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True Crime Documentary - Secrets in Wine Country The Napa Case That Terrified a Community · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

• 0:14
  Speaker 1: But Napa Valley is a place of wineries and vineyards,
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  Speaker 1: of tourists, of lifestyle. It's a lovely place to live.
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  Speaker 2: And good afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to KVN's afternoon edition. I'm Jeff Shackman and I'm
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  Speaker 1: the host of a local talk show. It's a very
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  Speaker 1: great place to live in terms of its safety, which
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  Speaker 1: is why this crime was so dramatic. The crime happened
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  Speaker 1: on Halloween night of two thousand and four.
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  Speaker 3: There were three women living at the.
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  Speaker 1: Home on Dorset Street, Adrian and Sonia, Leslie Mazara and
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  Speaker 1: Laura and Mianza. The intruder made his way to the house,
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  Speaker 1: sat outside the front window, smoked at least a couple
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  Speaker 1: of cigarettes that we know of, went through the window,
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  Speaker 1: made his way upstairs and committed two brutal, horrible murders.
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  Speaker 4: Adrian was one of my best friends. She never ever
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  Speaker 4: turned us down if we needed something. Her family are friends.
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  Speaker 4: We were always first. We always knew that she was
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  Speaker 4: a great person.
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  Speaker 2: Everything about Leslie's life is just pure and innocent and
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  Speaker 2: bright and bubbly and friendly and sweet.
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  Speaker 1: There is no way to even imagine the ugliness and
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  Speaker 1: the brutality of what was seen there.
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  Speaker 5: My biggest fear is that she was asleep in her
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  Speaker 5: bed and woke up and here's this man standing over her,
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  Speaker 5: ready to kill her.
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  Speaker 3: And I just picture him just raising up above her.
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  Speaker 5: And just saving her.
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  Speaker 1: What we know happened between Adrian and the intruder, there
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  Speaker 1: was clearly a struggle.
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  Speaker 6: She was a fighter, She was a scrappy girl. She
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  Speaker 6: would have fought very, very hard. And I hope she
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  Speaker 6: heard him.
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  Speaker 1: It was a who done it for a very long time,
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  Speaker 1: and the truth of the matter is that the answer
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  Speaker 1: was right there at the very center of the circle.
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  Speaker 2: There's a major break tonight in a double mortar that
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  Speaker 2: shot the Wine Country Apple.
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  Speaker 7: Police now have a suspect behind bars.
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  Speaker 1: And then the who done it rapidly he turned into
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  Speaker 1: a y gunnit. There are just dark things that go
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  Speaker 1: on inside the human soul that will never know and
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  Speaker 1: never really understand.
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  Speaker 8: Nightmare in Napa.
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  Speaker 3: I was jealous when they moved in. I thought it
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  Speaker 3: was a wonderful house.
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  Speaker 7: There was a time when this house on Dorsett Street,
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  Speaker 7: not far from downtown Napa felt like the perfect place
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  Speaker 7: to live.
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  Speaker 9: Adrian just seemed very happy, very content.
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  Speaker 7: Arlee and Allen's door Adrian lived in the house and
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  Speaker 7: loved it.
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  Speaker 9: She was looking forward to living in that home a
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  Speaker 9: long time. She really loved the neighborhood. She just felt
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  Speaker 9: really at home there.
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  Speaker 7: At first, there were only two roommates, both locals, twenty
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  Speaker 7: seven year old Lauren Mianza, who coached volleyball at a
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  Speaker 7: community college, and twenty six year old Adrian and Sonia,
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  Speaker 7: an engineer for the NAPA Sanitation District.
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  Speaker 6: Adrian and Lauren both were very sports minded, very active.
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  Speaker 7: Lily Prudom knew both women, but was especially close to Adrian.
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  Speaker 3: It was sort of a fast friendship.
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  Speaker 6: We worked together, we saw each other after we worked
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  Speaker 6: out at the gym together.
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  Speaker 10: How would you describe her? What kind of person?
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  Speaker 6: Outgoing, really funny, but very strong, A strong person, emotionally tough.
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  Speaker 7: Adrian had proved how tough she could be. Back in
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  Speaker 7: nineteen ninety four, while still in high school, she'd been
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  Speaker 7: in a near fatal car crash.
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  Speaker 3: It was a miracle that she survived.
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  Speaker 6: There were a lot of physical obstacles that she needed
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  Speaker 6: to overcome and also emotional obstacles. Feeling unpretty, feeling, you know,
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  Speaker 6: like she didn't fit in with her regular life.
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  Speaker 3: Anymore.
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  Speaker 7: But those problems were long behind her by June two
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  Speaker 7: thousand and four, when Adrian and Lauren invited a third
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  Speaker 7: young woman to share their home. Leslie Mazzara, a transplanted
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  Speaker 7: Southern beauty queen in.
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  Speaker 11: Good Evening, a senior at the University of Georgia.
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  Speaker 12: I am Leslie and Zarah Miss Williamston.
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  Speaker 7: Kathy Harrington is Leslie's mother.
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  Speaker 13: She wanted to grow up to be a teacher, a mother,
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  Speaker 13: a nurse, and to be Miss America by the time
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  Speaker 13: she was twenty one.
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  Speaker 9: All those things, all those things beautiful, beautiful, a rose
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  Speaker 9: for a rose.
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  Speaker 2: Leslie is a beautiful person and everybody is just naturally
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  Speaker 2: drawn to her.
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  Speaker 7: Kelly mccorky was a close friend of Leslie's. The two
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  Speaker 7: shared a love of Dan.
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  Speaker 2: She had long, beautiful dark hair, Leslie and Lazara.
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  Speaker 3: She was gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: She had these beautiful green eyes with the longest eyelashes
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  Speaker 2: and the prettiest smile.
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  Speaker 3: Can who's gonna win this?
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  Speaker 5: That's gonna win?
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  Speaker 3: And she loves to laugh. Her humor is something that
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  Speaker 3: I often think of.
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  Speaker 9: I had just been fun, and that's the best part
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  Speaker 9: is hanging out with the girls.
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  Speaker 4: Someone having fun, laughing.
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  Speaker 3: You just fall in love with her when you meet her.
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  Speaker 7: In two thousand and four, after breaking up with a boyfriend,
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  Speaker 7: Leslie moved to Napa. She got a job as a
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  Speaker 7: greeter at the knee Bomb Coppola Winery, run by Godfather
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  Speaker 7: director Francis Ford Coppola.
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  Speaker 2: And we would always joke, you know, I'd say, how's
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  Speaker 2: it going, and She's say, well, you know, mister Coppola
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  Speaker 2: hasn't quite discovered me yet.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to one day, you know. We would just
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  Speaker 3: laugh about that.
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  Speaker 7: On Halloween night, the three roommates handed out candy and
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  Speaker 7: were asleep by eleven o'clock. Leslie and Adrian were upstairs
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  Speaker 7: in separate bedrooms. Lauren was downstairs. Then just after one
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  Speaker 7: a m. Lauren was startled by loud noises coming from
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  Speaker 7: the upstairs bedrooms.
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  Speaker 14: I was in my bed and just opened up my
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  Speaker 14: eyes and realized something is kind of not quite right,
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  Speaker 14: and I heard a scream.
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  Speaker 7: Lauren asked that her face be hidden when interviewed by
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  Speaker 7: America's Most Wanted.
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  Speaker 14: So I jumped out of bed and stood there for
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  Speaker 14: a second trying to figure out what was going on,
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  Speaker 14: and opened up my door, went outside listened.
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  Speaker 7: Suddenly she heard him. Whoever was in the house was
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  Speaker 7: running down the stairs right at Lauren.
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  Speaker 14: My dad told me to go out the back and
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  Speaker 14: I just when we were thinking, I am opening up
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  Speaker 14: the door for this guy to follow me out.
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  Speaker 7: Terrified, Lauren stood defenseless in the backyard, but for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 7: the intruder fled the way. He came in through a
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  Speaker 7: ground floor window. Lauren said she never laid eyes on him.
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  Speaker 14: I waited till I felt he was gone, and then
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  Speaker 14: came back in.
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  Speaker 3: Inside the house, she climbed the stairs.
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  Speaker 14: And then I heard the screamings and cries for help.
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  Speaker 14: I had no idea what I was going to find.
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  Speaker 7: Adrian and Leslie lay in Adrian's bedroom, bleeding from multiple
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  Speaker 7: stab wounds. Adrian was still alive, but just barely. Laurence
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  Speaker 7: slipped on something and realized it was the blood of
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  Speaker 7: her roommates. She fled the house and called nine one one.
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  Speaker 15: This is what emergency?
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  Speaker 8: What do you want with?
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  Speaker 14: Oh my god, we've got an attacks someone in an ambulance.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, my god, I don't know what everywhere.
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  Speaker 7: When the police arrived, both Adrian and Leslie were dead.
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  Speaker 10: The killings are the first in Napos since two.
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  Speaker 1: Thousand and one is here that both women died during
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  Speaker 1: a brutal attack.
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  Speaker 7: It wasn't long before all of America knew what had
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  Speaker 7: happened in that house on Dorset Street, including Adrian and
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  Speaker 7: Leslie's heartbroken friends.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I assumed it was an accident, but they
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  Speaker 6: told me that no, it's worse than that. She'd been killed, murdered.
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  Speaker 2: And I called her cell phone like twenty five times
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  Speaker 2: that night and she never answered and never answered.
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  Speaker 7: And half a world away in Australia, Adrian's mom, Arlene
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  Speaker 7: heard the news.
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  Speaker 9: And I completely lost it. As you can imagine, the
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  Speaker 9: pain is just excruciating.
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  Speaker 7: Leslie's mother, Kathy, was in her Michigan home all alone.
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  Speaker 13: I just have a broken heart, and I guess it's
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  Speaker 13: just really it's hard for me to understand how anybody
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  Speaker 13: could get to the point of rage that they would
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  Speaker 13: murder these two young women, my beautiful daughter.
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  Speaker 3: So I just don't understand it. I want to know
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  Speaker 3: why who.
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  Speaker 7: Was the mysterious intruder and why did he kill Leslie
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  Speaker 7: and Adrian?
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  Speaker 16: She was a people person looking about h That's just
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  Speaker 16: the thing about Leslie. She was enchanting she was a charmer.
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  Speaker 7: Amy Brown grew up with Leslie Mazara.
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  Speaker 16: I can't remember not being around her, and she knew
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  Speaker 16: her well. The thing to know about Leslie is that
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  Speaker 16: she can fall in love very quickly. Guys tend to
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  Speaker 16: be attracted to her, even if she's not knowing that
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  Speaker 16: they are.
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  Speaker 7: Over the years, Amy had met a lot of Leslie's boyfriends.
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  Speaker 16: She went into every relationship full, open hearted.
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  Speaker 7: But none seemed like a killer.
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  Speaker 16: I try to think of everybody that she's ever known,
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  Speaker 16: and as too many people. I can't narrow it down
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  Speaker 16: to anybody.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know who would do this.
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  Speaker 7: That was the job of the NAPA police because the
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  Speaker 7: killer seemed to know where he was going and who
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  Speaker 7: he was. After investigators quickly concluded this was not a
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  Speaker 7: random attack. The police released very little information, but it
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  Speaker 7: didn't matter. The guessing game had begun.
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  Speaker 3: The kinds of.
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  Speaker 9: Rumors right away were number one, that Leslie was the
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  Speaker 9: target and that Adrian had come to her aid.
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  Speaker 7: Adrian's mother, Arlene, based her feelings on what she had seen.
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  Speaker 9: Leslie, being new to the area, was really wanting to
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  Speaker 9: meet new people, so she was being set up on
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  Speaker 9: a lot of blind dates.
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  Speaker 12: Leslie was active, worked at a winery up Valley, was
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  Speaker 12: in a position where she was in a marketing position
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  Speaker 12: where she met lots of people.
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  Speaker 7: NAPA Detective Dan Lonergan says the killer most likely entered
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  Speaker 7: Leslie's bedroom. First, she was possibly attacked while she was sleeping,
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  Speaker 7: and then the intruder entered Adrian's room. The tomb struggled mightily.
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  Speaker 3: I went to the viewing of her body.
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  Speaker 7: Adrian's good friend, Lily looks.
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  Speaker 3: Like she fought pretty hard.
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  Speaker 6: Adrian hated turtlenecks, hated him, would not wear them, but
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  Speaker 6: she was wearing one in the casket.
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  Speaker 3: For obvious reasons.
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  Speaker 7: During that vicious fight, the killer was injured, says NAPA
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  Speaker 7: detective Todd Schulman.
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  Speaker 12: We did find some blood evidence on the blinds. There
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  Speaker 12: was blood left on these blinds as he was leaving
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  Speaker 12: his blood.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, now the police had the killers DNA and there
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  Speaker 7: was yet another important clue found at the house.
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  Speaker 12: We located several cigarette butts outside the residence. These are
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  Speaker 12: cigarettes that have been smoked down to the filter. It
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  Speaker 12: could be someone who's nervous trying to work up the
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  Speaker 12: courage to go inside and do this.
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  Speaker 7: The cigarette brand was Camel Turkish Gold, a new and
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  Speaker 7: unique brand, but police chose not to reveal that information
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  Speaker 7: to the public. Instead, they sent the butts to a
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  Speaker 7: crime lab to determine if DNA on the cigarettes matched
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  Speaker 7: the DNA from the blood found at the house.
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  Speaker 3: They've got some evidence.
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  Speaker 16: I mean, they've got DNA, they just had nobody to
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  Speaker 16: match it too.
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  Speaker 3: And when you're starting in Leslie's life, where do you start?
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  Speaker 3: Who do you match it with?
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  Speaker 7: The police started with those close to the victims. In
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  Speaker 7: Leslie's case, That meant her many admirers.
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  Speaker 16: Guys loved Leslie and even if they weren't dating, they
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  Speaker 16: would buy her things.
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  Speaker 3: She never asked for anything. It's just like they just
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  Speaker 3: would give the world to her.
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  Speaker 7: Take Brian West, a college boyfriend.
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  Speaker 3: He bought her a car.
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  Speaker 10: He bought her a car, bought her a car. And
• 15:12
  Speaker 10: how long have they been dating before he bought a car?
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  Speaker 16: Oh, probably two three months. Maybe that's just what guys
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  Speaker 16: would do for Leslie didn't ask for a.
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  Speaker 10: Car, and what did she do?
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  Speaker 16: She drove it for a while and then they decided
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  Speaker 16: they weren't going to be together and she gave it back.
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  Speaker 7: After the breakup. Brian built this web page tribute to Leslie.
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  Speaker 10: Does that strike you as normal? And you break up
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  Speaker 10: with a woman and then you make a website about her?
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  Speaker 3: No, that's not normal.
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  Speaker 16: But I think, because I know Brian a little, at
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  Speaker 16: this kind of normal to me, because I just know
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  Speaker 16: that he idolized her.
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  Speaker 7: And then there was William Lee Youngblood Junior, a lawyer.
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  Speaker 7: Leslie had been living with him, but they broke up
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  Speaker 7: shortly before she moved to NAPA.
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  Speaker 3: She really did lovely.
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  Speaker 16: I could marry Lee, she said, but her dad just
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  Speaker 16: makes me feel uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 7: William Lee Youngblood Senior, also a lawyer, often called the
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  Speaker 7: house not to speak with his son, but with Leslie.
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  Speaker 16: They got to a point where he would call her
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  Speaker 16: all the time, even knowing that she was only one
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  Speaker 16: at the house, And she got to the point where
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  Speaker 16: she just stopped answering the phone.
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  Speaker 10: Do you think the father was in some way obsessed
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  Speaker 10: with her?
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  Speaker 3: It seems to be.
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  Speaker 7: Amy was questioned about the young Bloods by a NAPA detective.
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  Speaker 16: He said, if I told you that Lee Senior called
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  Speaker 16: Leslie twice on Halloween Knight, how would that make you feel?
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  Speaker 16: And when he soon as he said that she all bumps,
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  Speaker 16: my hair stood on edge, and I said that I
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  Speaker 16: don't like that at all at all.
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  Speaker 7: The NAPA police traveled to South Carolina to interview young
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  Speaker 7: Blood scene. He denied any involvement in the murders, said
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  Speaker 7: the phone calls on Halloween were an unfortunate coincidence, and
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  Speaker 7: said he was not infatuated with Leslie. Then he and
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  Speaker 7: his son each agreed to provide a DNA sample. Neither
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  Speaker 7: father nor son was a match. Back in NAPA, investigators
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  Speaker 7: went around collecting DNA from the men Leslie had met there.
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  Speaker 16: She was getting back into a little bit more of
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  Speaker 16: the party kind of scene and meaning fresh faces.
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  Speaker 7: At the time of her death, Leslie was regularly dating
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  Speaker 7: two men.
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  Speaker 17: Lesla was definitely looking for the one, but Leslie wasn't
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  Speaker 17: going to settle for anything less than perfect.
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  Speaker 7: Katie Norris and Vanessa Schnorr were college buddies who visited
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  Speaker 7: and stayed with Leslie in the house on Dorset Street
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  Speaker 7: just three weeks before the murders.
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  Speaker 17: We spent weeks going through every conversation, talking about every
• 18:01
  Speaker 17: person that we interacted with, just looking for that one.
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  Speaker 9: Little thing that might have been a hint as to
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  Speaker 9: who did this.
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  Speaker 7: The women both thought there was something odd about one
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  Speaker 7: of the men Leslie was dating.
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  Speaker 17: We went to a local bar in Napa. Leslie was
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  Speaker 17: approached by a friend that was solely a friend.
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  Speaker 7: The demeanor of Leslie's boyfriend, who was there at the time,
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  Speaker 7: changed dramatically.
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  Speaker 17: It was obvious that he was not comfortable with her
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  Speaker 17: talking to another man.
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  Speaker 3: It was a very eerie feeling.
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  Speaker 7: After we found out what had happened to Leslie, Vanessa
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  Speaker 7: and Katie told the Napa police their suspicions. Cops questioned
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  Speaker 7: the man and took his DNA, but, as with so
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  Speaker 7: many others, the test came back negative. Leslie's mother, Kathy,
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  Speaker 7: was not surprised.
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  Speaker 13: I am not convinced that whoever count the girls was
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  Speaker 13: after Leslie. It could have been money that was taken
• 19:00
  Speaker 13: with Adrian.
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  Speaker 3: I want justice from my friend.
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  Speaker 6: It's not going to make that much difference in our lives,
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  Speaker 6: because we'll still be without Adrian and without Leslie, but
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  Speaker 6: it's important.
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  Speaker 7: Like all of Adrian's friends, Lily Prudo desperately wants Adrian's
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  Speaker 7: killer to be found.
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  Speaker 6: I've gotten pretty angry about what happened, that anybody could
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  Speaker 6: do this, but I'm almost a little afraid to have
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  Speaker 6: a face and a name to put the blame on
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  Speaker 6: and all my grief just hang it on this person.
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  Speaker 3: But it's not going to get easier because we have
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  Speaker 3: a face and a name.
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  Speaker 7: One name that police focused on soon after the murders
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  Speaker 7: was Christian Lee.
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  Speaker 6: Christian was her boyfriend. They were on again, off again
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  Speaker 6: for a long time.
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  Speaker 7: Lily says the relationship sometimes caused Adrian pain.
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  Speaker 6: She'd come to work crying one day, and of course,
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: being friends, we would console her, and towards the end
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  Speaker 6: we only saw the negative side of Christian.
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  Speaker 7: Not surprisingly, NAPA police were soon pounding on Christian's bedroom door.
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  Speaker 18: I was fast asleep and I opened the door and
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  Speaker 18: about five.
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  Speaker 10: Detectives jump backwards. I take it you were startled, to
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  Speaker 10: say the least. Yeah, what did they say to you?
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  Speaker 18: They asked me to come out of my room, and
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  Speaker 18: they kind of backed away from me slowly, and they
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  Speaker 18: asked me if I had any weapons or knives in
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  Speaker 18: my room, and I told them I had one and
• 20:41
  Speaker 18: asked if I could get it for them. They said no, no, no,
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  Speaker 18: just point out where it is.
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  Speaker 7: They collected a knife from the corner of his room.
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  Speaker 18: They took samples of blood, they took my clothes, they
• 20:52
  Speaker 18: took the sheets off my bed.
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  Speaker 10: And they wanted to take me to the station for questioning.
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  Speaker 7: He and Adrian had been arguing. She wanted a commitment,
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  Speaker 7: he wasn't ready.
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  Speaker 18: We'd have our problems, we'd argue, but I've never ever
• 21:09
  Speaker 18: touched a woman in my life in anger.
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  Speaker 7: The police kept digging, but the investigation was going nowhere.
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  Speaker 13: Part of the problem of not knowing is that you imagine.
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  Speaker 7: Leslie's mother, Kathy felt haunted.
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  Speaker 13: I would wake up with these images in my mind
• 21:36
  Speaker 13: that were just so horrible, and this.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Is my grief.
• 21:40
  Speaker 13: Counselor said to me, Leslie died once, but you keep
• 21:45
  Speaker 13: reliving it over and over and over again.
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: The frustrating part for me is that I feel that
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: I really don't have any information about what happened to my.
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: Daughter, Adrian's mother Orleen.
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: I know that she was stabbed to but nothing has
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: been forthcoming.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: For months.
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: Arlene lived with Adrian's presence every waking moment.
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: This car is Adrian's car, and I haven't even changed
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: the preset radio buttons, so every time I get in
• 22:18
  Speaker 9: this car and turn on the radio, I feel very
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: close to Adrian. I feel that she's with me and
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: that the day is going to be a good day.
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: Adrian's favorite song at the time of her death was
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: she Will be Loved by Maroon five. It makes me
• 22:39
  Speaker 9: feel happy to know that as long as I live,
• 22:42
  Speaker 9: Adrian will be loved.
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: Adrian's memory touched others as well. Sorry Adrian's best friend
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: Lily and her boyfriend Eric Copple came to a decision.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: Eric and I both reevaluated what is important in life.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: We've been together almost eight years now it was time
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: to go ahead and get married.
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: She and Eric once before put their marriage plans on hold.
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: It turned out to be the worst possible timing.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Eric and I.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: Were originally planning to get married on November first, which
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: is the day Adrian ended up dying, and if we
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: had gone through with that wedding, it was planned in Hawaii,
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: Adrian and Lauren would have been in Hawaii with us
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: that week.
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: Arlene was invited to be part of the ceremony and
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: read scriptures to the couple.
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: A portion of it was from the Song of Solomon.
• 23:36
  Speaker 9: Love is stronger than death, passion fiercer than the great.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: And although the day was joyful. Lily says she can't
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: get beyond the fact that there's been no arrest in
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: Adrian's murder.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Somebody out there knows something. Somebody would have had to
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: notice a friend of theirs acting strange or you know,
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: had bruises. It doesn't seem like somebody could just walk
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: away from it and be fine.
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: By the following summer, the police here seemed truly baffled.
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: Investigators said they met with more than one thousand people,
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: ruling them out one by one. Starting they said, with
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: the inner circle, people closest to the victims, boyfriends, friends
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: and friends of friends. Two hundred of the men they
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: met with gave them DNA samples.
• 24:32
  Speaker 12: Thus far, we haven't any matches to the DNA from
• 24:34
  Speaker 12: the suspect, so.
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: It's safe to say that the men who gave DNA
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: samples have now been ruled out. Yes, and that includes
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: Adrian's boyfriend Christian. You think we should have had some
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: more answers by now, Something definitely something. Then in September
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: two thousand and five, eleven months after the murders, there
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: was something.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Police and NAPA have new in a double murder case that.
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: Remember those cigarette butts found outside the house on Dorset Street.
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: Months later, the crime lab results finally arrived.
• 25:09
  Speaker 12: This is one of the actual cigarette butts. It was
• 25:11
  Speaker 12: located at the crime scene.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: In fact, the saliva on those butts did match the
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: killer's DNA.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Investigators believe the assailant smoked camel Turkish gold cigarettes at
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the time of the attack.
• 25:22
  Speaker 12: But we feel like this is something that made prompt
• 25:24
  Speaker 12: someone in the public to make that one phone call
• 25:26
  Speaker 12: that's going to help lead to the identity of this killer.
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: They were right just five days later.
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: My phone rang at eleven fifteen last night and it
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: was the supervising sergeant of letting me know that they
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: had made an arrest. My next words were who was it?
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: And I was not at all prepared for the answer
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: to that question.
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: Neither was anyone else.
• 26:14
  Speaker 12: Now we note this person is a white male, and
• 26:16
  Speaker 12: now we've added to that this is a smoker.
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: No one knew it at the time, but there was
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: one young man in Napa County who was feeling intense
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: pressure after police released information about the cigarette butts found
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: outside the house where Adrian and Sonia and Leslie Mazara
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: were murdered.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Investigators believe the assailants smoked camel, turkish gold cigarettes.
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: He was feeling so much pressure that within days two
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: parents in the Napa Valley opened their mail.
• 26:44
  Speaker 19: These are two different letters, one to his mother, one
• 26:47
  Speaker 19: to his father.
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: To find suicide notes from their own son. Napa District
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: Attorney Gary Lieberstein read to us from those letters, which
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: have never been revealed publicly until now.
• 27:00
  Speaker 19: I'm leaving this life because I know that the consequences
• 27:02
  Speaker 19: of my actions must be faced, and they spell death.
• 27:08
  Speaker 19: I will not grant the government the satisfaction of watching
• 27:11
  Speaker 19: me die. So I will end my life in a
• 27:14
  Speaker 19: place and manner of my own choosing. I do not
• 27:18
  Speaker 19: consider it suicide. I call it justice.
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: The man who wrote that letter may have sentenced himself
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: to death, but he didn't carry out the sentence. After
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: relatives received those suicide notes, they confronted him and convinced
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: him to turn himself into the Napa police.
• 27:37
  Speaker 17: There's a major break tonight in a double murder that
• 27:39
  Speaker 17: shocked the Wine Country.
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: When Arlene Allen heard of the arrest, she asked his name.
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: I expected when I asked the question who was it,
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: that it would be a name. I was not the
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: least bit familiar with.
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: But it was a name Arlene knew very well.
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: It's heartbreaking. I am just so heart can hope of this.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Twenty six year old Eric Matthew Copple is in the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Napa County jail, charged with two counts of murder.
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: The man who confessed was Eric Copple, the husband of
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: Adrian's best friend Lily.
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: I'm feeling as much grief now as I did upon
• 28:18
  Speaker 9: hearing of Adrian's death.
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: The revelation was all the more shocking because it was
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: only months earlier that Arlene had been invited to speak
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: at Eric and Lily's wedding.
• 28:28
  Speaker 9: And I remember looking into Eric's eyes and he seemed
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: sad and paying close attention, and it really touched me.
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: Just who is Eric Copple? Little is known. He was
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: the classic shy, quiet guy who worked as a land
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: surveyor and was never in trouble with the law, not
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: even a traffic violation.
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: He was nice.
• 28:53
  Speaker 15: He's a nice person. It's hard to even imagine him
• 28:57
  Speaker 15: into that.
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: Ben Katz was Adrian's friend and socialized with Lily and Eric.
• 29:03
  Speaker 15: Whenever he was with Lily, she would do all the
• 29:05
  Speaker 15: talking and he would just you just be there. He
• 29:07
  Speaker 15: wouldn't say much, but you know, he just figured just
• 29:10
  Speaker 15: because he was shy.
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: He did appear to me to be reticent, remote, really
• 29:16
  Speaker 9: a contrast to Lily's easygoing and outgoing personality.
• 29:20
  Speaker 15: Yeah, they do kind of seem like an odd couple,
• 29:23
  Speaker 15: but it seemed like it was working for them both.
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: But how could Lily have gone for nearly an entire
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: year marrying and living with the man who murdered her
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: best friend without suspecting a thing?
• 29:35
  Speaker 10: Do you think that Lily knew anything about Eric's involvement
• 29:38
  Speaker 10: before he ultimately confessed.
• 29:41
  Speaker 19: It's hard to believe that she lay next to him
• 29:43
  Speaker 19: eleven months and didn't have any suspicions.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: When Lily sat down with us not long after her wedding,
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: What do you hope will happen here?
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: I hope they find him, She said.
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: She couldn't imagine the killer would go unnoticed.
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: Somebody must have seen something. Somebody out there knows something.
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: Somebody would have had to notice a friend of theirs
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: acting strange.
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: What now seems chilling is the fact that Lily's husband,
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: Eric was sitting right there in the room with us
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: during our interview.
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: It's important, it's important to find out who did this
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: and to find out why. In some sick way, I
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: want to know. I want to know how it happened.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, this was my friend. I want to know
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: what happened to her.
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: It doesn't sound like Lily had even an inkling.
• 30:27
  Speaker 9: I think that Lily was like another sister to Adrian.
• 30:31
  Speaker 9: She could not have even suspected that her husband was
• 30:34
  Speaker 9: involved with that.
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: There is no proof that Lily knew what Copple had done.
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: And people also wondered about the investigators. Why didn't they
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: find him sooner? How is it possible they took more
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: than two hundred DNA samples from men all over the country,
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: it somehow skipped over Copple, who lived and worked right
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: here in the Napa Valley. Here's a guy who was
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: the boyfriend of the best friend, who knew your daughter,
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: who knew Leslie had been to the house, and who
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: smoked cigarettes.
• 31:05
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: Are you surprised that the police did not question him
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: much much sooner?
• 31:11
  Speaker 9: That was one of my first questions right away. I
• 31:13
  Speaker 9: was wondering how he could possibly have been overlooked.
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: Now that there finally was an arrest in the case,
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: there was a great sigh of relief, and not just
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: in Napa.
• 31:24
  Speaker 13: I've been waiting for that call for eleven months.
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: Leslie's mother, Kathy, now a minister living in Michigan, can't
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: help wondering what was going through Copple's mind.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: My granddaughter says it so well.
• 31:37
  Speaker 13: It's like, why would anyone want to hurt aunt Leslie?
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: How will the man who murdered Leslie and Adrian explain
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: what happened that horrible night?
• 31:48
  Speaker 20: I am a broken man?
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: And what will Lily say to the families?
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: I'm Lily couple Eric Slaef.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Eric Matthew Copple, year old Eric cop appearances them.
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: Even after Eric Copple confessed, there was still no clue
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: about his motive.
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: Missourian's mom, Arley Allan, was stun.
• 32:19
  Speaker 9: That is the burning question. Why what caused him to
• 32:23
  Speaker 9: lose control and commit these horrible murders?
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: The answer, says Napa District Attorney Gary Lieberstein, lies in
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: Copple's relationship with Lily.
• 32:35
  Speaker 19: He wanted Lily to be there for him, and I
• 32:37
  Speaker 19: do think that he was resentful of other friendships that
• 32:41
  Speaker 19: she had.
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: On Halloween night, he got so drunk that an angry
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: Lily refused to spend the night with him at their apartment.
• 32:51
  Speaker 19: He felt his relationship was slipping away with Lily.
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: Copple found himself all alone on what was supposed to
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: have been his wedding day. His memory of what happened next,
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: he told police, is sketchy.
• 33:05
  Speaker 19: He claimed that while he had some memory of leaving
• 33:08
  Speaker 19: his house and taking a knife, he didn't know why
• 33:11
  Speaker 19: he did that. He didn't know how he ended up
• 33:14
  Speaker 19: at the house on door set. He remembered smoking a
• 33:17
  Speaker 19: cigarette out front, going in the window, claimed he remembered
• 33:21
  Speaker 19: being in a bedroom. That he was responsible for killing
• 33:24
  Speaker 19: both girls, but he claimed his eyes were closed.
• 33:26
  Speaker 10: What about the bloody clothes? What happened to those?
• 33:29
  Speaker 19: His indication was that he recalled going home and starting
• 33:33
  Speaker 19: a fire in his fire pit and burning his clothing
• 33:37
  Speaker 19: and his shoes.
• 33:38
  Speaker 10: What does that say about his state of life?
• 33:40
  Speaker 19: Says he knew exactly what he did and he was
• 33:42
  Speaker 19: doing everything he could avoid being caught.
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: Couple told investigators he did not remember what he did
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: with the knife he used to stab Adrian and Leslie.
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: He offered no motive for killing Leslie.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Now we're back on the record. People who stays California
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: versus Eric Matthew Copple.
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: In order to spare the families the ordeal of a trial,
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: Copple and the DA struck a deal.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: You plead guilty or not.
• 34:11
  Speaker 10: I'm guilty guilty.
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: Pleading guilty to two counts of first degree murder, Copple
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: was spared the death penalty.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Good morning, your honor.
• 34:20
  Speaker 9: I'm Arlene Allen. I'd like to thank you for allowing
• 34:22
  Speaker 9: me to speak this morning on behalf of my beloved
• 34:25
  Speaker 9: daughter Adrian.
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: At his sentencing, Arlene Allen finally got her chance to
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: confront Eric Copple.
• 34:31
  Speaker 9: Eric, you knew Adrian, she counted you among her friends.
• 34:39
  Speaker 9: And you know me, and Eric, I know you. You are
• 34:44
  Speaker 9: a man who violently stabbed to death the best.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Friend of the woman you love.
• 34:51
  Speaker 21: That is not love, Eric, You cannot love Lily and
• 34:55
  Speaker 21: bring a knife into Adrian's home and stab her, and
• 35:01
  Speaker 21: stab her again and again and again and again and again.
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: As Arlene drove home the brutality of his deed, Eric
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: Copple sat stonefaced.
• 35:16
  Speaker 21: I say to you, Eric, go leave this life of
• 35:21
  Speaker 21: friends and family, of life and love and laughter.
• 35:28
  Speaker 9: There is no place here for you. For while in
• 35:32
  Speaker 9: the coming years, the.
• 35:33
  Speaker 21: Memory of Leslie and of Adrian will remain clear and shining.
• 35:38
  Speaker 9: Bright in our hearts, all of our hearts and our minds.
• 35:42
  Speaker 9: You will be forgotten. And when that door closes behind
• 35:47
  Speaker 9: you today, as you walk out of this room, I
• 35:49
  Speaker 9: will think of you no more.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Thank you, your honor.
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: Copple's demeanor started to change when the final speaker stepped
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: up to the podium.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: I'm Lily Couple.
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: Eric's wife, Lily was given special permission to speak on
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: her husband's behalf.
• 36:07
  Speaker 11: My heart goes out to both Arlene and Kathy, and
• 36:10
  Speaker 11: to the rest of their families and friends. I wish
• 36:12
  Speaker 11: with all my heart these events had been avoided.
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: Her expression of sympathy and regret took a quick turn
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: when she spoke directly to her husband.
• 36:22
  Speaker 11: Eric, there is nothing in this world that you could
• 36:24
  Speaker 11: do to make me loo few liss.
• 36:29
  Speaker 9: I found that a very shocking statement.
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: In the months after the murders, Lily and Arlene had
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: become close, and the words stung.
• 36:39
  Speaker 11: We still bear the scars of losing Adrian and Leslie
• 36:42
  Speaker 11: in such a horrifying way. Now we must also endure
• 36:44
  Speaker 11: the pain of watching a much loved and very admirable
• 36:48
  Speaker 11: man spend the rest of his life behind bars.
• 36:51
  Speaker 9: I told myself that there is no way that I
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: could know what she was going through. There is no
• 36:57
  Speaker 9: way I could put myself in her position.
• 36:59
  Speaker 11: I can say without hesitation that the man who committed
• 37:03
  Speaker 11: this crime is not present in the person or mind
• 37:05
  Speaker 11: of my husband today.
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: I am praying that will survive this that at this
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: point it's really unknown known.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Eric Copple would like to read a statement, Yes.
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: And then it was Copple's turn.
• 37:22
  Speaker 10: The voice doesn't work.
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: The courtroom waited anxiously as he tried to compose himself.
• 37:32
  Speaker 20: I am a broken man. Oh sucks, a man splintered
• 37:45
  Speaker 20: by penetrating awareness of my own potential for wickedness. Well,
• 37:51
  Speaker 20: I cannot fathom full extent of the anguish I have caused.
• 38:00
  Speaker 20: I recognize my sinical deeds. Heaven footed terrific agony on
• 38:15
  Speaker 20: a great number of people. The words evade me to
• 38:20
  Speaker 20: articulate the depths of my sorrow.
• 38:23
  Speaker 9: I did believe that he was truly, truly remorseful. Those
• 38:30
  Speaker 9: were real tears that he was crying, but not for us.
• 38:36
  Speaker 9: I believe he was crying for himself.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Leslie.
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: The judge only allowed the first minute of Copple's statement
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: to be recorded, but he went on to say, I
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: was afraid my relationship with Lily, the singular ray of
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: light in my black world, was in peril of collapsing.
• 38:52
  Speaker 9: I thought to myself, Aha, this is why Adrian was killed.
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: In his own orchard mind. Copple believed Adrian was poisoning
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: Lily against him.
• 39:05
  Speaker 9: If he was in such great fear of losing Lily,
• 39:08
  Speaker 9: a panic would set in. He would have to find
• 39:10
  Speaker 9: a way to keep her. He would have to eliminate
• 39:13
  Speaker 9: the path by which she might escape. I believe that
• 39:17
  Speaker 9: he saw Adrian as that path, and that is why
• 39:23
  Speaker 9: he killed her. You know, at this time, we're prepared
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: to receive the sentencing.
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: Because of the plea deal, Copple's sentencing was a mere formality,
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: and it has.
• 39:36
  Speaker 9: Ordered Eric Matthew Coppo's to serve a life sentence without
• 39:39
  Speaker 9: possibility of parole.
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: The case of the NAPA murders is solved.
• 39:46
  Speaker 10: Now.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Leslie's life speaks her itself.
• 39:57
  Speaker 7: Leslie's mother, Kathy refuses dwell on her grief.
• 40:02
  Speaker 13: Her twenty six years were full and rich. I'm so
• 40:07
  Speaker 13: grateful that I got to beat her Mom, and that
• 40:10
  Speaker 13: she brightened our lives.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: She was a gift.
• 40:18
  Speaker 9: I sometimes expect to see her walking in the door.
• 40:22
  Speaker 9: I see her face clearly before me, and you know,
• 40:25
  Speaker 9: I understand just what a loss it is