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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm afraid. Are you with the patient now?
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Speaker 2: They are there?
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Speaker 1: Do you think shoes beyond any help?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean there's some blood from hernalt. He sumped
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Speaker 2: over yellow silu fingers, cold, their fift like hard.
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Speaker 3: Welcome to totally true crime. Today's case is going to
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Speaker 3: take us to Mersey Island in Essex, England. Carol and
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Speaker 3: Stephen Baxter were a hard working couple For decades they
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Speaker 3: had been building their own business. They sold shower mats,
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Speaker 3: and their business traded under the name cas Splash, where
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Speaker 3: shower mats were sold through popular retailers including Amazon and Etsy.
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Speaker 3: They started their business in twenty twelve, and it was
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Speaker 3: around this time that they decided to hire someone who
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Speaker 3: could help them run their website. They were in their
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Speaker 3: forties and they had a family, so growing the company
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Speaker 3: and being able to hire help was an exciting move
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Speaker 3: for them all. They hired a man called Luke de
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Speaker 3: Witt to help them, and he soon became a firm
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Speaker 3: fixture in their lives, both in work and socially. He
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Speaker 3: was twenty two and he described his relationship to them
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Speaker 3: as like a son. The Baxter's daughter Ellie saw him
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Speaker 3: like a brother too, Luke was described as weird by
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Speaker 3: the family, that he was a hard worker and he
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Speaker 3: got on well with everyone. Carol was battling a few
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Speaker 3: medical conditions, including Hashimoto's disease. It's an autoimmune reaction that
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Speaker 3: causes an underactive thyroid. Symptoms can include tiredness, weight gain,
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Speaker 3: feeling cold easily, muscle aches and cramps, dry skin, and
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Speaker 3: carpool tunnel syndrome. It can be taxing both mentally and physically,
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Speaker 3: and Carol found it difficult to live with. But Carrol
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Speaker 3: wasn't the only one suffering with poor health. Luke told
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Speaker 3: the Baxters that he had been diagnosed with bone marrow cancer.
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Speaker 3: The Baxters were devastated, and they made it clear that
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Speaker 3: they would be there to help him. He told them
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Speaker 3: he was receiving treatment at Colchester Hospital and that he
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Speaker 3: would have to go for scams to check on his
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Speaker 3: cancer's progression. Luke's father passed away in twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 3: and the Baxters grew even closer to him, treating him
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Speaker 3: more like their own son. He had been working for
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Speaker 3: them for nine years, and as he lived just five
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Speaker 3: minutes away from their house, he became a frequent visitor.
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Speaker 3: But Carol's health problems didn't seem to be getting any easier,
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Speaker 3: and she and her husband made the decision to reduce
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Speaker 3: their workload within their company and started planning their early retirement.
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Speaker 3: Their shower map business had made them millionaires, and they
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Speaker 3: wanted to spend their retirement traveling and spending time with
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Speaker 3: their family and friends. Luke knew this was the plan,
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Speaker 3: and he supported it. Carol also started to look online
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Speaker 3: for help and advice for her thyroid problems, and it
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Speaker 3: was through an internet forum that she met a doctor
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Speaker 3: called Andrea Bodin. Doctor Andrea Bodin was based in Florida, America,
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Speaker 3: and would offer alternative advice on how to manage her symptoms.
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Speaker 3: She told Carol to cut down on seeing her friends
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Speaker 3: and family because when she did, her body would release
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Speaker 3: happy chemicals in her adrenal glands, which would end up
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Speaker 3: worsening her symptoms. Carol also found an online support group
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Speaker 3: for people who suffered with Hashimoto's disease, and she would
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Speaker 3: talk to the members for support and advice. Other members
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Speaker 3: of the group act up the information that she getting
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Speaker 3: from Dr Boden, saying that they had also been helped
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Speaker 3: by her. Luke would also help make health drinks made
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Speaker 3: from ingredients that Dr Boden recommended to Carol. He also
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Speaker 3: helped her with taking her medication. That Carol's health started
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Speaker 3: to get worse, she would spend a lot of time
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Speaker 3: in bed and in pain, leaving her husband and her daughter, Ellie,
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Speaker 3: feeling helpless. Ellie also had a close relationship with Luke,
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Speaker 3: and she had dreams of becoming a singer and an actress.
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Speaker 3: She had recently been in touch with a talent agent
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Speaker 3: that she'd met online, and they told her that they
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Speaker 3: could help her get work. Knowing that Luke was good
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Speaker 3: with technology, Ellie asked him to film some auditions. In
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Speaker 3: one tape, Luke recorded her singing the song I'd do
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Speaker 3: Anything from Oliver. It was a distraction from seeing her
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Speaker 3: mother's health decline, and it gave her some hope for
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Speaker 3: the future. But on Easter Sunday twenty twenty three, everything
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Speaker 3: would change. After being unable to reach her parents for
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Speaker 3: a day and a half, Ellie knocked on her parents
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Speaker 3: door to check in on them, but there was no answer.
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Speaker 3: Her partner, Marcus was with her along with their baby son.
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Speaker 3: After going round the back of the house, Ellie peered
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Speaker 3: through the window of her parents conservatory and saw both
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Speaker 3: of them in their armchairs. Neither of them were responding
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Speaker 3: to Ellie's attempts to get their attention. Ellie called Luke,
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Speaker 3: who arrived moments later, and they smashed a window to
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Speaker 3: enter the property. It is then that they discover both
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Speaker 3: Carol and Stephen Baxter are dead. Luke Paul's nine nine nine.
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Speaker 1: Him, I'm I'm the frame. They're just like, are you
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Speaker 1: with the patient?
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Speaker 2: Now? They are there?
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Speaker 4: Right?
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Speaker 1: Okay, They're like you're saying, they're just to confirm how
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Speaker 1: many people are heard? Sorry, I haven't hear you. Well,
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Speaker 1: many people require help, just to confirm sot right down
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Speaker 1: the phony, right just up there, just down the phony, please,
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Speaker 1: So I need to come outside. It's their daughter, you
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Speaker 1: can hear. Yeah, that's absolutely fun because I'm always can
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Speaker 1: help you. Now, just down the phoney. It is just
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Speaker 1: to confirm.
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Speaker 2: So, yeah, I didn't hear you inside, you can hear.
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Speaker 1: Their bills are devastated.
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Speaker 2: I'm here.
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Speaker 1: So to tell me exactly what's happened from what you know, please,
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Speaker 1: just so we can all go to the back hole.
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Speaker 2: Well, we've just turned up to the house and they hadn't.
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Speaker 2: We hadn't really pard anyone about a day and a half.
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Speaker 2: So we came round and they've also got here f
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Speaker 2: and I think they got round to the back pull
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Speaker 2: through their conservatory that they were sitting in their own chairs,
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Speaker 2: not moving, and we can mast the window to get in.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, they're both stiff, cold night, Kaime. Just stay
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Speaker 1: on the phone. We're going to count to you now.
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Speaker 1: Just longer to do it. Something's going to approach us.
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Speaker 1: Two separate calls of both these posts involved. Okay, so
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Speaker 1: if I had to take a call for he says
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Speaker 1: to this is a female in question, I'll yeah, she's
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Speaker 1: sixty four.
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Speaker 2: Her name is Carol.
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Speaker 1: We're going to answer you now and just stay on
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Speaker 1: the phone, thanty, thank you. So just for guys with
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Speaker 1: Carol's conditions, do you think she is beyond any help?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's some blood from her mouth. He
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Speaker 2: stumped over, yellow blue fingers, cold dead, stiff like hard
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Speaker 2: in any time to go rap out.
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Speaker 1: Soon I need to go to be with I will
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Speaker 1: get you know. I'm trying to be as quick as
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Speaker 1: I post you can, so just so I can make
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Speaker 1: sure we've blood helped organs. But they've done really well.
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Speaker 4: Okay, and so.
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Speaker 1: Just with regards the mouth conditions, just to confirm, do
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Speaker 1: you think he's beyond any Yeah, thank you.
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Speaker 2: And his name Stephen Baxter Brisman.
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Speaker 1: Now and since one's as okay, so how's that organ organized? Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'll leave you in the first one's hand. Thank you,
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Speaker 1: Thank you both.
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Speaker 3: Luke is approached by officers on the scene.
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Speaker 5: And you say you last saw them on Friday.
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Speaker 6: Friday, I got home for eight so that's where I lived,
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Speaker 6: and me and Steve were just talking about working just
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Speaker 6: the business. Carol can't work anylaw of the last year,
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Speaker 6: she's not.
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Speaker 7: Being able to anyway. So we're just having a chat.
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Speaker 7: But he didn't really fill up to it.
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Speaker 4: And just so.
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Speaker 6: I was going to come back tomorrow and check them
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Speaker 6: on the gun in the gym, and I'm used to
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Speaker 6: check them and always pop in because they wanted this
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Speaker 6: weekend each weekend.
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Speaker 7: Just left them to so with me.
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Speaker 6: I was out with those of the last night, tookhim
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Speaker 6: for dinner Freddie's birthday and Steve's marlmy Ring l in London.
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Speaker 7: I was worried she wasn't answering her calls either, right,
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Speaker 7: which again isn't unusually.
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Speaker 6: They went time away because we were concerned. Me and
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Speaker 6: Marcus drove, okay, just to make you know, we're just worried,
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Speaker 6: but because we saw the blinds are down and the
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Speaker 6: light was on you though.
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Speaker 7: They haven't they do what they want. They've got their
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Speaker 7: weekend nights around, they're just ignoring us.
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Speaker 5: All cool, okay.
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Speaker 6: So then Eddie called me this morning and I was
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Speaker 6: always I think we're both a bit uneasy.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, as you would be understandable.
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Speaker 7: And Eddie popped by first saw the blinds were still down.
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Speaker 6: Immediately I was meeting the many ways that Mark has
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Speaker 6: called me, just giving me.
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Speaker 7: You know they're in the chairs, then we're not. We're blying.
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Speaker 7: So I literally ran from.
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Speaker 6: Home to here to contract to here, okay, and as
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Speaker 6: I got here, they just smashed the back window to get.
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Speaker 4: To get in.
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Speaker 7: Okay, fair enough.
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Speaker 5: So you lost all them alive on Friday. And have
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Speaker 5: you seen them today? Did you go in and see
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Speaker 5: them yourself?
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Speaker 6: I have been in there, yeah, And I went upstairs
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Speaker 6: and the ParaMed dost me to get all Carol's medication
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Speaker 6: that she she's got to look this is sometimes sure
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Speaker 6: had various things over the years and for various operations
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Speaker 6: had so I went upstairs and were anything that I
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Speaker 6: looked for at the tablet table organstairs and put it
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Speaker 6: in a brown box. I don't have any of its
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Speaker 6: valid but I know Carol, that's right.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, they like to know what people take because of
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Speaker 5: an idea of don't know what she's actually taken it
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Speaker 5: quite event she might take.
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Speaker 7: She has any morning, but sometimes she forgets that she
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Speaker 7: could take it. Six she doesn't know.
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Speaker 5: She doesn't know she's taking it loads of times. Yeah, okay,
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Speaker 5: all right, I think that's all we need to know
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Speaker 5: from her. We'll be in contact again, I'm sure in
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Speaker 5: the near future. But yeah, I really appreciate your time,
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Speaker 5: and we see I'm very sorry.
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Speaker 7: For what's taking.
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Speaker 3: Luke had been out the night before with Ellie, Marcus,
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Speaker 3: and their baby son to celebrate Ellie's birthday. Ellie hadn't
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Speaker 3: been able to get hold of her parents that they
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Speaker 3: had driven past their house when they went out for
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Speaker 3: dinner and they saw their lights were on and the
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Speaker 3: blinds were shut. She assumed that they just wanted to
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Speaker 3: be left alone for the weekend. Ellie said her parents
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Speaker 3: had complained to her that Luke was constantly turning up
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Speaker 3: at their home and they wanted some time away from
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Speaker 3: everyone to relax. The police checked inside the house. There
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Speaker 3: was no sign of a gas leak, no suicide notes,
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Speaker 3: and no evidence of drug taking. So how had two
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Speaker 3: people ended up dead next to each other in their
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Speaker 3: arm chairs. A post mortem was carried out on Carrel
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Speaker 3: Baxter and her cause of death was ruled as fentanyl
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Speaker 3: and promethazine toxicity with terminal broncho pneumonia. Stephen Baxter's autopsy
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Speaker 3: showed that his cause of death was cardiomegai, an alcoholic
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Speaker 3: liver disease with fentanyl intoxication. Whilst they both had other
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Speaker 3: medical conditions, it was confirmed that it was the lethal
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Speaker 3: doses of fentanyl that had killed them. Fentanyl is a
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Speaker 3: powerful synthetic opioid that is up to one hundred times
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Speaker 3: more potent than morphine. It can be prescribed in some
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Speaker 3: cases that there is an increasing problem with a legally
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Speaker 3: produced fentanyl in the UK. The police wanted to know
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Speaker 3: how both Carol and Stephen had ended up with deadly
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Speaker 3: amounts of fentanyl in their systems. The police ruled out
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Speaker 3: the possibility that they'd taken it themselves and believed the
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Speaker 3: couple had been poisoned. Investigators now had to find out
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Speaker 3: who had poisoned them. Essex Police were now treating this
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Speaker 3: as a double murder. The police was suspicious that there
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Speaker 3: may have been a financial motive linked to their murders.
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Speaker 3: The Baxters were millionaires and the police paid a lot
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Speaker 3: of attention to those who might benefit financially from their deaths,
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Speaker 3: and just two months after the couple's murder, their daughter,
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Speaker 3: Ellie Baxter, was arrested on suspicion of murder. Early one
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Speaker 3: morning in June twenty twenty three, the police arrived at
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Speaker 3: the home Ellie shared with her husband and her son.
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Speaker 3: She was six months pregnant with her second child and
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Speaker 3: still in her nightclothes when they told her that they
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Speaker 3: suspected her of killing her mother and father. She broke
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Speaker 3: down and was taken to the station to be interviewed,
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Speaker 3: but after a short time she was released without charge.
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Speaker 3: The police had got it wrong. Ellie had not been
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Speaker 3: involved in her parent's death. Their attention then turned to
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Speaker 3: the other person that the Baxters had treated like their
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Speaker 3: own child, Luke the Wit. Whilst Ellie had an alibi,
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Speaker 3: Luke did not During an extensive search of the Baxter's home,
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Speaker 3: the police found used ventanel patches. They also found a
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Speaker 3: will that stated that the couple were giving Luke the
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Speaker 3: Wit their shower map business, but the police discovered that
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Speaker 3: that will was fake. Luke was now the prime suspect
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Speaker 3: in Carol and Stephen's murders. The police searched Luke's home
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Speaker 3: and they found eighty personal electronic devices. On those devices,
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Speaker 3: they discovered that he had created twenty fake online personas,
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Speaker 3: all of which had interacted with Carol or Ellie. The
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Speaker 3: doctor in Florida who told Carol not to see her
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Speaker 3: family was Luke. All of the members of the Hashi
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Speaker 3: Moto support group were Luke. The agent who made Ellie
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Speaker 3: film singing auditions from the West End Luke. Luke had
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Speaker 3: even sent Carol a voice note pretending to be a
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Speaker 3: woman called Jenny, who Carol had met via the fake
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Speaker 3: Hashi Moto support group that he had set up himself.
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Speaker 7: Hi, garyl it's Jenny. It's Cheryl's sister.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 6: Oh so nice to finally speak to you after all
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Speaker 6: these messages we've been doing.
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Speaker 3: Officers discovered that Luke had been plotting Carol and Stephen's
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Speaker 3: for over two years. He had been putting fentanyl into
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Speaker 3: those special health drinks that the fake doctor from Florida
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Speaker 3: had been advising Carol to take. There were videos found
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Speaker 3: on Luke's phone of Carol drinking them. The police also
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Speaker 3: found a bag of metal tax usually used to secure
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Speaker 3: things to wood, and looking back over Carol's medical records,
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Speaker 3: they discovered that Carol had been admitted to hospital with
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Speaker 3: stomach complaints and some of these tax had been found
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Speaker 3: in her stomach. Taking fentanyl and the other drugs she
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Speaker 3: was given promethazine would have made Carol experienced dementia like symptoms,
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Speaker 3: indicating that Luke was able to get her to ingest
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Speaker 3: them while she was incoherence. There were other videos on
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Speaker 3: Luke's devices which showed Carol acting strangely after being poisoned.
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Speaker 3: Luke would be laughing in the background. Luke was arrested
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Speaker 3: at work in July twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 8: Luke, the reason we're here to say, mate, is I'm
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Speaker 8: going to have to wrest your mate, al right, and
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Speaker 8: that's on suspicion of murder, all right. As part of
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Speaker 8: the police investigation, you've been identified as being a suspect
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Speaker 8: in relation to the deaths of Caroline and Stephen Baxter
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Speaker 8: twenty seventh and ninth of April twenty twenty three. Alright,
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Speaker 8: something to're not to saying, I think, but may homie
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Speaker 8: defense If you're not mentioning questions which may later a
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Speaker 8: on in court. Anything you do, say, arrance so we
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Speaker 8: can interview about the defense, enable any forensics we need
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Speaker 8: to be done, prevent any interruption, any co defendants, right,
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Speaker 8: and devent any loss of damage any evidence. All right,
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Speaker 8: So it will be taking up to chump to custody,
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Speaker 8: and then there'll be approached from there. Mate, have you
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Speaker 8: been arrested before, never been arrested?
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Speaker 1: Don't?
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Speaker 8: The process will be explained for out or obviously we're
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Speaker 8: linked information. We've got the moment, but anything further will
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Speaker 8: be explained for investigation, all right, because I've never made
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Speaker 8: it before. Obviously because of the infancy, the allegation I'm
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Speaker 8: going to put in the pad cuffs. They're going to
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Speaker 8: be in the front stack by a right, leave a
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Speaker 8: pocket the minute.
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Speaker 7: Anything that's in the pocket.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, medical conditions nowhere, no course.
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Speaker 2: Yet.
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Speaker 6: Love you feel something, no nothink what.
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Speaker 8: We're on your pockets? Make what pocket that pocket there
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Speaker 8: and keys in the other pocket. Yeah, yeah, that's fine.
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Speaker 8: We're leaving with they're at the moment, or when we're
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Speaker 8: getting the car, dump hands the pockets, leave them. We'll
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Speaker 8: see out and we've got that out when we get to.
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Speaker 1: Custodyer up m.
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Speaker 3: Luke's trial started on the fourteenth of February twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 3: Essex Police said it was one of the most complex
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Speaker 3: cases they had worked on. Prosecutor Tracy Ailing said that
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Speaker 3: Luke had poisoned carry rule in the cruelest way possible.
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Speaker 3: When Luke took the stand, he told the jury that
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Speaker 3: Stephen Baxter was in on the fake online profiles and
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Speaker 3: that he had been the mastermind behind it all. He
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Speaker 3: claimed that he was just the tech guy. The jury
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Speaker 3: didn't believe Luke's version of events and dismissed his claims.
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Speaker 3: In a search of Luke's home, they found drugs, including
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Speaker 3: ventanyl patches. The jury also heard that on Good Friday
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, two days before the Baxters were found dead,
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Speaker 3: Luke had somehow made both Carol and Stephen ingest the
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Speaker 3: fentanyl orally, most likely disguising it in food or drink.
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Speaker 3: He then set up a camera in the conservatory where
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Speaker 3: he left them that Friday night. Over the next two days,
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Speaker 3: he watched them die via an app on his mobile phone.
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Speaker 3: The Baxter's son, Harry had to sit in court alongside
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Speaker 3: his sister Ellie and their extended family and listen to
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Speaker 3: these horrendous details. The trial took six weeks, and on
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Speaker 3: the twentieth of March twenty twenty four, Luke de Witt
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Speaker 3: was found guilty of double murder. He was sentenced to
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Speaker 3: a minimum of thirty seven years in prison. Detective Inspector
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Speaker 3: Lydia George, who led the investigation, said this outside of court.
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Speaker 9: Today, Luke de Witt has been given a life sentence
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Speaker 9: and will serve a minimum of thirty seven years in jail. However,
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Speaker 9: it is simply impossible to put a number on the
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Speaker 9: lines of Carol and Steve. They were loving, generous parents,
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Speaker 9: and the help they touched lives of many. They are
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Speaker 9: entering a period in their lives where they should have
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Speaker 9: been able to enjoy precious time with their grandchildren. They
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Speaker 9: should have been planning holidays, looking forward to spending Christmases
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Speaker 9: with family, and living their lives to the full. Luke
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Speaker 9: DeWitt took all that away in April twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 9: He tried to cover it up. He went to great
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Speaker 9: lengths to blame others who we know were not involved
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Speaker 9: in any way. He clearly enjoyed the control he exerted
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Speaker 9: over people, especially Carolin Stephen. Ultimately, the only person in
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Speaker 9: this world who knows why he did this is Luke DeWitt,
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Speaker 9: and he has proven time and time again to be
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Speaker 9: a manipulator. What we do know is the significant sentence
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Speaker 9: handed down is entirely fitting for the pathological lie that
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Speaker 9: he is. For almost a year we have been determined
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Speaker 9: to secure justice in its entirety, and today Mark's conclusion
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Speaker 9: of one of the most complex investigations taken at Essex Place,
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Speaker 9: thirty seven years in prison. It's an agnifferent time and there
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Speaker 9: will not come a point where he has spent more
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Speaker 9: than his life in jail than not today. Though it's
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Speaker 9: not about Lukedowitt, it's about Carol Stephen, and it's about
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Speaker 9: their family. We know nothing will bring Karen Stephen back.
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Speaker 9: We know nothing can give the family black their loving mother,
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Speaker 9: sister and grandmother, or their generous father, brother and grandfather. However,
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Speaker 9: I truly hope this sentence is of some comfort to
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Speaker 9: the family. Thank you.
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Speaker 3: Ellie Baxter paid tribute to her parents. She said quote,
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Speaker 3: My mum was full of life and she always pushed
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Speaker 3: me to do better. We would have girly days out
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Speaker 3: at the spa and plenty of shopping trips. She was
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Speaker 3: my best friend. We would laugh together, cry together and
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Speaker 3: support each other over the coming years. We had planned
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Speaker 3: to go traveling as we both wanted to go to
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Speaker 3: Japan and India, a dream of ours that can now
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Speaker 3: never be fulfilled. My mum loved my son to bits.
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Speaker 3: She would constantly buy him toys and take him out
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Speaker 3: for walks in his pran. My dad was a strong man.
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Speaker 3: There are no shortcuts in life, he would always say.
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Speaker 3: He worked every day of his life and provided for
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Speaker 3: my mum, my brother and I. There was nothing we
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Speaker 3: ever needed. He loved us all. In June twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 3: it was reported that the police were reviewing the deaths
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Speaker 3: of some of Lup de Witt's other relatives, including his
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Speaker 3: father and grandfather. Detective Superintendent Rob Kirby from Essex Police
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Speaker 3: said that quote, in all my life years of policing,
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Speaker 3: Luke de Witt is one of the most dangerous men
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Speaker 3: I have ever come across. I have absolutely no doubt
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Speaker 3: in my mind that had he not been caught, he
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Speaker 3: would have gone on to kill further people. Thank you
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