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  Speaker 1: I'm Chris Hansen right now on Crimewaunch Daily from here
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  Speaker 1: in New York. The Mister and Missus Smith murder mystery.
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  Speaker 1: A young couple celebrating their anniversary, just back from vacation.
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  Speaker 1: When she vanishes, come homeward colored.
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  Speaker 2: Let us know that she's.
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  Speaker 1: Says little does anyone know? Katrina Smith has been hiding
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  Speaker 1: a secret boyfriend. There's a peeping tom in the neighborhood,
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  Speaker 1: and a mystery stalker who's been taunting her and tracking
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  Speaker 1: her every booth.
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  Speaker 3: She knew that somebody was following and watching her.
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  Speaker 1: Today the big break caught on surveillance camera that leads
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  Speaker 1: detectives to a killer hiding in plain sight. Then dramatic
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  Speaker 1: video as a woman collapses outside a grocery store. She's
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  Speaker 1: just been shot nine times.
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  Speaker 4: I said to myself, I'm gonna die.
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  Speaker 1: Her amazing story of survival and who pulled the trigger.
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  Speaker 4: He had a long black wig gone right now.
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  Speaker 5: Andrea Isisenser with Crimewatch Daily, Jason Matto a Crime Watch Daily.
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  Speaker 6: This, I'm Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 5: I'm here with Crimewatch and Michelle from Crimewatch Daily, Anagarcias.
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  Speaker 1: And crime Watch is crime Watch deal Off will find
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  Speaker 1: you again.
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  Speaker 7: We always there.
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  Speaker 6: Welcome to Crime Watch Dale everyone.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Chris Hansen. We start with a mysterious killer who
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  Speaker 1: acted like a chameleon, charming to the public, a terror
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  Speaker 1: behind closed doors. And it all begins in Illinois when
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  Speaker 1: a woman goes over to a friend's place to do
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  Speaker 1: a little house sitting. A missing woman was a heinous crime,
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  Speaker 1: stalked by a mystery man.
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  Speaker 2: He's a chameleon, he had two faces.
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  Speaker 1: It's a case that will lead investigators on a dark odyssey.
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  Speaker 8: He really thought he was an out smart the police.
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  Speaker 1: It's the final destination that no one saw coming.
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  Speaker 9: I felt sick to my stomach.
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  Speaker 10: I've never felt that somebody was so guilty of a
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  Speaker 10: crime as I did in this.
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  Speaker 1: It's Monday night in Machesney Park, Illinois. Todd and Katrina
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  Speaker 1: Smith are hanging out at home.
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  Speaker 9: Everything was great.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the lovebirds just returned from an anniversary trip
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  Speaker 1: to Washington, d C. Celebrating seven years of wedded bliss on.
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  Speaker 9: Her wedding day. I mean, I was happy for them.
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  Speaker 11: I was excited that, you know, this was the person
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  Speaker 11: she wanted to spend her life with and she was
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  Speaker 11: going to be able to be a stepmom to his
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  Speaker 11: three children.
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  Speaker 9: Then you know, he seemed like a good fit for her, and.
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  Speaker 1: There's plenty to celebrate, including a possible new job for
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  Speaker 1: missus Smith. The thirty year old HR coordinator lands a
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  Speaker 1: huge interview scheduled for the very next morning, and while
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  Speaker 1: Katrina finishes up some laundry, she hops on her husband's
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  Speaker 1: computer to finalize the details.
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  Speaker 3: There were a string of emails between herself and her
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  Speaker 3: new employer.
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  Speaker 1: After confirming her morning meeting, Todd says, Katrina heads out
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  Speaker 1: to a friend's condo, where she's currently house sitting. The
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  Speaker 1: next morning, the forty four year old insurance and investment
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  Speaker 1: broker sends a text to his wife which reads, good
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  Speaker 1: luck at your interview. You're going to be awesome. Oddly,
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  Speaker 1: Katrina doesn't respond. The day comes and goes and still
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  Speaker 1: no work. Todd is getting really nervous, and suddenly the
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  Speaker 1: phone range.
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  Speaker 11: I got a phone call on October twenty third, maybe
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  Speaker 11: around like seven pm from Todd saying that you know,
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  Speaker 11: he asked me if I had talked to my sister,
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  Speaker 11: and I said no. He said she didn't show up
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  Speaker 11: for work and he hadn't talked to her since the
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  Speaker 11: previous night and her big interview.
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  Speaker 1: She misses that too.
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  Speaker 11: She's very responsible, so I was immediately concerned. I knew
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  Speaker 11: something wasn't right. I felt sick.
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  Speaker 1: To my stomach, But just how wrong was it?
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  Speaker 11: I asked him if they had had a fight, if
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  Speaker 11: there was anything going on, and he said no, everything
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  Speaker 11: was great.
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  Speaker 1: So then where is Katrina Smith? Paniced Todd heads to
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  Speaker 1: the sheriff station.
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  Speaker 7: During the initial interview with tat Smith, he indicated that Katrina.
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  Speaker 7: On October twenty second, Katrina had been there at his
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  Speaker 7: house to do laundry, and then she was also going
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  Speaker 7: to get on the computer and send some emails out
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  Speaker 7: for an interview for a new job.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators checked Todd's computer and confirm the emails sent from
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  Speaker 1: Katrina to her potential new boss.
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  Speaker 7: From the emails that we recovered on the computer that
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  Speaker 7: it shows that she did send out some emails to
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  Speaker 7: set up the interview that was earlier in the day
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  Speaker 7: on the twenty second, and then he sends one more
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  Speaker 7: last email and then Katrina responds at ten fifty four.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately, investigators begin a search of the area. Katrina's family
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  Speaker 1: sets up a Facebook page entitled find a Smith Where
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  Speaker 1: they organized volunteer search parties. The Winnebago County Sheriff's Department
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  Speaker 1: officially classifies Katrina Smith as a missing person and takes
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  Speaker 1: the lead on the investigation.
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  Speaker 7: That was the same night the vehicle was found.
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  Speaker 1: Katrina's abandoned Chevrolet Cruise is discovered at the intersection of
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  Speaker 1: Obispo Road and Ventura Boulevard, about two miles from her home.
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  Speaker 12: With her car being found added some urgency to a
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  Speaker 12: fact that does isn't just a missing person.
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  Speaker 8: There was something definitely not right.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators on the scene believe the car has been white
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  Speaker 1: clean and tow it in for forensic processing. But there's more,
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  Speaker 1: a lot more.
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  Speaker 7: Once the vehicle was recovered, there was evidence or a
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  Speaker 7: trail of evidence that was recovered.
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  Speaker 1: Then two days later, another startling discovery. Local law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: and volunteer searchers find Katrina's wallet and cell phone just
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  Speaker 1: feet from her abandoned vehicle and something.
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  Speaker 7: Else bloody paper towels.
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  Speaker 1: Friends and family rally around Katrina's distraught husband, Tom Smith
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  Speaker 1: as he makes please for her safe return.
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  Speaker 13: It's been horrible. I just wanted to come home.
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  Speaker 2: He was in the media constantly. Every day. He would
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  Speaker 2: conduct daily interviews practically with the news media.
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  Speaker 1: With Katrina's husband and family seemingly making every effort to
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  Speaker 1: find the missing Illinois woman, authorities begin to speculate that.
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  Speaker 2: Was a stranger who perhaps broke into the home, or
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  Speaker 2: who perhaps stalked her. Maybe it was someone from her
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  Speaker 2: church who stalked her.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, there was an acquaintance from church, a juvenile
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  Speaker 1: who knew the Smiths through a church youth group. And
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  Speaker 1: get this, just two years before Katrina went missing, this
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  Speaker 1: peeping Tom was charged with allegedly stalking the Smith's neighbor
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  Speaker 1: by peering through her bedroom window.
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  Speaker 3: Coincidence, she knew that somebody was following and watching her.
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  Speaker 1: Was this peeping Tom stalking their neighbor or was he
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  Speaker 1: stalking Katrina? Coming up? Could this peeping Tom be responsible
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  Speaker 1: for Katrina's disappearance or someone else, maybe perhaps a secret lover.
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  Speaker 12: A boyfriend that Katrina Smith had started seeing on the
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  Speaker 12: side with a violent past, the domestic istione with his wife.
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  Speaker 1: We're back with more of today's special investigation. The secret
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  Speaker 1: Stalker Katrina Smith vanishes just hours before a big job interview.
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  Speaker 1: Her family immediately knows something's wrong because she really wanted
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  Speaker 1: that job, police would find her car.
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  Speaker 6: And it certainly appeared like it was wiped clean.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty year old Illinois wife and stepmom Katrina Smith is missing.
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  Speaker 2: No trace of her. She had disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: Her friends and family are desperate to find.
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  Speaker 9: Her, do anything we could to bring her home.
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  Speaker 1: It's day four in the search for Katrina Smith. Her
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  Speaker 1: husband Todd speaks out once again to the media camera's
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  Speaker 1: role as he has overcome with emotion.
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  Speaker 8: They said they'd be back later.
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  Speaker 6: And let's be heard of her.
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  Speaker 1: As Katrina's friends and family organize another search, frantically looking
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  Speaker 1: for any clues that will answer the question where is
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  Speaker 1: Katrina Smith?
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  Speaker 7: We're all just trying to be there for one another
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  Speaker 7: and trying to stay positive.
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  Speaker 1: Katrina's sister makes a heartbreaking post on the Facebook page, saying,
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  Speaker 1: in part, Sissy, I love you more than words can describe.
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  Speaker 1: I miss you terribly and the pain that I feel
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  Speaker 1: is unbearable. But detectives believe they may be one step
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  Speaker 1: closer to finding the missing Mtchesney Park woman. They zero
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  Speaker 1: in on a juvenile arrested in Katrina's neighborhood with a
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  Speaker 1: reported penchant for peeping.
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  Speaker 2: She had no enemies, She had no one else that
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  Speaker 2: wanted to harm her.
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  Speaker 1: Then Sheriff's detectives from Winnebago make us stunning discovery and
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  Speaker 1: now there is another man they're looking at. It turns
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  Speaker 1: out Katrina has a secret.
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  Speaker 12: There was a boyfriend that Katrina Smith had started seeing
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  Speaker 12: on the side.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, this married stepmother is having an affair.
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  Speaker 2: She was very private, She was very secretive.
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  Speaker 1: His name Guy Gabriel, a married man from a town over.
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  Speaker 12: Guy Gabriel is a coworker of Katrina's, so she ultimately
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  Speaker 12: started having a relationship with while she was still married
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  Speaker 12: with Todd Smith.
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  Speaker 1: And when cops run a background check on Katrina's secret lover,
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  Speaker 1: the uncover of violent past.
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  Speaker 12: And there was some issues with him is involved in
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  Speaker 12: domestic issue with his wife.
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  Speaker 1: Police records reportedly reveal an arrest for domestic battery. The
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  Speaker 1: responding officer describes the reported attack.
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  Speaker 14: The first thing I noticed was she had a large
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  Speaker 14: knot on her forehead. Her face was really red and
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  Speaker 14: it looked like she had been crying. Her eyes were red. Also,
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  Speaker 14: she had a couple of scratches that I could see
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  Speaker 14: on her throat in her chest.
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  Speaker 1: The attending nurse paints a similar picture of alleged abuse.
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  Speaker 14: Said he hit her head into the ground and choked
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  Speaker 14: her at one point.
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  Speaker 1: But that's not all the dirt on Katrina's secret boyfriend.
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  Speaker 1: Detectives retrieved text messages from her recently recovered cell phone,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a powder keg of intel. On the night
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  Speaker 1: Katrina goes missing, her secret lover God Gabriel sends her
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  Speaker 1: a barrage of text messages.
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  Speaker 8: There's something else going on here than just a missing person.
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  Speaker 1: One of the texts to Katrina says what's wrong, and
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  Speaker 1: yet another that reads have you told him you want
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  Speaker 1: a divorce? That there's nothing left in you for him? Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Then the texts, which continue late into the night, appear
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  Speaker 1: to take on in an aggressive tone when guy writes
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  Speaker 1: he wants this his way, well newslash, he has no say.
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  Speaker 2: All the while, we were all suspicious.
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  Speaker 1: Then more explosive evidence and the missing woman's coworkers confirmed
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  Speaker 1: to police that Katrina thought she was being stalked in
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  Speaker 1: the weeks leading up to her disappearance.
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  Speaker 2: She also shared that information with her cellular phone company.
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  Speaker 3: She knew that somebody was following and watching her.
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  Speaker 1: And that scared her. A text to her stepfather, just
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  Speaker 1: four days before she vanished, revealed Katrina feared for her life.
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  Speaker 1: In the text, she writes, do I have to have
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  Speaker 1: my FOID card first before going to the shooting range?
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  Speaker 1: FOYD is an acronym for firearm Owner Identification card. According
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  Speaker 1: to her stepdad, Katrina wanted a gun for protection.
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  Speaker 2: She did everything that she thought she could to protect herself.
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  Speaker 1: Sadly, it may not have been enough. Katrina's coworkers share
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  Speaker 1: a disturbing incident with police that occurred just two weeks
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  Speaker 1: before Katrina went missing.
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  Speaker 2: An individual drove through her work parking lot in disguise
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  Speaker 2: and distributed several flyers.
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  Speaker 1: That flyer was to expose her secret boyfriend and gone.
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  Speaker 1: It was entitled guy expletive cat, which stated, in part
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  Speaker 1: he was able to exploitive Katrina from HR in record
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  Speaker 1: time and goes on to paint Katrina as a cheater. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she's married with a family, but when I turned on
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  Speaker 1: the charm, her legs fell open. But who is the
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  Speaker 1: mystery man behind the X rated flyers?
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  Speaker 2: He secretly followed her. We believe that he dumped flyers
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  Speaker 2: at her workplace, so she was constantly being stalked by
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  Speaker 2: this individual.
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  Speaker 1: In Katrina's secret love affair. It's not so secret anymore,
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  Speaker 1: and she had.
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  Speaker 2: No idea that he was capable of these.
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  Speaker 1: Things coming up. There's yet another suspect.
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  Speaker 8: The amount of lies in de seat with him is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And Katrina was hiding another dark secret.
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  Speaker 9: She really kept this out to herself.
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  Speaker 1: Katrina and Todd Smith were married on paper, but in
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  Speaker 1: real life they were done, and that split would remain
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  Speaker 1: a secret from just about everyone until Katrina.
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  Speaker 6: Mysteriously fell off the face of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty year old Katrina Smith has been missing for two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I miss so much. Cops discovered the wife and stepmother
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  Speaker 1: had a secret life and a secret lover, the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: betrayal and constant terror.
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  Speaker 2: Someone was tracking her.
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  Speaker 1: Detectives interview Katrina's lover and coworker, Guy Gabriel. He claims
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  Speaker 1: he was working the night Katrina went missing.
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  Speaker 8: He was a very cooperative with the investigation.
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  Speaker 1: While investigators check out guys alibi, they turned their attention
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  Speaker 1: to a person no one first suspected, Katrina's husband, Todd Smith,
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  Speaker 1: who's been on TV every day since her disappearance, begging
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  Speaker 1: for his wife's safe return.
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  Speaker 13: And thank everybody for all your efforts for coming up tonight.
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  Speaker 3: He gave the tears, but I think the majority of
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  Speaker 3: the public looked at him in real life is something's
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  Speaker 3: just not right.
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  Speaker 1: But odd behavior doesn't equal guilt. So would a big
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  Speaker 1: old detective start digging? They wonder is Tod Smith really
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: a grieving husband or a killer crying crocodile tears.
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  Speaker 8: Todd Smith, That's debatable. It's defensive. Who you talk.
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  Speaker 12: To family friends, you might get different opinions.
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  Speaker 1: It turns out Katrina isn't the only one who's been
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  Speaker 1: keeping secrets. Todd, a forty four year old insurance and
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  Speaker 1: investment broker, is hardly the money man he claims to
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  Speaker 1: be around town.
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  Speaker 2: Who is being sued in federal court by investors.
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  Speaker 1: As seen in these court documents, Todd and his business
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  Speaker 1: partners are accused of bilking clients out of nine hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty three thousand dollars. In addition, he's indicted on
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  Speaker 1: seven counts of mail fraud and ten counts of wire
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  Speaker 1: fraud in connection with the alleged charge it. Todd leads
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  Speaker 1: not guilty.
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  Speaker 2: But no one knew that other than herself. That was
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  Speaker 2: something that was not shared with family members. Everyone thought
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  Speaker 2: that he made money, that he was the breadwinner.
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  Speaker 1: In reality, Katrina supports Todd and his three daughters. It's
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  Speaker 1: a shift in traditional gender roles and a strain on
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  Speaker 1: the marriage.
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  Speaker 3: And that's quite apparent that he was losing control and
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  Speaker 3: losing his wife.
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  Speaker 2: She realized that she needed to end the marriage, but.
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  Speaker 1: You never know it. According to Todd's statements to detectives.
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  Speaker 7: He stated that his relationship with Katrina was good, that
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  Speaker 7: Katrina was just staying at a friend's house while she
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  Speaker 7: was house sitting.
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  Speaker 1: Not exactly.
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  Speaker 2: She had moved out of the marital home approximately two
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  Speaker 2: and a half weeks prior, and.
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  Speaker 1: Todd is desperate to get her back. And how do
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: cops know this?
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  Speaker 7: There was a card that was recovered from Katrina's vehicle.
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  Speaker 7: He's begging for her not to leave him.
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  Speaker 1: In the handwritten card, Todd writes, in part, I am
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  Speaker 1: scared to death that you are going to start talking
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  Speaker 1: to someone who will take advantage of the situation, and
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  Speaker 1: he goes on to say I will do whatever it takes.
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  Speaker 1: He ends the note with this sentiment, I want to
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  Speaker 1: grow old with you. I love you and cherish you.
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  Speaker 1: Katrina love Todd. And while the card appears to be
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: a love letter. Marilyn Hyde Ross with the Winnebago State's
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  Speaker 1: Attorney's Office reads something entirely different.
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  Speaker 2: It had subtle hints love you to death. You know,
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  Speaker 2: can't live without you. I'll do anything, But reading between
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  Speaker 2: the lines, it was a subtle threat.
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  Speaker 1: And recovered text between Katrina and her secret lover Guy
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  Speaker 1: reveals something happened between mister and missus Smith the night
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  Speaker 1: she vanished. Gye texts, it will be over before you
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  Speaker 1: know it, and then the healing begins. Then he writes,
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  Speaker 1: it's your house. You either sell or He goes and continues,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: did you tell him too little? Too late? Tell him
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: what to take? This wonder? Then they get news that
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Katrina's purse has been found.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: She had notes that were recovered regarding appointments with a
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: divorce attorney, and they were in her purse to.
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  Speaker 1: Start piecing together. The night Katrina disappear, she went over
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: to do laundry and air some dirty laundry of her own,
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  Speaker 1: asking Todd for a divorce. Authorities now believe the last
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  Speaker 1: person who saw her alive was her husband, a man
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: she thought she knew, but as it turns out, he
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: was keeping some giant secrets of his own. Katrina didn't
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: even know her husband's real name.
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  Speaker 9: He changed his name.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, Tom Smith isn't even Tod Smith. His real
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  Speaker 1: name is Todd Rapprager.
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  Speaker 9: Pieces of information about his past that we didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Rappracher changed his name to Todd Smith after being
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: convicted of arson as a teenager.
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  Speaker 11: He had previously been arrested when he was seventeen for
• 17:43
  Speaker 11: trying to burn his family's house down while his family
• 17:45
  Speaker 11: members were in it.
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  Speaker 1: He was sentenced to thirty months probation and required to
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: get a voluntary drug evaluation, something his wife's family says.
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  Speaker 2: Katrina never knew he's a chameleon. He had two faces.
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  Speaker 2: She had no idea that he was capable of these things.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: What else is Todd Smith hiding? The Winnebago Sheriff's Department
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  Speaker 1: wants to find out. They obtain a subpoena for Todd
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: in a warrant to search his home. He sees several items,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: including his computer.
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  Speaker 12: That was a gut instinct. It's almost like getting hit
• 18:17
  Speaker 12: in the stomach coming up.
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  Speaker 7: He deleted and cleared his computer.
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  Speaker 1: But detectives are determined to find the truth.
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  Speaker 3: We will in fact see justice.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: And it may be stranger than fiction.
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  Speaker 2: She trusted the wrong person.
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  Speaker 1: For weeks, Katrina Smith has been missing. Her husband would
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: make an emotional plea for her to come home on TV,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: but some, including the police, were now wondering if those
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: tears were all an act. It's been seventeen days since
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: anyone has heard from the missing Illinois woman. Winnebago detectives
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: have their hands full chasing leads and potential suspects.
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: We had many, many calls come in. We followed up
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: on many leads.
• 19:00
  Speaker 12: There was an exhaustive investigation done on other people that
• 19:06
  Speaker 12: it could have.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Been, including the peeping tom arrested in Katrina's neighborhood.
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: He was cleared.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: And what about Katrina's secret lover, Guy Gabriel.
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: There was some issues with him.
• 19:18
  Speaker 12: He's involved in a domestic issue with his wife, but
• 19:21
  Speaker 12: we don't feel that any involvement in this incident at all.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: After uncovering secrets in the Smith marriage and Todd's dark
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: double life.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: We were all suspicious that he was in fact the perpetrator.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: While they wait for forensic results on item sees from
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Todd's home, detectives are struck by the frequency of Todd's
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: news interviews every day for seventeen straight days, The seemingly
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: grieving husband has made emotional please through the press.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: They did give him the airtime, and they continue to
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: present him as the grieving husband.
• 19:54
  Speaker 13: It's overwhelming, the outreach, the love and the support of everyone.
• 19:59
  Speaker 13: I'm deeply grateful, and I know Katrina would appreciate it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: There's just one problem.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: I don't think he was that convincing.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: And it's not just what Todd is saying is what
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: he's doing or in this case, not doing.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: He would be in the search parties with strangers who
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: were diligently searching for her, and he really was not interested.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Katrina's family witnessed it firsthand.
• 20:27
  Speaker 11: We were all desperate to find her, do anything we
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: could to bring her home, and he was kind of
• 20:32
  Speaker 11: just a bystander.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Bystander reaving husband or killer. Authorities can't be sure and
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: subpoena the news footage from local stations as potential evidence. Meanwhile,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: computer forensic analyst Detective Dave one As is tasked with
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: reviewing the information recovered from Todd's laptop.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: He told me that he had completely deleted everything everything.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: With today's technology and computer forensics, we were able to
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: recover all that, even if the data has been deleted,
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: we were able to recover that.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: And it's a gold mine of jealousy and obsession. On
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: the laptop, cops recover three folders of interest, one entitled
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: KS one four one two, which is the date Katrina
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: allegedly met her secret boyfriend god Gabriel for drinks. And
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: then a second folder that appears to be related to
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: that X rated flyer that was distributed at Katrina's workplace.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Through the investigative work of the one nabag Ol'connie Sheriff's
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: department to find remnants of that flyer that was distributed
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: on his computer.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Then there's a third folder and it grabs the attention
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: of detected one as it's entitled super trackstick. But what
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: in the world is that?
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: A super track stick is a device or a GPS
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: device that is used to track a movement of a
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: person or a vehicle. A satellite signal will track every
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: movement by capturing GPS coordinates.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: And one investigator click on the folder to see what
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Ton's tracking. Ends up, it's not what he's tracking, but
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: who he's tracking.
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: He was tracking his wife for some time.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Try three years according to the tracking logs, but investigators
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: need physical proof that Todd has been stalking his wife
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and pass on the information to the forensics team processing
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: her car. And when they check under Katrina's vehicle.
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: He took it off the car and he.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Forgot one small thing, but a big one for cops.
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: It's a wire that was located underneath Katrina's vehicle, So
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: we knew that something had been fixed to that vehicle.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: But where is that tracking device now? Then cops got
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: a huge break.
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: There was some video that was recovered.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: It's home surveillance video from one of Todd and Katrina's neighbor.
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: Where we see a small statue person walking southbound.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Detectives believe the image is of Todd, but it's grainy
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: and far away, so it could be anywhere. Then an
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: explosive moment in the case when the forensics on Katrina's
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: car come in.
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: In Katrina's car, we sprayed a chemical which reacts with
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: blood and when it does, it causes the blood to
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: luminess or glow.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Blood is everywhere as seen in these CSI photos and
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the blood DNA.
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: Katrina's blood was identified.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: But Tod Smith's blood or fingerprints are nowhere to be found.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: At this point in the investigation, detectives can prove Todd
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: stalked his wife, but they can't prove he killed her.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: And there was no one else. There were no other suspects.
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: It was him.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: If only investigators had some concrete evidence linking Todd to
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the murder of his wife.
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: We obtain a second search warn for the computer coming up.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: That's when I started tracking him.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: The perfect murder.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: He thought he could outsmart everyone.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: But there's one thing. Todd Smith for.
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: God, that was his biggest mistake.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Now to the conclusion of today's story, the secret stalker
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Katrina Smith is missing and presumed dead, and police now
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: believe the man she married has been acting more like
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: a stalker than a husband.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: But the big question was he a killer?
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: The authorities believe Tod Smith stalked and murdered his wife Katrina.
• 24:24
  Speaker 10: I've never felt that somebody was so guilty of a
• 24:28
  Speaker 10: crime as I did in this.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: The uncovered suspicious GPS software on his computer. Now they
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: just need to find direct evidence linking.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Him to the murder, and we knew that it was ten.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Detectives learn about updated tracking software, and they get a
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: second search warrant for Tod's.
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: Computer to see if we can recover any additional information
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: or evidence that could you know, show us more of
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: that tracking information.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: It's a success and a game changer for the prosecution's case.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: We were able to pinpoint exactly where that tracking had
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: been tracking.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: This time, the high tech software allows investigators to see
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: a new detail.
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: The tracking device shows them shows hundreds of pings, which
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: is consistent of somebody walking.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: That's right on the night Katrina goes missing. Tom's GPS
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: device appears to move from Katrina's vehicle to a person's body,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: and the coordinates show this mystery man is on the.
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: Move, somebody leaving the vehicle, removing the tracking device from
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: her vehicle, and then walking back to Tot Smith's residence.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Then detectives get a hunch and take another look at
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: that home surveillance video recovered from one of the Smith's neighbors,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: and when they compare the GPS movements to the video,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: get this It's an exact frame for frame match.
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: The pings show as he's walking on the sidewalk, it
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: shows when he's walking on the fields as he's crossing
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: over through.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Detectives believe the video captures Tod Smith on his way
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: home after he killed his wife. But why is the
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: tracking device tracking Todd?
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: He took it off the car and at that time
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: we believe that at that time he thought he was
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: turning it off and he turned it on instead, and
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: that's when it started tracking him.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, Todd's perfect murder is being perfectly recorded, but he
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: almost got away with it except for one final action.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: After murdering his wife.
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: The biggest mistake that night, he plugged in that tracking
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: device and it grabbed all the coordinates.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: But before prosecutors can charge Todd with murder, they need
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: more direct evidence.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Proof that she was in fact murdered.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Then a grave discovery. A fireman is fishing on Illinois
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Rock River and notices something caught on a log near
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the river's edge.
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: Curiosity got the best of them, so he bolted over
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: to see what it was.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: It's the body of a woman.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: It was very decomposed. In order to identify her, the
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: investigators had to contact and look at dental records so
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: that we could actually identify her.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Tragically, it's Katrina Smith.
• 27:18
  Speaker 11: Was very devastating to even hear that she it was final.
• 27:24
  Speaker 11: Then you know it wasn't that she was missing and
• 27:25
  Speaker 11: we could bring her home alive, that she was gone.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Four days later, the autopsy results are in and the
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: corner makes a ruling.
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: Homicide and the manner of death blunt force trauma.
• 27:39
  Speaker 10: It was intensely brutal well, she was beaten over the
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: head and body and then thrown into a river.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: But how was Katrina killed? Investigators still don't have a
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: murder weapon or do that. That's when they hear a
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: disturbing story from Todd's own children.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: The defendant was there with his daughters and a friend
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: to collect items from the house. The defendant ordered another
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: friend to go collect the bat.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: As in a Louisville Slugger aluminum baseball bat.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: He was taken back in surprise and very upset that
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: the bat was missing from the garage and where was it?
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: The bat was already in our custody.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: And only Crime Watch Daily gets invited into the evidence
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: room for a look at the alleged murder weapon.
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: The bat was actually against the wall in the corner
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: of the garage, leaning like this, and there was blood
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: on this side. It was completely consumed he was very
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: concerned that the police had the bat.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: And when the blood DNA is tested.
• 28:40
  Speaker 10: Katrina's blood was identified on the baseball bat.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Now, with the alleged murder weapon, Katrina's body, forensics from
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the computer and video surveillance, the Winnebago County DA's office
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: makes it official.
• 28:54
  Speaker 12: He's charged with the murder aggravated by aggravated domestic battery,
• 28:59
  Speaker 12: and concealment of a homicide.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Todd enters his please Our affiliate WTVO is in the
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: courtroom as Winnebago Sheriff's detective John Berg takes the stand.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: He recalls the defendant's odd behavior during their initial interview.
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: He was rubbing with both hands at the side of
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: his head. He was looking down in kind of an
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: emotion like this.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Then, upon taking the stand, Katrina's secret lover God Gabriel
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: testifies about the text messages he exchanged with Katrina on
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: that fateful night.
• 29:33
  Speaker 15: I just says she was frustrated that he was grasping
• 29:35
  Speaker 15: his fraws and trying to.
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: Trying to talk her into.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Stan And when it came to Katrina asking Todd for
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: a divorce.
• 29:43
  Speaker 10: What she had told me about her apprehension to share,
• 29:47
  Speaker 10: and the reasons she wouldn't share was because she was
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: afraid of his reaction.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Then prosecutors enter into evidence those infamous news interviews.
• 29:55
  Speaker 13: It's been horrible.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: To come home.
• 30:01
  Speaker 12: A man who murdered his wife and took part in
• 30:04
  Speaker 12: searches with the community, did multiple interviews with the news media.
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: The amount of lies and deceit with him is amazing.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: The defense claims there's no direct evidence tying Todd to
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the crime. Tod Smith's fingerprints and his DNA were not
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: found on the bat or other evidence, and there was
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: no eyewitness to the alleged murder.
• 30:31
  Speaker 10: The forensic evidence that linked Todd to the crime was
• 30:34
  Speaker 10: more so digital.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: But the defense appears to be grasping at straws, claiming
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Katrina's secret lover, God Gabriel is the real killer, telling
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the jury Gabriel's alleged domestic abuse record is enough reasonable
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: doubt to warrant a not guilty verdict for their client.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: But there's a big hole in that story. God Gabriel's
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: alibi is rock solid.
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: So it was determined that he was at work the
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: night of the end.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Leaving as the only suspect. The man who's been in
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: plain sight the entire time on the local.
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: News, Katrina was murdered by Todd Smith.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: And in closing arguments, the prosecutor literally comes out swinging, Tommy, she's.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Down, she can herself miss hit. Ross took the bat
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: and sliftly graphically showed the jurors how many times he
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: had to swing the bat to do the injuries and
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: the damage that was done to Katrina.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: After three weeks of testimony, a jury of ten men
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and two women reaches a verdicts Bility, your first three murdered.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Katrina's broken hearted mother rejoices through the pain.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: We are so grateful to the verdict today. We finally
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: have justice for my daughter Katrina.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Todd Smith is sentenced to fifty nine years behind bars,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: which is a life sentence for the now fifty year old.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: He plans to appeal the verdict, still clinging to his innocence,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: reading a verse from the Bible in open court, So fine.
• 32:10
  Speaker 13: A why and a employ Although I I faily.
• 32:18
  Speaker 15: Asked to see or see her.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: But while todd sits in prison, Katrina's family looks forward
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: to the future.
• 32:27
  Speaker 11: We want to just be able to move forward and
• 32:30
  Speaker 11: just always remember Katrina and just celebrate the person that
• 32:33
  Speaker 11: she was. Katrina was a beautiful person inside and now,
• 32:37
  Speaker 11: and she really made the world a better place just
• 32:40
  Speaker 11: by being in it.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: To talk about the case and what could happen next,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: we brought in Crime Watch Daily legal.
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: Analyst Jesse Webber.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Jesse, thanks for being here, Thank you for having man.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Smith got fifty five years for the murder, four years
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: for concealment of a homicide.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: He faced life.
• 32:56
  Speaker 15: Explain that, well, that is basically a life sentence because
• 32:59
  Speaker 15: he is forty nine years old, and the judge said
• 33:01
  Speaker 15: he will serve that one hundred percent, which means he
• 33:03
  Speaker 15: won't get out even for good behavior.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: There were a few unanswered questions raised by the defense.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: For instance, whose fingerprints were on the bat?
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: Can that help in an appeal in her That's.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: A great question.
• 33:15
  Speaker 15: The most important thing that they're going to try and
• 33:16
  Speaker 15: say is that the weight of the evidence was not
• 33:18
  Speaker 15: substantial enough to support the conviction because a his fingerprints
• 33:22
  Speaker 15: weren't found on the bat, the fibers that were found
• 33:24
  Speaker 15: on the bloody paper towels were not the same fibers
• 33:27
  Speaker 15: in his apartment. There were unidentified fingerprints in Katrina's car.
• 33:31
  Speaker 15: There was no direct eye witnesses, So they're going to
• 33:33
  Speaker 15: say there just wasn't enough. The evidence is insubstantial and
• 33:36
  Speaker 15: flimsy to support this conviction.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: What do you think the chances are that he gets
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: a new trial.
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: It is an uphill burden for them. It is an
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: uphill battle.
• 33:43
  Speaker 15: So the chances that they will be successful are unlikely
• 33:47
  Speaker 15: because the forensic evidence in terms of fingerprints was kind
• 33:49
  Speaker 15: of flimsy. There were no direct eye witnesses. But when
• 33:52
  Speaker 15: you look at the history on his computer, he had searched.
• 33:55
  Speaker 15: He had a searchestory about bridges and she had been
• 33:57
  Speaker 15: found there, and then the history with the GPS, it's
• 34:01
  Speaker 15: coming together.
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: Legal analyst Jesse Webber, thank you very much.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: As always, if you want more on this story, we'll
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: continue to follow it on our website, crimewatch Daily dot com.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Up next, a mother of two survives the unthinkable nine
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: gunshots to the body.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: I said to myself, Wow, listen, it is I'm dying.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna die.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: The chilling attack caught on surveillance video. Who was the
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: man in disguise? You wanted her dead? Coming up now
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: to an incredible survivor story. A woman shot not once,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: but nine Times. Today, she's reliving the horrible incident that
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: played out on a store surveillance camera. We're teaming up
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: with our local affiliate ktv I for the very latest.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Here's regrincel.
• 34:49
  Speaker 16: A dramatic scene unfolds on camera at the entrance to
• 34:52
  Speaker 16: a supermarket. Kat Hudson, scene standing, suddenly collapses to the ground,
• 34:58
  Speaker 16: her body riddled with bullets.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: I said to myself, Wow, what is it.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: I'm done.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna die.
• 35:08
  Speaker 16: If he couldn't have her, then no one else would.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: There's no reason I should be alive right now. Heavy
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: bullet was something that could have been serious.
• 35:17
  Speaker 16: Like prey. She has been hunted down and shot by
• 35:21
  Speaker 16: the man she once loved. It was an early morning
• 35:26
  Speaker 16: in March. Kat Hudson pulled into the store parking lot
• 35:29
  Speaker 16: where she works, but before the mother of two could
• 35:32
  Speaker 16: get inside, he.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Was there and this big, musty, massive guy who's bald,
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: and he had a long black wig.
• 35:42
  Speaker 16: Gone under the wig her estranged husband, Michael Hudson. Kat
• 35:49
  Speaker 16: says her husband changed after they were married, becoming possessive
• 35:54
  Speaker 16: and abusive. He trashed their house and destroyed almost everything
• 35:59
  Speaker 16: she had. She finally left, headed to Saint Louis, where
• 36:03
  Speaker 16: she got a new phone number, new home, and a
• 36:05
  Speaker 16: new job. She thought he didn't know her location, but
• 36:09
  Speaker 16: now he'd found her disguised and carrying a gun. Michael
• 36:15
  Speaker 16: tried forcing Cat into his van. When a coworker heard
• 36:18
  Speaker 16: the commotion ran out to help. Michael opened fire.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: I remember that first hit because it made my arm
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: feel like it feels now, just complete utter numbness and
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: dead and weight.
• 36:34
  Speaker 16: And he wasn't done yet, far from it.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: And I remember the stomach shots and holding my stomach
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: and there was a.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Ton of blood.
• 36:45
  Speaker 16: Shockingly, Cat was shot nine times. Her survival a miracle.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: I definitely have shots under my arm and my grind
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: and my belly and artery was hit both here am I.
• 37:00
  Speaker 16: Growing Surveillance video obtained by our Saint Louis affiliate KTVI
• 37:05
  Speaker 16: shows Cat as she reaches the store's entrance, already shot.
• 37:10
  Speaker 16: What you can't hear is what she wanted everyone to know.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: And I said, this was my husband, Michael Hudson. Make
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: sure he goes to jail.
• 37:18
  Speaker 16: About a minute later, she collapsed. Lucky for Kat, a
• 37:22
  Speaker 16: police officer across the street heard the gunfire and was
• 37:25
  Speaker 16: at her side within minutes.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: There was a lot of blood.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: You have to try and find where it's coming from.
• 37:33
  Speaker 16: One of the bullets had severed the artery in her shoulder.
• 37:36
  Speaker 16: Police officers used a blood clotting powder to save her life.
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: I just went to work trying to flip her over,
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: find where she was bleeding from, and get the quick
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: clot on it as fast as possible.
• 37:49
  Speaker 16: Paramedics rushed Cat to the hospital, where she spent days
• 37:52
  Speaker 16: in a medically induced coma. When she woke up, her
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  Speaker 16: only concern was her two kids.
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  Speaker 4: I was petrified, but he was going to go for them.
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  Speaker 1: But he didn't.
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  Speaker 16: Police say Michael Hudson took his own life. The crazed
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  Speaker 16: gunman found dead in his vehicle about two hours after
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  Speaker 16: ambushing his wife.
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  Speaker 4: What was your reaction when you heard that he had
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  Speaker 4: committed suicide? Well, as non Christian ath, it sounds, I
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  Speaker 4: was relieved.
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  Speaker 16: A restraining order had done little to keep Michael Hudson away.
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  Speaker 16: Kat says Michael violated it several times but was never arrested.
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  Speaker 4: It's not a perfect system at all. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 4: going to be my life goal is to make changes.
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  Speaker 16: For now, she's focused on getting better. The gunshots destroyed
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  Speaker 16: the nerves in her arm and hand, and she'll need
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  Speaker 16: lots of rehab to get movement back.
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  Speaker 4: I still have a couple of bullets have I think
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  Speaker 4: a bullet still in my chest and one and either
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  Speaker 4: my belly or my groin.
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  Speaker 16: Despite that, Cat has been tough by the outpouring of
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  Speaker 16: support from total strangers. A local dealership gave her a
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  Speaker 16: car so she could get back and forth to her
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  Speaker 16: doctor's appointments.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to give her a big hug, and when.
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  Speaker 16: She is better, the officer who was first at her
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  Speaker 16: side hopes they can meet again.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just so happy she survived it. You know, it's
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  Speaker 5: it's a miracle. Everything aligned right.
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  Speaker 16: And Kat Hudson agrees it is a miracle.
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  Speaker 2: Your loss a miracle.