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Screams, blood trail lead to Mommy & Daddy found dead, 3 tots still asleep · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace is coming to Fox Nation. I Want justice.
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Speaker 1: How does a young Utah couple end up dead at
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Speaker 1: their own home their children in the home in the
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Speaker 1: last hours, A major break in the case. I Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. First
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Speaker 1: of all, let's go straight out to CBSKUTV Jeremy Harris. Listen,
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Speaker 1: this all started in the middle of the night and
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Speaker 1: it plays out like a horror story. That was the
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Speaker 1: information police had when they were called to this neighborhood
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Speaker 1: just after one a m. West Jordan Police say officers
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Speaker 1: found one person dead in the backyard, one person dead
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Speaker 1: in the house, both from gunshots wounds, and alive in
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Speaker 1: that house were the couple's three children, all under the
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Speaker 1: age of four. We know that two people were killed,
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Speaker 1: but now we need to find out the who and
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Speaker 1: the and the y. And now police believe that the
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Speaker 1: couple may have fought back against the person who broke
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Speaker 1: into their home and killed them. They say there was
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Speaker 1: evidence that that person may have been stabbed. They appeared
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Speaker 1: to in our drone video, potentially that there was a
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Speaker 1: blood trail that was marked with cones leading from the
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Speaker 1: backyard of the house. Now police say this person who
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Speaker 1: was responsible for this was able to get away. Well,
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Speaker 1: what we are learning from CBSKUTV is that the TV
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Speaker 1: station had a drone circling overhead. I guess they followed
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Speaker 1: all the police to the home where the mom and
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Speaker 1: dad were killed, and they could make out due to
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Speaker 1: the placement like an orange cone you see in traffic
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Speaker 1: that police have put out or in parking lots. They
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Speaker 1: kut followed the cones and believed there was a trail
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Speaker 1: of blood leading from or two, but most likely from
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Speaker 1: the home. With me an all star panel to break
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Speaker 1: it down and put it back together again. Jason Ocean's
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Speaker 1: defense attorney joining me out of the New York Tristate area.
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Speaker 1: Bruce Johnson, owner ESP Investigations, Master Sergeant Chicago Metro Police,
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Speaker 1: retired doctor Michelle Duprie, South Carolina medical examiner and author
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Speaker 1: of Homicide Investigation Field Guide. Doctor Daniel Bober, forensic psychiatrist
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Speaker 1: on Instagram Doctor Daniel Bober. But right now to Nicole
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Speaker 1: Parton Crime Online dot Com investigative reporter Nicole, I want
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Speaker 1: to first start with the victims, Tony Butterfield and Katherine Butterfield,
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Speaker 1: thirty one and thirty respectively. Now let me understand they
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Speaker 1: were in their home at the time they were murdered.
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Speaker 1: That's correctnes See. Thirty year old Katherine Butterfield apparently spin
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Speaker 1: the day sending out handwritten notes to her friends and family. Tony,
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Speaker 1: her husband, thirty one years old, had been outside building
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Speaker 1: toys for the children to play with. Later in the evening,
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Speaker 1: they touched their three children in the bed upstairs in
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Speaker 1: the home. Their children ages three, four and six months.
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Speaker 1: It was at around one fifteen that thee call went
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Speaker 1: in the neighbors saying she heard screams, she heard gunshot wounds.
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Speaker 1: Authorities headed out to the home where they found Tony
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Speaker 1: in the backyard, both dead from gunshot wounds. Take a
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Speaker 1: listen to our friends at Salt Lake City. Fox thirteen
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Speaker 1: Spencer Joseph a West Jordan neighborhood woken up in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the night to sounds of screaming and gunfire.
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Speaker 1: Police arriving on scene finding a husband and wife both
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Speaker 1: shot and killed. We're calling it a homicide. We do
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Speaker 1: believe that we have a suspect or suspects that attempted
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Speaker 1: to break into the home and for what reasons we
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Speaker 1: don't know. In the home three children, all ages four
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Speaker 1: and under. We're dealing with two parents that have been murdered,
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Speaker 1: possibly in the presence of these children, we don't know.
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Speaker 1: Police are now working to piece together what happened. Given
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Speaker 1: the young age of the children, that that becomes very
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Speaker 1: difficult for us to do to interview you children in
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Speaker 1: that age group. They say the suspect may have been
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Speaker 1: injured or stabbed in the break in. Police are following
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Speaker 1: leads to try and get a description of the suspect
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Speaker 1: or suspects, thescription of that vehicle. Police say they've never
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Speaker 1: been called to this home before and have no reason
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Speaker 1: to believe this is a part of something bigger. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't fall into that room. Interesting the way they say
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Speaker 1: that police have never been to the home before and
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Speaker 1: it doesn't quote fall into that realm. Interesting the way
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Speaker 1: that that was put to doctor Daniel Boba, forensic psychiatrist.
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Speaker 1: The children are ages three, four and six months now.
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Speaker 1: Both of their parents, our dad murdered in the home.
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Speaker 1: What can you tell us about the nature of survivor guilt?
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Speaker 1: What is that well, Nancy survivor guilt is essentially feeling
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Speaker 1: like you did something wrong by living through a tread event.
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Speaker 1: You know, when kids are exposed to trauma, generally they
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Speaker 1: don't really have a lot of memory before age three,
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Speaker 1: but some of them do, so it's unknown what will
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Speaker 1: happen in this situation. But kids do tend to be
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Speaker 1: pretty resilient, so it's difficult to predict the effect that
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Speaker 1: the trauma will have, you know, and I find it
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Speaker 1: very interesting that you, in particular doctor Bober, when children
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Speaker 1: are victims, always talk about how resilient they are. That's
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Speaker 1: interesting because the children that I have known that have
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Speaker 1: lost both their parents carry it around with them for
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Speaker 1: the rest of their lives. And there are really, for
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Speaker 1: me just a JD countless studies that indicate if a
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Speaker 1: child goes specifically without their mother, much less their mother
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Speaker 1: and father before some say age three, some say age four,
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Speaker 1: some say age ten, that they have lie long implications
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Speaker 1: of that. What implications would those be of not having
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Speaker 1: a mother starting at age six months? Well, certainly that's
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Speaker 1: a prime time for bonding an attachment, and so if
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Speaker 1: you don't have a mother figure in your life, it
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Speaker 1: could affect you academically, it could affect your future relationships
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Speaker 1: that it could affect you all across the life Spanancy, depression, alcohol, drugs,
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Speaker 1: absolutely a higher, much higher statistically percentage of not finishing
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Speaker 1: high school, much less going to college. And if you
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Speaker 1: don't finish high school and you don't go to college,
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Speaker 1: what kind of job are you going to get? So
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Speaker 1: you have this job at basically minimum wage, and it's
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Speaker 1: hard to make ends meet with that kind of job.
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Speaker 1: So you're facing most likely low standard of living bordering
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Speaker 1: on poverty level. And you have with you forever survivor guilt.
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Speaker 1: You live and mommy and daddy were murdered and you
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Speaker 1: were home. Was it somehow your fault? Did your nightmare
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Speaker 1: somehow come true? And you don't have the bonding of
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Speaker 1: the attachment the family. Nothing, You have nothing after something
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Speaker 1: like this happens a six month old, a three year old,
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Speaker 1: and a four year old. Doctor Michelle Dupree, what if anything,
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Speaker 1: do we know of the injuries of this young mom,
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Speaker 1: Catherine Butterfield and her husband Tony. I think I have
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Speaker 1: doctor Michelle Dupree with me. Michelle, are you there? You
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Speaker 1: know I'm very curious. Let me ask you. Nicole parton,
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Speaker 1: what was the cod cause of death on the mom
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Speaker 1: and dad? Both of them were gunshot wounds. We know
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Speaker 1: that the father, Tony, was found just outside the home
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Speaker 1: in the backyard, mom inside, but both fatally wounded dead
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Speaker 1: from gunshot wounds. Cops found the Johnson's care at the scene.
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Speaker 1: And I'm very curious about whether a car was stolen,
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Speaker 1: what was stolen in the home, what we know about
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Speaker 1: what occurred inside the home. I'm trying to get at
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Speaker 1: motive for the murders of the Butterfields Nicole Parton, what
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Speaker 1: can you tell me about any potential motive. Police are
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Speaker 1: being tight lipped, but we do know that when they
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Speaker 1: arrived on the scene, they found broken glass. They found
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Speaker 1: a footprint near the garage, So signs of a fourth century,
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Speaker 1: they do say, and are calling this a home invasion.
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Speaker 1: They're calling it a robbery, and they're saying that the
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Speaker 1: belongings of this family inside the home were all rummaged through.
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Speaker 1: Now they aren't giving us details as to what items
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Speaker 1: are missing, but they are being very very plain to
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Speaker 1: say that the home was rummaged through. That's very interesting.
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Speaker 1: What would have been worth two lives of a mother
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Speaker 1: and a father to take out of that home. And
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Speaker 1: as you heard before, there was no police call prior
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Speaker 1: to this to that home. These were not drug dealers.
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Speaker 1: They didn't deal with the eaving stolen property, nothing like this.
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Speaker 1: This is a suburban area with a mom and dad
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Speaker 1: at home with their two children. So what went wrong?
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Speaker 1: We also know that the Butterfields are believed to have
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Speaker 1: tried to defend off their attacker or attackers, and police
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Speaker 1: say there were defensive wounds. Let me try doctor Michelle
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Speaker 1: Duprie again. What our defensive wounds? Explain how the cops
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Speaker 1: could look at the bodies and determine they tried to
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Speaker 1: fight Nancy. Defensive wounds are things that a person might
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Speaker 1: might get the usually on the arms or the legs
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Speaker 1: or the hands where they tried to fight off the offender.
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Speaker 1: There could be things like abrasion, scratches, if a sharp
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Speaker 1: fource instrument was used, it could be cuts, It could
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Speaker 1: be things of that nature. You know, what does that
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Speaker 1: tell you to doctor Daniel Bober that they had defensive wounds,
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Speaker 1: The mom and the dad tried to fight for their lives. Bober?
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Speaker 1: What you said now, seeing that you know they were
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Speaker 1: fighting for their lives and that the evidence of defensive wounds.
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, we were talking about
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Speaker 1: the brutal murder of a young mom and dad in
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Speaker 1: their home, their three children asleep at the time of
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Speaker 1: a home invasion in a very quiet subdivision. Take a
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Speaker 1: listen to our friends at k ST you. This is
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Speaker 1: Fox thirteen reporter John Francie. Investigators say Tony and Katherine
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Speaker 1: were shot and killed in the middle of the night.
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Speaker 1: Their children were home a neighborhood screaming and called police.
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Speaker 1: They could hear movement inside of the house. They went
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Speaker 1: into the house for a security sweep to make sure
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Speaker 1: that you know that everyone else in the home was
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Speaker 1: accounted for and those that were not supposed to be
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Speaker 1: in the home, and that is where they encountered the
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Speaker 1: three children. Those kids are now being cared for by
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Speaker 1: family members as detectives work to bring their parents killer
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Speaker 1: to justice. We canvass the neighborhood. We spoke with neighbors.
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Speaker 1: There's obviously ring doorbell footage that we had through review
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Speaker 1: Ribbons now wind the street of the home where this happened.
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Speaker 1: We do believe that the Butterfields were absolute true victims
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Speaker 1: during this As a result of this act. They did
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Speaker 1: not have any rule in this. We don't believe that
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Speaker 1: there was any criminal activity. A community searching for healing
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Speaker 1: and answers. It's very near and dear to all of us.
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Speaker 1: You know, we all have loved ones, many of us
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Speaker 1: have children, and just the impact of this crime is
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Speaker 1: far reaching. We know also that the three children, ages four,
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Speaker 1: two and six months in the home at the time
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Speaker 1: of the murder were unharmed. We also know that there
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Speaker 1: is now a go fund Me established to support them
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Speaker 1: and they are taking breast milk donations for the youngest baby,
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Speaker 1: a baby girl still breastfeeding when mommy gunned down in
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Speaker 1: the home. I want to circle back to owner ESP Investigations,
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Speaker 1: former Masters Argent in Chicago Metro, Bruce Johnson, you are
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Speaker 1: analyzing the crime scene that one victim was found inside,
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Speaker 1: one victim was found outside. You extrapolated what you're hearing
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Speaker 1: and determined that one of the victims that tried to
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Speaker 1: fight back, most likely with a kitchen knife. Explain your reasoning,
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Speaker 1: Bruce Johnson. Okay, The reasoning is because number one, we
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Speaker 1: know that there's defensive wounds. We know that there's a
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Speaker 1: trail of blood because that either led to or from
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Speaker 1: the house which you mentioned earlier. With the pones. We
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Speaker 1: know that there's a struggle in the house and outside
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Speaker 1: of the house. So when you're looking at a theory,
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Speaker 1: Oh hold on, I'm hearing in my ear. I have sound.
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Speaker 1: I need you to hear before we go further. Regarding
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Speaker 1: the very narrow question I asked you, Bruce, regarding the
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Speaker 1: crime scene, take a listen to our France at k STU.
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Speaker 1: This is Fox thirteen L Thomas. Remnants of broken glass,
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Speaker 1: a footprint on the door, caution tape still draped nearby.
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Speaker 1: This is what's left of a tragic Saturday morning shooting
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Speaker 1: that left two dead and three children without parents. This
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Speaker 1: is the first time that I've been back to the
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Speaker 1: house since the news For friends of the deceased Tony
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Speaker 1: and Katherine Butterfield, and I've been good friends with him
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Speaker 1: and Katherine for quite a few years, so the tragedy
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Speaker 1: is indescribable. My brother called me at four o'clock in
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Speaker 1: the morning on Saturday morning, and I thought he was
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Speaker 1: kidding with me. I thought he was playing some sort
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Speaker 1: of a joke or something. I didn't believe him. Now,
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Speaker 1: as the investigation continues, police say they have leads but
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Speaker 1: no suspect, leaving everyone hoping for positive news and justice.
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Speaker 1: Tony and Catherine are just good, salt of the earth
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Speaker 1: kind of people, with their smiles, their willingness to help
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Speaker 1: out everybody, just great people. It's sad to see him go. Guys,
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Speaker 1: you're hearing our friends at Fox thirteen. That was l
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Speaker 1: Thomas speaking. You hear neighbors and relatives breaking down in
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Speaker 1: tears when they get the news that these two, Tony
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Speaker 1: and Katherine Butterfield, have been slaughtered in their own home
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Speaker 1: where their children asleep, by home invasion. To doctor Daniel Bober,
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Speaker 1: the witness speaking said that at first he thought it
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Speaker 1: was an awful joke, that someone was playing a joke
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Speaker 1: on him, that Catherine and Tony have been slaughtered. Is
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Speaker 1: that some sort of a defense mechanism to what you're hearing?
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Speaker 1: That's exactly right, Nancy. You know when people hear news
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Speaker 1: like that that's so terrifying the mind cannot even grasp it.
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Speaker 1: So a lot of people will go to that to
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Speaker 1: protect themselves from having to deal with that level of trauma.
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Speaker 1: I want to go now to Jason Oceans, renowned defense attorney,
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Speaker 1: joining me out of the New York tri state area. Jason,
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Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. I want to try
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Speaker 1: and analyze the crime scene. Jackie. Can you confirm for
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Speaker 1: me whether Utah has the death penalty or not. Just
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Speaker 1: plug in Utah death penalty, Jason. If you analyze the
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Speaker 1: crime scene, these purps, from what we can tell, break
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Speaker 1: in in the early morning hours around one am ish
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Speaker 1: all the family members are asleep. That would suggest a
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Speaker 1: death penalty aggravating factor of lying in wait. In almost
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Speaker 1: every jurisdiction that has or has the death penalty, there
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Speaker 1: are aggravating factors that go to a murder, such as
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Speaker 1: murder for hire, murder for pecuniary or money interests, like
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Speaker 1: you want to kill somebody for their life insurance, okay,
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Speaker 1: or because you're a beneficiary of the will. That's considered
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Speaker 1: be even more cold blooded than pulling out a gun
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Speaker 1: at a bar and shooting. A murder of a political
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Speaker 1: figure such as JFK or a police officer, or a
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Speaker 1: symbol of the state. Not to suggest that those lives
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Speaker 1: are any more important than our lives, but you're attacking
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Speaker 1: the symbol of the United States or the government when
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Speaker 1: you kill a cop or you kill a president or
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Speaker 1: a governor by killing a person under a certain age
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Speaker 1: like a child, or over a certain age like a senior.
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Speaker 1: In many places, that is an aggravating circumstance. Lying in
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Speaker 1: wait would apply here because they had to sneak up,
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Speaker 1: wait on these people to go to sleep, and then
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Speaker 1: break in. And a catch all, Jason Oceans, as you
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Speaker 1: well know, is a murder in the commission of another
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Speaker 1: felony such as rape, armed robbery, burglary, which is here.
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Speaker 1: They broke into the home to commit a felony. Therein
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Speaker 1: any felony will do theft, rape, anything like vandalism. If
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Speaker 1: it's a felony and a death occurs during the felony,
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Speaker 1: that's a felony murder and also meets an aggravating circumstance
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Speaker 1: under which the state can seek the death penalty. And
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Speaker 1: here is another perfect example, Jason Ocean, mass murder more
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Speaker 1: than one body under the law equals mass murder and
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Speaker 1: that is an aggravating circumstance. And Jack, you just told
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Speaker 1: me Utah does still have the DP. So what about
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Speaker 1: this crime seeing, Jason otion, take off your defense at
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Speaker 1: just one moment and tell me the factors that you
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Speaker 1: see here. That are particularly aggravating. Well, Nancy, I think
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Speaker 1: the analysis, as you properly said, isn't the crime scene.
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Speaker 1: It breaking in the glass, you know, violent act. Usually
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Speaker 1: in a burglary, you're trying to access by a more
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Speaker 1: surreptitious to nopequindow, prying the door quieter, You're trying to
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Speaker 1: do things so that you're more unannounced. Here, I think
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Speaker 1: the breaking of the glass was a clarion call. I'm
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Speaker 1: getting in I have purpose, which was to you know,
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Speaker 1: to murder. I mean, Jason, wait a minute, think about
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Speaker 1: your boy and your girl. And yes, I know they've
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Speaker 1: grown up once in college, but think about it coming
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Speaker 1: in your home with the doors locked in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the night and murdering mommy and daddy, leaving those
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Speaker 1: children without a parent, not just one parent, but both parents.
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Speaker 1: For Pete say they've got to have a go fund
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Speaker 1: me to get breast milk to feed the little baby.
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Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace for those of you just
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Speaker 1: joining us. A Utah couple, a married couple, Tony and
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Speaker 1: Catherine Butterfield, slaughtered in their own home while their children slept.
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Speaker 1: There's about one fifteen in the morning. You know what
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Speaker 1: you think it can't happen to you a home invasion.
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Speaker 1: If you can see this neighborhood, you may think differently.
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Speaker 1: This is a tree line neighborhood with the houses and
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Speaker 1: a perfect row lawns, front and bike. It's I know,
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Speaker 1: it's like the mind tricking the eye back to you,
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Speaker 1: Jason Oceans. The reason I say that is because in
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Speaker 1: a suburban area like that, you don't expect crime of
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Speaker 1: this nature to seep. In no doubt, I'm sure if
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Speaker 1: we looked at the statistics in general for that community,
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Speaker 1: type of criminal activity is seemingly beyond the pale. It
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Speaker 1: shocks the conscience of the community because it's totally unexpected.
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Speaker 1: And then you put in the aggravating factors of these
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Speaker 1: three little children, really beyond the pale. But to me again,
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Speaker 1: it's it's the fact that this you know, you you
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Speaker 1: mentioned felony murder right breaking in and then subsequently right
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Speaker 1: this to me is almost a contract murder, a purposefulness,
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Speaker 1: and it's that's an Asian something is we're going in
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Speaker 1: to remove the life of these two people. Who whoa
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Speaker 1: Jason Oceans. When you say contract murder, I think a
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Speaker 1: mobsters dope hits of killing a witness to a felony.
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Speaker 1: These people were just regular people that I have a
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Speaker 1: drug history, there are any history that there was an
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Speaker 1: intent from the very beginning. This was not, in my mind,
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Speaker 1: a burglary or a robbery. This was intentional to murder
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Speaker 1: these two people. That was the intent. Looking at their
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Speaker 1: ghosts Amy photo, Jackie, I want you to look at it,
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Speaker 1: to Brett, it's of them. It's Katherine and Tony Butterfield,
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Speaker 1: murdered in their own home, West Jordan, Utah. And here
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Speaker 1: they are. She's holding up her engagement ring when they
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Speaker 1: got engaged. It's just do you see those two smiles?
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Speaker 1: They're dead, gragic, murdered. Can you imagine one fifteen in
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Speaker 1: the morning, Jackie, You're sound asleep and you hear either
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Speaker 1: you're along, go off, or you hear glass breaking. Your
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Speaker 1: children are home. It's just what was going through their minds.
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Speaker 1: They try to fight back. In the last hours, we
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Speaker 1: have a crack in the case. But right now I
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Speaker 1: want you to listen to Salt Lake City Fox thirteen
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Speaker 1: kneys reporter Spencer Joseph. The kids are now safe with relatives.
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Speaker 1: So this is a terrible case. It's a terrible thing
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Speaker 1: for anybody to have to wake up too. It's a
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Speaker 1: terrible thing for our officers frankly that are involved in
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Speaker 1: the investigation and our crime scene folks. And so we're
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Speaker 1: very hopeful that we can make an arrest on this
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Speaker 1: and bring this to closure. You could see late into
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Speaker 1: the afternoon the West Jordan Police Department is still on
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Speaker 1: scene of this double homicide, making sure they canvas the
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Speaker 1: entire community behind me for any clues. Let's go very
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Speaker 1: quickly to KSL knees reporter Dan Raskin, and yes, at
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Speaker 1: that point police were hopeful they can make a quicker rast.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to Dan Raskin. According to police, this
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Speaker 1: was not a random act of violence, but a targeted act.
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Speaker 1: They say Johnson didn't know the Butterfields, but they are
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Speaker 1: not saying how or what the motive may be. We
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Speaker 1: do believe that the Butterfields were absolute true victims during
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Speaker 1: this as a result of this act. They did not
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Speaker 1: have any role in this. We don't believe that there
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Speaker 1: was any criminal activity going on on their part or
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Speaker 1: anything like that. Investigators say Tony was found shot to
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Speaker 1: death in the backyard his wife Katherine inside the home,
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Speaker 1: but apparently there was a struggle where it's believed the
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Speaker 1: Butterfields grabbed a knife in their defense and injured Johnson.
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Speaker 1: Those injuries, we believe are consistent with the knife, so
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Speaker 1: we believe that he was either stabbed or cut with
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Speaker 1: that knife, and also believe that those injuries are likely
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Speaker 1: on his appendages, so his arms or his legs. So
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Speaker 1: police are looking for a particular person, his name Albert Johnson.
23:14
Speaker 1: How did he know the Butterfields. They're looking for a
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Speaker 1: guy with slashes to his body and a major man
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Speaker 1: hunt ensues. How did he know them? What was the connection?
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Speaker 1: But somehow cops zero in on this guy named Albert Johnson.
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Speaker 1: We also know that this family were Sunday school teachers.
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Speaker 1: Did he somehow know them through the family's church youth directors?
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Speaker 1: It's what they were at their church. Did he know
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Speaker 1: them somehow through the search? Somehow through their church? To
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Speaker 1: Nicole parton Crimealline dot Com investigative reporter, do we have
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Speaker 1: any idea how this guy, Albert Johnson knew the Butterfield family.
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Speaker 1: We don't know exactly, but authorities are telling us that
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Speaker 1: he did know them, but they're not giving details concerning
24:10
Speaker 1: the relationship. How he knew them. We know that both
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Speaker 1: Katherine and Tony had been missionaries for the Latter Day Saints,
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Speaker 1: a local business, their own landscaping business. So did he
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Speaker 1: know them through there, had he worked for them, had
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Speaker 1: he been appointed through their business? We don't know, but
24:27
Speaker 1: we do know that he somehow knew this family. You know,
24:30
Speaker 1: A big, big clue in this case, and cole Parton
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Speaker 1: turns out to be once again the ring doorbell. So
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Speaker 1: the family apparently had at least one ring doorbell on
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Speaker 1: their home. What do we know about that? If anything?
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Speaker 1: We do know that they had the ring doorbell. We
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Speaker 1: know that it was working and active, and authorities say
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Speaker 1: that they have been reviewing the footage from the doorbell.
24:53
Speaker 1: You know, I want to just talk about that very quickly.
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Speaker 1: Jason Oceans, New York defense attorney again, take off your
24:59
Speaker 1: defense just a moment, Jason. The ring doorbell can catch,
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Speaker 1: of course motion. It doesn't mean somebody rings your doorbell,
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Speaker 1: but if there's a motion in the area. When I
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Speaker 1: have to travel out of town, I love looking at
25:12
Speaker 1: my ring doorbell. I can see the dog, I can
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Speaker 1: see the children coming in and out of the door,
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Speaker 1: even if they don't ring the doorbell. Now sometimes though, Jason,
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Speaker 1: because I know who it is, I can identify them.
25:27
Speaker 1: But you don't always get a clear picture on a
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Speaker 1: ring doorbell. But I'm telling you, I guarantee you either
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Speaker 1: that or a fingerprint had to be the way that
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Speaker 1: they came up with a name. Albert Johnson. Well, Nancy, Yeah,
25:43
Speaker 1: ring doorbell can be quite addictive if you have it.
25:46
Speaker 1: But other times, as you mentioned, there's a shadow the
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Speaker 1: person to wear of it or conscious of that the purpose.
25:53
Speaker 1: But you get their car from another ring doorbell as
25:56
Speaker 1: it goes by, so you can get the make and
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Speaker 1: model from that. You can narrow things down certainly in
26:02
Speaker 1: a in a smaller community, or they hit him a
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Speaker 1: number on a plate if it goes by. But those
26:08
Speaker 1: are the additional clues that you use, and of course
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Speaker 1: we did. There was mentioned that there was a footprint.
26:17
Speaker 1: Again that could be a foot Yeah, I know, but
26:19
Speaker 1: footprint sometimes that's the methodology you use. Got to be
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Speaker 1: really unique, like a sneaker, uh tread or a car
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Speaker 1: tread in the mud that you can really match up.
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Speaker 1: Uh well, we do know. In the famous Oorenthal James
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Speaker 1: Simpson double murder case, they said because of prints in
26:43
Speaker 1: the blood of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. They could identify.
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Speaker 1: The footprint was unique. It was a bruno'maly, a designer,
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Speaker 1: very expensive designer, Italian shoe. Simpson swore under oath at
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Speaker 1: a depot. He didn't have any. Then the inquirer of
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Speaker 1: all people come up with a picture of him on
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Speaker 1: the sidelines of a football game when he was a
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Speaker 1: commentator wearing Bruno Molly's shoes. Didn't have that at trial,
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Speaker 1: but it came out later. So you're right about that.
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Speaker 1: But I'll take a fingerprint anytime I can get one.
27:17
Speaker 1: But you said something really interesting, Jason Oceans, because you,
27:21
Speaker 1: of course are familiar with Jennifer Dulo's disappearance in Connecticut
27:28
Speaker 1: and what we know about that. Cops did exactly what
27:32
Speaker 1: you just mentioned. I've never seen it done so expertly.
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Speaker 1: They take ring doorbell footage from a series of homes
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Speaker 1: in that newhaving Connecticut neighborhood. They put it together. Then
27:45
Speaker 1: they take footage from businesses. They take footage from school buses.
27:52
Speaker 1: Every time a school bus or a public bus opens,
27:55
Speaker 1: there's a video. They get all this footage and it
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Speaker 1: can actually trace the husband of Jennifer Julos and his
28:04
Speaker 1: hinch persons just going along in the car. It was
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Speaker 1: incredible the way they did that. So I'm wondering if
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Speaker 1: they did this. Of course, I'll take a fingerprint any
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Speaker 1: day of the week. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys,
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Speaker 1: we were talking about the murder of a young couple.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to k SL news reporter Dan raskin
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Speaker 1: this is my way and showing Tony and Katherine who
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Speaker 1: love eman. Listen. A mother and daughter still trying to
28:43
Speaker 1: comprehends the brutal murder of their friends and neighbors. Thirty
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Speaker 1: one year old Tony Butterfield and his wife, thirty year
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Speaker 1: old Katherine. According to police, both were shot and killed
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Speaker 1: by this man, thirty one year old Albert Enick Johnson,
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Speaker 1: a man investigators say broke open their door and entered
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Speaker 1: their home in West Jordan early Saturday morning. Catherine was
29:04
Speaker 1: just a ray of sunshine and loved everybody, and they
29:07
Speaker 1: were just the best parents ever. Crying and asking that why,
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Speaker 1: why what happened. Diana Romero is also still in shock
29:16
Speaker 1: from the killing, always with her smile on her face.
29:20
Speaker 1: We're a big smile, beautiful. It's just a terrible situation.
29:24
Speaker 1: It's horrific. Their three children have been left without parents.
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Speaker 1: Let's quickly go to KSTU Fox thirteen, John Francie, take
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Speaker 1: a listen to this break. West Jordan Police Tony did
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Speaker 1: not release a motive for this crime, but they are
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Speaker 1: confident that Albert Enick Johnson carried it out. We discovered
29:44
Speaker 1: he has a violent past. Mister Johnson is certainly a
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Speaker 1: dangerous person. I think it would be irresponsible to say
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Speaker 1: that he's not. This is the suspect. West Jordan police
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Speaker 1: want to find Albert Enoch Johnson. Thirty one years old,
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Speaker 1: five foot ten and two hundred and seventy five pounds.
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Speaker 1: He all so has a record. Mister Johnson does have
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Speaker 1: a criminal history. Through research of court documents, Fox thirteen
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Speaker 1: found Johnson played no contest to assault the deadly weapon
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Speaker 1: in twenty ten and aggravated battery in twenty eleven. Both
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Speaker 1: of those crimes occurred in California. The documents show his
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Speaker 1: nickname is Psycho Owl. Police believe he knew his victims,
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Speaker 1: Tony and Katherine Butterfield, but they did not describe the
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Speaker 1: nature of their relationship. We don't want to give up
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Speaker 1: too much where mister Johnson is not in custody, but
30:25
Speaker 1: we do want people to know that they did know
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Speaker 1: each other. It was not random, and we believe that
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Speaker 1: they were in fact targeted guys the death the murders
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Speaker 1: of a young mother and dad, three children. Why we
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Speaker 1: are just learning about a break in the case. The
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Speaker 1: alleged per Albert Johnson nickname Psycho Owl, and the search
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Speaker 1: is on. Take a listen now to the break in
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Speaker 1: the case is KUTV two er Harrison. They contacted the
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Speaker 1: victim's family, Tony and Katherine Butterfield, very first to let
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Speaker 1: them know that they'd gotten to Albert Johnson off the
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Speaker 1: streets there in Californian As you can imagine lots of
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Speaker 1: relief coming from that family. But we have that newest
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Speaker 1: mug shot of Albert Johnson. He's pretty rough. He looks
31:17
Speaker 1: pretty rough, that is, and that is because we are
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Speaker 1: told he tried to arrest. The US Marshall's Office helped
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Speaker 1: and believed Johnson to be armed and dangerous, and he
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Speaker 1: did evade arrest, tried to do everything in his power
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Speaker 1: to not be taken into custody. So accords did who
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Speaker 1: two kis though here at the department he was arrested
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Speaker 1: at two o'clock this morning. Booked at six. Johnson's wanted
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Speaker 1: for the murders of Tony and Katherine Butterfield. Please believe
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Speaker 1: Johnson is responsible for shooting and killing the couple at
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Speaker 1: the West Jordan home Saturday morning. We do know this
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Speaker 1: just the facts that we establish the other day. The
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Speaker 1: intruder that went into that home was definitely uninvited given
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Speaker 1: the time of day. We definitely believed that there were
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Speaker 1: some criminal intent and not good purpose is in general
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Speaker 1: to be there, and so we would stick along the
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Speaker 1: lines with that. But things definitely went very wrong. This guy,
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Speaker 1: Albert Johnson, has just been booked into the San Joaquin
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Speaker 1: County Jail, French Camp, California, shortly after six am Pacific,
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Speaker 1: according to jail records, booked in relation to an outstanding warrant.
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Speaker 1: Now he had somehow made it all the way to
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Speaker 1: California to French Camp, California. We know that a court
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Speaker 1: hearing is happening. In that court hearing, I believe he
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Speaker 1: will be charged officially with two counts of aggravated murder.
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Speaker 1: Straight out to Nicole parton Crime Online dot Com investigative
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Speaker 1: reporter joining us, how was the guy captured, and I
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Speaker 1: still don't know the connection between this guy Psycho Owl
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Speaker 1: with an aggravated battery, which means, correct me if I'm wrong,
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Speaker 1: Jason Oceans, in your jurisdiction that during the attack, you
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Speaker 1: lose the use of a part your body, like an eye,
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Speaker 1: your nose is cut off, your teeth are torn out,
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Speaker 1: your arm, your finger, your leg, you lose the use
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Speaker 1: of that in an aggravated battery versus an aggravated assault
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Speaker 1: where you're put in serious in fear of serious bodily
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Speaker 1: injury or death. Aggravated assault with a weapon is when
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Speaker 1: you are shot at or stabbed, you live, and then
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Speaker 1: there's a murder, right Jason Oceans, I see yes, no, Jason.
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Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is this guy Nicole parton Psycho Owl. Listen,
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Speaker 1: listen to what they said. He had assault with a
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Speaker 1: deadly weapon twenty ten aggravated battery in California two eleven,
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Speaker 1: and he's out, he is out to murder the butterfield. Well,
33:53
Speaker 1: what happened, Nicole? That's correct, that's what we're being told.
33:56
Speaker 1: We're being cold missionaries, their missionaries exactly. And it's important
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Speaker 1: for me to say police have made it very very
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Speaker 1: clear that this family did nothing wrong. There was no
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Speaker 1: criminal activity within their home, within their lives whatsoever. They
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Speaker 1: did nothing wrong. They were simply an acquaintance of this guy.
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Speaker 1: He knew them, but they were in no way involved
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Speaker 1: in criminal activity with him. Nicole Parton, tell me what
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Speaker 1: is the latest. I know that Johnson first named as
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Speaker 1: a suspect in a double homicide, but now they're looking
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Speaker 1: at his wife. What does she have to do with this?
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Speaker 1: That's correct? Twenty nine year old Sena Johnson, also with
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Speaker 1: a criminal record, is being now held with helping him
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Speaker 1: to escape campering with evidence. She first spoke to authorities
34:44
Speaker 1: denied knowing anything. Later she came clean, telling them that
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Speaker 1: she had spoken to Albert before daring and aster the crime.
34:54
Speaker 1: She had also attempted to help destroy evidence. Take a
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Speaker 1: listen to our friend. Scott Mcca KST Fox thirteen News
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Speaker 1: busted in book after police say she lied to them
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Speaker 1: regarding what she knew about the crime, her husband's alleged
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Speaker 1: involvement in it, and his whereabouts, and that she also
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Speaker 1: destroyed evidence. The couple ran a successful landscaping company, Electric
35:18
Speaker 1: Blue Yard Service, and on Easter Sunday, April twelfth, less
35:21
Speaker 1: than a week before they were killed. Electric Blue celebrating
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Speaker 1: five years in business. It's not known yet if Johnson
35:28
Speaker 1: conducted any business with a couple or ever worked for them,
35:31
Speaker 1: but police say it is clear that they did know
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Speaker 1: one another. Is that the connection. Did he work for
35:39
Speaker 1: Electric Blue yard service, that the couple had started their
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Speaker 1: own business in addition to being youth directors and missionaries.
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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to take in that this wife of
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Speaker 1: his allegedly lied to police and destroyed evidence. What was it?
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Speaker 1: Bloody clothes? Did she lie about where he went? If
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Speaker 1: she knew where he went, how did they find him?
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Speaker 1: Did they tap her phone? Did they look at her
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Speaker 1: cell phone records? We wait as justice unfolds, but I
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Speaker 1: know this, those children compare to Albert Johnson, who may
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Speaker 1: get another light pleague, get in and out of jail
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Speaker 1: for double murder. Those three children get a life sentence
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Speaker 1: without their parents. Nancy Grace Crime Story signing off Goodbye friend.