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Guard Helps A Killer Inmate Escape Prison · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: It's the twenty ninth of April twenty twenty two. CCTV
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  Speaker 1: records prison supervisor Vicky enter through a back door. Half
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  Speaker 1: a minute later, she comes back out with a prisoner,
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  Speaker 1: Casey White, a six foot nine giant of a criminal
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  Speaker 1: serving seventy five years for attempted murder. They quickly leave
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  Speaker 1: in the car as police scrambled to make sense of
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  Speaker 1: the situation. Vicky, a prison supervisor with a two decade
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  Speaker 1: long career and perfect record, just disappeared with a dangerous criminal.
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  Speaker 1: Police assumed that she was forced or manipulated into helping
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  Speaker 1: him escape. But that's when new evidence came to light,
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  Speaker 1: showing that she might have planned the entire thing. As
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  Speaker 1: a nationwide manhunt began, police would realize the rabbit hole
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  Speaker 1: went deeper than anyone expected, leading them down a dark
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  Speaker 1: path ending with Vicki founded with.
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  Speaker 2: A blitz in her head.
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  Speaker 1: Therewith It's April twenty ninth, twenty twenty two, and prison
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  Speaker 1: officer Vicki has just told her work colleagues that she's
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  Speaker 1: taking a prisoner to a psychological evaluation at a local courthouse.
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  Speaker 1: But something isn't right as she's transporting the prisoner alone
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  Speaker 1: despite rules mandating prisoners must be escorted by two officers
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  Speaker 1: at a time, but because of her senior position as
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  Speaker 1: a supervisor, nobody stops her and it would be six
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  Speaker 1: hours before police realize that Vicky and the prisoner are
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  Speaker 1: never coming back. Desperate for clues, police start looking into
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  Speaker 1: the man that Vicky escaped with. It was Casey White,
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  Speaker 1: a man serving seventy five years in prison for domestic violence,
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  Speaker 1: home invasion, murder, and brutally attacking a man with an axe.
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  Speaker 1: But there was one crime that stood out to police
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  Speaker 1: even more. Seven years prior to this, Casey had abused
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  Speaker 1: and manipulated his then girlfriend to a point where she
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  Speaker 1: tried to escape from Casey's vicious hands. After they successfully
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  Speaker 1: made it to her friend's house, Casey would break into
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  Speaker 1: the house with two guns and full intent to murder
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  Speaker 1: them both. Luckily, they both escaped and survived his vicious attack.
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  Speaker 1: But that's when Casey fled the scene and began a
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  Speaker 1: series of carjackings across several states until finally getting into
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  Speaker 1: a tense standoff with multiple police officers. What the man down.
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  Speaker 3: Relaxed a little bit, cop, Here's the.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, guys, I will get you a time drop if
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  Speaker 4: you'll bay sales yet they come, you don't.
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  Speaker 3: Get the whole gohead on you.
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  Speaker 1: It's unusual. But the cops rolled a drink and a
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  Speaker 1: pack of cigarettes towards Casey, hoping this would calm him
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  Speaker 1: down and avoid a shootout. Miraculously, this actually worked and
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  Speaker 1: the cops were able to move in and make an arrest.
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  Speaker 1: His interrogation gave cops an even clearer view into just
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  Speaker 1: how insane this man was. I just secure or understaying.
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  Speaker 5: I couldn't write no longer hand?
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  Speaker 1: Do you regret what you do tonight?
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  Speaker 3: I agree?
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  Speaker 1: I think too. And police now had a clear picture
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  Speaker 1: of who Vicky just helped escape prison. But how does
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  Speaker 1: Vicky fit into all of this? She works at a
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  Speaker 1: completely different prison, and there's no plans for Casey to
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  Speaker 1: ever see outside these walls again. Well, one year later,
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  Speaker 1: Casey confessed to a murder, resulting in him being moved
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  Speaker 1: to a different prison. This kicked off a series of
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  Speaker 1: events that would eventually result in Vicky's death. The murder
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  Speaker 1: that Casey confessed to was a four year old's cold case.
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  Speaker 1: It's unclear why Casey owned up to it now, but
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  Speaker 1: he was able to give specific details that nobody butt
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  Speaker 1: the killer could have known, and after a short trial,
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  Speaker 1: he was quickly transported to a new prison, the same
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  Speaker 1: one where Vicky worked. Vicky is fifty six and has
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  Speaker 1: been divorced for several years and put her heart and
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  Speaker 1: soul into her job. She was a model employee and
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  Speaker 1: popular among her colleagues, but her life had become boring
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  Speaker 1: and lonely. She wanted a change, and when Casey showed up,
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what she got. They slowly began to talk
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  Speaker 1: more and developed a connection. They bonded over their shared
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  Speaker 1: lance name and began to think that they were destined
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  Speaker 1: to be together. She started coming in on her days
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  Speaker 1: off and was noticeably happier. Despite having a great life
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  Speaker 1: on paper, Vicky had become enchanted by her feelings for
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  Speaker 1: Casey and was ready to throw it all away to
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  Speaker 1: be with a dangerous criminal. But how can this happen? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it turns out it's not as rare as you might think.
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  Speaker 1: Some people are attracted to dangerous people they know they
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  Speaker 1: could kill them at any moment, but feel special knowing
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  Speaker 1: that they choose noth On top of that, Vicky had
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  Speaker 1: started to feel trapped in her day to day life,
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  Speaker 1: and as though she had nothing to live for, if
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  Speaker 1: she could make a break with Casey, it'd at least
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  Speaker 1: be exciting, even if it did mean throwing everything away.
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  Speaker 1: While Casey was serving at Lauderdale, Vicky allowed him unrestricted
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  Speaker 1: access to parts of jail that prisoners aren't normally allowed
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  Speaker 1: to see, including areas that aren't covered by security cameras.
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  Speaker 1: Many speculate this is where the pair were intimate with
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  Speaker 1: each other and formed their plan to escape. Even at
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  Speaker 1: this point, Vicky still had no idea that this would
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  Speaker 1: turn out to be the worst mistake of her entire life.
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  Speaker 1: Three days before their escape, they decided to do a
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  Speaker 1: test run after Vicky told her colleagues that Casey had
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  Speaker 1: an appointment with a judge at the courthouse. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: there was no appointment, and they just sat in her
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  Speaker 1: patrol car for nine minutes before returning. But now they
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  Speaker 1: know this works and they're ready to make preparations for
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  Speaker 1: the real thing. Two days before their escape, there spotted
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  Speaker 1: on camera passing notes. It's thought that this was them
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  Speaker 1: discussing the final part of their escape plan, but by
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  Speaker 1: the time this footage was discovered, it was already too late.
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  Speaker 1: By April twenty ninth, twenty twenty two, everything was in
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  Speaker 1: place and they're ready to make their escape. As Vicky
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  Speaker 1: holds a senior post at the prison, she has certain
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  Speaker 1: powers that she's about to take advantage of. She arranges
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  Speaker 1: to send twelve inmates and five deputies to court on
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  Speaker 1: the day of the escape, leaving her as the last
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  Speaker 1: remaining officer in the prison with transport privileges. She then
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  Speaker 1: tells her bosses that Casey has to be taken for
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  Speaker 1: a mental health evaluation. Looking at the surveillance footage, it's
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  Speaker 1: clear something was up. Vicky has her firearm with her,
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  Speaker 1: something that is strictly forbidden inside the prison walls. She's
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  Speaker 1: also walking in front of Casey instead of behind him,
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  Speaker 1: showing she trusts him not to harm her. By helping
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  Speaker 1: Casey to escape, Esteemed prison officer Vicki has thrown everything
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  Speaker 1: she had away and need one pivotal moment, has become
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  Speaker 1: a criminal.
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  Speaker 2: Ky's always been a good girl at school. It's gotta
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  Speaker 2: be other people we involved, and Becky's just escapegoat. You
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  Speaker 2: knew her, you loved her.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like if she had anything to do with it,
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  Speaker 1: it was definitely love Vicky and Casey casually walk out
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  Speaker 1: of the prison into a patrol car and drive away
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  Speaker 1: to freedom. It took six hours before anyone noticed they're missing.
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  Speaker 1: When the prison calls the courthouse to see what's taking
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  Speaker 1: so long, they're told that there is no appointment, and
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  Speaker 1: they come to the horrible realization that Casey has made
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  Speaker 1: a break for freedom To evade the authorities. They quickly
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  Speaker 1: ditch the patrol car and flee the state, and the
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  Speaker 1: cops now have no clue where they are, where they're going,
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  Speaker 1: or how to find them, marking the start of an
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  Speaker 1: eleven day manhunt that will span the nation. On day
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  Speaker 1: one of Vicky and Casey's escape, the cops try to
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  Speaker 1: find clues at Vicky's home, but she's nowhere to be seen.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, she doesn't even own the house anymore. As
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  Speaker 1: part of her plan, she sold her house for extremely cheap.
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  Speaker 1: With the money, she bought vehicles, guns, and, most suspiciously,
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  Speaker 1: men's clothing. This is the first indication the cops have
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  Speaker 1: that Vicki doesn't intend on coming back and is ready
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  Speaker 1: to start a new life with Casey. Things don't get
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  Speaker 1: any better for detectives when the patrol vehicle they used
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  Speaker 1: to escape is found abandoned at a local shopping mall,
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  Speaker 1: and even worse, there's no surveillance footage covering that area
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  Speaker 1: of the parking lot, so they don't even know which
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  Speaker 1: direction they went. But on day two of the manhunt,
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  Speaker 1: a tip off from her family blows this case wide open,
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  Speaker 1: as it's revealed Vicki has been renting a storage unit.
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  Speaker 1: Police are able to locate the storage unit and discover
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  Speaker 1: that she was renting it with a burner phone, but
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  Speaker 1: despite their best effort to track this new number, the
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  Speaker 1: cops came up with nothing. But the existence of this
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  Speaker 1: new phone is the first solid evidence that cops have
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  Speaker 1: showing Vicky planned this all along and was actually a
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  Speaker 1: willing participant instead of a hostage. Did you get since
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  Speaker 1: they were actually to be discovered, he was not forcing
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  Speaker 1: her a neat way right?
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  Speaker 3: No, he was not forced for her. It was a
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  Speaker 3: mutual relationship.
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  Speaker 1: You'd think that this would help the investigation, but things
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  Speaker 1: only get more insane and confusing from here on out.
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  Speaker 1: After realizing that they're essentially back to square one, the
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  Speaker 1: cops returned to the shopping mall where they found the
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  Speaker 1: abandoned patrol car and decided to comb through all the
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  Speaker 1: surveillance footage from the days leading up to the event.
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  Speaker 1: That's when they spot Vicky a few days before the escape,
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  Speaker 1: parking a car in a nearby parking lot. And this
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  Speaker 1: isn't her usual car either, It's one she bought only
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  Speaker 1: a couple days earlier, a two thousand and seven Ford
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  Speaker 1: Edge that the cops quickly realized had to be their
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  Speaker 1: getaway vehicle. But when police went back to the parking
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  Speaker 1: lot and the supposed getaway vehicle was still there, they
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  Speaker 1: realized that Vicky had left a decourt Police had just
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  Speaker 1: lost their only clue while giving Vicky and Casey a
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  Speaker 1: five day head start. But since they abandoned the Ford,
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  Speaker 1: the cops assumed that they have to have found another
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  Speaker 1: vehicle in the area, and lo and behold, they quickly
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  Speaker 1: picked up another lead. A homeowner nearby told them he
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  Speaker 1: sold his Ford F one fifty pickup truck to a
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  Speaker 1: man who approached his house on the day Vicki and
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  Speaker 1: Casey went missing. That man is described as being around
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  Speaker 1: six feet nine inches tall and looked exactly like the
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  Speaker 1: picture he was shown. Now, all they have to do
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  Speaker 1: is find that Ford F one fifty and bring this
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  Speaker 1: man hunt to an end, and thanks to another lead,
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  Speaker 1: they're closing in. On day six, the owner of a
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  Speaker 1: car wash in Indiana noticed something strange. A Ford F
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  Speaker 1: one fifty had been parked in one of the cleaning
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  Speaker 1: bays for an unusual amount of time, and he suspects
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  Speaker 1: this vehicle has been abandoned. Unfortunately, this is before a
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  Speaker 1: search was initiated for the truck, but something still not right.
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  Speaker 1: This pickup truck is far too nice to have been
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  Speaker 1: dumped by anyone sane, and the owner quickly grew suspicious.
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  Speaker 1: In order to find out, he checks out the car
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  Speaker 1: wash surveillance footage and what he finds will help the
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  Speaker 1: cops finally capture their two fugitives. That's Casey getting out
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  Speaker 1: of the pickup and he's acting very strangely. He's waiting
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  Speaker 1: for Vicky and she's in that car driving just out
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  Speaker 1: of shot. When Casey gets in the new vehicle, leaving
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  Speaker 1: their pickup and driving off, the owner knows they're up
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  Speaker 1: to no good and calls nine one one.
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  Speaker 4: There's the truck been putting in my bay, and yesterday
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  Speaker 4: at three o'clock I looked at the camera.
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  Speaker 2: Then the guy count it's Tuck in college. Got anything
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  Speaker 2: right to poke con it and I've got him on camera.
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  Speaker 1: The next day, cops arrive at the car wash and
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  Speaker 1: initiate a search of the truck dodge yep, yea. With
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  Speaker 1: nothing to go off of, the cops quickly leave the
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  Speaker 1: scene and the pickup is towed away. It takes four
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  Speaker 1: days for this vital lead to get back to detectives,
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  Speaker 1: but when it does, they drop everything and head straight
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  Speaker 1: to Evansville. On day ten of the hunt, they're due
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  Speaker 1: to arrive at the car wash at nine am, but
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  Speaker 1: failed to show up on time, frustrating the car wash
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  Speaker 1: owners so much that he takes matters into his own
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  Speaker 1: hands and calls the local press.
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  Speaker 2: So then nine thirty, they're not here. So I said,
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  Speaker 2: I get on the phone and flock news. I said,
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  Speaker 2: y'all want a store, Yeah, we lock the store.
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  Speaker 4: Said I got one. I got a convict over h
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  Speaker 4: at my car wars. I got him on camera. He said,
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  Speaker 4: you talking about the one and Kentucky. I said no,
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  Speaker 4: I'm talking about the one in Alabama with the girl.
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  Speaker 4: He said, okay, we'll be right there.
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  Speaker 2: They showed up. They got there ten minutes before the.
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  Speaker 1: Marshall's US Marshalls arrived during the media frenzy, and when
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  Speaker 1: they take a look at the surveillance footage, they realize
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  Speaker 1: they've found the car Vicki and Casey could still be driving, Cadillac,
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  Speaker 1: and one that Vicki and Casey think is completely unknown
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  Speaker 1: to the cops. It seems like their days on the
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  Speaker 1: run are numbered, but even with the leads they have,
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  Speaker 1: they come up with nothing, and the cops are starting
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  Speaker 1: to realize their fugitives could be anywhere in the country,
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  Speaker 1: But as it turns out, they're closer to home than
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  Speaker 1: anyone thinks. Back in Evansville, on day eleven, a cop
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  Speaker 1: is on his way home from a long shift when
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  Speaker 1: he sees a familiar looking vehicle parked outside of Motel
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  Speaker 1: forty one. It looks like the same Cadillac from the
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  Speaker 1: car wash, and he hastily takes down the license plate.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is the license plate of the Cadillac scene
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  Speaker 1: that the car wash was never seen, so they have
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  Speaker 1: no way of knowing if it's the same vehicle, But
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  Speaker 1: they do have the license plate of the recovered F
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  Speaker 1: one fifty, so grasping its straws, they decide to run
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  Speaker 1: that through their license plate reader, and when they do,
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  Speaker 1: they strike gold. Several traffic cameras have picked up the
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  Speaker 1: F one fifty and following it in nearly every shot
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  Speaker 1: is a Cadillac, a Cadillac whose license plate perfectly match
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  Speaker 1: the one at Motel forty one, right in front of them. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: by sheer luck, the cops have found their fugitives. All
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  Speaker 1: they have to do now is bring them in. First,
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  Speaker 1: deputy marshals find strategic positions around the motel. They're all
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  Speaker 1: in plane clothes and unmarked vehicles, hoping to be as
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  Speaker 1: covert as possible. But while the cops surround them, Vicky
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  Speaker 1: and Casey are in Room one fifty watching the TV
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  Speaker 1: and horror right as the discovery of the Ford and
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  Speaker 1: a half one fifty hits the news. The plan was
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  Speaker 1: to bring Vicky and Casey in quietly, but before they
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to put their plan into action, Vicky
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  Speaker 1: walks out of the hotel room and throws a bag
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  Speaker 1: into the Cadillac. She's followed by Casey, and even though
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  Speaker 1: they're in disguise, there's no mistake in Casey White's massive frame.
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  Speaker 1: Casey gets behind the wheel and the Cadillac takes off.
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  Speaker 1: The cops plan has been completely foiled once again, but
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  Speaker 1: they've got a backup. They're going to follow them and
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  Speaker 1: try to box them in to avoid a confrontation, but
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  Speaker 1: before they get a chance, they realize they've been spotted.
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  Speaker 1: Casey turns onto US Highway forty one and hits the accelerator,
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  Speaker 1: taking the cops on a chase across traffic and through
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  Speaker 1: parking lots until he manages to make a break for
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  Speaker 1: freedom by driving straight through and open fields. At around
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  Speaker 1: the same time, a police dispatch receives a call from
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  Speaker 1: none other than Vicky herself, and it gives you an
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  Speaker 1: idea of how terrifying this chase really is.
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  Speaker 3: A ball get out hostile.
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  Speaker 1: A police vehicle forces Casey to drive straight into a ditch,
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  Speaker 1: and this pursuit is brought to a sudden hault, But
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  Speaker 1: it's far from over, as cops know the pair are
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  Speaker 1: armed and could open fire at any point in some
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  Speaker 1: kind of Bonnie and Clyde inspired shootouts.
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  Speaker 3: Cut that's a black.
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  Speaker 1: Worthy position.
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  Speaker 5: Please driven, She's That's the best moment in Quarrel, right, Derek, Please,
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  Speaker 5: that's the best woman in Girl. Vicky.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. By I'm so sorry by.
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  Speaker 5: Anybody in this world.
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  Speaker 1: Don't sorry, but she don't.
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  Speaker 3: When she's sappy hit me but dying, don't blame you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a high okfielder.
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  Speaker 5: He's like your flack had everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, after eleven days, the manhunt has come to an
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  Speaker 1: end and they've got Casey unharmed in handcuffs. But Vicky
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  Speaker 1: met a much more devastating end. Just two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: she was an upstanding member of society, an esteemed prison officer,
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  Speaker 1: respected by those around her. Now she's a fugitive laying
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  Speaker 1: in a criminal stolen car, conscious but with devastating injuries.
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  Speaker 3: Davis hand, so, yeah, break the center of here to.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think to get the gun.
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  Speaker 3: Winfield a little open idea cover. Yeah, it's opening, it's opening, Y,
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  Speaker 3: You go for the gun car all right?
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  Speaker 1: For me?
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  Speaker 3: I got it, I got it.
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  Speaker 1: She's been shot in the head, and Casey claims she
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  Speaker 1: took her own knife. When cops get a better look,
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  Speaker 1: they find her finger it's still on the trigger of
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  Speaker 1: the gun. Later that day, Vicky was pronounced dead and
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  Speaker 1: in nearby hospital. Will never really know what the two
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: had planned for their life together after their escape, Whether
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to go off the grid and settle down,
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  Speaker 1: or live the rest of their lives on the run. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it turns out Casey never planned to keep Vicky around
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  Speaker 1: at all. He described her as a liability and someone
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  Speaker 1: that didn't have the mind for this sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's likely that she would have been ditched shortly after
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  Speaker 1: this point or killed by Casey anyway. As he was
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  Speaker 1: found guilty of first degree prison escape and sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: life behind bars, he'll be ninety eight years old before
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  Speaker 1: he gets a chance at parole, so this terror of
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: a man will likely be off the streets until the
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  Speaker 1: day he dies.