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Bride Mowed Down DEAD IN WEDDING DRESS. DRUNK DRIVER TO WALK FREE? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. The happiest day of her
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  Speaker 1: life the day of her wedding. The decorations were beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: family and friends were present at a destination wedding spot.
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  Speaker 1: After the reception, the bride and groom head off for
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  Speaker 1: their honeymoon night. When the bride is murdered, still in
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  Speaker 1: her wedding dress. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us here at Vaccination and
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  Speaker 1: Serious exem one eleven. In the last hours, the drunk
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  Speaker 1: driver Jamie Lee Kamowski in court in court seeking bond
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  Speaker 1: after she mows down the bride and groom and their
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  Speaker 1: golf cart while drinking. According to police, how did we
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  Speaker 1: get to this a bond hearing?
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  Speaker 2: First of all, take a listen to our friends at
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  Speaker 2: wc IV.
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  Speaker 3: Sam Miller and her fiance, Eric Hutchinson had been together
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  Speaker 3: for three years.
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  Speaker 4: I've never seen the light in her eyes shine as
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  Speaker 4: bright as that day.
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  Speaker 3: April twenty eight. Samantha Miller and Eric Hutchinson vowed to
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  Speaker 3: spend the rest of their lives together.
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  Speaker 5: It was the best day of her life.
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  Speaker 3: A beach ceremony, dancing and drinks to follow.
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  Speaker 6: And now it's a surprise dance for the most important person.
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  Speaker 7: In Sam's life, which was me, and we danced to
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  Speaker 7: Bruno Mar's just the Way You Are, Mesurs.
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  Speaker 3: The happy couple left the reception under a canopy of sparklers.
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  Speaker 6: On the beginning of the golf cart ride. She said,
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  Speaker 6: I wish this night could go on forever.
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  Speaker 7: It's the best matter of her life.
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  Speaker 1: You were hearing the voice when you heard someone say
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  Speaker 1: it was the best day of her life. Now is
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  Speaker 1: a surprise dance for the most important person in Sam's life.
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  Speaker 1: You're hearing the voice of Sam Samantha mother Lisa Miller,
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  Speaker 1: and joining us right now is Lisa Miller, mother of
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  Speaker 1: the bride, Samantha Miller.
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  Speaker 2: Miss Miller. First of all, we are.
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  Speaker 1: So sorry, deeply, profoundly sorry for what you and your
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  Speaker 1: family in the groom are living through right now. It's
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  Speaker 1: really hard to put words to it. It's not just
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  Speaker 1: a passing, it's the end of a whole future.
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  Speaker 2: Together.
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  Speaker 1: Describe Miss Miller that night, the reception, the dance, you
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  Speaker 1: are describing Bruno Mars.
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  Speaker 7: The night was incredible. She typical Sam. I don't know
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  Speaker 7: if you guys have seen the picture, but she got
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  Speaker 7: to the wedding, and of course it's a beach venue,
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  Speaker 7: so there's nowhere for her to hide, you know, in
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  Speaker 7: her dress. So she literally when I knew they were here,
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  Speaker 7: her dad brought her in his Forerunner, and she was
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  Speaker 7: laying in the back of the Forerunner on her stomach
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  Speaker 7: with her legs up in the air, smiling so big,
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  Speaker 7: so happy, rewriting her vowels because they were messy.
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  Speaker 8: She didn't want them to be messy.
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  Speaker 2: So let me understand.
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  Speaker 1: Sam was lying on her tummy in her wedding dress
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  Speaker 1: in the back of Dad's Forerunner with her feet up
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  Speaker 1: in the air to fit on the seat, rewrite on
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  Speaker 1: her vows.
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  Speaker 7: It was the funniest sight ever.
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  Speaker 9: But that's Sam, like she she doesn't.
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  Speaker 7: Care about you know, she just quirky maybe is the word.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: A free spirit, yes, a free spirit for sure.
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  Speaker 7: And away moving forward, the wedding started. Their vows ended
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  Speaker 7: up being almost exactly alike, which is pretty cool, and
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  Speaker 7: they did not write them together. And then the energy,
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  Speaker 7: I mean, there was food and drinks and all that,
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  Speaker 7: but the and the dance floor upstairs she did her.
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  Speaker 8: Father daughter danced.
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  Speaker 7: They did their first dance to John legend. I think
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  Speaker 7: it's called you Move, I Move. Sammy's never been a dancer.
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  Speaker 7: Her sister's dancer. Like she used to dance like a
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  Speaker 7: lane on Steinfield. And all of a sudden, she was
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  Speaker 7: up there dancing with her husband to that John Legend
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  Speaker 7: song and she's swaying like to the music and just beautiful.
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  Speaker 7: It's a beautiful video. Sorry, but anyway, So she danced
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  Speaker 7: with her her both her days after that, and then
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  Speaker 7: the DJ comes on and says, I was surprised dance
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  Speaker 7: for the most important person in Sam's life. And that
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  Speaker 7: moment right there tell us a lot about Sam. She
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  Speaker 7: loved like no other person. She knew that I might
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  Speaker 7: just feel a little bit weird not having a dance
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  Speaker 7: with my daughter, you know, even though it's not traditional.
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  Speaker 7: But we're not traditional people for sure. And her and
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  Speaker 7: I just from the moment she was born, her whole life.
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  Speaker 11: I mean, she's just my best friend. And then.
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  Speaker 7: I keep thinking of these interjections like.
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  Speaker 1: So that dance was for you, That dance was for
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  Speaker 1: me the most.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, And at the end when he's saying you're amazing
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  Speaker 7: just the way you are and all that, we're just
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  Speaker 7: pointing at each other when at your base, you know,
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  Speaker 7: and because we both felt the same about each other,
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  Speaker 7: that was our song and it was a moment that
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  Speaker 7: I'm so thankful for and that just tells what who
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  Speaker 7: Sam is I mean. And then after that it was
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  Speaker 7: time for the DJ and dancing and the energy in
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  Speaker 7: that pavilion and all these different groups of people, because
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  Speaker 7: there was people from Charlotte, there's people from Utah where
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  Speaker 7: Eric came from, and people from Folly Beach and you know,
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  Speaker 7: so a lot of people didn't know. It wasn't like
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  Speaker 7: everybody knew everybody, but it was like everybody was one
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  Speaker 7: and everybody was celebrating Sam. Damn.
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  Speaker 2: Then what happened?
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  Speaker 1: Did they do the traditional They cut the cake, they
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  Speaker 1: ate the cake, They danced the night away.
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  Speaker 7: Her sister made her cake for her, and she didn't
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  Speaker 7: want like a wedding cake, wedding cake. She just wanted
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  Speaker 7: so Eric loved pineapple. So that's another They were doing
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  Speaker 7: the cake on their own. It was just for them.
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  Speaker 7: It wasn't for anybody else, So they just did that
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  Speaker 7: on their own.
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  Speaker 1: You are hearing the voice of Sam's mom, Lisa Miller.
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  Speaker 1: How could something so wonderful go so wrong? Take a
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  Speaker 1: listen to our friends at crime Online.
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  Speaker 12: The Pelican Watch Pavilion is a public beachfront facility in
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  Speaker 12: Folly Beach. The twelve hundred square foot facility is a
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  Speaker 12: popular wedding spot. After their five pm wedding, Eric Hutchinson
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  Speaker 12: and Samantha Miller enjoy their reception. At about nine to
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  Speaker 12: forty five pm, the couple is ready to leave. The
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  Speaker 12: couple gets into the backseat of a fully equipped golf
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  Speaker 12: cart being driven by the bride's brother in law and nephew.
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  Speaker 12: The vehicle has lights and is legal to drive on
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  Speaker 12: the road. The golf cart pulls out along East Ashley Avenue,
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  Speaker 12: a two lane road that runs parallel to the ocean.
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  Speaker 12: The speed limit is just twenty five miles an hour.
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  Speaker 12: It should have taken them just minutes to travel the
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  Speaker 12: two blocks to their rental.
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  Speaker 1: House, Miss Miller, when your left, they had a very
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  Speaker 1: short distance to.
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  Speaker 2: Go from the ceremony from the reception. Yes, what happened,
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  Speaker 2: so they did.
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  Speaker 1: Their Sparkler exit was a sparkler exit where everybody lines
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  Speaker 1: up in like sparklers and they go underneath.
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  Speaker 11: It was beautiful.
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  Speaker 7: She was the happiest I've ever seen her in her life.
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  Speaker 7: They got on the golf cart. They left. Ten minutes later.
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  Speaker 7: We went to our airbnb, which was before there, so
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  Speaker 7: they were still traveling. I started hearing sirens. We were
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  Speaker 7: on the porch at the airbnb. I started hearing sirens,
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  Speaker 7: and literally I looked at my daughter and I said,
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  Speaker 7: something happened to Sam. I knew something that happened to Sam.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean you looked at your daughter? What
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  Speaker 2: do you mean?
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  Speaker 7: I just knew that that's what happened, like my intuition
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  Speaker 7: with her, like we feel each other.
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  Speaker 1: Looked at your other daughter and you said, something has
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  Speaker 1: happened to Sam.
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  Speaker 7: You knew something happened to Sam. I knew that the
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  Speaker 7: sirens meant that Sam. It was Sam. I knew it
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  Speaker 7: was something happened to Sam while they were on the
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  Speaker 7: way home, and just for the sirens, I just like
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  Speaker 7: I knew it.
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  Speaker 8: It's the weirdest thing.
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  Speaker 7: Ever.
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  Speaker 2: What did you do?
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  Speaker 7: Right after that happened. Eric's sister in law team drove
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  Speaker 7: by and she said, have you heard? And I'm like, no,
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  Speaker 7: I haven't heard, but I just said, I know something
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  Speaker 7: happened to Sam, and I'm sorry. Before that, I called
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  Speaker 7: Sam and told her apologized calling her on her wedding night,
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  Speaker 7: but that she called me back and let me know
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  Speaker 7: she was okay. And then the family member came by
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  Speaker 7: and they said get in the truck, and so me
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  Speaker 7: and my daughter got in the truck and she took
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  Speaker 7: us to the scene, which was maybe a mile away,
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  Speaker 7: not even two blocks from where they were going to stay,
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  Speaker 7: And me and my daughter got out of the truck
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  Speaker 7: and just started running hand in hand towards the scene
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  Speaker 7: and just screaming Sam, Sam.
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  Speaker 13: Sam was like I had a really bad movie. Anyway,
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  Speaker 13: my ex husband, her dad was there and my son
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  Speaker 13: waiting at the scene and trying to figure out what
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  Speaker 13: was going on. And we were told by somebody I
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  Speaker 13: don't know who that everybody had been taken to the hospital,
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  Speaker 13: and so my.
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  Speaker 7: Daughter and I went to the hospital and because I guess,
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  Speaker 7: we were told that because they didn't have ID that
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  Speaker 7: for now everybody was Jane Doe and they couldn't say
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  Speaker 7: anything or whether Sam was there or Eric or anything.
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  Speaker 7: So that was a really long wait. And then finally
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  Speaker 7: Sam's dad called and told me that Samantha wasn't at
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  Speaker 7: the hospital, that he had just identified her by her tattoo.
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  Speaker 7: And she was still at the scene.
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  Speaker 11: And that she had been killed.
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  Speaker 7: And like the dog gets plowed down by a drunk
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  Speaker 7: driver on her wedding night in her wedding dress. I
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  Speaker 7: don't think anything can be any worse.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't know that anything can be any worse
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Miller. So you get to the scene, you're told
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  Speaker 1: everybody who's taking to the hospital. You go to the
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  Speaker 1: hospital and wait and wait and wait. Nobody can be
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  Speaker 1: identified yet. And then you get a call from your
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  Speaker 1: husband that says he's at the scene and your daughter
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  Speaker 1: Sam is still at the scene.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and that I mean he literally has words where
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  Speaker 7: she's been killed on those phone calls. I won't ever
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  Speaker 7: forget either.
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  Speaker 1: Did you leave the hospital and go to the scene.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I was at the hospital for a while, just outside,
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  Speaker 7: just crying and screaming, and I don't think we left
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  Speaker 7: the hospital till like three o'clock in the morning, And
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  Speaker 7: at that point I did not go to the scene.
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  Speaker 7: He told me not to go to the scene. I
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  Speaker 7: know that there was a person there was some people
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  Speaker 7: on Folly four ladies that when the accident happened, they
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  Speaker 7: each took one of the people on the golf cart
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  Speaker 7: so that they wouldn't be alone suffering and sat with them.
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  Speaker 7: And the lady that sat with sam was an r N.
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  Speaker 7: And she said she was already gone. So silver lining
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  Speaker 7: if there is any she didn't suffer.
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  Speaker 2: Stories with Nancy Grace.
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  Speaker 1: Jamie Lee Komorowski shows up in court asking to be
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  Speaker 1: let out from behind bars on bond. The judge brings
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  Speaker 1: down the hammer, the judge determining Komarowski will remain behind
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  Speaker 1: bars awaiting trial as she faces charges of reckless vehicular
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  Speaker 1: homicide and three counts DUI driving under the influence. But
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  Speaker 1: don't worry while she cried and moaned and carried on
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  Speaker 1: and snotted and driveled in court, she's demanding, petulant and
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  Speaker 1: bossy behind bars.
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  Speaker 2: But how did we get to this?
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  Speaker 1: Joining us in addition to Miss Miller. This is Samantha's mom.
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  Speaker 1: Is Sidney Heiberger with the Queen City News in Charlotte. Sidney,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for being with us who plowed
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  Speaker 1: into a golf cart because hold on, hold on, said
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Eisenberg is with us. Expert in golf and golf
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  Speaker 1: cart related accidents and president and founder of Golf Concepts.
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  Speaker 2: Stephen thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think a golf cart can't even go that fast,
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  Speaker 1: even if you floored it.
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  Speaker 10: No, this type of you're right, Nancy, This type of
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  Speaker 10: a vehicle, a low speed vehicle is the term, and
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  Speaker 10: it would go at a maximum twenty miles per hour.
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  Speaker 1: So what I'm saying, Sidney Heiberger, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: circle back to Jason Jensen, who's PI with Jensen Investigations
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  Speaker 1: to try to figure out how you put this back
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  Speaker 1: together again. Sidney Heiberger with the Queen City News, how
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  Speaker 1: does someone plow in to a vehicle that cannot go
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  Speaker 1: over about twenty miles an hour. It's inching along, it's
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  Speaker 1: barely going. For obvious reasons, you don't want a golf
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  Speaker 1: cart speeding on a golf course where there are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pedestrians, so it's incapable of speeding. This couldn't
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  Speaker 1: possibly have been Samantha's fault.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Nnty, you're absolutely right, and for that very reason,
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  Speaker 8: because that there are so many golf cars and low
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  Speaker 8: speed vehicles on Folly Beach. The speed limit on the
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  Speaker 8: roads throughout the island are twenty five miles per hour,
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  Speaker 8: So for this driver to be going sixty five miles
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  Speaker 8: per hour in a twenty five mile per hour zone.
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  Speaker 8: Of course, and law enforcement on Folly Beach have said
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  Speaker 8: that this really was not Samantha's fault or anyone in
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  Speaker 8: that golf cart's fault. Of course, they were allowed to
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  Speaker 8: be driving that low speed vehicle on these roads at night.
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  Speaker 8: They had their lights on. They were going, of course,
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  Speaker 8: under the speed limit because that golf cart could not
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  Speaker 8: go over the speed limit, and this driver was going
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  Speaker 8: unreasonably fast in a twenty five mile per hour zone.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to figure out where everyone is seated take us
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  Speaker 1: an hour cut to WCBD.
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  Speaker 14: The couple lived on James Island. On Friday night, friends
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  Speaker 14: and family from all over came to Foley Beach to
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  Speaker 14: watch Miller and Hutchinson.
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  Speaker 2: Exchange their vowels.
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  Speaker 14: Jenkins says she's never seen her sister so excited. The
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  Speaker 14: couple wed at five o'clock, then celebrated into the night.
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  Speaker 14: Jenkins says the newly weeds left the venue around nine
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  Speaker 14: forty five to go back to their airbnb on a
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  Speaker 14: golf cart. The bride's brother in law and nephew were
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  Speaker 14: in the front and the couple in.
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  Speaker 1: The back, So let me circle back to you, Sidney
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  Speaker 1: Heiberger joining us Quinn City News. The bride was in
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  Speaker 1: the back and brother and net, brother in law and
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  Speaker 1: nephew were in the front driving.
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  Speaker 8: That's my understanding. Yes, and I understand that the groom
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  Speaker 8: was also in the back with Samantha.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, miss Miller, is that you?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me what you understand happened, Miss Miller.
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  Speaker 7: The eric's brother in law offered to drive them back
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  Speaker 7: to the Airbnb. That golf cart, by the way, was
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  Speaker 7: lent to stand by her very nice boss, and he
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  Speaker 7: let her use it for the departure of the wedding.
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  Speaker 7: And my understanding of what happens this person was intoxicated,
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  Speaker 7: had had some kind of confrontation or belligerent behavior at
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  Speaker 7: the establishment where she was and I'm not going to
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  Speaker 7: say anything about where, It's not my business to say that.
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  Speaker 15: And.
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  Speaker 7: Left intoxicated or on drugs or something, and just was
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  Speaker 7: I guess she was angry, would be my guess if
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  Speaker 7: she was being belligerent and just got in her car,
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  Speaker 7: and we don't know where in the world she was going,
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  Speaker 7: because she lived on James Island as well, and this
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  Speaker 7: on folly was going the opposite direction from her going home.
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  Speaker 8: If that's where she was going.
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  Speaker 7: There was nothing really down that way except house for
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  Speaker 7: her to go to.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listener. Our cut ten from wc Ivy.
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  Speaker 3: According to Fawley Beach Public Safety, twenty five year old
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  Speaker 3: Jamie Lee Comoroski hit the LSB, discharged with three counts
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  Speaker 3: of felony duy resulting in great bodily harm death and
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  Speaker 3: one count of reckless homicide.
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  Speaker 6: She literally ran into my daughter going sixty five miles
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  Speaker 6: an hour because Sam and Eric were on the back
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  Speaker 6: of the golf cart.
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  Speaker 7: And so she basically just ran my child.
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  Speaker 3: The groom's mom, gofund Me says the hit forced the
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  Speaker 3: LSB to travel over one hundred yards and rolls several times.
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  Speaker 5: And I never thought it would happen to us and
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  Speaker 5: to my beautiful sister, your beautiful daughter, at all the
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  Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty people that were there and our
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  Speaker 5: cut nine.
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  Speaker 3: Sam and Eric were two blocks away from their home
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  Speaker 3: when their low speed vehicle was hit.
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  Speaker 4: Got in our pajamas sitting on the balcony of beside
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  Speaker 4: Berts at our place where we're staying, and started to
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  Speaker 4: hear the sirens, and the sirens kept going.
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  Speaker 3: They texted Sam but got no response.
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  Speaker 6: And we just got out of the truck and just running,
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  Speaker 6: no shoes, screaming Sam.
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  Speaker 3: Sam, a real life nightmare caution date.
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  Speaker 4: So many lights, Yeah it was dark, but there's so
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  Speaker 4: many lights.
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  Speaker 1: Sam, I want to go straight back to Sydney. Heiberger
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  Speaker 1: with Queen City News. I'm just trying to figure out, Sydney.
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  Speaker 1: Who is this person who slammed in to Sam Does
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  Speaker 1: moments after her wedding.
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  Speaker 2: Who is this person?
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  Speaker 8: Well, Anthey, she's a twenty five year old who has
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  Speaker 8: previous DUI charges. At the scene, she admitted to officers
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  Speaker 8: that she had had at least two drinks before getting
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  Speaker 8: in the car, a beer and a tequila drink, and
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  Speaker 8: when officers on the scene asked her, on a scale
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  Speaker 8: of one to ten, how intoxicated are you, she answered an.
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  Speaker 2: Ate joining in right now is Stacey D.
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  Speaker 1: Stewart, CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving known as MAD Stacy.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us in every HV habitual
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  Speaker 1: violator case or vehicular homicide DUI case I have ever
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  Speaker 1: investigated or prosecuted, which are many. If the perp admits
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  Speaker 1: to x amount, then you can double that by at
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  Speaker 1: least two or three. So she said, I had a
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: beer in a tequila. Translation, I had five beers and
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: five tequilas or something along those lines. But what tells
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the tale is the BAC blood alcohol exactly.
• 20:29
  Speaker 16: And thank you Nancy. And first let me just say this, Miller,
• 20:33
  Speaker 16: we are so deeply sorry for your loss. This is
• 20:36
  Speaker 16: you know, the issue drunk and drug driving is a
• 20:38
  Speaker 16: completely one hundred percent formidable tragedy. It never had to happen,
• 20:42
  Speaker 16: This never should have happened. And you know, Matt, is
• 20:45
  Speaker 16: a part of having passed laws to make sure that
• 20:48
  Speaker 16: the point zero eight blood alcohol concentration level is a
• 20:51
  Speaker 16: part of our laws now. And unfortunately today still too
• 20:55
  Speaker 16: many people get behind the wheel and drive drunk and
• 20:58
  Speaker 16: it's unfortunate, and it leads to crashes, it leads to
• 21:02
  Speaker 16: death and injury. Unfortunately the way we've lost Sam, and
• 21:06
  Speaker 16: it's so bad and heartbreaking.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I want to go to Doctor Tim Gallagher, joining US
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Medical Examiner for the State of Florida at pathcaremed dot com,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Lecturer University Florida Medical School and Forensic Medicine, and the
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: founder and host of the International Forensic Medicine Death Investigation Conference.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Doctor Gallagher, thank you for being with us. It's my understanding,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: and Miss Miller correct me if I'm wrong that when
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Samantha's golf cart was hit, it caused a rollover that
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: went at least one hundred yards. It's my belief and
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: my hope that Samantha died instantly, as Miss Miller suggested
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: that a nurse told her what happened.
• 21:54
  Speaker 15: So my understanding is this was a rollover accident. But
• 21:57
  Speaker 15: before we talk about that, I just want to extend
• 21:59
  Speaker 15: my empathies to the Miller family for their loss of
• 22:03
  Speaker 15: SAMANTHI this is just an awful, terrible story. I don't
• 22:05
  Speaker 15: know how it could be worse, Nancy. What we have
• 22:09
  Speaker 15: here is a rollover type accident, and typically what we
• 22:14
  Speaker 15: find in rollover type accidents, especially when the occupants are
• 22:18
  Speaker 15: not belted in with the seat belt, is that they
• 22:22
  Speaker 15: are ejected from the vehicle. So when you're ejected from
• 22:27
  Speaker 15: the vehicle that's going about sixty five miles per hour,
• 22:31
  Speaker 15: the landing or the secondary impact is generally what is
• 22:36
  Speaker 15: the fatal impact, and then typically what we find in
• 22:40
  Speaker 15: these victims are skull fractures. Our brain damage are a
• 22:47
  Speaker 15: severe internal organ damage to the point where sometimes the
• 22:51
  Speaker 15: heart is actually ripped from the body, the ribs are fractured,
• 22:58
  Speaker 15: and there's a massive, massive internal bleeding. Many of the
• 23:02
  Speaker 15: times you also find the spinal cord has been severed.
• 23:06
  Speaker 15: And typically these patients or these decedents, these victims die instantaneously.
• 23:13
  Speaker 15: They have no recollection, no feeling that they're doing. It's
• 23:20
  Speaker 15: just an instantaneous death.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: So you're a wait one moment and the next moment
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: you're in heaven.
• 23:26
  Speaker 15: Absolutely so there is no suffering in this type of
• 23:30
  Speaker 15: a high impact rollover type accident.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Sidney Heiberger, did you tell me that this woman, this
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: driver who, by the way, refused a breathalyzer, Although when
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: you refuse a breathalyzer, you're taking straight to get a
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: blood vile drawn, So refusing a breathalyzer doesn't help anybody
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: at all. Did you tell me, Sidney Heiberger, she had priors?
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: Yes, Nancy, that is my understanding. She had a prior or.
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: At least we've seen a prior mumpshot for another DUI incident,
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: and you're absolutely right in that she didn't with use
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: a breathalyzer, and they did take vials of blood to
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: send off to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division to
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: get her VAC that was per a court order, and
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: that those results, as far as we know, have not
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: been released yet.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Joining me right now in addition to Miss Miller, Sam's
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: mom is Jason Jensen, a renowned private investigator, joining us,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: cold case expert, co founder of the Cold Case Coalition. Jason,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. According to reports, the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: driver the defendant in this case, Jamie Lee Kamarowski, was
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: quote reeking of alcohol, reaking of alcohol when she's slammed
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: into the bride and the groom in an unprotected golf cart.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: It's not like you hit a car where you've got
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: a door protecting you and a top. This is a
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: golf cart. I mean, hold on, Steven Eisenberg to golf
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: carts even have seat belts.
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: A low speed vehicle typically would have either the option,
• 25:12
  Speaker 10: but to be street legal, it should have seatbelts.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, nay, So I think you're saying in a nice way,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: it may or may not have had seat belts, correct,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: because I've never seen seat belts in a golf cart
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: or on a school bus, which I also don't understand.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: But I've never for today, I've never seen them on
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: a golf cart.
• 25:29
  Speaker 10: Ever, Well, this type of vehicle is not really for
• 25:34
  Speaker 10: a golf course. It's not technically a golf car. By
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: definitional low speed vehicle is for use on roads or
• 25:41
  Speaker 10: for use in gated communities, but it isn't typically used
• 25:46
  Speaker 10: on a golf for self, especially being a four seater,
• 25:50
  Speaker 10: so it really wouldn't be a golf car.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: So you're saying it may have had a seat belt
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: correct made you Jason Jensen, private investigator Jason if she
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: reaked of alcohol the suspect Jamie Lee Komarowski, there is
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: no way she had one beer and one drink with
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: tequila in it.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: If you are raking you've had a lot more.
• 26:13
  Speaker 11: Than that, I would agree with the Nancy. I mean, typically,
• 26:16
  Speaker 11: what we see here is a pattern of evolution of
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: where this type of offender you referred to her earlier
• 26:24
  Speaker 11: as potentially a habitual offender. What we see here is
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: the progression of a worsening violator where typically, if it's
• 26:33
  Speaker 11: your first DUI, you're pulled over, you're apologetic. You know
• 26:38
  Speaker 11: everyone would expect you to learn your lesson and not.
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: Do it again.
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: But here she's progressed to where now she's refusing breathalyizer.
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: She's not cooperating. She's clearly left in an agitated state,
• 26:53
  Speaker 11: well beyond her alcohol levels that are permissible by most dates.
• 26:58
  Speaker 11: So you know, she didn't learn anything from her prior offense.
• 27:02
  Speaker 11: Here she is now she's gone to the extreme of
• 27:05
  Speaker 11: killing people in the process. So it is a motorbilical
• 27:10
  Speaker 11: accident in the context that vehicles were involved, but there's
• 27:14
  Speaker 11: criminal elements because she was reckless.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's an accident.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I may be parsing words with you, Jason Jensen, but
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I call this a crash. Yeah, because and I guarantee
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: you Stacy D. Stewart is going to agree with me.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: CEO of Mad Mother's against drunk driving because it's a
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: decision to go to a bar and drink. Officers noted,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: and I quote Komarowski was quote a very unsteading on
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: her feet and almost fell down. They asked her to
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: rate her level of impairment one to ten. She said
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: in eight. The officer states, and I quote, I smelled
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: an odor of alcohol coming from her breath and person. Yes,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: So this woman was literally stinking drunk.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Stacy Stewart.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: For her to add two drinks means she's had a
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: whole lot more. But she knows enough, Stacy not to
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: take the breathalyzer. I mean, one night, I was coming
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: home from an investigation on an arson murder, and I
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: stayed with the victim's friend, a piano teacher, till eleven
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: thirty at night, and was just talking, looking at pictures,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: talking about their friendship and about the victim. I was
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: driving home now is about a quarter of twelve. I
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: got pulled over. The officer actually asked me to do
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: a breathalyzer, and I know better than to argue.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I'm like, sure, I'll do a breatha lizer.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: You have to know better, or know why you should
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: tell a cop who's giving you a directive to say no.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, this ain't her first time at the rodeo.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Stacy Stewart, Well, this is.
• 28:51
  Speaker 16: A crash that again could have been forventable. One of
• 28:53
  Speaker 16: the things that we're working on at MAD in South
• 28:55
  Speaker 16: Carolina in particular, because the past year's Nancy, we have
• 28:59
  Speaker 16: seen an extra ordinary increase and drunk driving fatalities in
• 29:03
  Speaker 16: the country and especially in South Carolina. You know the
• 29:06
  Speaker 16: past two years we've seen double digit increases in drunk
• 29:09
  Speaker 16: driving fatalities in by fourteen percent each year in twenty twenty,
• 29:15
  Speaker 16: twenty twenty one, and then even more in South Carolina.
• 29:17
  Speaker 16: The laws in South Carolina has to be changed right now.
• 29:21
  Speaker 16: If you're if you are found that your BAC level
• 29:27
  Speaker 16: is above one point eight or even above one point
• 29:31
  Speaker 16: one five, which is even higher than legally allowed, that's
• 29:35
  Speaker 16: that is the trigger for what we call ignition interlock,
• 29:38
  Speaker 16: the kind of technology that would disable your car if
• 29:41
  Speaker 16: you are if you are intoxicated.
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: Right now, you can.
• 29:46
  Speaker 16: Be below one point five still get in the car
• 29:49
  Speaker 16: drunk and your car will still go. And that is
• 29:51
  Speaker 16: part of the laws that we need to change we're
• 29:53
  Speaker 16: working on in South Carolina. It possibly could have prevented
• 29:56
  Speaker 16: this from happening.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: This occurred in Folly Bait, South Carolina, where I believe
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the legal eminis point zero eight.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: If that's wrong, somebody correct me.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: It is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a development in
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the case of a beautiful bride mowed down dead still
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: in her wedding dress. Samantha Hutchinson and new husband Eric
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: head Off in the final stretch of a night, now
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: infamous for a horrible crash that claimed the bride's life,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: her body taken from the scene, again still in her
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: wedding dress. As we go to air today, never before
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: seen footage shows the golf cart carrying the South Carolina
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Neelyweds from their incredible wedding reception, followed by drunk driver
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Jamie Lee Kumarowski, twenty five years old, and her speeding
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: camray ending in a horrific crash that takes the life
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: of the young bride. The surveillance footage clearly shows the
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: golf cart carrying the Neelyweds as they leave the wedding reception.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: The footage then shows twenty five year old Kumarowski's car
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: her camera speeding down the road just moments before she
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: crashes into the golf cart, killing the bride. How can
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: she possibly say I didn't do it when the video
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: is so clear what happened that night. Sarah Ford, Legal,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: director of South Carolina Victims Assistance Network, Sarah, this is
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: your neck of the woods. This is Foley Beach, South Carolina.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Isn't the legal limit point zero eight?
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: Yes?
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: No, that's correct, Sarah Ford. We heard someone earlier state
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: that this was an accident. That's total bs. This is
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: no accident. This is a crash. And I frankly believe
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: and have advocated that cases just like this one should
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: not be a vehicular homicide. This should be a murder.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why. Because it takes intent, Sarah.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: It takes intent for you to belly up to a
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: bar and not have one, but two, and we believe
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: many more drinks.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Then you get the key to your.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Car, You walk to your car, get into your car,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: crank it up, knowing you've been drinking, put it in reverse,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: and start driving.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: She knew perfectly well that she was driving drunk.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: And as you know, under the law, we are too
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: infer that the defendant intends the natural consequence of their act.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Those are not my words. That's the black and white
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: letter of the law. The law presumes you intend the
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: natural consequence of your act when you are driving drunk
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: to the point that you literally stink a booze. The
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: natural consequence is a wreck. That means intent. You don't
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: have to get in the car and say, oh, I
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: intend to mow down Sam on the night of her wedding.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: No, that's not what intent is. Under the law.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I believe this should be a flat out murder thoughts.
• 33:43
  Speaker 17: In Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. You know, there
• 33:45
  Speaker 17: are choices that were made by this defendant, and these
• 33:47
  Speaker 17: choices that tribe consequences, you know, towards for these people,
• 33:52
  Speaker 17: for these families is absolutely horrific. And being a you know,
• 33:56
  Speaker 17: a South Corona residents go in the Colley Beach is
• 33:59
  Speaker 17: a comprehensible probably sixty five miles per hour on that road.
• 34:06
  Speaker 17: You know, it's it's absolutely horrific. Absolutely tried to and
• 34:10
  Speaker 17: I agree. I do believe they should should increase the
• 34:13
  Speaker 17: charges against this suspect and charge her with felny d
• 34:19
  Speaker 17: ui with death. That's a mandatory minimum of one year
• 34:22
  Speaker 17: to twenty five years.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: That's a good way to approach it, Sarah, That's a
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: very good that's a brilliant legal thought. Actually, felony murder
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: which means a death occurred during the commission of a felony.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Miss Miller joining us and Miss Miller. If I hear
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the facts again, I think that I will break down
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: and cry right along with you. To doctor Tim Gallagher.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: When this woman, Jamie Lee Komrosky, plowed into Sam and Eric,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: it pushed the golf cart one hundred yards.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Rollover, rollover, rollover.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: What would have caused the brain injury on the young groom.
• 35:14
  Speaker 10: Well, it's a good question.
• 35:16
  Speaker 15: Typically what we see and I'm looking at the picture
• 35:19
  Speaker 15: of him laying in the hospital bed, and if you
• 35:21
  Speaker 15: look at his eyes, you can see that his eyes
• 35:24
  Speaker 15: underneath his eyes are black and blue with something we
• 35:27
  Speaker 15: would call raccoon eyes. Typically, what means is that the skull,
• 35:34
  Speaker 15: the skull and the bones of the face have been fractured,
• 35:38
  Speaker 15: and the face and the.
• 35:41
  Speaker 10: Are fractured.
• 35:43
  Speaker 15: The shards of the bone, of the fractured bone actually
• 35:47
  Speaker 15: penetrate into the brain itself, and that's what causes a
• 35:53
  Speaker 15: lot of the injury.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm looking at a lot of the posts
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: to doctor Sherry Schwartz forensics psychologist Kamarowski. In almost every
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: post I see she's holding alcohol. This is the woman
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: who refused to take a field sobriety test after the
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: fatal crash, not accident crash. Here she is standing on
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: a deck outside drinking alcohol. Here she is, and this
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: is what she's posting off herself. Here she is just
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: as bud light Year and a pair of hotpants. Here
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: she is drinking. I mean everyone is related to alcohol.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Every one of these pictures explain that.
• 36:37
  Speaker 9: Well, here's what we know about drivers who drive well intoxicated.
• 36:43
  Speaker 9: Two thirds, more than two thirds tend to have alcoholism problems.
• 36:48
  Speaker 11: Or drug abuse problems.
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: They tend to have more than one do UI.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Let me add something, doctor Schwartz, you need to know
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: this fact too. She posts a photo of herself just
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: as bud light Year, a play on the toy story
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: character antit shorts crop top with bud light boxes wrapped
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: around her legs and ankles, and the caption raised to
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: infinity and be wronged in other words, just drunk out
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: of your mind.
• 37:21
  Speaker 9: Well, the other thing that we know is that these
• 37:23
  Speaker 9: are individuals who are low in conscientiousness and high in
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: antisocial characteristics, such that they are unconcerned about consequences of
• 37:32
  Speaker 9: their behavior. And hearing about that particular post right with
• 37:37
  Speaker 9: bud light Year. What this tells me is this is
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: someone who has incorporated as part of her identity the
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: humor in being having this relationship with alcohol and unhealthy,
• 37:49
  Speaker 9: clearly unhealthy relationship. And as someone who has previously been
• 37:54
  Speaker 9: in legal trouble with a DUI, she's savvy enough to
• 37:58
  Speaker 9: say I'm not going to blow into a breath, Eliza,
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: which tells me that she had consciousness of mind to
• 38:04
  Speaker 9: know that she shouldn't be driving.
• 38:07
  Speaker 8: And this is Sydney Hiberger again with Queen City News.
• 38:09
  Speaker 8: Let me jump in here. I just was going through
• 38:13
  Speaker 8: her record, and I do see at least three different
• 38:18
  Speaker 8: speeding violations previously, or two different speeding violations and one
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: failure to use a turn or stop signal. She pled
• 38:29
  Speaker 8: guilty to all of those, but I do not see
• 38:31
  Speaker 8: a prior d UI.
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: I think it was because she was under age. It
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: was twenty eighteen.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, who is speaking right now? Is that miss Miller? Yes,
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Miss Miller.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: On her adult record, we see a lot of speeding
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: and other traffic violations, but there seems to be evidence
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: that there may be a prior DY when she was
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: a minor.
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: Yes, we saw another mug shut. I'm a drug and
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: alcohol counselor, so it's kind of crazy, but.
• 39:05
  Speaker 18: I think that what we have here is a young
• 39:08
  Speaker 18: lady that has been bailed out because she her family
• 39:12
  Speaker 18: has money and is not been held accountable for any
• 39:17
  Speaker 18: of her poor choices that she's made.
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: And when you continue to bail somebody out. They're never
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: going to learn, and she has not suffered any consequences,
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: so she continues the same behavior. And unfortunately it happens
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: a lot and a lot of my patients that I
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: deal with. They've been enabled and their parents take care
• 39:40
  Speaker 7: of everything and fix it and trying to protect them,
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: but they're not really protecting them because now my daughter's dead.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Thinking only of herself as usual, Jamie Lee Kumarowski appears
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: before a judge demanding she'd be let out on bond. Well,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the judge put the kaibosh on that cam Rowski is
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: still behind bars. This is a story worry that pains
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: so many to hear. Again, it's not a story, it's
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: the truth. This really happened. These are real people undergoing
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: intense suffering after this beautiful bride, sam Samantha Hutchinson is
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: mowed down dead in her wedding dress. The pain that
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: this allegedly drunk driver Jamie Lee Kamarowski has cost in
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: the last hours, a judge denying Kamarowski bell a night
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: that was so beautiful, so splendid, so happy, turned to
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: pure devastation. We wait as justice unfoalds Nancy Gray's crime story,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: signing off goodbye, friend
• 41:00
  Speaker 15: One,