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Suspect Emerges in Driveway, Murder of Teacher Rachel DelTondo · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Rachel del Tondo absolutely stunning.
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Speaker 1: The mystery regarding her murder may have culminated in the
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Speaker 1: announcement of a prime suspect. I'm Nancy Grace. This is
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at
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Speaker 1: series XEM one eleven. At this hour, we learned that
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Speaker 1: the so called lover, younger lover, and former student has
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Speaker 1: been named as prime suspect in the young teacher's murder.
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Speaker 1: He recalled Rachel Deltondo, shot multiple times in her mother's
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Speaker 1: driveway in Pennsylvania on Mother's Day. Now, after five years
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Speaker 1: following the brutal murderer, the district attorney has announced the
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Speaker 1: prime suspect and a so called crime of passion. He's
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Speaker 1: also saying that as of right now, he doesn't have
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Speaker 1: enough evidence to prosecute. Seriously, we are learning that we
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Speaker 1: are learning the name of the alleged prime suspect, Sheldon Jeter.
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Speaker 1: The District Attorney Beaver County DA David Leiser is actually
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Speaker 1: asking for help from the public and says he's opening
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Speaker 1: new avenues such as a reward for new information. Jeter
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Speaker 1: was Rachel Deltando's much younger lover and former student. According
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Speaker 1: to sources, just before her death, she had been suspended
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Speaker 1: from her job at Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School on a
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Speaker 1: claim she had been involved with the male student at
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Speaker 1: her school. Now this is after cops says they saw
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Speaker 1: her with a teen boy in a parked car to
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Speaker 1: a m She was never criminally charged. What really happened?
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Speaker 1: What do we know about the murder of this beautiful
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Speaker 1: young woman? Take a listen to our friends at CBS Pittsburgh.
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Speaker 2: It was Mother's Day night, just before eleven o'clock when
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Speaker 2: Aliquippa police got a nine to one one call about
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Speaker 2: shots fired on Buchanan Street near Broadhead Road. They found
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Speaker 2: thirty three year old Rachel del Tondo outside her home
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Speaker 2: in the driveway. She had been shot several times. Neighbors
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Speaker 2: say they heard as many as ten to twelve shots.
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Speaker 2: Family members say del Tondo was returning home from getting
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Speaker 2: ice cream with a friend when she was shocked.
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Speaker 1: You know that sheds a whole new light on it,
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Speaker 1: another wrinkle to be discovered and figured out. Multiple shots,
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Speaker 1: It's not like an accident drive by. This girl was
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Speaker 1: targeted with me an all star panel. Ashu Willcott Judge
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Speaker 1: and trial lawyer, court TV anchor. You can find her
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Speaker 1: at Ashuewillcott dot com. Doctor Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst joining us
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Speaker 1: out of Beverly Hills. You can find her on Instagram
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Speaker 1: at doctor Bethany Marshall. James schal Nutt Atlanta Metro major
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Speaker 1: Case Swatt Now lawyer, Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor Forensics, Jacksonville
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Speaker 1: State University and author of Blood Beneath My Feet and
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Speaker 1: Special Guests joining us. John Paul, journalist, founder of Beaver
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Speaker 1: County in dot com. But first to Joseph Scott Morgan,
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Speaker 1: Professor forensics. There's a big difference, and I may have
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Speaker 1: to go to our shrink. Doctor Bethany Marshall on this.
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Speaker 1: When somebody is shot once, like in a bar fight,
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Speaker 1: I just always use that example. And somebody that's shot
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Speaker 1: multiple times, seemingly it's not necessarily a drive by, Joe Scott,
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Speaker 1: because with a drive by, you don't think of the
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Speaker 1: person as stopping and shooting. A drive by is more
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Speaker 1: like a high and bite you're dead, But multiple shots
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Speaker 1: is an entirely different scenario. Joseph Scott Morgan.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that can go to kind of two states of mind, Nancy.
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Speaker 3: You can have an individual that's unfamiliar with weapons that
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Speaker 3: will just fire in a rapid succession, particularly with a
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Speaker 3: semi automatic handgun, where it's ejecting the shells immediately. Or
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Speaker 3: you can have an event where an individual much like
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Speaker 3: an overkill with a stabbing or a beating, where they
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Speaker 3: just keep firing and firing and firing and firing, and
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Speaker 3: one of the singular motivations is that they're very angry
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Speaker 3: at that point in time. So you've got those two
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Speaker 3: things to kind of choose from.
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Speaker 1: Also, when you think of a drive by, you think
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Speaker 1: of somebody just willing nearly bam bam, bam, bam bam.
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Speaker 1: If you hit your target multiple times and I mean
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Speaker 1: even more than once, that means you have stopped. You
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Speaker 1: have aimed kind of sniper ish at this particular person.
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Speaker 1: That is a much more complex crime. Rachel Deltondo having
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Speaker 1: ordered a wedding dress, I want to go to a
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Speaker 1: discussion of that because, as it turned out, that became
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Speaker 1: a centerpiece of the investigation, the ordering of the wedding dress.
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Speaker 1: But who is her fiance? Take a listen to our
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Speaker 1: friends at CBS forty eight hours.
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Speaker 4: Rachel was dating a wonderful young man. Frank was engaged,
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Speaker 4: but they both agreed to break up with a significant
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Speaker 4: others and came together.
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Speaker 5: Frank the son of a retired police officer, was building
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Speaker 5: an empire and trucking cable and energy, so successful that
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Speaker 5: a local online magazine Dubkodropa the Wolf of Aliquippa. Rachel
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Speaker 5: was the teacher with a soft heart who liked to
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Speaker 5: help troubled students. And at first, were you happy with
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Speaker 5: the relationship?
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Speaker 4: Yes, uh huh, Frankie was generous.
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Speaker 1: What drew you to her?
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Speaker 6: Obviously, she's a pretty girl, She's nice, genuine, big hearted, She's.
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Speaker 7: A good girl.
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Speaker 5: Were you in love with Rachel?
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Speaker 8: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: One time I was absolutely.
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Speaker 1: You're hearing frank KaTropa. The fiance has had to deal
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Speaker 1: with the murder of Rachel Daltonda. But now let's get
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Speaker 1: to the designer wedding dress. Take a listen to again
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Speaker 1: to our friend Aaron Moriarty.
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Speaker 5: Wedding plans commenced immediately, and so did a Shakespearean battle
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Speaker 5: over who was running the show.
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Speaker 4: You know how, you get engaged and you let the
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Speaker 4: woman take over. Frankie didn't want to do that.
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Speaker 9: He was in charge of Benner.
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Speaker 8: Everything.
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Speaker 4: Wanted to go to the hall, wanted to see the flowers,
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Speaker 4: wanted them. I mean, if he could have saw her dress,
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Speaker 4: he'd be happy.
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Speaker 6: There was just a lot of outside interference with some
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Speaker 6: of her family.
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Speaker 5: Particularly her mom. Yes, Lisa bought her daughter a ten
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Speaker 5: thousand dollars wedding dress and a pair of three thousand
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Speaker 5: dollars shoes. Frank as for a prenuptial agreement, and.
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Speaker 10: I said, you know, how do you feel about that.
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Speaker 10: She's like, I'm fine with it.
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Speaker 1: I'll sign it.
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Speaker 3: I don't want him to think that I want him
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Speaker 3: just for his money.
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Speaker 5: But in the end, Rachel refused.
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Speaker 1: In the end, she refused the prenup. Let's go out
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Speaker 1: to journalist and founder of Beaver County dot Com John Paul. John,
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Speaker 1: I want to focus right now on that wedding dress.
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Speaker 1: A ten thousand dollars wedding dress. Now, ladies don't judge me,
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Speaker 1: but when David and I got decided to get married,
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Speaker 1: we decided on a Tuesday that we would get married
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Speaker 1: on Saturday. That's how that went down. I ordered a
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Speaker 1: wedding dress in two different sizes from a catalog and
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Speaker 1: it came just in time. I thought about wearing my boots,
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Speaker 1: my cowboy boots, which I wore twenty four to seven,
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Speaker 1: three sixty five, But in the end bowed to peer
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Speaker 1: pressure and got a beautiful pair of shoes. Gorgeous Jackie
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Speaker 1: at DSW. I think that's Designershoe Outlet Warehouse, right. So
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Speaker 1: I'm having a hard time, John Paul, trying to get
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Speaker 1: my mind around a ten thousand dollars dress and a
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Speaker 1: three especially a three thousand dollars pair of shoes. But
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Speaker 1: the mother, Rachael Dultana's mother insisted on it. It was
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Speaker 1: going to be a fairy tale wedding. Just my first question,
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Speaker 1: John Paul, And I don't know if you've been asked
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Speaker 1: this yet. What pair of shoes cost three thousand dollars?
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Speaker 8: They were designer shoes that the mother purchased, and she
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Speaker 8: was proud of them. I mean, Rachel Deltona was her
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Speaker 8: only daughter, and she was the center of their life,
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Speaker 8: and they adored her, and they're kind of a traditional
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Speaker 8: Italian family and this was a major milestone, not just
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Speaker 8: in her life, but in the life of her parents.
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Speaker 8: And they're not people of extraordinary means, and buying the
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Speaker 8: shoes was no doubt in extravagance, but I think it
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Speaker 8: was a loving mother's way of letting a daughter know
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Speaker 8: that she was proud of her.
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Speaker 1: John Paul, John Paul, you're making me think of Cinderella
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Speaker 1: and the glass slippers. And to you, doctor Bethany Marshall,
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Speaker 1: I get this mother and the three thousand dollars pair
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Speaker 1: of shoes. I get it.
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Speaker 7: Nancy, I get it too.
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Speaker 11: Hey, I practice in the heart of Beverly Hills, and
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Speaker 11: I'm thinking, oh lord, okay, so what brand of shoes
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Speaker 11: did the mom get? I can only think blue Boutons
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Speaker 11: with Tarasky crystals. That's I'm sure what she had. When
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Speaker 11: you buy a pair of shoes like that, it's not
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Speaker 11: the shoes that you're buying. You're buying hopes and dreams.
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Speaker 11: You're buying the future. You're buying an idealized life founded
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Speaker 11: on love and attachment. And you're thinking about grandchildren, right
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Speaker 11: because the mother bought her the shoes. You're thinking about
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Speaker 11: grandchildren and a home. And then all of that is
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Speaker 11: cut short. And I think what's tragic is the grand
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Speaker 11: and beautiful and poignant nature of the dreams juxtaposed between
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Speaker 11: multiple shots in her daughter's chest Oh in the.
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Speaker 1: Driveway and in her driveway.
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Speaker 7: In the driveway.
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Welcome Back. In the Last Hours.
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Speaker 1: A high school football star, now in his twenties is
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Speaker 1: named the prime suspect in the murder of teacher Rachel
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Speaker 1: Deltondo's death. She was gunned down outside of her own
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Speaker 1: mother's home, firing ten to twelve shots at her neighbors
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Speaker 1: reported hearing it. Rachel Deltando pronounced dead at the scene
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Speaker 1: around ten thirty pm on Mother's Day night. She had
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Speaker 1: just gone out for ice cream. And as you just
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Speaker 1: heard from our new friend John Paul, journalist and founder
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Speaker 1: of Beaver County in dot com, the parents were by
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Speaker 1: no means wealthy, but this is their only daughter, so
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Speaker 1: they go overboard and they buy her a Cinderella dress
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Speaker 1: for ten thousand dollars and a three thousand dollar pair
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Speaker 1: of shoes. When you said, John Paul, their only daughter,
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Speaker 1: it just broke my heart. It just broke my heart.
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Speaker 1: Joining me Ashley Wilcott, judge, trial lawyer, court TV anchor
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Speaker 1: and mother of one girl, I happen to know that
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Speaker 1: for a fact, like me, Ashley, you know I would
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Speaker 1: never spend that kind of money on myself, forget it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I get my shoes resold, but for Lucy,
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Speaker 1: I might just put it on a credit card. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I don't see myself buying a three thousand dollar pair
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Speaker 1: of shoes, but I would do something much more extravagant
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Speaker 1: for her than I would ever dream of doing for myself.
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Speaker 9: Absolutely, that's what we do for our kids. And so
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Speaker 9: while it sounds outlandish to think you'd spend that much money,
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Speaker 9: you know, keep in mind the description of terms of
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Speaker 9: their community, right, and so maybe as a parent, you're
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Speaker 9: gonna do whatever it takes to make that day shine
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Speaker 9: for your daughter. I think it's extravagant too. But let
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Speaker 9: me just mention. Do you know how many parents and
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Speaker 9: young ladies take out loans to cover extravagant expenses like
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Speaker 9: these because weddings are so important to them.
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Speaker 1: You know. It reminds me of in senior year. We
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Speaker 1: went on a senior trip and I came home and
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Speaker 1: my dad actually had tears in his eyes. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they did not have this kind of money, and he
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Speaker 1: had bought me a car. It was Toyota Corolla two
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Speaker 1: door sky blue, metallic blue, and I just it was
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Speaker 1: the biggest thing that ever happened to us. For me
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Speaker 1: to get a car, I was just unheard of, and
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Speaker 1: he was so proud what parents do for their children.
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Speaker 1: But then everything went sideways. Take a listen to our
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Speaker 1: friends at kd KA Pittsburgh. This is Marty Griffin.
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Speaker 12: When Rachel got engaged, Mom took over planning a big
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Speaker 12: time wedding, including a nearly ten thousand dollars gown to
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Speaker 12: be handmade by a New York designer.
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Speaker 4: It was a custom dress had to be made to
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Speaker 4: her measurements.
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Speaker 12: The family put down a deposit of more than four
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Speaker 12: thousand dollars that, according to the contract, was non refundable
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Speaker 12: and non transferable under any circumstances. Lisa Deltondo says she
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Speaker 12: got that from day one.
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Speaker 4: I was told that this is binding.
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Speaker 1: I knew what this thing said.
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Speaker 12: They bought the dress at an Gregory for the bride
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Speaker 12: in Dormont. Rachel Deltondo was measured. The family put down
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Speaker 12: Nearly half four months after the contract was signed, the
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Speaker 12: wedding was called off. Lisa Deltondo called the New York
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Speaker 12: designer to see if they had started on the dress
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Speaker 12: and asked for a refund.
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Speaker 4: I called New York. I did. He told me it
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Speaker 4: couldn't be done.
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Speaker 12: Deltondo says she told the local bridal salon she'd pay
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Speaker 12: the balance and take delivery of the dress.
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Speaker 4: I wanted the gown, sell it.
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Speaker 12: Deltando says the salon never delivered the dress and refuse
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Speaker 12: to refund her money, so she took the owner to
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Speaker 12: small claims court.
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Speaker 1: Wow, all this the mom is trying to sort through
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Speaker 1: To John Paul, journalists, founder of Beaver County and dot com,
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Speaker 1: John Paul in a nutshell, And I know you don't
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Speaker 1: run the column for the lovelorn, But why did they
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Speaker 1: break up? Have anything to do with her not signing
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Speaker 1: the print up.
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Speaker 8: I think their relationship had been described to me is
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Speaker 8: kind of on again, off again for a very long
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Speaker 8: time anyway, So they would they would be real close
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Speaker 8: and then they were kind of distance and then date
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Speaker 8: and and so the the lack of signing the pre
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Speaker 8: nump at the time I think was an impetus for
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Speaker 8: them to kind of break apart some But they continued
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Speaker 8: to see each other after that. They continue to date,
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Speaker 8: so it's not like they went their separate ways in
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Speaker 8: life at that point. And to correct myself, something real quick.
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Speaker 8: That's sure. I might have mistakenly earlier said that she
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Speaker 8: was their own child. She was their only daughter. They
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Speaker 8: have a son that they're also very proud of.
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Speaker 1: Just to be clear, right, only daughter, just like me,
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Speaker 1: Just like ask you. We have one daughter and then
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Speaker 1: all those nasty little boys. So let me ask you
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Speaker 1: a question. To doctor Bethany Marshall, the reason I'm focusing
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Speaker 1: so much on the fiance is because that's who you
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Speaker 1: look to initially in every place. You know what, Sorry, Bethany,
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Speaker 1: let me throw this to James shell Nutt, twenty seven
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Speaker 1: years Metro major case swat now lawyer James shell Nutt.
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Speaker 1: No offense to all the husband's exes, lovers, boyfriends out there.
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Speaker 1: But that's where the investigation has to start. Bottom line.
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Speaker 1: That's what you sign up for when you're in a relationship.
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Speaker 1: If that significant other goes missing, you're the first one
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Speaker 1: please come. So why is that, shell Nutt?
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Speaker 13: Well, the reason is is because those are the people
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Speaker 13: who often commit the crimes against women who come up
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Speaker 13: missing or debt. You start as an investigator with the
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Speaker 13: most logical suspects, which generally are the people closest to
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Speaker 13: the victim.
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Speaker 1: That's right. Statistically, it's overwhelming that the perpetrators typically someone
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Speaker 1: very close to you, if not romantically linked. Okay, so
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Speaker 1: the wedding is called off and that's not an aspersion
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Speaker 1: on either one of them. Weddings are postponed. People turned
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Speaker 1: down engagements all the time for very intricate reasons that
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Speaker 1: we may not understand. But take a listen now to
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Speaker 1: KDKA Marty Griffin.
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Speaker 4: She took the owner to small Claims Court and it
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Speaker 4: says disposition default judgment for plain of.
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Speaker 12: Court papers indicate the salon owner did not appear for
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Speaker 12: the hearing. As a result, he was ordered to pay
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Speaker 12: the Deltondos more than forty six hundred dollars.
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Speaker 4: He had thirty days to write us a check or.
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Speaker 12: File on a pill and he didn't either. He didn't
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Speaker 12: either salon owner Gregory Jericho in an email, he told
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Speaker 12: me December god by me with two deaths in the family,
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Speaker 12: we will be sending a certified check out to Deltondo.
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Speaker 12: Thanks for your efforts. His attorney sent us a letter stating,
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Speaker 12: mister Jericho denies that Ann Gregory owed any money to
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Speaker 12: miss Deltondo, as she was given the purchase contract had
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Speaker 12: an opportunity to review the terms of the contract, which
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Speaker 12: unambiguously advised her that the custom order for her bridle
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Speaker 12: gown could not be refunded.
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Speaker 1: The reason this is significant to John Paul, founder Beaver
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Speaker 1: County in dot Com is because the engagement, the breakoff,
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Speaker 1: and the dress brew haha ends up on local TV
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Speaker 1: with one of those consumer report specialists. Isn't that true?
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Speaker 1: John Paul? The case was featured on the local news
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Speaker 1: and everybody in the in that metro area saw Rachel Deltanda,
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Speaker 1: saw the dress and learned the wedding was called off.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that true? John Paul?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it was, certainly it kind of I guess the
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Speaker 8: novelty is the word at the time, and obviously this
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Speaker 8: is before her murder, and you know, novelty is not
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Speaker 8: the word I would use anymore, but at the time
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Speaker 8: it was like a novelty and something everyone kind of
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Speaker 8: spoke about. And Frank Petropa described it as something of
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Speaker 8: an embarrassment at the time because he is a successful
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Speaker 8: businessman by any major and to have this sort of
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Speaker 8: consumer report feature on the local news about disputes over
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Speaker 8: his ex fiance's wedding dress was a little humiliating, He.
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Speaker 1: Said, exactly, so you've got all that brewing to doctor
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Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall' psychoanalyst to Beverly yells, Bethany, why are we
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Speaker 1: so there's even been a movie runaway bride? Remember that?
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Speaker 1: And then when what was her name, Jackie Jennifer. I'll
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Speaker 1: think of it in a moment, The real runaway bride
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Speaker 1: that took off and claimed she was abducted. Blah blah blah.
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Speaker 1: That was a big lie the night before her wedding.
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Speaker 1: Why are we so obsessed with calling off the wedding?
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Speaker 1: The runaway bride jilted at the altar? Why why do
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Speaker 1: people love that so much? I don't get it.
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Speaker 11: I can tell you why, because when you have a
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Speaker 11: fairytale wedding and you have a princess, you put that
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Speaker 11: person on a pedestal. And if you've seen pictures of
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Speaker 11: Long Brown where each photo has beautiful makeup, high heels,
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Speaker 11: sequin embellished dresses, so she is a real life, real
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Speaker 11: life princess in a very small town. So when we
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Speaker 11: see Prince Charming and his bride, we all inject ourselves
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Speaker 11: into the story because we want those kinds of lives.
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Speaker 11: For ourselves and then when they break up, it sparks
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Speaker 11: all kinds of fantasies.
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Speaker 1: A prime suspect has been named in the murder of
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Speaker 1: high school teacher Rachel del Tondo. Now, according to the
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Speaker 1: local prosecutor, her murder has been very difficult to prosecute.
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Speaker 1: No eyewitnesses can never recover the gun used in the shooting,
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Speaker 1: but now GPS and surveillance footage has built a very
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Speaker 1: strong case. Reportedly that the former student had a quote
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Speaker 1: pattern of stalking his teacher around the time of her murder.
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Speaker 1: We're learning that warrants are set down to be unsealed
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Speaker 1: the day I appealed to the public for help, saying
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Speaker 1: his office knees lynchpin evidence placing Jeter at the crime
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Speaker 1: scene and is willing to offer a reward. What happened
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Speaker 1: to Rachel deltondau? What more do we know? Take a
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Speaker 1: listen to our friends at CBS forty eight hours. This
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Speaker 1: is Aaron Moriarty.
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Speaker 5: Lisa Deltondo was extremely close with her thirty three year
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Speaker 5: old daughter. Rachel was still living at home with Lisa
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Speaker 5: and her father, Joe Deltondo.
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Speaker 4: Every night She'd come in every night, sit at my bed,
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Speaker 4: and give me a synopsis of the whole day.
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Speaker 5: That night, there would be no bedside report. After supper,
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Speaker 5: Rachel went for ice cream with friends, and then just
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Speaker 5: minutes after being dropped back home around ten forty five pm,
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Speaker 5: Rachel was shot several times at close range.
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Speaker 8: The information I have from law enforcement is that they
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Speaker 8: do believe she knew her killer. They believe it to
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Speaker 8: be a crime of passion.
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Speaker 1: To Joseph Scott, Morgan forensics expert, professor forensics, jacksonvill State
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Speaker 1: and author, let's analyze the same. I know, Joe Scott,
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Speaker 1: your expertise is forensics.
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Speaker 13: I love that.
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Speaker 1: I know you probably think I spent too long on
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Speaker 1: the wedding dress, but I had to set up the
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Speaker 1: moment because all of that matters too. Now you hit
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Speaker 1: me with a forensics scout.
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Speaker 3: I got to tell you, no, I think the wedding
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Speaker 3: dress is a fantastic idea because, my god, there are
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Speaker 3: certainly motivation, there a lot of anger. But from the
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Speaker 3: perspective of the forensics, you know, they mentioned that this
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Speaker 3: is a close range event. That means that this individual
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Speaker 3: was able to get close to her and they're able
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Speaker 3: to determine range of fire by just saying that, Okay,
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Speaker 3: that's where that's coming from. So what we think, or
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Speaker 3: what I would think approsely putting forward, is that there
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Speaker 3: might be there might be powder and that is un
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Speaker 3: burned gunpowder on her person, and that would put the
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Speaker 3: individual within possibly three maybe two feet away from this individual.
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Speaker 3: So they're talking about close range. That's significant here, Nancy.
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Speaker 3: How was this individual able to get so close to
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Speaker 3: her at the side entrance of the house and then
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Speaker 3: put this many rounds into her body at that moment?
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Speaker 1: How many rounds? How many rounds?
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Speaker 3: I don't know from what I've heard thus far.
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Speaker 1: Do we know, John Paul, do you know how many
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Speaker 1: times she was actually shot?
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Speaker 8: The information I for investigators is basically the entire handgun
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Speaker 8: had been loaded into her.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that is rage she is targeted. And Joe Scott
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Speaker 1: Morgan is speaking in highly technical terms as usual, But
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Speaker 1: what he's trying to say about gunshot Potter is police
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Speaker 1: say that it was a close range. How do you
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Speaker 1: know that if it's point blank a shot to the
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Speaker 1: head or the body. You see stippling or burn marks
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Speaker 1: where the bullet comes out of the gun and it
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Speaker 1: leaves almost like a tattoo. On your skin. Close range
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Speaker 1: gunshot powder residue GSR. When you fire a gun, it
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Speaker 1: goes about can go about thirty six inches, which means
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Speaker 1: if they found gunshot residue on her on her body,
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Speaker 1: that means the killer was about was within thirty six
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Speaker 1: inches to her body based on gunshot residue, right, Joe Scott, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're right.
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Speaker 3: And if you yeah, and I've heard you use this analogy,
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Speaker 3: and this is a perfect in the past. Actually, when
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Speaker 3: we think about a water hose when you press when
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Speaker 3: you press the nozzle on a water hose, say in
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Speaker 3: the yard, and it kind of spreads out. The further
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Speaker 3: you go from the end of that water hose, the
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Speaker 3: further that that fount of water spreads out. The same
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Speaker 3: thing with powder. You've got a projectile that is the
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Speaker 3: bullet itself firing into the body, but you've got all
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Speaker 3: of this other debris that comes out of the end
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Speaker 3: of the barrel, specifically unfurned powder. And the further it's
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Speaker 3: spread out, the greater the distance. So after a moment
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Speaker 3: in time, that powder is going to fall to the earth.
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Speaker 3: It's not very aerodynamic, so it'll fall to the earth
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Speaker 3: baby powder, Yeah, yeah, exactly, baby powder is the perfect,
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Speaker 3: perfect example with this. I ort to anybody at home
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Speaker 3: that wants to know how to do this, simply put
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Speaker 3: some palf.
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Speaker 10: In your hand, standing in a well lighted room. I
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Speaker 10: teach mess students, says at Jacksonville State and blow and
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Speaker 10: you'll see how in that moment it'll just disperse into
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Speaker 10: the air, this cloud, and this deposits on the body
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Speaker 10: and it's superheated many times. And when you said tattooing,
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Speaker 10: that's actually what we call it. The unburned powder gets
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Speaker 10: beneath the skin and it's embedded in there, almost like tattooing.
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Speaker 1: To John Paul, journalist, founder of Beavercounty in dot com,
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Speaker 1: John Paul, what time of the day or night was this?
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Speaker 8: It was at night, so yeah, you're being Chartley before
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Speaker 8: eleven pm, at nine seven pm.
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Speaker 1: And she had been out to an ice cream parlor
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Speaker 1: with who what friends?
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Speaker 8: But Lorden Watkins was the one driving the car and Tyrie.
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Speaker 1: How old was she?
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Speaker 8: She would have been seventeen at the time.
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Speaker 1: So were these her students? No, so she had friends
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Speaker 1: with younger people he did. Okay, that just strikes me
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Speaker 1: as odd. I don't know why, but maybe it's not odd,
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Speaker 1: but she was with two. How old was the other person?
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Speaker 8: Tyree would have been in his twenties. I believe mid twenties.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so a male and a female. The female was
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Speaker 1: driving For all I know. There were previous students, were
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Speaker 1: they John Paul?
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Speaker 8: Neither of them had ever been her students?
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Speaker 1: Interesting? Interesting to me. So as police are digging through
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Speaker 1: this case, trying to figure out who, what, where, why,
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Speaker 1: and when information comes to light, take a listen about
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Speaker 1: a previous event, CBS forty eight hours Aaron Moriarty.
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Speaker 5: According to the report, it was nearly two am when
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Speaker 5: Rachel and Sheldon were discovered in her car, not eleven PM,
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Speaker 5: as Rachel had said, and not at the circle K,
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Speaker 5: but in this abandoned lot. You obviously come here not
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Speaker 5: to be seen.
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Speaker 8: You've come here to not be seen. The police said
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Speaker 8: the windows were steed, which made them believe that the
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Speaker 8: vehicle had been parked for some time, and the passenger
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Speaker 8: seat was fully reclined.
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Speaker 5: The report states that Rachel told police that Sheldon was
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Speaker 5: once a student of hers and now a friend and
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Speaker 5: they were just talking, But it also says she didn't
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Speaker 5: want her fiance to know because he would get mad,
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Speaker 5: and he was upset about it.
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Speaker 6: He was upset when he was about to leave his
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Speaker 6: out of the water. You know, it was more confused
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Speaker 6: than anything angry. I wouldn't say that I was angry.
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Speaker 5: Frank was allowed to take home that copy of the report,
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Speaker 5: and a day or two later, someone used did it
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Speaker 5: to strike a devastating blow at Rachel del Tondo's reputation.
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Speaker 1: Man, I can't believe this happened to that girl. To
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Speaker 1: John Paul, journalists founder Beaver County dot Com, John Paul,
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Speaker 1: wasn't it generally proven that Rachel was not making out
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Speaker 1: or having sex relations with this younger guy who is
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Speaker 1: a former student. They were both clothed when the cops
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Speaker 1: came up to the car. The car, Yes, it was
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Speaker 1: two am, and as I love to argue to jury's
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Speaker 1: nothing good happens after midnight, two am and a parked
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Speaker 1: car in an abandoned parking lot. But when cops came
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Speaker 1: up to it, they were in fact sitting there talking.
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Speaker 1: Do I have that right, John Paul?
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Speaker 8: Yeah? They certainly. There were no charges filed by police,
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Speaker 8: and their incident report that was generated about a year
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Speaker 8: later doesn't mention any witnessing of inappropriate behavior. That being said,
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Speaker 8: Sheldon Juter's attorney, Michael Santacola, has said that Sheldon and
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Speaker 8: Rachel had been having a sexual relationship since Sheldon had
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Speaker 8: been about fifteen or sixteen. That's something that Rachel's family
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Speaker 8: vehently denies, and when she was alive, that's something that
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Speaker 8: she had denied to me.
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Speaker 1: So even though police approached them and they are dressed
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Speaker 1: and they are in fact just talking, there was a
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Speaker 1: police report made. The main thing she said was don't
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Speaker 1: tell my fiance. This is what we learn. Someone anonymously,
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Speaker 1: someone with that police report anonymously emails and texts the
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Speaker 1: incident to Rachel's school, the school board, the mayor, the media.
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Speaker 1: It's unknown who sent it, although how can you not
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Speaker 1: check the IP on the email? And the report was
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Speaker 1: sent two days after Frank KaTropa, the jilted fiance, receives
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Speaker 1: the report. He claims he didn't do it. Okay, what
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Speaker 1: effect did that have on her reputation? To John Paul
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Speaker 1: journalists Beaver County dot com. When someone the parents believe
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Speaker 1: it was the fiance, emailed out texted out this report
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Speaker 1: to the school board. What happened?
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Speaker 8: Well, you can imagine what happened? Happened? She gets suspended
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Speaker 8: from her job. It makes front page news that a
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Speaker 8: teacher was caught in a car with a young person,
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Speaker 8: and uh.
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Speaker 1: It was.
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Speaker 8: It was a matter of a most controversy.
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Speaker 6: A team.
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Speaker 1: Stories with Nancy Grace Welcome back, of course, the former
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Speaker 1: student slash lover's defense lawyer who says that the district
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Speaker 1: attorney's announcement naming his client prime suspect reeks of quote
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Speaker 1: desperation and is much ado about nothing? Did he dare
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Speaker 1: quote Shakespeare? Oh? Yes he did, But let's see about that.
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Speaker 1: Deltino's parents say they believe Jeter is guilty of killing
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Speaker 1: their daughter. They also said a lot of information connected
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Speaker 1: to the case has not been released to public. As
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Speaker 1: of right now, no one has been formally charged, no
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Speaker 1: one has been tried, nobody has been convicted. What happened
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Speaker 1: to Rachel Deltondau? What more do we know? Her past
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Speaker 1: is extremely important to the fact that she was murdered
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Speaker 1: execution style in her parents' own driveway ed mushrooms out
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Speaker 1: of control. Take a listen to our cut thirteen.
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Speaker 5: Less than a month after she was murdered, there were
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Speaker 5: three police chiefs in that all Equippa police department in
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Speaker 5: the span of one week, three police chiefs, and in fact,
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Speaker 5: the third chief actually handed over the investigation to the
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Speaker 5: county Detectives Bureau, So that gives you a sentence. When
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Speaker 5: you have those kind of distractions, it's very, very difficult
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Speaker 5: to focus on an investigation. And in fact, Rachel's murder
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Speaker 5: is actually the ninth unsolved murder in that area, So
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Speaker 5: people are losing faith in the police department.
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Speaker 1: To James Shell not twenty seven years metro major case
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Speaker 1: swat officer now lawyer.
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Speaker 13: Way In, Well, I mean, I think that one of
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Speaker 13: the first things you have to do is you have
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Speaker 13: to go back and take a look at all the
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Speaker 13: possible suspects in this case and what her current relationship
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Speaker 13: was with them. You know, you have got an awful
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Speaker 13: lot of people that either need to be eliminated or
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Speaker 13: need to have tenued investigation.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 13: The concern that I have at this point in time
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Speaker 13: is that there are a lot of missed opportunities. There's
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Speaker 13: missed opportunities as far as taking a look at these witnesses,
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Speaker 13: getting things spend down, and I just I'm not sure
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Speaker 13: with the state of that department, with how things were handled,
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Speaker 13: whether or not they have lost some critical information that's
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Speaker 13: put them behind eight ball, you know.
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Speaker 1: G John Paul, Founderbiaver County dot com. The fact that
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Speaker 1: that police report was leaked, It should never have been
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Speaker 1: given to the fiance to start with, but it was
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Speaker 1: then it was leaked, that her reputation was destroyed, then
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Speaker 1: she was gutted down. Why was it leaked?
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Speaker 8: Well, I think that's I think that's a very good question.
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Speaker 8: I think that's one that investigators would like an answer to. Certainly.
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Speaker 8: The other big issue that to create a problem for
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Speaker 8: the police department is the leak was not just to
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Speaker 8: the police report, but it also contained sensitive information from
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Speaker 8: a lot enforcement only justice network database that hand and
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Speaker 8: that contained.
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Speaker 1: Also if you had that database, what could you learn?
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Speaker 1: What good is the database?
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Speaker 8: Well, it provided the photographs, driver's license numbers, social security numbers.
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Speaker 8: I mean, it was every bit of private information about
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Speaker 8: yourself that a police department might have or that the
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Speaker 8: state might have that you could imagine. So that leak
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Speaker 8: was much more than just the report. It was a
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Speaker 8: sensitive personal information in state of Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 1: It's unlawfuled very sensitive.
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Speaker 11: Nancy, can I make a comment about that yes jump
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Speaker 11: In my clinical practice, whenever somebody reports to me that
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Speaker 11: their lover, their boyfriend, their friend is threatening to expose
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Speaker 11: them to their employer, I always think homicide. That's my
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Speaker 11: first worry that crosses my mind, because when you love somebody,
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Speaker 11: when you want to marry them, when they are your
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Speaker 11: best friend, when you've cherished that relationship, the last thing
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Speaker 11: you want to do is cause them to lose their job.
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Speaker 11: The last thing you want to do is be smirched
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Speaker 11: their reputation, make them look terrible. But whoever either released
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Speaker 11: that report or once it got into the hands of
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Speaker 11: the fiance, whoever sent it to the school board had
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Speaker 11: simmering hate and resentment towards her. They wanted to take
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Speaker 11: her down. When you report something negative to somebody's employer,
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Speaker 11: you're not thinking about their future anymore. You're cutting their
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Speaker 11: life short professionally, and that kind of person might have
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Speaker 11: wanted to cut her life short in a dramatic physical
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Speaker 11: way too well.
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Speaker 1: Bethany. Less than one month after Rachel was murdered, three
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Speaker 1: police chiefs in the span of one week. The last
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Speaker 1: chief turned the investigation over to county detectives. Rachel's murder
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Speaker 1: the night dune saw murder in the area. Okay to you,
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Speaker 1: Joe Scott Morgan and the aftermath of her murder. Three
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Speaker 1: police chiefs.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's.
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Speaker 1: If somebody's covering something up, Joe Scott. That's all I
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Speaker 1: can say about.
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Speaker 3: That something is yea, I absolutely agree with you. And
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Speaker 3: also to this point. Look, I'm a death investigator by trade.
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Speaker 3: That's all I have literally ever done, and so it
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Speaker 3: is the single most intense investigation from a forensic standpoint
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Speaker 3: that you can conduct. If your eyes are not on
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Speaker 3: the ball in a case like this and other cases
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Speaker 3: that this department is intimately involved with, you're going to
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Speaker 3: miss You're going to miss the big picture because you're
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Speaker 3: skipping over the finer details. They don't have time to
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Speaker 3: analyze the finer details because they're too busy, you know,
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Speaker 3: not being able to to take care of their own house. Here.
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Speaker 3: This is a major problem.
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Speaker 1: It's a huge mess. John Paul, Founder Beaver County in
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Speaker 1: dot com. Why three police chiefs in the aftermath of
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Speaker 1: her murder? What's happening?
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Speaker 8: Well, the first police chief was suspended when a councilman
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Speaker 8: came forward and said that he was aware that the
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Speaker 8: chief was the subject of a criminal investigation by the
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Speaker 8: state police.
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Speaker 1: Okay, but about the second one.
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Speaker 8: The second one was arrested by county detectives after he
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Speaker 8: had allegedly sent a pornographic image to Lauren Watkins, who
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Speaker 8: was the friend that dropped Rachel Deltondo off at home
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Speaker 8: the night that she was killed. And then the third
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Speaker 8: chief was the one that eventually turned it over to
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Speaker 8: county detectives. And that chief has since passed.
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Speaker 1: So all of this is stemming out were connected to
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Speaker 1: Rachel del Tondo's murder, and it's still und okay, question,
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Speaker 1: let's hear now, what's happening.
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Speaker 5: Just hours after Rachel Deltanda was killed, police were at
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Speaker 5: Sheldon Jeter's doorstep looking to question him, and a search
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Speaker 5: warrant application indicates that that visit raised questions. It states
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Speaker 5: that they asked Sheldon for the clothing he was wearing
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Speaker 5: that night, and he gave them other clothes.
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Speaker 3: That's not how it went down.
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Speaker 12: There was a polo clothes laying on the floor next
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Speaker 12: to his bed where he was sleeping. They got up
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Speaker 12: and said, are these the clothes that you were wearing?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Oh, my clothes are right there, So they scooped.
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Speaker 5: It up Sheldon's attorney insists it's not his client's fault
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Speaker 5: that the cops picked up the wrong clothes, but the
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Speaker 5: Warren application also states Sheldon failed to display any emotion
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Speaker 5: when he was informed of Rachel's death.
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Speaker 8: That's absolutely untrue.
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Speaker 6: He was shocked.
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Speaker 8: He was in shock.
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Speaker 5: Lauren Wwkins, who has known Sheldon since elementary school, says
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Speaker 5: she doesn't believe he's capable of murder. She says she
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Speaker 5: never knew Rachel and Sheldon to have any type of
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Speaker 5: romantic relationship.
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Speaker 1: Guys, what happened to Rachel Daltando? It sounds like a
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Speaker 1: huge mess, you know, Ashley Wilcott, When you have to
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Speaker 1: hand your investigation over to somebody else like here, they
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Speaker 1: handed it over to county sheriffs. That's a horrible sign. God,
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Speaker 1: it says to me, something stinks.
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Speaker 9: Oh, I completely agree with you. And don't forget a
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Speaker 9: couple of little facts that I want to remind everybody about.
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Speaker 9: Number one is the fiance. I understood his father was
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Speaker 9: law enforcement at some point. The one of the girls
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Speaker 9: that she was having ice cream with I believe was
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Speaker 9: related to law enforcements. It is a tangled web, and
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Speaker 9: it's a mess. And let me just say this, When
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Speaker 9: you have this much turnover, I work for a county.
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Speaker 9: Right when you have this much turnover, there are bigger issues.
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Speaker 9: You've got major problems. And I think the major problem
38:58
Speaker 9: here is people know things and are doing nothing about
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Speaker 9: it to solve.
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Speaker 1: This murder, the murder of Rachel del Tondo on Mother's Day.
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Speaker 1: At this hour, we learned that the so called lover,
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Speaker 1: younger lover and former student has been named as prime
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Speaker 1: suspect in the young teacher's murderer, Sheldon Jeter. We wait
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Speaker 1: as justice unfolds. Goodbye,