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  Speaker 1: Most people never imagine that the worst day of their
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  Speaker 1: life will begin inside an ordinary house, not in a
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  Speaker 1: dark alley, not during a robbery, not surrounded by chaos,
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  Speaker 1: but in a familiar bedroom on a quiet street, next
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  Speaker 1: to someone they trusted. In Pasadena, Maryland, the morning of
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  Speaker 1: April fourth, twenty twenty five began like countless others in
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  Speaker 1: the neighborhoods surrounding Loreene Court. People were getting ready for work,
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  Speaker 1: coffee makers were running. School buses would soon start moving
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  Speaker 1: through the area. Nothing about that morning suggested that investigators
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  Speaker 1: were about to walk into a scene that would eventually
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  Speaker 1: become a homicide case. Then the nine one to one
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  Speaker 1: call came in. At approximately six oh five in the
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  Speaker 1: morning on Friday, April fourth, twenty twenty five, a nine
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  Speaker 1: one one call came in to anne Arundel County Emergency
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  Speaker 1: Services in Maryland. The caller was a man named Scott Kirby.
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  Speaker 1: He told dispatchers that his girlfriend appeared to be suffering
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  Speaker 1: from a drug overdose inside the home at twelve oh
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  Speaker 1: four Loreene Court in Pasadena. He said that thirty four
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  Speaker 1: year old Heather Beaver was unconscious and needed emergency medical help.
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  Speaker 1: Responding officers and paramedics rushed to the residents, believing they
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  Speaker 1: were dealing with a possible overdose emergency, but when first
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  Speaker 1: responders entered the home, investigators would later say the scene
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  Speaker 1: immediately raised questions. Heather Beaver had visible injuries, and according
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  Speaker 1: to police, the condition of the bedroom suggested that something
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  Speaker 1: violent may have happened before anyone dialed nine one one.
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  Speaker 1: Heather was transported to the hospital, but she never regained consciousness,
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  Speaker 1: and within days, the explanation that had initially framed the
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  Speaker 1: entire case began collactapsing under forensic evidence. The Office of
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  Speaker 1: the Chief Medical Examiner later ruled Heather's death a homicide
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  Speaker 1: caused by multiple blunt force injuries. Authorities also stated that
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  Speaker 1: toxicology findings did not support the overdose story originally reported
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  Speaker 1: to emergency responders. Suddenly, detectives were no longer investigating a
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  Speaker 1: tragic medical emergency. They were investigating the violent death of
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  Speaker 1: a mother of two, and for Heather's family, that realization
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  Speaker 1: changed everything. But at the time of her death, much
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  Speaker 1: of what happened behind closed doors was still unknown to
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  Speaker 1: the outside world. Neighbors did not yet understand why detectives
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  Speaker 1: remained at the home for hours. Heather's family did not
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  Speaker 1: yet know exactly what investigators were uncovering, and the man
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  Speaker 1: who called nine to one one was still telling police
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  Speaker 1: that Heather had overdosed. But according to investigators, the physical
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  Speaker 1: evidence inside that house was beginning to tell a very
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  Speaker 1: different story. They were looking at the aftermath of something violent,
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  Speaker 1: and the deeper they looked into Heather Beaver's final days,
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  Speaker 1: the more disturbing the story became. Long before her name
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  Speaker 1: appeared in police reports or local headlines, Heather Beaver was
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  Speaker 1: simply known as Heather, a daughter, a mother, a woman
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  Speaker 1: still trying to find stability in her life. Heather Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: Beaver was born in January twenty ninth, nineteen ninety one,
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  Speaker 1: in Towson, Maryland, a suburban community just north of Baltimore
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  Speaker 1: that most people passed through without stopping. She grew up there,
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  Speaker 1: went to school nearby, and eventually graduated from Saverna Park
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  Speaker 1: High School in anne Arundel County, where she would later
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  Speaker 1: build her adult life. By the time of her death,
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  Speaker 1: she was thirty four years old. She had two children.
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  Speaker 1: She was raised by her parents, Susan Wright and late
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  Speaker 1: Robert James Beaver. Her mother described her in the simplest
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  Speaker 1: and most devastating of terms as her sweet baby Heather.
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  Speaker 1: Those who knew Heather disc decribed her in the language
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  Speaker 1: of warmth and light. According to her obituary, she was
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  Speaker 1: a loving mother, a devoted daughter, a sister, and a friend.
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  Speaker 1: She had a deep love for music and for journaling,
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  Speaker 1: writing her thoughts down, processing the world through words. She
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  Speaker 1: had a steadfast faith in God, and above everything else,
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  Speaker 1: her family wrote, she had a heart of gold. She
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  Speaker 1: loved to make people laugh. She was, in the words
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  Speaker 1: of her mother, a joy to be around. But behind
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  Speaker 1: that warmth, Heather Beaver had been fighting a battle that
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  Speaker 1: her family could see clearly, even when others could not.
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  Speaker 1: She was in a relationship that had become dangerous. Her mother, Susan,
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  Speaker 1: knew it. She had been watching it unfold, and she
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  Speaker 1: had been trying with everything she had to pull her
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  Speaker 1: daughter out before the worst happened. Susan had sent Heather
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  Speaker 1: to private mental health counseling. She had arranged for her
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  Speaker 1: daughter to stay at a shelter for abused women. She
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  Speaker 1: had done what mothers do when they are terrified and
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  Speaker 1: have run out of other options. She told Heather directly
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  Speaker 1: what she feared. Every time Heather went back to him,
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  Speaker 1: Susan told her, he is going to kill you one day.
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  Speaker 1: Like many people navigating hardship privately, Heather's life was more
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  Speaker 1: complicated than the brief descriptions later seen in news headlines.
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  Speaker 1: Family members described someone who struggled at times, but who
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  Speaker 1: still had people who loved her deeply and believed she
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  Speaker 1: deserved another chance at happiness. Those closest to her say
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  Speaker 1: she cared intensely about the people around her. Susan Beaver
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  Speaker 1: had spent months trying to save her daughter from the
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  Speaker 1: man she feared most. Then, during the first week of
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  Speaker 1: April twenty twenty five, Heather disappeared back into man's world
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  Speaker 1: for just three days. The man at the center of
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  Speaker 1: Susan Beaver's fears was Scott Anthony Kirby, thirty three years old,
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  Speaker 1: a resident of Pasadena, Maryland. Scott Kirby is a self
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  Speaker 1: employed business owner operator in in the hauling and building
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  Speaker 1: seian's sector. Susan Beaver told reporters that Kirby had a
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  Speaker 1: long history of abusing her daughter, a pattern that had
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  Speaker 1: been building escalating, and that Heather had been trying in
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  Speaker 1: her own way to escape Heather had made genuine steps
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  Speaker 1: in that direction. She had gone to counseling, she had
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  Speaker 1: gone to the shelter. She had, by her mother's account,
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  Speaker 1: been working to turn her life around. But abusive relationships
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  Speaker 1: rarely release their grip cleanly, and the road out is
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  Speaker 1: rarely straight. In the weeks before her death, something shifted.
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  Speaker 1: Heather reconnected with Kirby. As Susan Beaver later recounted to reporters,
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  Speaker 1: she believed Kirby picked Heather up on a Tuesday. By
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  Speaker 1: Friday morning, her daughter was dead. Heather had been staying
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  Speaker 1: at Kirby's home, specifically in the unfinished basement of his
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  Speaker 1: parents house at twelve oh four Loreene Court in Pasadena.
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  Speaker 1: That is where she was found on the morning of
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  Speaker 1: April fourth, twenty twenty five. Investigators later noted that police
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  Speaker 1: were asked anyone who had contact with Heather between Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: April first and the early morning hours of Friday, April fourth,
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  Speaker 1: a three day window to come forward the days leading
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  Speaker 1: up to her death. What occurred inside that house during
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  Speaker 1: those seventy two hours remained part of the investigation. Somewhere
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  Speaker 1: inside that unfinished basement during a seventy two hour window
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  Speaker 1: investigators would later scrutinize Peace by piece something catastrophic happened
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  Speaker 1: to Heather Beaver, and when dawn arrived on April fourth,
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  Speaker 1: Scott Kirby picked up the phone and told police a
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  Speaker 1: story investigators would soon stop believing entirely. At six five
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  Speaker 1: am on Friday, April fourth, twenty twenty five, Scott Kirby
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  Speaker 1: called nine one one. He told dispatchers that his girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: Heather Beaver, appeared to be suffering from a drug overdose.
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  Speaker 1: He said she had taken xanax. He described her collapsing
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  Speaker 1: in front of him. Anne Arundel County Police and Fire
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  Speaker 1: Department personnel responded to twelve Ozo for Loreene Court. When
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  Speaker 1: officers arrived at the scene, they found Heather alive but unresponsive,
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  Speaker 1: and they found evidence of narcotics, but they also found
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  Speaker 1: unmistakably evidence of something else. Her body showed signs of
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  Speaker 1: severe trauma. Bruising and cuts were visible all over her body.
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  Speaker 1: Responding officers flagged what they saw immediately, and the anne
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  Speaker 1: Arundel County Police Department's homicide unit was requested. Before Heather
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  Speaker 1: had even been transported, she was taken to a nearby
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  Speaker 1: hospital with life threatening injuries she did not survive. A
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  Speaker 1: short time after arriving at the hospital, Heather Elizabeth Beaver
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  Speaker 1: was pronounced dead. Meanwhile, investigators returned to the house on
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  Speaker 1: Loreene Court. They executed a search warrant, conducted interviews, and
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  Speaker 1: collected evidence. What they found at that scene, police would
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  Speaker 1: later say in an official press release was consistent with
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  Speaker 1: a violent struggle and assault, directly contradicting the story Scott
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  Speaker 1: Kirby had told dispatchers. Heather's body was transported to the
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  Speaker 1: office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy.
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  Speaker 1: Susan Beaver, Heather's mother, was given the details of her
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  Speaker 1: daughter's injuries. She did not shield herself from them. She
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  Speaker 1: went to the press, and she put them on record
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  Speaker 1: because she wanted people to understand what had happened to
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  Speaker 1: her daughter. Heather's body was bruised from head to toe.
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  Speaker 1: She had a broken nose, broken fingers, bleeding in the
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  Speaker 1: brain that was not an overdose. The injuries told one story.
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  Speaker 1: The nine one one call told another, and as detectives
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  Speaker 1: processed the scene at Loreene Court, the gap between those
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  Speaker 1: two stories was becoming impossible to ignore. Then, the autopsy
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  Speaker 1: report came back, and whatever uncertainty remained inside the investigation
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  Speaker 1: disappeared immediately. The autopsy results came back from the Office
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  Speaker 1: of the Chief Medical Examiner for the State of Maryland,
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  Speaker 1: and they were unambiguous. Heather Beaver's cause of death was
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  Speaker 1: multiple blunt force injuries. The manner of death was ruled
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  Speaker 1: a homicide. Toxicology testing was also completed. The results showed
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  Speaker 1: no evidence that Heather's death was related to an overdose.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever substances may have been present at the scene did
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  Speaker 1: not kill Heather Beaver. On May twentieth, twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: six weeks after Heather's death, the ann Arundel County Police
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  Speaker 1: Department officially announced that what had begun as a possible
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  Speaker 1: overdose investigation had been reclassified a homicide investigation was now underway.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Mulcahey, a spokesperson for the ann Arundel County Police Department,
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  Speaker 1: told reporters at the time that the scene had been complex,
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  Speaker 1: that there were a lot of variables and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of factors to consider. He confirmed that the homicide unit
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  Speaker 1: had taken over. Mark Lemansky, also with the department, told
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  Speaker 1: reporters that detectives were looking at when the trauma occurred,
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  Speaker 1: whether it happened in the early morning hours of April
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  Speaker 1: four or in the days leading up to that morning.
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  Speaker 1: By this point, Susan Beaver was no longer waiting quietly.
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  Speaker 1: She had made up her mind about what had happened
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  Speaker 1: to her daughter, and she was saying it publicly. I
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  Speaker 1: just want him locked up, she told WJZ. He's a danger.
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  Speaker 1: She told reporters she had no doubt who had killed Heather.
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  Speaker 1: She said she had tried to prevent it, and she
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  Speaker 1: vowed that she would not let her daughter be forgotten.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't want Heather to be forgotten, she said.
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  Speaker 1: She was just my sweet baby Heather, and I'll miss
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  Speaker 1: her forever. Heather Beaver had not overdosed. The medical examiner
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  Speaker 1: ruled her death a homicide, but even after the truth
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  Speaker 1: was officially documented, no arrest came. Days passed, then weeks,
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  Speaker 1: then months, and while investigators continued building their case, Heather's
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  Speaker 1: mother began wondering how long the man she believed killed
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  Speaker 1: her daughter would continue walking free. In the twelve months
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  Speaker 1: that followed the official homicide announcement, Susan Wright Beaver did
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  Speaker 1: not stop. She could not stop. She posted updates on
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  Speaker 1: Facebook for anyone following the case. She spoke about domestic
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  Speaker 1: violence publicly and consistently. She became, in her grief, both
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  Speaker 1: a witness to what had happened to her daughter and
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  Speaker 1: an advocate for every woman who might be where Heather
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  Speaker 1: had been. The investigation meanwhile continued. Detectives worked the case,
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  Speaker 1: evidence was gathered, the ann Arundel County State's Attorney's office
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  Speaker 1: was consulted. Months passed. The case did not go cold,
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  Speaker 1: but it also did not produce an arrest. Then, on
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  Speaker 1: April twenty second, twenty twenty six, more than a year
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  Speaker 1: after Heather's death, an arrest warrant was issued for Scott
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Kirby. On April twenty third, twenty twenty six, members
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  Speaker 1: of the ann Arundel County Police Department's Fugitive Apprehension Team,
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  Speaker 1: working in coordination with personnel from the U. S. Marshall's
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  Speaker 1: Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, arrested Scott Kirby at
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  Speaker 1: his home in Paswerda without incident. He was charged with
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  Speaker 1: second degree murder, first degree assault, second degree assault, and
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  Speaker 1: making a false statement to an officer. He was ordered
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  Speaker 1: held without bond at a hearing. On April twenty fourth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, the ann Arundel County Police Department stated
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  Speaker 1: plainly in their official press release, based on the totality
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  Speaker 1: of the evidence, investigators working in conjunction with the anne
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  Speaker 1: Arundel County State's Attorney's Office, concluded that Scott Kirby assaulted
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  Speaker 1: Heather Beaver, inflicting the fatal injuries. For more than a year,
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  Speaker 1: Susan Beaver had waited for the moment she feared might
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  Speaker 1: never come. Then, in April twenty twenty six, detectives finally
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  Speaker 1: arrived at Scott Kirby's home with an arrest warrant. When
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  Speaker 1: the arrest was announced, Susan Beaver released a statement. She
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  Speaker 1: said that after a year of grief and unanswered questions,
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  Speaker 1: an arrest had finally been made in the murder of
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  Speaker 1: her daughter. She said Heather was deeply loved and deserved
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  Speaker 1: a future filled with safety and happiness. She said her
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  Speaker 1: daughter had been working to turn her life around before
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  Speaker 1: she died. She said they would continue to honor Heather
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  Speaker 1: and seek justice in her name. Susan Beaver had spent
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  Speaker 1: months trying to warn people about the danger her daughter
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  Speaker 1: was living in now, after Heather's death, those warnings carried
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  Speaker 1: a weight no mother should ever have to live with.
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  Speaker 1: Heather Elizabeth Beaver was thirty four years old. She grew
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  Speaker 1: up in Towson, graduated from Saverna Park High School, and
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  Speaker 1: built a life in anne Arundel County. She had two children.
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  Speaker 1: She loved music, she journaled. She laughed easily and genuinely
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  Speaker 1: in a way that made the people around her feel it.
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  Speaker 1: Her mother called her a joy to be around, and then,
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  Speaker 1: because she was her mother, she also called her something simpler,
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  Speaker 1: her sweet baby Heather. Heather had tried to leave. That
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  Speaker 1: part is documented and confirmed. She had gone to counseling,
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  Speaker 1: she had gone to a shelter, She had put distance
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  Speaker 1: between herself and the man who frightened her mother most.
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  Speaker 1: And then, in the way that these situations so often
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  Speaker 1: and so heartbreakingly unfold, she went back. Her mother told
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  Speaker 1: her what she feared. She said it plainly, every time,
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  Speaker 1: he is going to kill you. One day, a nine
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  Speaker 1: one one call on a Friday morning in April twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, a call that described an overdose, that offered
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  Speaker 1: a clean and simple explanation that asked everyone to look
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  Speaker 1: at the wrong thing nearly buried the truth of what
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  Speaker 1: happened to Heather Beaver, and it took investigators who kept
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  Speaker 1: working the case until the evidence told the full story.
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  Speaker 1: As of the time of this video, Scott Kirby is
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  Speaker 1: charged with second degree murder, assault, and making false statements
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  Speaker 1: to law enforcement. He has been ordered held without bond.
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  Speaker 1: The case is proceeding through the courts. He is presumed
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  Speaker 1: innocent unless proven guilty at trial. What is not in
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  Speaker 1: question is what the medical examiner determined, what the investigators concluded,
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  Speaker 1: and what Heather's mother has known from the beginning. Heather
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Beaver did not die of an overdose. She was killed,
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  Speaker 1: and her name deserves to be spoken. Thank you for
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