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  Speaker 1: On Chris Hansen right now on crime Watch Daily from
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  Speaker 1: here in New York. Murder mystery in the Bay Area.
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  Speaker 2: It was a very violent crime scene.
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  Speaker 1: A single mom working as a nanny savagely killed.
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  Speaker 3: She was raped, she was murdered.
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  Speaker 1: Detectives investigate a bartender and a boyfriend.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously I'm gonna be the first suspect.
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  Speaker 1: But they hit a wall when the last people to
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  Speaker 1: see Ashley Yamauchi alive abruptly stop talking.
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  Speaker 5: They know something I really feel strongly about that.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a giant cover up? Melissa McCarty is on
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  Speaker 1: the Cage plus a crime Watched Daily update. The haunt
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  Speaker 1: for an adorable six year old Arizona girl ends with
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  Speaker 1: a gruesome discovery.
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  Speaker 6: I wasn't there.
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  Speaker 7: I wasn't there to stuff as a rabbity team.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, But the mystery deepens the body of
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  Speaker 1: Isabelle Sellis was found suspiciously close to another missing girl's body.
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  Speaker 1: Are the two unsolved cases connected? Right now? Andrea isisen
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  Speaker 1: Ser with Crimewatch Daily.
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  Speaker 6: Jason Mattaro a Crime Watch Daily. This, I'm Elizabeth, I'm
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  Speaker 6: here with Crimewat.
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  Speaker 8: Michelle from Crimewatch Daily is crime Watchdale We'll.
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  Speaker 6: Find you again.
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  Speaker 9: We always dooco So.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Crime Watch Daily everyone. I'm Chris Hansen. We
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  Speaker 1: start today in northern California, where a single mom was
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  Speaker 1: brutally murdered and police need help finding her killer. Our
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  Speaker 1: Melissa McCarty is here now with all new details.
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  Speaker 10: Hey Melissa, Chris Ashley YMO. She wasn't nanny and doing
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  Speaker 10: what she could to take care of her eight year
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  Speaker 10: old daughter, but after a night out at her favorite
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  Speaker 10: local bar, Ashley would end up dead. A brother's anguish
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  Speaker 10: captured in words written just hours after receiving the worst
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  Speaker 10: news of his life.
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  Speaker 3: Do you want me to read it to you?
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  Speaker 4: I can read it to you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: On December sixteenth, thirty two, half clad and lifeless is
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  Speaker 3: how they found you. The death of my sister puts
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  Speaker 3: a hole in my heart. But the way you were
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  Speaker 3: took is the unbearable part. What happened to you prior
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  Speaker 3: to your untimely death? Did you plead firing for help
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  Speaker 3: with your last dying breath?
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  Speaker 10: Did she plead for help?
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  Speaker 2: This was a moving fight, a vicious, moving fight.
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  Speaker 10: Did anyone hear anything at all?
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  Speaker 3: She was raped, she was murdered.
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  Speaker 10: What really happened the night Ashley yama Ucci was killed.
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  Speaker 4: No real man ever truths a woman like that?
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  Speaker 10: And why is no one talking?
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  Speaker 2: I believe there's more to this story.
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  Speaker 4: This isn't a murder.
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  Speaker 10: It is a picture. Those who knew Ashley yama Uchi
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  Speaker 10: might find odd because it appears this was one of
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  Speaker 10: the very last times she would be photographed without a
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  Speaker 10: smile on her face.
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  Speaker 6: She was always smiling, She was always happy. I met
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  Speaker 6: Ashley in fourth grade. We lived down the street from
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  Speaker 6: each other, and after school the first day of fourth grade,
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  Speaker 6: my doorbell rang and it was her and she's said, Hi,
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  Speaker 6: I'm Ashley. Do you want to be friends?
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  Speaker 10: She randomly knocked on your door, just randomly knocked on
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  Speaker 10: my door. That's going to be my friend.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: And that was just the beginning of what her family
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  Speaker 10: would describe as typical Ashley.
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  Speaker 1: She just speaks her mind. There's no filter.
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  Speaker 4: Really.
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  Speaker 10: What kind of things did she like to do?
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  Speaker 4: She collected a lot of shoes.
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  Speaker 10: Actually, she was a shoe collector.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she had a lot of shoes.
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  Speaker 10: Not the cheapest habit, but to make ends meet, the
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  Speaker 10: Bay Area native worked as a full time nanny.
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  Speaker 3: She loved the kids, She definitely had fun with the kids.
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  Speaker 10: Which was good considering she gave birth to one of
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  Speaker 10: her own at the age of twenty five, a little
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  Speaker 10: girl she adored.
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  Speaker 3: She became more responsible, made sure that she was well
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  Speaker 3: taken care of.
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  Speaker 10: Unfortunately, things didn't work out between Ashley and the father
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  Speaker 10: of her child, but by most accounts, they kept things amicable.
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  Speaker 6: They had to split custody her and the father.
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  Speaker 10: Eventually, Ashley met a new man named Parker, and they
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  Speaker 10: quickly became a serious couple.
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  Speaker 6: I knew Parker, I met him through her. He was
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  Speaker 6: a nice guy.
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  Speaker 10: He cared about Ashley a lot, and she was happy
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  Speaker 10: with him.
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  Speaker 6: She always knew that that's who she would end up with.
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  Speaker 10: Really said.
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  Speaker 6: They had their problems, but she always said that that's
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  Speaker 6: who she was going to end up with.
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  Speaker 10: But then just how big were those problems? There was
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  Speaker 10: at least one report of domestic violence during their five
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  Speaker 10: year relationship, and though the two appeared to stick it out,
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  Speaker 10: by the time Ashley was thirty three, she seemed to
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  Speaker 10: be making some big changes, as in pack up and
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  Speaker 10: move to the other side of the country. Big now.
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  Speaker 10: When she told you, Hey, I'm going to New York
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  Speaker 10: In a few weeks. What did she say was the
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  Speaker 10: reason for that to.
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  Speaker 6: Go to school to be an insthetuician. She had talked
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  Speaker 6: about it for several months before and when she had
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  Speaker 6: the opportunity, she really wanted to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Just two weeks before.
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  Speaker 3: She passed, we were actually my mom and I We
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  Speaker 3: were helping her move her stuff, package stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Up, so it was in motion.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, would you say she was in a happy place.
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  Speaker 5: I think she was excited about uh school, but she
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  Speaker 5: was having a little bit of problems also, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I guess with somebody else.
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  Speaker 10: That's somebody else Ashley's mom believes was the father of
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  Speaker 10: Ashley's daughter.
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  Speaker 5: Because I don't think he wanted her to go to
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  Speaker 5: New York, you know. I think there was a big
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  Speaker 5: fuse going on then about her deciding to go there.
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  Speaker 10: A moot point now, as Ashley would never make that trip. Monday,
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  Speaker 10: December fifteenth, Ashley walks from work to hang out at
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  Speaker 10: one of her favorite bars, a place well known to
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  Speaker 10: Lieutenant Raffello Patta of the San Rafel PD. Tell me
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  Speaker 10: about this bar, it was.
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  Speaker 2: Called the Fourth Street Tavern.
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  Speaker 4: I used to go there.
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  Speaker 2: It just was a great place. I mean, it was
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  Speaker 2: one of those places where you felt comfortable going there.
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  Speaker 6: She frequently went there, and I know that she was
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  Speaker 6: friends with the people that were regulars.
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  Speaker 10: There, including the bartender.
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  Speaker 6: The bartender I know is a friend of hers because
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  Speaker 6: I've seen in her camera pictures of him at her.
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  Speaker 10: House, and as far as anyone knows, that bartender would
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  Speaker 10: be one of the last people to see Ashley alive.
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  Speaker 10: The next morning, December sixteenth, rain slicks streets from the
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  Speaker 10: night before in a gruesome discovery in the parking lot
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  Speaker 10: behind the Fourth Street tavern.
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  Speaker 2: We heard what was reported to be a dead child
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  Speaker 2: atter naked behind this bar. We got there with and
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  Speaker 2: it was really clear when we walked up that this
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  Speaker 2: was a very bad incident.
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  Speaker 10: Torn clothes, bruised flush. Ashley is the phyxiated body left
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  Speaker 10: wedged between a parked car and an old chain link fence.
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  Speaker 2: I have to tell you it was one of the
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  Speaker 2: more difficult scenes that I'd been to. It was a
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  Speaker 2: very violent crime scene.
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  Speaker 4: It looked to me like she.
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  Speaker 2: Fought very hard and that she did everything she could
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  Speaker 2: to get away from this person. This was like a
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  Speaker 2: desperate struggle to survive.
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  Speaker 10: Now there was evidence of a sexual assault, as well,
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  Speaker 10: you believe she was raped or an attempt.
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  Speaker 2: It was pretty obvious that if that wasn't the primary
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  Speaker 2: motivator for the attacker, it definitely was included in the attack.
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  Speaker 2: But she was found nude from the waist down.
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  Speaker 10: And these were the details Ashley's family and friends would
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  Speaker 10: soon have to hear, forced final images of the person
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  Speaker 10: they loved.
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  Speaker 3: My brother had called me and asked if I had
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  Speaker 3: heard about actually being murdered, and I had thought, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I thought he was playing some sick and twisted joke.
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  Speaker 3: At first, I said, come on, you know, shut up,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and he said, no, you know, this is
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  Speaker 3: I'm serious, And I shut.
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  Speaker 4: Up, you know, didn't believe him.
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  Speaker 3: And then when he put my mom on the phone,
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  Speaker 3: then I got you know, I realized this is serious.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 10: In fact, it was Ashley's mother who helped confirm the
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  Speaker 10: identity of her body.
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  Speaker 5: I called it the police piry and I called him
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  Speaker 5: bout the tattoo ashually tattoo on her leg, and then
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  Speaker 5: he said, yeah, And that's what I knew.
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  Speaker 4: It's true, the.
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  Speaker 10: Horrific way in which she died, and that her eight
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  Speaker 10: year old daughter now had no mother. These things were clear,
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  Speaker 10: the questions still unanswered. Do you think it was random?
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  Speaker 10: Do you think she with someone she knew? Coming up?
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  Speaker 2: We found some physical evidence.
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  Speaker 10: The investigation into who killed Ashley yama Ucci.
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  Speaker 6: I heard some guy walked up and said, what are
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  Speaker 6: you doing with my girl?
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  Speaker 4: And she's the only woman that I ever love?
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  Speaker 10: A revealing interview with Ashley's boyfriend, there was a domestic
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  Speaker 10: issue years ago between you two where police were involved.
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  Speaker 10: Can you explain that?
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  Speaker 1: Was it a crime of passion or was it rather
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  Speaker 1: a crime of opportunity? These are the questions police are
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  Speaker 1: asking after a single mother is found dead in a
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  Speaker 1: parking lot behind her favorite bar. Melissa McCarty is back
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  Speaker 1: with more of our all new investigations.
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  Speaker 10: A doting mom, an infectious smile. These are no longer
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  Speaker 10: the first images Keith Yamaguchi imagines when he thinks about
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  Speaker 10: his little sister Ashley. Does the dark overshadow of the
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  Speaker 10: light for you? At this point?
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  Speaker 3: Fur less of a better term, I guess yeah, because
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  Speaker 3: of what happened to her, Like I get scenarios in
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  Speaker 3: my head. It's almost like a nightmare, a.
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  Speaker 10: Nightmare in which Ashley Yamauchi was beaten sexually assaulted and
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  Speaker 10: suffocated after leaving a San Rafel, California bar, But while
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  Speaker 10: her body was left out behind the bar for all
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  Speaker 10: to see, who killed her was much less clear.
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  Speaker 2: This has been a difficult case from the beginning, and
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  Speaker 2: we have not caught a break on this.
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  Speaker 10: In the hours after the discovery, investigators canvassed the area,
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  Speaker 10: starting with the large apartment complex immediately adjacent to where
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  Speaker 10: the murder occurred. Did you have an abundance of witnesses?
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  Speaker 2: Part of our investigation. We went knocked on every door
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  Speaker 2: and we couldn't find anybody that had heard anything. It
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  Speaker 2: had stormed the night before. Some people suggested that it
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  Speaker 2: was because the rain was coming down pretty hard. You'd
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  Speaker 2: think somebody would have heard something, so we're told they didn't.
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  Speaker 10: Investigators also collected as much evidence as they could at
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  Speaker 10: the scene, including DNA from Ashley's body, but because of
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  Speaker 10: her prolonged exposure to the rain the night before, the
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  Speaker 10: tests come back inconclusive.
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  Speaker 2: We found some physical evidence that is helpful. Technology has
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  Speaker 2: not totally come along to the point where we can
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  Speaker 2: test all of it.
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  Speaker 10: So no smoking gun pointing to Ashley's killer and no
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  Speaker 10: witnesses outside the bar. But when police start asking questions inside,
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  Speaker 10: a clear picture of Ashley's final hours began to emerge.
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  Speaker 10: Do you think it was random? Do you think she
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  Speaker 10: left with someone she knew?
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  Speaker 2: That the bar itself really was the bartender and a
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  Speaker 2: couple of the patrons that were inside. This was close
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  Speaker 2: to closing time. What I know is it she went
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  Speaker 2: outside with somebody she'd met in the bar, and who knows,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people go out the back door to
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  Speaker 2: have a smoke whatever. What we're told is that the
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  Speaker 2: bartender closed the door and locked it because he didn't
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  Speaker 2: want people going in and out of the back door.
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  Speaker 2: That was a business thing.
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  Speaker 10: But Ashley's friend, Kelly McCormack says she's heard a slightly
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  Speaker 10: different version of the night.
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  Speaker 6: I heard she was talking to somebody who she knew
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  Speaker 6: that was in that circle, and some guy walked up
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  Speaker 6: and said, what are you doing with my girl? And
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  Speaker 6: that the guy she was standing with just ran away
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  Speaker 6: because he was scared.
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  Speaker 10: No comment from police on that rumor, but Lieutenant Potta
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  Speaker 10: says they did eventually track down the person Ashley supposedly left.
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  Speaker 4: With that night.
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  Speaker 2: Took a little doing to find that person, but we
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  Speaker 2: eventually did. He was a person that was very interesting
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  Speaker 2: to us because he had some behavior things that made
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  Speaker 2: it kind of suspicious. You know, he pretty much picked
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  Speaker 2: up and left right after the incident, didn't stick around,
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  Speaker 2: didn't come forward to the police.
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  Speaker 10: But the man apparently denied any involvement, and with no
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  Speaker 10: physical evidence or witnesses to the murder, Cox had no
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  Speaker 10: cause to charge him. Then again, he wasn't the only
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  Speaker 10: person police wanted to talk to. There was the father
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  Speaker 10: of Ashley's child, who police questioned and quickly released, and
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  Speaker 10: then someone else. And you were saying at the time
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  Speaker 10: she had a boyfriend police interviewed him. I think so, yeah,
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  Speaker 10: Parker Harper, Ashley's long term boyfriend, though the two had
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  Speaker 10: lived together for most of their five year relationship, at
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  Speaker 10: the time of Ashley's murder, she was staying with a
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  Speaker 10: friend before moving to New York and Parker was living elsewhere.
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  Speaker 10: In fact, Parker himself says he was one of the
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  Speaker 10: first people questioned by police in the hours after Ashley's death,
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  Speaker 10: and now he's agreed to sit down with Crime Watch
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  Speaker 10: Daily to tell his sign of the story about that night.
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  Speaker 10: Did you talk to her that night?
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  Speaker 4: You know, she texted me telling me that she was
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  Speaker 4: going to go down to the bar. I just texted
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  Speaker 4: her a good night, you don't be careful, and that
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  Speaker 4: was it.
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  Speaker 10: And then the morning after.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I texted her a few times that morning
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  Speaker 4: and like she didn't respond, which wasn't really that odd,
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  Speaker 4: and I feared she was still asleep. And the police
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  Speaker 4: came to my work and basically took me outside and
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  Speaker 4: told me, you know, that she had passed away. From there,
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  Speaker 4: we went to the police station. Obviously, I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: be the first suspect, because unfortunately, in most of these situations,
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  Speaker 4: it is someone you know, and it is of a
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  Speaker 4: man or like a domestic violent situation.
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  Speaker 10: And even Parker admits there was reason to suspect this
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  Speaker 10: could have been that. I just want you to clear
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  Speaker 10: up if you could, for us, there was a domestic
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  Speaker 10: issue years ago between you two where police were involved.
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  Speaker 4: Can you explain that you like the party? You know,
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  Speaker 4: I was drinking, she was drinking, and things got out
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  Speaker 4: of hand, people got shoved, I paid for you know,
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  Speaker 4: I you know, I have anger issues, just something I
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  Speaker 4: really regret in my life.
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  Speaker 10: Parker says he and Ashley quickly patched things up after that.
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  Speaker 10: As for what police thought past that.
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  Speaker 4: First interview, I didn't feel like I was a suspect
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  Speaker 4: at all, but obviously it has to cross their minds.
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  Speaker 10: Officially, police have ruled out no one, but according to Parker,
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  Speaker 10: as well as Ashley's friends and family, the relationship was
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  Speaker 10: strong and even though Ashley was getting ready to move,
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  Speaker 10: temporary distance didn't mean permanent separation. When you guys were
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  Speaker 10: talking about the future, your future, what did that look
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  Speaker 10: like like?
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully, you know, like marriage and more family, you know,
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  Speaker 4: But I mean that was something we both wanted and
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  Speaker 4: talked about. But uh, yeah, that's definitly didn't happen.
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  Speaker 10: She's pretty much your world at this point. I mean,
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  Speaker 10: she was your family, she was your best friend, she
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  Speaker 10: was the love.
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  Speaker 4: Of your life. Oh definitely, yeah, just tuk. She's the
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  Speaker 4: only woman that I ever loved.
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  Speaker 10: And when it comes to the person who so violently
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  Speaker 10: took her from.
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  Speaker 4: The world, what kind of worthless piece steals an eight
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  Speaker 4: year old o It's mother because they can't have their
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  Speaker 4: sexual needs met? Disgusting?
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  Speaker 10: So who was that man? After questioning multiple people and
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  Speaker 10: following up on several leads, police decided to go back
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  Speaker 10: to the bar to ask more questions, and that's when
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  Speaker 10: everything suddenly changed. Now I'm told this bar owner was
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  Speaker 10: an exactly eager to help out. Did he tell his
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  Speaker 10: employees not to talk?
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  Speaker 2: We were told that they did not have to talk
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  Speaker 2: to us, and then all of a sudden, everybody didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to talk to us without a lawyer, which blew
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  Speaker 2: us away.
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  Speaker 10: Coming up, we do know that he was one of
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  Speaker 10: the last people to see Ashley yama Uji alive. I
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  Speaker 10: go searching for answers from one of Ashley's last contacts,
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  Speaker 10: and I.
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  Speaker 2: Have this sick feeling that we may have talked to
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  Speaker 2: this person.
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  Speaker 10: How close are police to finding the killer?
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  Speaker 1: Now to the conclusion of today's murder mystery out of
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  Speaker 1: Northern California, let's head back to Melissa McCarty Chris.
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  Speaker 10: Lieutenant Ralph Potta has only one unsolved Thomas side in
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  Speaker 10: his long career, the murder of Ashley yama Uchi, and
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  Speaker 10: he is determined to close this case just like all
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  Speaker 10: the others. It's been eight years since soon to be
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  Speaker 10: retired Lieutenant Rafello Pottack began investigating this savage murder of
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  Speaker 10: Ashley yama Uchi.
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  Speaker 2: I have a year and a half left. I really
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  Speaker 2: don't want to leave with this left behind. I want
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  Speaker 2: to bring some justice to Ashley, to her daughter, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't think people should get away with murder.
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  Speaker 10: But since the beginning, police have caught few breaks. DNA
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  Speaker 10: evidence found at the scene has come back inconclusive, and
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  Speaker 10: that's not all. Not long after Ashley's murder, detectives went
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  Speaker 10: back to talk to the people at the bar where
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  Speaker 10: she was last seen alive and later found dead. But
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  Speaker 10: to Lieutenant Potta's surprise, everyone suddenly stopped talking. You mentioned
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  Speaker 10: the bar owner. Did he tell his employees to not
• 19:04
  Speaker 10: speak to you?
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I think initially he was trying to be as helpful
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: as he could, But without speaking for him, I could
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: only assume that there was some apprehension, perhaps because it
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: happened in the bar, I mean brings attention, unwanted attention
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: to them by the police and buy the alcoholic beverage
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: control board and the community in which they're in.
• 19:30
  Speaker 10: So I get that, but this is a homicide, and
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: Ashley's loved one say it's long pastime for someone to
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: say something.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: I do feel that the bar has something, they know something,
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: I really feel strongly about that.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: You know, what if that was your wife, you know,
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: I mean people don't like to talk to the cops.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: I understand that, but I mean, there's no gray area here.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: There's no there's no gray area. This is black or white.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: This isn't a murder, you know.
• 20:10
  Speaker 10: Crime Watch Daily wanted to get the bartender side of
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: the story, but failed to reach him by phone. Still,
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: we were determined to give him his say. If we
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: end up visiting this bartender, is there anything that you
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: would want to ask or want him to answer?
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: Who is she talking to that night? He was the
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: one serving her all night. He would know if someone
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: was buying her drinks. He would know if she was
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: talking to a stranger or somebody that she knew. He's
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: I think has more answers than anybody.
• 20:44
  Speaker 10: And with that assertion in mind, we tracked down two
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: possible addresses. There was no answer at the first address,
• 20:54
  Speaker 10: so I went to door number two, unfortunately, another dead end.
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: We knocked several times and no one answered. We do
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: know that he is one of the last people to
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: see Ashley Yamauchi alive that night. Do you think police
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: will ever find who's responsible for killing her?
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: I think they know who's responsible for killing her Unfortunately,
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: at this point, there's nothing they can do about it.
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: In fact, Lieutenant Patta nearly confirms as much, but he
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: also says they may be closer than ever.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: You know, I looked at this case yesterday just to
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: go over it one more time, and I was rereading
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: a statement from somebody and it kind of made my
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: blood go cold when I read it. I believe we've
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: talked to this guy. I think the person that did
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: this has sat where you're sitting and we've had a conversation.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I can't prove it, which is why this case has
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: gone no farther at this point. But I just, I
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: just I have this sick feeling that we may have talked.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: To this person.
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: Lieutenant Potta says he's now narrowed his focus to at
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: least three people, and while he couldn't tell us who
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: they are, he says they should know justice could be
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: coming soon.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: We resubmit physical evidence all the time in this case,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: so we're not done with it. It's just a matter
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: of technology catching up to what we have.
• 22:19
  Speaker 11: What would you say to that person if they were watching,
• 22:24
  Speaker 11: I would say, take a deep breath, admit what she did,
• 22:29
  Speaker 11: be responsible to be accountable.
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: Accountable for a night that would change multiple lives.
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: This person still enjoys their family, their friends, they go out,
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: they continue living, and for no reason, she doesn't. Her
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: daughter doesn't have a mother, Her mom doesn't have a daughter.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: I do miss her.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: I do miss her a lot.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: All I care about right now, it's just this for us.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: We're actually and my granddaughter.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: I think about her every day. I want her daughter
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: didn't know how much she loved her. She was doing
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: what she was doing to try to make good for her.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: You know, we just have to try to, you know,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: just remember all the good things and forget about the
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: scumbag that did this. But I'll always love her.
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: As for Ashley's brother, who still has nightmares about his
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: little sister's final moments, the pain today is as visceral
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: as it was when he sat down and wrote this
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: poem to read at her funeral.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Why were you all alone? And where were your friends?
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Were you with a cold killer? But as a friend,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: he pretends, I worry for mom and how to relieve
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: some of her pain. How can I help her If
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: I can't even maintain whoever he did is evil? They
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: can't be undone. I wish your fears turn reality as
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: the final outcome. The sorrow I feel as an overwhelming
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: pain to know I won't see you alive every game.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Someone out there knows what happened to Ashley, and police
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: have fifty thousand reads for them to step forward. That's
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: the amount of the reward for anyone who provides new
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: information that leads to an arrest and conviction in this case.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: If you know anything, you can call the sanra Fell
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Police Department's tip line. That number is one four five
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: forty five, three thousand. Up next, a heartbreaking mystery in
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Tucson after a six year old is snatched from her bedroom.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Could Little Isabelle's kidnapping be connected to the case of
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: another missing girl? Crime Watch Daily with the new clues
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: just discovered by police coming up now as a crime
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Watch Daily update on the story we brought you out
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: of Arizona. A six year old girl is tucked into
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: bed by her parents. However, the next morning she's gone,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: and police say it appears she was snatched right from
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: her bedroom window in the wastelands of the Arizona Desert
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: outside Tucson. Investigators have just made a grim discovery the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: remains of a little girl. Isabelle Sellers, an adorable six
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: year old girl, kidnap and taken through her bedroom window
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: in the dead of the night. I didn't make much sarger,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: so consider a dramatic new development in the cold case
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: of a little girl lost.
• 25:21
  Speaker 12: The two Some Police department will continue to actively pursue
• 25:26
  Speaker 12: those responsible for any kind of involvement in Isabelle's death
• 25:32
  Speaker 12: and disappearance.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Is Isabelle's kidnapping connected to the case of another missing girl?
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Will investigators find answers in this surveillance video shot the
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: night isabel vanished and will DNA solve this cold case
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: those baffled police and terrified families in Tucson. Isabelle was
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the baby of the Seller's family, adored by her parents,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Becky and Sergio, and her two older brothers.
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: She has her brother's around her fingers, so whatever she
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: wanted them to do, they did. And she loves to paint.
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: She loves to color and do things like that in baseball.
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: She loved to play in baseball.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: It was just after eleven PM when Becky laid out
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Isabelle's softball uniform for a game the next morning that
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: she kissed her daughter a good night, and.
• 26:19
  Speaker 8: I'm like, okay, he's the bell and you're getting really tired.
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: It's probably time for you to go to bed, and
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: you have to get up early, and so does mom.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: The next morning, Becky goes to work in Sergio goes
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: to wake up Isabelle for her game, but finds her
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: bed empty.
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: Boys are waking up at this point, and so I'm like, January,
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: your sister's at and You're like no, and started looking
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: everywhere and then started saying, boys, help me find her.
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: I don't know where she's at.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Sergio and his sons frantically searched the house and yard.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Then one of the sons comes to him with chilling.
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: News and I'm looking in the garage and that's when
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: Ceitio came running in and saying, Dad, her screens laying
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: on the back you know, her windows busted out.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Sergio races to the back yard. He finds Isabelle's bedroom
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: window wide open, the screen is on the ground. It
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: looks like someone snatched little Isabelle from her own bed.
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: Kind of you know, freaking out. At this point, came
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: back in here, called Becky at work.
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: I can't remember the drive at all. I just know
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: that I was freaking out and scared, and I just
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: out of my mind.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Becky calls nine to one one, barely holding it together.
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: So who noticed her?
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: Gone?
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: Your husband?
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: My husband?
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: I went to work this morning at seven, and I
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: just I didn't even commit sir.
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: Okay, they're almost there, man, Okay.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: In the backyard, police find a set of work boot
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: footprints near an electrical box and on top of a
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: gas meter. Then a shotgun. Cops turned the spotlight on Sergio,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Isabel's father. While Becky's call to nine one one appeared
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: to be panicked, Sergio's was anything but.
• 27:57
  Speaker 11: Hello, I need to report a missing child.
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: At least she was adapted from my house.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: Is mom there also, and she had just lets work.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: I just called her and I told her to gift
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: her that homework.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Sergio's explanation. He couldn't bring himself to believe his little
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: girl had been taken.
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: I didn't want to be frantic. I didn't want to
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: be panicked. I wanted to be as articulate as I could,
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: you know, I didn't want to be misunderstood.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: As the months passed, the Sellers family is put under
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the police microscope from.
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: The beginning, the police said, everybody's a person of interest.
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: We're okay with going through the ringer and having everything
• 28:34
  Speaker 8: part of our lives investigated, and by all means go
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: right ahead.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: What does Sergio say to people who assume he might
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: have something to do with Isabelle's disappearance?
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: Nothing?
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: I mean, I really don't know what to answer to that, because,
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: other than you're wrong.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: It may appear to be suspicious behavior, but Sergio has
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: never been named a suspect.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: All the family members have been interviewed, and.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: We haven't ruled anybody out.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Could there be clues in this surveillance video uncovered by
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Crimewatch Daily. It comes from three store security cameras pointing
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: toward Isabel's street. At one twenty four am, a large
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: van passes through. Two thirty six am, a private security
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: vehicle stops and hits the lights. Then at three point
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: thirty two am, a figure crosses the front parking line.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: A little later another figure of a man crossing. Then
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: at about eight forty five am, you can see Isabelle's
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: family searching around the house, and here you see Becky
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: racing home in her suv. But never did we see
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: an image of a little girl. Next, Sergio hires his
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: own private investigator. He points the finger at another family member.
• 29:48
  Speaker 9: The same individual shipped his car off to another state,
• 29:52
  Speaker 9: then hired one of the best lawyers in Tucson and Bengo.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Another red flag and.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: The possible link between Isabelle's murder is and another girl.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Now back to today's Crime Launch daily update on six
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: year old Isabelle Sells. The little Arizona girl went to
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: sleep in her room like she always did. However, she
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: would not be there in the morning. Now, after years
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: of searching for her, detectives have announced a huge development.
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: In the case.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: The discovery of the remains of six year old isabel
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Sells dramatically turned a kidnapping case into what could be
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: a murder investigation.
• 30:30
  Speaker 12: We appreciate the fact that this case has been very traumatic,
• 30:34
  Speaker 12: not only for the family and friends of the family,
• 30:37
  Speaker 12: but also for the entire larger community.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Cops keep details of their investigation under wraps, but they
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: say the discovery of Isabelle's remains in the desert was
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: not by happenstance. After Isabelle was snatched from her bedroom,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: investigators have been looking at everyone close to her, even
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: her own family.
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: It feels like the investor stigation has never gone any
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: further than right here. That's what is so frustrating.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: That frustration drove Isabel's parents, Sergio and Becky Selas to
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: hire a private investigator. His name is Jerry Snyder and
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: the person he believes to be the prime suspect a shocker.
• 31:18
  Speaker 9: We looked at one of the relatives of the family
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: and his friend that basically didn't have six hours that
• 31:26
  Speaker 9: they could explain as to where they were the day
• 31:28
  Speaker 9: that she went missing.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: That relative, Justin Moster Morino, Becky's cousin. Becky and Sergio,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: say he previously lived with them for more than a year.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: We need her home, safe, safe and sound.
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Moster Morino made this in passion plea the day Isabel vanished.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: But within two weeks, Justin himself disappeared from Tucson.
• 31:50
  Speaker 9: Shortly thereafter, the same individual shipped his car off to
• 31:54
  Speaker 9: another state. He then hired one of the best lawyers
• 31:58
  Speaker 9: in Tucson, criminal lawyer and you know Bingo. Another red flag.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Police never named Justin a suspect. He denied our request
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: for a comment, but the friend who claims he was
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: with him the night Isabelle disappeared. Did speak to our Andrea, Isiam,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: how you doing?
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: All right?
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: So it was April twentieth. Uh what it is?
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: You could say?
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Well, all right, cool, it's.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: The National Weed Smoking Day.
• 32:30
  Speaker 9: So of course we drank and smoked weed and you know,
• 32:34
  Speaker 9: did all the fun stuff.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: The Sella's family's private eye claimed Sebastian and Justin partied
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: until about two am, waking up around eight. What did
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Sebastian say, Masra Marina was doing during those six hours?
• 32:47
  Speaker 10: But you admit you don't know for sure if he
• 32:53
  Speaker 10: did leave that night.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: Well, of course I don't. Like I said, I was asleep,
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: but I guess not.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Prime Watch Daily wants to give Justin Mustermrino the opportunity
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: to tell us what he knows, if anything, about the
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: disappearance of Isabelle. Justin, we just have a couple of questions.
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: It's not a big deal.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: So Andrea went to his mother's place in Florida. That's
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: where the Sellers family PI says. He shipped his geep this.
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: Is the house, this is mom's house.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: This is where Justin, we're told, is staying.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know what else to do.
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: I think we have to do with.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Just hope to God he's in here.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: We tried every door, no response. Cops have been frustrated.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Many of the twenty two hundred leads they've gotten have
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: taken them to a dead end.
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: Some of them have shed some light on some things, others.
• 34:00
  Speaker 9: We're still working this case.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: It's an open, active investigation.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: And now there could be a new direction in the investigation.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Crime Launch Daily has learned exclusively that Isabelle's remains were
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: found just a quarter mile from the body of another
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: missing girl, thirteen year old Marabel Gonzales. Mirabelle vanished a
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: little over two years after Isabelle disappeared two son. Cops
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: aren't saying whether the two cases are connected. After the
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: terrified community learned that Isabelle was dead, friends and neighbors
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: held a candlelight vigil.
• 34:34
  Speaker 10: She's a little girl and we all have kids. Every year,
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: I would tell my husband, tell my family, you know,
• 34:42
  Speaker 10: we would just talk about it and really just pray
• 34:45
  Speaker 10: one day she would make it back home.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: But Isabelle never came home. That show of love and
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: compassion from strangers is small comfort to a family who
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: had hoped and prayed their precious little girl would someday
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: be found a lot.
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: More than anything.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: I am so sorry. I am so sorry.
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: I could protect you.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: I wasn't there.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: I wasn't there to stop this rappening to you.
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Please please please hear us.
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: I'm so sorry. I could protect you.