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WILD DASH: BODYCAM AS COPS STORM TEEN’S HOME AFTER HER TERRIFIED 911 CALL · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. The Wild and Panicked dash.
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  Speaker 1: Bodycam footage shows cops storming a teen girls home after
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  Speaker 1: her terrified nine one one call. I'm Nancy Grace. This
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  Speaker 1: is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: An independent nineteen year old calls nine one one when
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  Speaker 2: an intruder breaks into her apartment. She tells the operator,
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  Speaker 2: I've been shot.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, I've been shot. Someone gets shot me. What address
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  Speaker 1: you have? South corn On the Street apartment.
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  Speaker 3: So nineteen twenty five South Coronata Street in Gilbert unit.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, please please hurry, please.
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  Speaker 4: Please please let.
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  Speaker 3: Me get this over paramedics to get you free. Arrival
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  Speaker 3: of anyone in the home with you? No, did the
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  Speaker 3: person leave? Yes, stay on the phone with me. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to get this over to paramedics.
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  Speaker 1: With that much notice the shere had just left the apartment,
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  Speaker 1: but still Rachel's murder is unsolved. With me at all
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  Speaker 1: Star panel of guests to make sense of what we
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  Speaker 1: know tonight, but straight out to a special guest joining
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  Speaker 1: us is Kim Hansen. This is Rachel's mother, Miss Hanson.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: apologize for what we are going to discuss. I wonder
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  Speaker 1: how upsetting it must be to hear her on that
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  Speaker 1: nine to one one call.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it is. We have never heard anything.
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  Speaker 6: We've just seen a transcript, so it is it's difficult
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  Speaker 6: to hear.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Hanson. Tell me how you learned something had gone
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  Speaker 1: horribly wrong.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I was in Indiana at the time, babysitting two
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  Speaker 6: of our grandchildren, and my husband called me about ten
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  Speaker 6: o'clock in the morning and told me to sit down.
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  Speaker 6: He had to tell me some very disturbing news. He
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  Speaker 6: first learned around seven am Saturday morning, when two Gilbert
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  Speaker 6: police officers came to our home and knocked on our
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  Speaker 6: front door and sat down with him.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me, Miss Hansen, what your husband told you he
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  Speaker 1: had learned from police.
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  Speaker 6: Well, he just said that Rachel's gone. We've lost her,
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  Speaker 6: and she had been shot one time. She had been
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  Speaker 6: transported to the hospital where they fought for three hours
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  Speaker 6: to save her life, and I'm very grateful for that.
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  Speaker 6: I was able to speak to the surgeon afterwards for
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  Speaker 6: about an hour, and he told me everything they did,
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  Speaker 6: and they felt like they were going to be able
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  Speaker 6: to save her because she was so young and so strong,
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  Speaker 6: but she just was not able to pull through.
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  Speaker 1: Was very coherent and I could understand everything she said
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  Speaker 1: when she called nine one one. So yes, what did
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  Speaker 1: you learn after that, Miss Hanson?
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  Speaker 5: Just that she was very coherent.
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  Speaker 7: She was able to jump out of bed grab her.
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  Speaker 6: Cell phone as she would do because she was just
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  Speaker 6: such a fighter and when anything was wrong, she was
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  Speaker 6: the first to jump in and try to solve it.
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  Speaker 5: So that's what she did for herself.
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  Speaker 6: And she was coherent until paramedics were there and starting
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  Speaker 6: to work on her, and then she kind of lost
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  Speaker 6: the ability, the consciousness and to answer their questions.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Hanson, what have you learned about the exact nature
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  Speaker 1: of the gunshot? Where was she shot?
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  Speaker 6: She was shot one time and it entered her lower
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  Speaker 6: left abdomen and traveled through so many vital organs and
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  Speaker 6: arteries in her body and exited the top shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: So lower left abdomen trajectory path going upward exit from
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  Speaker 1: the top right shoulder. Is that correct?
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  Speaker 5: That is correct? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Was she left handed or right handed?
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  Speaker 7: She was right handed.
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  Speaker 1: That is very critical in the analysis of what happened,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Hansen. Tell me about Rachel. We are showing videos
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  Speaker 1: and photos of her right now, she's the real life
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  Speaker 1: horse whisperer.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, Rachel absolutely was, and it came very, very
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  Speaker 6: naturally to her. She came to our family when she
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  Speaker 6: was six years old as a child that had been
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  Speaker 6: in foster care and needed a permanent home, and we
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  Speaker 6: were more than willing to.
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  Speaker 5: Give that to her.
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  Speaker 6: So at six years old, she joined our family in
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  Speaker 6: February and was legally adopted in May. And at that
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  Speaker 6: time we had sold and rehomed all of our horses
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  Speaker 6: from our older biological daughters who had gone to college
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  Speaker 6: and got married, and so we were kind of moving
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  Speaker 6: out of that. But sweet Rachel would climb up on
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  Speaker 6: the fence and look out at the past year area
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  Speaker 6: and just long for a horse, and so, knowing that's
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  Speaker 6: what this little girl needed to work through a lot
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  Speaker 6: of the trauma that she'd had, we got her a horse,
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  Speaker 6: and that's where it all started. And we would come
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  Speaker 6: downstairs early in the morning and she would already be
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  Speaker 6: sitting on the back of a horse in the backyard,
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  Speaker 6: all by herself, and she just.
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  Speaker 5: Lived on the back of whatever horse we had.
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  Speaker 6: We started, obviously with an older, very gentle horse, and
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  Speaker 6: then she progressed and we got another one that was
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  Speaker 6: younger that she could work more with, and the beautiful
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  Speaker 6: mayor that you see her on Mostly We got Dash
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  Speaker 6: when Rachel was twelve and Dash was four.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Hanson, you mentioned that Rachel was working through the
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  Speaker 1: trauma that she suffered being in the foster system, which
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  Speaker 1: in my experience can be overwhelming. What trauma to what
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  Speaker 1: trauma are you referring?
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  Speaker 6: Rachel clearly could speak of this herself, so I know
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  Speaker 6: it is the truth.
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  Speaker 5: When she was three years old, her biological mother left.
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  Speaker 6: The home about ten o'clock at night to get milk
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  Speaker 6: and never returned, so that was her first loss. Then
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  Speaker 6: she was living in an apartment with who she assumed
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  Speaker 6: was her father or grandfather, about a sixty year old
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  Speaker 6: man that cared for her for a short time, and
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  Speaker 6: then she found him dead.
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  Speaker 5: On the floor, so that was a second loss for her.
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  Speaker 6: So at that time she was immediately taken to emergency
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  Speaker 6: receiving foster care where she stayed for a short time
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  Speaker 6: in a shelter environment, and then went to a home,
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  Speaker 6: a foster home who said they were going to adopt her,
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  Speaker 6: but after about six months changed their mind and told
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  Speaker 6: her they were not going to adopt her, but that
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  Speaker 6: she could stay there until her forever family was found.
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  Speaker 6: So that was her third abandonment in.
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  Speaker 5: Just six years. So that's a lot of trauma for
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  Speaker 5: a small child. And it was at that time she
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  Speaker 5: came to.
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  Speaker 1: Us, poor sweet girl. And now this we have learned
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  Speaker 1: a lot from the bodycam and you heard our nine
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  Speaker 1: on one reenact. Listen to the bodycam.
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  Speaker 8: It's rather than wanting.
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  Speaker 1: To buy her.
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  Speaker 8: Things, going to be Rachel, she's there, she's person.
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  Speaker 1: You are hearing the officer stating, what's your name, what's
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  Speaker 1: your name? Talk to me, Rachel, stay with us, Rachel,
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  Speaker 1: stay with me, and more he's good.
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  Speaker 9: One more officer, we can at least go down there
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  Speaker 9: and clear make sure that's sitting over there.
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  Speaker 1: We need to clear down this hall.
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  Speaker 4: But there there's nothing there.
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  Speaker 1: You can't go any further. Joining me. In addition to
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  Speaker 1: Rachel's mom, Kim Hansen is Justin. Yis Justin yis feral
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  Speaker 1: defense investigator at Arizona Investigative Associates. Justin. This case is
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  Speaker 1: so upsetting because as you hear the officers stating, we
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  Speaker 1: got to go clear the building, We got to clear
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  Speaker 1: this hall. They're clearing it because they know the shooter
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  Speaker 1: has just left. But yet we still don't have the killer.
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  Speaker 1: We don't.
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  Speaker 4: It's been two two and a half years and correct,
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  Speaker 4: we still have no arrests in this case and no
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  Speaker 4: finalization for the Hansons.
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe that the apartment was processed appropriately, Justin
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  Speaker 1: yenttez for fingerprints, anything that could lead us to the killer.
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  Speaker 4: From my understanding it was unfortunately or you know, just
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  Speaker 4: the situation is that it is an ongoing investigation, and
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  Speaker 4: so while we have been able to obtain some records
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  Speaker 4: from Gilbert Police under the Arizona Public Records Law, there's
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  Speaker 4: quite a bit that's been redacted. So we don't know
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  Speaker 4: to what extent the SEENO was processed, or what evidence
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  Speaker 4: all was found, and what type of testing or follow
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  Speaker 4: up investigation was done on that. Most of the indications
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  Speaker 4: of that have been redacted.
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  Speaker 1: Question, Justin, was the weapon recovered?
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  Speaker 4: As far as I know, no, it was not.
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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace joining me in addition to
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  Speaker 1: Kim Hansen and Justin Yentis investigative reporter at ABC fifteen Phoenix,
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Holden, Ashley, thank you for being with us. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for having me Nancy Ashley, what can you tell
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  Speaker 1: me about the area specifically apartment complex, Well.
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  Speaker 10: The area itself and the apartment complex. Gilbert is considered
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  Speaker 10: a pretty safe community in the East Valley, and people
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  Speaker 10: think of it as a place that they want to
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  Speaker 10: raise a family. Many people think of it as like
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  Speaker 10: a small town area just outside of Phoenix, so kind
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  Speaker 10: of suburbia, if you will. But the apartment that you're
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  Speaker 10: looking at this is a gated Gilbert apartment complex that
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  Speaker 10: one would think would be very safe. One thing that
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  Speaker 10: we noted from that over three hundred and thirty plus
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  Speaker 10: page police report.
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  Speaker 1: That we just got this month was that.
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  Speaker 10: When police went and they started asking people for camera footage,
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  Speaker 10: some of the neighbors had ring doorbell footage, but this
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  Speaker 10: complex told police that they didn't have any working cameras,
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  Speaker 10: which is something as you look at this apartment complex,
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  Speaker 10: you would think that they would have.
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  Speaker 1: Does it never end? Justin yentis joining US investigator at
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  Speaker 1: Arizona Investigative Associates. How can any body forget the case
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  Speaker 1: of Summer Intern NBC Chandra Levy remember so much timed
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  Speaker 1: pass before her case was solved years and it brought
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  Speaker 1: down a Congressman Gary Condent, do you recall that, long
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  Speaker 1: story short, the building where Seanja lived had repeating video
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  Speaker 1: and so by the time police realized they need to
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  Speaker 1: look at her leaving in the lobby. Did she have
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  Speaker 1: on an evening dress, did she have on a cocktail dress?
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  Speaker 1: Did she have on jogging gear? Was she alone? Which
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  Speaker 1: way did she head out of the apartment building? Long
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  Speaker 1: story short, they lost all that because it repeated over
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  Speaker 1: after seventy two hours. And here now we learn that
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  Speaker 1: the apartment complex had video cameras that didn't work.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's correct, and generally speaking, security tape records over
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  Speaker 4: every thirty to ninety days, but in this case it
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  Speaker 4: just was non existent.
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  Speaker 1: So Holden investigative reporter ABC fifteen, Ashley, you stated that
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  Speaker 1: some of the neighbors had ring doorbell footage. Yeah, that's what.
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  Speaker 10: We can tell in that police report is that they
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  Speaker 10: describe seeing some footage that shows Rachel kind of in
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  Speaker 10: the hours leading up, walking around with people, doing things
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  Speaker 10: like going to the pool. But as justin mentioned, there
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  Speaker 10: are major major parts of that police report that has
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  Speaker 10: been redacted, and so many things that were in that
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  Speaker 10: report we don't know, We can't read, so we don't
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  Speaker 10: know exactly what police have when it comes to video,
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  Speaker 10: other than what is unredacted in that report.
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  Speaker 3: Just after two am, Rachel Hansen calls nine to one
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  Speaker 3: one and says someone broke in and shot me. The
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  Speaker 3: dispatcher gets Rachel's address and tries to help her stop
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  Speaker 3: the bleeding while police and paramedics are on the way.
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  Speaker 3: Rachel says she doesn't have any kind of cloth or
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  Speaker 3: town near her to use, and the dispatcher notes that
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  Speaker 3: Rachel is less and less responsive and it sounds like
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  Speaker 3: she's about to pass out. The dispatcher notes that the
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  Speaker 3: shooter has left the apartment, but Warren's officers to be vigilant.
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  Speaker 2: A compassionate animal lover last seen on a neighbor's ring
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  Speaker 2: camera after late night swimming. Police find Rachel Hanson in
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  Speaker 2: her bathroom. Who shot Rachel?
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  Speaker 3: Gilbert p d initially struggled to locate Rachel's apartment, but
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  Speaker 3: arrived within five minutes of her call. Cops call out
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  Speaker 3: for her and she weakly responds, I'm in here. An
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  Speaker 3: officer finds her crumpled to the floor of her bathroom
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  Speaker 3: with a gunshot wound to her chest. As another officer
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  Speaker 3: sweeps the apartment. He finds blood in a spent shell
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  Speaker 3: casing in Rachel's bed. Officers note that the apartment seems
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  Speaker 3: oddly empty, but there are no signs of a struggle
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  Speaker 3: in Rachel's jewelry and other valuables are untouched.
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  Speaker 1: So what is the motive who murdered this beautiful teen girl?
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  Speaker 1: Rachel Hanson with me her mom to Kim Hanson, Rachel's mother,
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  Speaker 1: Kim again, thank you for being with us. I really
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you put one foot in front
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  Speaker 1: of the other, much less join us here here the
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  Speaker 1: words from the nine one one call and our discussion
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  Speaker 1: of the evidence. Ms Hansen, How do you keep going?
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  Speaker 6: I have to keep going for Rachel, and as hard
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  Speaker 6: as it is, especially sitting here watching all these pictures,
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  Speaker 6: I do it every day for her. I gain strength
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  Speaker 6: to put one foot in front of the other because
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  Speaker 6: I would do anything for my girl. And this is
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  Speaker 6: just part of the fight to find justice, to find
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  Speaker 6: who took her.
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  Speaker 7: Life so randomly and so early. So it's been hard.
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  Speaker 7: It's been the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
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  Speaker 6: But I will continue to do it and gain strength
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  Speaker 6: knowing that I'm helping her still to this day, nothing
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  Speaker 6: any mind wouldn't do do.
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  Speaker 1: Eesen is joining US certified forensic pathologist. You can find
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  Speaker 1: him on f B at Eric August Easen. Thanks Dodgor
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  Speaker 1: Easton for being with us, Doctor Easton. I'm waning to
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  Speaker 1: clarify several things that we know so far. Her wound
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  Speaker 1: has been described as a chest wound, and in a
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  Speaker 1: sense that is correct. However, the entry wound was that
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  Speaker 1: her lower left abdomen. The trajectory path was upward, and
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  Speaker 1: I would think slightly toward the front, back to front
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  Speaker 1: because it came. The exit wound was the upper right shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: That said, what would have occurred? What would Rachel have suffered?
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  Speaker 1: You heard her words on the nine one one call.
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  Speaker 1: She was perfectly coherent and could call nine one one.
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  Speaker 1: Why couldn't she be saved?
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  Speaker 11: Well, it sounds like if the entrance wound was to
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  Speaker 11: the left abdomen, the bullet would have gone in through
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  Speaker 11: organs of the adaman, probably some of the intestines. Perhaps
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  Speaker 11: if the exit was to the right shoulder, it sounds
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  Speaker 11: like it would have made its way into the chest cavity,
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  Speaker 11: probably would have gone through the right lung and then
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  Speaker 11: exited out the right shoulder. It sounds like, going through
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  Speaker 11: the right lung, you're not gonna be able to breathe
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  Speaker 11: very well, and you're going to lose a lot of blood.
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  Speaker 11: And if the bullet went through the liver, you're going
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  Speaker 11: to lose a lot of blood too. But it would
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  Speaker 11: explain why she would not have gone immediately unconscious, and
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  Speaker 11: it would also explain why she didn't make it because
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  Speaker 11: of the bullet going through the right lung and would
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  Speaker 11: have lost a lot of blood.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I know it makes perfect sense to you what
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  Speaker 1: you just said, But why is it that she would
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  Speaker 1: not have died immediately.
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  Speaker 11: Well, the bullet did not go through the brain, and
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  Speaker 11: that's not going to cause an immediate lack of consciousness.
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  Speaker 11: And it also did not go through a major blood vessel.
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  Speaker 11: That didn't sound like because you can lose blood very quickly,
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  Speaker 11: like if it goes through the a orda or some
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  Speaker 11: other large blood vessele. And that's why she would not
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  Speaker 11: have lost consciousness immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe her lungs just filled up with blood
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  Speaker 1: and she couldn't breathe anymore, or did she have such
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  Speaker 1: massive internal bleeding that she died from loss of blood,
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  Speaker 1: probably a combination of the two.
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  Speaker 11: When a bullet goes through the lung, through any long
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  Speaker 11: whether the right lung or the left lung, you're going
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  Speaker 11: to have an inability to breathe because the lung is
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  Speaker 11: going to collapse. And then if the bullet passes through
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  Speaker 11: a large blood vessel and the lung, you're also going
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  Speaker 11: to have a combination of blood loss at the same time.
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  Speaker 11: So the blood's not really going to collect in the lung,
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  Speaker 11: but it'll collect in the chest cavity, which is where
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  Speaker 11: the lungs hang out. So there's probably some blood found
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  Speaker 11: in the right chest cavity, is what I'm thinking has
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  Speaker 11: probably happened.
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  Speaker 1: Another issue that I want to clarify. It would be
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  Speaker 1: really easy for someone to just say, oh, we heard
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  Speaker 1: she had a troubled childhood, which she did until Kim
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  Speaker 1: Hansen's family took her in and gave her a beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful life. Some people would argue she committed suicide. There's
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  Speaker 1: no way with this trajectory path that this young girl
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  Speaker 1: shot herself. First of all, she's right handed, and she
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  Speaker 1: would have had to shoot herself through the lower abdomen.
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  Speaker 1: Think of your left hip bone, at an angle, an
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  Speaker 1: upward angle, she'd have to be holding the gun in
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  Speaker 1: a very odd position up for the path of the bullet.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we mean by trajectory path to come up
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  Speaker 1: and through and exit the right shoulder physically impossible. I
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  Speaker 1: would say, doctor Aeson, do you agree or disagree?
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  Speaker 11: Well, I mean I agree mainly based on location of
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  Speaker 11: the interest wod, not necessarily the trajectory. So the fact
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  Speaker 11: that the interest wing is located on the left abdomen
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  Speaker 11: kind of tells me that it was not self inflicted.
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  Speaker 11: Individuals who intention only shoot themselves, they're going to place
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  Speaker 11: the gun against the head mainly the temporal region or
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  Speaker 11: the temple or intraoral. But a suicidal gunshot wounds to
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  Speaker 11: the left adomen just doesn't doesn't make a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 11: The other issue to consider is the range of fire
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  Speaker 11: of the interest wounds. So if there is a lack
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  Speaker 11: of searing around the wound edges or sit deposition or stippling,
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  Speaker 11: which is gunpowder tattooing is what we call that, that
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  Speaker 11: would indicate that the gun was far away from the body,
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  Speaker 11: So we're talking at least two and a half three
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  Speaker 11: feet away, in which case self infliction would not even
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  Speaker 11: be possible because the gun would have had to have
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  Speaker 11: been far away, otherwise you would have gunshot residue deposited
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  Speaker 11: onto the target.
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  Speaker 1: Well another issue is another issue is that if she
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  Speaker 1: had shot herself, which she did not, she would have
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  Speaker 1: had to do so with her non dominant left hand.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people can't even brush their
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: teeth or fix their hair with a non dominant hand.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: So now we expect for this teen girl to shoot
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: herself with a non dominant hand in the lower abdomen
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: at an upward angle. To me, trajectory path is very important,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: although you disagree, because you'd have to hold a gun
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: to your left abdomen non dominant hand and at the
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: same time, which is low down on your hip, point
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: the gun upward so for it to have that path. So,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: how in the world could that have happened? It couldn't have.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: And another issue, and let me throw this sug Justin yentis,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: investigator at Arizona Investigative Associates. Obviously she did not shoot
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: herself because no weapon was recovered. How could she shoot
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: herself and then get rid of the weapon? That didn't
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: happen exactly.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: It didn't. And I mean, unless there's some information in
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: the redactive part of the police report that identifies a weapon,
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: we have no indication that a weapon was up or recovered.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: As she holden with US investigative reporter ABC fifteen Phoenix Ashley.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Do we know was Rachel clothed.
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: In the police report? It seems like yes, she was
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: wearing clothes at the time. What is interesting in the
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: police report is that as Rachel is taken to the hospital,
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: there is a change. Obviously Rachel is taken, she's being treated,
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: and then after in the hours after, as they learned
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: that obviously Rachel passed away. Police are then trying to
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: track down her clothes at the hospital, what happened to them?
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: Where were they taken? And it is unclear at the
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: end of reading the whole over three hundred and thirty pages,
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: what happened to Rachel's clothes and if police ever got
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: custody of them.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Again, it is.
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: A question that we asked police after reading that report,
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: and they would not answer for US.
• 22:49
  Speaker 12: Gilbert PDI investigators check on Rachel's neighbors. No one else
• 22:53
  Speaker 12: was hurt or even knew someone had been shot next door.
• 22:56
  Speaker 12: Everyone says they didn't hear anything. The complex does not
• 22:59
  Speaker 12: have any work cameras and no units in the vicinity
• 23:02
  Speaker 12: of Rachel's apartment have ring cameras, but one officer finds
• 23:05
  Speaker 12: a ring camera across from Rachel's detached garage. The camera
• 23:09
  Speaker 12: captures the team walking with her fiance toward the complex
• 23:12
  Speaker 12: pool just after nine pm.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: A compassionate animal lover last seen on a neighbor's ring camera.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: After late night swimming, police find Rachel Hanson in her bathroom.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Who shot Rachel.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Cops have now released new information in Rachel's case, including
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: a three hundred and thirty page investigative report and twenty
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: seven clips of body camera footage from responding officers. All
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: of the information is heavily redacted but reveals new details
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: in the investigation.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: That bodycam footage that we are playing for you if
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: we could see that now, show's police storming into Rachel's
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: apartment after her desperate nine to one one call. But
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: even though her nine to one one call was met
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: immediately after she shot, still no leads. There. You see
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: police clearing the hallways because according to Rachel Hansen, the
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: shooter had just left and she's still coherent. Can still
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: speak there. You see them going into the apartment calling
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: out to her. Rachel talked to us and she says,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I'm here. They find her crumpled to the floor in
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: her bathroom with a gunshot wound to the abdomen and
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: that same shot goes through her chest. Another officer sweeps
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the apartment, finding blood and a spent shell casing in
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Rachel's bed, so that indicates she was shot in the bedroom.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: To Kim Hanson joining us, this is Rachel's mother, Miss Hanson, again,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. I'm trying to spare
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: you a lot of the details while focusing on the evidence.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I find probative she was not shot then in the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: bathroom where she was found. That spent tasing shell indicates
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: she was shot in the bedroom. Could she have been
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: shot as she was on the run to the bathroom
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: or try to get away? What do you know about
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the condition of the bedroom? Was it turned upside down?
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Was the bed still made? What do you know about
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: her bedroom?
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: What we know is that she had a king sized bed,
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: had just moved it into the apartment.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: The day before.
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: It was not fully put together because.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: She was still moving in and she was sleeping in
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: her bed. We believe when the shooter kicked her bedroom
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: door open, maybe took one step because it wouldn't be
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: very far, and shot her while she was sleeping, while
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: her dog and her foster pup were in the room
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: with her. I don't believe that she even had a
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: chance to get out of bed until she had been shot,
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: at which time she jumped up and grabbed her cell phone,
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: and I believe at that time made her way to
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: the bathroom.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: And previously you were asking about the clothes that she
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: was wearing.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: I believe that when we went to the apartment Tuesday
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: or Wednesday after she was shot, after we lost her,
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: what she was sleeping in was on the floor in
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: the bathroom, and it was just a pair of black
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: shorts and a black cami, what she normally would sleep
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: in at night, and that was left there in the bathroom.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: So those clothes were probably taken off her by EMT's
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: trying to save her life. To you, doctor Eric Aeson,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the fact that Mom says she was lying in the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: bed would totally explain the upper trajectory path. Good.
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: Yes, if she was lying in bed and the shooter
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: was on the other side, of the room and she
• 26:48
  Speaker 11: was lying flat. That would explain the upper jectory paths.
• 26:52
  Speaker 11: We base everything on the anatomic position, so if you
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: have an interest, swing to the left adamant and an
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: exit to the right shoulder, even if you're lying down
• 27:00
  Speaker 11: when the shooting occurred. We assume everybody is injured while
• 27:04
  Speaker 11: they're standing in the anatomic position, and so that woind
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: trajectory would be upward correct.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Joining us now a special guest board certified forensic psychologist
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: and you can find her at Veritas Forensic Psychology dot com.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Doctor Bree Pelegie, Doctor Bree, thank you for being with us.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I was thinking about what the neighbors said that we
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: didn't hear a thing. You know, very often when you
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: do hear something, you don't register was that a gunshot?
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: You think, oh, was that a kickback from a car
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: or what was that? Is it? Because we don't want
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: to think it's a gun shot, Well why is that?
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Because I find it really difficult. Nobody heard it and
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: it absolutely happened. Absolutely.
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: I think a lot of times people want to assume
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: that the place that they're living in is safe, and
• 27:51
  Speaker 9: so they may think it's.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: A firework, it's a vehicle. That doesn't happen here, you know.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Very curious. Kim Hansen, this is Rachel's mom. She was
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: viewed on the neighbor's ring cam. I believe it was
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: around nine pm, and then she was shot a few
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: hours later. And at that time she was with the fiance.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Is that correct?
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: Yes, that's correct.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: So that evening, how do we know the fiance went home?
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: He told us that he did.
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: He left around midnight.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: We later learned that he was called to come home
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: and so he left, which would not be out of
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: the ordinary. He has a landscaping business and in the
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: Arizona heat, they have to start very early in the morning,
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: so it would make perfect sense for him to leave
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: and go home to be ready to go to work
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: at five am.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: But wait a minute, what time was the shooting.
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: The shooting was at two am.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: So Justin Yentez joining us, a renowned investigator, justin explain
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: to me that that timeline he went home at five,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: but the shooting was it two ish?
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Well, it's and we don't have the phone records, but
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: we understand that. Yeah, mister Bailey was called home sometime
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: in the late evening on June third, and then or
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: very early, very early in the morning on June fourth,
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: and then the shooting happened a couple of hours later
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: at two o seven.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: At least the nine one one, Justin hold On called
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: home by him by his father. Okay, So the father
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: calls him home at what time?
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: We believe it's sometime in the late hours of June
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: third or the very early morning of June fourth, and
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: his father is the owner of Valanscape business where he worked.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, Kim Hanson, can we nail down what time the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: dad called him home to get him up for the
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: next morning.
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: I believe it was eleven thirty and he left by midnight.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: It's my understanding.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Okay. So obviously, to Ashley Holden, joining US investigative reporter
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: ABC fifteen Phoenix, Obviously that can be corroborated by cell
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: phone data, a NAV system in the car, many many
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: ways to corroborate what time the fiance leaves and what
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: time he gets home.
• 30:15
  Speaker 10: And we would love to know what kind of evidence
• 30:18
  Speaker 10: police looked at. Did they pull that cell phone data?
• 30:21
  Speaker 10: What we do know is that police did talk to
• 30:24
  Speaker 10: Rachel's fiance, did interview him, and I will say in
• 30:28
  Speaker 10: that police report In the days leading up to when
• 30:31
  Speaker 10: Rachel was shot, we did learn about some strange circumstances
• 30:36
  Speaker 10: that her fiance also relayed to police. We learned that Rachel,
• 30:40
  Speaker 10: who had been stuff letting her apartment, had just moved
• 30:43
  Speaker 10: back in, as Kim mentioned, but that neighbors had actually
• 30:47
  Speaker 10: called the apartment office saying that there was a commotion
• 30:50
  Speaker 10: happening at Rachel's apartment. There was yelling, and the apartment
• 30:54
  Speaker 10: complex management went over and they did see that they
• 30:58
  Speaker 10: called police. By the time police got there, all was quiet.
• 31:01
  Speaker 10: We also know that the locks were changed, and this
• 31:04
  Speaker 10: is after Rachel says that someone came into her apartment,
• 31:09
  Speaker 10: looked at her while she was in her bed, and
• 31:12
  Speaker 10: then left. She actually told that to her fiance, and
• 31:16
  Speaker 10: I believe she also told that to her parents as well,
• 31:19
  Speaker 10: So she had changed the lock and all of this
• 31:21
  Speaker 10: in the days leading up to when she was shot
• 31:25
  Speaker 10: and killed.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Hold on just a moment though, as she holden. The
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: ruckus that people heard was that before she moved in,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: or after she moved in and the tenants had moved out.
• 31:36
  Speaker 10: It was in the days as she was moving in,
• 31:38
  Speaker 10: and Kim can probably give you the exact date when
• 31:41
  Speaker 10: all of this happened, but I know that apartment management
• 31:45
  Speaker 10: they cited the day as May thirty first, and they
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: actually saw a man leaving her apartment. There was yelling.
• 31:54
  Speaker 10: There were multiple people in Rachel's apartment at that time.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: What about it? Kim Hanson was the com during the
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: time she moved in, or before she had already moved in, There.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: Was a lot of commotion.
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: It was all before Rachel had moved in.
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: She did not set foot in the apartment until Thursday,
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: which was I believe June's second The other people that
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: had subleased from her were moving out during that week
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: before Rachel got the keys and was moving back into
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: the apartment.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: A desperate family begging for answers in the senseless and
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: cowardly murder of their daughter.
• 32:44
  Speaker 13: Rachel Hanson is well known in the Gilbert community as
• 32:47
  Speaker 13: a bona fide horse whisperer. At fourteen, Rachel is teaching
• 32:51
  Speaker 13: younger children to ride and breaking year links. Rachel has
• 32:55
  Speaker 13: away with other animals too, bringing home every stray dog
• 32:58
  Speaker 13: she comes across. Rachel is a great student, the only
• 33:02
  Speaker 13: girl on the football team, and a star soccer player.
• 33:05
  Speaker 13: Rachel is so accomplished she graduates high school early at
• 33:09
  Speaker 13: just sixteen years old.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Well she goes straight into taking her love for animals
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: and turning it into a business. At nineteen Listen.
• 33:19
  Speaker 12: Rachel continues to flourish after graduation. Rachel runs a busy
• 33:23
  Speaker 12: horse training business, a Z Hanson Horses, finding and breaking
• 33:28
  Speaker 12: wild horses for clients. Rachel also makes a deal with
• 33:31
  Speaker 12: the ranch owner in Queen's Creek to live and work
• 33:33
  Speaker 12: on the property as a trainer. At the onset of
• 33:35
  Speaker 12: the pandemic, Rachel also commits herself to running a dog rescue.
• 33:39
  Speaker 12: With her family's help, they find homes for over two
• 33:42
  Speaker 12: hundred dogs. In all her free time, Rachel studies to
• 33:45
  Speaker 12: earn her real estate license and has also found love
• 33:48
  Speaker 12: engaged to Mary.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: I just got to ask you, Kim, who do you
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: think would have done this? And I want to be
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: very clear that the commotion the Ruckus tenant boy friend
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: had been selling marijuana out of the apartment, that bunch
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: was evicted, and then Rachel moves back in, none of
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: that had anything to do with her. But it concerns
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: me in this way, Kim, if any of those people
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: or people connected to them came back into the apartment
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: because the neighbors didn't know she had moved in. They
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: didn't know Rachel was now the tenant. I wonder if
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: other people went back to that apartment not realizing she
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: was the one living there.
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: That is a very real possibility.
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: And something that Ashley referenced was on Thursday night, her
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: first night in the apartment, there was an intruder that
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: had a key that came in and looked over her
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: as she was sleeping, and she said she thought it
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: was somebody that was involved with the people that were subleasing,
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: and saw that it was not those people and left,
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: and that is why she said she hadn't called the police.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Well, we know the we know it wasn't a suicide.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: We know it wasn't the fiance, and Justin Entez joining
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: us a renowned investigator on this case. Justin, it was
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: at night, she was shot in the wee morning hours.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: And even if the prior tenants have been cleared, what
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: about their dope clients and others. There was a ruckus,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: there a big fight just before she moved in. Somebody
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: obviously had a key, could have come in into dark
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: and taken a shot, not realizing it was Rachel.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: Exactly exactly, and that's one of the that's one of
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: the theories that we've been working with as.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Well with me Doctor Bree Pelegie, Board certified forensic Psychologists
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: at Veritas Forensics Psychology dot com. Doctor Bree, we immediately
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: have to look at the love interest, the fiancee. Okay,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: he's ruled out his father at home with the fiance,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: she's living by herself, and we we know that there
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: have been problems with the previous tenants that were just evicted.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: In fact, one of them was selling dope. What do
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: you think how do you analyze random shooters?
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: I definitely think that this case appears to have been
• 36:17
  Speaker 9: a targeted attack. However, I don't think Rachel was the
• 36:21
  Speaker 9: intended victim. She's a low risk victim. This didn't appear
• 36:26
  Speaker 9: to be a personal attack. The individual that came into
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: our apartment the day before had keys, brought food, it
• 36:36
  Speaker 9: was dark, the person couldn't see. There's nothing about it
• 36:41
  Speaker 9: that looked like it was intended specifically for her.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: So it's mistaken identity as to the target in the
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: dark two thirty in the morning after fiance had left.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: That may explain why we're not getting a match on
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: the fingerprints of the people that lived there before. This
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: could have been someone that was coming after this and
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: they had a track record. Cops have been called to
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: the apartment several times before Rachel moved in. There is
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: a very important fact and that is the Families.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Go fund Me Listen Gilbert PD in the Hands and
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Family is working with Silent Witness to collect tips and
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: offer a reward for information in Rachel Hansen's murder. Tips
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: can be submitted online as silentwitness dot org or called
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: for a zero witness for a zero WITNSS. The reward
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: for information leading to an arrest is up to fifteen
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: thousand dollars thanks to donations made through the Families go
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: fund Me Help the Hands in Solve Rachel's case.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: The go fundme helping to raise money for the reward
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: that is now up to fifteen thousand dollars. Ashley hold
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: In joining US investigative reporter ABC fifteen Phoenix, Ashley, where
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: does the case stand now?
• 37:53
  Speaker 10: Well, in every page of that police report that we read,
• 37:56
  Speaker 10: it says inactive. And in that police report it says
• 38:00
  Speaker 10: as of February, police exhausted all of their leads and
• 38:04
  Speaker 10: then they took this place, to this case, to Silent Witness,
• 38:07
  Speaker 10: which is a nonprofit organization here in the valley that
• 38:10
  Speaker 10: helps to gather tips for police. Now, when we have
• 38:14
  Speaker 10: reached out to Gilbert Police, they still call this an
• 38:17
  Speaker 10: active homicide investigation, which is why they are being pretty
• 38:22
  Speaker 10: tight to the chest with the details that they tell us.
• 38:26
  Speaker 10: And I know that the Hansons really have told us
• 38:28
  Speaker 10: repeatedly they feel like someone out there knows something.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: A fifteen thousand dollars reward. The tip line is four
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: eight zero nine four eight six ' three seven seven.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Repeat for eight zero nine four eight six ' three
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: seven seven. Kim Hansen is with us. Rachel's mom, Miss Hansen.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: We cannot let this case go unsolved. What is your
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: message tonight, Miss Hanson?
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: My message is just to anybody out there that might
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: have heard or seen or known anything, or overheard a conversation,
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: just please share any information with the Silent Witness number.
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: We do truly believe that someone out there knows something.
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: We do not believe this was a random act of violence,
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: that it was a planned murder.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: If you have information, please help us solve this case.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: For A zero nine four eight six three seven seven.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: There was a fifteen thousand dollars reward. Nancy Gray signing
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: off goodbye friend,