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EVERYONE was a suspect in this Broadway dancer’s murder... - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: In December of two thousand and five, a young woman
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  Speaker 1: walked down a sidewalk in New York City. There were
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  Speaker 1: Christmas decorations on all the buildings and Christmas lights.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was very festive.
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  Speaker 1: But as she walked along, she glanced over at a
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  Speaker 1: newspaper stand and she saw something on the front page
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  Speaker 1: of that paper that literally made her stop in her tracks.
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  Speaker 1: And not because it was festive, it was awful. Right
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  Speaker 1: there on the front page was a picture of the
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  Speaker 1: one thing in her life that she'd hoped she would
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  Speaker 1: never ever see again. But before we get into today's story,
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  Speaker 1: Story early on the evening of Sunday, November twenty seventh,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and five, a twenty one year old woman
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  Speaker 1: named Catherine Woods leaned towards the mirror to put on
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  Speaker 1: her eyeliner inside the bathroom of her small apartment in
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  Speaker 1: New York City. Catherine's phone was sitting on the bathroom
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  Speaker 1: counter and she heard it bus, but.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't even look to see who was calling.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't have time to talk to anyone because she
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  Speaker 1: had to finish getting ready for her seven o'clock shift
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  Speaker 1: at work. So Catherine had moved to New York City
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  Speaker 1: from Ohio three years earlier to pursue her dream of
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  Speaker 1: becoming a dancer on Broadway. But everything here was so
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  Speaker 1: expensive that in addition to chasing her dream, she also
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  Speaker 1: had to work three different just to make ends meet. Now,
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  Speaker 1: two of those jobs were pretty standard. She worked as
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  Speaker 1: a waitress and also taught children's dance classes. But tonight
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  Speaker 1: she was getting ready to go to her third job,
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  Speaker 1: and this job was not really standard at all. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: to her, she was sort of embarrassed about it, and
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  Speaker 1: because of that, she was keeping it a secret from almost.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody in her life.
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  Speaker 1: Her third job was working as a topless dancer at
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  Speaker 1: a strip club near Times Square called Flash Dancers. Catherine
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  Speaker 1: honestly hated the work, but it paid really well, and
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  Speaker 1: if she wanted to have her shot at Broadway, she
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  Speaker 1: needed to pay for voice lessons and dance classes. Now,
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  Speaker 1: she did live in Manhattan, which was the most expensive
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  Speaker 1: part of the already very expensive city, and she knew
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  Speaker 1: that she could save some money if she just moved
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  Speaker 1: to a neighborhood where rent was cheaper. But when she
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  Speaker 1: had first moved to New York, she had lived in
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  Speaker 1: a less expensive neighborhood for that reason, and unfortunately, her
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  Speaker 1: landlord had sexually assaulted her. The experience had been so
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  Speaker 1: traumatic that Catherine had at the time just leaving New
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  Speaker 1: York and going back to Ohio and just being done
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  Speaker 1: with this place. But in the end, she had decided
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  Speaker 1: to stay in New York and continue chasing her dream.
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  Speaker 2: Now she did move within New York.
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  Speaker 1: She'd gotten this apartment in Manhattan because it was a
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  Speaker 1: lot safer, and she also got a roommate to help
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  Speaker 1: with the cost.
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  Speaker 2: His name was David Hahn.
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  Speaker 1: He was twenty three, and he was one of Catherine's
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  Speaker 1: friends from back home in Ohio. But at this very moment,
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  Speaker 1: David was not inside the apartment. He'd gone outside to
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  Speaker 1: get his car so we could drive Catherine to work.
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  Speaker 1: Catherine finished her makeup and left the bathroom, and as
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  Speaker 1: she walked through the living room, she stepped over a
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  Speaker 1: black dog that was sleeping on the floor. The dog
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  Speaker 1: was not Catherine's, and it actually was not David's either.
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  Speaker 1: David was a part time dog sitter, so this dog
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  Speaker 1: was just staying with them while its owners were out
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  Speaker 1: of town. Just like Catherine, David also had a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of part time jobs to help make ends meet. When
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't dog sitting, he worked as a doorman at
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  Speaker 1: a hotel just up the street from their apartment. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Catherine and David had actually been romantic at one point.
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  Speaker 1: They had dated for a little while, but these days
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  Speaker 1: they were just roommates living together to split the bills,
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  Speaker 1: although secretly Catherine did sometimes wonder, if, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: they should give it another shot to try being a
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  Speaker 1: couple again. Thanksgiving had been a few days ago, and
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  Speaker 1: instead of going home to Ohio like she usually did,
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  Speaker 1: Catherine had stayed in New York and celebrated with David.
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  Speaker 1: And it had been a really nice time.
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  Speaker 2: Plus, David knew about.
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  Speaker 1: Catherine's third job of working at Flash Dancers, and he
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  Speaker 1: didn't judge her for it, and Catherine felt like a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people did, so she liked that about him.
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  Speaker 1: But the biggest hurdle that Catherine could see to potentially
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  Speaker 1: rekindling their relationship was the fact that David disliked basically
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  Speaker 1: every man she met, whether she.
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  Speaker 2: Was dating them or not. He just did not like them.
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  Speaker 1: Now, some of these guys, she could understand why David,
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  Speaker 1: you know, didn't like them, Like there was this guy Joe,
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  Speaker 1: that she had dated briefly, who really she had only
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  Speaker 1: met because he was a patron of her strip club.
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  Speaker 1: But then there were people like Paul, who was a
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  Speaker 1: personal trainer at Catherine's gym, who she'd only seen off
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  Speaker 1: and on, and who was nothing but nice to David.
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  Speaker 1: And even though Paul and Catherine were not dating now
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  Speaker 1: and mostly just spoke on the phone periodically, David still
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  Speaker 1: insisted that Paul was a creep.
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  Speaker 2: He just did not like the guy.
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  Speaker 1: But for now, Catherine figured, you know what, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to figure out my entire romantic life. I just
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  Speaker 1: need to finish getting ready and go downstairs so she
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't keep David waiting. So Catherine went into her bedroom
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  Speaker 1: and began getting dressed, and that's when she heard that
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  Speaker 1: dog start barking at something in the living room, and
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  Speaker 1: so curious, Catherine walked in that direction to see what
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  Speaker 1: was going on. A little while later, Catherine's roommate, David,
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  Speaker 1: walked quickly along the sidewalk to get his car, which
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  Speaker 1: was parked aways up the street. He was out of
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  Speaker 1: breath by the time he reached it. He knew he
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  Speaker 1: had to hurry, so he jumped in and he drove
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  Speaker 1: back to the apartment building and he called Catherine as
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  Speaker 1: he pulled up out front. When she didn't answer, he
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  Speaker 1: threw on his hazards and he climbed back out to
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  Speaker 1: go into the building to go get her. And he
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  Speaker 1: had just made it up the flight of stairs that
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  Speaker 1: led to his second floor apartment, and he was going
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  Speaker 1: down the hallway when he saw something that made him
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  Speaker 1: come to an abrupt stop. It was that black dog
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  Speaker 1: that he was dog sitting. Somehow, it had gotten out
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  Speaker 1: of the apartment and was just standing there in the
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  Speaker 1: shared hallway.
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  Speaker 2: Outside of his apartment door.
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  Speaker 1: David blinked and then realized that his neighbor, a man
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  Speaker 1: he rarely interacted with named Brad Stewart, was standing right
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  Speaker 1: behind the dog, and Brad was holding a leash that
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  Speaker 1: was clearly clipped onto the dog's collar. For a second,
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  Speaker 1: Brad looked surprised, and David was just completely confused about
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  Speaker 1: why this guy had the dog that he was dog
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  Speaker 1: sitting on a leash.
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  Speaker 2: But then Brad told David that he had found.
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  Speaker 1: The dog wandering around, recognized it as David's, and brought
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  Speaker 1: it back to his apartment. Brad said he had just
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  Speaker 1: knocked on David's apartment door, but so far nobody had answered,
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  Speaker 1: so at this point David understood, you know why Brad
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  Speaker 1: has the dog, but he didn't know why the dog
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  Speaker 1: was out of the apartment in the first place, but
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  Speaker 1: he kept that to himself and just thanked Brad took
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  Speaker 1: the leash and then stepped over to the door of
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  Speaker 1: his apartment number two D. The apartment door was shut,
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  Speaker 1: but when he turned the handle, he found that it
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  Speaker 1: was unlocked. David couldn't remember if he had left it
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  Speaker 1: unlocked or not, so he just opened it and he
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  Speaker 1: called out Catherine's name, but there was no answer, which
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  Speaker 1: was weird, so he stepped inside. Now he didn't see Catherine,
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  Speaker 1: but he did see the door to her bedroom was
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  Speaker 1: slightly cracked open, so he walked over to it and
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  Speaker 1: he called out to her again, and then when she
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  Speaker 1: didn't call back, he tried pushing her door open, but
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  Speaker 1: the door didn't really open. It instead swung maybe a
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  Speaker 1: few inches, and then stopped, and David felt resistance on
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  Speaker 1: the other side, like something maybe on the ground was
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  Speaker 1: holding the door from.
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  Speaker 2: Opening all the way.
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  Speaker 1: And so, now with all these strange things happening, David
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  Speaker 1: starting to feel pretty worried, and so the surge of
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  Speaker 1: adrenaline came over him and he just shoved the door
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  Speaker 1: open and he stuck his head in and he looked inside,
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  Speaker 1: and when he saw what was in there, he immediately
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  Speaker 1: pulled back, turned around, ran into the hallway, and he
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  Speaker 1: called the police. A half an hour later, around seven
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  Speaker 1: thirty PM, an NYPD detective named Stephen Getz walked up
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  Speaker 1: a flight of stairs at an apartment building in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: This part of the city was known to be extremely safe.
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  Speaker 1: Homicides never really happened here, but if the nine to
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  Speaker 1: one one caller had been telling the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Gets knew that.
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  Speaker 1: A potential grizzly murder scene was in fact waiting for
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  Speaker 1: him in Apartment two D. When he reached the second
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  Speaker 1: floor landing, he saw there were already a few other
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  Speaker 1: NYPD officers on the scene, and one of them was
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  Speaker 1: speaking to this young, skinny guy standing in the hallway
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  Speaker 1: who looked really upset, and he was holding a leash
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  Speaker 1: that was connected to a black dog. Another officer walked
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  Speaker 1: over to Getz and filled him in. He said the
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  Speaker 1: man that was being spoken to was the victim's roommate,
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  Speaker 1: David Hawn, and he was the one who had found the.
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  Speaker 2: Body and called nine to one one.
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  Speaker 1: The victim, Catherine Woods, was inside the apartment in the
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  Speaker 1: back bedroom. Gets nodded and then walked down the hallway,
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  Speaker 1: passed David and.
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  Speaker 2: The dog toward the apartment door.
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  Speaker 1: His plan was to look at the scene himself before
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  Speaker 1: he began questioning anyone. Gets put on some disposable rubber
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  Speaker 1: gloves and checked out the doorframe to the actual apartment,
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  Speaker 1: and then he also looked at the door itself, but
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  Speaker 1: he didn't see any damage that could signify fourth sentry.
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  Speaker 1: So he stepped into the apartment and he saw that
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  Speaker 1: the small living room was a little bit messy, but
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't like it had been ransacked or something, you know.
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  Speaker 1: The futon was pulled out, and there were some men's
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  Speaker 1: clothes strewn around, but it sort of looked like.
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  Speaker 2: A typical place that people lived. And so Gets walked through.
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  Speaker 1: The living room, being careful not to disturb anything, and
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  Speaker 1: he went towards what he assumed was the bedroom where
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  Speaker 1: the body was. The door was open just wide enough
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  Speaker 1: that Gets was able to get through, and when he
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  Speaker 1: stepped through and was inside the room, he saw blood everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: It was all over the walls and the furniture, and
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  Speaker 1: the room itself looked like it had been completely torn apart.
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  Speaker 1: One of the dresser drawers was open, and lots of
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  Speaker 1: women's clothing was scattered all over the place, and the
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  Speaker 1: mattress had been completely taken off the bedframe and was
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  Speaker 1: now lying on the floor. And that's actually what was
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  Speaker 1: blocking the door from opening all the way. And then
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the room, in a pool of blood,
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  Speaker 1: the body of a young woman. Gets new from the
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  Speaker 1: nine to one to one call that her name was
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  Speaker 1: Catherine Woods. He walked over and squatted down next to
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  Speaker 1: her for a closer look. She was wearing a T
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  Speaker 1: shirt and underwear, and the T shirt had a very
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  Speaker 1: obvious shoeprint on it, like whoever had killed Catherine had
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  Speaker 1: stepped on her, and there were at least a dozen
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  Speaker 1: stab wounds all.
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  Speaker 2: Over her body.
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  Speaker 1: There were also what appeared to be defensive wounds on
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  Speaker 1: her hands and arms, which Gets new meant she must
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  Speaker 1: have fought back against her attacker. But the worst injuries
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  Speaker 1: she sustained were definitely to her neck. Whoever had killed
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  Speaker 1: her had slit her throat so deeply that they had
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  Speaker 1: almost decapitated her, and so to Gets right away, it
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  Speaker 1: seemed like whoever killed Catherine had been.
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  Speaker 2: In an absolute rage.
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  Speaker 1: At that point, Gets heard footsteps coming from behind him,
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  Speaker 1: and he stood up and he turned around to see
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  Speaker 1: that the NYPD forensics team had arrived. Now, the block
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  Speaker 1: door was making maneuvering in and out of this bedroom
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  Speaker 1: pretty difficult, so one of the first things the forensics
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  Speaker 1: team did was to pick up the mattress and carefully
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  Speaker 1: lean it against the wall so the bedroom door could
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  Speaker 1: now swing open all the way. Then Detective Gets just
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  Speaker 1: stepped back and let the forensics team get to work.
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  Speaker 1: He watched as they pulled that shoeprint off the T
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  Speaker 1: shirt Kathroom was wearing, and then also there was a
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  Speaker 1: second identical shoeprint that was on her bed sheets that
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  Speaker 1: they also grabbed to Gets. Both of these prints did
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  Speaker 1: appear to be from the exact same shoe, and to
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  Speaker 1: the naked eye, these prints appeared, at least to Gads
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  Speaker 1: to belong to very likely an average sized man. Detective
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  Speaker 1: Gets was immediately curious about something, so he stepped out
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  Speaker 1: of the bedroom into the living room, and he quickly
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  Speaker 1: found a couple pairs of men's shoes lying on the floor,
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  Speaker 1: and although the tread of these shoes did not match
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  Speaker 1: the prints he had just seen in the bedroom, they
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  Speaker 1: did appear to be the exact same size. An hour later,
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  Speaker 1: at about eight thirty pm on November twenty seventh, two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and five, Detective Gets sat down at a table
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  Speaker 1: inside of an interview room at the NYPD's nineteenth Precinct,
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  Speaker 1: and once he did, he handed a bottle of water
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  Speaker 1: across the table to David Hahn, the roommate of the
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  Speaker 1: murder victim and Detective Gets current number one suspect. There
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  Speaker 1: had been no sign of forced entry at the apartment
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  Speaker 1: that David and Catherine shared, which meant that Catherine's killer
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  Speaker 1: either had access to the apartment or was let inside
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  Speaker 1: by somebody who did. And the murder had been committed
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  Speaker 1: with a knife in a really savage way that struck
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  Speaker 1: gets as being a personally motivated attack. Even though Catherine's
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  Speaker 1: bedroom had been trashed, nothing seemed to have been stolen,
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  Speaker 1: and because Catherine had been found partially undressed, there was
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  Speaker 1: potentially a sexual motive at play as well. So Getz's
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  Speaker 1: working theory here was that this murder was committed by
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  Speaker 1: a man who knew the victim well and had easy
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  Speaker 1: access to her living space, and David fit that profile
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  Speaker 1: to a t. Plus he apparently wore the same size
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  Speaker 1: shoe as the killer. Although as detective gets settled into
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  Speaker 1: his chair and brought out his notepad, he did a
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  Speaker 1: quick scan of David's forearms in his hands, and he
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  Speaker 1: saw that David had no visible cut, scrapes, or bruises.
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  Speaker 1: The detective thought that Catherine's killer likely would have some
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  Speaker 1: injuries there because she had obviously been fighting for her life,
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  Speaker 1: she would have left a mark on them, but Getz
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  Speaker 1: didn't say anything about this to David. Instead, he just
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  Speaker 1: leaned forward and he asked David to walk him through
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  Speaker 1: what had happened that day. David's hands were shaking a bit,
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  Speaker 1: but he took a deep breath to calm himself, and
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  Speaker 1: he said that he had been at the apartment with
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  Speaker 1: Catherine that night until about six forty pm. That was
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  Speaker 1: when he had left to go get his car so
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  Speaker 1: he could come back and drive Katherine to her seven
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  Speaker 1: o'clock shift at Flash Dancers. But he said retrieving his
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  Speaker 1: car had taken longer than he expected because on the
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  Speaker 1: way he had run into some of his coworkers from
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  Speaker 1: his dorman job, and he had stopped to chat with him.
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  Speaker 1: He said, after he had done that and he had
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  Speaker 1: gotten his car and he went back to the apartment,
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  Speaker 1: he had expected Catherine to be waiting outside by the curb,
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  Speaker 1: but when he got there, there was no sign of her,
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  Speaker 1: and she didn't answer when he called her, so David
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  Speaker 1: said he'd ultimately gone inside and ran upstairs to the apartment,
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  Speaker 1: and in the hallway he had found his neighbor Brad,
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  Speaker 1: who was oddly holding the leash of the black dog
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  Speaker 1: that David was supposed to be looking after. And then
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  Speaker 1: David said he went into his apartment and that's when
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  Speaker 1: he found Catherine's body.
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  Speaker 2: David said he had called.
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  Speaker 1: Nine to one one right away. It was right around
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  Speaker 1: seven pm. And at this get stopped writing on the
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  Speaker 1: notepad and just looked up at David.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't believe what he was hearing.
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  Speaker 1: David was claiming that he'd only been out of the
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  Speaker 1: apartment for twenty minutes, and that in that narrow window
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  Speaker 1: of time, Catherine had been brutally murdered and the.
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  Speaker 2: Killer had also escaped.
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  Speaker 1: It honestly sounded like one of the worst alibis Gets
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  Speaker 1: had ever heard, but he didn't want David to know
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  Speaker 1: just how close he was to getting arrested for murder
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  Speaker 1: because he didn't want David to get scared and stop talking,
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  Speaker 1: So Getz kept his tone very sympathetic as he asked
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  Speaker 1: how long David had known Catherine for. David said they
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  Speaker 1: had met back in Ohio a few years ago while
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  Speaker 1: Catherine was visiting her hometown. He had begun dating, and
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  Speaker 1: he had ultimately moved out to New York to live
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  Speaker 1: with her, but it wasn't long before Catherine.
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  Speaker 2: Broke up with him. And then asked him to move out.
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  Speaker 1: But David said he had not been able to afford
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  Speaker 1: his own place, so he had started sleeping in his car,
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  Speaker 1: and Catherine had felt bad about that, so she had
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  Speaker 1: ultimately let him move back in on the condition that
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  Speaker 1: he slept on the futon out in the living room.
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  Speaker 1: By now, Detective Gets His pen was flying across the
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  Speaker 1: page because David was not just Catherine's roommate, he was
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  Speaker 1: her ex boyfriend, an ex boyfriend who was the last
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  Speaker 1: person to see Catherine alive and.
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  Speaker 2: Discovered her body.
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  Speaker 1: Gets was more confident than ever that he was sitting
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  Speaker 1: across from Catherine's killer. He told David that everything he
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  Speaker 1: was saying was incredibly helpful, but right now he needed
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  Speaker 1: to go check on something.
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  Speaker 2: David agreed to wait, and Get stood.
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  Speaker 1: Up to leave, but he stopped at the door and
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: he asked David for one last thing.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Before he left.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: He asked what his shoe size was, and without missing
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: a beat, David answered that he wore a tenant out half.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Gets jotted this down and then he left. What he
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: hadn't told David was the reason he was stepping out
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: of the room was to go get some information from
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: the NYPD's forensics team and the uniformed officers who were
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: currently questioning David's neighbors, and once Gets had that information,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: he was going to use it to try to catch
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: David and a lie. About nineteen hours later, so about
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: three pm the next day, Getz was sitting at his
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: desk feeling completely exhausted, but was pounding yet another cup
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: of coffee. He'd been up all night interrogating David, who
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: was still literally sitting right down the hall in the
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: interrogation room, and also Gets had been going back and
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: forth with the forensics team and other officers and detectives
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: who were out in the neighborhood, and he still had
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: loads more to do before he could finally go to sleep.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Right now, Gets was going over a new batch of
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: reports from the uniformed officers who had gone door to
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: door in Catherine and David's apartment building, asking the neighbors
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: if they'd seen or heard anything unusual, and just like
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Gets had hoped, the information they were getting did contradict
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: pieces of David's story. David claimed that he had left
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: the apartment at about six forty pm and said that
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: at that time Catherine was fine, but two neighbors said
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: they heard screams coming from the apartment before six forty pm.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: The man in the.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Unit directly above David and Catherine said he had heard
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: three screams at six twenty eight pm, and the people
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: in the unit next door to David and Catherine said
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: they'd heard screaming, barking, and the sound of furniture moving
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: around even earlier, between five forty five and six pm. Now,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: none of these neighbors had done anything about these noises,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: because the noises had stopped pretty quickly. And then there
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: was Brad Stewart, the neighbor who had said he had found.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: The black dog.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Brad told police that when he ran into David in
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: the hallway it was sometime between six and six thirty,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: but David had said that he went back up to
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: the apartment and found Catherine's body at about seven pm,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: a full half hour later. Now, gets new witness were
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: often bad with time, and in a dense New York
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: City apartment building, there were lots of noises coming from
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: lots of units. But still it looked to him like
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: David's alibi had serious problems. And so the detective sat
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: back and had some more coffee, and then his phone rang.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: He picked it up, and it was the forensics team
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: with an update about those shoeprints that were on Catherine's
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: shirt and the bed sheets, and the prints were indeed
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: left behind by a roughly average sized man. They were
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Amen's size ten and a half and this was the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: exact size Gets new David wore. Gets thanked them, hung
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: up the phone, and then rushed back to the interrogation
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: room to have yet another chat with David Han. This time,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: though Gets did not offer David water, He just sat
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: down and he confronted him with all these new facts.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: He told David that the killer shoe prints were exactly
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: his shoe size, that his neighbors had heard screams before
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: David had supposedly left the building, and that Brad said
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: he'd seen David in the hallway at least a half
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: an hour ear earlier than David had claimed he was there.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Gets leaned in and told David that there were also
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: security cameras in the apartment building, and his officers were
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: already in the process of getting access to that footage,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: so if David had anything to say, you'd better say
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: it now. Gets watched as David's expression went from exhausted
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: to clearly afraid. It seemed like this might be the
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: first time that David realized the police truly did not
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: believe his story, and after a second of just stunned silence,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: David insisted that he had not killed Catherine, and.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: He begged Gets to believe him.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: But when Gets just glared back at him completely unmoved,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: David launched into a whole news story, one he had
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: not mentioned at all over the last twenty hours of interrogation.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: David said, Catherine knew this guy named Paul Cortes. She
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: had dated him, but David had always thought he was
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: kind of a creep, and David said Catherine had told
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: him that Paul was obsessed with her. So David said
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the police really ought to go inva investigate Paul, not him.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: To Gets, this seemed like a desperate, last minute attempt
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: to cast suspicion on somebody else, but he knew he
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: did have to follow every lead, so he did write
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: down Paul's name and told David they'd look into it.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: When Getz finally left the station for the evening, David
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: was still in the interrogation room, and reporters from all
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the daily papers were beginning to assemble right outside. The
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: following morning, the story of Catherine's murder and pictures of
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: her smiling face were all.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Over the news.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: The front page of the New York Daily News carried
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: a headline that made Getz grimace. It read secret life
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: of slain stripper. Inside the article reported that Catherine's family
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: hadn't known she was working as a topless dancer until
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: they literally flew to the city from Ohio to collect
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: her body. Gets skimmed the article at his desk. He
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: wasn't convinced that Atherne's line of work had anything to
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: do with their murderer, but the papers seemed intent on
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: running with it. An immediate circus was like the last
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: thing Gets wanted. His team was already under enough pressure
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: to make an arrest as it was, and it was
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: going to be even harder to do their jobs now
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: that a bunch of tips were going to be flooding
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: in from the public. From all this media, Gets put
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: down the newspaper, got up from his desk and walked
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: down the hall to the interrogation room. He'd finished the
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: day yesterday feeling pretty confident that David was his murderer.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: So when he'd sent David home, he had given him
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: instructions not to leave the city because he intended to
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: arrest David and soon. But first Gets did need to
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: follow up on the other leads. He had to hopefully
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: rule them out, and one of those leads was sitting
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: in the interrogation room right now waiting for him. It
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: was Paul Cortes, the man that David had named, who
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: officers at track Down and brought in the man who
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: supposedly was obsessed with Catherine. As soon as Gets entered
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: the room, the first thing he did was look at
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Paul's shoes, and he could see that they were a
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: pretty typical size too at a gland they looked like
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: they could also be a ten and a half. Gets
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: also looked for scratches or bruises on Paul's skin, in
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: particular on his forearms and his hands, and he did
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: see one. There was a small injury on one of
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Paul's fingertips. Gets asked about it and Paul said his
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: finger had just gotten pinched between a couple of weights
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: at the gym. Paul was very calm and soft spoken,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and he said he'd heard all about Catherine's death in
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the papers.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: And he just wanted to help if he could.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: When Getz told him that they'd gotten his name from
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: David Hahn, Paul just kind of rolled his eyes and said,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: you know, David had always been jealous of his relationship
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: with Catherine. Paul explained that he had met Catherine at
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the gym about a year ago and they'd been dating
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: off and on ever since. At the time of Catherine's death,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: he said they had been off, but Paul said he
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: still cared about her and had hoped that maybe one
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: day they might get back together. Paul told Getz that
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: he hadn't actually seen Catherine on the day of her death,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: but that he had actually spoken to her on the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: phone earlier that afternoon, which was not unusual. The two
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: did speak on the phone from time to time, that's
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: all it was. Paul said he actually had tried calling
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: her a second time that day, but she didn't answer,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: but Paul said he really didn't think much of it,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: and then Paul said that night he wound up going
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: shopping with some friends and then also to a local
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: bar to watch the Jets game at about eight thirty.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Gets made a note to follow up on Paul's alibi.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Then he asked Paul if he had any idea who
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: might have killed Catherine. Paul thought for a moment, and
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: then his eyes lit up, and he said there had
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: been some stalker guy named Joe who'd been one of
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Catherine's regulars at the strip club, you know, months ago.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: He'd somehow gotten Catherine's phone number and had reached out
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: to her outside of the club, And around that same time,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Catherine had actually gotten roofied during one of her strip
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: club shifts.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: A roofie is called the date rape drug.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: It basically makes you incapacitated and effectively unconscious. You don't
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: remember anything. People will be given a roofie and then
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: be sexually assaulted.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: That's often its use.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: And even though he'd never been able to prove this,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Paul always suspected it had been Joe who gave Katherine
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: that rufie. Catherine had cut off contact with Joe, but
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: the whole incident had bothered Paul so much that he'd
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: tried to convince Catherine to just quit the exotic dancing scene,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: but she refused.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Paul admitted that he actually.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Went on to call Catherine's father to tell him how
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: worried he was about her, and Catherine had been so
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: mad about that that she stopped talking to Paul for weeks,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: and so Gets jotted all this down and then asked
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Paul if he knew how to get in touch with
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: this guy, Joe. Paul said he didn't have Joe's number,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: but it was definitely in Catherine's phone because the last
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: time Paul ever spoke on the phone with Catherine, on
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the afternoon of her death, she had mentioned something that
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: really surprised him. She said that after months of silence,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Joe had started calling her again, completely out of the blue.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: And at this Gets studied Paul's face, looking for any
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: hint of deception. This whole Joe's story seemed like it
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: might just be a way to deflect suspicion from Paul himself.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: But it really didn't feel like Paul was lying here,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: And besides, Catherine's phone records would be simple enough to verify.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Gets hated to admit it, but maybe the newspapers were right.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Maybe it was time he started looking seriously into some
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: of Catherine's customers at the strip club. The following afternoon,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, November thirtieth, Detective Getz was feeling really annoyed
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: as he hung up the phone at his desk. It
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: had been a call from another reporter, but Gets.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Hadn't made an arrest yet, so he was staying tight lipped.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: But for now, he just turned his focus back to
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the stack of papers on his desk. They were Catherine's
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: cell phone records, which he'd subpoenaed yesterday, and they showed
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: that Paul had been telling the truth. Both he and
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Joe had called Catherine shortly before she died, so he'd
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: brought in Joe for an interview, and he asked him
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: to explain why, after months of silence, he had called
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Catherine right before she turned up dead, and Joe had
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: replied he'd only called her to check in to say
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: he hoped she had a nice Thanksgiving. He had claimed
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: that he was really just trying to be friendly, but
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: then Getz just asked Joe point blank if he had
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: ever roofied anyone's drink before, and at this, Joe's eyes
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: went and he kind of spluttered out that he would
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: never dream of doing anything like that. But based on
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Joe's tone, Gets really felt like he was lying, and
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: so now Gets felt like the entire investigation was wide open.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: A few days ago, he had been absolutely confident that
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: David was the killer, but men from Catherine's life just
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: kept coming.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Out of the woodwork. He now had three.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Main suspects instead of just one. In fact, at this point,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: his original suspect, David, was actually looking more innocent. Gets
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: His officers had spoken to David's coworkers at the hotel
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: where he worked as a doorman, and they confirmed that
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: he really had stopped and talked to them on the
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: evening of Catherine's death, just like he had claimed. And
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: while Getz had hoped that the security camera footage from
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the apartment building would prove David was lying about his alibi,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: at least in terms of when he was there, it
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: actually showed David leaving the front entrance of the building
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: at six thirty eight PM, which lined up with David's
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: story because he said he left around six point forty. Now,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: this did not prove that David was innocent. Based on
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: what the neighbors had heard, she could have been killed
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: before six point thirty eight, but there weren't a lot
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: of cameras in the apartment building and no angle covered
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the hallway outside of Apartment two D, so the footage
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: couldn't prove one way or another, you know, whether Brad
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Stewart or anybody else for that matter, had gone into
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the apartment while.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: David was gone. Just then his phone rang.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Gets reached for it, expecting it to be another reporter,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: but this time he was pleasantly surprised. It was a
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: member of the forensics team, and there was this obvious
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: excitement in their voice. He told Getz that they'd just
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: discovered something big, something they completely missed during their first
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: sweep of Catherine's apartment. The forensics team member explained that
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: when they'd first entered Catherine's bedroom, they had taken that
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: mattress that was stuck behind the door and propped it
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: up against the wall to get it out of the way.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: But when they'd done that, the mattress had actually covered
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: up something that was right there on the wall, all along,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: a bloody handprint. It was not until a couple of
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: days later, after they'd carefully gone over everything else in
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: the room, that they moved the mattress back down onto
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the floor, and that's when they found the handprint. Gets
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: His face lit up when he heard this news, because
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: now he knew all he had to do was go
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: get handprints from all of his suspects, which seemed like
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: that would be pretty easy to do, but he quickly
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: realized he had a problem because some of his suspects
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: had already lawyered up at this point, and they were
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: refusing to speak with police, let alone hand over their prints,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: and Gets really could not force them to give their
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: prints unless he arrested them, and so that meant Gets
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: was now in this weird catch twenty two because he
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: needed the suspects prince in order to make the arrest,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: but he also couldn't get their prints unless he arrested them.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: So at this point, the investigation kind of stalled out.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Weeks went by, and Detective Gets started to get really
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: frustrated because there was just nothing he could legally do
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: to push the case forward. However, the case was still
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: receiving a ton of coverage in the press, and to
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: a lot of people it looked like the NYP was
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: just sort of.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Dropping the ball here.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: But then on December sixteenth, so three weeks after Catherine's murder,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: the news coverage that had annoyed Gets so much actually
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: ended up giving.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Him exactly what he needed.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: That day, a woman called the NYPD because of something
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: she had seen on the front page of one of
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: the newspapers in New York, and what this woman said
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: led gets directly to Catherine's killer. Based on forensic evidence
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: and numerous interviews, this is what police believe happened to
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Catherine Woods. On the evening of November twenty seventh, two
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: thousand and five, shortly after six forty pm, the killer
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: climbed the stairs inside of Catherine's apartment building. They knew
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: that at that very moment she'd be getting ready for
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: another shift at Flashdancers, and the fact that she even
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: worked there secretly really bothered the killer way more than
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: they would ever let on. The idea of Catherine dancing
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and giving her attention to other men made the killer
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: so jealous they couldn't even stand it.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: The killer had tried to talk with Catherine and win
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: her over, but she had rejected him. So the time
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: for talking was over, and so the killer quietly walked
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: up to the door of Apartment two D and reached
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: down and turned the handle, which was unlocked. As they
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: slipped silently into the apartment, the killer brought out the
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: knife that they had hidden inside of their sweatshirt. But
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: then something they had not anticipated happened.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: There was this.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Dog lying on the apartment floor that got up and
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: began to bark at them. For a moment, the killer
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: thought about just abandoning the plan and leaving, but then Catherine,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: alerted by the dog, came out of the bedroom and
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: looked right at the killer and saw the knife in
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: their hand. Catherine screamed and ran right back into her bedroom,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the very bedroom that she had made explicitly off limits
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: to the killer, And just thinking about that, the surge
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: of anger suddenly overtook them, and the killer charged into
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the room after her. Catherine was already on the other
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: side of the bed, lifting up the mattress as a
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: sort of barricade, but the killer just forced their way
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: past it and they grabbed Catherine from behind. But Catherine
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: she fought back. She began thrashing around, doing everything she
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: could to break free, but she couldn't, and so they
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: struggled and began smashing into the furniture and knocking things
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: down all over the room, And it was around this
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: point that the killer lifted up that knife they had
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: brought and they slit her neck as deep as they could.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: But even then, even with this fatal wound, Catherine kept
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: on fighting, and she was so vicious that the killer
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: actually had to brace themselves against a wall just to
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: keep their balance. And in the chaos, the killer didn't realize,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: you know, as they're fighting off Catherine, that they had
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: placed a bloody hand on the wall, leaving a print behind. Finally,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: when Catherine fell to the floor, the killer was still
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: blinded with their rage, and they just got down there
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: and began stabbing her over and over again. And then finally,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: when Catherine stopped moving, the killer just jumped.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Up and ran out of the apartment.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: But when they got into the hallway, they realized that
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: black dog that had barked at them had gotten out.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Now the killer wanted the dog back in the apartment,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: but the dog was clearly on edge, you know, they
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: were still barking at the killer, and so instead the
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: killer just shut the apartment door, trapping the dog in
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: the hallway, and then the killer fled the apartment building
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: out the back door, where there was no security camera,
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  Speaker 1: and for weeks the killer was not caught until their
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  Speaker 1: violent past came back to bite them several weeks after
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  Speaker 1: Catherine's murder, a young woman who didn't know Catherine was
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  Speaker 1: walking down the streets of New York when she noticed
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  Speaker 1: a newspaper and on the cover of this newspaper was
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  Speaker 1: plastered the face of the killer, who was currently a
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  Speaker 1: suspect in a murder case. And this woman was horrified
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  Speaker 1: because she knew this person. They the killer had sexually
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  Speaker 1: assaulted her at a year earlier, but she had never
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  Speaker 1: filed a police report. But after seeing that this horrible
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  Speaker 1: person was being actively accused of murder, she called the
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  Speaker 1: NYPD and she told them what she knew, and the
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  Speaker 1: NYPD's Special Victims Unit used this woman's accusation as the
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  Speaker 1: basis to arrest the killer, and finally, once they were
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  Speaker 1: under arrest, Getz was able to get their handprint, and
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  Speaker 1: those prints did in fact match the bloody handprint found
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  Speaker 1: on Catherine's wall. They belonged to Catherine's on again, off
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  Speaker 1: again boyfriend, Paul Cortes. David's suspicions of Paul had been
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  Speaker 1: right all along. Paul was a creep who had assaulted
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  Speaker 1: at least one other woman before he killed Catherine. Data
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  Speaker 1: collected from nearby cell towers would prove that Paul was
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  Speaker 1: near Catherine's apartment building immediately before her murder, and he
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  Speaker 1: had been calling her over and over again when she
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  Speaker 1: ignored his calls. Paul waited until he saw David leave
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  Speaker 1: the apartment to go get his car, and then he
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  Speaker 1: hustled upstairs to the apartment, knowing Catherine would be alone.
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  Speaker 2: Even though David was only gone for.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty minutes, that was still long enough for Paul to
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  Speaker 1: get inside the apartment, murder Catherine.
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  Speaker 2: And slip away unnoticed.
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  Speaker 1: Paul was arrested about a month after Catherine's murder on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: December twenty third, two thousand and five. He was found
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  Speaker 1: guilty of second degree murder and sentenced to twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Five years to life. Thank you so much for watching.
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