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Twisted tale: Respected doctor suspected in murder of beautiful DJ wife · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace now online at crime online
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Speaker 1: host and alleged drug ring, a pagan tercycle gang, and
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Speaker 1: a murder for higher I feel like I'm living like
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Speaker 1: the worst teen movie that you can't even make up
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Speaker 1: these details and someone would believe that, and this is
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Speaker 1: my life. He has a weapon, dropped the gun. Dropped
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Speaker 1: the gun. Hey dropped the gun. Dropped the gun, Sir.
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Speaker 1: It's so surreal because I've been waiting for this for
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Speaker 1: five years. She's young, she's beautiful, she has a gorgeous daughter,
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Speaker 1: a happy family of an incredible home. It looks like
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Speaker 1: it's out of a mac zine. And just to top
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Speaker 1: it all off, she's one of the most famous radio
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Speaker 1: DJs in a top ten city as far as media goes.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about Philadelphia. She's married to a husband, uh,
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Speaker 1: well known endocrinologist. I mean it looks how could you
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Speaker 1: even write a story, a success story like that April
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Speaker 1: Kaufman Until she's found dead. We have been on the
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Speaker 1: case from the get go. Has the case cracked wide open?
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Speaker 1: I Mancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: being with us. I want to start at the very beginning.
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Speaker 1: Let's break it down and put it back together again.
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Speaker 1: Chuck Roberts, Vincent Til, Dr Daniel bober and Wendy Patrick
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Speaker 1: with me along with Alan and Jackie's always first to you,
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Speaker 1: Chuck Roberts, Crime Stories, investigative reporter. Let's start with the
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Speaker 1: discovery of April's body. Take me back to that day.
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Speaker 1: Tell me what happened. The couple, as you said, had
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Speaker 1: a beautiful home. Heated the pool outside seven thousand square
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Speaker 1: foot home in Linwood, New Jersey, outside Atlantic City. A
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Speaker 1: handyman found her body on hold on whoa what sorry
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Speaker 1: sorry sorry sorry sorry? Seven thousand square foot home five
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Speaker 1: whoa five bedroom, seven baths, uh in ground pool in
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Speaker 1: the back. It was quite a quite a property. He
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Speaker 1: was doing well. He was a very very successful into chronology.
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Speaker 1: I think my apartment is like twelve hundred square feet,
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Speaker 1: Alan Dick, my apartments like twelve d square feet and
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Speaker 1: um maybe maybe. And that's me, David and the children,
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Speaker 1: and sometimes I am irritated would have to get up
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Speaker 1: and run down the hall to try to find one
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Speaker 1: of the children. So okay, let me let me take
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Speaker 1: this in. Did you say seven thousand square feet in
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Speaker 1: heated pool. Not better, not better? Okay, go ahead, go ahead.
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Speaker 1: I'm off the house now I'm moving on to the body.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry that just caught my attention. I could I
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Speaker 1: couldn't help it. Wendy Patrick's Southern California prosecutor. Don't judge me, Okay,
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Speaker 1: you know it was like when I was prosecuting still, Wendy.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if this ever happens to you, but
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Speaker 1: I would be working on the weekends. Of course, we
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Speaker 1: had no money in the prosecutor's office. If I had
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Speaker 1: asked the elected d A then the longest serving d
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Speaker 1: A in the country thirty seven years, Louis Layton, I
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Speaker 1: think it was thirty seven from money, it wouldn't even
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Speaker 1: know what I was talking about. So I would be
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Speaker 1: going to buy my own poster board and markers and
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah on the weekends, trying to get my
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Speaker 1: opening and closing statements together. And I would be on
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Speaker 1: the floor working or trying to find witnesses and and
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Speaker 1: you know, crack houses and whorehouses and you name it.
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Speaker 1: And I would turn on the Martha Stewart Show in
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Speaker 1: the background, okay, and that's the one she had, Wendy,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you ever saw this where she
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Speaker 1: I think she shot it at her real home. Would
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Speaker 1: and I wouldn't be surprised, and it was just too beautiful,
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Speaker 1: and she wouldn't make seemingly make something beautiful out of nothing.
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Speaker 1: And I think it was just like a fantasy, like
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Speaker 1: an escape from what I'm doing. So don't judge me. Okay,
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Speaker 1: let me look into their beautiful home for a moment. Okay,
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Speaker 1: no judging. Back to you, Chuck Roberts. I'm off the
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Speaker 1: seven thousand square foot home and the heated pool. Now
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Speaker 1: tell me about the dead body. The body um and
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Speaker 1: called night handy man. Yes, on many tenelve, this is
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Speaker 1: April Kaufman uh and found her on responses, don't get mad,
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Speaker 1: don't get mad, Wendy Patrick. As a veteran prosecutor, you
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Speaker 1: immediately look and who found the body? A handy man
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Speaker 1: with access to the home. Yeah, that's a that's a
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Speaker 1: great point one. No doubt that was explored very well
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Speaker 1: between then and now, which is interesting that no charges
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Speaker 1: came against him, so it sounds like he was clean. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that's the first thing police did is hone
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Speaker 1: in on the handyman who finds the dead body. All right, Chuck, Robert,
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Speaker 1: sorry about that? Go ahead. Well, he reported that she
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Speaker 1: had had cuts on her hand, when in fact she'd
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Speaker 1: been shot. Uh, And they responded, obviously and found her
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Speaker 1: with multiple gun try wait wait, wait, are you going
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Speaker 1: so fast? You're going to the fast? Did you say
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Speaker 1: it's like drinking out of a fire hydrant? Hold on?
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Speaker 1: Multiple gunshot wounds and she's got cuts on her hands,
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Speaker 1: Vincent Hill, private investigator, Vincent that screams defensive wounds to me,
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Speaker 1: but I'm not sure what does it say to you?
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Speaker 1: Cuts on her hands, but she was shot dead, multiple
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Speaker 1: gunshot wounds, Yeah, Nancy can either be defensive wounds or
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Speaker 1: it could have been at the handyman sold blood on
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Speaker 1: her hands that she likely held her gunshot wounds trying
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Speaker 1: maybe to stop the bleeding. And you know a lot
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Speaker 1: of people that aren't trained on the crime scenes and
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Speaker 1: trained on these types of injuries could misconceived something for uh,
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Speaker 1: something other than it was. So he may have seen
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Speaker 1: the blood, it could have been defensive wounds, or she
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Speaker 1: could have you been holding those wounds. Yeah, you know what,
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Speaker 1: you're right. I remember with the body of Travis Alexander
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Speaker 1: and a lot of bodies that I represented those dead
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Speaker 1: victims in court. There's so much blood you can't tell
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Speaker 1: what it is. You don't know if, like they didn't know,
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Speaker 1: if Travis Alexander at first had been shot multiple times,
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Speaker 1: stab multiple times. There's so much blood covering his body
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Speaker 1: you can't tell. You have to get the body to
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Speaker 1: the Emmy's medical examiner's office. The more the corners for
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Speaker 1: them to clean the body and process the body to
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Speaker 1: determine what really happened. So let's let's start right there.
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Speaker 1: You know what I love, Wendy Patrick. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you feel the same way, but I love playing
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Speaker 1: a nine one one call because it takes me and
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Speaker 1: the jury back to that moment. And no matter how
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Speaker 1: many times I listened to a nine one one call,
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Speaker 1: very often I will learn something new. It might be
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Speaker 1: very small, but I learned something new. Do you feel
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Speaker 1: the same way, window absolutely, And you know the demeanor
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Speaker 1: and tone of boys you and I have probably both
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Speaker 1: used to gauge the authenticity and the veracity of what's
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Speaker 1: being said on that call. There's just so many vote
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Speaker 1: cues that there's just no other way to be able
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Speaker 1: to discern. And that really struck me in this case
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Speaker 1: listening to the nine one one call is he didn't
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Speaker 1: sound guilty. And you know, even so, as has been
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Speaker 1: pointed out aptly, you know, he may have misperceived and
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Speaker 1: misreported what he saw. He sounded like he was telling
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Speaker 1: the truth. I agree with you right there. I agree,
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Speaker 1: Wendy Patrick. I main, here's the deal. Nine one one
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Speaker 1: calls blood spatter. You know I could talk about that
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Speaker 1: all day. Hey, let's stop. Dr Daniel Bober please, forensic
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Speaker 1: psychiatrist joining me, Please listen along with me to the
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Speaker 1: nine one one call reporting April Kaufman, beautiful mom and
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Speaker 1: popular DJ Dead. I'm in the mercer, I had my
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Speaker 1: bond down. Who would dog dribe Lynwood? Who would try? Yes, ma'am, okay,
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Speaker 1: hold on, I'm transferring to the rescue appert to get
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Speaker 1: down the line. One minute, okay, in okay, Actually he's
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Speaker 1: out of calling, calling me My partner on the floor
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Speaker 1: in her bedroom and he got a cut on her arm,
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Speaker 1: and who would dog dry? So it's interesting to me
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Speaker 1: to Dr Daniel Bober, forensic psychiatrists joining me again, Thank you,
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Speaker 1: Dr Bober. Uh. Dr Bober. I find it interesting relationship
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Speaker 1: wise that he refers to her as his boss. That's
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Speaker 1: how he says, my boss, And that tells me a
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Speaker 1: lot about their relationship that is not very personal, seems
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Speaker 1: sort of cold and sort of all business. I think
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Speaker 1: you're right. I don't know that I would call it cold,
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Speaker 1: but I would agree it's a business relationship. And if
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Speaker 1: the handyman is going to kill April, then you would
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Speaker 1: expect there would have been more of a relationship, some
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Speaker 1: anger or something to cause a murder. Again, to me,
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Speaker 1: that rules out the handyman. So this woman, April Kaufman,
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Speaker 1: is found dead, found dead shot in the couple's bedroom
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Speaker 1: with lacerations apparently to her hands and arms. Officers from
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Speaker 1: the Lynwood p D respond to the call at Woodstock
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Speaker 1: Drive in Lynnwood. When they get there, what do they find,
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Speaker 1: shut Roberts exactly, that her body is lying face down
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Speaker 1: in the bedroom. Uh. And the medical examiner, as you said,
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Speaker 1: was called and uh apparently she'd been shot twice. Although
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Speaker 1: the medical examiner UH reported multiple gunshot wounds. So twice
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Speaker 1: apparently is the is the final verdict on the number
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Speaker 1: of rounds. Uh? And then Kaufman the husband, Dr James Kaufman,
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Speaker 1: known to his patients as Dr Jim by the Way,
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Speaker 1: told police he had been at work and he denied
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Speaker 1: any involvement at all when he got to the residence.
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Speaker 1: So he had been at work and Vincent Hill, there
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Speaker 1: were plenty of people to give him an airtight alibi.
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Speaker 1: He was in fact at work at the time she
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Speaker 1: shot dead. Yeah, but here's the thing, Nancy. You don't
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Speaker 1: have to be at the scene of a murder to
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Speaker 1: be behind the murder, right of course. You if any
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Speaker 1: time you're looking at a spouse, you're probably prime suspect
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Speaker 1: number one. So you want to remove yourself from that
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Speaker 1: scene as much as you can. So, of course this
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Speaker 1: doctor would be away from that scene. Gunned down in
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Speaker 1: her own master bedroom. This talk show host, who had
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Speaker 1: very widely campaign for veterans, is dead in her upscale
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Speaker 1: Linden home. Now police start the search, the search for
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Speaker 1: a suspect and the murder of this much loved DJ
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Speaker 1: and mom again. Her husband, Dr James Coffman says his
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Speaker 1: wife was asleep when he leaves for work that morning
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Speaker 1: he heads to work. You know, you can tell based
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Speaker 1: on rigor. Rigor mortis very often how long a body
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Speaker 1: has been dead. Dr Daniel Bober. Based on rigor, they
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Speaker 1: determined that she was in fact shot after he goes
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Speaker 1: to work. So how do you tell that, Dr Bober?
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Speaker 1: You're not just as psychiatrist, you're an m D as well.
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Speaker 1: And see what happens is there are changes in the
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Speaker 1: proteins of the muscles that during after death. Because there's
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Speaker 1: no blood, there's no profusion, there's no oxygen, these proteins breakdown,
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Speaker 1: which caused the muscles to become stiff, which is how
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Speaker 1: you get rigor mortis. So to put it in regular
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Speaker 1: people talk, Dr Daniel Bober, you stiffen up. You stiffen
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Speaker 1: up when the blood stops flowing. Oxygen is no longer
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Speaker 1: going to the various parts of your body, and your
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Speaker 1: body becomes stiff. Now, after a number of hours, the
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Speaker 1: rigular loosens up. But in this instance they could tell
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Speaker 1: based on lividity. Lividity is where your blood is in
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Speaker 1: your body. In other words, you fall flat on your face,
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Speaker 1: all the blood in your body stops circulating and goes
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Speaker 1: down to the lowest level, yes, cooling. They could tell
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Speaker 1: from that as well, because that takes a certain amount
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Speaker 1: of time. To do. Also, you can tell from the
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Speaker 1: temperature of the body. Once you die, your body immediately
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Speaker 1: starts losing temperature and you essentially become the temperature of
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Speaker 1: the ambiance room around you. So there's many ways to
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Speaker 1: tell how long she had been dead. And she absolutely
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Speaker 1: was shot after the husband goes to work. Her bullet
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Speaker 1: riddled body was found at eleven thirty a m. That
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Speaker 1: Thursday by houseworker who called that's what we know now.
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Speaker 1: She was shot multiple times in the bedroom. That's about
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Speaker 1: twelve miles away from one of the gambling capitals of
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Speaker 1: the world, Atlantic City. Our investigation into the brutal murder
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Speaker 1: of wife, mother, veterans advocate and popular DJ April Kaufman.
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Speaker 1: we're diving right back into the murder of April Kaufman
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Speaker 1: because in the last hours there's been a very big
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Speaker 1: break in the case. Atlantic City, one of the gambling
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Speaker 1: capitals of the world, and coincidentally, not too far from there,
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Speaker 1: this woman has found dead, multiple gunshot wounds in the
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Speaker 1: master bedroom of her home. So we've established a business
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Speaker 1: relationship between her and the handyman. Her daughter is an adult,
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Speaker 1: uh well almost an adult, and she has an alibi
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Speaker 1: for that day. I established that daughter very loving idolized
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Speaker 1: her mom, not a suspect. We've established the husband left
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Speaker 1: that morning before she was shot based on forensics evidence.
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Speaker 1: He had an airtight alibi. He was at work seeing patients.
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Speaker 1: So what happens the case seemingly goes cold. Joining me
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Speaker 1: Chuck Roberts, Vincent Hill, Dr Daniel and Wendy Patrick. Wendy Patrick,
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Speaker 1: Southern California Prosecutor. When your case goes cold. What do
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Speaker 1: you do? But you've got to warm up the cold case, Nancy.
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Speaker 1: And the only way to do that is reopen it
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Speaker 1: as if it was just assigned to you. You remember
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Speaker 1: the thrill of getting a great new case, and it
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Speaker 1: just happened. It's all over the news. It's difficult to
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Speaker 1: recreate that momentum. But that's what cold case units do,
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Speaker 1: is if there's a break, it's assigned to somebody and
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Speaker 1: it's worked up as if it were a fresh case.
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Speaker 1: And that apparently is what happened here, which led to
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Speaker 1: the accumulation of evidence that finally was able to get
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Speaker 1: us the breaks that we needed. Neighbors stated that they
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Speaker 1: witnessed Dr Kaufman distressed arriving at the murder scene, telling
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Speaker 1: them his wife was asleep with a pillow over her
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Speaker 1: face when he went to work early early that morning.
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Speaker 1: I'm just imagining it all play out in my mind.
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Speaker 1: She's asleep, Dr Bober, forensic psychiatrist. She's got the pillow
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Speaker 1: over her face. He gets up quietly and leaves the
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Speaker 1: house so we won't wake her up. Let's take a
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Speaker 1: look at him. He was wanting to leave his practice.
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Speaker 1: He wanted he had been working for years. They had
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Speaker 1: bought a home in Arizona and they wanted to relocate.
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Speaker 1: So what does this mean to him that he no
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Speaker 1: longer has a wife? What do you go through when
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Speaker 1: you lose a spouse, not only lose them, but lose
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Speaker 1: them in a violent manner and nobody knows what really happened.
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Speaker 1: That's that's pain compounded, Nancy. We know that the two
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Speaker 1: most stressful things that could happen to someone in their
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Speaker 1: life is the death of a spouse or the death
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Speaker 1: of a child. Uh. And people who experienced these events
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Speaker 1: are essentially devastated. You would be uh incapacitated and you
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Speaker 1: probably will not be able to work, not be able
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Speaker 1: to function for a certain period of time. They are
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Speaker 1: in a state of shock. Uh And it takes them
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Speaker 1: a long time to be able to even return to life,
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Speaker 1: which as we know, will never be normal. One person
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Speaker 1: seemed to be very sure who was the killer, and
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Speaker 1: that is April Kaufman's daughter. From the very beginning, she
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Speaker 1: said she knew she knew who did it. Joining me
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Speaker 1: is Alan Duke in l A. Jackie Howard with me
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Speaker 1: here in the studio. Alan, the daughter always claimed she
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Speaker 1: knew what happened, tell me yes. And in fact she
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Speaker 1: she filed a civil suit against her stepfather a wrong.
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Speaker 1: So her husband, Dr. Kaufman is not the bio dad
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Speaker 1: of the daughter. No, this is her stepfather. So so
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Speaker 1: there you add that layer of it. But she was
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Speaker 1: always suspicious of him. She was pushing investigators of the
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Speaker 1: prosecutor to do something for years and finally when this
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Speaker 1: new prosecutor came on board, was right about the same
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Speaker 1: time that she had a law firm ready to file
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Speaker 1: a civil suit against her stepfather, which is now pending.
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Speaker 1: Way before crack in the case, the daughter of April
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Speaker 1: Kaufman files a civil suit. Her name is Kim Pack.
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Speaker 1: From the very beginning, she said, I don't care if
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Speaker 1: he had an alibi. I don't care if my mom
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Speaker 1: somehow was murdered after he left. He did it. I
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Speaker 1: don't know how he did it, but he did it,
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Speaker 1: and I'm going to prove he did it. That is
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Speaker 1: what the daughter said, and she never ever stopped. So
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Speaker 1: what was uncovered to Chuck Roberts Crime Stories investigative reporter,
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Speaker 1: how did it unfold? It really unfolded when she asked
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Speaker 1: James Kaufman for a divorce and he wouldn't give it
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Speaker 1: to her. Uh, And the tension grew and grew, and
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Speaker 1: obviously the daughter had to be privy to that. I mean,
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Speaker 1: her mom was in distress. I did not know the
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Speaker 1: world did not know that she April wanted a divorce
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Speaker 1: and Kaufman wouldn't do it. I mean, really, if somebody
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Speaker 1: wants a divorce, why do you want them anyway? Let
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Speaker 1: them go. I know your heart, I know you're hurt,
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Speaker 1: I know you're broken in half. But who wants somebody
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Speaker 1: that doesn't want to be with them? For Pete's sake,
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Speaker 1: there's somebody else out there. No offense you men on
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Speaker 1: the panel. But my mother always said men are like buses.
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Speaker 1: There'll be a knee one in fifteen minutes, when another
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Speaker 1: one will just come right along. I'm not suggesting your
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Speaker 1: interchangeable Alan Duke, don't get all crazy, but I mean,
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Speaker 1: if she wants a divorce, give her a divorce. But
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Speaker 1: he said no. He was quoted as saying he didn't
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Speaker 1: want to give up half of his financial empire. And
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Speaker 1: that's what the divorce, you know, would entail. Uh, division
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Speaker 1: of assets. He didn't want to give up half of
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Speaker 1: his financial empire. Half of his assets. Well, Dr Daniel Bober,
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Speaker 1: forensic psychiatrist, there's nothing to make a woman feel wanted
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Speaker 1: then to tell her, well, I would divorce you, but
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Speaker 1: I'd lose half my money. You know that that really
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Speaker 1: warms your heart, Nancy. This is something I see in
23:18
Speaker 1: my patents all the time, especially people have been married
23:21
Speaker 1: for years. A lot of times they'll stay in relationships
23:25
Speaker 1: that are not healthy or they're not they don't find fulfilling,
23:29
Speaker 1: specifically for that reason because they don't want to lose
23:32
Speaker 1: the money. And it sounds like sort of an evil
23:35
Speaker 1: motivation to stay, but very often that is the motivator. Well,
23:38
Speaker 1: I I tell you that made me a little bit
23:41
Speaker 1: suspicious when he didn't want to split his income, but
23:44
Speaker 1: that's pretty common. But what really raise the hair on
23:48
Speaker 1: the back of my neck is when he did not
23:51
Speaker 1: want to hand over a d in a sample. That
23:56
Speaker 1: is what made me suspicious into this. How do you
24:01
Speaker 1: feel about the prosecutor requesting a DNA sample from James Kaufman.
24:07
Speaker 1: You know, I think that I've been waiting for a
24:10
Speaker 1: very long time for any kind of movement, and I
24:14
Speaker 1: feel like I've been in this by myself. So when
24:18
Speaker 1: I heard, just like the rest of the population, that
24:21
Speaker 1: UM the news had reported that they were requesting a
24:24
Speaker 1: DNA sample. I was overwhelmed with so many emotions. I
24:29
Speaker 1: can't even explain. UM, just for the fact that this
24:33
Speaker 1: means something maybe to this current prosecutor, and that there
24:36
Speaker 1: is forward progression. Like I said to you UM in
24:40
Speaker 1: the past, I can't pretend to know why or what
24:43
Speaker 1: they're using this for. UM. They keep their criminal um
24:46
Speaker 1: investigation very close to their test um. But it it
24:51
Speaker 1: it's so surreal because I've been waiting for this for
24:54
Speaker 1: five years. To Wendy Patrick, Southern California Prosecutor, Wendy, when
24:58
Speaker 1: people refused to submit to a lie detector or a
25:02
Speaker 1: d n A test or come in for questioning immediately,
25:06
Speaker 1: that doesn't make them guilty, but immediately, to me, it
25:09
Speaker 1: makes them very suspicious. You know, it certainly does. And
25:13
Speaker 1: it's interesting you chose the examples you did because obviously
25:16
Speaker 1: the lie detector test, although it's not admissible in court,
25:19
Speaker 1: it is an investigative tool that we use, and sometimes
25:23
Speaker 1: it's precisely for the reason you cite. It's because it's
25:26
Speaker 1: credibility that counts in every single case, no matter who
25:30
Speaker 1: you are now the inability or the unwillingness, whichever it is,
25:34
Speaker 1: to submit to forensics, whether it's d n A, whether
25:37
Speaker 1: it's some other kind of a sample, hair saliva, however
25:41
Speaker 1: you get it, whether or not you've got a constitutional
25:44
Speaker 1: right to refuse, which of course is always being litigated.
25:47
Speaker 1: The fact that you refuse is often a fact in
25:50
Speaker 1: the case. Sometimes something the jury ends up finding out
25:53
Speaker 1: about that makes you look ill. So you've got him
25:55
Speaker 1: refusing to give his d n A. He has not
25:57
Speaker 1: been named with suspect or a person of interests, no
26:00
Speaker 1: way the police can make him give d n A.
26:03
Speaker 1: If you are suspect, then a warrant can be obtained
26:08
Speaker 1: and you can be forced to give your d n A.
26:11
Speaker 1: The constitution does not protect you from giving, for instance,
26:15
Speaker 1: d n A or writing exemplar or coming to a lineup.
26:21
Speaker 1: You have to do that under the law, okay, But
26:25
Speaker 1: you can, of course insist on your right to remain silent.
26:28
Speaker 1: But since he wasn't named a suspect, they couldn't force
26:31
Speaker 1: him to give d n A. Over and over, the
26:35
Speaker 1: daughter continued to claim the stepfather is the killer. Still
26:42
Speaker 1: nothing would make him hand over DNA or really even cooperate.
26:47
Speaker 1: So what finally happened? A new d A came in,
26:53
Speaker 1: including a fleet of new investigators. The investigators worked the
26:57
Speaker 1: streets and began to hear rumors about regularities within Kaufman's clinic.
27:05
Speaker 1: Fantastically profitable clinic to Chuck Roberts, climb stores investigative reporter.
27:13
Speaker 1: What happens? Then? This case was cold for so long,
27:16
Speaker 1: generated a lot of social media Facebook page Justice for
27:20
Speaker 1: April Kaufman was started, um, and really not much happened
27:24
Speaker 1: until a new district attorney came on the scene and
27:27
Speaker 1: decided to really dig into this and assign a lot
27:30
Speaker 1: of prosecutors and resources to solving this crime and took
27:34
Speaker 1: a hard look at what Dr Kaufman was up to.
27:38
Speaker 1: Uh and later found out that he was involved with Uh,
27:43
Speaker 1: sort of a pill mill. Who saw that coming? Not me?
27:48
Speaker 1: This prominent New Jersey doctor in the shadows of Atlantic
27:53
Speaker 1: City gambling capital and an illegal prescription drug with a
28:01
Speaker 1: motorcycle gang exactly the Pagan Outlaws which had their biggest
28:06
Speaker 1: chapter in Philadelphia in just across five ninety miles away. Uh. Yeah,
28:12
Speaker 1: Kaufman was at the top, according to prosecutors of a
28:15
Speaker 1: drug distribution hierarchy. Uh. And he did it with the
28:18
Speaker 1: help of the pagan outlaws. Uh. And they would send
28:22
Speaker 1: him clients and he would, for a thousand dollars write
28:26
Speaker 1: them prescriptions for percocets or any other kind of opioid
28:31
Speaker 1: that was on the market, oxycodone, OxyContin uh. And then
28:36
Speaker 1: uh the motorcycle gang intermediary would resell it using the
28:40
Speaker 1: gang to others on the street. And that went on
28:43
Speaker 1: for years. In fact, they went on for five years.
28:45
Speaker 1: Please they get a search for it. But it didn't
28:48
Speaker 1: go down the way they planned. As a matter of fact,
28:52
Speaker 1: there was a standoff. Dr Coffman refused to let police
28:57
Speaker 1: in the door. In fact, he held himself hostage. Yeah
29:02
Speaker 1: you heard me right, This prominent doctor, he's rolling in money,
29:09
Speaker 1: holds himself hostage with a gun to his head. Listen
29:14
Speaker 1: to this. Don't coming back, coming back, coming back down.
29:36
Speaker 1: Hold on, he's coming out, it's coming out. The strict five.
29:43
Speaker 1: District five got one gun point. We have one a
29:45
Speaker 1: gun point. Dr James colfor I have won a gun point.
29:52
Speaker 1: Dr James calf and he has a weapon. Dropped the
29:54
Speaker 1: gun dropped the gun, Hey dropped the gun dropped a
30:00
Speaker 1: gun a search warrant, Sir, dropped the gun to drop
30:07
Speaker 1: drop the gun. Let's talk, sir, just drop the gun.
30:11
Speaker 1: We have a search war. We have a search warr half.
30:18
Speaker 1: I don't believe it, so we just search warrants. Put
30:25
Speaker 1: the weapon, day, drop the weapon. Listen, let's talk. I
30:31
Speaker 1: take it Alan, do you He did not make good
30:34
Speaker 1: on his threat and kill himself. No, it was a
30:36
Speaker 1: false threat. So you know, I've always been fascinating Wendy
30:39
Speaker 1: patcheck with people that held himself hostage. It really came
30:43
Speaker 1: to the forefront when O. J. Simpson took that little
30:45
Speaker 1: ride with his buddy A. C. Callings and had a
30:49
Speaker 1: gun on himself. I'm like, yeah, I didn't get it,
30:53
Speaker 1: so he held himself hostage, Wendy. Yeah, you buy yourself
30:57
Speaker 1: time that way as you try to decide what to
30:59
Speaker 1: do next. We see this in a lot of different
31:01
Speaker 1: types of cases, but it's another incident where you can
31:04
Speaker 1: count that his consciousness of guilt, and you know it's
31:07
Speaker 1: It's different if you are overcome with grief after having
31:10
Speaker 1: lost a spouse, as we've discussed earlier. It is also
31:13
Speaker 1: different when you have reactions other than holding yourself hostage.
31:19
Speaker 1: There's just not an innocent way in most cases to
31:22
Speaker 1: interpret that type of evidence, and it always winds its
31:24
Speaker 1: way into the trial, and normally in a fashion that
31:28
Speaker 1: doesn't help the defendant. You know, I'm always suspicious Visit Hill,
31:31
Speaker 1: private investigator. What if cops said, Okay, go ahead, shoot yourself,
31:36
Speaker 1: we're not going to deal with your kidnappers demands when
31:40
Speaker 1: you're holding yourself hostage. I mean, it's like you put
31:43
Speaker 1: the skids on everything when you put a gun to
31:45
Speaker 1: your head. I don't think police would would definitely say that, Nancy,
31:49
Speaker 1: But I think what they were concerned with, although he
31:51
Speaker 1: did have the gun pointing at himself, if he watched
31:54
Speaker 1: the body camp foot its, police kept their guns, you know,
31:57
Speaker 1: drawn on him because at any given moment, he could
32:00
Speaker 1: have turned that gun around and shot police. So I
32:03
Speaker 1: think they handled it the way they should have handled
32:05
Speaker 1: it based on their training and based on what I
32:07
Speaker 1: saw in that video. Oh yeah, of course they did
32:09
Speaker 1: the right thing Vincent Hill, because he could easily turn
32:12
Speaker 1: the gun on innocent people in the clinic or on
32:15
Speaker 1: the cops. So long story short, you got the husband
32:18
Speaker 1: who has an airtight alibi who forensically could not have
32:22
Speaker 1: been there at the time of the incident, refusing to
32:26
Speaker 1: give his d N a clamming up, and then holding
32:30
Speaker 1: himself hostage when cops want to look in his clinic.
32:34
Speaker 1: Who saw that coming? Not me? But this civil lawsuit
32:40
Speaker 1: filed by the daughter Kim Pack threatened to expose everything.
32:46
Speaker 1: A divorce threatened to expose everything. If if if a
32:51
Speaker 1: forensic accountant had gotten into his business and followed the
32:55
Speaker 1: money trail, they would have found this opioid drug ring
32:59
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33:02
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Speaker 1: Back to the Atlantic City area and the death of
35:51
Speaker 1: April Kaufman, who would have sunk it? Who would have
35:55
Speaker 1: thunk it? To Dr Daniel Boberg. You're the forensic psychiatrist.
35:58
Speaker 1: How does a prominent, un rich, educated endocrinologists get hooked
36:06
Speaker 1: up with the pagan outlaw motorcycle gang. And somebody tell
36:10
Speaker 1: me that bober And so you know what, There's this
36:13
Speaker 1: book called Sharks and Suits, and it talks about how
36:16
Speaker 1: even the most successful people, in fact, some of the
36:18
Speaker 1: most successful people are just antisocial. They're just evil. They
36:22
Speaker 1: are cunning, they don't have remorse, They steal, they lie,
36:25
Speaker 1: they cheat, and very often that's how they become successful.
36:28
Speaker 1: So this story doesn't surprise me so much. It just
36:31
Speaker 1: shows that you really don't know what's going on under
36:34
Speaker 1: the service, and there's a lot of wolves out there
36:37
Speaker 1: in cheap's clothing. I had had any idea, Wendy Patrick,
36:42
Speaker 1: veteran prosecutor in southern California, that this doctor was hooked
36:47
Speaker 1: up with a motorcycle gang. No offense to motorcycle gangs.
36:51
Speaker 1: I've put many of them on the standards witnesses and
36:54
Speaker 1: they were very believable. But if I had known he
36:57
Speaker 1: was hooked up with the pagan outlaws, I would immediately
37:02
Speaker 1: try to connect the two in this murder. So, Wendy Patrick,
37:08
Speaker 1: that is that how he did it? Yeah, you know,
37:11
Speaker 1: it's so it's so interesting. We've got Dr Bober talking
37:13
Speaker 1: about one of my favorite books, Snakes and Suits, which
37:16
Speaker 1: is about psychopathy in the workplace, is fascinating, and we've
37:20
Speaker 1: got the motorcycle gang, which is a stereo type. So
37:23
Speaker 1: you look at the two and think there's got to
37:25
Speaker 1: be some connection beyond what meets the eye, and you
37:29
Speaker 1: wonder if maybe this is what April new uh and
37:31
Speaker 1: for her, of course, justice delayed has not been justice denied.
37:34
Speaker 1: We now have a murder charge but she knew she
37:37
Speaker 1: could tell, whether it's based on these associations or the
37:41
Speaker 1: dynamics she saw behind the scenes, that her stepfather didn't
37:45
Speaker 1: need to have been there to have been been behind
37:47
Speaker 1: the attack. So his affiliation with the motorcycle gang was
37:50
Speaker 1: definitely a red flag out of the ordinary, something to
37:53
Speaker 1: be explored for sure, and actually did end up coming
37:57
Speaker 1: to fruition and giving us the context out we now
38:00
Speaker 1: find really did play a role in the March Roberts
38:03
Speaker 1: crime stories. Investigative reporter Chuck Roberts, How did it all
38:06
Speaker 1: go down? What? What was the doctor connected to a
38:10
Speaker 1: motorcycle gang through the illegal drug ring? Exactly? That's that.
38:15
Speaker 1: That's the connection and apparently that was uncovered as the
38:19
Speaker 1: result of the raid on the doctor's office back in June.
38:24
Speaker 1: Uh he was hooked up with a guy named Ferdinand
38:26
Speaker 1: Jello of the Pagan Outlaws UH and then solicited because
38:31
Speaker 1: he was being threatened by his wife for exposure a
38:34
Speaker 1: hit on his wife through the Pagan Outlaws, and Jello
38:38
Speaker 1: recruited at the end of about an eighteen month search
38:43
Speaker 1: an associate of the Pagan Outlaws again, Frank Moholland, who
38:48
Speaker 1: police say was the one who entered the home and
38:53
Speaker 1: shot April Kaufman. So according to the daughter Kim Pack,
39:01
Speaker 1: this is how he did it. Why are there six
39:07
Speaker 1: pagan outlaws charged, including two women Chuck Roberts. What did
39:11
Speaker 1: they have to do with it? Well? One of them, Um,
39:14
Speaker 1: the wife of a Jello, who's fifteen years younger than
39:17
Speaker 1: her husband, Um and who has a was a successful
39:21
Speaker 1: of businesswoman herself, was the paymaster. The police say that
39:27
Speaker 1: she was the one who delivered the twenty dollar payoff
39:30
Speaker 1: to the hitman, Frank Bollholland. So that's her alleged role
39:34
Speaker 1: in this. The others were just involved in supplying a
39:38
Speaker 1: regular supply of of clients to the doctor who would
39:43
Speaker 1: write these phony prescriptions for percocept and OxyContin and oxy
39:48
Speaker 1: CoDown at a thousand dollars a pop. Uh. They were
39:52
Speaker 1: they they supplied him with those customers basically, and they
39:57
Speaker 1: are part of that same criminal conspiracy you know, and
40:00
Speaker 1: other thing that happened. I mean, it all goes back
40:02
Speaker 1: in my mind to the love of money, not money
40:06
Speaker 1: as the root of all evil, the love of money.
40:10
Speaker 1: Because this guy would not divorce April because he didn't
40:14
Speaker 1: want to give up half his empire. If he had,
40:17
Speaker 1: he'd still be in his practice, running his drug ring
40:20
Speaker 1: right now, living in his seven thousand square foot mansion
40:24
Speaker 1: with a heated pool. But no, he did not want
40:27
Speaker 1: to split the money. He then, as soon as his
40:31
Speaker 1: wife died, tried to fly off for two life insurance policies.
40:37
Speaker 1: I mean, there was no end to his greed, his greed,
40:43
Speaker 1: his love of money. So I want you to hear this,
40:50
Speaker 1: the press announcement that so many people had been waiting for.
40:55
Speaker 1: Listen to the Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tie Today,
41:00
Speaker 1: James Kaufman, aged sixty nine, and berdend Ajello, age sixty two,
41:05
Speaker 1: were charged with murder in connection with the death of
41:08
Speaker 1: April Kaufman, in addition to racketeering related to the illegal
41:15
Speaker 1: distribution of narcotics through Kaufman's former medical practice. Additionally, Ajello
41:21
Speaker 1: was charged with conspiracy to commit the murder of James M. Kaufman.
41:26
Speaker 1: Upon information and believe known to my office, an individual
41:29
Speaker 1: named Francis Frank Maulholland was paid a sum of money
41:33
Speaker 1: to kill April Kaufman. Almost eighteen months after April Kaufman's murder,
41:39
Speaker 1: uh Frank Maulholland died in October of two thousand thirteen
41:44
Speaker 1: by at the time what was determined to be an
41:46
Speaker 1: accidental drug overdose. Investigation, we determined that a long term
41:50
Speaker 1: alliance between members of the Pagan Outlaw motorcycle Gang and
41:56
Speaker 1: James Kaufman was created for the mutual financial gain through
42:02
Speaker 1: the use of Kaufman's medical practice for a legal drug distribution.
42:07
Speaker 1: This relationship ultimately culminated on May tent, two thousand twelve,
42:10
Speaker 1: with the murder for hire of April Kaufman. Prior to
42:14
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven, defendant Kaufman and Ferdinand all Jello had
42:17
Speaker 1: a relationship which centered around the medical practice, and then
42:21
Speaker 1: the summer of two thousand eleven, James Kaufman solicited all
42:25
Speaker 1: Jello to murder his wife. So I want you to
42:28
Speaker 1: hear this. This is Kim Pack, her daughter speaking after
42:38
Speaker 1: the blockbuster announcement her stepfather has been charged in her
42:45
Speaker 1: mother's murder. Listen to the daughter who said earlier, my
42:51
Speaker 1: life was changed forever that day. As you can imagine,
42:54
Speaker 1: today is a very very difficult day for me. A
42:57
Speaker 1: lot of mixed emotions. Um as a victim, you know,
43:03
Speaker 1: May ten, two thousand and twelve forever changed my life.
43:09
Speaker 1: I UM have been waiting patiently for justice, and today
43:14
Speaker 1: I was lucky enough to be granted justice. I do
43:17
Speaker 1: understand that this is going to give you loom process,
43:19
Speaker 1: and this is by no means over. I think for
43:23
Speaker 1: the first time today, I can actually breathe. For the
43:26
Speaker 1: past five and a half years, I have feel I
43:29
Speaker 1: felt like I've been holding my breath on a daily basis.
43:33
Speaker 1: I couldn't even begin to describe to you today, UM,
43:39
Speaker 1: the emotions that I feel. I feel like I'm standing
43:41
Speaker 1: before you and I'm shaking. Wendy Patrick, I don't know
43:43
Speaker 1: about you, but I remember I hadn't been at the
43:47
Speaker 1: Prosecutor's office too too long when I got called to
43:50
Speaker 1: the d a's office and I walked and he was
43:53
Speaker 1: reading the paper. Sit Mr Lighton, and I wouldn't dare
43:58
Speaker 1: sat down for pate sake, just stood there and he
44:01
Speaker 1: lowered the paper, goes, yeah, Nancy, I got a case,
44:04
Speaker 1: and I need you to put it back together. It
44:06
Speaker 1: got reversed. Uh his name Hamilton's, Yes, Sir. I left.
44:12
Speaker 1: I had no idea this case occurred many many years
44:16
Speaker 1: before before I even entered law school. Two guys gunned
44:20
Speaker 1: down Um, the brother of an Atlanta police officer, as
44:25
Speaker 1: he was on his back terrorist with his fiancee toasting
44:28
Speaker 1: their engagement. That just happened, and the case was in
44:34
Speaker 1: such a disarray. I went to the evidence room. I mean,
44:37
Speaker 1: the case had been tried one the people were sentenced,
44:41
Speaker 1: and had gone up on appeal three times, and then
44:46
Speaker 1: it came back down. Fourteen years had passed and I
44:51
Speaker 1: could find one X ray and a hat that said
44:55
Speaker 1: kiss my bass. That's all the evidence I could find.
45:00
Speaker 1: And that's where I started putting together the case. Okay,
45:04
Speaker 1: putting together a case that has been languishing is very
45:09
Speaker 1: hard to do, but this prosecutor is doing it winding,
45:13
Speaker 1: that's right. We we often say cases unlike fine wine,
45:17
Speaker 1: do not improve with age, especially when you have all
45:22
Speaker 1: all kinds of evidence from different places that need to
45:25
Speaker 1: be put together. But when we warm up cold cases
45:28
Speaker 1: like we did here, with a fresh set of eyes,
45:31
Speaker 1: with fresh motivation, as we saw from this prosecutor, it
45:35
Speaker 1: often leads to the determination of maybe even additional forensic
45:38
Speaker 1: evidence we didn't know we could obtain back then. Because
45:41
Speaker 1: while cases might not improve, forensics have and we've mentioned DNA.
45:45
Speaker 1: There are so many different ways that you can take
45:48
Speaker 1: these facts put them back together. This actually a case.
45:51
Speaker 1: This wasn't that old, thankfully and breathe new life into
45:54
Speaker 1: it to be able to put the facts together as
45:57
Speaker 1: has been done here to provide some justice of the
46:00
Speaker 1: victims family. I'm looking at the faces of these six
46:03
Speaker 1: pagan outlaws, and I guarantee you, I guarantee you, Wendy Patrick,
46:11
Speaker 1: one at least one of them doesn't want to go
46:14
Speaker 1: down for life without parole. And that's gonna be the crack, Wendy.
46:19
Speaker 1: You've got six people looking square in the camera at
46:22
Speaker 1: their mug shots, and if it were me, I would
46:25
Speaker 1: start with thirty five year old Tabitha Chapman. She looks weak.
46:30
Speaker 1: The other woman is the wife the paymaster that Chuck
46:34
Speaker 1: Roberts told me about that would make the twenty dollar
46:37
Speaker 1: at a clip deliveries. She ran the money side of
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Speaker 1: this drug ring. No, I would send her to jail
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Speaker 1: for life without parole. But there's six to pick from.
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Speaker 1: There's no no way I would let off the people
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Speaker 1: key in her murder. But if somebody would crack, you
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Speaker 1: only need one, You just need one, and all right,
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Speaker 1: Wendy one witness. You're right and your analysis is right
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Speaker 1: on the money too. You gotta look at each one individually,
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Speaker 1: their level of culpability, how likely it is they'll cooperate
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Speaker 1: with you, and what they can give you evidence wise.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's no sense flipping somebody that doesn't have
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Speaker 1: evidence powerful enough to help you make your case. All
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Speaker 1: you do is you're giving somebody a lighter sentence, but
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Speaker 1: you're not getting anything in return. That's the dance the
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Speaker 1: prosecutor is going to have to do with each of
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Speaker 1: these defense attorneys is how can they strategize a result
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Speaker 1: that's a win win as much as can be expected
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Speaker 1: under the circumstance. I would not take a cheap play
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Speaker 1: on this bunch. The husband would definitely go down for
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Speaker 1: life without parole. Sadly, there's no death penalty in New Jersey.
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Speaker 1: That was abolished by the governor. And I guess two
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Speaker 1: thousand seven, so I guess you can just kill as
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Speaker 1: many people as you want to in New Jersey and
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Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about the electric chair or
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Speaker 1: the needle. I am waiting for justice to unfold. And
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Speaker 1: this is another thing I learned Wendy, which she may
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Speaker 1: have experienced too. You know, when I first started prosecuting,
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Speaker 1: I thought, I'm gonna get the bad guy. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: put him in jail. I'm going to fix this. This
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Speaker 1: is really fairly soon after my fiancee's murder, and somehow
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Speaker 1: by fixing other people's problems, it kind of helped me
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Speaker 1: fix mine. But it was really just a band aid
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Speaker 1: because every time I would get a conviction and a
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Speaker 1: jury would conn turn around, nobody was happy. Wendy, this
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Speaker 1: daughter is not going to be happy even if Kaufman
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Speaker 1: is convicted. She doesn't have her mother, Wendy. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 1: there's a measure of closure that comes with with conviction
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Speaker 1: and with even with the rest, because she's been she's
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Speaker 1: known for years that he was guilty. Is her story,
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Speaker 1: but it doesn't bring him back. And you know, her
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Speaker 1: emotional words are touching their you know, they really are.
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Speaker 1: Hearts break with her as she recounts how she's been
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Speaker 1: waiting for years. But at the very least she has
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Speaker 1: the knowledge and the comfort of knowing that he didn't
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Speaker 1: get away with it. And Nancy, that is part of
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Speaker 1: the healing process is knowing. As I said earlier, Justice delayed,
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Speaker 1: has not been justice denied for her doesn't bring her
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Speaker 1: mom back, but does give her the comfort that her
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Speaker 1: stepfather didn't get away with it. He may have been
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Speaker 1: very comfortable in his practice, made a lot of money.
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Speaker 1: He's certainly not comfortable now in a jail cell. Tell
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Speaker 1: tell it, sister. Here's the thing. Another thing it does
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Speaker 1: a prosecution is it makes you know you're not alone,
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Speaker 1: that somebody cared enough to fight for you, to do
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Speaker 1: the right thing, to not give up. And in those
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Speaker 1: moments of despair, loneliness, grief, bereavement, that is the consolation
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Speaker 1: that somebody else cares enough to fight. I want you
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Speaker 1: to hear Kim back, her daughter. Have a lot of
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Speaker 1: mixed emotions inside. But I am going to the police, work,
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Speaker 1: to the prosecutor's office, UM and allow them to do
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Speaker 1: what they need to do without really speaking too much
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Speaker 1: or giving my opinion or interjecting, UM how I really feel. UM.
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Speaker 1: I just want them to do whatever it is in
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Speaker 1: their capacity that they need to do to get this
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Speaker 1: murder soft so that I can get my life UM
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Speaker 1: back and move on with my life and look up
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Speaker 1: to my mom and just say, Mom, I did everything
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Speaker 1: I could for you, um, but now it's time for
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Speaker 1: me to figure out what's next for my life. Nancy
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Speaker 1: Grace cried, stories sliding off, good Bye, frid