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Student Kills Her Teacher_ Thinks She Can Get Away With It · The Empire of Wealth

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Speaker 1: Taylors and drinks. Okay, it's not stolen yet. Okay, but
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the owner was found deceased. That's where we're at.
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Speaker 2: This is Taylor Alkins. Just two hours ago, Taylor's teacher,
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seventy two year old William Dubois, was discovered brutally beaten
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and deceased inside his home.
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Speaker 3: There they so.
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Speaker 2: Really what's interesting is that days later, Taylor would be
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found driving her now dead teacher's car.
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Speaker 4: Do you know why that's real's car? Because he's dead.
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I don't know.
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Speaker 5: He's been too dead, and you're driving the car.
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Speaker 4: I don't know that you didn't. Guys have do with it.
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Speaker 2: But what seemed like a straightforward case would turn out
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to be a complicated mess of neighborhood drama, secret affairs,
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and deadly conflicts.
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Speaker 6: I was mad and that's sound call voice on the
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other anybody did any There could be a burglary, could
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be somebody that he wronged, and they're coming back for victims.
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Speaker 4: You're a room co heartless murderer. This is not going
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to go away. This is not going to quit. You're
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going to keep having your little mountain bears that you have.
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I hope you do for the rest of your mind.
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Speaker 2: On July eleventh, twenty nineteen, officers in Fort Smith, Arkansas,
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received a call from a neighbor requesting a welfare check
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at the home of seventy two year old William Dubois Junior.
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The neighbor had grown increasingly worried when he heard an
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unusual noise coming from William's home a few days earlier,
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and had seen no sign of him since. Officers were
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quickly dispatched to investigate further.
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Speaker 7: Hello, are you good, Kim.
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Speaker 2: This is Denton Stringer, the neighbor who called nine one
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one to request a welfare check. If you would soon
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prove to be more involved in this case than just
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being a neighbor.
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Speaker 8: He's not answered, but sound like do you have a car?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? Car?
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Speaker 7: Where's his car?
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Speaker 3: His car has been comforted three days.
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Speaker 9: Maybe he's gone.
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Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, you know what position in the bedroom is.
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Speaker 8: At Okay, I'll come back and talk to you in
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just a second.
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Speaker 7: Okay.
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Speaker 2: The officer believes William might just have left, that is,
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until she discovers a disturbing odor coming from inside the house.
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Speaker 3: M one station.
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Speaker 7: Can we have an operator meet me on three place?
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Speaker 2: Due to the unusual situation. Officer Hendrix calls for a
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backup officer, who arrived quickly and would be briefed on
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the discoveries.
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Speaker 1: I have one, he said, two nights ago, he heard
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a really loud boom. There's an odd smell when I
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opened the door. No flies up here. When A rounded
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the corner. You only get it every now and then
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my team around the corner. That's when I really.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm getting it right here. I know that smell.
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Speaker 2: That odor could have been coming from the trash can,
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but Officer Hendrix was convinced it was coming from inside
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the house. The officers needed to get in. However, a
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strange odor alone was not enough to obtain a search warrant,
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so Officer Hendrix decided to ask around the neighborhood. She
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would soon discover that Denton Stringer had done some suspicious
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things since William's disappearance. But before we get to that,
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that said, let's get back to the officers on the scene.
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Officer Hendrix didn't waste any time, and decided to head
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to the store directly across from William's house to see
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if anyone had seen or heard it. Anything that's hot.
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Speaker 8: So okay, So the neighbor over there, so I said that,
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and that man sometimes comes everyone talks with you because
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he saw him or his car. I'm not talking about it,
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probably days, but that's what he's saying.
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Speaker 10: And the last time that I know's okay there the
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next week when I grew weav's problems. It's not necessarily
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they five the bills also been really great.
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Speaker 7: Right, watch, Okay, the guy in the neighbor, there's some
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there's some Can he come over here.
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Speaker 11: And listen what I call a police on the other
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shot because of the women out there five and everything
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screaming from the kids.
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Speaker 7: So on his side, I guess.
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Speaker 3: So I've said if anybody did anything, it would be
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then let me.
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Speaker 7: That's easy.
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Speaker 12: She didn't say that, but because it's just odd that
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they come over here, and then he's turn to feel.
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Speaker 7: Like this check her in this one. Yeah, he said
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he said his daughter stole.
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Speaker 9: His Hey, he was a teacher at my junior high.
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So these people over here are saying that the guy
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nex store is like always has some type of drama
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going on, or him and whoever are always fighting.
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Speaker 7: Not him and Bill, but him and someone else.
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Speaker 1: I mean, worst case scenario is somebody's done something bad
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and took his car.
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Speaker 2: What the shop owner just revealed is very significant. Firstly, William,
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who is known around the neighborhood by Bill, hasn't been
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seen for the past two to three days, which is
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highly unusual according to the shop owner. Secondly, William's neighbor,
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Denton Stringer, is known to have frequent drama at his
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house involving various women. Recently, Denton had asked the shop
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owner to call William to check on him, explaining that
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his daughter had stolen his phone. If true, this daughter
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might be the same woman Denton argues with often, and
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if she took his phone, there is a possibility she
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could also be linked to William's car missing. Finally, the
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shop owner claims that if something bad happened to William,
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it would be them, suggesting that Denton and the daughter
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were likely involved. All of this casts suspicion on both
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Denton and his daughter. Officers hope that whatever they find
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inside William's house might reveal just how involved they were
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in his disappearance. With all of this in her head,
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Officer Hendrix returns to William's house, where officers had managed
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to contact the landlord for an additional key. Nothing could
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have prepared them for the horrifying scene they would discover inside.
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Speaker 7: Really years what it is.
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Speaker 2: As officers enter the house, they find William's lifeless body
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in the bathroom. It soon becomes clear that this was
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no natural passing.
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Speaker 7: Is that spatter on the door?
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Speaker 1: Is that spatter on the Oh wow, his door was locked.
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Speaker 7: There's no folly.
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Speaker 2: What the officers had discovered was nothing short of horrific,
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but the attacker had left a lot of clues, meaning
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police could piece together a story. For starters, the body
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had a strong rotten smell, indicating that William had likely
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been dead for over twenty four hours. Throughout the house,
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shelves and drawers had been left open, with numerous valuables missing.
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This initially led investigators to believe it was a robbery. However,
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this is where they discovered something very curious. The front
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door had been locked from the outside and there were
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no signs of forced entry. Officers realized that a scenario
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like this couldn't be possible unless William's attacker somehow had
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a key to his house. In other words, whoever did
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this to William must have a closer connection to him
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than a random burglar. This made the shop owner's earlier
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comments even more interesting to police. They had mentioned that
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if anything happened to William, it would probably be Denton
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and his so called daughter, both of whom were close
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enough to William to have been given a spare key.
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So with no better leads, Denton quickly became the main
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focus of the investigation, and police began to wonder if
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he was simply a concerned neighbor or if he knew
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far more about William's death than he was letting on.
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Speaker 1: I didn't even notice the TV's missing too. TV's missing,
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no wallet, no phone, no fourth century.
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Speaker 7: I think we need the cop to this guy. He
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just got here, Oh, I told Jeff. Yeah, they I
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talked with them over there.
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Speaker 1: They said he comes over a lot and talks was
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on and they said if anything ever happened to him,
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it would be because of somebody of this department.
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Speaker 7: He noticed that there's some red fuzz all over the place.
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I'm not sure what came from.
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Speaker 1: But all the doors in his bedroom are open, keys, wallet, phone,
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stuff that normally would be.
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Speaker 3: Laying out what kind of.
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Speaker 1: Car red Ford Focus? We have the tag and everything,
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and corney just sent out bolo. Did not release any information.
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She said, just stop this vehicle, notify our department.
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Speaker 2: To find answers. The cops needed to locate that red
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Ford Focus, which was now on the radar of the
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entire Fort Smith Police department. Whoever had possession of William's
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vehicle could undoubtedly help solve this case, but the officers
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had no idea where to start looking until William's son
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arrived at the scene, providing them with a major breakthrough.
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Speaker 7: That's a sun. That's a sun.
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Speaker 3: Bringing out.
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Speaker 13: Black box in the.
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Speaker 2: The According to the Sun, William had a GPS tracking
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device installed in his car, and the car is actually
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owned by William's wife, Susan, who has access to a
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mobile app that could track his location. The cops now
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know this tracking device is their only key to crack
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the case wide open and catch the killer. So with
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this in mind, officers would quickly redirects their attention to
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Susan's home, but unfortunately, they'd also have the difficult task
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of informing Susan that her husband passed away.
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Speaker 1: I'm as Susan, I'm off, sir Hendrix. I'm sorry meeting
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you under these circumstances.
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Speaker 7: It might it might be better on your legs. Just
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experience with experiences.
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Speaker 11: Every complete investigation, top to bottom, because we don't want
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to leave any stone unturned with that makes sense?
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Speaker 3: Okay?
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Speaker 11: What and we're not saying this is a homicide at
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this point. Okay, we had a heart strokes and he
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could have failed and his head, but there's some blood
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there that we're concerned about.
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Speaker 3: Does that make sense? Failing?
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Speaker 11: Okay, so strange Saturday. Here's our biggest issue. He wasn't
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trying to show it. Okay, here's our big right now.
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Is the core is missing?
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Speaker 3: Oh no, yes, where's your track or you have a
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tracker on her? Yes?
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Speaker 7: Her phone right here, right here?
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Speaker 3: No, that's true, in the little kitchen. Get her phone.
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If you can gotta get me a location.
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Speaker 7: On the call, it's gonna be tremendous.
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Speaker 14: It could be the fac.
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Speaker 3: Kelly.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's parked at a house.
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Speaker 3: And it's okay.
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Speaker 2: Thanks to Susan, the cops now know where the missing
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vehicle is without wasting any time. Officers quickly leave Susan's
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house and head towards the location of the car, but
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they have no idea who has it or what kind
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of danger they could be facing when they find it.
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After all, this is the stolen car of a murdered man.
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Speaker 7: Hello, y'all live here? Okay, you live here? Okay, we're
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looking out the wind. We got people looking up the windows.
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So you got an idea on you? I handle one.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's go inside. Let's go inside. Let's go get
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your wallet. No, no, no, you can go. You can
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do whatever you gotta do. Oh hey, and time, we're
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gonna be parked there for a second.
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Speaker 3: Go where where?
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Speaker 1: Go inside with this? I mean she can Hey, time
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for me? Right here, we're gonna come. We're gonna go
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all go over here. Let's all go over here.
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Speaker 3: What's going on?
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Speaker 7: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Let's go over here. Yeah, yeah, something something's going on
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over there, and we'll explain with you.
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Speaker 2: It seems there's someone in this house who wants to
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avoid the cops, and these officers know they could be
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walking into an ambush. So everybody behind that door is
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a person of interest.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So basically, they came out the back. They tried
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to go out the back. Uh, they said they were
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going outside of smoke. Somebody just shut the front door
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on me. So, hey, come out with your hands up.
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Speaker 7: We know you're in here. Come out. Ward's myth, Police department,
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go ahead, a whole traffic.
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Speaker 3: Hell's hey, hey.
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Speaker 9: Come out, come out.
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Speaker 7: Okay, okay, just come out on the side of the house.
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Who else is here?
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Speaker 3: It's an investigation.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna explain that. We're gonna explain that. Who he'll
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just walk out to that side of the house for me.
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Who else is in here? Does anybody else in here?
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Just walk out here right here to the right. Thank you, Taylor. Okay,
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that's Taylor. Who else is in here?
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Speaker 7: Go ahead and step out? No, go ahead, wordsmith.
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Speaker 15: Police is your lifetime to come out? Really, come out
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with your hands up. Keep your hands in the air,
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work and see them. Keep your hands in the air,
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right and see you keep walking, keep walking, walk toward me.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Randall, go ahead, step off that porch into your
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right on the side of the house.
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Speaker 7: Okay, who who else is back here? Be real with me.
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Speaker 2: Officers would go on to conduct a room by room
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sweep of the house and confirm it was empty, before
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returning outside to face a different challenge. A handful of
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detained suspects with potential ties to William's missing car. Among
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the small group, officers noted a mix of faces, some nervous,
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some indifferent, but it wasn't immediately clear who knew what
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until the question of the red car came up.
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Speaker 7: All these subjects were inside the house.
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Speaker 1: When asked any of them, who's his red car, they
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all pointed to Taylor Elkins.
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Speaker 2: The moment officer Shelby asked who owned the red Ford
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parked out front, everyone pointed, without hesitation, at the same person,
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Taylor Elkins, the first woman who exited the house earlier
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when police barged inside. Having possession of a man's car
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who had just turned up dead is naturally going to
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raise suspense, and surprisingly, Taylor herself would go on to
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admit that indeed the car belongs to her.
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Speaker 3: Here's you, one of the females that we got out
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of here. Uh when I said there's this car.
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Speaker 2: Blocking With this revelation, the focus was pinned directly on Taylor,
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and it was time for her to explain how she
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ended up in the possession of a dead man's car.
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Speaker 1: Taylor astart and drinks. Obviously did he read you your
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Marina rides? He did, like your rights, your rights to
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an attorney, everything like that. Okay, where'd you get the car?
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Speaker 7: Okay, it's just a friend witer black, I think.
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Speaker 16: No, I didn't say it was okay. I don't know
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how he got it though. Okay, I was like, dude,
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you got your phone on you? Whe's your phone out
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in there?
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Speaker 3: Come on?
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Speaker 1: So you got it from Sean the first entrance off
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of Albert Pike to kit to forty one.
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Speaker 16: Well, he's as well, Okay.
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Speaker 7: Do you give him any money for it?
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Speaker 17: Or no?
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Speaker 7: You like me like that? What's his friends? What's his
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name on Facebook?
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Speaker 3: Sean? I don't know. I don't know.
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Speaker 7: I don't have a phone. I don't get on Facebook.
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Speaker 2: Despite Taylor's vague recollection of how she came in possession
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of William's car, officers managed to get a name from
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her Sean, who is a friend of Taylor that she
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borrowed the car from, or at least that's what she claims.
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If her story is not a complete fabrication, then whoever
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Sean is could be the key to solving the case. However,
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it's at this time that officers realized they didn't know
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nearly enough about Taylor, her background, her relationships, and whether
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she might be tied to Denton Stringer, the neighbor who
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was already under suspicion. So over the next few minutes,
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we will follow these officers in real time as they
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connect the dots and discover critical information in one of
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the best detective works we have ever covered.
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Speaker 12: Hi, I arrested her two weeks ago because or Elkins. Huh,
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I think that's a bit more baby daddy to her
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or something like that. She's got two kids. Hey, Jacob,
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come here, that's Taylor's grandparents' house.
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Speaker 3: That's That's what I said.
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Speaker 12: Andres are familiar and didn't want to hurt she coming
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out here so I can know this Jack, Hey, are
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they homosad or so?
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Speaker 3: Today? Really? Where's she at? Taylor? Sher?
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Speaker 18: You know that's her grandparents house, right, the South Greenwood
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address is her grandparents house.
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Speaker 3: Her.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, I swear to you, she's bonded out to that
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address out of Crofford County. Shes got like ten Fellon's spending.
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Speaker 3: I swear to you.
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Speaker 2: Is it the officer just made a crucial connection. Taylor's
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last known address given to police during her previous arrest
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was her grandparents' house and the same duplex that William
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lived in.
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Speaker 7: Shut up, did you tell Shelby? I said, I think
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that's yeah, eighteen hundred South Greenwood. Hey sorry sorry, sorry.
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Speaker 4: Give me.
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Speaker 7: Her address is the neighbor's address. Her address is the
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neighbor's eighteen years what is her?
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Speaker 3: That's what? That's what.
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Speaker 18: That's her grandfather's house.
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Speaker 7: And she's bond eighteen is all in icis about it.
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Speaker 18: I think we think she's bonded out there because I
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rested two weeks ago and then like a week after
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her addresses the.
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Speaker 7: Eighteen hundred South Greenwich she spent got domestic assault. The
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guy that called it in, Wow, that's his eighteen hundred.
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Because our guys as eighteen.
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Speaker 2: The officers figured it out the two prime suspects were related.
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Taylor was Denton's granddaughter and likely the daughter the woman
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in the shop had found suspicious earlier. But what these
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officers are about to discover next would put the spotlight
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solely on Taylor.
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Speaker 7: Mauman has her on camera leaving on the eighth in
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the car La Madres eight.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so three days, about three days, yeah, Monday night, Yeah,
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the D the D Compact.
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Speaker 7: It's about two.
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Speaker 2: With this final piece of evidence, it is safe to
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conclude that Taylor Elkins has a major role in William's death,
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and detectives needed to get to the bottom of her involvement.
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The other detained individuals were briefly questioned, but no one
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had direct ties to William or knew anything about the
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stolen vehicle, so with no solid evidence against them, they
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were released. With the Onseen investigation at its end, the
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next move was obvious, taking Taylor in for a formal interrogation.
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A few hours later. Taylor is placed inside an interrogation
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room and left by herself for the next ten minutes,
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giving her enough time to come up with a plausible
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alibi to go with. What Taylor doesn't realize is that
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when the detective walks in, he has information that will
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completely disprove every excuse she has.
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Speaker 4: Hello, how are you good?
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Speaker 19: Bit better?
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Speaker 4: All right, Taylor? So you know why you're down here? Yeah? Yeah,
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Well why are you down here?
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Speaker 19: I'm in the car stolen. I don't know I had it, well,
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I didn't have it in my cousin. Well, I don't
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know how to say. It wasn't in my property. I didn't,
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I wasn't in the bar or nothing like that. But
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it was stollen and everybody wanted a fared at me.
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And I mean I've been driving it.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, okay, And where did you get it from?
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Speaker 19: This name Sean, I don't know him last name or really, I.
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Speaker 4: Don't know last thing I was.
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Speaker 19: I say hey to him. Basically, he's just a friend,
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like he does drugs you and so funny you don't.
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I don't know.
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Speaker 4: Everybody you've been you've been arrested lately. What's what's left
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to be arrested?
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Speaker 2: Uh?
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Speaker 4: Last week?
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Speaker 19: Definitely, I got my kids saying him it was Miller
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and this other guy.
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Speaker 4: And when you when you bonded it down one? Okay,
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what addressed did you? It's sure.
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Speaker 19: I'm bought it out too, Okay, Yeah, I'm.
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Speaker 4: Being bond you out No.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 4: Eight again?
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Speaker 3: At Okay?
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Speaker 4: Which last time part of that? You were there two
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days ago?
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Speaker 19: I am born out of that is chilled.
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Speaker 2: In just a few minutes, this detective was able to
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make Taylor confirm most of the evidence connecting her to
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the crime in her own words. Taylor admitted that Denton
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Stringer is indeed her grandfather. She had William's car for
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a few days, and most importantly, she was at Denton's
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house the same period when William was killed. But this
25:52
detective was just getting started and he's about to make
25:55
Taylor dig her own grave.
25:57
Speaker 4: So what about the gal of the door?
25:59
Speaker 18: For you know him?
26:00
Speaker 4: Who's that?
26:00
Speaker 19: He names Bill?
26:01
Speaker 4: Bill? I don't know.
26:03
Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 19: I don't know. People's that name?
26:06
Speaker 16: Yeah?
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Speaker 20: He Bil?
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Speaker 4: Oh was that time seeing Bill?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
26:13
Speaker 4: I don't know. He works to him? There? So this
26:16
car you've been riding around in? Whose car is it?
26:19
I don't know. You have seen that car?
26:21
Speaker 19: I've seen it?
26:22
Speaker 4: Where there where? Oh? Where Taylor, we're.
26:31
Speaker 19: Taer there's a car?
26:40
Speaker 18: Kay?
26:44
Speaker 7: Wow?
26:46
Speaker 4: Thank you kind knew that.
26:48
Speaker 19: No, I didn't, I really got in.
26:50
Speaker 4: Thank you? I didn't. I think you did. I think
26:54
I think you know Bill?
26:56
Speaker 1: I know Bill?
26:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would you know? I don't know who's last
27:00
have you seen?
27:03
Speaker 1: Oh?
27:03
Speaker 19: I should like coming in? I don't know.
27:06
Speaker 4: I don't pay attention. Really, you haven't got all the
27:13
defense of all of a sudden, I'm just gonna before
27:18
I I want to make sure that we're understanding of
27:24
each other.
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Speaker 19: Okay, I really I don't like, I like pay attention,
27:33
do the thing.
27:35
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, I'm just trying to figure out if you're
27:43
being honest with you and actually.
27:47
Speaker 2: Taylor is trapped. She just implicated herself further by admitting
27:52
that she knows William and to her surprise, was driving
27:56
his very car. After this brilliant line of questioning, the
28:01
detective tells Taylor to sit tight and leaves the room.
28:04
During this time, he would make a phone call to
28:06
Taylor's grandfather, Denton Stringer, and Denton would tell him that
28:10
Taylor was at his house a few days ago along
28:13
with two white males. With this information at hand, the
28:17
detective comes back to the interrogation room with one goal
28:21
make Taylor confess to whatever she did inside William's home.
28:27
Speaker 4: Tech MA, Hi, you and me both, girl, I'm old,
28:35
So let me ask you something. Do you have a phone?
28:42
You don't have home? Okay, Tayler, you you went to
28:58
your dad's today? Were there earlier this week? I come
29:01
on to your Tuesday. Let me rephrase that you were
29:05
there earlier this week and you had two white males
29:07
with you? Who's those two white guys.
29:09
Speaker 10: That are with you?
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Speaker 21: Because I've already talked I've already talked to your grandpa, okay,
29:16
and right there side your grandpa's at school. That school's
29:20
got video and it shows you're showing up with two
29:21
white males. So I'm just kind of curious where those
29:23
two white males on them?
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Speaker 4: You know, so you don't think that males.
29:35
Speaker 2: Car I mean, even when directly confronted with undeniable facts,
29:42
Taylor continues to play dumb, even making a mockery of
29:45
the entire situation. So in order to make it clear
29:49
to Taylor that this is a serious situation, the detective
29:52
would reveal the true reason she's in the interrogation room
29:55
because she is a murder suspect.
29:59
Speaker 4: You know what. That's Bill's car because he's dead. They
30:04
beat him to death, and you're driving the car from
30:08
a man who's been beat to death.
30:11
Speaker 22: I don't know that you ain't got something to do
30:12
with it. And you want to play tough girl with me,
30:15
and let me tell you this is not gonna work
30:17
out for you.
30:17
Speaker 4: Real good. He's been beat too, dead, he taking mine?
30:24
You think, why the hell do you think I'm here?
30:26
You know why I'm here. Do you know what my
30:28
title is? Homitize? Hey, it's got real. You're talking about
30:35
losing your girls, They're losing for a lifetime. You know
30:39
what you're You're knee deep in this ship right now.
30:44
You better start coming clean with.
30:47
Speaker 12: Just letting you know.
30:48
Speaker 4: Here's here's where we're at, Taylor. I'm gonna be honest
30:50
with you.
30:51
Speaker 22: This can know either really good for Taylor or this
30:54
can go really bad for Tator. Because I can promise
30:56
you I'm really good at.
30:57
Speaker 1: What I do.
30:57
Speaker 4: If I can catch you and lie, and if you
30:59
lie to me, I will I will put you in
31:02
prison for the rest of your little life.
31:05
Speaker 2: Just know that now that Taylor understands the severity of
31:09
everything and is deeply emotional, the detective will seize the
31:13
moment to confront her by exploiting her vulnerable state in
31:17
hopes that the emotional pressure will break her defenses and
31:21
compel her to finally tell the truth.
31:24
Speaker 22: I'm not threatening you, I'm promising you.
31:29
Speaker 4: So did you give a damn about Biel? If you
31:34
didn't killing, if you didn't be the hell out of
31:37
that old man. You're driving a car that was taken
31:41
after the meeting you entered, come up with who had
31:44
his damn car? Or who you took over there with
31:46
you that seeing him and went back in targets at him.
31:50
Listen to me, here's you might start coming up with
31:54
some bull names because you know what, who do you
31:56
need to think of right now? Who's the most important
31:58
person in your life? Right now?
32:01
Speaker 3: You?
32:01
Speaker 4: You your babies, and you better take care of them.
32:04
Speaker 5: I tell you you better think hard, because I got
32:10
all night. Hell, I get paid about an hour. I'll
32:13
stay here all weekend. You're riding around the dead man's car.
32:17
Speaker 19: You're dead, telling her dead?
32:19
Speaker 4: But you know the people who probably killed him? He
32:22
told you I got the cups sean who in the
32:26
apartment that.
32:26
Speaker 5: You pointed out the guy that old man died and
32:30
that had an heart attack and died in one last week,
32:32
and the other ones got an old woman that lives in.
32:35
Speaker 3: That's fun.
32:38
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm giving you an opportunity right now.
32:40
Speaker 19: Oh man, I'm.
32:41
Speaker 4: Telling you, Okay, tell me, I told you.
32:44
Speaker 19: I'm telling you, like bros.
32:47
Speaker 4: If you had to get shown right now, where would
32:50
you go get him at? It's one apartment number, it's
32:56
a corner. If there's four or five, six, seven, It's
32:59
either five.
33:01
Speaker 2: Now it seems like Taylor has a story to prove
33:04
her alibi. Taylor claims that William's car belongs to a
33:07
man named Sean, who she borrowed the car from recently.
33:10
If what she's saying is true, then Sean could very
33:14
well be the perpetrator of this evil crime. However, Taylor
33:17
would also proceed to point more accusations towards Sean, telling
33:21
the detective that he assaulted her, ruined her life, and
33:24
took her kids away. This means that Taylor was likely
33:28
involved in a relationship with Sean for a good amount
33:31
of time. But what's strange about this entire story is
33:35
that every time the detective asks Taylor for personal information
33:38
about this Sean guy, she dodges the questions and refuses
33:43
to give any information away. So, with Taylor seemingly uncooperative,
33:48
the detective would end this interview to get to the
33:51
bottom of her claims and figure out who Sean really is,
33:55
and what they discovered would put Taylor in an even
33:59
worse city situation.
34:03
Speaker 4: He's been thinking about anything have non issue, So this
34:16
is the guy you're saying to get a car from
34:19
for you sure Jason jail, hopefully he's been in jail
34:27
since June sixth.
34:30
Speaker 23: Mm hmm.
34:32
Speaker 4: Do you think I'm bringing this up?
34:34
Speaker 3: No?
34:36
Speaker 4: So if he's in jail, had to give you a car?
34:42
Speaker 19: M hm.
34:48
Speaker 4: Ver we think this thiner that's looking like you kill me?
34:52
Speaker 3: No?
34:52
Speaker 19: Yeah, I don't know.
34:54
Speaker 4: You think it's funny that wasn't me? Would you better
34:56
figure it out then? Because you just lied.
35:01
Speaker 2: Sean giving her the car was a completely fabricated story,
35:06
and the detective just proved it. So with this major
35:10
lie exposed, Taylor has taken away to sleep in jail
35:14
while detectives work on finding more incriminating evidence against her.
35:19
The next day, Taylor is brought back into the interrogation
35:22
room in an orange jumpsuit. This time, the detective has
35:26
prepared undeniable evidence to thoroughly debunk her entire alibi and
35:31
make her confess.
35:41
Speaker 4: You don't know what happened to.
35:51
Speaker 24: You believe he's dead. Now do you still think this
35:58
is all Joe? You won't sleep, That's what want you.
36:07
There's only one way you're ever gonna get any relief. Well,
36:11
you're gonna get any.
36:12
Speaker 4: Closure, and you're gonna have to tell us the truth
36:14
of everything you know. And you haven't done it yet.
36:16
This will be the hardest thing for you to do,
36:19
but it's the only way you're gonna get any peace ever.
36:22
At a minimum, if you didn't do it, you know
36:27
who did? Are you scared of the person who's involved
36:30
in this?
36:35
Speaker 19: You really do get people.
36:40
Speaker 4: Have got an your face. I had to threaten you.
36:43
I'll let you know what's fixing to happen to you.
36:48
Speaker 19: If you don't believe any you don't believe.
36:51
Speaker 25: I don't believe liars, okay, and you're a damn liar. Well,
36:57
you need to be helping us. If you even cared
36:59
about old man that's been beat today at a shot,
37:02
you need to be helping us.
37:05
Speaker 4: You don't think he was shot?
37:07
Speaker 16: Is he?
37:10
Speaker 4: You don't see that? You'll see again? Get a better
37:12
right out. I want you to remember that picture every
37:15
time you're last eight.
37:19
Speaker 2: Elkins's body language has shifted from cocky and playful to
37:23
scared and confused and just about everything else in between.
37:26
Her behavior would change again after she's allowed to make
37:29
a phone call to her mother, where she'd stop pleading
37:32
innocence and start playing the victim. She's now going to
37:35
paint a picture of a man named Joseph Rogers, better
37:38
known as Joe. That will make him out to be
37:41
the bad guy.
37:42
Speaker 4: So we'll let you talk to your mom. Now what
37:46
I would like to ask you. I'm sure he tell
37:49
us the truth. That's true. I mean, I told you
37:53
all the truth today, but I tell you all of it.
37:57
Awesome the game. What happened and exactly troops away happened
38:00
to that?
38:02
Speaker 10: I said, Joe came over with that that and he
38:08
asked me why out in the house and that someone
38:10
that he didn't have ship. He's like, well, you knock
38:13
on the door, and knock on the door.
38:15
Speaker 4: And then he went in.
38:16
Speaker 8: I went.
38:16
Speaker 4: That's when I went to McDonald's. So I came back.
38:19
He so he took care of it.
38:21
Speaker 19: Killed the Why didn't nothing like that?
38:24
Speaker 4: When he said he took care of it. He told
38:27
me that I to casino because I asked.
38:29
Speaker 19: I asked what happened?
38:31
Speaker 4: Because I had a little cardon and so I'm scared.
38:33
I didn would have be went there nothing. I didn't
38:35
know what happened, and I.
38:37
Speaker 19: Just I could ask him what happened, what happened?
38:40
Speaker 21: What happened?
38:41
Speaker 4: He kept telling me.
38:42
Speaker 19: Then he took care of it.
38:43
Speaker 4: Then it's okay that he.
38:46
Speaker 19: Finished the ball ball theres nothing would come about it.
38:49
And he's just he just kept telling you and he's
38:52
like you get rid of the TVs.
38:54
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah. He's like, I'm not touching him.
38:58
Speaker 19: And that's why I had Pete Pondalds like I didn't know.
39:00
Speaker 10: If I knew all that, I wanted to get card
39:03
believe my name, if I knew he was Dan dead
39:05
like that.
39:06
Speaker 4: Where you like.
39:10
Speaker 2: Elkins has implicated Joe by claiming he'd taken care of
39:14
William while he was robbing him of his belongings. She
39:17
also claims he's behind the whole thing and she was
39:20
too terrified to stop him. If this wasn't the third
39:23
story she'd came up with, the detectives may have believed her,
39:26
But what Elkins doesn't realize is that the detectives have
39:30
potential evidence that will place her at the scene of
39:33
the crime and prove she's been lying all along. He was.
39:37
Speaker 23: One thing that is concerning is the fact that Bill
39:42
does have hair in his hand. Okay, and we had
39:47
a detective down there. Darren his all tossing states that
39:53
the hair is the same color as yours, and Joe doesn't.
39:58
Speaker 4: Have any hair. Where would that come from?
40:02
Speaker 11: M hm?
40:20
Speaker 4: Did you ever see Bill after mc donald's.
40:25
Speaker 2: If that lock of hair they found on William's body
40:27
belongs to Elkins, then her stories will mean nothing, as
40:32
the physical evidence will do the talking for her. But
40:37
right now that's not the only thing she has to
40:39
worry about, as detectives have even more evidence that proves
40:43
her whole story has been a lie from the very beginning,
40:47
and it's all thanks to the GPS tracker William's wife
40:50
installed in his car. That GPS tracker would also help
40:55
detectives to map everywhere she had been from the very
40:58
moment she stepped in the car and then use the
41:00
CCTV to determine who was inside the vehicle.
41:04
Speaker 4: I know you don't have me. I'm sorry, he's got
41:06
a job to do. I hope you understand that. Let
41:08
me show you no picture. Who's that?
41:13
Speaker 14: Who?
41:14
Speaker 8: Well?
41:14
Speaker 17: There he is in a car with you and Bill's car.
41:19
Is Joe want killed him? Joe was with you when
41:21
you left the house and when you went to the
41:24
casino to Joe kill him. You're here's your opportunity we
41:29
got the evidence. There's a tracker on the car. We
41:34
take it straight from when you left there. You go
41:36
to Kavanall, you go to the casino.
41:39
Speaker 4: So you need to get get this. It's real, real
41:41
for you, real quick. So you need to think about
41:43
this because we're peasing to take this to the prosecutor
41:46
to get a warrant feed for murder.
41:48
Speaker 25: So you better start thinking if you want to take
41:50
the rap or you want to be honest, because we're
41:52
we're running out of town.
41:53
Speaker 4: No you ain't, No, you ain't. I just showed you.
41:56
I didn't tell you what, but I think you know. Okay,
42:03
so you come up and tell me right now that
42:06
you're protecting him. You'll be charging I'm protecting him. You
42:09
know what happened.
42:10
Speaker 19: So people just come up to tell you. I'll talk
42:12
how that people murder.
42:13
Speaker 4: Somebody knows your laugh. I'll be back that murder work.
42:20
Speaker 2: Taylor's arrogance with the entire situation has seemed to finally
42:25
have caught up to her, and her extreme stubbornness has
42:28
left the detectives with no choice other than to resort
42:31
to other methods of incriminating suspects, such as DNA samples,
42:36
hair samples, and last, but not least, the polygraph. The
42:41
polygraph test was done off camera. However, the polygraph examiner
42:45
would have some harsh words for Taylor after the test
42:48
had concluded.
43:00
Speaker 4: Deception means that you're trying to deceive if you're not
43:02
being truthful. Am. I brought this in here to show you.
43:12
Speaker 20: You see that question that says R five M and
43:16
the big spike on it, that's where you were telling
43:20
us a lie. You were lying to me when I
43:22
asked you in the test. Were you present when he
43:25
was attacked? When I asked you, did you kill him?
43:34
Speaker 4: Your reading is stronger.
43:35
Speaker 6: Than that.
43:39
Speaker 4: Because you're just you know, well, I really don't give
43:44
a ship if you're in a room or I'm not
43:49
a rude person. You're a rude, code, heartless murderer.
43:54
Speaker 14: That's what you are.
43:56
Speaker 4: If you look at you, you have no defense to yourself.
43:59
So you kill the old wine. You're capable. Let you're
44:04
right in the middle of all of it. And why
44:07
you don't think you ain't told this? You may have
44:11
everything the finger and everybody else.
44:14
Speaker 15: Do you do?
44:17
Speaker 4: This is not gonna go away, This is not gonna quit.
44:20
You're gonna keep having your little mountain beers that you have,
44:23
but I hope you do for the rest of your
44:24
fucking life.
44:25
Speaker 2: Taylor would never formally confess during the rest of the interrogation,
44:29
continuing to point fingers, blame others, sometimes being completely imaginary people,
44:35
and playing the victim. William de Boat Junior had suffered
44:39
from twenty seven impact injuries and met a terrifying end
44:44
the day of his death. The hair sample found in
44:49
William's hand was eventually matched to the hair of Taylor's,
44:52
adding one final cherry on top to help convict her.
44:56
Detectives ultimately believed Elkins was responsible. Although she didn't confess
45:01
to the cops, she allegedly made a confession during her incarceration.
45:06
She also told another inmate that she went to William's
45:08
house to borrow some money and had become angry when
45:11
he didn't have any, so, out of both frustration and
45:14
pure evil, she grabbed a hammer and beat the life
45:17
out of William without any remorse. Taylor's grandfather, Denton Stringer,
45:24
was initially investigated as a potential suspect, However, with no
45:28
solid evidence connecting him to William's murder or Taylor's involvement
45:32
authorities ruled him out. As for Joseph Rogers and Sean,
45:36
they were both cleared of any involvement in William's death.
45:40
The two had nothing to do with the crime whatsoever
45:43
and were simply scapegoats for Taylor to point fingers at.
45:47
As for Taylor, she was charged with first degree murder
45:50
on October ninth, twenty nineteen, and in January twenty twenty,
45:55
she accepted a plea deal that meant she'd avoid a
45:58
life sentence. Instead, she was sentenced to over forty years
46:02
in prison. Her first chance at parole will come in
46:06
twenty fifty nine.