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The Murder of Troy DeWayne Smith · River City Mystery - Investigating mysteries in southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and western Kentucky

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  Speaker: I went to pry it open, and when I kicked the door in.
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  Speaker: Next thing you know was all you seen was my brother, and he was
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  Speaker: slumped over on a couch.
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  Speaker: And I mean blood just coming from everywhere, from his mouth,
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  Speaker: nose, ears, eyes.
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  Speaker: And he had throw up on his shirt
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  Speaker: as his feet and regurgitation or
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  Speaker: something.
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  Speaker: So I'm like, I'm panicking and I'm shaking him.
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  Speaker: And I mean, I could have picked him up with one hand.
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  Speaker: He was stiff like a mummy.
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  Speaker: Matt Deig.
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  Speaker: Welcome to episode thirteen.
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  Speaker: We're going to be talking about the murder of fifty year old
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  Speaker: Troy Dwayne Smith, who was shot in the back of his head while he
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  Speaker: sat in his own couch in his own apartment on the five hundred
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  Speaker: block of South New York Avenue in Evansville, Indiana, on May
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  Speaker: twenty fourth, twenty twenty.
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  Speaker: His brother, Taran, found his body.
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  Speaker: By all accounts, Troy was a nice, quiet guy.
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  Speaker: He had studied mechanical engineering at ITT Technical
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  Speaker: Institute and was working at Tri-State Resource Recovery.
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  Speaker: Initially, this case was classified as an overdose, so
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  Speaker: there was really no investigation into, you know, a
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  Speaker: murder for several weeks.
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  Speaker: Once a coroner and the detectives figure out that he
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  Speaker: was actually shot in the head.
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  Speaker: Several weeks had passed.
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  Speaker: A reporter noticed that there
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  Speaker: was a discrepancy in the police
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  Speaker: reportings of homicides and
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  Speaker: questioned the police about the
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  Speaker: discrepancy.
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  Speaker: And that's when it came forward that Troy was actually a
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  Speaker: homicide victim versus natural causes or overdose.
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  Speaker: And the case just kind of slipped through the cracks as
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  Speaker: far as the media went.
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  Speaker: And it's just it's not been very public.
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  Speaker: And there are just a few
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  Speaker: articles about the murder to be
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  Speaker: found.
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  Speaker: And of course, this was during the beginning of Covid.
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  Speaker: So that story was probably on everyone's mind.
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  Speaker: And it's just an unfortunate situation where this particular
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  Speaker: murder did not have a lot of attention on it.
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  Speaker: And I've been talking to Troy's
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  Speaker: siblings, Tamara and Tehran, and
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  Speaker: Tehran agreed to talk about his
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  Speaker: perspective in the story, since
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  Speaker: he definitely has a
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  Speaker: unfortunately unique perspective
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  Speaker: since he's the one who found his
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  Speaker: brother's body.
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  Speaker: And so this is Tehran's story.
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  Speaker: It was a holiday, and I was at a
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  Speaker: little get together, and next
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  Speaker: thing you know, I I get a phone
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  Speaker: call from two people that used
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  Speaker: to be around my brother all the
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  Speaker: time, and they're with my
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  Speaker: brother, like at least, you
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  Speaker: know, three or four times out of
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  Speaker: the week.
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  Speaker: So I get a call from him saying,
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  Speaker: have you heard from your
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  Speaker: brother?
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  Speaker: And I was like, I just talked to him another night.
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  Speaker: But that was the last time I talked to him.
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  Speaker: But I called him a couple of
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  Speaker: days on his phone that day and,
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  Speaker: uh, he wasn't answering and he
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  Speaker: was going straight to voicemail
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  Speaker: and everything.
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  Speaker: So I said, that's not it's not like him.
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  Speaker: So when these two people would call me, I rushed over there.
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  Speaker: They, they said they were over at my brother's apartment, which
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  Speaker: used to be my old apartment.
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  Speaker: I let my brother stay there and take it over.
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  Speaker: So this, uh, female friend of
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  Speaker: his acquaintance that called me
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  Speaker: and said that, uh, she was
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  Speaker: knocking on the door and, uh,
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  Speaker: she heard his TV on heard, uh,
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  Speaker: you know, music playing and
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  Speaker: everything, but, uh, the screen
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  Speaker: door was locked, which is not
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  Speaker: normal.
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  Speaker: So I get over there and, um,
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  Speaker: we're both there and, um, a
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  Speaker: friend, another friend of my
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  Speaker: brother's, this guy was there,
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  Speaker: so they're there and I get there
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  Speaker: and I told him, I said, well,
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  Speaker: the door is locked, so we're
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  Speaker: banging and banging and no
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  Speaker: answer.
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  Speaker: So I asked him.
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  Speaker: I said, well, does anyone have like a screwdriver?
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  Speaker: Because it's my old apartment
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  Speaker: and I know how to kind of pry it
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  Speaker: open.
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  Speaker: So I went to pry it open and when I kicked the door in.
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  Speaker: Next thing you know was all you seen was my brother, and he was
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  Speaker: slumped over on the couch.
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  Speaker: And I mean, blood just coming from everywhere, from his mouth,
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  Speaker: nose, ears, eyes.
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  Speaker: And he had throw up on his shirt
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  Speaker: as his feet had Gerd or
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  Speaker: something.
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  Speaker: So I'm like, I'm panicking and I'm shaking him.
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  Speaker: And I mean, I could have picked him up with one hand.
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  Speaker: He was stiff like a mummy.
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  Speaker: So I said he had had to been sitting there for a minute.
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  Speaker: So call nine hundred eleven right away and they get there.
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  Speaker: Police get there and they have us all get out of the the house
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  Speaker: and, uh, corner paramedics come.
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  Speaker: So they rule it as if, uh, he had took something or, uh, I had
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  Speaker: a bad reaction or something.
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  Speaker: I'm like, no, there's no way.
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  Speaker: There's too much blood and everything.
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  Speaker: And, you know, so so I called family members, my sister, my
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  Speaker: mom, everybody gets there.
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  Speaker: and corners rule it as that.
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  Speaker: So after that, you know, me and
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  Speaker: my mom and sister and everybody,
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  Speaker: we kind of get ourselves
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  Speaker: together and we just get some of
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  Speaker: the stuff out of the apartment
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  Speaker: that was in there and
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  Speaker: everything.
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  Speaker: At this point, you know, we're contaminating everything.
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  Speaker: We're touching as many people in and out of the apartment, right?
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  Speaker: So a week or two goes by and my sister calls me like, get over
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  Speaker: to your apartment.
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  Speaker: Um, the police and sheriff and everyone's around and we get
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  Speaker: over there and they have it taped off and everything and
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  Speaker: like, as if it's a crime scene.
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  Speaker: So I'm like, this is weird.
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  Speaker: So, uh, and then, you know, the detectives pulled me and my
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  Speaker: sister in the car and they're like, we did the autopsy and we
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  Speaker: found gunshot wounds to the back of his head.
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  Speaker: So I was like, okay, you know,
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  Speaker: with so much blood on him, I
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  Speaker: would have never known at the
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  Speaker: time, which was weird to me, but
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  Speaker: I knew it had to be like foul
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  Speaker: play involved.
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  Speaker: That was the whole topic.
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  Speaker: But the thing to me was that the
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  Speaker: two people that were there, they
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  Speaker: called me at the time, um, we're
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  Speaker: always around my brother and I
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  Speaker: know I thought it was mighty
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  Speaker: fishy that they call me and come
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  Speaker: to find out, this female
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  Speaker: companion, a friend of his so
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  Speaker: called, was with him the day
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  Speaker: before.
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  Speaker: Which is word to me.
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  Speaker: And all of a sudden, you know, you call me.
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  Speaker: It was it to me.
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  Speaker: It was if they wanted me to come and find him.
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  Speaker: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker: And what I hear on this, you know, the streets talk.
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  Speaker: And from people that I know that were in circles with my brother
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  Speaker: and stuff, come to tell me to find out that they believe that,
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  Speaker: um, the two people were in that house earlier, something went
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  Speaker: wrong and then they had the nerve to call me as if they
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  Speaker: weren't ever in there.
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  Speaker: You knocked the door and someone
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  Speaker: had locked that door on the way
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  Speaker: out to make it seem like my
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  Speaker: brother had locked it and he was
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  Speaker: in there.
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  Speaker: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker: And it had to be someone my
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  Speaker: brother knew, because the
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  Speaker: bullets were back to the back of
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  Speaker: the head, and no one's going to
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  Speaker: let anybody come over and stand
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  Speaker: over him, shoot him in the back
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  Speaker: of the head, you know what I
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  Speaker: mean?
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  Speaker: And he hadn't been off the grid for very long when they called
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  Speaker: you to say, hey, I'm worried because you said the day before,
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  Speaker: you know, you guys were.
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  Speaker: So it's not like he was gone for weeks or something.
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  Speaker: And I'm like, hey, you better go over and check on him.
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  Speaker: That's definitely very strange.
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  Speaker: Yeah, it was just an overnight thing.
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  Speaker: Yeah.
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  Speaker: Have the investigator.
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  Speaker: Have you been in touch with the detective?
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  Speaker: Have they been keeping you in the loop?
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  Speaker: No. What's weird about the detective is my mom.
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  Speaker: She works downtown.
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  Speaker: She was working downtown in the prosecutor's office in different
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  Speaker: areas down there.
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  Speaker: But she retired now, so she's been away.
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  Speaker: And there was two detectives on this case.
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  Speaker: The first detective he was keeping in good contact with us
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  Speaker: and everything, but he had got promoted and took over another
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  Speaker: woman who was missing in Evansville named Donnetta
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  Speaker: Wilkinson or something.
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  Speaker: It was all over Evansville.
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  Speaker: So he went to that case.
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  Speaker: So my brother, my brother's
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  Speaker: case, got put to this other new
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  Speaker: detective.
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  Speaker: His last name is McCormick.
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  Speaker: So this McCormick guy, when he
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  Speaker: when he first took over the case
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  Speaker: was called.
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  Speaker: This came in contact with he said he was doing what he could
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  Speaker: and he was still investigating.
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  Speaker: And yet on top of this, you know, my mom put out a five
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  Speaker: thousand dollars reward to anyone who had any information.
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  Speaker: So after that, after a week or two went by, it was dry.
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  Speaker: No. No contact from the detective.
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  Speaker: Nothing.
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  Speaker: You know, we hear nothing.
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  Speaker: So we're thinking, man, maybe it's a cold case.
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  Speaker: Not just last Friday when I got off work, did this detective
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  Speaker: call me and say that the case was not closed?
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  Speaker: He's still looking into it, and
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  Speaker: he's trying to figure out some
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  Speaker: more information.
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  Speaker: And he's got a new, uh, type of, uh, Google, uh, research where
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  Speaker: he can go and look to see what my brother's phone was last
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  Speaker: recorded with cell towers and this and that.
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  Speaker: But the only reason he called me is because me and my sister had
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  Speaker: contacted, uh, a cousin of ours that is in, um, has a lot to do
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  Speaker: with like, uh, the downtown.
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  Speaker: Uh, she's, she's like real known in politics and stuff.
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  Speaker: So she got Ahold of the Billy
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  Speaker: Baldwin, the police, um, captain
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  Speaker: in Evansville, and told him,
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  Speaker: well, this detective is not
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  Speaker: getting Ahold of, uh, a family
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  Speaker: member.
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  Speaker: And they're, they're not knowing what's going on.
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  Speaker: And, uh, it's, it's, we, I don't know if it's a cold case or
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  Speaker: what's going on.
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  Speaker: So not just this Friday, he called me and contacted me and
• 8:46
  Speaker: said that, uh, he's going to be on vacation for a whole month
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  Speaker: this month, and when he does get back from vacation, he wants to
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  Speaker: set up a meeting with me, my sister, and my mom.
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  Speaker: I thought that was mighty odd
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  Speaker: for you just now to get back to
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  Speaker: us.
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  Speaker: Yeah, the timing is definitely strange, but at least I guess
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  Speaker: it's a good thing that he's at least, you know, putting more
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  Speaker: attention on it.
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  Speaker: Um. All right.
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  Speaker: Have has he looked into the two.
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  Speaker: I mean obviously I think they've looked into the suspects, the
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  Speaker: two people who you know, you mentioned that were in the, uh,
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  Speaker: they've all been kind of vetted by the detective.
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  Speaker: I'm assuming at the beginning of
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  Speaker: it, he was looking at the the
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  Speaker: lady and the other guy more and
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  Speaker: more.
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  Speaker: So the lady, because the lady was around him a lot.
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  Speaker: And what's what's bad about this whole situation?
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  Speaker: My mom not knowing what's going on.
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  Speaker: The lady, uh, was actually at the funeral and everything.
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  Speaker: And we thinking that she, we
• 9:35
  Speaker: don't think she did it, but we
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  Speaker: believe that she knows more to
• 9:40
  Speaker: the, to the story, you know what
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  Speaker: I mean?
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  Speaker: And from what I'm hearing on the streets, uh, you know, I, I
• 9:45
  Speaker: can't prove anything, but from what I'm hearing on the streets
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  Speaker: is and whoever did this, I'm pretty sure I know him too,
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  Speaker: because, you know, my brother felt and trusted this person,
• 9:53
  Speaker: these people that come in his house for that to happen.
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  Speaker: So from what I heard was three people in this home, you know,
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  Speaker: and it was an argument that pursued, from what I'm hearing
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  Speaker: on the streets and this other fella who I heard, who I know
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  Speaker: and I see still to this day, I've approached him a couple of
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  Speaker: times, but he claims he has nothing to do with it.
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  Speaker: But three or four people told me that he he was the shooter and
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  Speaker: he was the one in there.
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  Speaker: So, you know, I can't prove anything.
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  Speaker: Say anything in.
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  Speaker: The detective has talked to this
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  Speaker: guy too, because at the time,
• 10:23
  Speaker: right after this happened, the
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  Speaker: guy was locked up and the
• 10:26
  Speaker: detective said he went to his
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  Speaker: one of his cells and talked to
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  Speaker: him.
• 10:29
  Speaker: And the guy was just like, you know, fuck you.
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  Speaker: I don't want to talk about it, this and that and made it try to
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  Speaker: blow it off.
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  Speaker: So he didn't say he had nothing to do with it.
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  Speaker: He just blew it off as if he wasn't saying anything.
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  Speaker: You know what I mean?
• 10:40
  Speaker: So I'm like, you know, it's it's just this is an ugly situation.
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  Speaker: But you know, no one I guess people are scared.
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  Speaker: No one wants to come, come and say anything with that reward,
• 10:49
  Speaker: which I understand because the person, two or three of the
• 10:52
  Speaker: people, one of the main, um, resources I had that told me all
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  Speaker: this information, uh, is kin to, to the girl that was there.
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  Speaker: And she came and told me what she had heard the girl over sin
• 11:03
  Speaker: in her house one time.
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  Speaker: So you know, that right there
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  Speaker: kind of had me like, well, she,
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  Speaker: she might, she might be on to
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  Speaker: something.
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  Speaker: And, and I've already and then
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  Speaker: this guy and this guy who we
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  Speaker: believe has something to do with
• 11:15
  Speaker: it a month prior to this, had
• 11:17
  Speaker: got into a physical altercation
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  Speaker: with brother two and there was a
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  Speaker: police report on this and
• 11:21
  Speaker: everything.
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  Speaker: And I asked the detective, what did you know this?
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  Speaker: And this happened previous.
• 11:25
  Speaker: And he said, yeah.
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  Speaker: And that nothing was ever charged.
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  Speaker: He was, you know, no one that, uh, he aggravated assaulted my
• 11:31
  Speaker: brother, but there was no charges brought up or anything.
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  Speaker: My brother didn't press charges.
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  Speaker: And there was another woman and guy in the house that he
• 11:38
  Speaker: assaulted, too, and no one pressed charges on him.
• 11:40
  Speaker: So, you know, with that being
• 11:42
  Speaker: said, nothing was ever done
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  Speaker: about it.
• 11:44
  Speaker: So that was that too.
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  Speaker: Yeah.
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  Speaker: It's been it's been a long you
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  Speaker: know, I just wanted to have some
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  Speaker: kind of justice served or
• 11:51
  Speaker: something.
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  Speaker: But, you know, with everything going on, you know, we just it's
• 11:55
  Speaker: just been a long battle.
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  Speaker: But I mean, not only my brother, I know there's a lot of cases
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  Speaker: going on around here right now with, with all kind of, you
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  Speaker: know, murders going on and no one coming forward.
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  Speaker: So it's, there's definitely a lot of that.
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  Speaker: And I mean, you know, you just got to focus on one at a time
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  Speaker: and your brother's case, you know, there's just there's so
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  Speaker: little out there about this.
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  Speaker: And I thought, yeah, maybe I could put some attention on it.
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  Speaker: Maybe maybe somebody will hear
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  Speaker: this and be like, you know,
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  Speaker: maybe I'll come forward and say
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  Speaker: this one little, this one little
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  Speaker: piece, maybe that'll break open
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  Speaker: the case because maybe that
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  Speaker: detective kind of agrees with
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  Speaker: you, but needs that one little
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  Speaker: tip or something to put him over
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  Speaker: that edge.
• 12:29
  Speaker: And another thing to what you
• 12:30
  Speaker: just said, like, I know a lot of
• 12:32
  Speaker: these cases in Evansville, a lot
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  Speaker: of was brought forward and
• 12:35
  Speaker: broadcasted.
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  Speaker: But when my brother's situation
• 12:37
  Speaker: with them first pronouncing him,
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  Speaker: you know, just dying of like,
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  Speaker: you know, a natural cause and
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  Speaker: this and that, and being like
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  Speaker: two or three weeks later saying
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  Speaker: that it was a, you know, a
• 12:47
  Speaker: homicide.
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  Speaker: It was never put in the paper.
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  Speaker: It was never, you know,
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  Speaker: mentioned until like weeks
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  Speaker: later.
• 12:53
  Speaker: And it was already too late by then.
• 12:54
  Speaker: So, you know, it was kind of swept, swept under the rug.
• 12:57
  Speaker: And the only the only way people knew that my brother was
• 13:00
  Speaker: murdered by word of mouth or by me mentioning it or, you know,
• 13:04
  Speaker: something like that.
• 13:05
  Speaker: But they did put it on the news.
• 13:06
  Speaker: But when they put it on the news, it was already like, I
• 13:09
  Speaker: want to say like weeks later.
• 13:11
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 13:11
  Speaker: Because I saw I was reading one
• 13:12
  Speaker: of the articles said, you know,
• 13:13
  Speaker: they didn't even report it for
• 13:15
  Speaker: weeks.
• 13:15
  Speaker: I guess that makes sense because
• 13:16
  Speaker: they didn't report it for weeks,
• 13:17
  Speaker: but because it was reported as,
• 13:18
  Speaker: I guess, like an OD or something
• 13:20
  Speaker: like that.
• 13:20
  Speaker: So then when they flipped it over to a murder, then it was
• 13:22
  Speaker: just kind of like updating paperwork, kind of a situation
• 13:25
  Speaker: that probably didn't help.
• 13:27
  Speaker: Was your brother involved in any sort of groups that might.
• 13:30
  Speaker: Does he did he have any enemies?
• 13:32
  Speaker: I know he had this altercation
• 13:33
  Speaker: with this guy a month earlier,
• 13:34
  Speaker: but I mean, he seemed, from what
• 13:35
  Speaker: I've read, like he was a pretty
• 13:37
  Speaker: nice guy.
• 13:37
  Speaker: And no, he he was a pretty.
• 13:39
  Speaker: Well, I'll put it like this.
• 13:40
  Speaker: Here's the whole deal.
• 13:41
  Speaker: My brother, he was a pretty nice guy.
• 13:43
  Speaker: He was quiet.
• 13:44
  Speaker: He. He was the type of dude that wouldn't even harm a fly.
• 13:47
  Speaker: A fly on him, you know what I mean?
• 13:49
  Speaker: But what it was, was he was involved with the wrong people,
• 13:52
  Speaker: the wrong crowd.
• 13:53
  Speaker: And my brother had let a lot of people take advantage of him.
• 13:56
  Speaker: And I think he had a little drug problem going on too.
• 13:58
  Speaker: So at the same time, I thank
• 14:00
  Speaker: these people that he was around,
• 14:01
  Speaker: were involved with drugs and
• 14:03
  Speaker: whoever this person was that
• 14:04
  Speaker: shot him and might have been
• 14:05
  Speaker: involved over, you know, drugs
• 14:06
  Speaker: or something.
• 14:07
  Speaker: Right.
• 14:07
  Speaker: But yet still, even though that's all involved, it doesn't
• 14:10
  Speaker: give you the right to, you know, take someone's life like that.
• 14:13
  Speaker: You know what I mean?
• 14:13
  Speaker: No. Absolutely not.
• 14:14
  Speaker: It doesn't make the person less any less valuable and meaningful
• 14:17
  Speaker: to everyone else.
• 14:18
  Speaker: So yeah, so, and I think a lot of times those, those cases get
• 14:21
  Speaker: kind of brushed under the rug because they just, oh, it's a
• 14:24
  Speaker: drug situation and they, and they just kind of stop and it's,
• 14:26
  Speaker: it's not right.
• 14:27
  Speaker: Exactly, exactly.
• 14:28
  Speaker: That's, that's exactly what I said.
• 14:30
  Speaker: I, I don't know, but yeah, my
• 14:32
  Speaker: sister told me that you were,
• 14:33
  Speaker: were doing these cases and had
• 14:35
  Speaker: the podcast and different things
• 14:37
  Speaker: going on.
• 14:37
  Speaker: I think it's a pretty good, good idea, man.
• 14:39
  Speaker: At least someone out there, you
• 14:40
  Speaker: know, is spreading the word and,
• 14:42
  Speaker: you know, willing to, you know,
• 14:44
  Speaker: put stuff out so people, you
• 14:45
  Speaker: know, are informed about what's
• 14:47
  Speaker: going on.
• 14:47
  Speaker: Well, I'm going to do my best to get the word out there.
• 14:50
  Speaker: And you know, you never know where it might lead.
• 14:52
  Speaker: So I appreciate you taking the
• 14:54
  Speaker: time out to talk about your
• 14:55
  Speaker: brother's case.
• 14:55
  Speaker: And like I said, hopefully this
• 14:57
  Speaker: helps make a difference and, you
• 14:58
  Speaker: know, bring some closure to your
• 15:00
  Speaker: family.
• 15:01
  Speaker: I got you, I got you.
• 15:01
  Speaker: I truly appreciate you, man.
• 15:04
  Speaker: If you have information that you think may be useful to this
• 15:07
  Speaker: case, call the Evansville Police Department at eight one two four
• 15:11
  Speaker: three six four zero two five.
• 15:13
  Speaker: Or you can leave an anonymous
• 15:15
  Speaker: tip at eight hundred seventy
• 15:17
  Speaker: eight.
• 15:17
  Speaker: Crime and Troy's family has put
• 15:20
  Speaker: up that five thousand dollars
• 15:21
  Speaker: reward for information leading
• 15:22
  Speaker: to a successful prosecution in
• 15:24
  Speaker: this case.
• 15:25
  Speaker: So keep that in mind.
• 15:26
  Speaker: I do have all these links and information on my show notes at
• 15:29
  Speaker: RiverCityMystery.com, so check that out.
• 15:33
  Speaker: And thank you for joining me.
• 15:35
  Speaker: Until next time, take care.