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Evil wife hires TEEN hitmen to gun down ex-hubby · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: A teenage hit man, a loving husband and father guns
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Speaker 1: down in a parking lot. How does all that fit together?
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Speaker 1: And you can't tell me that a teenage boy masterminds
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Speaker 1: a hit on a grown man. On July tenth, Lee
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Speaker 1: was walking to his car at the overlook at Lake
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Speaker 1: Mount Apartments when he heard the first shot, then a
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Speaker 1: second That bullet had hit my right arm. And then
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Speaker 1: I looked to my right and I saw this guy
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Speaker 1: running to me with a gun still firing too. Lee
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Speaker 1: got to his car and tried to protect his head
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Speaker 1: and chest, and I was thinking, oh my god, I'm dead.
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Speaker 1: You know he's standing right over me with a gun
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Speaker 1: point you're right at me. After more gunshots, the bullets
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Speaker 1: finally ran out, and Lee lived. The forty eight year
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Speaker 1: old has nerve damage in his arm twelve entry and
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Speaker 1: exit wounds, but it's the emotional damage that keeps him
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Speaker 1: awake at night. The arrest of his ex wife and
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Speaker 1: two seventeen year olds brings relief and hope. He can
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Speaker 1: now give his son a better life. That was be
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Speaker 1: my dream that we never have to see her again.
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Speaker 1: If that means her standing Joe for the rest of
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Speaker 1: her life, so be it a teenage hit man feeling
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Speaker 1: yourself go down onto the asphalt of a parking lot, thanking,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to die again. Thank you for being with
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Speaker 1: us here at Foxnation series Sex sim one eleven. You
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Speaker 1: were just hearing our friend Alison Grande at ki r
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Speaker 1: O seven News, but you were also hearing the shooting
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Speaker 1: victim in this case, think about it, twelve entry and
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Speaker 1: exit wounds and somehow at that point anyway, he was
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Speaker 1: still alive. With me an All Star panel. Chris Harris,
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Speaker 1: senior true crime reporter People Magazine at People dot com.
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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter at Chris Harris Mint. Also with me,
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Speaker 1: Doctor Tim Gallagher, the medical examiner for the entire state
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Speaker 1: of Florida, and you can find him at pathcaremad dot com.
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Speaker 1: Dan Coorsantino, foreign Police Chief Sheriff, served on US Homeland
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Speaker 1: Security Senior Advisory Board, now PI at Dan Korsantino dot com.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Jory Krausen, police psychologist faculties Saint Leo University, consultant
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Speaker 1: with the Blue Wall Institute and author of Operation s
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Speaker 1: o S Practical Recommendations to help stop Officer suicide. Also
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Speaker 1: with me, Holly Davis, trial lawyer, Family law specialist co
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Speaker 1: founding partner at Kirker Davis at Kirker Davis dot com
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Speaker 1: and special guests joining me, and I want to go
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Speaker 1: straight to him. Believe it or not, he's up walking around.
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Speaker 1: I think a miracle. Baron Lee the victim in this case,
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Speaker 1: and you can find him. I go front me by
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Speaker 1: searching hashtag help for Baron Baron. I can't believe you
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Speaker 1: actually survived twelve entry and exit wounds. I want to
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Speaker 1: hear everything, every detail. So as you were walking out,
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Speaker 1: I think you were walking to your car. What happened?
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Speaker 1: I just got got enough. It was a Friday. I
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Speaker 1: actually wasn't supposed to go to work that day. I
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Speaker 1: was covering for another manager at work. So I was
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Speaker 1: walking out to my car and I heard the first shot,
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Speaker 1: which I you know, I thought it was fireworks. It
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Speaker 1: was July tenth. Okay, WHOA stop right there, because I
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Speaker 1: think everybody is listening right now. Barren Lee has heard
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Speaker 1: something and you go, WHOA, what was that? Was that
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Speaker 1: a car back fire? Was that a firework? To doctor
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Speaker 1: Troy Cross and police psychologist, Isn't that just a human's
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Speaker 1: way of trying to digest or assess what you're hearing
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Speaker 1: the first thing you think is not typically, wow, somebody's
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Speaker 1: shooting at me. You think it's a firework or a
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Speaker 1: carback firing. You're going to go to your most recent memory,
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Speaker 1: of the auditorial memory and try to associate that with
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Speaker 1: the past sound, like you said, fireworks. Unfortunately, when you
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Speaker 1: take a physical add to that, like getting actually hid
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Speaker 1: with that though you know I always do that. Though
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Speaker 1: what you're saying, Doctor Jordy Crossen. You hear something, your
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Speaker 1: first thought is not Wow, somebody's shooting a gun in
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Speaker 1: the parking want and I'm going to go down back
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Speaker 1: to you baring Lee the victim in this case, who
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Speaker 1: somehow managed to survive twelve entry exit wounds. So you
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Speaker 1: hear this sound and you think it's fireworks. I find
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Speaker 1: that so interesting. Take it from there. Yeah, So I
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Speaker 1: looked to the last I didn't see anything, and then
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Speaker 1: the second shot I hear it, and obviously that was
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Speaker 1: when I actually got hit in my right arm. And
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Speaker 1: that's when I looked to the rioting and saw this
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Speaker 1: guy running at me with the gun. What did it
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Speaker 1: feel like, Because a lot of people say they don't
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Speaker 1: even feel anything. I guess it at the time you
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Speaker 1: feel like I felt like a real sharp pain, like
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Speaker 1: someone pinched my arm. It actually shattered my arm broken,
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Speaker 1: and I didn't realize it was broken yet. I just,
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Speaker 1: you know, obviously, John, and I see someone running with
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Speaker 1: me the gun. I'm looking for the best exit strategy
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Speaker 1: possible Dodgor Gallagher. How comes so many shooting victims don't
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Speaker 1: even realize what's happening and they don't feel it. But
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Speaker 1: barrenly he felt something sharp, had no idea he had
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Speaker 1: shattered his arm. What is that shot? Well, it could be.
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Speaker 1: I mean, people have a lot of adrenaline running, and
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Speaker 1: adrenaline tends to dull your perception of pain, although it
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Speaker 1: does heighten some other senses. So it's not unusual to
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Speaker 1: hear people who have been shot not feel it or
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Speaker 1: have actually somebody else tell them, hey, you're bleeding. You
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Speaker 1: must have been shot. It's a very very common thing
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Speaker 1: to do and am not an unusual situation at all
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Speaker 1: by to you, Baron. So you get hit in the
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Speaker 1: right arm, you look to the right, and what do
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Speaker 1: you say? I see this guy running towards me. He's
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Speaker 1: probably about I see fifty feet away from me, and
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Speaker 1: I mean it was pretty close and so I was about,
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Speaker 1: you know, five feet from my car door, so I
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Speaker 1: rushed to my car to open it. Fortunately, I had
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Speaker 1: actually already unlocked my car with the fob prior to
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Speaker 1: being shot, as I normally do when I walked up
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Speaker 1: to the car, so it was unlocked because I had
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Speaker 1: the keys in my right hand. So as the moment
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Speaker 1: I got shot, I actually dropped the keys. He's not,
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Speaker 1: you know, realizing opened the car door and try to
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Speaker 1: get behind. I get into my car, and that's when
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Speaker 1: I got another shot behind my right leg, and that
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Speaker 1: made me actually fall to ground. I couldn't I couldn't stand.
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Speaker 1: I pulled myself behind the door and he kept firing
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Speaker 1: at me. And then a few seconds later I look
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Speaker 1: up and I take the first shot. He comes around
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Speaker 1: the corner, take the first shot into the chest and
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Speaker 1: goes through the side of my chest. And at that
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Speaker 1: point it's like, what I'm going to do. This guy
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Speaker 1: is standing over me before blank firing at me. So
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Speaker 1: I dive into the car, kind of hiding my head
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Speaker 1: under the wheel well, hoping, you know, to at least
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Speaker 1: protect my head in my heart, and he unloads the
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Speaker 1: clip or the magazine into into my body, the left
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Speaker 1: side of my body, because that was part that wasn't unprotective.
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Speaker 1: Nine shots is what happened. Could you see his face
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Speaker 1: as he was doing this, Baron So, I mean I see,
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Speaker 1: you know, like his full his full face and body,
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Speaker 1: but not anything where I could recognize. I mean, I'm
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Speaker 1: not trying to identify my shooter at that point. I'm
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Speaker 1: just trying to survive. Take a listen to this. When
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Speaker 1: a forty eight year old father was shot at this
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Speaker 1: apartment complex, the evidence led detectives to two teenagers over
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Speaker 1: seventy miles away with no ties to the victim. But
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Speaker 1: when investigator was dug deeper, they found those two teams
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Speaker 1: were connected to someone close to the victim, someone with
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Speaker 1: an apparent motive to want him dead. It's absolutely complex.
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Speaker 1: The vicious shooting of Baron Lee is not the kind
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Speaker 1: of case Bill Vue PDC's often or ever. It involves
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Speaker 1: a family that's torn apart, the father of a child
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Speaker 1: and his ex wife, and a custody battle. What happened
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Speaker 1: to Lee on the morning of July tenth is he
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Speaker 1: walked out his front door to head to work. Is
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Speaker 1: what nightmares are made of. As he walked to his car,
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Speaker 1: he was confronted by an assailant that he didn't recognize.
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Speaker 1: The assailant shot him about eight or nine times. The
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Speaker 1: victim fell to the ground. The suspects stood over him
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Speaker 1: and continued to fire. Incredibly, he lived and one of
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Speaker 1: the first things he told detectives he said that the
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Speaker 1: only person he thought or that he could think of,
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Speaker 1: that had anything against him was his ex wife. That
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Speaker 1: was Olivia Voice Acute thirteen Fox Seattle, trying to make
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Speaker 1: sense of it. Two Killers Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 1: For those of you just joining us, it's really a miracle.
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Speaker 1: Barrenly survives twelve entry and exit wounds, his body riddled
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Speaker 1: with bullets on an ordinary Friday after Friday morning, He's
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Speaker 1: not supposed to go to work. He does to fill
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Speaker 1: them for somebody else to Chris hear Us, tell me
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Speaker 1: about the location. He's going out into a parking lot,
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Speaker 1: I think full of cars. Tell me what you're understanding
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Speaker 1: is of the topography the scenario. Um, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: a kind of a kind of minium apartment building from
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Speaker 1: what I understands, in a very urban h I sorry,
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Speaker 1: rural area. And yeah, it was just an open parking
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Speaker 1: lot lots car and barn was just on his way
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Speaker 1: to work to cover for somebody, which is it's crazy
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Speaker 1: that the shooter even knew that he was going to
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Speaker 1: be coming out to go to work that day. You know,
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Speaker 1: very interesting to Dan Coarcentina, former police chief and with
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Speaker 1: Homeland Security. You can find it now private investigator at
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Speaker 1: Dan Korcentino dot com. Dan, I find it very odd
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Speaker 1: that you would commit, say, shooting of a target in
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Speaker 1: an open area like a parking lot, where everybody could
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Speaker 1: see you. It was very amateur, Nancy, the way this
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Speaker 1: case was done in regards to the suspects in this case,
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Speaker 1: I mean they clearly there's no exculpatory evidence or evidence
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Speaker 1: capable to the defense in this They left shell casings behind,
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Speaker 1: they have witnesses and as we'll see later throughout the show,
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Speaker 1: there was text messages, GPS system that was placed on
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Speaker 1: a vehicle. There was just no plan. Very amateur, and
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Speaker 1: from my perspective, we would have seen with a more
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Speaker 1: mature individual that had a profession as a hit man
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Speaker 1: or something. Malcom may have been tragic for mister Lee.
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Speaker 1: You're right about that, and certainly anyone with any experience
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Speaker 1: with no not to come firing in an open parking lot.
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Speaker 1: I mean back to you, Baron Lee, the victim in
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Speaker 1: this case, you can find him. Go find me hashtag
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Speaker 1: help for Baron. There has to be surveillance video. You're
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Speaker 1: in an open parking lot and condominium complex. People will
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Speaker 1: look out the window to see what's going on. When
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Speaker 1: you turn around. Baron, you said you heard something. You
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Speaker 1: look to your left, you felt pain on your right.
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Speaker 1: You look and you see someone coming at you. Could
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Speaker 1: you tell it was a teen boy? Know, at the time,
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Speaker 1: I couldn't tell at all because they had a mask
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Speaker 1: and they were wearing gloves that I had Aludon, I
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Speaker 1: couldn't even tell it was a guy or a girl
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Speaker 1: that at that point, I just, you know, what was
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Speaker 1: going through your mind, Barn, Like I told the police
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Speaker 1: officers from the get go, I was just wondering who
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Speaker 1: my ex wife had sent to kill me, I mean,
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Speaker 1: and what I was going to do to survive, you know,
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Speaker 1: at that point, how I was gonna, you know, make
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Speaker 1: it through this so I could be there for my son. Well,
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Speaker 1: that's an incredibly lucid thought to be having at a
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Speaker 1: time when you were about to bleed out dead in
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Speaker 1: the parking a lot. But you know what, it's interesting.
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Speaker 1: I remember when I gave birth to the twins, my
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Speaker 1: daughter and I almost died, and I remember thinking, who
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Speaker 1: is going to raise them? I'm going to be on
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Speaker 1: the other side of life watching them being raised without
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Speaker 1: a mother. I remember thinking all the thought that you're
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Speaker 1: describing at a time when life was really ebbing away
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Speaker 1: from me, you know. To Holly Davis, trial lawyer, no
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Speaker 1: stranger to a courtroom with Kirker Davis at Kirker Davis
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Speaker 1: dot com. Holly, you know, trying to defend this teen
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Speaker 1: hitman is tough because you just heard Bear and Lee
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Speaker 1: say they had their faces covered wearing a hoodie and gloves.
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Speaker 1: That shows menzreea malice of forethought. Intent, and of course,
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Speaker 1: intent under the law can be formed in an instant,
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Speaker 1: the blink of an eye, the twinkling of a moment.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't take or require a long drawn out plan,
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Speaker 1: such as poisoning someone over a period of time, or
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Speaker 1: you know, a detailed plan to go hide your face,
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Speaker 1: to hoodie, to wear gloves, to show up at the
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Speaker 1: scene with guns. That shows premeditation. Holly, there's no way
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Speaker 1: around it. Absolutely. I mean, what a joke this crime
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Speaker 1: was in terms of, you know, planned out, calculated murder.
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Speaker 1: And I also believe that the fact that this perpetrator
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Speaker 1: was a complete stranger to the victim, to Baron, also
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Speaker 1: indicates that he had no other reason to be there
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Speaker 1: in that apartment complex but for to kill him as
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Speaker 1: part of this plan. And what's even worse is that,
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Speaker 1: and I'm sure we're going to get to a later
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Speaker 1: in the show, Baron's x Y is the connecting piece
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Speaker 1: among all of these individuals, and her involvement in this
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Speaker 1: sending him directly. This perpetrator would not be in that
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Speaker 1: parking lot but for Baron's X wife, I mean major
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Speaker 1: culpability on her part as well, even though she was
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Speaker 1: not in that apartment complex or anywhere near on that morning.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's what you do when you're analyzing a case.
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Speaker 1: You look at common denominators. What is the connectivity, what's
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Speaker 1: the connection between this victim and the killer? They would
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Speaker 1: be killer, Barren Lay, did they try to rob you
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Speaker 1: or take your car? No? Like I said, I was
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Speaker 1: ancern as he finished firing, he actually bent down to
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Speaker 1: try and pick up a couple of casings and then
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Speaker 1: took off. Guys, take a listen to our friends at
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Speaker 1: inside Edition. I took a shot behind my right leg
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Speaker 1: and that's when I fell to the ground, pulled myself
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Speaker 1: behind the car door. He comes around the door and
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Speaker 1: he's standing over me at point blank range. Fired the
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Speaker 1: first shot without looking and went in my chest here
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Speaker 1: to shot me in the leg, in the hip, and
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Speaker 1: twice in the arm until the clip emptied. Did you
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Speaker 1: think this was a random attack or did you think
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Speaker 1: it was something else? Absolutely not. I mean from the
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Speaker 1: get go, I just was wondering who was that that
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Speaker 1: my wife had sent to kill me. Cops found a
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Speaker 1: GPS tracking device on Lee's car. It ended up being
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Speaker 1: the victim's ex wife who had purchased that tracker. That
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Speaker 1: led police to arrest thirty year old Sharon Kelly. The
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Speaker 1: investigation also led to this seven than teen year old
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Speaker 1: who was allegedly to be paid thirteen thousand dollars for
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Speaker 1: the hit. Comp say his getaway driver was another seventeen
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Speaker 1: year old. All were charged with attempted murder. What do
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Speaker 1: you want to say to her? Honestly, I hope sat
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Speaker 1: and jail for the rest of her life. The animosity
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Speaker 1: that must have existed in her mind to allegedly order
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Speaker 1: a hit on her husband, Baron Lee, who is with us? Now,
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Speaker 1: you know what's interesting, Dan Corsentino, I don't think this
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Speaker 1: is going to be a difficult case to prove because
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Speaker 1: all the forensic evidence, such as you hear Baron Lee
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Speaker 1: state that the shooter tried to pick up the shell casings.
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Speaker 1: Shell casings can be traced back to the type of MMO,
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Speaker 1: sometimes even the exact weapon, like a finger print. How
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Speaker 1: does that happen, Dan Corsentino. Many people understand you can
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Speaker 1: track a bullet back to the precise gun like a fingerprint,
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Speaker 1: but what about a shell casing. Well, the shell casings themselves,
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Speaker 1: there's just like you said, Nancy, it's almost like a fingerprint.
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Speaker 1: There's a marks on the casing, stridations on the casing,
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Speaker 1: and the law enforcement agencies, regardless of which one it is,
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Speaker 1: is going to be able to run tests to match
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Speaker 1: them up basically to the capsule of the casing itself.
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Speaker 1: They're also going to be able to determine specifically the
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Speaker 1: residue very definitively from the gunpower and the primary remaining
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Speaker 1: in the shell casing. So that process is pretty simple
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Speaker 1: forensically for them to match up to the weapon and
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Speaker 1: the link will be very conclusive. I was trying to
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Speaker 1: explain it injuries like this. I love ballistics and have
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Speaker 1: done ballistic ballistics test many times myself at the crime lab.
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Speaker 1: And you do it by getting the gun in question
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Speaker 1: and firing a bullet down the gun into a tub
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Speaker 1: of water or pillows, whatever, and then you take that
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Speaker 1: fired bullet that you know came from this gun. Then
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Speaker 1: under a microscope you compare it to the bullet that's
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Speaker 1: fished out of the victim barren lee and then you'll
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Speaker 1: see these same exact striations, in other words, markings on
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Speaker 1: the bullet. Because every gun is different like a fingerprint.
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Speaker 1: Every gun is made of metal and it cools a
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Speaker 1: certain way. It's forged in fire and it cools, and
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Speaker 1: that gun has its unique cooling marks inside the barrel.
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Speaker 1: So as a bullet hurls down the barrel, it's marked
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Speaker 1: by those unique drying spots on the inside the barrel.
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Speaker 1: So the bullets will match up white fingerprints. Same thing
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Speaker 1: with a shell casing as it is ejected from a
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Speaker 1: particular gun, only that gun will leave that particular mark
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Speaker 1: on the shell casing. It's really easy and it's so accurate.
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. For those of you just
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Speaker 1: joining us with me is Baron Lee, who managed to
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Speaker 1: survive twelve entry and exit bullet wounds to tell his tale.
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Speaker 1: And he's telling it right now for you. Take a
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Speaker 1: listen right now to our friends at Q thirteen Fox, Seattle.
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Speaker 1: According to Baron, he and his thirty year old ex
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Speaker 1: wife have been involved in a bitter fight over their son.
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Speaker 1: There was also a financial element to the custody of
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Speaker 1: their child. Well the ex wife maybe the only one
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Speaker 1: with an apparent motive. Detectives soon found surveillance video led
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Speaker 1: them to two seventeen year olds in Mount Vernon, one
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Speaker 1: of the teams that apparently used a GPS tracker to
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Speaker 1: help pin down Lee's location the night before the shooting.
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Speaker 1: That GPS tracker was the piece of the puzzle that
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Speaker 1: pointed to his ex wife. She had purchased a GPS
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Speaker 1: tracker that we located on the victim's vehicle. As far
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Speaker 1: as how the ex wife met the teens, investigators say
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Speaker 1: they're still looking into that. To barrenly joining me, the
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Speaker 1: victim in this case, along with Chris Harris from People Magazine,
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Speaker 1: doctor Tim Gallagher or Dan Corsentino, doctor Joy Crosen, and
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Speaker 1: Holly Davis Baron. As you're lying there when the teen
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Speaker 1: shooter leaves, what went through your mind? Yeah? At the
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Speaker 1: first at that point, you know, all you're thinking is,
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Speaker 1: you know, is this my last breath? Am I going
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Speaker 1: to die? And I want? You know, if I die,
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Speaker 1: you know what's going to happen to my son? Who's
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Speaker 1: going to care for him? Um? Is you going to
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Speaker 1: go back to her? You know, there's a system gonna
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Speaker 1: take care of it. H You know, how am I
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Speaker 1: going to survive this at all? You know? Um? Because
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Speaker 1: you know I've felt a lot of pain, but I
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Speaker 1: was still breathing. But you know, you're shot that many times.
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Speaker 1: It's rushing through my head. You know, am I gonna die?
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Speaker 1: This is the last last breast I'm gonna take? And um,
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Speaker 1: that's you know, it's just pretty scary thoughts. You know.
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Speaker 1: Who called? Actually quite a few of my neighbors had
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Speaker 1: actually heard the gunshots from who picked out the windows,
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Speaker 1: So there was a few From what I understood, there
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Speaker 1: was quite a few people that had called nine one one.
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Speaker 1: Did anybody come out to help you. Yeah. So the
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Speaker 1: first thing that happened. As soon as the shooter left,
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Speaker 1: I heard someone scream out are you okay? Um, do
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Speaker 1: you need anything? And I was like, I've been shot
21:55
Speaker 1: like a few times. I need uh, you know, an
21:59
Speaker 1: ambulance or someone to come help me. And I said,
22:02
Speaker 1: don't worry, we got we already got someone coming. And
22:05
Speaker 1: then the first first neighbor showed up. She uh came
22:10
Speaker 1: next to me and saw that I was bleeding, and
22:13
Speaker 1: so she tried to apply pressure to my chest. And
22:16
Speaker 1: I was wearing a black jacket, so they didn't see
22:18
Speaker 1: where all my gunshots were. She just saw me bleeding
22:21
Speaker 1: through my chest because my jacket had been open, so
22:24
Speaker 1: she applied pressure to kind of stop the bleeding as
22:27
Speaker 1: much as possible. Um. But I had also been shot
22:31
Speaker 1: in all my arms and my legs as well. And
22:33
Speaker 1: so when the police first showed up, there were the
22:36
Speaker 1: first ones on the scene. I believe there are three
22:39
Speaker 1: officers total. Um. They tried to put tourniquets around my
22:44
Speaker 1: legs and my arms because I told me where I'd
22:46
Speaker 1: been shot, and uh, that's basically what happened. And then
22:53
Speaker 1: the paramedics got there shortly after I would say, all
22:57
Speaker 1: within five minutes. It seems like everyone was there. You know,
23:01
Speaker 1: I'm fortunate because the police of the fire station was
23:05
Speaker 1: literally one block up the road from my baron. Let
23:07
Speaker 1: me ask you something, and believe me, I hate politics.
23:11
Speaker 1: I think they're all lying. It's like a cesspool. Barry Line.
23:15
Speaker 1: What do you make of the defund the police movement?
23:19
Speaker 1: I mean, I honestly, I think it's crazy. Uh, officers
23:23
Speaker 1: do a great job. I mean, like I said that,
23:25
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for the detectives and the police officers
23:28
Speaker 1: that responded, I may not be here. And look, I
23:32
Speaker 1: know there's some bad cops out there. I get it,
23:36
Speaker 1: and they should be prosecuted. But to defund the police,
23:40
Speaker 1: there's there's bad people everywhere, whether whether no matter what
23:44
Speaker 1: occupation there is. But it doesn't mean that you separate.
23:47
Speaker 1: I mean you include them with everybody else because there
23:50
Speaker 1: are a lot of great Okay, I'm taking down a
23:52
Speaker 1: rabbit hole that even I don't want, So let me
23:55
Speaker 1: get out of that and get back on you. Do
23:57
Speaker 1: you remember your ride in the ambulance to the spittle. Yeah,
24:01
Speaker 1: they had Basically they were trying to strip me down.
24:05
Speaker 1: They were cutting away, you know, clothing and stuff so
24:07
Speaker 1: they could get to all the bullet wounds. At that time,
24:12
Speaker 1: I was felt like at peace, like I was ready
24:16
Speaker 1: to die, dear Lord in heaven, falling asleep, and I
24:21
Speaker 1: distinctly remember the paramedics were telling me to stay away,
24:25
Speaker 1: bearing what's your name? Talk to me and all this stuff,
24:28
Speaker 1: and then one of the params I stepped. I kept
24:31
Speaker 1: bozing off, and then one of the paramedics touched where
24:34
Speaker 1: whatever my wound was and it sent a shark pain
24:37
Speaker 1: and it woke me up, and I was like, okay,
24:39
Speaker 1: I'm up, I'm up. Don't touch don't touch that. That's
24:41
Speaker 1: such a scary feeling. I remember that feeling, just wanting
24:46
Speaker 1: to go to sleep and just kind of like drifting off.
24:50
Speaker 1: What is that? The doctor Tim Gallagher, I hate to
24:53
Speaker 1: keep asking the same question, what is that? But what
24:57
Speaker 1: is that? When you you just you just want to
25:00
Speaker 1: go to sleep and you know that your life is
25:04
Speaker 1: ebbing away, but somehow you don't care. Well, yeah, that's
25:06
Speaker 1: a very philosophical and anatomical question. Well for in philosophy,
25:12
Speaker 1: and give me anatomy. Well, the brain requires oxygen. The
25:16
Speaker 1: brain requires oxygen that's delivered to it from your blood.
25:20
Speaker 1: So if you're shot in the chest, definitely one of
25:22
Speaker 1: your lungs have been hit, so now you're bleeding. The
25:24
Speaker 1: blood that your brain needs to survive is now bleeding
25:28
Speaker 1: into your chest, so your brain is not receiving the
25:31
Speaker 1: proper amounts of blood, so it's starts to shut down
25:33
Speaker 1: areas of itself. And this is the feeling that people get.
25:38
Speaker 1: They get sleepy, a feeling of peace comes over them,
25:42
Speaker 1: the feeling of acceptance comes over them, and then they
25:45
Speaker 1: pass away shortly after that, Barrenly, do you hear how
25:50
Speaker 1: close you were to death and not being there to
25:55
Speaker 1: raise your son. Yeah, I think that's what made me
25:59
Speaker 1: the most angerable of at all, you know, when everything
26:01
Speaker 1: was said and done, when I looked back, I mean, I,
26:05
Speaker 1: like I said, you know, that day was a weird
26:08
Speaker 1: mix of emotions, but anger was actually one of them
26:11
Speaker 1: when I thought about that, because of what could have
26:14
Speaker 1: happened to my son if I had passed, and to you.
26:16
Speaker 1: Chris Harris, Senior crime reporter, People Magazine. You know, very often, Chris,
26:23
Speaker 1: i'd say, the majority of the time you're here, and
26:27
Speaker 1: Barrenly say, I knew when I saw the sheeter, I thought,
26:31
Speaker 1: who has my wife hired to kill me? Normally we
26:36
Speaker 1: hear it, Chris, where the it's typically a woman says
26:40
Speaker 1: if anything happens to me, X did it, my husband,
26:44
Speaker 1: my fiance, my ex boyfriend, they know. But this time,
26:49
Speaker 1: this once in a lifetime, the person lives. We don't
26:53
Speaker 1: see that very often, Chris Harris. No, That's one of
26:55
Speaker 1: the first things I said to Baron when we started
26:58
Speaker 1: talking was I don't think I've ever spoken to someone
27:01
Speaker 1: who survived nine gunshots. And he jokingly referred to fifty Cent,
27:07
Speaker 1: the rapper who you know, when he was in Queens
27:10
Speaker 1: still a drug dealer, did get shot nine times and survived.
27:13
Speaker 1: So yeah, Baron. Unfortunately Baron is an rapper and can't
27:17
Speaker 1: make a record, but yeah, it's one of those craziest stories.
27:21
Speaker 1: And I do think it's a miracle that he survived.
27:24
Speaker 1: You know, Chris Harris, you've been on this from the
27:26
Speaker 1: very beginning. Chris Harris joining me. We're really honored to
27:30
Speaker 1: have you from People magazine that we all love. Christ
27:35
Speaker 1: tell me your thoughts on this case. I feel so
27:39
Speaker 1: bad for Baron. You know, it's just a guy trying
27:42
Speaker 1: to raise his kid, do right by his family and
27:46
Speaker 1: this woman. To me, I don't see how anyone thinks
27:51
Speaker 1: murder is the answer for anything, especially in a custody battle.
27:54
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is one of those those stories that
27:57
Speaker 1: really touches your heart because Baron, just from getting to
28:01
Speaker 1: know him through our numerous conversations, such a dedicated dad,
28:05
Speaker 1: so devoted to his son. You hate to see this
28:08
Speaker 1: happened to someone a good person like Barren Lee, especially
28:12
Speaker 1: when you know the motive may have been a trust
28:15
Speaker 1: fund here that she would have had access to had
28:19
Speaker 1: Baron not survived crime stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, why
28:36
Speaker 1: do we keep referring to the wife as the mastermind
28:40
Speaker 1: behind this plot? For those of you just joining us,
28:42
Speaker 1: we have a true life miracle, a survivor of twelve
28:46
Speaker 1: entry exit wounds shot point blank. You can find him
28:50
Speaker 1: on go fund me, and I urge you to do
28:52
Speaker 1: that at hashtag help for Baron. Why does so many
28:57
Speaker 1: people think the evil ex wife was involved? Well, let's
29:02
Speaker 1: just start with this. Take listen to our cut number one.
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Speaker 1: This is Tommy Mataza, a Komo News for court documents
29:10
Speaker 1: paint a deliberate and disturbing murder for higher scheme. Bellevue
29:15
Speaker 1: Police say Sharon Kelly hired a seventeen year old boy
29:18
Speaker 1: to murder her ex husband, Baron Lee, and offered to
29:21
Speaker 1: pay the teenager thirteen thousand dollars something like this is rare,
29:25
Speaker 1: It is rare. On the day of the shooting in July,
29:28
Speaker 1: police say the seventeen year old got his friend to
29:31
Speaker 1: drive him to the overlook at lake Mont Apartments in Bellevue,
29:34
Speaker 1: where court documents say he was going to cap someone
29:36
Speaker 1: and empty the clip. Police say the seventeen year old
29:39
Speaker 1: gunman ambushed Lee, shooting him nine times. The victim fell
29:43
Speaker 1: to the ground, the suspects stood over him and continued
29:47
Speaker 1: to fire. According to court documents, Lee said he couldn't
29:50
Speaker 1: think of anyone who would want to kill him besides
29:52
Speaker 1: his ex wife, saying they were in the midst of
29:55
Speaker 1: a very acrimonious custody battle that also included a financial
29:58
Speaker 1: motive for Kelly to have sole custody of their child.
30:02
Speaker 1: And to you, Baron Lee, who miraculously survived a point
30:07
Speaker 1: blank range shooting and you can find him a hashtag
30:11
Speaker 1: help for Baron It, go fund me, Isn't it true?
30:14
Speaker 1: Sarella's video captures the license plate the getaway truck and
30:18
Speaker 1: leads them to the shooter, a seventeen year old who
30:21
Speaker 1: was supposed to get thirteen grand. The getaway truck driver,
30:24
Speaker 1: also seventeen, who was offered between four and six thousand dollars,
30:29
Speaker 1: And they got a tracking device off your vehicle and
30:34
Speaker 1: turns out it was bought by your ex wife, Sharon
30:39
Speaker 1: Kelly Baron. That's correct. I mean, I don't know. I
30:45
Speaker 1: mean I would, I can't say I was surprised. I mean,
30:48
Speaker 1: I think I told everyone you know that this is
30:51
Speaker 1: actually not even the whole story. This is just the
30:56
Speaker 1: culmination of what's going on for the past five years.
30:59
Speaker 1: I mean, what's going on in the past five years.
31:02
Speaker 1: You know, I've been fighting for Krusty, for my son,
31:05
Speaker 1: and my son was taken for me when he was
31:07
Speaker 1: a year old because I was I was served with
31:12
Speaker 1: temporary restraining order for domestic violin two weeks later, and
31:16
Speaker 1: period in court to fight it. It was thrown out
31:19
Speaker 1: and found out that it was a lie in complete life,
31:21
Speaker 1: but my sign in my house was still taken for me,
31:24
Speaker 1: and then I was forced to pay six thousand dollars
31:28
Speaker 1: a month in child support to a point where it
31:30
Speaker 1: made me homeless. And I had to flee the state
31:34
Speaker 1: because they were trying to throw me in jokes for
31:36
Speaker 1: not being able to pay the child support to Hollie
31:39
Speaker 1: Davis trial lawyer joining me at Kirker Davis dot com, Hollie,
31:44
Speaker 1: don't you hate? And I represented at the Batter Women's
31:49
Speaker 1: Center for free women that were domestic violence survivors. Don't
31:56
Speaker 1: you hate to see the system twisted like this getting
32:01
Speaker 1: a t R against Baron that wasn't true, and then
32:05
Speaker 1: when it was disproved in court, it was already too late.
32:09
Speaker 1: The boy had been his son, had been given to
32:11
Speaker 1: the wife, he lost his place, everything went sideways. That
32:16
Speaker 1: it's shane thing to do as a trial lawyer on
32:20
Speaker 1: these Stanley law cases is to represent the wrongly accused
32:23
Speaker 1: people with these dangerous protective orders and temporary restraining order claims.
32:28
Speaker 1: And it's, you know, unfortunately, the way that the court
32:31
Speaker 1: system works, it takes a long time for you to
32:35
Speaker 1: realize that when someone presents an affidavit full of life
32:38
Speaker 1: to a judge that looks very dangerous on its space,
32:41
Speaker 1: and you've got a judge who has to make a
32:42
Speaker 1: split second decision whether or not to sign that temporary
32:45
Speaker 1: restraining order and kick a person out of the house
32:48
Speaker 1: based on the claims made in that affidavit awful, and
32:51
Speaker 1: then oftentime it's awful and it's dangerous, and it's a
32:55
Speaker 1: it's a very critical moment in time, and usually you
32:58
Speaker 1: get a hearing right away, but sometimes those hearings get delayed,
33:02
Speaker 1: and that passage of time is what ruins this because
33:06
Speaker 1: at that point, even though what was put into the
33:08
Speaker 1: APPI David is a lie, that lie has grown and
33:12
Speaker 1: managed to kick someone out of their home. And then
33:14
Speaker 1: only weeks later do you come back to a hearing
33:16
Speaker 1: where you can determine that that was a lie. And
33:18
Speaker 1: by then the damage is done. That person's out of
33:21
Speaker 1: the home, and it's very hard to get back into
33:23
Speaker 1: a home once you've been kicked out, especially in divorce,
33:26
Speaker 1: it really is. And here he is in the hospital,
33:28
Speaker 1: just trying to survive. Baron Lee joining us a miracle. Baron,
33:35
Speaker 1: when you have heard about the text messages your ex
33:39
Speaker 1: wife Sharon Kelly sent unless she wants to claim somebody
33:42
Speaker 1: stole her friend and sent them. I got to hear
33:45
Speaker 1: your response to text where she said to the seventeen
33:48
Speaker 1: year old job unfinished after he shot you nine times,
33:54
Speaker 1: you will need to complete unless it resolves on its own.
33:59
Speaker 1: In other words, unless you died in the hospital. Did
34:03
Speaker 1: you have any idea her hatred was so vile, so toxic. Yeah,
34:10
Speaker 1: I mean I have. You know, I'm obviously trying to
34:13
Speaker 1: tell my story and there's more to it. Um. Prior
34:16
Speaker 1: to the shooting, she attempted to run me over twice
34:20
Speaker 1: and this was you know, UM filed with the police
34:23
Speaker 1: department as well. So was I capable? Was she capable
34:27
Speaker 1: of this, you know, act with all as much as
34:30
Speaker 1: she hated me? I wasn't surprised. I mean, you know, yeah,
34:36
Speaker 1: I had reported it. Unfortunately, the way our system works,
34:40
Speaker 1: so when you're in a family court battle, Um, even
34:45
Speaker 1: the police at the time said, there's really not much
34:47
Speaker 1: we can do. We have you have to go to
34:49
Speaker 1: the judge and file and let the courts know. And
34:53
Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately the family court systems here in Washington,
34:58
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't care. They didn't care enough to
35:02
Speaker 1: believe me or or look into it, or at least
35:05
Speaker 1: the investigate. I mean, Chris here is joining me People Magazine.
35:08
Speaker 1: Isn't it true that as soon as Sharon Kelly learned
35:11
Speaker 1: her husband apparently was going to survive, she began planning
35:16
Speaker 1: a second assassination. That is definitely what police are alleging. Um.
35:21
Speaker 1: And they actually started surveying her in the months after
35:26
Speaker 1: the shooting to see if she was going to meet
35:27
Speaker 1: up with the two team suspects. Um. Yeah, they they
35:32
Speaker 1: they were. They were on to her pretty early. And yeah,
35:35
Speaker 1: she was the focus of the investigation right away. Bear
35:39
Speaker 1: and lady, did you realize she was planning as soon
35:41
Speaker 1: as she got word that you were recovering in the hospital,
35:44
Speaker 1: she was planning a second attempt on your life or you're,
35:47
Speaker 1: according to you, a fourth attempt. Yeah, I knew. That's
35:52
Speaker 1: why the police officers had emergency panic buttons in my home.
35:57
Speaker 1: I mean, I ever knew that she would back. One
36:01
Speaker 1: of the reasons the police officers were so quick to
36:07
Speaker 1: find her was obviously my you know, strong conviction about
36:11
Speaker 1: it was her, you know, without a doubt. Throughout the investigation,
36:15
Speaker 1: they never gave me any details, but after she was arrested,
36:19
Speaker 1: they told me, you know, the process on how they
36:21
Speaker 1: found her and everything. What's so crazy is you I'm
36:24
Speaker 1: looking at a spot of her on Insta and she
36:28
Speaker 1: looks like, you know, an Insta star. She's cooking some
36:31
Speaker 1: fresh salad. It looks like beautiful woman, big smile. You
36:35
Speaker 1: would never imagine what's going on in that head, according
36:38
Speaker 1: to police. So berry Lee, how did they end up
36:42
Speaker 1: arresting her? So basically they tracked, you know, used the
36:46
Speaker 1: GPS tracker. They found that it was tied to her
36:49
Speaker 1: because she had made the purchase. And then obviously they
36:53
Speaker 1: were using tracking her text messages back and forth between
36:57
Speaker 1: the two kids. And I remember that week they arrested her.
37:02
Speaker 1: They say that that arrest is going to be made.
37:06
Speaker 1: You're probably not going to have to send your son
37:09
Speaker 1: on a visitation this week. And so that's when I
37:12
Speaker 1: knew it was her. You know that they were going
37:13
Speaker 1: to get her. At first, she was jailed with two
37:16
Speaker 1: million dollars bond. Prosecutors go back and argue no bond.
37:21
Speaker 1: They say, if Kelly is out of custody, barren Lay's
37:25
Speaker 1: life is at risk. Baron, where is your son? Now?
37:29
Speaker 1: He's with me at home? You know, he lives with
37:32
Speaker 1: me full times. I actually, after a two years a
37:35
Speaker 1: dependency trial that I had to go through between her
37:39
Speaker 1: and myself, I was awarded him in two thousand or
37:42
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, and he's been home with me since. At
37:46
Speaker 1: the time, she had weekend visits until that was revoked
37:49
Speaker 1: as well, and then she had supervised visits up to
37:54
Speaker 1: her arrest, which I, you know, knowing that she had
37:56
Speaker 1: done this to me, I had to send my son
37:58
Speaker 1: every weekend to her, knowing that she was capable of
38:02
Speaker 1: hurting him and hurting me. Still yet, you know, sometimes
38:06
Speaker 1: I wonder how the courts can be so blind, But
38:11
Speaker 1: I truly think it is a miracle from heaven that
38:14
Speaker 1: you're alive, Your son is alive, and he is with you.
38:18
Speaker 1: Chris Harris, When is this going to trial? We actually
38:23
Speaker 1: don't have a trial date set yet. There's a backlog
38:27
Speaker 1: obviously because of a pandemic. So according to Baron, and
38:31
Speaker 1: he's been in touch with prosecutors there as well, it
38:34
Speaker 1: might be a year or two before this actually goes
38:36
Speaker 1: to court. But there's still no bond correct, still no bonds,
38:40
Speaker 1: no um and But but the funny thing is that
38:43
Speaker 1: even while she's in prison right now, she's still entitled
38:46
Speaker 1: to video visits with Baron's son, which, you know, m
38:53
Speaker 1: some may say that is really putting Baron and his
38:57
Speaker 1: son out, but that's just the way the system works,
39:02
Speaker 1: is that true? Does she have video visits with your son? Yeah,
39:05
Speaker 1: she's responsible to facilitate them with the supervisors. Supposed to
39:13
Speaker 1: pick my son up, take them to an undisclosed location,
39:17
Speaker 1: and she's supposed to be able to get video visits
39:19
Speaker 1: once a month. It hasn't happened yet because I haven't
39:21
Speaker 1: been contacted, But that is her supposed to her right,
39:25
Speaker 1: and I've fought hard as hard as they could against this,
39:28
Speaker 1: but again, the court systems failed me and sailed my son.
39:31
Speaker 1: So I can only imagine what she's going to say
39:33
Speaker 1: to your son when she gets the chance. Apparently, Please
39:37
Speaker 1: know that you are a walking miracle, and I fully
39:42
Speaker 1: believe that you were kept on this earth for a reason,
39:47
Speaker 1: and I'm anxious to find out what that reason is.
39:50
Speaker 1: I think it was to raise your son happy and healthy.
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Speaker 1: We wait as justice son falls. Nancy Grace cram Story
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Speaker 1: signing off goodbye friend m