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Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: Adam Broomhall - A Life Cut Short · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan. I have to confess something.
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Speaker 1: I think part of me is a frustrated linguist. I
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Speaker 1: always enjoy trying to understand the origins of words, kind
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Speaker 1: of where do they sprout from? And you know what
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Speaker 1: path do these words take to enter our everyday lexicon.
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Speaker 1: And I want to briefly mention a word right now,
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Speaker 1: the word and I'm not going to give you the
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Speaker 1: modern word yet, but you can kind of guess what
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Speaker 1: it might be. But this word originates from Latin, and
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Speaker 1: actually it originates from late Latin, like twelfth century, I think.
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Speaker 1: And the word is tortura. The true meaning of it
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Speaker 1: in its original form was twist. It also implies writhing.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever writhed in pain for a moment? There
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Speaker 1: was one little boy, a three year old, who writhed
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Speaker 1: many years ago in his name was Adam. Today on Bodybacks,
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Speaker 1: we're going to discuss the death of Adam Burhmhall in Oklahoma.
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Speaker 1: I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Bodybacks. The word tortura,
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Speaker 1: the word that we use nowadays is torture. Many of
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Speaker 1: us are familiar with that term, and people will kind
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Speaker 1: of throw that word around there's a lot of words
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Speaker 1: out there like that. People just kind of say they
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Speaker 1: don't really understand the essence of it. Some people will say,
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Speaker 1: you know, this was torturous to sit here and have
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Speaker 1: to listen to or it was a torture's experience of
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Speaker 1: having to get together with family members perhaps you haven't
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Speaker 1: seen for a while on Thanksgiving, or my trip down
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Speaker 1: to the DMV was pure torture. I submit to you, No,
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Speaker 1: it's not, in the case of this sweet litt angel,
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Speaker 1: Adam Broomhall, his last moments on this earth, or truly torture.
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Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought it up that way because words
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Speaker 2: do get watered down. And when you mentioned torture in
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Speaker 2: this case, this defines it. I think Richard Fairchild what
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Speaker 2: he did to a three year old, twenty four pound
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Speaker 2: little boy in the last hours of his life, and
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Speaker 2: what he admitted to doing, and it is the most
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Speaker 2: horrific thing you can ever imagine reading about what happened
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Speaker 2: to a three year old boy weighing twenty four pounds.
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Speaker 1: Let's hear from Jackie Howard with crommelwan.
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Speaker 3: Adam Broomhall was the three year old son of Richard
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Speaker 3: Fairchild's girlfriend. The couple spent the day drinking. When Broomhall
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Speaker 3: woke up in the night, Fairchild began to beat the boy.
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Speaker 3: Then he burned both sides of the child's body by
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Speaker 3: pressing him against a furnace. As the beating continued, Fairchild
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Speaker 3: threw the twenty four pound child into a gning table,
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Speaker 3: knocking him unconscious. He never woke up. Broomhall died from
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Speaker 3: blunt force trauma to the head, but a pathologist was
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Speaker 3: able to note twenty six individual blows to the boy's body.
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Speaker 2: Richard Fairchild when he was talking to detectives about what
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Speaker 2: took place, he was able to legibly write out what
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Speaker 2: had happened. What happened to him is atrocious. How do
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Speaker 2: you go to court, Joe and break this down for
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Speaker 2: a jury? Do you have to tell the whole story
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Speaker 2: of what led up to it? Or do you get
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Speaker 2: into just the mathematics of here are the injuries, here's
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Speaker 2: what these injes and here's what caused his death. Is
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Speaker 2: it just graphic or is it graphic of explaining what
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Speaker 2: had taken place in the hours leading up to this?
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Speaker 1: Look In my field, in medical legal death investigation, there
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Speaker 1: is a phrase that's kind of a road now. I'd
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Speaker 1: actually seen it many years ago on a T shirt.
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Speaker 1: I'd been at a conference in Baltimore and we had
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Speaker 1: been at Baltimore Police Department, specifically, we were hosted by
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Speaker 1: the Homicide Division of Baltimore PD. And there's all kinds
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Speaker 1: of terms that are out there. That had several T
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Speaker 1: shirts that they were selling and the money went to charity,
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Speaker 1: and one of the sayings on the shirt was we
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Speaker 1: speak for those that can no longer speak for themselves.
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Speaker 1: And we've heard that again. It's road, it's out there,
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Speaker 1: and another one that's kind of a bit KOI. There's
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Speaker 1: another old one that says our day begins when years ends,
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Speaker 1: and that's been around for a while. But I'd like
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Speaker 1: to address this kind of idea of we speak for
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Speaker 1: those that can no longer speak ourselves. As much of
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Speaker 1: the father that I have within me, and when I
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Speaker 1: say that, I mean as a father to my children.
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Speaker 1: I want so desperately to get on a stand and
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Speaker 1: tell his story, but we are bound by sticking to
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Speaker 1: the facts of what our area of expertise is. You
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Speaker 1: really try to keep everything within the guardrails. I'm prone
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Speaker 1: to use that term now because you can kind of
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Speaker 1: bounce off of them, but you stay in your lane essentially,
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Speaker 1: and so when we're up there, we're on the stand.
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Speaker 1: I can't really opine about the life that in a
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Speaker 1: case like Adam may have lived, and neither could these
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Speaker 1: investigators necessarily from a forensic standpoint. Now you can go
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Speaker 1: into the history. If you get an investigator did a
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Speaker 1: deep dive and they have it documented point by point,
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Speaker 1: it becomes kind of clinical because the questions that are
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Speaker 1: being asked, and that you're not going to be able
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Speaker 1: to get up there as much as you would want
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Speaker 1: to if your father or parent and emote. For us
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Speaker 1: in forensics, sometimes what seems to be very dry, mundane
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Speaker 1: details can actually paint a picture of pure horror when
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Speaker 1: you begin to ask those probit or you or asked
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Speaker 1: those probit of questions by counsel. When you start to
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Speaker 1: talk about how long does it take someone to die
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Speaker 1: from blo en forced trauma to the head, or what
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Speaker 1: kind of pain threshold the human beings have for being burned,
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Speaker 1: or what's it like for the victim to have been
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Speaker 1: punched or kicked or thrown about, what can we expect
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Speaker 1: what some body's reacting within that kind of dry science.
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Speaker 1: You breathe life into those that are gone. In the
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Speaker 1: case of Adam, the witnesses did a fine job because
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Speaker 1: I believe they brought him back to life.
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Speaker 2: In the courts.
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Speaker 1: Before the days of cell phones, and before I had
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Speaker 1: a loving wife and I was a single dude. I
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Speaker 1: would go to the laundromat and I'd read a book
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Speaker 1: as I watched my laundry being done, and every now
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Speaker 1: and then I'd catch myself being captivated by the dryer.
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Speaker 1: You can look through that little class window and you
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Speaker 1: see it going around and around and around. You see
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Speaker 1: all those items and they're bouncing around benign. But in
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Speaker 1: Adam's case, it's like he was in a tumble drawer,
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Speaker 1: only with sharp edges, and the energy that was being
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Speaker 1: generated was being generated by someone that viewed him as
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Speaker 1: less than a three year old little boy, something less
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Speaker 1: than a human.
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Speaker 2: What is so mind numbing about this? We have Adam Broumhall.
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Speaker 2: He's three years old and weighs twenty four pounds. I've
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Speaker 2: got several children, Okay, I've got four kids, and I
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Speaker 2: think all of them weighed more than twenty four pounds
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Speaker 2: when they were two. So am I right in that
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Speaker 2: is that seems to me to be a very small child.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's small, he's on the smallish side. Yeah, i'd
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Speaker 1: have to agree with you.
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Speaker 2: So we've got a small child three years old, Adam.
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Speaker 2: We have the mother, Stacy, and then we have Stacy's boyfriend,
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Speaker 2: Richard Fairchild, going to Stacy's mother's house to drink all day.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if that was their purpose, but based
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Speaker 2: on what took place, I think it was to go
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Speaker 2: there and they had the kids. So they had mom
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Speaker 2: and Richard the boyfriend, and Stacy's mom and maybe a
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Speaker 2: few other adults in there, and they're drinking and playing cards,
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Speaker 2: watching TV and drinking while the children were playing in
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Speaker 2: a different room. When it came time to go home,
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Speaker 2: Richard Fairchild and Stacy were both too intoxicated to drive home,
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Speaker 2: and Stacy's mother said, no, you aren't driving home. She
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Speaker 2: tried to get them to spend the night there, and
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Speaker 2: they know we're going home. So Stacy's mother insisted that
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Speaker 2: her seventeen year old daughter named Charity Wade drive them home.
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Speaker 2: Charity drives the family home, gets there about ten thirty.
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Speaker 2: She checks on Adam's fine. The other children are fine
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Speaker 2: at ten thirty at night. Now, the charity was going
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Speaker 2: to spend the night because she was seventeen and sober,
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Speaker 2: she was going to spend the night there just to
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Speaker 2: make sure the children were taking care of during the
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Speaker 2: course of the evening. But somewhere in the course of
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Speaker 2: getting home and getting the kids situated, Richard Fairchild made
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Speaker 2: a sexual advance ants towards seventeen year old Charity Wade,
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Speaker 2: and so she did not feel safe to stay there,
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Speaker 2: and she left. We have the mother, Stacy and bet asleep.
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Speaker 2: We've got the three children at least in bed falling asleep,
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Speaker 2: and then we have Richard Fairchild drunk, hitting on a
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Speaker 2: seventeen year old. When Charity Wade left at ten thirty,
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Speaker 2: Adam was alive and resting. What took place after that,
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Speaker 2: between ten thirty that night and the next morning, poor
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Speaker 2: little Adam, three years old and twenty four pounds Joe,
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Speaker 2: he took a beating at the hands of Fairchild is
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Speaker 2: all I want to focus on.
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Speaker 1: Let me say something a remark about Fairchild. Not only
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Speaker 1: is Fairchild a grown man that is in dwelling this
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Speaker 1: home there with these kids, his girlfriend, and of course
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Speaker 1: the seventeen year oldest presidents. Well, just a bit of background.
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Speaker 1: This means an ex marine, an ex marine, all right.
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Speaker 1: And when we think about marines, and I have many
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Speaker 1: friends that are for marines, they don't like to be
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Speaker 1: called X marines. I think of somebody that's a protector.
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Speaker 1: You know, they got rough edges on them. You want
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Speaker 1: them to have rough edges, trust me for the job
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Speaker 1: that they have to do. But you think of somebody
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Speaker 1: that's a protector, and particularly those that are very innocent,
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Speaker 1: like a three year old. But that's not what happened
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Speaker 1: within this environment. And I remember my kids when they
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Speaker 1: were little, and I think every parent has an experience
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Speaker 1: with this and this you know, one of the things
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Speaker 1: that kind of set this whole story in motion is
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Speaker 1: the fact that Adam with the bed. He with the bed,
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Speaker 1: and that's what kids do. Now you can developmentally, you know,
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Speaker 1: children may have these moments in time where you think
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Speaker 1: that they're not going to kind of get out of
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Speaker 1: that phase, and some don't. Some have true and you
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Speaker 1: know it has to be treated, and there's any number
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Speaker 1: of reasons why that might happen. But my kid's with
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Speaker 1: the bed. Hell day, I wet the bed, all right,
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Speaker 1: every single one of us have wet the bed. If
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Speaker 1: that is that thing that is going to condemn us,
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Speaker 1: and in this case for Adam, if you view it
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Speaker 1: from that perspective where it's that touched on moment where
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Speaker 1: Adam was essentially condemned to death at that moment in time,
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Speaker 1: just let that sink in just for a second, because
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Speaker 1: he was having this nocturnal event going on where maybe
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Speaker 1: he drank too much before he went to bed. Maybe
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Speaker 1: he's scared. Gee, I wonder why his mom's in another room.
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Speaker 1: He's been moved around throughout the evening because we don't
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Speaker 1: know what had had transpired specifically relative to him to
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Speaker 1: maybe have upset his little system. We don't know if
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Speaker 1: perhaps there was ongoing abuse at the hands of this
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Speaker 1: individual that was part of the familial group. But when
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Speaker 1: Adam presents, he wakes up crying, Dave, which a lot
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Speaker 1: of kids do when they're with the bed, and many
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Speaker 1: times that crime is first off, there's shame with it.
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Speaker 1: I think even at three, perhaps you know, and how
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Speaker 1: are you going to hide it? You know? And even
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Speaker 1: in a three year old's mind, maybe he's been chastised
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Speaker 1: over It's not like they you necessarily come to him
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Speaker 1: say baby, it's okay. We're going to take care of
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Speaker 1: we're going to clean you up, we'll change the sheets,
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Speaker 1: it's all right, everything's gonna be okay. It's not the
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Speaker 1: end of the world. No. Instead, you get this reactive
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Speaker 1: event that takes place at the hands of a drunken
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Speaker 1: ex Marine and little Adam going back to that tumble dryer,
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Speaker 1: he is like he's trapped in this environment just for
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Speaker 1: a moment, and he begins to receive the beating of
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Speaker 1: all beatings. And this is that fair child's admission. He
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Speaker 1: admits to having done this to this child. You have
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Speaker 1: this baby being knocked around, he's essentially thrown against a table.
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Speaker 1: But before we.
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Speaker 2: Get right get to that point, there's a whole lot
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Speaker 2: that went in. Yeah, there truly is You mentioned waking
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Speaker 2: up crying. The child is crying because he wet the
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Speaker 2: bed and he's faced with a thirty year old ex Marine,
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Speaker 2: a drunk ex Marine. That's the part that has to
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Speaker 2: be painted properly. You've got a crying child because of
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Speaker 2: what the bed and a thirty year old X Marine
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Speaker 2: drunk is the one he has to face.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no comfort there at all, there's only rage,
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Speaker 1: And how do you take the measure of that if
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Speaker 1: you're a three old child. I don't know. I don't
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Speaker 1: really have memories of being three years old. I cannot
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Speaker 1: begin to imagine what that horror must have been like
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Speaker 1: for this child. Was it like a quiet reaction where
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Speaker 1: the storm just kind of gathered and he's drunk. He
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Speaker 1: has been debating with this girlfriend's mother about not he
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Speaker 1: wanted to be at his home that night. He's the
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Speaker 1: driver behind this, and so the seventeen year old agrees,
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Speaker 1: but she wants to take care of these babies and
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Speaker 1: make sure that they're okay. There's other kids in this
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Speaker 1: scenario's two other children, and make sure that they get home. Well,
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Speaker 1: he's already irritated because potentially he's drunk. He's frustrated by
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Speaker 1: the fact that he's had to go home, people saying no,
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Speaker 1: you're going to stay here. He gets home, he sees
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Speaker 1: his girlfriend goes off to bed. So now you start
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Speaker 1: to with the moves on a seventeen year old. He
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Speaker 1: gets rejected, and you know, he just kind of sits
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Speaker 1: there in his chair or wherever he had parked himself,
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Speaker 1: and he's left alone with his thoughts in an inebriated state,
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Speaker 1: and the next sound that he hears is the sound
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Speaker 1: of crime. Adam hoping for help, hoping that someone will
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Speaker 1: comfort him, maybe for a change, extend mercy to him,
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Speaker 1: forgiveness for having what the bed, but that's far from
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Speaker 1: what he received. As an investigator, you go back and
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Speaker 1: you try to put the pieces in some kind of
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Speaker 1: order so that you can begin to understand what happened
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Speaker 1: in a very chaotic environment, and you're trying to make
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Speaker 1: sense of it from a forensic standpoint. You're trying to
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Speaker 1: understand if you have multiple injuries on an individual, kind
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Speaker 1: of what the order of injuries are, level of what
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Speaker 1: we referred to as the level of potential lethality, what's
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Speaker 1: going to be fatal and what's not going to be fatal,
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Speaker 1: or what has less of an opportunity as far as
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Speaker 1: injuries go to be fatal as opposed to that injury
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Speaker 1: that takes kind of the prompt spot in the pecking
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Speaker 1: order in Adam's case, Dave, there were any number of
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Speaker 1: injuries to kind of select Frum.
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Speaker 2: The picture is painted. We have a child waking up crying,
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Speaker 2: and we have a drunk thirty year old former marine.
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Speaker 2: According to his own admission, the first thing he did
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Speaker 2: fair child, he hit Adam in the face, hit him
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Speaker 2: in the mouth actually, and ruptured his lip. From there
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Speaker 2: on out, it just got worse. The crying that began
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Speaker 2: with wetting the bed now became crying over the pain fear.
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Speaker 2: What does it mean to have a ruptured lip?
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Speaker 1: I'm so happy you asked this question, because in child
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Speaker 1: abuse cases in particular, one of the things that we
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Speaker 1: look for is if everybody, in the sound of my voice,
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Speaker 1: will take the tip of your tongue and there's a
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Speaker 1: little bit of tissue that attaches your lip to your gum,
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Speaker 1: you have it both superior and inferior. So it's going
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Speaker 1: to be an attachment in the maxillary area where you
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Speaker 1: have your teeth, the top teeth and then the lower
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Speaker 1: which is going to be your mangullary teeth. And that
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Speaker 1: little bit of tissue is called a frenulum. And many
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Speaker 1: times you'll see it with boxers, Okay, understandably when I
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Speaker 1: explain this, but you see it with kids. There's been
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Speaker 1: some people that have speculated over the years that one
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Speaker 1: of the reasons abusers will hit kids in the mouth.
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Speaker 1: And again I'm getting into the psychology side here, but
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Speaker 1: I'll just I'll say this, and then I'll kind of
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Speaker 1: end it with this. They say it's a reaction to
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Speaker 1: the aggressor not want you to hear what is coming
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Speaker 1: out of the child's mouth, and so that frinulum will rupture.
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Speaker 1: You see it repeatedly in cases of child abuse, and
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Speaker 1: it's a reactive many times it's a reactive kind of
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Speaker 1: strike that happens. So if you will press, if you
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Speaker 1: can take your upper lip and press it tightly against
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Speaker 1: your maxilla up there, that bit of bone where your
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Speaker 1: maxileay teeth fit in, and you can move it back
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Speaker 1: and forth. That movement that you have either to the
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Speaker 1: left or the right will tear that bit of tissu.
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Speaker 1: That's a ruptured that's a ruptured frinual. You see that.
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Speaker 1: And then of course you can have a ruptured the
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Speaker 1: actual lip itself where it split open. People say, well,
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Speaker 1: I had a busted lip, that's part of it. But
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Speaker 1: I think probably if I were a betting man, I'd
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Speaker 1: say that the frenula is what they're talking about, and
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Speaker 1: it is reactive. You can learn a lot, I think
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Speaker 1: about the dynamic of the family. Fairchild could have struck
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Speaker 1: this child anywhere on his body, but he chose that
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Speaker 1: particular location. And what do we know was going on
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Speaker 1: at that moment? Tom, Well, this baby was crying, and
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Speaker 1: I can't say that that that necessarily proves this supposition
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Speaker 1: they struck the mouth because of this, but it seems
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Speaker 1: like at least one little indicator of what might have
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Speaker 1: been going on. But Dave, that wasn't enough, was it? No?
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Speaker 2: And that's the I will tell you. When I was
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Speaker 2: looking at this, a lot of people will immediately say, well,
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Speaker 2: if the crying was so loud that fair child reacted
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Speaker 2: in this way and hit the child in the mouth,
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Speaker 2: where's the mom? Well, to back up, and remember we
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Speaker 2: had a couple that had been drinking all day and
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Speaker 2: she was now in bed asleep. I was going to
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Speaker 2: say passed out. We have no proof of that. We
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Speaker 2: just know that she was asleep. Adam's mom was in
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Speaker 2: bed and did not wake up during what began with
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Speaker 2: that smack to the mouth. After waking up, but then
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Speaker 2: this thirty year old former marine with the three year old,
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Speaker 2: twenty four pound atom, what fairchild does next? And I
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Speaker 2: guess in his stupor, he was trying to quiet him down,
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Speaker 2: trying to make him stop crying, but everything he did
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Speaker 2: caused more pain and caused him to cry out even more.
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Speaker 2: And I wonder, Joe, how do you, as the investigator
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Speaker 2: now put all of this together in order of what
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Speaker 2: took place in terms of the beating of Adam. I mean,
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Speaker 2: we know he's passed away, or we wouldn't be talking
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Speaker 2: about this right now, But you're having to come in
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Speaker 2: and redo the map. I guess backwards because you start
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Speaker 2: with the suspect and you start with the dead three
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Speaker 2: year old. How do you now put it in order?
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Speaker 2: Do you use purely what the suspect is telling you
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Speaker 2: and then couple that with what the body is telling you.
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Speaker 1: In this particular case, we have a statement by the
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Speaker 1: perpetrator here, I mean an actual statement as to what
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Speaker 1: he did to Adam. In cases where you have ongoing
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Speaker 1: abuse or you have an acute event, which I'm still
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Speaker 1: not clear if this was acute, again, I think I
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Speaker 1: would wager that there had been something else that had
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Speaker 1: happened prior to this. From an abuse standpoint, many times
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Speaker 1: we can only base it upon, particularly with child abuse cases,
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Speaker 1: we would base it upon the status of injuries or are
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Speaker 1: they in an acute phase where it had just happened,
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Speaker 1: or is there evidence of healing, because you'll get this
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Speaker 1: layering that goes on in child abuse cases and elder
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Speaker 1: abuse cases as well, where you'll have injuries that are
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Speaker 1: in various stages of resolving, like bruising. When you think
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Speaker 1: about that, but if we're just to look at Adam
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Speaker 1: Adam's remains and take away from his autopsy what they concluded,
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Speaker 1: it's really hard to make sense of that. Really, the
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Speaker 1: only thing that you can do is to try to
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Speaker 1: understand how did the tissue react, because the tissue will
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Speaker 1: respond to trauma. Was there any evidence that this may
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Speaker 1: have happened postmortem? And I can tell you this, and
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Speaker 1: this might be one of the more horrific parts to this.
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Speaker 1: We do know that in the next step, by fair
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Speaker 1: Child's admission, he took this baby and he held this
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Speaker 1: kid against a wall heater. He took this child and
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Speaker 1: he first pressed this child's chest into the wall heater. Now,
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Speaker 1: something I've learned about this wall heater is that the
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Speaker 1: grade on it had a grid pattern. Take a wild
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Speaker 1: guess as to why I know that, because that pattern
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Speaker 1: was burned into this child's skin. You had it not
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Speaker 1: just antiily. Then that wasn't enough because he took Adam
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Speaker 1: and he spun him around and he pressed his bare bottom,
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Speaker 1: his buttocks up against same gray and had that same
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Speaker 1: grid pattern on his buttocks, and at autopsy they concluded
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Speaker 1: that Adam had sustained second degree burns. When you begin
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Speaker 1: to measure these things out, the doctors, they're incredible people.
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Speaker 1: If you've never been around a nurse or a doctor
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Speaker 1: that specializes in burns and they work on a burn unit,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how they do it. I could not
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Speaker 1: do it. That's with the living. But when we see
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Speaker 1: individuals come into the morgue, we have to grade these
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Speaker 1: degrees of burning that exist, and we've got essentially these
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Speaker 1: very kind of you'll get these kind of superficial injuries,
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Speaker 1: you know, with the first degree, and that's kind of
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Speaker 1: like sunburn, but you start to get into second and
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Speaker 1: you're down into the dermis. At that point in tom
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Speaker 1: skin is highly irritated, it blisters up, and if there's
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Speaker 1: some kind of transfer, you can pick up patterns like this,
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Speaker 1: and then you go to third degree, which is you've
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Speaker 1: burned down through the dermis. Now you're starting right on
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Speaker 1: the fringes get into subkey fat, and a lot of
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Speaker 1: people don't realize that there's actually a fourth gree burn
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Speaker 1: that we get off into where you begin talk about
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Speaker 1: sculptal elements being visible. But in his case, he had
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Speaker 1: second gree burns and it would have been tortures. There
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Speaker 1: would have been a pain response that I don't know
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Speaker 1: that many of us could even begin to fathom. We
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Speaker 1: all have touched things that are hot over the course
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Speaker 1: of our lives, haven't we. We've picked up something waitress
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Speaker 1: that comes out to our table says now, sir, don't
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Speaker 1: touch this, as it's really hot, and guess what I do?
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Speaker 1: Inevitably touch the plate or whatever. But in this case,
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Speaker 1: there would have been a tremendous amount of pain that
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Speaker 1: this baby would have been experiencing. He's only three years old.
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Speaker 2: This was not just a conscious effort to cause pain.
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Speaker 2: This goes into that sadistic level of evil to turn
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Speaker 2: a child over and stick him again.
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Speaker 1: Hence our keyword today, tor Tora, this is torture. And
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Speaker 1: he even admits, you know, he says in his statement
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Speaker 1: that he held him up there. Well what does that mean? Well,
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Speaker 1: you're having to brace this child against this particular surface
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Speaker 1: that's piping hot. You know that it's hot, and there
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Speaker 1: would have been just from a reaction pain response, this
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Speaker 1: child would have tried to get away, would have tried
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Speaker 1: to lift his buttocks off of the surface or remove
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Speaker 1: his chest from being contacted by it. It wasn't enough.
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Speaker 1: Fair Child went on to say that I just kept
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Speaker 1: hitting him, kept hitting him in One of the other
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Speaker 1: things that they discovered at autopsy is that adams left
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Speaker 1: ear drum was burst, that he ruptured in the strikes.
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Speaker 1: He burst Adam's ear drum.
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Speaker 2: When I think about how a child's ear drum can
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Speaker 2: be ruptured, I think of them putting a pencil or
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Speaker 2: something in their ears. But how would and that's not
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Speaker 2: what happened. He hit him in the ear. How does
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Speaker 2: that happen, that one can rupture an ear drum merely
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Speaker 2: by hitting them and not on that side of the head.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's an old term that people used to use,
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Speaker 1: and I think we were talking about this before we
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Speaker 1: started taping that scene. And it's a Wonderful life where
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Speaker 1: young George goes to see the pharmacist. He thinks the
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Speaker 1: pharmacist has given bad medicine for the family are created,
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Speaker 1: and he gets what's referred to as his ears boxed.
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Speaker 1: And that's where the hand is cupped and the ear
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Speaker 1: is struck, and that's a pressure response where the pressure
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Speaker 1: changes so dramatically that the ear drum, this tympanic surface
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Speaker 1: will burst. It'll rupture or tear, you can get a
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Speaker 1: little hole in. It is very very painful. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it is excruciating, and this will burst the ear drum.
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Speaker 1: But this sounds as though I don't know that this
27:47
Speaker 1: was a boxing of the ears. This sounds like this
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Speaker 1: was like kinetic energy where his hand is transferring all
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Speaker 1: of his energy down into the auditory canal, which by
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Speaker 1: the way, doesn't go straight straight across our axis. It
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Speaker 1: actually goes in and then down. This force was essentially
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Speaker 1: rained down upon this child's ear and the ear drum
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Speaker 1: wound up bursting, and this was discovered at autopsy. They
28:18
Speaker 1: did obviously a very thorough autopsy in this case. They
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Speaker 1: suspected what was going on. I got to tell you,
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Speaker 1: on a side with autopsies, we're very thorough in these cases.
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Speaker 1: Most of the time you're not going to do a
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Speaker 1: deep dissection into the auditory canal. But in this case
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Speaker 1: they saw something that and maybe they had this circumstantial
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Speaker 1: information that had come up. Maybe they had the statement
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Speaker 1: they noted that maybe we need to take a look
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Speaker 1: at this child's this child's the inner workings of his ear.
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Speaker 1: And they went in there and happened to find that.
28:52
Speaker 1: And that's one piece to this that begins to give
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Speaker 1: you an idea as to what Adam had endured. But
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Speaker 1: I think probably in conclusion with this series of trauma
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Speaker 1: this child had sustained. After he's beating him and he says,
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Speaker 1: I just kept hitting him, and he admits to this,
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Speaker 1: he finally threw and that's his words, threw Adam into
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Speaker 1: the side of a drop leaf table and that's where
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Speaker 1: he struck his head. Finally that final blow and Adam
29:24
Speaker 1: sunk to the floor at that moment time and he
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Speaker 1: didn't move. But guess what, according to mister Fairchild, he
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Speaker 1: stopped screaming. He stopped screaming. At that moment time. That
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Speaker 1: child was dead, despite the best effort of everybody involved
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Speaker 1: in this. And it's at that moment Tom a fair
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Speaker 1: Child finally decides, well, I think I'll go in and
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Speaker 1: I'll wake up my girlfriend. And he went and woke
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Speaker 1: her up and she called nine to one one. And
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Speaker 1: there's nothing that the empts could have done for Adam.
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Speaker 1: Adam was dead at that moment.
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Speaker 2: In tom Oklahoma, Alma executed Richard Stephen Fairchild on his
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Speaker 2: sixty third birthday on November sixteenth of twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 2: He was declared dead at ten twenty four am.
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Speaker 1: I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body Backs