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Bride-to-Be Is Killed—Detectives Question Her Fiancé · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 2: A bride to be murdered a week before her wedding.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna find out what happened.
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Speaker 4: Somebody wanted her dead?
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Speaker 5: Who did it?
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Speaker 2: Who the hell did it?
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Speaker 3: If you had any suspicions, would you tell us?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, because if you'll find out I knew.
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Speaker 2: Can detectives get a confession or will it cold blooded
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Speaker 2: killer go free?
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Speaker 3: Don't lie for him?
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Speaker 4: Well, we just needed, really that one person to finally.
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Speaker 2: Break investigators searching for answers in the interrogation room.
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Speaker 7: This is probably the most important moment of your life.
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Speaker 8: Every suspect accused of a crime has the right to
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Speaker 8: remain silent. Many agree to be interrogated anyway, but they
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Speaker 8: can stop the interview at any moment, making it a
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Speaker 8: race against time. Justice hangs in the balance.
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Speaker 9: And yeah, I have my answers. I just so often
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Speaker 9: I echistan and I saw shes right on the kist.
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Speaker 9: Okay is that moving?
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Speaker 10: What is your name?
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Speaker 9: Iman?
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Speaker 5: Let me help?
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Speaker 9: Okay here.
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Speaker 11: When we arrived on scene and the fire department, we
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Speaker 11: advised on the radio that they had gone in and
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Speaker 11: backed out because they had found a bullet casing next
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Speaker 11: to the body.
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Speaker 3: The women that had token, drops of blood.
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Speaker 12: Gods, stay on me, dru clear.
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Speaker 3: Clear let blood in the kitchen, led down.
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Speaker 13: This hall, got one's own showcasing on the floor.
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Speaker 11: Heirst man right there next to her amonger.
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Speaker 3: She just got here.
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Speaker 5: She was shot one time in the eyebrow and she
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Speaker 5: died right there. Now to our other breaking news and
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Speaker 5: row led were police or trying to figure out what
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Speaker 5: led to were woman's death inside.
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Speaker 14: Her home right now, police only calling it a death
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Speaker 14: investigation and could not go into many details surrounding the
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Speaker 14: nature of a death or who it is.
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Speaker 4: As we were in the process of obtaining a search warrant,
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Speaker 4: we were able to determine that it was Laura Gorilla
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Speaker 4: that was deceased on the floor in the kitchen. Lord
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Speaker 4: Gorilla was thirty seven years old. She was very active
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Speaker 4: in her community.
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Speaker 15: She was like this ray of sunshine. She wanted to
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Speaker 15: just make the world a better place. She was going
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Speaker 15: to get married in a week. Laura and John were
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Speaker 15: together about seven years total.
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Speaker 5: Together. They have one child, four years old, and Laura
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Speaker 5: has two older children from previous relationships, and they lived
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Speaker 5: together with Laura Grillo's brother, Brian.
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Speaker 15: John had asked Laura to marry him on more than
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Speaker 15: one occasion. She finally said yes. She really was excited
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Speaker 15: about the wedding, and she asked me to be the
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Speaker 15: maid of honor. We were having a good time planning.
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Speaker 15: We went and picked out dresses together. Laura's youngest daughter
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Speaker 15: was with us during a lot of this planning. You know,
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Speaker 15: it was really sweet. She was so in love with her.
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Speaker 15: I'm really sad. We were supposed to grow old together,
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Speaker 15: you know, and be best friends.
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Speaker 11: John and Laura were both volunteers with the police department
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Speaker 11: in a program called PHIPPS, which is Volunteers in Public Safety.
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Speaker 11: John engaged in a conversation with me. He's from Greece,
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Speaker 11: so he spoke with a heavy accent. He had asked
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Speaker 11: if Laura was in the house. Listen to me, it
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Speaker 11: looks like a gunshot one. That is all I can
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Speaker 11: tell you.
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Speaker 5: You have cameras on the house, yes, do they record?
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Speaker 16: They used to.
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Speaker 12: I don't know what to do, okay.
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Speaker 11: As we were searching the master bedroom, we observed some
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Speaker 11: drawers flipped over and the safe was actually open where
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Speaker 11: it looked like it possibly a burglary had occurred.
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Speaker 4: But there were things inside the scene that just didn't
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Speaker 4: look right. We did not find any forced entry to
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Speaker 4: the residents at all, and the rest of the home
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Speaker 4: appeared to be untouched. This did not appear to us
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Speaker 4: to be a random attack. Somebody wanted her dead.
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Speaker 15: New information from Roulette where neighbors are in discipl We just.
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Speaker 5: Got an update from role At Police about thirty minutes ago,
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Speaker 5: and they tell us the death investigation that's happening just
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Speaker 5: behind us here inside this home is now considered a homicide.
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Speaker 1: With no signs of a forced entry. Investigator say, on
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Speaker 1: Friday morning, either someone followed Laura into her home or
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Speaker 1: was already inside when she returned home from taking her
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Speaker 1: children to school.
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Speaker 5: Laura Grilla's brother, Brian told us that he was asleep
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Speaker 5: at the house. He got up about noon and he
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Speaker 5: found the female body face down in the kitchen, a
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Speaker 5: lot of blood. He exited the house and called nine
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Speaker 5: one one.
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Speaker 4: That was a concern for us initially. A gunshot that
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Speaker 4: goes off inside a house is typically pretty loud. But
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Speaker 4: he told us that he's hearing impaired, and.
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Speaker 5: We were able to confirm, so Brian was eliminated as
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Speaker 5: a suspect. We didn't find any motive there was nothing
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Speaker 5: but love between Laura and Brian.
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Speaker 15: I had the children. They were staying the night with me.
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Speaker 15: They couldn't go back home, of course, And then that's
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Speaker 15: when John was at the police station being questioned.
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Speaker 5: Basically, the goal was to confirm John's where on the
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Speaker 5: morning of the murder.
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Speaker 17: What's lost both with the close officers and detectives, the
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Speaker 17: sens I'm sorry for your lungs.
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Speaker 5: I want you to know that we're gonna find.
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Speaker 3: Out what happened.
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Speaker 13: I do.
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Speaker 5: So when we started the interview, he cried quietly for
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Speaker 5: about sixty seconds.
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Speaker 3: Will be the mode is for someone to come in
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Speaker 3: the house. I'll tackle, come on here. Somebody chose to
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Speaker 3: come in that house? Why that's what? Look we did
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Speaker 3: the lord to see any boat news, go to my moms. Okay, old,
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Speaker 3: there was no other thing I know from yes, little learn.
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Speaker 18: In a week as soon as I love copy because
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Speaker 18: of the love, it was a little exposed to it.
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Speaker 5: John answered my questions that he didn't owe anybody no money.
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Speaker 5: Nobody was threatening the family. They were pending a wedding,
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Speaker 5: and he seems to be excited. He was able to
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Speaker 5: start a detailed written statement. John said that he had
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Speaker 5: left early in the morning and went to a home
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Speaker 5: improvement store in North Dallas, and that he had met
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Speaker 5: up with two workers in his construction business. A lot
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Speaker 5: of times in my past when I've investigated something a
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Speaker 5: tragic event, people are not physically able to actually start
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Speaker 5: writing down. We have to give him some time a
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Speaker 5: day or two to collect themselves. So that struck me
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Speaker 5: a little bit odd. But my first interview with John,
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Speaker 5: he didn't stand out to be a suspect.
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Speaker 4: Next day, John showed up at the police department unannounced,
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Speaker 4: wanting to speak with me.
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Speaker 3: Everybody's asking me what's going on.
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Speaker 5: My answer is I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I still don't know. I need you guys will give answers.
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Speaker 3: I need doctors, Okay, I need to know what is
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Speaker 3: going on. What is your speculations what?
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Speaker 4: He wanted to be in charge of what was going
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Speaker 4: on and kind of controlled what information was going to
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Speaker 4: be released to the public, and we just let John
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Speaker 4: talk to get as much information from him as we
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Speaker 4: possibly could.
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Speaker 3: I will I did not answer what I can what
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Speaker 3: I can tell you.
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Speaker 2: At this point.
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Speaker 3: My biggest concern right now is the kids.
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Speaker 12: How am I going to talk about mind Blom was
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Speaker 12: to bring the kids to the house.
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Speaker 4: Yes, of course, he doesn't really seem to be too
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Speaker 4: upset about the fact that his fiance that he was
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Speaker 4: supposed to marry in a week is dead. He's more
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Speaker 4: concerned about wanting to clean everything up and move on
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Speaker 4: with his life, and.
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Speaker 5: He's not talking about any security measures that he's going
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Speaker 5: to implement after he's returning to the murder scene with
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Speaker 5: not only his own life but also the kids.
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Speaker 14: Now to a developing story, investigators say the death of
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Speaker 14: a thirty seven year old Roulet mother appears to be
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Speaker 14: a homicide. Laurie Grilla was shot and killed inside her
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Speaker 14: own home Friday morning, shortly after returning from dropping her
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Speaker 14: children off at school.
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Speaker 1: She was supposed to be getting ready for her wedding
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Speaker 1: scheduled one week from tonight, but instead friends and family
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Speaker 1: are planning her funeral.
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Speaker 15: She was a fantastic, loving mom, friend, sister. She had
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Speaker 15: a rough childhood growing up, but she was trying to
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Speaker 15: create this really fantastic life for her kids that she
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Speaker 15: didn't have when.
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Speaker 1: She was a kid.
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Speaker 15: It's a real nightmare not knowing what happened to someone
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Speaker 15: when they're here one day and then they're just like
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Speaker 15: murder her the next day, but Laura's Beyonce, John was
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Speaker 15: acting strange from the get go. Just a few days
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Speaker 15: after Laura was killed, John asked me, He's like, I
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Speaker 15: have a feeling that the Rabbit Police Department is going
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Speaker 15: to try to pin this on me and take the kids.
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Speaker 15: I knew something was wrong.
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Speaker 4: We were able to gather video surveillance footage from a
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Speaker 4: couple of home improvement stores that John told us he
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Speaker 4: went to that morning in Dallas, which proved that he
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Speaker 4: was actually there at the time that Laura was killed.
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Speaker 4: So we knew that he wasn't responsible for this himself,
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Speaker 4: but we couldn't say at that point that he didn't
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Speaker 4: have some involvement in setting.
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Speaker 5: This up, and we were able to confirm that a
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Speaker 5: short time later. He had met up with two workers
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Speaker 5: in his construction business.
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Speaker 15: Jesus worked with John and they were best friends. He
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Speaker 15: was going to be part of the wedding party.
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Speaker 4: Hasus was John's right hand man kind of his job foreman,
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Speaker 4: John's go to person.
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Speaker 5: James said that he had only been working for the
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Speaker 5: company for three weeks, so he had barely met John.
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Speaker 5: My goal was to find out are they a person.
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Speaker 3: Of interest or a suspect, and he thanked me it
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Speaker 3: don't be laid whatever. I'm where were gonna be ub
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Speaker 3: at home depot.
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Speaker 11: And that is.
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Speaker 3: That's what happened. Then just started on holding doors.
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Speaker 18: Okay, he pulled up and being John John John showed
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Speaker 18: up and everything we started working again.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 5: Both his sus and James were very upfront, very cooperative,
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Speaker 5: very talkative. The stories matched.
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Speaker 4: They both said they were together the entire morning, and
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Speaker 4: both James and his sues denied being in Ralleh that
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Speaker 4: morning having any knowledge about what happened to Laura.
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Speaker 2: Who was responsible for it?
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Speaker 3: Let me ask you this.
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna ask you, Okay, if you had any suspicions
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Speaker 5: or if you had any.
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Speaker 3: Personal knowledge that John was responsible for Laura listened her life,
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Speaker 3: would you tell us?
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Speaker 19: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: Because if y'all find out I knew, I mean, if
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Speaker 6: that's a dar wonder if he could have done it.
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Speaker 6: I don't see him doing it and he didn't ask
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Speaker 6: I don't see it like that, right, you know? I mean,
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Speaker 6: I I mean since it happened, just like y'all have
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Speaker 6: been doing. You know it is it the husband?
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Speaker 5: Is it?
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Speaker 20: The brother?
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Speaker 15: Is it?
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Speaker 6: Is it you know what I'm saying is that really,
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Speaker 6: let's let's I've been doing the same thing exactly.
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Speaker 3: You know, that's the same thing we do.
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Speaker 5: If you kind of brought it up, you know, because
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Speaker 5: you said, I don't you know, I don't think he
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Speaker 5: did it.
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Speaker 3: I don't think I'm gonna ask. That's why we get.
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Speaker 5: Along that all right.
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Speaker 4: Seemed a little too laid back, you know, just laughing
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Speaker 4: and joking around in the interview room. Some of that
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Speaker 4: stuff didn't really make sense when his boss's fiance, who
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Speaker 4: he had also known for several years was just killed.
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Speaker 4: Kind of felt like he was making a very good
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Speaker 4: effort to deflect any attention from himself. We found some
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Speaker 4: things that were suspicious to us. Ralet is about thirty
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Speaker 4: minutes east of Dallasjeseus told us in his initial interview
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Speaker 4: that he stayed in Dallas the entire morning Laura was killed,
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Speaker 4: and his phone records showed otherwise.
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Speaker 5: And what we found is about eight twenty six, he
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Speaker 5: pinged a tower in Raulette.
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Speaker 4: And the time that his phone hit a cell tower
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Speaker 4: in Roulette, about a mile from Laura's house, was right
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Speaker 4: about the time that we believed that Laura was killed.
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Speaker 4: That was a big problem for him. There was a
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Speaker 4: lot more to this that he wasn't telling us. We
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Speaker 4: needed to figure out exactly what did happen. A lot
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Speaker 4: of the people that we talked to describe John as
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Speaker 4: a very controlling person. She didn't treat Laura very well
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Speaker 4: in public.
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Speaker 15: He was mean, he yelled, he had a terrible temper.
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Speaker 15: He was possessive. It was a little surprising when she
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Speaker 15: accepted his proposal. There were actually several times when Laura
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Speaker 15: was thinking about leaving John. The last time I spoke
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Speaker 15: with Laura was the night before she was murdered. She
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Speaker 15: said there was just a big fight that happened regarding
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Speaker 15: the wedding dress. There was definitely turmoil.
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Speaker 4: We found out that John wanted out of the relationship
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Speaker 4: with Laura, but he also was trying to maintain possession
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Speaker 4: of his daughter. We know that James and Haysus were
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Speaker 4: together that morning prior to them meeting up with John.
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Speaker 4: We wanted to talk to James again to let James
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Speaker 4: know that we knew Haysus was lying to us. I've
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Speaker 4: listened to the interviews of everybody that's involved with this
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Speaker 4: uh with this case, and.
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Speaker 3: There's some things that just don't add up. Hope, if
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Speaker 3: as much as the cant I also too. And the
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Speaker 3: first point I want I want to figure out is you.
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Speaker 17: Said this twice, that you that Manuel went to your
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Speaker 17: house about eight thirty eight forty five.
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Speaker 3: But I've got information that puts Manuel somewhere else. And
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Speaker 3: just be honest, that time right not at your place.
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Speaker 3: He was at my place. I have proof that he
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Speaker 3: was not at your place, DA's one time he was
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Speaker 3: in my place. I'm telling you, I've analyzed everything.
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Speaker 4: He was not there can any interview. We've got to
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Speaker 4: get that person to understand that we do know more
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Speaker 4: than what we're leading on. And we explained what the
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Speaker 4: penalties are for, you know, murdering. He could spend the
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Speaker 4: rest of his life in prison. I think the thought
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Speaker 4: of that scared him.
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Speaker 3: You only for fifteen years, and is it what I want?
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Speaker 3: Sometimes our friends will put us in a difficult situation.
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Speaker 3: Don't lie for him if you have to worry. You know,
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Speaker 3: it's serious business to if you know something, even if
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Speaker 3: you suspect.
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Speaker 5: Something laid after I was trying to let him know,
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Speaker 5: don't cover for him. It helped to build rapport. And
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Speaker 5: if you have rapport with somebody. It makes it more
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Speaker 5: difficult for them to lie to you.
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Speaker 3: If we give you a polygraph today and I asked you,
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Speaker 3: do you have knowledge or did you participate in the
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Speaker 3: taking of the life lord?
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Speaker 5: Yes?
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Speaker 17: Or no? O, James, well knowledge? What do you think
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Speaker 17: do you have knowledge of it? No one has mentioned
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Speaker 17: it to you? What do you think the syste was show.
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Speaker 3: I'm coming, I tell you true.
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Speaker 5: Still, even as we confronted him with facts that we knew,
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Speaker 5: he continued to deny, but I classified him as a
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Speaker 5: week denile. We knew that he knew something about the murder.
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Speaker 5: He gave us consent to search. We did recover a
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Speaker 5: usable amount of marijuana and a backpack that was underneath.
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Speaker 3: His bad Who's bag is this?
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Speaker 15: This?
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Speaker 3: Is that on his all heads?
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Speaker 5: I noticed the change in its demeanor. When I pulled
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Speaker 5: out the backpack, I opened it up. It had late
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Speaker 5: tex gloves in there. It had two brand new phones
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Speaker 5: in there. It was a little bit odd for me.
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Speaker 4: So that gave us even more suspicion that now we're
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Speaker 4: on to the right people.
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Speaker 1: Also happening right now, police are looking for a man
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Speaker 1: who they say is a person of interest in the
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Speaker 1: murder of.
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Speaker 12: A roll at Mother rall at police.
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Speaker 15: This new person of interest has Emmanuel Trevigno whed about
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Speaker 15: where he was to day that Laura Gorilla was murdered
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Speaker 15: here in her home and that he's now on the run.
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Speaker 4: He fled the area. We were not able to locate him,
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Speaker 4: and we had some concern that James may do the same.
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Speaker 4: We decided to go ahead and charge him with that marijuana.
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Speaker 4: That's the reason why James ended up back in jail.
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Speaker 3: We breakless folk in the car jail or Texas.
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Speaker 4: Rangers at Texas Rangers are the state police here in
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Speaker 4: Texas that are very helpful in assisting smaller agencies to
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Speaker 4: investigate crimes of this nature.
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Speaker 18: Interesting to pay its uh real Texas Ranger before still
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Speaker 18: in that seen.
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Speaker 12: Well, he he, he's a real deal.
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Speaker 4: James seemed to be very intrigued by the Texas Rangers.
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Speaker 4: He seemed to be impressed.
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Speaker 2: I'm not interested in games at this point.
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Speaker 3: We're way too far into this and this is not
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Speaker 3: something that you wanna get in the middle of by
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Speaker 3: trying to cover for dying on to anybody else.
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Speaker 18: I've been trying to go over and more and more
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Speaker 18: in case you'll come to talk to me, cause I
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Speaker 18: wanna help out as much as I can.
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Speaker 4: James knew that it was a very serious situation, but
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Speaker 4: we just, uh, we couldn't get James to tell us
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Speaker 4: what he knew at that point.
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Speaker 19: Yeah.
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Speaker 20: H They still haven't released their James no, I mean
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Speaker 20: no Ald my.
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Speaker 9: Views with me down times.
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Speaker 4: They were clearly concerned about James being at the police
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Speaker 4: department for so many hours and what he was telling us.
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Speaker 5: We needed to determine if there was anything that John
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Speaker 5: was willing to provide us that would explain why he
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Speaker 5: would be having a conversation with Hasus about what James
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Speaker 5: was going to say. He was surprised to see us
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Speaker 5: approaching at the home improvement parking lot. He seemed very nervous.
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Speaker 12: You got this second.
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Speaker 3: I wanted to show you something. We got something that
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Speaker 3: came up in the case.
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Speaker 15: Doing in my lawyer.
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Speaker 5: If he was not involved. That was an opportunity for
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Speaker 5: him to say and explain that he was not involved
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Speaker 5: in the murder of his fiance.
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Speaker 12: Listen to it.
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Speaker 5: Listen you said, hopefully he didn't tell him.
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Speaker 12: How what do you mean?
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Speaker 2: In other words, us the police because he was we
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Speaker 2: were enterviewing James.
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Speaker 10: Okay, and you said, I hope he doesn't tell them
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Speaker 10: about and.
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Speaker 20: I know because I was with him.
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Speaker 5: Other words, James with me, I don't remember, man. No,
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Speaker 5: that's that's the recording right there that you used them
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Speaker 5: talking to Hassus. Okay, that means you know how Laura
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Speaker 5: was killed.
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Speaker 12: Oh, sir, I do not know how Laura was killed.
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Speaker 5: Then why would you say that I don't remember how
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Speaker 5: and why? I had this conversation with him. He seemed
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Speaker 5: very nervous and he couldn't explain it. He could not
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Speaker 5: explain the recorded conversation. Did you look at everything that
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Speaker 5: we have found out during this investigation? And I'm just
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Speaker 5: being honest with you, Okay. It's pointing a right back
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Speaker 5: to you and Hassus and James. Oh, but you see
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Speaker 5: how it looks.
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Speaker 12: I really have an idea. I mean, I don't know
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Speaker 12: what tell you Eachically.
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Speaker 10: I don't think that I should be talking to you
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Speaker 10: guys right now, because my lawyer told me, you know,
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Speaker 10: if the police wants to talk to you, I need
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Speaker 10: to be present.
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Speaker 2: You're free to go.
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Speaker 5: We're not we're not detaining you. We're not hacked up in.
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Speaker 3: You and we just asked the questions.
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Speaker 4: We were able to get in contact with a couple
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Speaker 4: of his ex girlfriends or former roommate of his, and
27:45
Speaker 4: these people had direct knowledge about Issues being hired by John.
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Speaker 3: To kill Laura.
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Speaker 4: Two of these people gave us information that Issues personally
27:57
Speaker 4: came to them and offered them money to drive him
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Speaker 4: out to Raulette so that he could commit this murder.
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Speaker 4: Both of those people didn't want anything to do with
28:08
Speaker 4: his plan, So at this point in the investigation, our
28:12
Speaker 4: theory was that James was most likely the driver, and
28:16
Speaker 4: we felt that John paid Asus to kill Laura.
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Speaker 5: Also, we were able to get a tip that Hesusu
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Speaker 5: was in Florida, and we provided that information to the
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Speaker 5: United States Marshall Service.
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Speaker 1: All New at ten o'clock handcuffed in Florida.
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Speaker 2: Take a good look at the photo.
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Speaker 5: This is on a warrant out of Roulette.
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Speaker 8: US Marshall's arresting Jesus Trevino.
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Speaker 5: Hassus had been arrested, but we still did not have
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Speaker 5: proof that John was an active role co defendant in
29:01
Speaker 5: the murder of Lord Grello.
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Speaker 4: We just needed, really that one person to finally break
29:08
Speaker 4: and just confirm everything that the investigation had showed up
29:12
Speaker 4: to that point, and SU's had.
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Speaker 5: A fellowy criminal history. He has multiple risks, He has
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Speaker 5: a lot of knowledge of dealing with the police.
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Speaker 4: And James didn't have as close of a relationship with
29:24
Speaker 4: John that he Sue's did. So we felt that James
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Speaker 4: would be the weaker person in that type of a
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Speaker 4: situation to cooperate with us and tell us what he
29:33
Speaker 4: knew about how Laura was killed.
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Speaker 3: Hey, James, Jamal at the Rangers you doing.
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Speaker 4: James seemed to be very intrigued by the Texas Rangers.
30:06
Speaker 4: He really seemed to to like dealing with the Rangers,
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Speaker 4: like talking to the Rangers.
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Speaker 13: Well, I know that he dealt with some guys, but
30:12
Speaker 13: I'm a little bit different than them, because really all.
30:15
Speaker 3: I do is homicides. My conviction rate, my solvency rate.
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Speaker 3: You actually remind me of the legend of the Texas Rangers.
30:26
Speaker 3: I heard about the whole wild West DAGs.
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Speaker 19: Yeah.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, just seeing all these marshals and sheriffs in there,
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Speaker 18: and it took one Texas Ranger, one light wrote one ranger, right, Okay.
30:37
Speaker 5: Texas Rangers. They're a legend here in Texas. I think
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Speaker 5: it made an influence on James in order to give
30:44
Speaker 5: more of the truth.
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Speaker 3: You know, the young lady. Guess what she didd Would
30:51
Speaker 3: it surprised you to know this young lady.
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Speaker 21: Told us that Hey, Sus talked to her about how
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Speaker 21: he was going to get paid to commit a murder.
31:05
Speaker 3: He was going to kill his boss's wife. You know
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Speaker 3: this joker. He approaches him and offers him some money
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Speaker 3: to drive a car so he can do what kill
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Speaker 3: his boss's wife. So you think those two stories are legitimate.
31:28
Speaker 3: I mean, that's a lot to make up.
31:30
Speaker 4: He understands that now we know a little bit more
31:34
Speaker 4: than we did the last time we sat down.
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Speaker 5: You see his arms are open. He's pretty relaxed, and
31:41
Speaker 5: that's a good posture to move in to draw any
31:44
Speaker 5: more of the truth.
31:53
Speaker 3: You don't have to get caught up in this deal.
31:55
Speaker 13: Why should you be worried? Because capital murder is an
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Speaker 13: all inclusive offense. It doesn't matter who pulled the trigger, right,
32:04
Speaker 13: don't be a part of it. Lay it out, separate yourself.
32:09
Speaker 3: The only way that you can do that is be honest.
32:16
Speaker 3: There's an opportunity for that. The only way I think
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Speaker 3: that you guys had of the saints to help yourself out.
32:24
Speaker 3: I'm just starting maturity. It's your decision. This is probably
32:27
Speaker 3: the most important moment of your life. Yeah, okay, right,
32:40
Speaker 3: If you're not honest, there's nothing anyone can do for you. Wow, God, just.
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Speaker 19: Yes.
33:08
Speaker 3: I don't think this is your fault.
33:10
Speaker 19: I don't even think that you necessarily knew why you
33:12
Speaker 19: were driving him there? Did you know why you were
33:15
Speaker 19: driving him there? I don't think I know the answers.
33:23
Speaker 3: You're not a can and a guy who plans version.
33:27
Speaker 3: You're not a bad person. But good people say that
33:32
Speaker 3: they're sorry for the mistakes that they make. They make amends.
33:37
Speaker 5: If you recognize the person not just for the event
33:41
Speaker 5: of the criminal act, but for other things in their life,
33:45
Speaker 5: they feel that they've got some type of connection with you,
33:48
Speaker 5: that you're not judging them on one criminal act. In
33:51
Speaker 5: some witnesses, it can give them the comfort that they
33:53
Speaker 5: need in order for them to provide truthful information.
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Speaker 3: You're on the edge of the Grand Canyon right now.
34:07
Speaker 3: What I'm gonna ask you to do is take a
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Speaker 3: leap of pain and trust me. Alright, you're my friend, right,
34:14
Speaker 3: I'm trying to be her friend. Oh the that's friend
34:16
Speaker 3: you have no whole breaking. You don't get your fitt
34:19
Speaker 3: of paper, So how does it kick off?
34:25
Speaker 18: Alright?
34:25
Speaker 3: When I was first mentioned anything about this, I disregarded it.
34:31
Speaker 3: M I thought you he was just about stuck.
34:34
Speaker 18: He shows up in the morning and we get a
34:37
Speaker 18: car and we go all the time. I'm like, I'm
34:43
Speaker 18: still thinking he's even when he gets there, he's that,
34:49
Speaker 18: he does his thing.
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Speaker 3: I heard nothing. And when he gets back in the car,
34:55
Speaker 3: what does he say to you? That's him, That's what
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Speaker 3: I said. Yeah, shut it is say how he did it?
35:02
Speaker 3: Or he a shower in the head.
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Speaker 16: Right, but it's pretty obviously John Organ, Yeah yeah, it's
35:22
Speaker 16: as you ever say?
35:23
Speaker 3: How much you John pay him for it?
35:27
Speaker 15: He was.
35:29
Speaker 3: Boasting about something about fifteen grand. Whether it's righting in
35:34
Speaker 3: and all or s shut up or the same man?
35:37
Speaker 3: Don't talk girls. I got that vite from a sous.
35:41
Speaker 3: What's to do with toge? He got rid of? Where
35:46
Speaker 3: at the guess they sup the street? Who needs some coffin?
35:50
Speaker 18: Let's get in the car and I'll take I I
35:52
Speaker 18: don't know the street, but I I could take you
35:54
Speaker 18: that way.
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Speaker 4: James did agree to get in the car and actually
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Speaker 4: show us the route that he and his woes drove
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Speaker 4: from Dallas to rail at that morning.
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Speaker 3: Oh no, here.
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Speaker 4: Good, and James was able to show us several places
36:24
Speaker 4: that evidence was discarded.
36:27
Speaker 12: Okay, what was it?
36:30
Speaker 4: A container or something?
36:33
Speaker 2: It was in what's black trash bag?
36:49
Speaker 4: Once James finally did decide to tell us what he knew,
36:53
Speaker 4: we were able to take John into custody as well.
36:58
Speaker 5: We entered through a lodge where he was doing some work.
37:03
Speaker 5: He was taken to the ground and handcuffed. During the arrest,
37:07
Speaker 5: his glasses fell off and the only thing he said
37:10
Speaker 5: is can I get my glasses? And he never said
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Speaker 5: a word. He never spoke. We were instructed to drive
37:19
Speaker 5: him to the Dallas Sheriff's office and turn him over
37:22
Speaker 5: to Rader Holland.
37:23
Speaker 3: Here you going go.
37:25
Speaker 5: See this was a well planned murder and we needed
37:32
Speaker 5: to close this case. We needed John to confess.
37:43
Speaker 21: Well, I guess you really have about fifty thousand questions
37:46
Speaker 21: join now I wondering what's going on?
37:48
Speaker 3: Would I'll be right with that. There's a couple of problems.
38:05
Speaker 3: What do you think there's a couple of problems. Let
38:08
Speaker 3: me explain him to you.
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Speaker 21: So you know, James Belada, right, yes, all right, and
38:16
Speaker 21: you know mister Turina.
38:17
Speaker 3: There right, yes, with him, I know who several years.
38:22
Speaker 3: Let me cut to the chase a little bit. Hey,
38:23
Speaker 3: SEUs is a dumbass, all right.
38:26
Speaker 21: At the end of the day, you shouldn't hire a
38:28
Speaker 21: dumb ass to do a job because he's gonna screw
38:31
Speaker 21: it up, all right.
38:31
Speaker 3: And if he doesn't screw it up, he's gonna talk
38:33
Speaker 3: about it. Does he even hire the dumbas? That's my problem?
38:36
Speaker 3: Up do what I do? Not hire them. I do
38:40
Speaker 3: not put him in money. That's that's my building. I
38:44
Speaker 3: don't know. I tried to get married with him for
38:47
Speaker 3: at least three years. I loved him. I still love him.
38:52
Speaker 3: There's not a question of if you did this or
38:53
Speaker 3: you didn't do that. I already know the answer to it.
38:56
Speaker 3: I already know that you hired him.
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Speaker 21: You know this chick, he said that Hayesius told her
39:02
Speaker 21: that you were going to pay Haysius nine thousand dollars
39:06
Speaker 21: for killing your wife because you didn't want to get
39:10
Speaker 21: married and you wanted to accustody the children.
39:17
Speaker 3: And at this point you're looking at a long time
39:20
Speaker 3: in prison orly.
39:22
Speaker 21: But his country is very interesting and that people show
39:26
Speaker 21: remorse and then tell the truth.
39:28
Speaker 10: Things tend to go back for I say this, I'm sorry.
39:41
Speaker 10: Oh I am sorry that my wife was killed.
39:45
Speaker 3: I cry so many times.
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Speaker 7: I mean, you're telling me that.
39:52
Speaker 10: You know, you're telling me that basically at meeting that
39:56
Speaker 10: I hired him to do the marriagive.
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Speaker 3: That's what you're telling me. Am I telling you to
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Speaker 3: admit that. No, I already know that you did that.
40:03
Speaker 3: I'm giving you an opportunity get to tell the truth.
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Speaker 3: I need to go to his name.
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Speaker 5: When Ranger Holland interviewed James, he was able to get
40:31
Speaker 5: his cooperation to the point that James agreed to testify
40:34
Speaker 5: against the other two defendant, which was very positive for
40:37
Speaker 5: our investigation. James says he drove his sus to roll
40:46
Speaker 5: att to Lord Grello's house. His sus entered the house,
40:53
Speaker 5: he shot her to death, and then they drove to
40:57
Speaker 5: the home improvement store in North and met up with
41:01
Speaker 5: John and that John wanted Casus to kill Laura before
41:08
Speaker 5: the wedding.
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Speaker 15: That wedding wasn't going to happen.
41:14
Speaker 4: It was olld to cover up. You know, there's a
41:17
Speaker 4: darkness to it, and both John and Jussus were sentenced
41:24
Speaker 4: to life in prison without the possibility of parole, and
41:28
Speaker 4: because James did decide to cooperate in this investigation, he
41:33
Speaker 4: was allowed to plead guilty to a murder charge instead
41:36
Speaker 4: of capital murder and he was sentenced to twenty five years.
41:41
Speaker 4: I was glad we were able to hold the individuals responsible,
41:44
Speaker 4: you know, accountable for what they did.
41:50
Speaker 15: They took a lot away from a lot of people,
41:54
Speaker 15: and they took a mother, a friend, a daughter. I'm
41:59
Speaker 15: just really glad that this case got solved and that
42:02
Speaker 15: they worked so hard for her, because anybody's worth it,
42:05
Speaker 15: but you know, Laura was worth it.
42:08
Speaker 5: They had been planning this murder for months and they
42:13
Speaker 5: believe that they had a plan that was going to work.
42:16
Speaker 5: Luckily in this case, we got justice for Laura Gorilla.
42:34
Speaker 15: She's awesome and she's strong, and she's like her mom,
42:38
Speaker 15: and Laura's always gonna have a place in her heart.
42:43
Speaker 15: She's resilient.
42:45
Speaker 5: I'm really blessed to have her.
42:48
Speaker 15: Laura still lives on. She lives on through her daughter's
42:50
Speaker 15: smile and through me trying to be a better person
42:55
Speaker 15: every day because of her