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Sneaky Wife Sets Up Hubby's Murder With High School Flame, Cries On TV · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A loving husband and father
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  Speaker 1: gunned down out of the blue. What happened to Jamie
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  Speaker 1: Think Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. First of all, take
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  Speaker 1: a listen to this. These are our friends at w
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  Speaker 1: FAA everything, my partner, my best friend. I just I'm
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  Speaker 1: not supposed to be widowed at forty eight. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my daughter's father, the only father she's ever known, was
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  Speaker 1: they were two peas in a pod. He used to
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  Speaker 1: call her as a parting cry. I just hope that
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  Speaker 1: at some point maybe this person can recognize the gravity
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  Speaker 1: of what they've done. I feel some sort of guilt
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  Speaker 1: enough to come forward, because, like I said, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I'm going through the motions every day. I just don't.
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  Speaker 1: It's just hard. I just our life together, it was
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  Speaker 1: every day together, and we loved it that way. You
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  Speaker 1: were hearing Jamie face wife Jennifer speaking after assistless in
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  Speaker 1: brutal murder off her husband right in front of her eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to more of Jennifer just walked out
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  Speaker 1: the door like normal, right out our front door. I
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  Speaker 1: got about as far as those hedges behind you, and
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  Speaker 1: he Jamie always walked behind me when I because I
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  Speaker 1: had the dog. The dog usually go faster, and so
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  Speaker 1: he'd stay behind and close the door. And we walked
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  Speaker 1: out the door, and we made it right to the
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  Speaker 1: house right behind you, and I turned running behind me,
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  Speaker 1: and I turned around, and then just shooting just started.
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  Speaker 1: He Jamie Jamie wasn't doing anything. He actually he saw
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  Speaker 1: the guy and started walking backwards like this with his
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  Speaker 1: hands out to his side, and the guy just kept
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  Speaker 1: shooting and shooting. And then he turned around and I
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  Speaker 1: yelled no because I knew he was coming after me.
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  Speaker 1: And a neighbor said that they saw him attempt to
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  Speaker 1: shoot me, but the gun was empty. I was running
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  Speaker 1: up the driveway and he tackled me and started beating
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  Speaker 1: on me and taped my hands together, and then I
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  Speaker 1: think he got spooked by neighbors and got in his
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  Speaker 1: truck and left. So it seems to me that the
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  Speaker 1: motive was trying to get Jennifer Faith and murdering the husband,
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  Speaker 1: Jamie Faith to do it. We're getting a very detailed
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  Speaker 1: analysis of what happened at a description, and that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: always happen in a court of law, where you have
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  Speaker 1: an eyewitness that sees everything. Before we go to our
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  Speaker 1: All Star panel to make sense of it all. Take
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  Speaker 1: another Listen to the widow speaking with WFA about the
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  Speaker 1: man that murders her husband. It was a normal day.
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  Speaker 1: We walked the dog every day at the same morning.
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  Speaker 1: We got up, we did our normal good morning thing.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we we like that time together because
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  Speaker 1: our daughter's been staying with us since COVID hit, and
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  Speaker 1: so it would sets our quiet time before she gets
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  Speaker 1: up and we just talk in the mornings and so
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  Speaker 1: and then we got the dog ready and walked out
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  Speaker 1: the door like we always do. We're actually standing where
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  Speaker 1: everything took place. I heard running behind me, and I
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  Speaker 1: turned around to see what was going on. And the
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  Speaker 1: next day, I don't want to give away too many
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  Speaker 1: details to just to jeopardize the case, but next thing
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  Speaker 1: I knew, he was shooting at Jamie and and then
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  Speaker 1: turned around and came after me and tackled me in.
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  Speaker 1: We know that property was taken from Jamie, and he
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  Speaker 1: tried to take property from me as well. And I
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  Speaker 1: think the neighbors, all of the neighbors at that point
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  Speaker 1: heard all of the gunshots, and yeah, came out and
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  Speaker 1: one neighbor had even witnessed part of what had happened
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  Speaker 1: and came out and I think it spooked him and
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  Speaker 1: that's what that's what made him leave again. You're hearing
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  Speaker 1: the widow who was there when her husband is mowed
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  Speaker 1: down in their suburban neighborhood with me an all star
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  Speaker 1: panel to make sense of what we know right now.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, James shell nutt former twenty seven years
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  Speaker 1: Metro major case and Swatt, now lawyer at shell Nut
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  Speaker 1: Law Firm dot com. Doctor Jory Crassen, police psychologist's faculty
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  Speaker 1: Saint Leo University joining us. Karen L. Smith for expert
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  Speaker 1: host of a hit series Shattered Souls podcast. Doctor Kendall Crowns,
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  Speaker 1: Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, Travis County. That's Austin lecturer, University
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  Speaker 1: of Texas and Texas A and m Nicole Parton joining
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  Speaker 1: us right now. First to you, Nicole Crime Online dot
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  Speaker 1: com investigative reporter. Tell me about where this happened? Oak Cliff, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: What do we know, sure, Nancy, North oak Cliff, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: That's a little suburb area of Dallas, Texas, a community
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  Speaker 1: known to be safe where the neighbors watch out for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Mid century beautiful homes in the area, things like this
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  Speaker 1: don't happen in this community. It's well loved, like you
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  Speaker 1: often see people walking up and down the streets in
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  Speaker 1: the mornings, riding their bikes in the afternoons, walking their dogs.
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  Speaker 1: These type things don't happen. But it happened to Jennifer
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  Speaker 1: and Jamie Fee. You know what's interesting about that? It
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  Speaker 1: was very early in the morning. And Karen Smith, let
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  Speaker 1: me go to you, forensic expert, and James shell Nutt.
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  Speaker 1: I'll start with you. James, early in the morning is
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  Speaker 1: not typically and I'm speaking of statistics. This is not
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  Speaker 1: just anecdotal cases I prosecuted are covered, but statistically, crimes
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  Speaker 1: of this ilk, of this genre do not occur at
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  Speaker 1: seven thirty eight o'clock in the morning. I used to
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  Speaker 1: tell my investigator we would go out to be delivering
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  Speaker 1: subpoenas or taking pictures of a crime scene or whatever
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  Speaker 1: we would be doing. If I was in a high
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  Speaker 1: crime area, I'd say, there's no let's go in the
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  Speaker 1: morning because all the dopers are going to be asleep.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get some great photos, we'll find everybody we're looking
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  Speaker 1: for because they're all asleep. The point is hard crime,
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  Speaker 1: it's not typically happening at seven thirty in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Why is that shell nutt No, I mean, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it sounds kind of funny, but you're right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they go, they're in, they're in bed, they're
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  Speaker 1: in those hours, you know, seven thirty in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Think about it, Nancy. You've got people getting up at
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  Speaker 1: that time of the morning. There, they're going to stores,
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  Speaker 1: going to traffic, you know, taking kids to go do things.
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  Speaker 1: It's daylight. Lots of people up at that time of
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  Speaker 1: the morning, of people who are not at work, drinking
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  Speaker 1: cups of coffee. This is the worst possible time to
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  Speaker 1: commit a crime in broad daylight on a sidewalk in
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  Speaker 1: a residential neighborhood. You're so right. I mean, at that point,
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  Speaker 1: people are taking their children to school, they're leaving for work.
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  Speaker 1: If you're on on a sidewalk, people are gonna see
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  Speaker 1: what's happening. Hey, Nicole, pardon what time of the day
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  Speaker 1: did this happen? Ballpark? You called it between seven thirty
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  Speaker 1: roslies between seven and eur about the seven thirty mark,
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  Speaker 1: early am, early in the morning. And Karen Smitha joining
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  Speaker 1: me forensics expert host of Shatter Souls, listen to how
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  Speaker 1: Oak Cliff, Texas is described. Leafy oak Cliff is known
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  Speaker 1: for a mid twentieth century homes, street art and indie
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  Speaker 1: stores in the charming Bishop Arts district next to five
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  Speaker 1: Mile Creek Oak Cliff Nature Preserve, Hi King and Buy King.
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  Speaker 1: It goes on and on, an honest thing, all the parks,
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  Speaker 1: all the beautiful homes, blah blah blah. My point is,
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  Speaker 1: who's going to drive up in Leafy oak Cliff, Texas
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  Speaker 1: that's known for its arts culture and start gunning people
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  Speaker 1: down on the sidewalk. That's very, very out of the norm. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like a little slice of Americana, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean everybody. It sounds like everybody in the world
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  Speaker 1: would want to live in a place like this. So
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  Speaker 1: to have a crime happen at seven seven thirty in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, yeah, very very forensic person this is It
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  Speaker 1: makes me wonder, you know, a what was the motivation was?
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  Speaker 1: Was someone lying in wait? Was it a crazy person?
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  Speaker 1: These are the things that I would start to think
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  Speaker 1: about as a forensic analyst at a crime. Then well,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I would go with you on the
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  Speaker 1: crazy person idea, except that they're driving a vehicle now
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  Speaker 1: in court, an eyewitness identification is going to be shredded.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't mean the eyewitness is wrong. That just means
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  Speaker 1: that defense attorneys have found a way to try and
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  Speaker 1: discredit eyewitnesses. So if there's anything to bolster your eyewitness,
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  Speaker 1: you better find it, and you better find it quick. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what we have here is not just her eyewitness account
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  Speaker 1: of what the PIRP looked like, but we've got a
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  Speaker 1: vehicle a vehicle crime stories with Nancy Grace. Take a
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  Speaker 1: listen to our cut nine. This is the widow Jennifer
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  Speaker 1: faith Against speaking to WFAA. Listen. Truck is absolutely critical.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody has got to know whose truck this is because
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  Speaker 1: it was a It's a black Nissan Titan extended cab,
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  Speaker 1: had a Texas Ranger sticker in the back window, and
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  Speaker 1: so it was very distinctive from that point. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to give away too many other details, but if
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  Speaker 1: somebody knows somebody who has that truck, there's there's got
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  Speaker 1: to be somebody who knows somebody who has that truck.
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  Speaker 1: And even if the sticker is not there anymore, somebody
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  Speaker 1: who knows someone who used to have a sticker in
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  Speaker 1: their back window. I mean if somebody could just come
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  Speaker 1: forward with that information alone, it would be so helpful.
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  Speaker 1: Right there, it's making me think of Jackie. Do you
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  Speaker 1: remember the People's Court Mom, a woman, a mother of
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  Speaker 1: twins and a third child, was dropping off for children
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  Speaker 1: early in the morning again like this, or actually it
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  Speaker 1: may have been right after lunch. Jack And she had
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  Speaker 1: on the back of her hummer a big ad for
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  Speaker 1: her tanning. What did she do hair hair tanning, Michelle Parker.
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  Speaker 1: She had this big pink ad decale and they were
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  Speaker 1: all over her hummer, very distinctive. And when they found
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  Speaker 1: her hummer, all the details have been taken off by
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  Speaker 1: someone who must have known her or must have known
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  Speaker 1: that would be a dead giveaway to finding her vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: It ended up being parked out in a sea of
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  Speaker 1: cars in an apartment complex across the street from a
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  Speaker 1: huge mall, and it sat there for days unnoticed. Then
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  Speaker 1: we've got let's see the Molly Tibbots case. Everybody remember
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  Speaker 1: that one. We talked about that a lot, doctor Georry
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  Speaker 1: Cross and police psychologist and faculties Saint Leo University. In
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  Speaker 1: that case, Molly Tibbots. You remember the young college student
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  Speaker 1: that went jogging and just disappeared. Well, when neighbors and
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  Speaker 1: businesses took out their surveillance video their ring cameras, you
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  Speaker 1: could see Molly jogging by and then you see a
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  Speaker 1: vehicle go back, reverse, go forward, reverse, and go back
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  Speaker 1: toward where she had been running. The vehicle itself didn't
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  Speaker 1: really stand out, couldn't really get a nameplay from a
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  Speaker 1: side view, but there were distinctive markings on the side
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  Speaker 1: of the vehicle, maybe where the paint was scratched, maybe
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  Speaker 1: it was a fenderman, but something distinctive about the vehicle,
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  Speaker 1: and that is how they found her killer. Doctor Jorry Crawlsen.
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  Speaker 1: So your car people think that it's your identity that
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  Speaker 1: the people go buy in Lamborghinis and vmws and Mercedes.
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  Speaker 1: It tells a lot more than just who your identity is.
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  Speaker 1: A vehicle seemed to be an extension of the personality
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  Speaker 1: of the individuals. In a lot of cases where you know,
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  Speaker 1: they dress them up. They picked either a sports style
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  Speaker 1: or a pickup they market, they dress it with wheels.
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  Speaker 1: So that's very solid evidence that they need to really
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  Speaker 1: follow up on. Yeah, people's whole identity can be wrapped
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  Speaker 1: up in their vehicle. Another issue out to you James
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  Speaker 1: shell Nutt, twenty seven years, Metro Major Case now lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: In this particular case, we've got a black Nissan Titan
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  Speaker 1: extended cab with a Texas Ranger sticker in the back window,
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  Speaker 1: very very distinctive. James shell Nutt. Isn't it true that
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  Speaker 1: there are entire groups and entire squads of car theft,
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  Speaker 1: car burglary car experts within Metro Major Case Division. These
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  Speaker 1: guys know, they have volumes and volumes I had to
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  Speaker 1: go and wade through them before, like photo albums, like
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  Speaker 1: family albums of cars. And every other year or so,
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  Speaker 1: let's just pretend Nissan Titan will change some little aspect
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  Speaker 1: of let's just say the tail light. They may make
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  Speaker 1: it four little lights instead of three little lights, or
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  Speaker 1: they may angle it or something different to the design.
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  Speaker 1: And these guys in cars and theft they know all
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  Speaker 1: about that. And that's how they can narrow down the
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  Speaker 1: make the model of the year right by the details
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  Speaker 1: they see on the vehicle. Oh, absolutely, it's it's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Just you're right. Just the smallest of details can tell
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  Speaker 1: you one year to another. No, two vehicles produced in
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  Speaker 1: consecutive years are completely identical. There's always some way to
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  Speaker 1: tell a difference between these vehicles. Fancy yeah, because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what are they going to sell us hey by this
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  Speaker 1: is just exactly the same as last year's. I mean
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  Speaker 1: they've got to say something. So I mean, what are
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  Speaker 1: some of the differences? Shell nutt make it real, bring
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  Speaker 1: it home man. So sometimes you have, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: most common or tell white differences. You can't copyment more
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  Speaker 1: back reels. The grill can change, um, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: shape of the nose can slightly modify more or less curves.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the wheels can change you. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people don't know this, but when you buy a new
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  Speaker 1: vehicle year to year, they add additional types of aftermarket
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  Speaker 1: wheels that you can purchase from the dealership. On these vehicles.
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  Speaker 1: There are tons and tons of options that change from
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  Speaker 1: year to year. And you know what's interesting back to you?
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  Speaker 1: Joy Crossham, for instance, I like to talk about murder
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  Speaker 1: or my twins, and I like every facet of every story,
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  Speaker 1: every detail. Do you know, isn't this true, doctor Jelry
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  Speaker 1: that just like every other way of making a living,
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  Speaker 1: details of what you do are interesting to you. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: else cares like You've got a whole squad of men
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  Speaker 1: and women memorizing how one make a model changes each year.
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  Speaker 1: They're the cops for a reason. But these are details
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  Speaker 1: most of us would never notice. Yeah, I see again.
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  Speaker 1: The vehicles are such an extension of the personality, and
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  Speaker 1: it's reflected in the behavior of what they do to
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  Speaker 1: the vehicle, like the markings, the after market wheels, even
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  Speaker 1: the color and the tinning of the wheat, the windows
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  Speaker 1: and stuff all reflective of that personality. When you think
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  Speaker 1: of a vehicle, it's, you know, like in the road racing,
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  Speaker 1: it's like an extension of your personal bubble. That's the
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  Speaker 1: way we describe it in psychology. You know, I never
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  Speaker 1: thought about that as it relates to road rage. That's
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  Speaker 1: a really good thought. Guys. We're talking about the brutal
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  Speaker 1: and senseless murder of a loving husband, a father who
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  Speaker 1: is gunned down right in front of his wife as
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  Speaker 1: they're walking the dog. How many of you guys do that?
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  Speaker 1: I do, and I love every second. Yeah, we all do.
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  Speaker 1: And it's early in the morning, when you least expect it.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if they had their coffee with them. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So what kind of idea can't she give us of
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  Speaker 1: the purp take a listen to a cut eleven. This
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  Speaker 1: is the widow w FAA. We just really need some answers.
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  Speaker 1: Um just there there just isn't there. There isn't a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of information that we're getting. And um, just
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  Speaker 1: for closure, just if somebody knows anybody who you know
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  Speaker 1: either matches the description. It was a either a dark
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  Speaker 1: Hispanic or a light skinned blackmail um short stature, about
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  Speaker 1: five eight, heavy set, very dark eyes, Um you know.
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  Speaker 1: And then the truck, the Nissan Titan if with the
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  Speaker 1: Texas Ranger sticker in the back of anybody knows anything,
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  Speaker 1: please contact the detective. And that's Detective Walton. Okay, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about what we're just hearing. Nicole Parton joining me
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  Speaker 1: crime online dot Com investigative reporter. Give me a synopsis
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  Speaker 1: of the composite or the identification of the killer. So
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  Speaker 1: she describes him as a short, heavy set, dark skinned
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  Speaker 1: man wearing a dark ski mask, dark clothes. In one description,
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  Speaker 1: she says that she sees really dark piercing eyes, and
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  Speaker 1: she continues to reiterate that he was of shorter statute,
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  Speaker 1: kind of heavy set, all dressed in very dark clothing,
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  Speaker 1: and we also have the neighbor's description, and the neighbor
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  Speaker 1: says the same thing, she sees this man fleeing in
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  Speaker 1: very dark clothes, dark ski mask, short, heavy set gentleman.
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  Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace to doctor Kendall Crown's joining me,
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  Speaker 1: the Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, Travis County, Texas. Doctor Crowns,
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  Speaker 1: you now know of the injury sustained by the husband,
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  Speaker 1: Jamie faith husband and father. I might add, would he
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  Speaker 1: have suffered? Would he have known what was happening to him?
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  Speaker 1: Or was he killed immediately? So from report he was
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  Speaker 1: shot six times, twice in the head, twice in the chest,
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  Speaker 1: and once in the groin, So they the guns have
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  Speaker 1: one of the head would more than likely and his
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  Speaker 1: life fairly immediately, depending on what they exactly hit. But
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  Speaker 1: usually gunshot went to the head, take the person out
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  Speaker 1: quite quickly, or at least rendered them unconscious until they
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  Speaker 1: bleed out. Doctor Kendall Crowns, is there anything that makes
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  Speaker 1: us know that he was shot in the head first.
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  Speaker 1: I know, there's no way you can know which injury
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  Speaker 1: came first. It's just there's no test you can do
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  Speaker 1: or no evidence on the body that says, oh, this
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  Speaker 1: one definitively came first, so he could have been shot
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  Speaker 1: in the groin. That the chests and the head. You
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  Speaker 1: just you wouldn't know, guys, takless of our cut one.
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  Speaker 1: This is our friend, Maria Guerrero k X as this
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  Speaker 1: old cliff neighborhood was startled awake by an all too
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  Speaker 1: familiar sound. I heard gunshot captured on home surveillance systems
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  Speaker 1: and heard by many. Wow wow, bob, bob, foh about
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  Speaker 1: nine gunshots. The victim, James Faith, shot multiple times, was
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  Speaker 1: gunned down near his home along South Waverley Drive. I
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  Speaker 1: hear the woman screaming for her life, hystericle. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like a movie. I see their dog running, big old
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  Speaker 1: pretty dog, so God running. Fin knew you was my neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: Forty nine year old Faith and his wife, friendly neighbors
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  Speaker 1: by all accounts, walking their dog every morning, greeting others
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  Speaker 1: along the way. A motive is not known, but Dallas
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  Speaker 1: police aren't ruling out a possible robbery attempt. This is
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  Speaker 1: just a horrific that someone would come out of here,
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  Speaker 1: and that's cute, you know, this victim here for this
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  Speaker 1: to happen to them. It can be because they were
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  Speaker 1: doing something wrong, because they don't know wrong. You're hearing
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: the neighbors way in out to Karen Smith, forensic expert.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: He can find her at Barebones Forensics dot com. Karen,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: nine gunshots? What does that tell you? Going back to
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: my forensic analysis, Nancy, this tells me it sounds like
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: a hit. I mean, it literally sounds like somebody was
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: lying in wait for them. Why James face, Why you
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: have to go back to the victims. What's their story?
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Do a little victimology? Is there something going on that
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: nobody knows about? Or why would somebody target these people?
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: They're walking a dog like a double life. But could
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: nine gunshots come from one weapon? That's a good question,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: It's a really good question. You know, are there the
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: same casings of their casings? Ejective that means it's a
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: semi automatic? Nine rounds tells me it probably was, because
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the revolvers only hold a max of six or maybe
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: seven if it's the twenty two. But you're dealing with
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: a lot of forensic evidence left, it's the scene, and
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: that is a whole lot of gunshots for one victim, Nancy,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense. So if there are nine gunshots
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: fire from one gun, what kind of gun are we
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: talking about? Or do believe the perp had two guns
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: double fisted like in the Alex Murnogu shooting of his
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: wife and son. Two weapons used. So what kind of
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: gun would use? Would have nine bullets in one gun?
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: That's my question? A semi automatic? So we got a
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: guy trowing in neighborhood with a semi Take a listen
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: to cut two this year. Reporter Tiffany Lou at WFAA.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: On Friday morning in Oak Cliff, a husband and wife
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: took their dog on a walk like they always do.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: That would be their last walk together. Dallas police say
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: the couple was approached by a man in a mask
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: on Waverley. He shot and killed forty nine year old
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: James Faith. His wife tells me he went by the
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: nickname Jamie. Typically that's not how robberies occur. Typically they
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: just want your property. No one goes to that extreme.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Police say the suspect tried duct taping the woman's hands
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: together to steal the jewelry off her fingers, and they
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: say he may have been trying to abduct her at
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: a mask on she believed it was a Latin male
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: heavy set he ran off when she screams for help.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: They believe he left in a black niece on Titan
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: with a Texas Ranger sticker on the back window. So
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I'm asking the public to help us out. So as
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: you're a Karen Smith, Why him? Why her? Was the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: husband leading some type of double life? What do we
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: know about him? Take a listen to our cut three.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: This is Tiffany and Leo again w FAA. Police are
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: desperate to find the killer who took the life of
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Jamie Faith. Homicides are horrible. It's one of the worst
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: times that you can commit and what it does to
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the family, you really just have no idea how it
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: just tears the family up. Through go fund Me, neighbors
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: are raising money to support his family. He was a
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: technology director at American Airlines. His wife is devastated. She
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: tells me he was her best friend. He was the
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: best husband and best father anyone could ask for. Man
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: with an awesome job technology director at American Airlines. He
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: was pulling announced some money, she says. Amazing husband, amazing father,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: best for Let's hear it from the horse's mouth. Take
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: a Listen to her speaking to Alec Rosier w FAA
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: amazingly carrying very kind. Fifteen years together. He would give
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: you the shirt off his back. Now nearly two months apart.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: He worked for American Airlines. He was an it director.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Jennifer Faith told me about her husband, Jamie. It was
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: a normal day in the morning. He died October ninth.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: We got up, we did our normal good morning thing.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: At seven thirty. They walked their dog outside their old
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: cliff home when they were ambushed fifteen feet from their
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: front door. And I turned running behind me, and I
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: turned around and then just shooting just started. I was
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: running up this driveway, and he talked of me and
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: started beating on me and tapped my hands together. Damy
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: died at the scene. Police have not made any arrest,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: but they released this picture of the suspect's truck. It's
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: a black Nisan Titan extended cab had a Texas Ranger
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: sticker in the back window. As the weeks pass, the widow,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Jennifer Faith slowly becomes frustrated with lack of an arrest.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Take a listen to our cut five. This is Alec
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Roger WAA. Sadly, this is just one of many high
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: profile violent crimes in Dallas, a city with more than
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: two hundred homicides this year a low. I'm sure they're
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: over extended and spread very thin, but it doesn't It
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: doesn't help me in terms of finding the answers that
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I really need in an instant. Jennifer lost so much,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: my partner, my best friend, and now she waits for closure.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I just I'm not supposed to be widowed at forty eight.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: You know, she hopes the suspect does the right thing.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I just hope that at some point maybe this person
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: can recognize the gravity of what they've done and feels
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: some sort of guilt enough to come for it. Well,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: maybe they will. Speaking of a double life, take a
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: listen to our cut fourteen WAA wait for it listen.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: After the murder, police shared an image of the suspects
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: truck with a distinct tea in the back window. Somebody
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: has got to know whose truck this is. But just
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: one day after our interview, court documents show Jennifer texted
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: her act saying I woke up in a little bit
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: of a panic. Something is eating away at me, telling
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: me you need to take the stick or out of
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the back window of the truck. She texted him again
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the next day, writing I really think you to get
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: that sticker off as out. At the time, detectives had
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: already flown over Lopez's property in Tennessee and found a
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: truck they were looking for with a distinct tea in
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the back. Now Lopez is in jay a lot of
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: murder charge and Jennifer Faith is charged with obstruction of justice.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Row okay, Nicole parton, I want you to hear one
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: more thing in case you didn't get that. As the
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: widow crying and nodding on TV about I hope the
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: killer realizes the gravity of what they've done. She's texting
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: her sex partner, her lover, Hey, you better take that
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: sticker off the back of the car. It's just driving
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: me crazy, and then writes back again. Time Stories with
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. Take a listen to Eric at fifty WAA.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Jennifer Faith stood right here and she cried to me.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: She told me she had no idea who killed her husband.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Now police say that she orchestrated the whole thing, and
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: that's why she's charged with murder for hire. The guy
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: just kept shooting and shooting two months after her husband's death,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Jennifer Faith begged the kill her to come forward. We
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: just really need some answers. If anybody knows anything, please
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: contact the detective. But now she's facing a murder for
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: higher charge. Police say she was having an affair with
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: the Rex boyfriend, Darren Lopez, and she encouraged him to
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: kill her husband, Jamie Faith. Court documents say Jennifer created
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Gmail accounts under her husband and friend's names, then sent
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: emails to her ex posing as her husband and friend,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: alleging Jamie was physically and sexually abusing her. Police say
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: he was not. According to the documents, Jennifer wrote an
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: email to her ex posing as her friend, saying quote,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I know I won't feel better about her situation until
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: she is out of the house away from him, or
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: she lets me put a bullet in Jamie's head. Okay,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: let me understand, because this is getting more and more complex. Okay,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: don't get mad, But I've got to quote Shakespeare again.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I can't hold it back. Oh what a tangled web
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: we weave when first we practice to deceive. So is
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: it not enough to murder your husband? Is it not
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: enough to drag in your ex boyfriend from wherever high
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: school or college, start having sex with him again, then
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: convince him to murder your husband for you set it
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: up to make it look like you, of course, are
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the one with your hands being taped and you're being
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: assaulted and robbed. Then let's just top it off with
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: going on TV and crying and so nodding and big
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: actually getting angry at police because I haven't solved the
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: case yet, trashing the cops. But then to pile on
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: fake email accounts. Do people still do that? They don't
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: get that you can be caught. It's all coming from
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the same IP address. Okay, every laptop, every iPad, every device,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: let me call them, has an IP Internet Provider address,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: And you can make as many fake names as you
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: want to, as many secret accounts as you They're not secret.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Anybody can find them. Cops can find them with one
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: simple subpoena ducas tacum, a subpoena for documents or items.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: A subpoena is for you to come testify. A subpoena
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: ducas tacum is a Latin phrase for you bring this
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: item in whatever it may be. A journal, a laptop,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: a checkbook, So to top it all off, let me
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: just understand this Nicole Parton. She's making fake email accounts
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: talking about how she is being sex abused and physically
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: abused by her husband that she has killed. That's it, Nancy, Well,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: she's gonna rot in hell, hell burning. The devil is
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: laughing or right now he can't wait for her to
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: come to dinner. Go ahead, right, you always say. It
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: goes back to the phone, the electronics, the computer. So
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Faith had created and used two fake email accounts, writing
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: her boyfriend Darren Lopez, forty eight years old back in
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee. She's writing him posing as her husband
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: as well as one of her best friends. She's trying
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: to convince him that the husband is physically and sexually
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: abusing her. She's sending him fake photos of fake injuries,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: pretending to be the husband, taunting him, saying things like
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: leave my family alone, enjoy knowing that you can't do
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: a blank thing about this, sending photos of abuse that
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: is not happening. So she makes up fake emails, pretend
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: she's a friend, and she dupes her lover, her boyfriend,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Darren Lopez, into believing her husband is sex, abusing her
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: and physically abusing her? Do I have that? Do I
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: understand that correctly? That's right. She pretends to be a
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: best friend and she pretends to be her very own
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: husband writing to the boyfriend. So what do we know
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: about how these two met to start with? Where was
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the boyfriend from? Where did they know each other before
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: the murder? They met back in high school. They were
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: high school sweethearts, college sweethearts. He's in Cumberland, Tennessee now
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee. Apparently they were engaged at one point,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: but he decided to join the military. He went off
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: to pursue his military career. Now some twenty years later,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: he looked her up and finds her and they begin
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: a relationship once again a relationship. Were they having sex,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: that's unknown. We do know that they were corresponding daily
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: some twenty Nicole, my sweet Nicole, parton. You think she
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: could string a guy along without having some kind of sex,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: even if it's phone sex? You know, go and you
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: live there? Because I don't want you to know the
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: true nature of people. Of course, they were doing something naughty.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Why is this guy gonna commit a murder? Where they
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: got a woman. He hasn't even kissed. No, And you
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: know that's what I always say, What is it? Dodgor
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Joy Crossham When women say to me should I get
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: back with him? I'm like, you're broke up for a reason. Remember,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: go back in time, Remember why you broke up? Think
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: about it. Why do people always go back to the
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: high school sweetheart? You know, twenty years could pass and
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: you go hit back on the high school sweetheart? What
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: is that? There's just something about that history that's there,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: and with the passage of time you kind of forget
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: all the bad times and look at the doctor, doctor
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Joy every I've got three women in here and one
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: guy and they're all going m You know, I'm might
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: gonna ask about you guys going back to your high
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: school sere. I didn't even want to know because I
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: think so much more of you than that. Yeah, So
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: what is something familiar that you think you can trust?
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Is that it? Doctor Jory? That's kind of it. But
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: you know, sex is a great motivation, and I agree
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: with you. There had to be some kind of sexual
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: activity going on here. I mean something, even if it's
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: just by phone. And James shell Nutt is so could
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: you just surprise me one time. It's just like our
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: dog and every other dog on earth. It wants to
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: lay down. What does it do? It walks around three
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: each time times and it lays down. Do something different
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: for Pete's sake. Come on, at seven thirty in the morning,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: you're walking your dog with your latte and some perv
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: shows up in an all black car, obscuring his face,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: we think, But somehow she masses get a look at
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: him and takes the wife and throws her down, but
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: doesn't take anything, doesn't take her, doesn't rape her, just
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: unloads nine bullets. Really, yeah, it's very cliche. I mean,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I hate to simplify it in those terms, but it
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: really is. And when you look at this, you know
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: when I first looked at this case and looked at it,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: you know, step by step, you know the initial transaction
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: where this guy runs up behind this couple, and I
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: looked at the whole situation. It just looks odd. You
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: can tell right away something's just simply out of place,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: and you know, you start connecting those dots, and as
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: an investigator you have to think, well, wait a minute,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: this doesn't fit the mold. This is odd. There has
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: to be something more. I need to dig a little deeper.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: And that's what the Hey, guess what shall not? You're
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: gonna You're not gonna have to dig two day play.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Let's hear cut to all. This is reporter Matt Howard, WFA.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Listen to this. You probably need to sit down for
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: this and listen. Police say a masked man shot Janey,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: tied up Faith, and then assaulted her before driving away
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: in this truck, which was captured by a witness. Investigators
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: now say that masked man was Darren Lopez from Tennessee.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Who is he? According to this murder warrant, Lopez is
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Faith's ex boyfriend from high school and college. Detectives were
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: given permission to search Faith's phone and found she and
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: her husband were having marital problems. The warrant reeves text
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: messages were also found where Faith described her relationship with
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Lopez as a full blown emotional affair and that Lopez
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: had a five year plan of how they would be together.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Warrant also says that Faith and Lopez texted or called
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: each other fourteen thousand, three, one hundred and sixty three
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: times between September thirtieth and October thirtieth. That timeframe is
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: nine days before and twenty one days after the murder.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: That truck also found on Lopez's property. Police say the
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: warrant describes Faith only as a witness and isn't facing charges.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Everybody keeps saying an emotional affair, So okay, if they
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: want to believe that, that's fine with me. Can we
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: just talk about the fourteen thousand, three hundred and sixty
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: three texts. Fourteen thousand plus texts. Please let me try
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: this case, please, because I would take everyone the juicy
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: it's the top one thousand and put them on a
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: poster board and read them over and over and over.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Nicole Parton, please tell me she's no longer just charged
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: with obstruction. She has this whole plan. Absolutely, no longer
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: just obstruction of justice. Now she is being charged with
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: plotting to kill her husband. As those phone records and
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: computer records begin to unfold, we can see that this
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: entire plan was masterminded by her, and now she's facing
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: a possible life in prison. Well wa wait, wait, wait, wait,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: this happened in Texas. Why are you saying life in prison?
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: What happened to the DP? I suppose that's a possibility
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: for her because that is on the table in Texas. Man,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: you're not kidding. Think about that before he send fourteen
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: thousand texs and have your husband capped. Let me ask
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: you one last question to Cale Parton. He is builled
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: as a loving husband and father. What can you tell
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: me about Jamie Fate children. They had an adult's daughter,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: a college age daughter who was actually staying with them
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: for the time being, and she was inside the home
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: as her father was gunned down outside. They had a
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: very very close relationship, the daughter calling him her very
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: best friend. He was loved by his co workers, by
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: his family, and especially by the daughter. Okay, you're telling
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: me she was in college. But I know losing your
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: dad at any time in your life as a blow
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: you never get over. And like this, we wait as
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: just as sun falls. Nancy Grace Crime Story signing off
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: goodbye friend.