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She Laughed in His Face on Valentine_s Day_ The Murder of Anitra Gunn [True Crime Documentary] · NO FILTER

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  Speaker 1: In the winter of twenty twenty in Fort Valley, Georgia, University,
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  Speaker 1: senior Anitra gun was looking forward to graduating while still
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  Speaker 1: studying and working part time. The thoughtful and hard working
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  Speaker 1: twenty three year old was lighting up job interviews and
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  Speaker 1: celebrating milestones with friends. All of this came to an
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  Speaker 1: abrupt end on Valentine's Day when friends began reporting strange
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  Speaker 1: messages received from A Nietra's phone, followed by silence. Her
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  Speaker 1: distressed father rushed from Atlanta while a task force was
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  Speaker 1: formed to search for her. The sheriff declared that no
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  Speaker 1: stone would be left unturned as they put together all
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  Speaker 1: the pieces and sought justice for a Nietra gun.
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  Speaker 2: Hi.
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  Speaker 1: There, I'm Kevin, and welcome to Just Thought Lounge. Today's
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  Speaker 1: case is about a murder in Georgia just a few
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  Speaker 1: years ago that shook the local community to the core.
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  Speaker 1: It's a cautionary tale, one that resonates with many who
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  Speaker 1: have seen these warning signs before. Let's take a look.
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  Speaker 1: In the winter of twenty twenty, twenty three year old
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  Speaker 1: Anitra Gunn was a senior at Fort Valley State University
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  Speaker 1: in Fort Valley, Georgia. She was a graduate of West
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  Speaker 1: Lake High School in Atlanta. After the death of her
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  Speaker 1: mother when she was still a child, Anetra and her
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  Speaker 1: younger brother had been raised by their father, Christopher Gunn.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty sixteen, Anietra had relocated to Fort Valley to
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  Speaker 1: study agriculture at FVSU. Between full time study and a
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  Speaker 1: part time job as a server at eighteen thirty six
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  Speaker 1: restaurant in Lounge, Anitra kept busy. The fun loving and
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  Speaker 1: kind hearted senior also maintained an active social life, and
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  Speaker 1: she was always in contact with her family, including her
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  Speaker 1: father back in Atlanta. On the morning of February fourteenth,
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  Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, a Nietra's best friend, Sierra Stuart, awoke late
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  Speaker 1: to a series of messages from her friend. The exchange
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  Speaker 1: began pleasantly. They sent happy Valentine's Day greetings, but then
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  Speaker 1: Sierra began to receive a few uncharacteristic messages. Texts from
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  Speaker 1: her phone stated that she was looking to hook up
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  Speaker 1: with someone she just called dude. A Nietra was known
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  Speaker 1: to be in only one relationship and on again and
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  Speaker 1: off again romance with twenty two year old U S
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  Speaker 1: Army sergeant to Marcus Little, but her message implied it
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  Speaker 1: was someone else that she was about to meet up with.
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  Speaker 1: Sierra was supportive of her friend, and she was not
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  Speaker 1: a fan of DeMarcus Little. He was trouble and their
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  Speaker 1: relationship was unstable. Over the next few hours, Sierra would
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  Speaker 1: grow increasingly more concerned for Anitra. By midday, she had
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  Speaker 1: been contacted by a mutual friend named David Howard. She
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  Speaker 1: knew him as Scout. Had she heard from Anetra. Scoot
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  Speaker 1: asked he had also been receiving strange messages from her
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  Speaker 1: that morning, and De Marcus claimed he was no longer
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  Speaker 1: with her and had no idea where she was. Something
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  Speaker 1: was not right. Sierra phoned Christopher Gunn in Atlanta before
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  Speaker 1: he set out from Atlanta. Christopher Gunn requested a check
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  Speaker 1: on his daughter's home on West Church Street. Fort Valley
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  Speaker 1: Police found no one at the house. Anitra's car, a
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirteen white Chevy Cruise, was also missing. By that time,
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  Speaker 1: the strange messages from Anitra's phone had ceased. They began
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  Speaker 1: with texts to Scoot around eight thirty a m. Messages
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  Speaker 1: to Sierra about the unknown man. Between ten and eleven
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  Speaker 1: am and then the phone went quiet. Messages from concerned
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  Speaker 1: family and friends came in, but no responses were received.
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  Speaker 1: When Christopher arrived in Fort Valley, he formally filed a
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  Speaker 1: missing person's report. A task force was formed, consisting of
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  Speaker 1: the Fort Valley Police, the Peach County Sheriffs, and the
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  Speaker 1: GBI the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Anietra's last confirmed location
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  Speaker 1: was the house of her boyfriend's aunt on Chestnut Hill Road.
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  Speaker 1: The two had spent the night of February thirteenth at
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  Speaker 1: the house. He was the last person to see Anetra
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  Speaker 1: before she disappeared. Due to this, DeMarcus Little became a
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  Speaker 1: suspect to the media and the public immediately.
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  Speaker 3: This is the last place she was seeing Thursday night,
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  Speaker 3: about eleven thirty. The aunt confirmed she was here with
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  Speaker 3: a boyfriend. This last place she was seeing. So what
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  Speaker 3: we're doing today is basically we're fixing searchs his house
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  Speaker 3: and make sure there's nothing there that we need to see,
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  Speaker 3: and we're just going to start from here and work
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  Speaker 3: our way out, you know. And now you know, Who've
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  Speaker 3: got the GSP helicopter flying the woods just looking for
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  Speaker 3: anything we've found Right now inbody even newer as the
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  Speaker 3: person person interest until we were kind of will in
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  Speaker 3: that way as down has the boyfriend Ben question, Yes, ma'am,
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  Speaker 3: she's not in custody.
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  Speaker 4: Is it number?
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  Speaker 1: The night before she went missing, Anitra attended a house
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  Speaker 1: party with a couple of girlfriends. When she left at
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  Speaker 1: roughly eleven pm. However, she did so with one of
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  Speaker 1: her girlfriends, Tracy King, as well as her sometimes boyfriend
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  Speaker 1: DeMarcus Little and his good friend jayvon Abram. The group
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  Speaker 1: traveled to Demarcus's home for a few hours. At some
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  Speaker 1: time past two am, Javon dropped a Nietra and DeMarcus
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  Speaker 1: off at her house on West Church Street so that
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  Speaker 1: she could retrieve her car. The couple separated from their
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  Speaker 1: other friends at that point and went to a waffle house. Afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: they traveled back to the house on Chestnut to stay
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  Speaker 1: the night. DeMarcus told police that he last saw Anitra
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  Speaker 1: leaving at about eleven thirty am. The next day, She
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  Speaker 1: told him that she had a job interview, so he
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  Speaker 1: assumed that was her destination when she left. Anitra did
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  Speaker 1: have an interview scheduled that day at nine thirty am.
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  Speaker 1: Had she left the house. When DeMarcus claimed she had,
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  Speaker 1: she would have already been two hours late. Twenty two
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  Speaker 1: year old to Marcus Little was picked up outside of
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  Speaker 1: the house and brought in for questioning. His vehicle, a
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen black Toyota Corolla with red pinstripes, was towed
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  Speaker 1: off the property for a forensic examination. DeMarcus was an
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  Speaker 1: Army sergeant who had grown up in Fort Valley. He
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  Speaker 1: joined the Army back in twenty sixteen, but in December
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen had moved to Fort Eisenhower, at the time
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  Speaker 1: known as Fort Gordon in Augusta. There he worked as
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  Speaker 1: a unit supply specialist. He and a Nietra had been
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  Speaker 1: an item for some time. At first, it had seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be a great match. DeMarcus, just like a Netra,
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  Speaker 1: had lost his mother when he was young. He was
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  Speaker 1: raised by his father and stepmother. He had two sisters
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  Speaker 1: whom he adored, and a generally close knit family to describe.
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  Speaker 4: The win.
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  Speaker 1: With a burgeoning career in the military, DeMarcus appeared on
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  Speaker 1: paper to be a great catch, But as investigators began
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  Speaker 1: speaking with those closest to Anetra, they learned that the
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  Speaker 1: relationship had been a toxic one for months. This view
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  Speaker 1: was not shared by those close to DeMarcus.
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  Speaker 5: Because they said they don't know where it's no, I
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  Speaker 5: got it. He's innocent, Yes, no doubt.
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  Speaker 4: We miss a Fay very closely like Sugar.
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  Speaker 6: She was just like at least.
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  Speaker 1: Red Aniitri's twenty thirteen white Chevy Cruise was located only
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  Speaker 1: a few blocks away from her house, its front bumper missing.
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  Speaker 1: There was mud and other debris stuck to the tires.
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  Speaker 1: Just the day before, Javon had collected his friend to
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  Speaker 1: Marcus from a location nearby and had pointed out the
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  Speaker 1: car to him. Isn't that Anitra's car, he asked. DeMarcus
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  Speaker 1: blew him off. Of course it wasn't, he said. Her
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  Speaker 1: wallet and keys were inside the vehicle. Curiously, her cell
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  Speaker 1: phone was not. Processing of the car found Demarcus's finger
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  Speaker 1: and pomp prints inside and on the trunk. An examination
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  Speaker 1: of his vehicle similarly returned to DNA from Anitra. Given
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  Speaker 1: that the two had been romantically linked for months, these
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  Speaker 1: results were not surprising. What was unexpected was Demarcus's claim,
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  Speaker 1: made twenty four hours into the search for his ex girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: that he just remembered that Anitra had accidentally shared her
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  Speaker 1: phone location with him the day before. He said her
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  Speaker 1: device had pinged not far from her home on West
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  Speaker 1: Church It showed at a location on South Camellia Boulevard.
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  Speaker 1: When Officer Whitehead of the Fort Valley Police checked his
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  Speaker 1: device for this information, however, he found that was not
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  Speaker 1: the case. Her phone had actually pinged roughly five minutes
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  Speaker 1: further south of Kamelia Road on Carver Drive. There, tucked
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  Speaker 1: into the end of a drainage pipe, police retrieved Anitra's
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  Speaker 1: so The county, City and State Task Force continued their search,
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  Speaker 1: spanning from Chestnut Drive through rain and shine. When the
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  Speaker 1: weather turned rough, they kept the helicopters out of the air,
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  Speaker 1: but deputies continued to navigate dense areas of woodland on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. A Peach County Sheriff's deputy was patrolling the
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  Speaker 1: area when he spotted a path leading off of the
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  Speaker 1: main roadway which appeared to have been disturbed by a
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  Speaker 1: vehicle driving down it towards the trees. He got out
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  Speaker 1: of his car and explored the path on foot. A
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  Speaker 1: few minutes into the walk, there were more indications of
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  Speaker 1: a vehicle swiping nearby trees and damaging the vegetation. Under
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  Speaker 1: a light covering of tree limbs and other brush, the
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  Speaker 1: deputy discovered the body of a young woman. It had
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  Speaker 1: been poorly concealed. Amongst the trees. Near to the deceased
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  Speaker 1: were damaged car parts, namely part of a bumper from
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  Speaker 1: what appeared to be a twenty thirteen weight Chevy Cruise.
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  Speaker 3: Today, at three nineteen, deputies and members of the task
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  Speaker 3: force were out riding. Because of the weather, we couldn't
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  Speaker 3: get the helicopter up, so they were just riding looking.
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  Speaker 3: We had an idea of the bushes and sticks that
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  Speaker 3: were into the front of the grill of her car,
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  Speaker 3: so the deputies were kind of looking for those areas.
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  Speaker 3: The area he found her at he saw something similar
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  Speaker 3: a little roadway going down into the woods. Rode down
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  Speaker 3: into the car wouldn't go anymore because of the rain.
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  Speaker 3: About one hundred and fifty yards off the roadway, he
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  Speaker 3: found the piece of the car, part of the car
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  Speaker 3: piece that we've been looking for. Found this gun laying
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  Speaker 3: very close to part of that front bump. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's pretty common sense to how person of interest is.
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  Speaker 3: Can you say it?
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  Speaker 1: Though?
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  Speaker 3: I was love just a boyfriend. We've talked to him
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  Speaker 3: three times.
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  Speaker 1: An autopsy would find that Anitra had been strangled. There
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  Speaker 1: were also indications that she had been struck at least
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  Speaker 1: once in the head, and that her body had likely
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  Speaker 1: been dragged into the position where she was found. On Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: February nineteenth, only a few days after Anitra was located,
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  Speaker 1: DeMarcus Little was arrested. However, he was not at that
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  Speaker 1: stage charged with murder. Property was damaged at Anitra's house
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  Speaker 1: roughly two weeks before she was killed. It was on
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  Speaker 1: this charge that he was arraigned. At about three am
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  Speaker 1: on February fifth, Anetra and her friend Scoot, who was
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  Speaker 1: staying over at the house, were both awoken by a loud,
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  Speaker 1: shattering noise. Initially believing that one of the pets had
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  Speaker 1: caused the disturbs, they ignored it. The next morning, after
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  Speaker 1: Scoot walked home, Anietre called to the police to report
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  Speaker 1: that the tires on her car had been slashed and
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  Speaker 1: bricks had been thrown through two windows of the house.
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  Speaker 1: She told law enforcement that she did not know who
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  Speaker 1: could have done it, though it was actually the second
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  Speaker 1: time that someone had pierced her tires in the night.
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  Speaker 5: Interest people.
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  Speaker 4: Basically, you know we're here today for granted Bun here
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  Speaker 4: for crimin damage the property. And I'm just said that
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  Speaker 4: he was granted bun for that particular matter, and so
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  Speaker 4: he can get back to his career in the Nasty's army.
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  Speaker 4: But before it's just hurting to see him coming here
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  Speaker 4: in the shops like that. Like you said, criminal, my
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  Speaker 4: son has never done anything anymore. Uh, he didn't do
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  Speaker 4: this incident. I can sympathize with the family.
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  Speaker 7: I truly do.
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  Speaker 4: I have daughters. I even have one in college, and
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  Speaker 4: something like that would happen to her, I would be devastated.
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  Speaker 4: But my son didn't do this. He was raised the
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  Speaker 4: right way. He's not violent, never been in a fight,
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  Speaker 4: never having any criminal background. He's a good He's a
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  Speaker 4: good kid, a good soul, serving our country problems does it?
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  Speaker 4: It mostly agnos me how certain media and social media
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  Speaker 4: and certain people and uh and in society to have
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  Speaker 4: destroyed him and slam his name. They don't really know
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  Speaker 4: the real DeMarcus live. The real DeMarcus Middle is a
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  Speaker 4: very humble young man. He made sergeant three years in
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  Speaker 4: the United States Army. He doesn't have any any thing
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  Speaker 4: on his background, any blemishes, nothing. Nobody can't say nothing
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  Speaker 4: bad about my son. He's been here on this earth
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  Speaker 4: twenty two years and can't no one say anything terrible
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  Speaker 4: about my son.
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  Speaker 1: JaMarcus eventually admitted to police that he had slashed Denetris
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  Speaker 1: tires and throwing bricks at her house. He had reacted
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  Speaker 1: in a rage when he discovered that she had a
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  Speaker 1: man staying overnight. Throughout this, he maintained his innocence of
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  Speaker 1: the murder. The army sergeant was offered a ten thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars bond and release with an ankle monitor, but he
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  Speaker 1: would be charged with malice murder only hours later before
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  Speaker 1: he could be released from the county jail, and he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't alone. His longtime friend Javon Abram was arrested as
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  Speaker 1: well on two counts of giving false statements to law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement and one count of concealing a death. When DeMarcus
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  Speaker 1: went to trial in March twenty twenty two at a
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  Speaker 1: Peach County courthouse, it was his former friend, who he
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  Speaker 1: had claimed was like a brother to him, who had
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  Speaker 1: become the star witness.
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  Speaker 5: Javan will tell you that marks then an treating.
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  Speaker 6: And show.
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  Speaker 5: Chlter to death.
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  Speaker 1: Defense attorney Benjamin Davis argued that de Marcus Little was
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  Speaker 1: not the kind of person who could commit murder. He
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  Speaker 1: was an upstanding and humble man, a soldier serving his country. Conversely,
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  Speaker 1: prosecutor Neil Halverson described an at times toxic relationship between
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  Speaker 1: DeMarcus and Anitra, filled with control, threats, manipulation, and possessiveness
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  Speaker 1: on his part. The romance that had first appeared so
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  Speaker 1: perfect on paper had become a nightmare from which Aneitra
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  Speaker 1: could not escape. Days at trial were spent reading the
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  Speaker 1: couple's messages exchanged over months leading up to her death.
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  Speaker 1: Anitra described him as an evil, manipulative person. Anietra wrote
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  Speaker 1: that she was tired of de Marcus's threats and abuse.
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  Speaker 1: She tried to distance herself from him, but over and
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  Speaker 1: over again, he worked his way back. In his messages
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly accused Anetra of being with another man. On November first,
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  Speaker 1: Anietra wrote that they should stop speaking to each other altogether.
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  Speaker 1: She told him that every time they talk she ends
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  Speaker 1: up being manipulated. Days later, de Marcus threatened suicide. He
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  Speaker 1: blamed her for pushing him to that point. Then he
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  Speaker 1: went silent for hours as a Nietra reached out, concerned
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  Speaker 1: for his welfare. Eventually, De Marcus replied to Niitra, telling
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  Speaker 1: her that his attempt on his life did not work,
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  Speaker 1: but his manipulative tactics did. Within days of this alleged
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  Speaker 1: attempt on his life, the line of communication between the
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  Speaker 1: two reopened on a Nietra's birthday in November. He told
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  Speaker 1: her that he was sparing the man that he believed
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  Speaker 1: she was going out with that night. The two had
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  Speaker 1: broken up at that point. Nonetheless, de Marcus threatened any
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  Speaker 1: man he believed she was spending time with. He even
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  Speaker 1: sent her a screenshot of a message he wrote to
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  Speaker 1: an unknown individual offering them two hundred dollars to harm
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  Speaker 1: Anitra's alleged date. He told her, We're going to have
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  Speaker 1: problems if you go out with him. O M M
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  Speaker 1: on my mama. At times he threatened her life, directly
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  Speaker 1: stating that his mercy has limits after he accused her
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  Speaker 1: again of texting with another man. David Scoot Howard was
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  Speaker 1: a barber across the street from the eighteen thirty six
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  Speaker 1: restaurant in Lounge where Anitra worked as a server The
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  Speaker 1: twenty one year old lived in his family home only
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  Speaker 1: a few doors down from Anetra's house on West Church Street.
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  Speaker 1: Scout told the jury that on the morning of February fourteenth,
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  Speaker 1: he was at home and he realized that he may
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: have left his second cell phone at Anitra's house the
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: night before. Scoot needed the phone for work, so he
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: messaged Anietra asking if she could look for it. The
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  Speaker 1: response he received back was bizarre. The text from Anitra's
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  Speaker 1: phone said to send his location and she would drive
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  Speaker 1: over to him at his house. Scoot testified that his
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  Speaker 1: home was so close to Aniitra's that if you were
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  Speaker 1: to stand at the end of his driveway, he could
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  Speaker 1: clearly see Anitra's front door. She knew where he lived,
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  Speaker 1: and she certainly did not need to drive when.
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  Speaker 5: This message, what were you saying?
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  Speaker 3: He is?
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  Speaker 1: He tried calling her, but she didn't pick up. Scoot
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  Speaker 1: received messages stating that she just couldn't talk at the moment. Then,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to add to his confusion, the following message seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be trying to break up with him. That was fine,
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  Speaker 1: he said, but the two were not involved. Scoot said
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  Speaker 1: they had only hung out couple of times, he hesitated
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  Speaker 1: to even categorize them as friends because they were just
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  Speaker 1: getting to know each other. When the person with her
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  Speaker 1: phone asked again for his address, he responded that he
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  Speaker 1: wanted no part in whatever was going on. Where By
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  Speaker 1: this time Scoot was standing outside of his house. The
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  Speaker 1: person with a Nietris phone said they were on their
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  Speaker 1: way to him and to wait out front. He watched
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  Speaker 1: as a twenty nineteen black Toyota Corolla with red pinstripes
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  Speaker 1: circled the block five or maybe six times. Concerned, he
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  Speaker 1: messaged Sierra Stewart. He informed her of the strange messages
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  Speaker 1: coming from a Nietra's phone and texted over the license
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: plate number of the black Corolla. Police would later match
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  Speaker 1: this tag to DeMarcus Little's vehicle. On the afternoon of Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: February sixteenth, Javon, Abram and de Marcus Little left church
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  Speaker 1: together and went for a drive. While in the car,
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  Speaker 1: Javon told the jury that DeMarcus freely confessed to him
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  Speaker 1: that he had strangled Anitra in the night. He had
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  Speaker 1: poured his heart out to her, He said. He told
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  Speaker 1: her that they were soulmates and how much he loved her.
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  Speaker 1: In response, he said she had laughed at him in
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  Speaker 1: the moments that followed. He claimed to have blacked out.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning, he had disposed of her body in
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  Speaker 1: the woods.
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  Speaker 8: Should own. John told he liked she and the man
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  Speaker 8: and the faith.
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  Speaker 5: How had advice and flatten out.
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  Speaker 4: Was like.
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  Speaker 8: When he was after that night.
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  Speaker 3: He just grabbed and.
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: Started choking and hide.
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  Speaker 5: She just stopped lighting. So he felt like she had
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: wanted to be home.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: She wanted to go where wam So he.
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  Speaker 5: He told you that he had pulled his whole afternoon.
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: And that would be trifle at and.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: That he had hit her and that he started to
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: choke her m h and that she fought at first brick.
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  Speaker 11: And then he said to you, then it looked like
• 22:52
  Speaker 11: she just gave up because she wanted to be with
• 22:54
  Speaker 11: her mother.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: And that's her mother was dead.
• 22:59
  Speaker 11: Mm hmm.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Javon came to realize that the following day, when he
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: had picked up his friend near to where Anitra's car
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: would be found, that he had assisted in covering up
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: the murder. DeMarcus told him that he had placed her
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: in the trunk of her car and then drove out
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: towards Crawford County. The front bumper fell off in the
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: rough terrain. Then he drove back to Fort Valley and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: parked the car a few blocks from her house. From
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: that area, he called Javon for a ride, telling him
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: at the time that the Chevy Cruise with the missing
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: bumper could not have been his ex girlfriend's car. DaMarcus
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: told Javon that he kept Anitra's cell phone with him
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: that morning, later disposing of it inside of a drainage pipe.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Javon recounted how they drove out to Greer Road at
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: the Peach County Crawford County line, where Anitra had been left. There,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: he saw her body in a state of shock, refused
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: to get out of the vehicle. DeMarcus retrieved part of
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the Chevy Cruise's front bumper, which sat nearby, and asked
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Javon to help him push it into the trunk. They
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: drove it further out and disposed of it in a
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: ditch off of another roadway. That portion of the bumper
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: was eventually located in the area where Javon stated it
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: would be further corroborating the friend's story was cell phone
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: location data. Both his device and Demarcus's phone, which corresponded
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: to the movements in Javon's version of events. This data
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: did not correspond to the story that DeMarcus Little would
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: tell the jury. Assistant District Attorney Don Baskin grilled to
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: de Marcus on the inconsistencies between his story and the
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: cell phone data. Location data placed him traveling from his
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: aunt's home at four to twenty Chestnut to where a
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Nietro was found off of Greer Road at the county
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: line on Valentine's Day. DeMarcus testified that his transaction data
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: and location tracking on either side of the hour he
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: was in the woods was accurate, but he was never
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: in the area where Anitra was found dead.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: So every single cash location that we just talked about
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: after the show, where you were.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: So those same cash locations show.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: At one o three you driving on Tanglewood Road headed toward.
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: Through your road.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: Is that correct?
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Your phone went offline at that moment, Hyans, And then
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: those same cash locations is right from nude until one o'clock.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: And from two twenty for the rest of the day.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: They then showed you in the woods off Rear Road.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: Correct, They don't show you there that was my question.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: My question was is do.
• 26:09
  Speaker 11: Those cash locations which you just testified were absolutely accurate
• 26:13
  Speaker 11: regards to your whereabouts between twelve and one and two
• 26:17
  Speaker 11: twenty to the rest of the night, those same cast
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: locations show you in the woods off rail road.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: Don't think, just use yes.
• 26:29
  Speaker 11: If your bone shows you going from four twenty chest
• 26:32
  Speaker 11: night in the road to the woods off the greer road,
• 26:37
  Speaker 11: isn't that what happened?
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Sir?
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: And you got that hat anatrius car and you drove
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: it over ditches and trees, causing a bumper to fall off,
• 26:51
  Speaker 11: causing everything else to break apart.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: And you don't your soulmates like garbage in the middle
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: of the woods. Didn't serve her phone said you didn't, and.
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: Then he drove back down for being car a missing
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: phone and the missing wheeled will and he dumped her
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: car just like he dumped her at the corner.
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: Of bel and Mont her just like your phone. Say
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: so your phone is lying. I okay, it's necessary.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Demarcus's timeline became exceptionally confused when he attempted to explain
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: where he was later in the morning of the fourteenth.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: At first, he told police that he had been at
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: home around eleven thirty am when anitra left his aunt's
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: house on Chestnut. His messages at that time to Sierra, however,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: stated that he was out looking for anitra. David Scoot
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Howard also spotted his car circling the block in Fort
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Valley around the same time.
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: What were you doing driving in your car circling the
• 28:08
  Speaker 9: block around where David Howard lived between eleven thirty and
• 28:13
  Speaker 9: twelve fifteen.
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: I told Tom for.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: Why she left your five minutes before? Because I want
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: to see this between eighteen So when the nature left,
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: you followed her. Look is that time when it's so hard,
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: isn't it? You just told the jury a few minutes
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: ago that you were actually just hanging out of the house.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: That didn't answer my question, sir.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: My question to you was what did you do between
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: eleven and a m And twelve fifteen?
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: I can't remember that. You can't remember what you were.
• 29:02
  Speaker 10: Doing at the house, okay, And so when you say
• 29:07
  Speaker 10: I'll be back, you actually did leave the house then, correct,
• 29:12
  Speaker 10: And you did get in your car, and you did
• 29:14
  Speaker 10: drive repeatedly by David Howard's.
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: Address as that address I told him around the.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Fiction and you were doing that with a naturous thought.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 29:31
  Speaker 10: It's weird because a metral was texting David Hap at
• 29:36
  Speaker 10: the exact same time.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: Don't drive around asking where he is and what he
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: looks like. You know, weird exactly twicident. That's what before
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: we used for Here are the old saying, simplest explanation
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: that you dream.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: The jury deliberated for about three hours. They had three
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: counts to consider, malice, murder, felony murder, and aggravated assault.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: If the jury came to the conclusion that DeMarcus had
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: killed anitra in a rage, they could apply the second count,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: which is appropriate if the killer acted without intent. Either
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: murder count has the potential to carry the same sentence.
• 30:25
  Speaker 9: Count one malice, Read the jury find Marcus DeVante Little
• 30:31
  Speaker 9: not guilty for Camp two.
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: Come on murder, read the jury find Marcus Duvantay Little guilty.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: Camp three agabd assault.
• 30:43
  Speaker 11: Read the jury find no Marcus Devanteed Little guilty.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Speaking about the case publicly following the verdict, Assistant District
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Attorney Don Baskin described the concerns the state had held
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: when selecting jurors to hear the case. At the time,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: there was worry that some in the jury pool would
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: be unable to place the blame for what had occurred
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: squarely at the feet of the abuser. The victim had
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: indeed returned to him on a number of occasions despite
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: his progressively more volatile behavior. Baskin described the process like
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: a frog in a pot of slowly boiling water. Had
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: a nature have been thrown right into the abuse, she
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: would have jumped right out. But as time went on,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: the manipulation became an incremental cycle, finally escalating to very
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: serious and violent threats that would otherwise have been enough
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: for her to get out and seek help.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: The picture that we wanted to paint was, despite the
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: frustrating nature of domestic violence, especially from those of us
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: that are sitting on the outside, that is, to never
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: give up, to keep fighting, to remind the individual who's
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: in the cycle that they're in a dangerous pot of
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: water and that it's want to come.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: To a boy. The state requested what they deemed the
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: only appropriate sentence for a Nietra Gun's murder life without
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: the possibility of parole. The judge agreed. In March of
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. DeMarcus Little was sent to prison for
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: the rest of his natural life. That was the tragic
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: case of a Nietra gun. Thank you so much for
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: being here. I'm Kevin. This is just thought lounge, and
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I'll see in the next one.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: Found just when the scene, please tell me who the
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: screen saves.
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: I can hear the crimes repeat.
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: You gotta take my time because these crimes get deep,
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: but these stories can't high.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Let me find my seat, Kevin, go ahead to settle in.
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: Gotta be selective, doing all the research, keeping it objective,
• 32:59
  Speaker 8: always beneffects.
• 33:00
  Speaker 9: Could say he.
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: Got a neck pickure of the litter.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: You see how Newton got his back.
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the content that you need to be a new
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: sign talking the comments that you're in the few lines.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Tune in and had like loved that it's true.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: Can it feels like the whole world is online for
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: true crime.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Watch him on the run.
• 33:14
  Speaker 8: But it's not a race.
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: Really hard to discipline without a race.