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The curious death of Caleb Marple · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. How does a young guy
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Speaker 1: the prime of his life end up dead? The curious
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Speaker 1: death of Caleb Marple Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Volunteers
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Speaker 1: gathered near the Center Street Bridge in downtown Cleveland today
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Speaker 1: looking for a missing Westlake man. Please say. Thirty nine
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Speaker 1: year old Caleb Marple was last seen late Sunday evening
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Speaker 1: leaving the Barley House restaurant on West six. Search teams
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Speaker 1: were hoping to find him or any clues. Our hopes
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Speaker 1: were that we find him today and that he has okay,
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Speaker 1: and that we're able to bring him home. But we're
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Speaker 1: not looking for a body. We're looking for him. If
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Speaker 1: you know where Caleb Marple is, called Cleveland Police. Here
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Speaker 1: hearing our friends there at wk YC three News. Everyone
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Speaker 1: that knew calebs so very very well was looking for
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Speaker 1: him to return home, and we're stunned when they learn
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Speaker 1: Caleb is dead. Twizzes and turns throughout the story have
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Speaker 1: led me to the conclusion that we don't know the truth.
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Speaker 1: With me and All Star panel to break it down
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Speaker 1: and put it back together again, Doctor Angela Arnold renounced
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Speaker 1: psychiatrists joining me out of Atlanta. You can find her
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Speaker 1: at Angela Arnold MD dot com. Rob Slattery, the PI
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Speaker 1: hired by Caleb's family. Former Brooklyn, Ohio Officer, SWAT Team member,
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Speaker 1: Private Eye at JAB Investigative Services. Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor Forensics,
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Speaker 1: Jackson State University, author of Blood Beneath My Feet on
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Speaker 1: Amazon Now, the star of Poisonous Liaisons on the True
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Speaker 1: Crime Network, Crime Online dot Com, investig At Every Reporter,
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Speaker 1: Levi Page, renowned defense attorney practicing in multiple jurisdictions. Former
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Speaker 1: Prosecutor Daryl Cohen, and special guest Caleb's sister Amanda Albright.
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Speaker 1: Let's start at the beginning. This young guy, the whole
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Speaker 1: world ahead of him, goes out with friends to a restaurant,
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Speaker 1: the Barley House. Take a listen to this. He would
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Speaker 1: do anything for anybody. Brianna Robert says her uncle Caleb
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Speaker 1: was a guy who loved his family and to have
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Speaker 1: a good time. He was like a jokester, and that's
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Speaker 1: what The Knight of Me seventeenth started out. As Caleb
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Speaker 1: and friends went to Barley House in Cleveland. There was
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Speaker 1: an exchange, verbal exchange, and he was asked to leave
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Speaker 1: the establishment. But he never went back to his Westlake home.
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Speaker 1: According to witnesses, Caleb walked about ten more minutes where
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Speaker 1: he was involved in a fight with a group outside
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Speaker 1: of the Archer apartments in the Flats. Then he kept
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Speaker 1: walking for twelve days. His family and friends looked for him.
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Speaker 1: His body eventually found in the river. His death ruled accidental.
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Speaker 1: His keys closed. Doesn't make sense, like somebody had to
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Speaker 1: have placed him there. It doesn't make sense. Here hearing
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Speaker 1: our friends at WWS News five Cleveland. That was Jesse's
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Speaker 1: Schultz speaking. So he and his friends are all out
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Speaker 1: at this Barley House restaurant bar at some point, you know,
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Speaker 1: everybody's having a good time and drinking. There's a verbal
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Speaker 1: altercation and Caleb leaves. He spotted on video he doesn't
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Speaker 1: have his cell phone, so he's obviously trying to figure out, Okay,
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Speaker 1: now what am I going to do? I don't I
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Speaker 1: can't find my cell phone with me Levi Page Crime
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Speaker 1: Online dot Com investigative reporter Levi where was his cell phone? Nancy?
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Speaker 1: Apparently it was left in the car of the people
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Speaker 1: that he was riding with to get to downtown Cleveland.
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Speaker 1: Just to set up the timeline, it's May seventeenth, twenty twenty,
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Speaker 1: and he's hanging out with friends at Crocker Park Bar,
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Speaker 1: which is in Westlake, Ohio. That's a nice suburb where
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Speaker 1: he lived, about twelve miles away from Cleveland, and then
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Speaker 1: they decided that they wanted to go to Cleveland to
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Speaker 1: have more fun, to go to another bar, and that's
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Speaker 1: how they ended up in Cleveland. And his cell phone
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Speaker 1: was left in someone's vehicle. So this is now where
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Speaker 1: where he lives. He's like fifteen miles at least from
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Speaker 1: where he lives in the suburbs. Yes, or Westlake, Ohio
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Speaker 1: is the suburb. Suburb, very nice area, and then twelve
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Speaker 1: miles away is Cleveland where he vanished. So he goes
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Speaker 1: to downtown Cleveland to this Barley House bar restaurant, and
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Speaker 1: he's with all of his friends. Everybody's having a good time,
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Speaker 1: and a verbal argument ensued and Caleb leaves. Caleb Marple
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Speaker 1: leaves to you. Rob Slattery PI at JAB Investigative Services.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Rob for being with us. Rob. What does that
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Speaker 1: video surveillance show Caleb is doing outside the Burly House. Well,
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Speaker 1: we have been provided very little video. We have submitted
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Speaker 1: multiple requests to the City of Cleveland for the entire
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Speaker 1: investigative file. We are actually in the court of claims now.
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Speaker 1: We had to file a lawsuit against the city to
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Speaker 1: obtain records. Excuse me. We've been able to obtain some records,
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Speaker 1: but none of the videos. They at first they didn't
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Speaker 1: have any videos, and then we showed them in other
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Speaker 1: reports that videos have been turned over to them. They
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Speaker 1: now admit there's more than two hours of video, but
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Speaker 1: we still have knocked got our hands on those videos.
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Speaker 1: What little we do have though, we see that Caleb
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Speaker 1: to walk away from the barley house, not bothering anybody
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Speaker 1: and just kind of walks out of you. You know,
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Speaker 1: I've been there too, Doctor Angel Arnold. Psychiatrists joined me
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Speaker 1: out of the Atlanta jurisdiction, Doctor Angie, I will never forget.
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Speaker 1: I was not out of the cab for one minute
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Speaker 1: before I realized the cab had driven off with my
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Speaker 1: cell phone. I tried to get myself get the guy back,
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Speaker 1: but it was gone. So that's what happens here. And
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Speaker 1: it's a thing like we're so used to our cell phones,
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Speaker 1: you don't know what to do. And I'm looking at
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Speaker 1: the video of Kila right now, he comes out of
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Speaker 1: the barley house, and he's just leaned up. He can
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Speaker 1: walk fine. He is not inebriated. He's walking around. He's
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out what am I going to do
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Speaker 1: without my cell phone? And then finally he just takes off.
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Speaker 1: At one point I can see him gesture like arms
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Speaker 1: up in the air, like oh, and he starts walking.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, I don't see anything amiss. Yet
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Speaker 1: I agree with you in what sense. I agree with
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Speaker 1: what you're saying about what you don't that you don't
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Speaker 1: see anything amiss. And also I mean, for goodness sake,
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Speaker 1: everything in our lives are on our cell phones. Nope,
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Speaker 1: people don't memorize phone numbers or anything anymore. So he's
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Speaker 1: all on his own now once he's out of that bar,
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Speaker 1: isn't he. He's not quite sure why he left by himself.
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Speaker 1: That's just something that I've been pondering. But he's all
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Speaker 1: on his own now, isn't he? Take a listen to
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Speaker 1: our friend Alex Stokes at Fox eight. His friends say
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Speaker 1: they are grateful for the support they have received, both
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Speaker 1: online and in person. People who can't be here of
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Speaker 1: Alfred to make flyers or bring snacks or anything that
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Speaker 1: they could do or drop off to show some type
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Speaker 1: of support for our search party, but they are still
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Speaker 1: hoping someone may have more information. Check your phones, check
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Speaker 1: your instagrams, anything, anyone that was out that night. Every
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Speaker 1: day that has gone by without him has been painful.
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Speaker 1: I know my husband's heart is torn out. It was
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Speaker 1: his best friend, and I've never seen him right so much.
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Speaker 1: He's very lost straight now, and that's why I'm doing this.
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Speaker 1: I loved Caleb as well, but I know my husband
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Speaker 1: is lost. Is lovely. He's trying to stay positive the riddle.
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Speaker 1: I'm hopeful that he is alive. I do feel that
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Speaker 1: there's something wrong and I want to be able to
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Speaker 1: find him. And I really, truly, in my heart, feel
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Speaker 1: that God is on our side in this. You're hearing friends,
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Speaker 1: family speaking out. When Caleb first goes missing, I can
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Speaker 1: see in the video when he leaves the Barley House,
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Speaker 1: he's walking perfectly fine. He doesn't look inebriated, he's not
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Speaker 1: in an argument nothing. He walks outside the Barley House,
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Speaker 1: He's standing there like he's trying to figure out what
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Speaker 1: am I gonna do without myself? And I can't call
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Speaker 1: for a taxi. I can't call for an uber and
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Speaker 1: then finally he throws one arm up and starts walking.
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Speaker 1: Friends and family at the beginning, holding out hope that
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Speaker 1: Caleb is alive. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, What happened
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Speaker 1: to Caleb Marple with me? Now, let's go to someone
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Speaker 1: that knows him better than any of us. His sister,
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Speaker 1: Amanda Albright. Amanda, thank you for being with us the
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Speaker 1: day you learn Caleb is missing. What happened? Amanda? So,
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Speaker 1: I was actually at the grocery store and with my daughter.
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Speaker 1: He had done at text to him, just asking if
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Speaker 1: he needs us to pick anything up for him, and
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Speaker 1: what we got back with a response from his neighbor
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Speaker 1: saying that she had his cell phone and that she
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Speaker 1: did not know where he went. Okay, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: why did the neighbor have the cell phone? Was that
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Speaker 1: who he got a ride with? It's not clear to
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Speaker 1: me exactly who they got a ride with that his
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Speaker 1: neighbor has told police that it was two girls that
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Speaker 1: they had met that night gave them a ride downtown. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so they were at first at this local suburban restaurant
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Speaker 1: bar and then they all decide to go into Cleveland
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Speaker 1: to the barley house that must be the people they
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Speaker 1: got the ride with the two girls. Correct. Okay, so
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Speaker 1: then the neighbor because of the ride ends up with
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Speaker 1: Caleb's phone. Is the neighbor that you spoke with that
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Speaker 1: answered his phone? Was he or she at the Barley
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Speaker 1: House that night? Yes? What did she say happened? She
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Speaker 1: told us that she did not see him leave, so
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Speaker 1: she doesn't know why he laughed, and that was basically it.
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Speaker 1: They laugh without his cell phone. And really those people
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Speaker 1: are that he went to the Barley House with a
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Speaker 1: kind of out of the mix because we see him
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Speaker 1: leaving alone and walking off like he's going to try
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Speaker 1: to get a ride home to you leave my page,
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Speaker 1: Crime online dot Com investigative reporter. What happens next? So,
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Speaker 1: as you mentioned, we saw the security camera of him
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Speaker 1: walking out alone and ten minutes later, he gets into
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Speaker 1: a confrontation with a group of people outside of an
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Speaker 1: apartment Complict Archer apartment. It's less than half a mile
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Speaker 1: from the Barley House, and one witness told police that
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Speaker 1: Caleb was body slammed, and the police has said some
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Speaker 1: witnesses lied to them and we're not forthcoming whatever happened.
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Speaker 1: We do know that security cameras inside the archer apart
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Speaker 1: actually so blood on the steps of the apartments inside.
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Speaker 1: This is a lot of evidence and it's effecting the timeline.
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Speaker 1: First of all, take a listen to Alex Stoates at
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Speaker 1: Fox eight. Friends and family of Caleb Marple gathered in
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Speaker 1: the flats in downtown Cleveland Saturday, organized in several groups
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Speaker 1: on land and by boat to try and find the
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Speaker 1: thirty nine year old. We're here because we love Caleb.
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Speaker 1: Marple had been seen around midnight on May eighteenth at
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Speaker 1: Barley House, a bar on West sixth Street, where he
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Speaker 1: had gone with friends. It was reported to police that
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Speaker 1: he had left his phone in an uber. Caleb's friends
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Speaker 1: organized the search party because they say this is out
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Speaker 1: of character for him and they're worried. He's not a
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Speaker 1: drug user, he doesn't have history of mental illness. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he did not have his phone, His car and apartment
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Speaker 1: are left untouched. He's we feel there's something wrong that
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Speaker 1: we need to find him and bring him home. While
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Speaker 1: the search was organized by Caleb's friends, Cleveland police were
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Speaker 1: there to help. Groups were separated into five zones, covering
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Speaker 1: both the east and west banks of the flats, and
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Speaker 1: they will stay within their zone until they look in
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Speaker 1: every dumpster, every alleyway, knock on every private property doors.
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Speaker 1: Let me understand something. We leave by page, you're saying
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Speaker 1: that we're hearing all the friends saying he does not
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Speaker 1: use drugs. He does not have any mental health issues.
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Speaker 1: He left his phone in an Uber, but I think
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Speaker 1: that got lost in translation because somewhere along the way
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Speaker 1: somebody he left it with his ride, so that was
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Speaker 1: translated to me and Uber, but it was with the
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Speaker 1: people he drove to the Brawley house with. So explain
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Speaker 1: to me, leave by page how he ends up getting attacked.
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Speaker 1: Hold on, take a listen to Jesse Schultz a WWS
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Speaker 1: in Westlake police reports, one witness says she saw Caleb
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Speaker 1: get body slammed. The report shows police found blood near
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Speaker 1: the Archer apartment's entryway. Now, the goal is to overt
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Speaker 1: the cause of death ruling and get Cleveland police to
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Speaker 1: investigate further. It's hard not to question some of the things,
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Speaker 1: some of the actions that were taken, and how Cleveland
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Speaker 1: conducted this lack of an investigation. They say they're slowly
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Speaker 1: putting the pieces together and are confident they'll soon have
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Speaker 1: a clear picture of what happened that night, But have
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Speaker 1: one message for anyone involved, well, sooner or later, the
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Speaker 1: truth's going to come out. Too many people know what
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Speaker 1: happened that night, too many people were involved. The truth
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Speaker 1: will come out. But when Amanda Albright, Caleb's sister, is
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Speaker 1: with us, as well as a private eye hired by
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Speaker 1: Caleb's family, Leavi Page, How in the world is this
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Speaker 1: guy who I can tell in the video he's not drunk,
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Speaker 1: he's walking perfectly fine, he walks away. How does he
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Speaker 1: end up body slammed and in front of Archer Apartments?
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Speaker 1: Where is Archer Apartments as it relates to the Barley Half?
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Speaker 1: Why is there blood found? Is it Cal's blood? So?
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Speaker 1: The Archer Apartments is about half a mile or less
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Speaker 1: from the bar that he was at the Barley House.
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Speaker 1: You can walk there, that's how he got there. And
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Speaker 1: security cameras show a group of people, young people entering
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Speaker 1: the apartment. One guy has blood on his hand and
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Speaker 1: he's ducking fighting his face from the camera. And then
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Speaker 1: the steps when you enter that apartment building, there's blood
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Speaker 1: on the steps. We do not know if that blood
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Speaker 1: has been identified as Caleb's or anyone else's blood. But
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Speaker 1: what police have revealed is that a witness to this
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Speaker 1: altercation said that Caleb was body slammed, And they've also
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Speaker 1: said that some of the people that they have interviewed
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Speaker 1: have not been forth coming and have led to them
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Speaker 1: about what happened. I don't understand Rob Slattery PI with
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Speaker 1: JAB Investigative Services. He's walking along, clearly looking for a
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Speaker 1: cab or a way to get back home. So he
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Speaker 1: walks probably about a five minute walk max. To the
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Speaker 1: first thing he sees, and that's the Archer House apartments.
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Speaker 1: I assume as a high rise, there are people out front.
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Speaker 1: How does he get end up getting body slammed? He
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Speaker 1: ended up the group of people that were entering walking
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Speaker 1: up and entering into the Archer apartments was the same
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Speaker 1: group of people from the Barley House that he had
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Speaker 1: the confrontation with. They just happened to be crossing paths.
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Speaker 1: He left the bar first, that's documented by video. I
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Speaker 1: just think he happened to be wandering that way trying
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Speaker 1: to figure out what he was going to do to
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Speaker 1: kind of save his night and get home, and he
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Speaker 1: came across these people and Davey came agitated and more
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Speaker 1: aggressive by the statements that Westlake Police took. One of
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Speaker 1: the people finally admitted to shoving Caleb and knocking him
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Speaker 1: to the ground, and then another one of the people
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Speaker 1: in the group, the term was scooped him up and
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Speaker 1: body slammed him. But there's another statement by Westlake Police
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Speaker 1: one of the females in the group that this person
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Speaker 1: punched Caleb multiple times. So this was not a mutual
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Speaker 1: combatant fight. This was an attack that would classify as
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Speaker 1: an assault. So the same group that he had a
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Speaker 1: verbal altercation with in the Barley House, he happens upon
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Speaker 1: five or six minutes later at the Archer House apartments.
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Speaker 1: There there he was quote body slammed and beaten. Also,
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Speaker 1: I hope you're sitting down for this. In a police report,
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Speaker 1: one witness states he quote didn't know where they put
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Speaker 1: his body. But yet somehow this has been ruled an
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Speaker 1: accidental drowning crime stories with Nancy Grace. The curious death
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Speaker 1: of Caleb Marple is weighing on my mind. The pieces
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Speaker 1: are not fitting together. Take a listen to w KYC
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Speaker 1: three News Rachel Plansky. Three News investigates has obteen video
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Speaker 1: surveillance tracking much of Marple's final hours at the Barley
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Speaker 1: House on West six Commershal Marple talking with friends. One
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Speaker 1: minute after midnight, he walks out alone. His cell phone
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Speaker 1: was accidentally left in a car hours earlier. Within fifteen minutes,
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Speaker 1: he's outside the Archer Apartments on West ninth Street. That's
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Speaker 1: where he has a confrontation with a group of people.
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Speaker 1: Whatever happened was swift for bloody. Video cameras don't capture
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Speaker 1: an assault, but they do show a man walking away
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Speaker 1: blood dripping from his hand. Witnesses initially said Marvel was
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Speaker 1: merely pushed. Later a woman admitted he was quote body slammed.
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Speaker 1: To you, Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor of forensics, JACKSONA State University.
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Speaker 1: I know you deal strictly with forensic evidence, but I
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Speaker 1: find that very curious. Why the person going into the
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Speaker 1: Archer House apartments would duck his head so video surveillance
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Speaker 1: wouldn't catch his face. The same person with blood all
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Speaker 1: over his hands that was caught on video. What does
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Speaker 1: that mean to you regarding the blood, Well, what it
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Speaker 1: says to me is that if you're obscuring your face
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Speaker 1: in some way, you have an awareness there you're being watched,
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Speaker 1: that there is a camera there now too. I would
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Speaker 1: have to know more relative to what the sourcing of
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Speaker 1: this blood is. And right now, I think one of
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Speaker 1: the most troubling things is that, as Levi had mentioned earlier, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: there was no typology that was done relative to the
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Speaker 1: source of the blood that they found outside of this place,
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Speaker 1: and I think that's a shame. Is the blood now
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Speaker 1: lost forever to Rob's slattery. Private investigator a JAB Investigative
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Speaker 1: Services hired by Keli Marple's family, did anyone sample the
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Speaker 1: blood that was found to determine if it is callips there?
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Speaker 1: As far as the blood on the steps, there is
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Speaker 1: no documentation that we have been provided to show that
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Speaker 1: they did secure any of that for testing or just
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Speaker 1: as evidence. How much blood was there, it appeared to
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Speaker 1: me was quite a bit. I mean you could actually
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Speaker 1: during the playing of the video at normal speed, you
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Speaker 1: could actually see it dripping off of his hand. I mean,
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Speaker 1: depending on how much blood Joe Scott, it could have
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Speaker 1: indicated immortal wound. Yeah, yeah, You're absolutely right, it could
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Speaker 1: and I would I will say this the autopsy report
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Speaker 1: which I reviewed, there are two injuries. If our listeners
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Speaker 1: will simply take your right hand and place it directly
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Speaker 1: above your right ear. Just go up about two or
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Speaker 1: three inches. There's a two inch laceration right there, and
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Speaker 1: then behind that there's a one inch laceration. And when
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Speaker 1: they say laceration, Nancy, that means that's not a cut, Okay,
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Speaker 1: contrary to what people think when they hear laceration that's
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Speaker 1: associated with blood force trauma. What I would like to know,
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Speaker 1: I think is these people that are talking about him
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Speaker 1: being body slam, I'd like to know what the point
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Speaker 1: of contact was if they saw this fellow being body slam.
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Speaker 1: I want to know at what point where did his
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Speaker 1: body touch ground? Did when he was bodyslam did he
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Speaker 1: impact on that space? That space that we've talked about
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Speaker 1: adjacent to the right side of to the right ear,
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Speaker 1: is that the point of contact where where this concussive
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Speaker 1: event took place. So if he has quote body slammed,
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Speaker 1: gets notch unconscious and then as the witness said, he
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Speaker 1: didn't know where they put the body. Yeah, if he's
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Speaker 1: thrown in the water in that condition, he would drown, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he would. And I have to tell you, you know,
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Speaker 1: looking through the autopsy reports, one of the things that
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Speaker 1: kind of jumps out at you. If I ever hear
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Speaker 1: that someone is drowned. The first place I'm going to
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Speaker 1: go in the autopsy, in the autopsy report or the
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Speaker 1: weight of the organs nancy both to his left and
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Speaker 1: his right lungs or double the standard weight. So he
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Speaker 1: had inhalated water. Now, if he was incapacitated by this
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Speaker 1: trauma to the head, he would not have had the ability,
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Speaker 1: okay to fight against this. He would have just been
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Speaker 1: in the water floating and have him wholighted the water,
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Speaker 1: subsequently drowning too. Amanda joining us is his Keeleb's sister.
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Speaker 1: Did Kelle know how to swim? Yeah, no doubt about it,
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Speaker 1: No doubt. Yes, guys, take a listen to our friend
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Speaker 1: Dave Mackett Crime online dot Com. Thirty nine year old
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Speaker 1: bachelor Caleb Marple is out with friends at a Crocker
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Speaker 1: Park bar when the group decides to go downtown to
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Speaker 1: Cleveland's Warehouse District just after midnight. He finds himself outside
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Speaker 1: the bar alone and without his cell phone. He left
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Speaker 1: that inside the car of a woman who drove him
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Speaker 1: and two friends downtown. Street cameras follow Marple as he
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Speaker 1: walks around for about ten minutes when he arrives at
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Speaker 1: the Archer Apartments, where he is involved in a confrontation
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Speaker 1: with a group of people. Witnesses tell police that Marple
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Speaker 1: was pushed during the altercation. The report was later changed
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Speaker 1: when a witness claimed Marple was body slammed. Surveillance video
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Speaker 1: from the Archer Apartments doesn't show the incident, but it
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Speaker 1: does show six to eight people entering the apartment complex,
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Speaker 1: with one man ducking his head from camera view with
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Speaker 1: blood dripping from his hand. A woman walking behind the
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Speaker 1: man is seen pointing out the blood drops on the
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Speaker 1: indoor steps. Caleb Marble has never seen again. To Amanda Albright,
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Speaker 1: Caleb's sister, Amanda, again, thank you for being with us.
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Speaker 1: What do you believe happened that night? I believe that
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Speaker 1: either he was placed in the water or he substained
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Speaker 1: some sort of injury that would have, you know, if
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Speaker 1: he were to have fallen in But even that, I
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Speaker 1: don't think it's possible given the location in which he
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Speaker 1: was found. What do you mean by given the location?
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Speaker 1: The location that he was found is a small water
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Speaker 1: bay which has fencing all around, so he would have
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Speaker 1: had to have jumped over a since to have gotten
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Speaker 1: in the water over there, and this is not a
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Speaker 1: area where we see a lot of river flowing in
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Speaker 1: and out. To you, Rob Slattery, the pi Hire by
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Speaker 1: Kilbs family. I didn't realize that the water, the body
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Speaker 1: of water where he was found was surrounded by a fence.
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Speaker 1: There is quite a bit of fencing and railings and
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Speaker 1: different things to divide the water's edge for people passing by.
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Speaker 1: And they kind of tried to make it sound like
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Speaker 1: he he just wandered in and that was ed. He
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Speaker 1: fell in. It was his own fault. One of the
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Speaker 1: troubling parts that we see is with this timeline. He
25:36
Speaker 1: was recovered on May twenty ninth. May thirtieth were the
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Speaker 1: riots in downtown Cleveland, and we believed that at that
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Speaker 1: point this was everything stopped. It was shelved. June first
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Speaker 1: was the day that the autopsy was signed off. On
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Speaker 1: June sixth, they decided that there were going to be
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Speaker 1: no charges for anyone, even though they had statements that
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Speaker 1: Caleb was struck and slammed to the ground. They decided
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Speaker 1: that there was insufficient evidence to even charge anybody with
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Speaker 1: the assault of Caleb. Logistically, Rob Slattery, how far away
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Speaker 1: is Archer apartments are Archer apartments. I guess it's high
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Speaker 1: rise where he was body slammed and one of his
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Speaker 1: attackers is left literally dripping in blood. How far is
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Speaker 1: that from where his body is found in a body
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Speaker 1: of water surrounded by a fence, Because he's body slammed
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Speaker 1: less than thirty minutes before he disappears. So how far
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Speaker 1: away is Archer Apartments from the body of water? It's
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Speaker 1: really not that far. It's over a bridge and down
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Speaker 1: several streets walking ten minute walks while minute walk roughly
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Speaker 1: something like that. So there he is. He would have
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Speaker 1: to walk after body slammed, losing blood, beaten up two
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Speaker 1: lacerations to the head, he would have to walk about
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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, climb over a fence and drown himself. Prime
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Speaker 1: Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, we are talking about the
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Speaker 1: curious death of a young man and the prime of
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Speaker 1: his life starts out a local restaurant bar with his buddies.
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Speaker 1: They meet up with some women. They decide to go
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Speaker 1: downtown Cleveland. That's where the trouble starts. At another restaurant
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Speaker 1: bar named the Barley House. He goes in his phone,
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Speaker 1: is left and in his ride's car everybody's having a
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Speaker 1: good time. He leaves the bar after he gets a
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Speaker 1: verbal fuss with somebody. He starts walking, trying to get
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Speaker 1: away home. About five to eight minutes away, he gets
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Speaker 1: to the Archer House apartment complex and there he runs
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Speaker 1: in fortuitously with the same people that argue with him
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Speaker 1: at Burley House. They body slam him and beat him.
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Speaker 1: One witness saying he quote didn't know where they put
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Speaker 1: the body. Yet this still remains an accidental death ruling.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to Brian Duffy are cut nine at
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Speaker 1: WOIOTV nineteen. Caleb Marple's family believes that justice is within reach,
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Speaker 1: that the truth they believe in is just an investigation away.
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Speaker 1: Marple lost his life after a night out in the
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Speaker 1: Warehouse district. We're putting together quite a puzzle here, and
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Speaker 1: we're just trying to get justice for the family. Rob Slattery,
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Speaker 1: a former police officer, is the private investigator that Marple's
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Speaker 1: family hired. The medical examiner has ruled Caleb's death is accidental,
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Speaker 1: but Slattery believes there is now critical information regarding witness
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Speaker 1: statements and evidence regarding the condition of Caleb's body that
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Speaker 1: needs to be looked at in a different light, and
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Speaker 1: we hope it changes his mind to where they change
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Speaker 1: the cause of death to undetermined at this time. Witness statements,
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Speaker 1: Slattery says, include two who claimed to have known that
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Speaker 1: Marple was dead in the days after the altercation, even
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Speaker 1: though the body was not found until twelve days after
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Speaker 1: he went missing. That's a critical point he'll make to
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Speaker 1: the medical examiner. I believe it forces the local law
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Speaker 1: enforcement to take another look at this and with me,
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Speaker 1: Rob Flattery, that private investigator who was speaking with Brian
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Speaker 1: Wio tell me about w this is that no Caleb
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Speaker 1: was dead before his body found. I got a phone
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Speaker 1: call from one of the people that was at the
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Speaker 1: Barley House in that group of people also at the Archer,
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Speaker 1: and I believe he was kind of just trying to
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Speaker 1: feel me out for information. But he tripped up and
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Speaker 1: he admitted that the next day he knew that Caleb
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Speaker 1: was dead. And I said, really, And I said, how
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Speaker 1: did you know that? He goes well? I got a
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Speaker 1: phone call from somebody and I said, who called you?
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Speaker 1: He goes well? I you know, he's stuttering. Well, I
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Speaker 1: don't remember he goes I kind of you know what,
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Speaker 1: I'm a little foggy and who called me? And I said, well,
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Speaker 1: it's amazing. I said, I need to meet with you.
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Speaker 1: I like take a formal statement. And he says, well,
30:42
Speaker 1: why are you honing in on us? He says, it
30:45
Speaker 1: seems like you're bullying and you're just picking on us.
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Speaker 1: And I said, well, you just admitted to knowing of
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Speaker 1: that someone was dead. You got a phone call that
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Speaker 1: he was dead, and his body hadn't been found for
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Speaker 1: another eleven, almost twelve days. They said, you guys were
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Speaker 1: the last ones to see them alive. I said, you
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Speaker 1: don't find that puzzling. I'm not going to ask you
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Speaker 1: the name because I know you would have already told
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Speaker 1: me if you wanted it to be public. But you
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Speaker 1: do know who you were speaking with, right I do.
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Speaker 1: Have you given the information to police yet? We're actually
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Speaker 1: going back and forth with the Cleveland Law Department trying
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Speaker 1: to get all the records from them. I have not
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Speaker 1: given this to them yet for the simple fact that
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Speaker 1: I don't think they'll do anything right now unless their
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Speaker 1: hands are tied, and this show today is going to,
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Speaker 1: I believe, help us tremendously with their qual The video
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Speaker 1: shows a group of six to eight people entering archer,
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Speaker 1: one man ducking his hand from the camera view, noticeably
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Speaker 1: dripping blood from his hand. A woman who follows points
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Speaker 1: to blood drops on the indoor steps. So this person
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Speaker 1: is still dripping blood even after he gets inside the archer.
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Speaker 1: That's a lot of blood. I mean, I don't understand
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Speaker 1: to you, Daryl Cohen, not only a renowned defense attorney
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Speaker 1: now but former prosecutor. I don't see how this could
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Speaker 1: be ignored by police and the District attorney's office. They're
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Speaker 1: in Cleveland. When you've got a witness and knows the
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Speaker 1: person's dead and their bodies are not found till ten
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Speaker 1: days later, that's a smoking gun, Daryl, Nancy, it's a
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Speaker 1: smoking ak forty seven. I don't understand. On a practical matter.
32:38
Speaker 1: I do because they're overwhelmed and the pandemic has created
32:44
Speaker 1: a morass of problems for law enforcement. And it was
32:48
Speaker 1: pointed out earlier that there were riots in Cleveland, as
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Speaker 1: there were all over the country. But that doesn't excuse
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Speaker 1: a lack of good, solid investigating. And let me, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: let me return to this dying drowning. Let's just assume
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Speaker 1: for the moment he had been beaten up he had
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Speaker 1: been body slam He was bloody, and he was trying
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Speaker 1: to escape, and he did scale the fence or jump
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Speaker 1: the fence, and maybe he went into the water to
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Speaker 1: avoid being killed. Maybe he fell into the water. I
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Speaker 1: don't know, none of us were there. But that is murder. Yes,
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Speaker 1: he drowned because he was in the water in all likelihood,
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Speaker 1: but that is murder. But also when you take into
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Speaker 1: account the witness that says he didn't know what they
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Speaker 1: did with the body, indicates to me that killed was
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Speaker 1: dead and then the body was moved. Just so you know,
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Speaker 1: the local District Attorney's office phone number there is two
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Speaker 1: one six four four three seven eight hundred repeat two
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Speaker 1: one six three seven eight hundred and Brett if you
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Speaker 1: could double check that number for me. The Cleveland District
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Speaker 1: Attorney's office Cleveland Police is two one six six two
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Speaker 1: one one two three four repeat two one six six
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Speaker 1: two one one two three four. Why is it this
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Speaker 1: case being investigated? Straight back to keel AB's sister, Amanda Albright, Amanda,
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Speaker 1: what if anything are police or the District Attorney's office
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Speaker 1: telling you? Well, it should be clear from the police
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Speaker 1: report that Cleveland police did not speak to one individual
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Speaker 1: involved in this case. All the interviewing was done by Westlake.
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Speaker 1: The Westlake Police number is four four zero eight seven
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Speaker 1: one three three one one repeat four four zero eight
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Speaker 1: seven one three three one one Back to Rob Slattery.
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Speaker 1: The private investigator hired by kill family was the body
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Speaker 1: slamming and the Westlake Police jurisdiction or the Cleveland Police jurisdiction.
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Speaker 1: It was in Cleveland, down outside the Archer apartments. And
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Speaker 1: where his body was found is that in Westlake or
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Speaker 1: Cleveland police jurisdiction? It's Cleveland, all Cleveland. So the body
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Speaker 1: slamming and the discovery of Kelub's body all in Cleveland, correct, Guys.
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Speaker 1: I want you to hear from the victim himself. This
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Speaker 1: is Kellub. He was the best man for his best
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Speaker 1: friend's wedding, who the friend gone now into a deep depression.
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Speaker 1: Here he is toasting the best man. I'd like to
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Speaker 1: say a few quick where's delf of men in Christina.
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Speaker 1: It's truly an honor to be a part of this wedding.
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Speaker 1: I've known men since we were a kid, and I've
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Speaker 1: watched him grow into an exceptional young man. He's truly
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Speaker 1: blessed to have found his beautiful bride, Christina. There's no
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Speaker 1: one better that two of them are great people and
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Speaker 1: have been great friends to me over the years, and
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Speaker 1: I know that they will have a wonderful life and
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Speaker 1: a beautiful marriage. And so here's the minie Christina, We
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Speaker 1: love you. Congratulations. Just hearing his voice and life changes things,
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Speaker 1: doesn't it. It was man and Christina that helped lead
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Speaker 1: the search for Kellup when he went missing. You heard
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Speaker 1: them speaking earlier to a man, to all bride, Kilob's sister.
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Speaker 1: When you hear his voice, what do you think, horribly
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Speaker 1: trying to hear We wait as justice and falls. Nancy
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Speaker 1: Grace Crime Story, signing off good bye friend,