to avoid
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: offering a direct confess when confronted. From investigator's perspective, he
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: knows that admitting involvement is the worst thing he can
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: possibly do well besides not asking for an attorney. Regardless,
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: it's going to take more than just a heated confrontation
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: to make Eric Krank, so Detective Adrian resorts to a
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: completely different approach, empathy.
• 45:20
  Speaker 15: I'm gonna tell you right now the way this is
• 45:24
  Speaker 15: gonna be something you want to live with for the
• 45:26
  Speaker 15: rest of your life. This is something you are gonna
• 45:30
  Speaker 15: have to think about every night before you close your eyes,
• 45:34
  Speaker 15: and when you close your eyes, you're.
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: Gonna think about what you did to him.
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: That's what you're gonna think about.
• 45:41
  Speaker 15: So I'm gonna think about what you did to him, and.
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: It's gonna haunt you for the rest of your life.
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: Or what you can do is you can talk to me.
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: You can tell you can tell.
• 45:50
  Speaker 9: You can tell me what really happened, and at least
• 45:53
  Speaker 9: that lot will be off your chat. See, I'm telling
• 45:55
  Speaker 9: you right now, there's no like you're telling me to see,
• 45:57
  Speaker 9: I string with my son.
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: I did not strangle my son. That's what you asked me.
• 46:02
  Speaker 9: I understand you're trying to align with me and you
• 46:04
  Speaker 9: know and show the compassion trying to but there's no
• 46:07
  Speaker 9: there's no there's no me and strangling DJ at all.
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: Okay, so let's take a string a loud.
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: There's normally strangling taking equation.
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: Now, Okay, what happened. I told you what happened. What happened.
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: He was upstairs in that tub. DJ was literally in
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: that tub.
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: You didn't put him there.
• 46:27
  Speaker 9: I did not put him there. No, DJ was physically
• 46:30
  Speaker 9: in that tub already. When I came to that bathroom,
• 46:33
  Speaker 9: DJ was in there.
• 46:34
  Speaker 6: Did you assist him at all? Anything?
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: No?
• 46:36
  Speaker 9: I didn't asist him at all, but nothing nothing. I
• 46:39
  Speaker 9: didn't assist him getting in that bathroom. And I said,
• 46:41
  Speaker 9: if we're going in that bathroom, he was upstairs already,
• 46:43
  Speaker 9: Like I said, when when he went downstairs, he was
• 46:45
  Speaker 9: downstairs for a good period of time. He was upstairs
• 46:48
  Speaker 9: and was name. I was down, Tristan was down. Tristan
• 46:51
  Speaker 9: was trying to go with the same with his shirt.
• 46:53
  Speaker 9: I was, I told him, And that's when Tristan said
• 46:55
  Speaker 9: out of his mouth, Daddy was wrong with DJ. Tristan
• 46:58
  Speaker 9: literally said that out his mouth, and I went up
• 47:01
  Speaker 9: there to check on I didn't see. I don't seeing him.
• 47:04
  Speaker 9: Bloom called rom removing a belt.
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: I won't recall removing anything that could have been around
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: his neck. I don't recall moving.
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: So here's the thing.
• 47:13
  Speaker 10: And I hate to frustrate you, and I hate to
• 47:15
  Speaker 10: but I also have a job and do it, and
• 47:17
  Speaker 10: I also have to get down to the bottom of this.
• 47:20
  Speaker 10: And when I walked through the door and when I
• 47:23
  Speaker 10: hear everything that happened, things don't add up.
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: Things don't make sense.
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: Okay, they don't make sense at all.
• 47:31
  Speaker 6: If you would have done things different, if you would
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: have been.
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: Like, yes, my son, I just found my son in
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: a town. I helped him out and told it.
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: Also, you know this, if you would have done.
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: It that way, it would have been different.
• 47:41
  Speaker 15: But the fact that you didn't, Now you're sitting here
• 47:43
  Speaker 15: trying to explain yourself.
• 47:45
  Speaker 9: Bo I'm sitting here because the whole situation was zoom
• 47:49
  Speaker 9: sitting here because I lie and say if he wasn't
• 47:50
  Speaker 9: in the house, I'm sitting here because I didn't tell
• 47:53
  Speaker 9: the officer like you said it straightforward?
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: What was going on?
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: That's two guys right here. How Like you said earlier,
• 47:58
  Speaker 6: how were we supposed to believe in that? Yeah? Like I said,
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: so you tell you're telling me? How am I supposed
• 48:02
  Speaker 6: to stringle?
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: How?
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: How did I not.
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: Assist him in getting in the tub and I don't know,
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: possibly drowning him.
• 48:09
  Speaker 16: I don't know. No, I don't know. But also even
• 48:14
  Speaker 16: but here's the thing. All I know is that you
• 48:16
  Speaker 16: keep lying. No, bro, you lied inditionally twice.
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: How do I know you're not lying right now?
• 48:21
  Speaker 9: Because like I told you straightforward, I'll say straightforward. But
• 48:25
  Speaker 9: that's because that's why I say in the beginning, I said,
• 48:29
  Speaker 9: it's straight forward.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: I there's nothing I can say.
• 48:31
  Speaker 9: I say, I already know y'all have done y'all homework,
• 48:35
  Speaker 9: laid all out on the table. I say, because there's
• 48:37
  Speaker 9: nothing I can say, just because I already lied it
• 48:40
  Speaker 9: twice I said he wasn't at home. I identify that
• 48:43
  Speaker 9: I messed that up because then I see my son
• 48:46
  Speaker 9: is dead.
• 48:47
  Speaker 6: Okay, all right, do you I'm I'm gonna leave you
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: alone for a little bit to think about things. But
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: do you want anything else to drink or anything to eat?
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: I'm good with the ward at the chips.
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: Okay, give me just a second, all right? Anything else?
• 49:04
  Speaker 13: No, sir?
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: As the detective leaves, Eric skins the room thoroughly and
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: finally notices the camera hidden inside room to be Moments
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: after making eye contact with the camera, he lets out
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: one last desperate act.
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: It strangle.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, it'd be too late to act his way out
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: of the murder. Eric's testimony was flimsy at best, had
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: Detective Adrian decided he'd gotten enough to wrap the nearly
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: five hour interview up. Shortly thereafter, Eric was booked into
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: the ann Arundel County Detention Center under charges of first
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: degree murder, second degree murder, and child resulting in death.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: At trial, Eric would quickly accept a plea deal to
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: second degree murder as well as attempting to disarm a
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: police officer, and on October fourth, twenty twenty two, he
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: was sentenced to forty two years in prison if Eric
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: serves his full sentence, he'll be released in twenty sixty four.