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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grease.
- 0:14Speaker 2: At the get go, this smelled bad, just smelled bad.
- 0:20Speaker 2: You've ever gone by a dump and it just smells oh,
- 0:25Speaker 2: and it's just horrible. Well, that's the way this investigation
- 0:30Speaker 2: smelled to me the first time I heard that. This
- 0:34Speaker 2: gorgeous and I don't know why they just keep calling
- 0:36Speaker 2: her a socialite, because I'm pretty sure she was a
- 0:39Speaker 2: lot more than that. This gorgeous woman ends up at
- 0:46Speaker 2: the bottom of a trash chute. And let me tell you,
- 0:50Speaker 2: my trash chute at our New York apartment is, oh gosh.
- 0:55Speaker 2: As I was just telling Paul Morrow, the former NYP
- 1:00Speaker 2: the Inspector, that our trash chute is, I have to
- 1:05Speaker 2: fold a pizza box in half. I have to step
- 1:09Speaker 2: on it with one foot and fold it over to
- 1:12Speaker 2: shove it down the chute. So how could this grown
- 1:17Speaker 2: woman shove herself down a trash chute? It brings to
- 1:24Speaker 2: mind many other cases, For instance, Chris Watts, who murdered
- 1:31Speaker 2: his beautiful wife, Shenan and his two little daughters. He
- 1:40Speaker 2: shoved their bodies into oil cylinders that were about twelve
- 1:48Speaker 2: to fifteen inches wide, and it took the skin off
- 1:53Speaker 2: their arms. He was so intent in hiding to hide
- 1:58Speaker 2: their bodies. I could give you many, many more examples,
- 2:03Speaker 2: but I don't think there's any way. This woman, Lara Prohodko,
- 2:12Speaker 2: put herself down a trash chute and died. But guess what,
- 2:19Speaker 2: that's the theory that she committed suicide by trash sheet. Well,
- 2:24Speaker 2: guess what. In the last hours, a more rational theory
- 2:30Speaker 2: has emerged, and that is murder. I Nancy Grace, this
- 2:37Speaker 2: is Crime Stories. Thanks for being with us here at
- 2:39Speaker 2: Fox Nation in serious xem one eleven. Take a listen
- 2:43Speaker 2: to our friends at pix eleven.
- 2:45Speaker 3: Police rushed to one Irving Place yesterday evening after a
- 2:48Speaker 3: maintenance worker made a horrible discovery in the compactor room.
- 2:52Speaker 3: Armed with a shovel, they recovered the remains of Laura Prachenko,
- 2:55Speaker 3: described by Dorman as someone who was always pleasant and
- 2:58Speaker 3: treated them with respect. She lived on the twenty seventh
- 3:01Speaker 3: floor and had arrived back to the building only a
- 3:03Speaker 3: few minutes before her body was found.
- 3:05Speaker 2: I mean, it's something terrible, it's something shocking. It's not
- 3:08Speaker 2: clear and you know how that is what happened. Guys,
- 3:12Speaker 2: you're just hearing our friends that picks eleven. But now
- 3:15Speaker 2: take a list of our friends at WABC.
- 3:17Speaker 4: We don't know the identity of the woman. Police have
- 3:20Speaker 4: not released that information, but we do know that she
- 3:22Speaker 4: did live here in the building. Police are still going
- 3:24Speaker 4: through surveillance looking for evidence inside the building.
- 3:27Speaker 5: Now.
- 3:27Speaker 2: Police aren't sure if this.
- 3:29Speaker 4: Was an accident or if it was intentional. A worker
- 3:32Speaker 4: at the Zeckendorf Towers on Irving Place found that woman
- 3:35Speaker 4: around five o'clock yesterday and the building's trash compactor Police
- 3:39Speaker 4: saying she went down the trash route from more than
- 3:41Speaker 4: twenty floors up.
- 3:43Speaker 2: Twenty floors up with me an all star panel to
- 3:47Speaker 2: make sense of what we know right now. But first
- 3:50Speaker 2: I want to go to investigative reporter at the Daily Beast,
- 3:55Speaker 2: Decca Muldowney. Decca, thanks so much for being with us.
- 4:00Speaker 2: Find it really hard to believe that this woman committed
- 4:04Speaker 2: suicide in this manner, especially if you look at methods
- 4:10Speaker 2: and assessment of homicide and suicide. Very rarely will you
- 4:15Speaker 2: see a woman this level of education of her. Let
- 4:20Speaker 2: me just say social standing commit suicide in this manner.
- 4:26Speaker 2: If she had taken overdose appeals or not. Carbon monoxide
- 4:30Speaker 2: death in a car, yes, I could see that, but
- 4:35Speaker 2: not this statistically in Oh tell me, Decca Muldowney Daily Beast,
- 4:43Speaker 2: who is this woman? Lara Prdoco Financy. Well, Lara was
- 4:51Speaker 2: a mom.
- 4:53Speaker 6: She had at the time of her death a twelve
- 4:56Speaker 6: year old son.
- 4:57Speaker 2: Oh wait right, wait right there, right there, Decca, you
- 5:01Speaker 2: hit me where it hurts. You know, we never hear
- 5:05Speaker 2: about the then twelve year old son. I would wade
- 5:10Speaker 2: through the Atlantic and go through hell to stay with
- 5:15Speaker 2: my twins. That gives us a whole nother angle. Deca,
- 5:20Speaker 2: go ahead, I'm sorry.
- 5:21Speaker 6: I think so. I led with that. I'm a mom too,
- 5:24Speaker 6: But I led with that because she's so often described
- 5:27Speaker 6: as a socialite, as you said, as a sort of
- 5:30Speaker 6: New York City ick girl.
- 5:32Speaker 7: She was very beautiful.
- 5:34Speaker 6: She did have a, you know, glamorous social life. She
- 5:38Speaker 6: had been celebrating her birthday in Ibiza and Paris shortly
- 5:43Speaker 6: before her death. But the thing that I come back
- 5:46Speaker 6: to is, yeah, she was a mom. She had a
- 5:48Speaker 6: twelve year old son, and she was going through a
- 5:52Speaker 6: acrimonious divorce with her ex husband at the time of
- 5:56Speaker 6: her death. And that's the way what strikes me is
- 5:59Speaker 6: as like you said, the most kind of moving thing
- 6:02Speaker 6: about her tragic death.
- 6:04Speaker 2: I don't like it when victims are referred to in
- 6:07Speaker 2: that manner, for instance, socialite, sorority girl, sex worker. I mean,
- 6:14Speaker 2: it's just so stereotyping this woman who died a horrible,
- 6:21Speaker 2: horrible death, her last moments hurtling down twenty floors and
- 6:26Speaker 2: a filthy trash chute to her death to be discovered
- 6:29Speaker 2: by a janitor. She was living in a really ritzy apartment.
- 6:36Speaker 2: I mean, I know when I went apartment looking in
- 6:39Speaker 2: a hunting really like a hunt in York. By the
- 6:42Speaker 2: time you get to an apartment, you walk and they go,
- 6:45Speaker 2: oh it just sold. Okay, so next, and that happens
- 6:49Speaker 2: over and over and over. I would never even look
- 6:52Speaker 2: in this area of town because this is really posh, expensive, ritsy.
- 6:59Speaker 2: Take a listen to Jim Dowan, ABC seven.
- 7:03Speaker 8: The building goes by two different names, one Irving Plaza
- 7:06Speaker 8: and Zekendorf Towers, and workers made that grizzly discovery about
- 7:10Speaker 8: four point thirty this afternoon, the body of a woman,
- 7:13Speaker 8: a resident of the building, found stuffed in the building's
- 7:16Speaker 8: trash compactor. If they know how she got there, police
- 7:20Speaker 8: aren't yet, saying Prime scene investigators got to Zeckendorf Towers
- 7:25Speaker 8: tonight to try and figure out how the body of
- 7:28Speaker 8: a woman ended up in a trash compactor in the building.
- 7:31Speaker 2: And more.
- 7:32Speaker 9: They had the barricades up around the entrance and I
- 7:35Speaker 9: have never seen twenty detectives wandering around anywhere, So it
- 7:40Speaker 9: had to be some serious thing with suspicious circumstances, because
- 7:45Speaker 9: why else would twenty detectives show up.
- 7:47Speaker 8: But police were not giving many details. Some residents believe
- 7:50Speaker 8: the garbage shoot is big enough to put a body in,
- 7:54Speaker 8: and residents did get this email instructing them not to
- 7:57Speaker 8: use the shoots for the time being. The shoots are
- 8:00Speaker 8: now locked shut.
- 8:02Speaker 2: I'm just not seeing it. Joining me Paul Tomorrow, lawyer
- 8:06Speaker 2: and former NYPD inspector. You can find him at Opsdesk
- 8:11Speaker 2: dot org. Paul, I remember fighting with pizza boxes and
- 8:17Speaker 2: everything else I wanted to shove down the trash chute.
- 8:19Speaker 2: It's in fact, a lot of people in our building
- 8:23Speaker 2: would just lie things in the little trash chute room
- 8:28Speaker 2: because they couldn't get it down the trash chute. And
- 8:32Speaker 2: I mean like coat hangers. Some of the residents couldn't
- 8:35Speaker 2: get coat hangers down the trash chute because they were
- 8:39Speaker 2: too narrow, deckamull Downey, What did you say the size
- 8:42Speaker 2: of this this trasheet.
- 8:43Speaker 6: Was, I believe fifteen by eighteen.
- 8:45Speaker 2: Okay, Paulmorrow, you tell me this woman got up to
- 8:51Speaker 2: the level of a trashet. Let's see, ours is about
- 8:55Speaker 2: the level of your chest. So somehow, what is she
- 8:59Speaker 2: not come and ahiate the gymnast and she gets up
- 9:02Speaker 2: there and enforce hers herself into the trash Shoot it
- 9:05Speaker 2: does It doesn't even make any sense.
- 9:07Speaker 5: Yeah, it does sound like a very unlikely scenario. And
- 9:11Speaker 5: full disclosure, I worked in Midtown for a lot of
- 9:14Speaker 5: my career, various parts of Manhattan. You deal with a
- 9:17Speaker 5: lot of suicides, and I can tell you that never
- 9:19Speaker 5: once did I ever deal with something like this where
- 9:22Speaker 5: somebody forced their way into a trashuite. Generally in a
- 9:26Speaker 5: situation like this, and look, you can never tell what's
- 9:29Speaker 5: going to lead up to a suicide. I can actually remember,
- 9:32Speaker 5: ever remember having one responding to one where somebody said, yeah,
- 9:36Speaker 5: we saw it coming. People never see it coming. So
- 9:40Speaker 5: while that may be the case here that they didn't
- 9:43Speaker 5: see it coming, that's not necessarily this positive. What does
- 9:46Speaker 5: strike me, however, is the manner the idea that she
- 9:49Speaker 5: would do something like this. It's not only a very
- 9:52Speaker 5: grim way to do what she did. There is this
- 9:54Speaker 5: element of concealment. And very often when people do commit
- 9:59Speaker 5: suicide in a situation like this, it's on the outside
- 10:03Speaker 5: of the building, obviously, because this is the sort of
- 10:05Speaker 5: final act where the suicider talks to the world. It's
- 10:10Speaker 5: a very public statement in a lot of ways. It's
- 10:12Speaker 5: a statement made to the people around them. It's a
- 10:14Speaker 5: statement to society in general, the idea that somebody would
- 10:18Speaker 5: throw themselves down to trash shoot, not even sure by
- 10:21Speaker 5: the way, that it's going to work, okay, And everybody
- 10:24Speaker 5: in Manhattan has heard these stories of trash shoote incidents
- 10:27Speaker 5: that don't end up being fatal, but people lose arms
- 10:30Speaker 5: and things like that, crazy stories. I do find it
- 10:33Speaker 5: hard to believe. On the other hand, I am sure
- 10:35Speaker 5: from the reporting that it was very heavily investigated. So
- 10:39Speaker 5: I don't know what to make of the fact that
- 10:41Speaker 5: it was at the time not ruled a homicide, especially
- 10:45Speaker 5: with some of the circumstances around it.
- 11:00Speaker 1: Stories with nan'cy Grease.
- 11:03Speaker 2: Guys joining me right now, I mean, you've got to
- 11:06Speaker 2: know this name. If you are even an occasional sleuthy.
- 11:12Speaker 2: Doctor Michael Boden the former Chief Medical Examiner of New
- 11:17Speaker 2: York City, past co director of New York State Police
- 11:21Speaker 2: Medico Legal Investigations Unit, author of American Autopsy. You can
- 11:26Speaker 2: find him at doctorMichael Boden dot com and it's b
- 11:30Speaker 2: A d N. Although you pronounce it Boden, Doctor Boden,
- 11:36Speaker 2: It's always an honor and a privilege to have you
- 11:40Speaker 2: on with us. There's no way this woman committed suicide.
- 11:45Speaker 2: I'm just telling you, what did you look?
- 11:47Speaker 10: Let me again, Nancy, what great to talk to? That
- 11:51Speaker 10: introduction sounded like a eulogy that made me feel good.
- 11:57Speaker 2: Listen, before I do a eulogy for you, just make
- 12:00Speaker 2: sure your will is correct. Was not what your beautiful
- 12:02Speaker 2: wife left out in the cold. Okay? That said, what
- 12:07Speaker 2: do you think about this? I just I mean, on
- 12:09Speaker 2: day one, this.
- 12:11Speaker 10: Stunt to high heaven well as pearl. For full disclosure,
- 12:17Speaker 10: her father did send me, did ask me to review
- 12:20Speaker 10: the autopsy report some time ago, that this occurred in
- 12:28Speaker 10: July of twenty eighteen, and the father had was didn't
- 12:34Speaker 10: believe it that she would have committed suicide, which is
- 12:39Speaker 10: not uncommon. Whether it is or isn't a suicide, well, hold.
- 12:42Speaker 2: On just a moment. I think that I can crystallize.
- 12:46Speaker 2: Never said this before, doctor Michael Boden's thoughts. I want
- 12:49Speaker 2: you to take a listener. Cut twelve from Fox five.
- 12:52Speaker 11: And these bizarre circumstances caught the attention of New York
- 12:55Speaker 11: City's former medical examiner, doctor Michael bought In.
- 12:58Speaker 12: But I've never seen a young person able to climb
- 13:03Speaker 12: into a narrow chute like this and go fee first
- 13:07Speaker 12: down twenty seven stories. That's extremely unusual.
- 13:11Speaker 11: I just doctor Bodden agreed to take a look at
- 13:13Speaker 11: the autopsy report for the pre Hodco family pro bono.
- 13:17Speaker 12: My opinion is there's enough information that it should be
- 13:20Speaker 12: investigated as a homicide.
- 13:21Speaker 13: How do you know it was feet first, doctor Barden,
- 13:24Speaker 13: because the autopsy report.
- 13:26Speaker 10: I have the autopsy report. There are a lot of
- 13:29Speaker 10: fractures of the feet. No injury, no serious injury to
- 13:35Speaker 10: the head.
- 13:35Speaker 2: Okay, doctor Boden, do you know how happy you just
- 13:38Speaker 2: made me? And I don't know what it means about
- 13:40Speaker 2: me that I'm happy to hear about a dead woman's
- 13:43Speaker 2: foot fracture. But that goes to my theory Decam moll Downey,
- 13:49Speaker 2: Dtor Biden. I'm circling back, don't get me wrong, But Decca,
- 13:52Speaker 2: how is this woman going to climb up into a
- 13:56Speaker 2: trash chute which is typically a good feet off the
- 14:00Speaker 2: ground for safety reasons because you don't want to talk
- 14:04Speaker 2: to literally fall in there. So how is she going
- 14:08Speaker 2: to get up their feet first? How?
- 14:10Speaker 6: I mean, I think that's the question of the core
- 14:13Speaker 6: of this case and what it is so mysterious and
- 14:18Speaker 6: baffling about this depth. Why and how someone would choose
- 14:23Speaker 6: to commit suicide in that manner is the real question.
- 14:27Speaker 2: Okay, doctor Boden, you just threw me for a loop
- 14:30Speaker 2: when you confirmed how we know she went feet first?
- 14:37Speaker 2: Dr Boden, it just it's impossible.
- 14:39Speaker 10: Yeah, because Nancy, because in that shoot and I went
- 14:43Speaker 10: over and I looked at that shoot. Well, so as
- 14:44Speaker 10: in most shoots, you go into the the whatever goes
- 14:49Speaker 10: in goes down.
- 14:50Speaker 2: Like a closet. You go in the hallway.
- 14:53Speaker 10: That's right, it's a circular. It's circular, and you can't
- 14:56Speaker 10: turn away. The body can't turn. It just goes straight down.
- 15:01Speaker 10: So that if she goes into food feet first, she
- 15:05Speaker 10: lands feet first. And I think, what The issue that
- 15:08Speaker 10: was brought up by the police and the medical examiner
- 15:12Speaker 10: was that she had a high alcohol content. She had
- 15:15Speaker 10: been out before she came home. She was from France
- 15:19Speaker 10: and apparently was at a bar celebrating some kind of
- 15:23Speaker 10: soccer victory that the French soccer team had that afternoon.
- 15:31Speaker 10: And the toxicological finding at autopsy was zero point twenty
- 15:38Speaker 10: nine percent. You know, point eight is the DWI level,
- 15:42Speaker 10: So she had a lot of alcohol. But she walked home.
- 15:45Speaker 10: Apparently she said hello to the doorman. She looked perfectly good,
- 15:48Speaker 10: normal to the doorman when she came home, and this
- 15:52Speaker 10: happened shortly thereafter.
- 15:55Speaker 2: Yeah, he's absolutely right. Take a listen to our cut nine.
- 15:59Speaker 2: Our friends at pick celeb very unfortunate.
- 16:01Speaker 14: It's very unsettling, especially that it's coming so close to home.
- 16:05Speaker 3: Surveillance video shows her walking the hallways before entering the
- 16:08Speaker 3: trash room on the twenty seventh floor. She somehow appears
- 16:11Speaker 3: to have gone down the chute into the compactor. Neighbors
- 16:15Speaker 3: familiar with the building set up say they're not really
- 16:17Speaker 3: sure how that could have happened.
- 16:19Speaker 2: I mean it's a small shoot. I mean I don't
- 16:23Speaker 2: know how you do it.
- 16:24Speaker 7: I mean it never.
- 16:25Speaker 14: It never occurred to me to try to go into
- 16:27Speaker 14: the garbage set.
- 16:29Speaker 2: What was her blood alcohol, doctor Biden? Did you say
- 16:32Speaker 2: two to nine?
- 16:34Speaker 10: Yes?
- 16:34Speaker 2: Okay, so she's over three times the legal limit of
- 16:38Speaker 2: point zero eight. So right, she didn't drive, She got
- 16:43Speaker 2: a ride home with a friend or a cab. She
- 16:46Speaker 2: walks in, she's steady on her feet, she speaks to
- 16:49Speaker 2: the dorman. She's not committing a crime. Just because this
- 16:53Speaker 2: woman has been out and had several drinks, somehow that
- 16:56Speaker 2: turns into suicide. I don't get it, guys. I want
- 17:00Speaker 2: you to take a listen to what doctor Bethany Marshall
- 17:01Speaker 2: has to say. Doctor Bethany Marshall renown psycho analysts, joining
- 17:05Speaker 2: us out of Beverly Hills, and you can find her
- 17:07Speaker 2: at doctor Bethany Marshall dot com dotor Bethany. This is
- 17:11Speaker 2: total BS technical legal term. This woman did not commit suicide.
- 17:15Speaker 7: She did not she did not jump down trashoot. And
- 17:18Speaker 7: first of all, I hate the fact that she's just
- 17:20Speaker 7: referred to as a socialite. Why are female victims always
- 17:24Speaker 7: devalued They're either a sex worker, they're a socialite. That
- 17:28Speaker 7: implies that she had no social value other than just
- 17:31Speaker 7: do they say young mom exactly.
- 17:34Speaker 2: Young single mom, she's in the middle of a divorce.
- 17:37Speaker 2: I mean, I don't hate this former French beauty, flame
- 17:43Speaker 2: haired mom blah blah, like to be anything, But why
- 17:46Speaker 2: do they peg her that way? I don't get it.
- 17:49Speaker 2: And that started at the beginning.
- 17:51Speaker 7: Well, okay, so that leads right to what I wanted
- 17:53Speaker 7: to say is what is it about this social milieu
- 17:58Speaker 7: that they discredited her her and devalued her from the
- 18:02Speaker 7: very beginning. It wasn't just the husband, the child, the
- 18:07Speaker 7: people in the building. I mean, I'm a psychoanalyst, I'm
- 18:10Speaker 7: not a crime scene investigator, an investigator, but it tells
- 18:14Speaker 7: me that everybody involved in this situation colluded in seeing
- 18:20Speaker 7: her bringing about her own demise when in fact it
- 18:23Speaker 7: was impossible. So what does that mean? Did they envy
- 18:26Speaker 7: her because she had money and beauty and status. Did
- 18:30Speaker 7: they want to think that she had this sad, sack
- 18:32Speaker 7: internal life and so she killed herself? I think that's
- 18:36Speaker 7: what's interesting is that everybody told themselves a lie about this.
- 18:40Speaker 7: What is the purpose of a lie? And the fact
- 18:43Speaker 7: that they told the lie I think really interferes with
- 18:46Speaker 7: accurately telling the story of whatever it was that was
- 18:50Speaker 7: going on in her life. Was she being stopped by somebody?
- 18:53Speaker 2: How about a dan and dirty, acrimonious divorce And this night,
- 18:58Speaker 2: Okay found something to be happy. She had been watching
- 19:02Speaker 2: the fife A World Series Cup semi finals and that
- 19:06Speaker 2: night France beat Belgium. Her dad said her grandfather is French,
- 19:15Speaker 2: and she was ecstatic and she was out celebrating. When
- 19:21Speaker 2: she gets home. As the earlier heard, she greeted the
- 19:25Speaker 2: dormant in her building. She high fived them about the wind.
- 19:28Speaker 2: They all loved her because they say she was quote
- 19:32Speaker 2: so friendly and nice. Now, one of Lara's neighbors on
- 19:37Speaker 2: the twenty seventh floor told authorities she returned home around
- 19:41Speaker 2: four to twenty pm and nothing was unusual, although there
- 19:46Speaker 2: is that hallway surveillance video. She's in the hall and
- 19:51Speaker 2: we know she's been drinking. But oh, doctor Michael Boden,
- 19:55Speaker 2: who is with us right now, has another tiny issue
- 19:59Speaker 2: other than the gymnastics Olympic competitor she must have been
- 20:02Speaker 2: to get in that trash shoot. Take a list nour
- 20:04Speaker 2: cut fifteen our friends at Inside Edition.
- 20:07Speaker 15: Fame pathologist Michael Boden volunteered to reevaluate Laura's autopsy. Boden
- 20:12Speaker 15: says she had ligature marks on her neck, leading him
- 20:15Speaker 15: to believe she may have been strangled and was then
- 20:18Speaker 15: thrown down the trash chute. If it wasn't a homicide,
- 20:21Speaker 15: could it have been accidental? How is it even possible
- 20:24Speaker 15: for someone to fall into one of these garbage shoots?
- 20:26Speaker 15: As you can see, it's designed to snatch shut if.
- 20:29Speaker 2: You don't hold it open.
- 20:30Speaker 15: And could a grown man or woman even fit inside?
- 20:33Speaker 15: Now her father is hoping to have the case reopened.
- 20:37Speaker 2: Doctor Biden, did you forget to tell me about the
- 20:40Speaker 2: ligature marks?
- 20:44Speaker 10: Yeah? Well, first, she's five foot six inches and one
- 20:48Speaker 10: hundred and thirty eight pounds, so she's a small She's
- 20:52Speaker 10: good enough to go through that. The opening of the shoot.
- 20:58Speaker 2: I disagree because of my extensive training in autopsies as
- 21:03Speaker 2: a law student. I'm just kidding. I still don't say it.
- 21:07Speaker 2: I know she's five six and one thirty eight, but
- 21:11Speaker 2: the shoulder span, I mean, if I have to fold
- 21:14Speaker 2: up a pizza box to get it in that shoot?
- 21:18Speaker 2: And did you hear? And I forgot this to mention this,
- 21:20Speaker 2: doctor Boden, Those shoots again, are I would say at
- 21:25Speaker 2: least four feet off the ground, so children can't get
- 21:28Speaker 2: into them. But as we just heard Less Trent, our
- 21:31Speaker 2: friend at inside edition State, and he's right, those shoots
- 21:35Speaker 2: snap shut, so children can't get into them. If you
- 21:39Speaker 2: open one and you happen to let go of it
- 21:41Speaker 2: for whatever reason, it snaps shut. So that adds to
- 21:45Speaker 2: the difficulty of her getting into it.
- 21:47Speaker 10: Yeah, but Nancy, one way or the other, she did
- 21:51Speaker 10: get in. She went down the chute. And what I
- 21:54Speaker 10: was going to get to you is it's one thing
- 21:58Speaker 10: for her to bend all were Fasey's intoxicated, she bends
- 22:03Speaker 10: over and tries to go down the chute head first.
- 22:07Speaker 10: It's another thing to how would you go down feet
- 22:10Speaker 10: first unless somebody put it down there, you know, lifted
- 22:13Speaker 10: it down there exactly.
- 22:15Speaker 2: And what about Tell me this is correct? Decamel Downey
- 22:18Speaker 2: joining us from the Daily Beast. Wasn't her purse found
- 22:23Speaker 2: right there on the floor outside the trash chute.
- 22:28Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right, Nandy. Her purse was sitting on the
- 22:31Speaker 6: floor next to the trash chute.
- 22:32Speaker 2: Okay, and Jaca please jump in. You are much closer
- 22:36Speaker 2: to this case than we are, except for you, doctor bond.
- 22:39Speaker 2: Can we talk about potential ligature marks on her neck.
- 22:42Speaker 10: Yeah, they're in the photographs at the scene. At the scene,
- 22:49Speaker 10: the photographs were taken after she's out of the trash
- 22:54Speaker 10: compactor or coming out of the trash compactor, and the
- 22:59Speaker 10: photogram show the feet, the bare feet coming out with
- 23:04Speaker 10: the shoe. The sneaker was elsewhere in the trash and
- 23:09Speaker 10: there's a mark around the neck, a pale white mark
- 23:15Speaker 10: that would match a ligature mark. And the idea being
- 23:20Speaker 10: that if she goes down the chute as Great Dancings implying,
- 23:30Speaker 10: it's one thing after she's dead and can be lifted
- 23:36Speaker 10: down the chute, it's another if she's struggling and while alive,
- 23:44Speaker 10: it will be difficult to put it down, and it
- 23:46Speaker 10: would be very difficult for her to get into the
- 23:49Speaker 10: chute feet first.
- 23:51Speaker 2: Is it a more likely scenario that she was straangled
- 23:54Speaker 2: and put down the.
- 23:54Speaker 10: Trash here, Yes, that's what I wrote a letter to
- 23:57Speaker 10: the father, and that would be that she was deceased
- 24:04Speaker 10: before she goes down the chute.
- 24:06Speaker 2: Interesting, was she brought cut at all? Was her body?
- 24:12Speaker 2: Did she suffer abrasions going down the trash sheet and
- 24:15Speaker 2: if so, did they bleed.
- 24:16Speaker 10: Well, that's that's part of the problem. She she is
- 24:21Speaker 10: has bruises, a lot of bruises on her body which
- 24:28Speaker 10: would be rubbing against the shoote, and fractures and lacerations
- 24:34Speaker 10: because she goes through a the compactor before she comes
- 24:38Speaker 10: out of the chute. So part of the issues is
- 24:43Speaker 10: she has various injuries, but many of them would be
- 24:49Speaker 10: from the compactor. She does have Nancy would appreciate under
- 24:54Speaker 10: the skin of the neck, there's no there's a little
- 24:58Speaker 10: a mark around the outside of the neck, the middle
- 25:01Speaker 10: of the neck, this pale area above its cyanosis, the
- 25:07Speaker 10: blood being unable to move downward and getting a bluish color.
- 25:16Speaker 10: If she's what that happens in strangulations and a lot
- 25:19Speaker 10: of hemorrhage underneath the skin. There were no fractures of
- 25:24Speaker 10: the windpipe, but there was a lot of hemorrhage localized
- 25:31Speaker 10: in that area, which would go along with supporting some
- 25:35Speaker 10: kind of neck compression causing death.
- 25:39Speaker 2: What about park in her eyes.
- 25:42Speaker 10: She didn't have the tiki, but she had a bluish
- 25:44Speaker 10: color to the to the skin, which is similarly col
- 25:49Speaker 10: bluish color of wear on the skin of the whole face.
- 25:52Speaker 10: I really on the outside of the that that cyanosis
- 25:56Speaker 10: when a person can't breathe.
- 25:58Speaker 6: Nancy may I asked up about it the questions this
- 26:00Speaker 6: is scon l Danny. Yes, So I understood Dr Bond
- 26:04Speaker 6: that the chief medical examiner at the time, Barbara Stepson,
- 26:07Speaker 6: concluded that Laura had died as a result of multiple
- 26:11Speaker 6: blunt force injuries. But from what you're saying, having reviewed
- 26:16Speaker 6: the autopsy, it sounds to me like you think some
- 26:20Speaker 6: of those injuries could have been sustained posts Morden, and
- 26:25Speaker 6: it sounds like you don't fully agree with that assentment.
- 26:27Speaker 6: Is that right?
- 26:28Speaker 10: Well, that's correct. That is, she went through a trash
- 26:32Speaker 10: compactor before she was seen, and I think there are
- 26:38Speaker 10: cut injuries to the chest and heart and ribs that
- 26:51Speaker 10: would be part of the compactor injuries, but she doesn't
- 26:56Speaker 10: have any injury. She has very little injuries to the scalp,
- 27:01Speaker 10: which would be an indication that she didn't go down
- 27:05Speaker 10: head first. She has fractures of the ankles, which would
- 27:10Speaker 10: go wrong with striking the ground after falling twenty seven stories. However,
- 27:15Speaker 10: that role has to be taken into into consideration. That
- 27:21Speaker 10: also compacted before she's seen.
- 27:23Speaker 2: Well, I'm not the only one that does not believe
- 27:27Speaker 2: Lara's death is a suicide. Take a list in our
- 27:30Speaker 2: cut thirteen our friend less Trent.
- 27:32Speaker 15: Police claim she was drunk. The New York City Medical
- 27:35Speaker 15: Examiner ruled no suspicion of foul play. Laura's father, Nicholas,
- 27:40Speaker 15: who lives in Toronto, says he strongly disagrees.
- 27:44Speaker 2: I don't believe it. I didn't believe it, and I
- 27:46Speaker 2: continue not to believe it.
- 27:48Speaker 15: Nicholas Brahdko says his daughter and her husband, David slaw Hit,
- 27:52Speaker 15: were divorcing and fighting over millions of dollars in real
- 27:56Speaker 15: estate and more.
- 27:58Speaker 2: Take a listen to our friends a crime online dot
- 28:01Speaker 2: Com cut sixteen.
- 28:02Speaker 13: Nicholas Prechidco does not believe his daughter, Laura died in
- 28:06Speaker 13: a drunken accidental fall twenty seven stories down a trash
- 28:09Speaker 13: chute in the Zekendorf Towers and Union Square. The father
- 28:12Speaker 13: says his daughter was going through a heated divorce with
- 28:15Speaker 13: her estranged husband, David Slatchett, over the custody of their son,
- 28:18Speaker 13: as well as real estate that included two homes in Southampton,
- 28:21Speaker 13: an apartment in Chelsea, a penthouse in Williamsburg, and a
- 28:24Speaker 13: loft in Toronto. Nicholas Prechidco has filed a wrongful death
- 28:29Speaker 13: lawsuit claiming Schlatchett and another man conspired to murder Laura Prechidco.
- 28:34Speaker 13: The suit alleges Slashett hired the unidentified hitman who tracked
- 28:38Speaker 13: pre Chidco's movements, waited for her in her building, strangled her,
- 28:43Speaker 13: then disposed of her body down the trash chute.
- 28:45Speaker 2: The husband strongly denies any involvement.
- 29:01Speaker 1: Time Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 29:05Speaker 2: Joining me right now. Joseph Jacqueline, former NYPD sergeant, author
- 29:11Speaker 2: of the Cold Case Handbook and The Criminal Investigative Function,
- 29:17Speaker 2: A guide for a New Investigators, fourth edition that mas
- 29:20Speaker 2: has already been through three editions of this book, highly popular.
- 29:23Speaker 2: Joseph Jacqueline, thank you for being with us. I wanted
- 29:25Speaker 2: you to hear everything up to this point. What is
- 29:28Speaker 2: your analysis?
- 29:29Speaker 14: Great?
- 29:29Speaker 5: Thanks Nancy for having me.
- 29:31Speaker 14: So this is my first question, and if maybe somebody
- 29:34Speaker 14: on the panel.
- 29:35Speaker 10: Knows about this.
- 29:35Speaker 14: So we have video surveillance of her going into the
- 29:38Speaker 14: compact room and that never leaving. Do we have video
- 29:41Speaker 14: surveillance of anybody following behind her going into the compact
- 29:45Speaker 14: the location and not leaving because that would be the
- 29:48Speaker 14: person that they would want. So I'm assuming that there
- 29:50Speaker 14: are tons of video surveillance that would investigators to be
- 29:55Speaker 14: calling over for a long period of time. Does anybody
- 29:58Speaker 14: know the answer to that question?
- 29:59Speaker 2: I do not, decam all Downey, do we know.
- 30:01Speaker 6: I believe that there is some video surveillance in the hallway,
- 30:06Speaker 6: not the entire hallway, and not obviously inside the trash
- 30:11Speaker 6: compactor room. So I think there is potentially some possibility
- 30:15Speaker 6: that she may have been followed. I just it seems
- 30:20Speaker 6: as though there is not quite a nut covering, right.
- 30:23Speaker 2: I think you're right, Jaca. Doctor Barden questioned to you,
- 30:26Speaker 2: you've seen the trash chute. Is the trash chute in
- 30:30Speaker 2: the same area where the stairs are are stairs beside
- 30:34Speaker 2: the trash chute.
- 30:35Speaker 10: Going down, or it's not far from the staircase, not far,
- 30:40Speaker 10: it's it's close to the staircase. However, the trash chute
- 30:46Speaker 10: has a door. Also, I think it's a confined space
- 30:49Speaker 10: and there's no video that surveillance surveys the trashoot area.
- 30:56Speaker 2: That's the way it is. In my hallway, there's a
- 31:00Speaker 2: and you can see the long hallway and the elevator.
- 31:05Speaker 2: But the hallway takes a right angle turn, and it's
- 31:09Speaker 2: right there in that corner where there is the trash chute,
- 31:13Speaker 2: and in that little I've called a closet, that little area,
- 31:18Speaker 2: it's actually also the landing for stairs going down and
- 31:22Speaker 2: stairs going up. It's all right there in the same
- 31:27Speaker 2: little alcove area. And the surveillance does not show the
- 31:33Speaker 2: trashchute door. It's like a little room, like a closet,
- 31:37Speaker 2: like a big closet, and in that room there is
- 31:40Speaker 2: the trash chute and the stairs which go down and up. So,
- 31:45Speaker 2: doctor Bowden, having seen the trash chute area where Lara
- 31:50Speaker 2: met her death, would surveillance have caught her going specifically
- 31:55Speaker 2: into that door or anyone coming out, and would that
- 31:58Speaker 2: person have had access to the stairs without being caught
- 32:02Speaker 2: on surveillance video.
- 32:03Speaker 10: My understanding is there was no surveillance, No surveillance of
- 32:10Speaker 10: that area involved whether there was anybody else near there,
- 32:15Speaker 10: near to the trash and what about the steps none
- 32:19Speaker 10: that I well, I'm not sure about the stairs itself.
- 32:21Speaker 10: With the elevator that's nearby, there's no video showing anybody
- 32:27Speaker 10: else in that area.
- 32:30Speaker 2: So JOSEU. Jaccoline, former NYPD sergeant and author with the
- 32:35Speaker 2: stairs right beside the trash chute and surveillance of the
- 32:40Speaker 2: trasheet door itself. We don't know the answer whether anyone
- 32:44Speaker 2: was there or not, but I can tell you this,
- 32:46Speaker 2: if the stairs were close by, a person could have
- 32:48Speaker 2: easily gone down the stairs all the way down, all
- 32:52Speaker 2: the way to sub the sub basement and get out
- 32:55Speaker 2: that way.
- 32:55Speaker 14: Well certainly, I mean, and even those location. You know,
- 32:57Speaker 14: we're talking about every exclusive building, so we're looking at it.
- 33:02Speaker 14: I was looking online before we got onto about sixty
- 33:04Speaker 14: five hundred dollars a month apartments, and you know that
- 33:08Speaker 14: there's video surveillance is about anywhere with those exits, and
- 33:11Speaker 14: you have a doorman building too. So if this is
- 33:15Speaker 14: a homicide, which you know, I always come from the
- 33:18Speaker 14: school where and doctor Biden, I think will agree with
- 33:21Speaker 14: me unless you treat every death as if it's suspicious
- 33:23Speaker 14: and will proven otherwise, And with your dealing and what
- 33:27Speaker 14: you're dealing with is you have to have somebody that
- 33:30Speaker 14: either has access to an exit which is probably surveilled,
- 33:36Speaker 14: or they have to walk to the doorman and the doorman.
- 33:38Speaker 5: Would have to acknowledge their presence.
- 33:40Speaker 14: So I would assume that investigators spoke to the door
- 33:45Speaker 14: person and pulled all the videos availance to which if
- 33:48Speaker 14: it turns out at the end of the day to
- 33:50Speaker 14: be a homicide, then a list of everybody who was
- 33:53Speaker 14: in that building would be a suspect.
- 33:54Speaker 2: Why has this been brought back into the public eye?
- 33:58Speaker 2: Why is it backs point of interest? Take a listen
- 34:01Speaker 2: to our cut twenty our friends at crime Online.
- 34:04Speaker 13: The Wrongful Death lawsuit alleges that days after Laura Prechidco's death,
- 34:08Speaker 13: Slatchett and John Doe met in Manhattan, where Schlatchett made
- 34:11Speaker 13: a final payment to John Doe for the murder of
- 34:13Speaker 13: Laura Prechidco. The Sioux claimed Schlatchett was financially motivated to
- 34:18Speaker 13: gil pre Chidco as they were going through an acrimonious
- 34:20Speaker 13: divorce at the time, and that his construction firm filed
- 34:24Speaker 13: for bankruptcy in twenty sixteen while facing several lawsuits. The
- 34:28Speaker 13: wrongful Death lawsuit seeks damages in an amount to be
- 34:31Speaker 13: determined at trial and the disqualification of Schlatchett as beneficiary
- 34:36Speaker 13: of pre chid goes of state.
- 34:37Speaker 2: Wow, there was a lot of money at stake. Decamul
- 34:41Speaker 2: Downey explained.
- 34:42Speaker 6: Well, this is a wrongful death lawsuit that's been filed
- 34:45Speaker 6: by Laura's father, and in that lawsuit, he outlined an
- 34:50Speaker 6: alternative narrative of what could have happened here, And what
- 34:56Speaker 6: he's alleging is that, facing the possibility of losing millions
- 35:02Speaker 6: of dollars in this acrimonious divorce, that Lara's ex husband
- 35:07Speaker 6: hired a hitman to kill her. So that's what's alleged
- 35:11Speaker 6: in the lawsuits. So it's alleged that he didn't personally
- 35:16Speaker 6: kill her, but that he hired someone to do it
- 35:18Speaker 6: and offered to pay this person. And that's what Lara's
- 35:23Speaker 6: father believes happened here.
- 35:25Speaker 2: That is his theory. Of course, the husband denies any wrongdoing.
- 35:28Speaker 2: It's not just about money. Isn't it true that there
- 35:34Speaker 2: are now claims that Lara, after having split with her
- 35:38Speaker 2: husband and in the middle of the divorce, was having
- 35:40Speaker 2: an affair with the married web MD CEO before her death.
- 35:46Speaker 2: His name was also on her lease.
- 35:48Speaker 5: That's right, So.
- 35:50Speaker 6: This is reporting from the New York Post. But yet
- 35:54Speaker 6: it was a story that she was having an affair
- 35:57Speaker 6: with the CEO of WebMD where she was working, who
- 36:02Speaker 6: ultimately ended up getting divorced from his wife, and it's
- 36:05Speaker 6: unclear whether this affair may have played a part in that,
- 36:08Speaker 6: but he maintained it appears another apartment for her in Manhattan,
- 36:14Speaker 6: and that they were having a romantic relationship and he
- 36:20Speaker 6: held a memorial service for her after she died. And
- 36:25Speaker 6: it's it's not totally clear what role this may have
- 36:28Speaker 6: played in an alternative narrative of the cases being offered
- 36:32Speaker 6: by Laura's father, But you know, it adds another wrinkle
- 36:36Speaker 6: to the story here about what could have taken play.
- 36:39Speaker 2: Doctor Bethany Marshall, are you still alive or has someone
- 36:43Speaker 2: killed you? In the middle of crime stories? Because I
- 36:46Speaker 2: can't believe you haven't jumped Inneranda.
- 36:48Speaker 7: Well, I just think there's so many twists and turns
- 36:50Speaker 7: to the story. But where my mind goes is a husband,
- 36:54Speaker 7: a former husband, who is interested enough in killing his
- 36:58Speaker 7: wife to hire a hit man, has a long history
- 37:03Speaker 7: of verbal, if not physical abuse towards that victim, That
- 37:07Speaker 7: this was a domestic situation, and don't you know that
- 37:10Speaker 7: her father, that his father in law, was helpless witness
- 37:15Speaker 7: to all of this. I mean, he may have seen
- 37:17Speaker 7: his daughter suffering in this marriage. So when she goes missing,
- 37:22Speaker 7: she goes down the trash shoot. All of a sudden,
- 37:24Speaker 7: he thinks, you know, I'll be damned. It really is
- 37:29Speaker 7: not only that the tragedy the loss, but that it
- 37:32Speaker 7: may have ended in such a way that he was
- 37:35Speaker 7: afraid of it. I think it's remarkable that she was
- 37:40Speaker 7: having this other relationship because if it was a domestic situation,
- 37:45Speaker 7: women are at the greatest risk of homicide as they're
- 37:49Speaker 7: leaving a relationship. We all know this. He may have
- 37:52Speaker 7: wanted soul custody of the sun. You know, we know
- 37:55Speaker 7: an abusive family dynamics. Parents can't share parenting. They should
- 38:00Speaker 7: be able to, but they can't. So he may have
- 38:02Speaker 7: wanted control of the time, all for himself. And then, finally,
- 38:06Speaker 7: I think the idea that she was inebriated and had
- 38:09Speaker 7: been drinking shows that whoever committed this crime, that was
- 38:14Speaker 7: the husband. It sounds like it hiring a hit man.
- 38:17Speaker 7: He knew her patterns. He knew, you know, when she
- 38:20Speaker 7: would have fun afternoons, when she would hang out with friends,
- 38:23Speaker 7: and when she would be the most vulnerable.
- 38:25Speaker 2: Again, the ex husband denies any involvement or domestic abuse.
- 38:30Speaker 2: But I've got another point. Take alostnour cut seventeen from
- 38:34Speaker 2: crime online dot Com.
- 38:35Speaker 13: Nicholas Prechanco alleges that Laura's estranged husband, David Slatchett, tracked
- 38:40Speaker 13: Laura's movements by having software installed on her laptop, and
- 38:44Speaker 13: this is how the unidentified hit man was able to
- 38:46Speaker 13: know pre jot Go's location, allowing him to wait for her,
- 38:50Speaker 13: strangle her before disposing of her body in the trash Choote.
- 38:53Speaker 13: Police have said when prijon Go's body was discovered in
- 38:56Speaker 13: the trash compactor, it was quote crushed from multiple ang
- 39:01Speaker 13: The New York City Medical Examiner ruled her death and accident,
- 39:04Speaker 13: but the family hired former New York City Chief Medical Examiner,
- 39:07Speaker 13: doctor Michael Baden, who said he found that pre Chidco
- 39:11Speaker 13: may have been strangled to death.
- 39:12Speaker 2: Paul Morrow, attorney and former NYPD inspector jump in.
- 39:17Speaker 7: So.
- 39:17Speaker 5: One of the other forensics that they certainly would have
- 39:20Speaker 5: looked at year are the digital forensics, and that's going
- 39:22Speaker 5: to be very important here. Now. By the time of
- 39:24Speaker 5: this death, we already had encrypted phones, so that's not
- 39:29Speaker 5: a very easy thing to surmount. But putting to the
- 39:33Speaker 5: reporting online, they do have hold of some at least
- 39:36Speaker 5: text messages, or emails, so they got some stuff. Even
- 39:40Speaker 5: if the phone is encrypted, there are other ways to
- 39:42Speaker 5: go about it. You can dump the cloud. You can
- 39:44Speaker 5: go to secondary devices, which sometimes the phone feeds into,
- 39:48Speaker 5: which is what happened in the hunter Biden's situation. His
- 39:50Speaker 5: texts from his phone were on his laptop. These these
- 39:54Speaker 5: devices talk to each other. It was a large response
- 39:57Speaker 5: to this. This is the seventeen preasing. This is a
- 40:00Speaker 5: healthy area on Manhattan's East Side. There was no shortage
- 40:03Speaker 5: of attention paid to this. The notion I'm just going
- 40:06Speaker 5: to push back a little bit on the notion that
- 40:08Speaker 5: this was taken lightly. I can tell you it was not,
- 40:11Speaker 5: and in fact, in detective squads these days, unfortunately this
- 40:14Speaker 5: may be changing, but for a good while here, while
- 40:17Speaker 5: the murder rate was so low, detectives literally would compete
- 40:20Speaker 5: to catch a homicide, to catch a murder case. It's
- 40:23Speaker 5: kind of the a level case in a detective squad. Furthermore,
- 40:27Speaker 5: they would get enhancement from Manhattan South Thomside, which is
- 40:31Speaker 5: a unit dedicated to investigating homicides, who don't really catch
- 40:34Speaker 5: the case, but they help, for lack of a better term,
- 40:36Speaker 5: that's called enhancing. My point overall is this Joe Jack
- 40:40Speaker 5: o'loane was talking about the videos that would have been
- 40:42Speaker 5: pulled absolutely, not only within the building, but outside the
- 40:45Speaker 5: building on any relevant time period or ingressive egress to
- 40:49Speaker 5: the building. Street video would have been pulled. Any video
- 40:53Speaker 5: inside the building. If there's a card used to get
- 40:56Speaker 5: in and out of the building, I don't know if
- 40:57Speaker 5: it's a key card kind of thing to get into
- 40:58Speaker 5: the elevator, but certainly you have a doorman. Everybody would
- 41:02Speaker 5: have been interviewed, You would have dropped all of this
- 41:05Speaker 5: stuff into the squad, and you would have had a
- 41:10Speaker 5: lot of people scraping at it trying to solve it. Now,
- 41:12Speaker 5: that doesn't mean there wasn't foul play here, because admittedly
- 41:17Speaker 5: it's a very odd set of circumstances and as I
- 41:20Speaker 5: said earlier, not something I've encountered in the past. But
- 41:23Speaker 5: I would say that I think that a lot of
- 41:26Speaker 5: stuff was done here that was not this positive. And
- 41:29Speaker 5: for even them me to come in and say, well,
- 41:31Speaker 5: we're going to rule that this thing appears to be
- 41:34Speaker 5: not a homicide. They certainly don't have anything to hang
- 41:38Speaker 5: their hats on accidental is hard for me to swallow.
- 41:40Speaker 5: The idea that she somehow fell into a shoot that's
- 41:43Speaker 5: four feet off the ground. I think that defies.
- 41:46Speaker 2: Belief, especially first.
- 41:49Speaker 5: Fee first exactly, she'd have to take a flying.
- 41:51Speaker 2: Exactly, and that door slam shut. It's a spring action.
- 41:56Speaker 2: It's slam shut if you let go of it. So
- 41:59Speaker 2: how did she do that? Doctor Michael Boden, do you
- 42:04Speaker 2: believe this was a suicide?
- 42:07Speaker 10: Nancy? One thing though, Just to be clear, the initial
- 42:12Speaker 10: cause of death listed in the death certificate in the
- 42:16Speaker 10: on the what Topsy report is multiple blunt impact injuries
- 42:22Speaker 10: and the manner of death is listened as undetermined. That's
- 42:26Speaker 10: it's odd to say undetermined and then say it's no
- 42:31Speaker 10: foul play because if you're saying that, which which was
- 42:34Speaker 10: the what was given over to the police, no foul
- 42:37Speaker 10: play means it's not homicide. Well, it's certainly not an accident.
- 42:41Speaker 10: It's what Well, all that's left is suicide, and I
- 42:46Speaker 10: guess they the the whoever issued the death certificate would
- 42:50Speaker 10: have unless there's a new death certificate, the second death
- 42:53Speaker 10: certificate that says suicide. This says undetermined. And the only
- 42:57Speaker 10: reason to do that be if you're uncertain about it,
- 43:02Speaker 10: because it's either natural accident suicide of homicide. Well, it's
- 43:07Speaker 10: not natural. You can't accident. This can't possibly be an accident.
- 43:12Speaker 10: You don't accidentally fall into a treashoot. It's either suicide,
- 43:17Speaker 10: as pull said, of a homicide, and they rule out
- 43:19Speaker 10: homicide by saying no foul play. So normally one would
- 43:22Speaker 10: put suicide down. But it was treated as a suicide.
- 43:26Speaker 10: And I think once it's treated as a suicide, that
- 43:29Speaker 10: would diminish the extent that in my experience of the
- 43:35Speaker 10: police investigation into possible homicide, was.
- 43:38Speaker 7: There a culture of disdain towards wealthy victims in this precinct.
- 43:43Speaker 2: I doubt it, because that precinct was full of rich people.
- 43:46Speaker 2: Even in that building you had Anthony Wiener and many
- 43:49Speaker 2: other high profile people living there. Decamal Downey with the
- 43:54Speaker 2: Daily Beast. Is it true? Is the father's the victim's
- 43:59Speaker 2: father's allegation true or do we know if it's true
- 44:02Speaker 2: that the ex husband had placed spywear on her devices
- 44:08Speaker 2: that could follow her around and know where she was going.
- 44:12Speaker 16: That's his allegation, and his allegation is that that spy
- 44:16Speaker 16: where were the used by her ex husband to inform
- 44:20Speaker 16: the hitman of her location and in his.
- 44:24Speaker 6: Narrative, that's why you know she was able to be
- 44:28Speaker 6: cornered in this trash shoe room. However, the lawsuit bitty
- 44:33Speaker 6: file doesn't offer any evidence and that doesn't appear to
- 44:38Speaker 6: have ever been released by a police in this case.
- 44:41Speaker 2: So that is the father's claim, Lara's father's claim. I'm
- 44:46Speaker 2: sure the ex husband is denying that as well. We
- 44:51Speaker 2: wait as just as unfolds. If you have information or
- 44:55Speaker 2: think you have information, please dial eight hundred FI. I
- 45:00Speaker 2: have seven seven tips, T I P S. Goodbye, said
- 45:09Speaker 5: M