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Speaker 1: I'm Chris Hansen right now on Prime Watch Daily from
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Speaker 1: here in New York. A young father puts his pickup
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Speaker 1: for sale online, but when he takes two potential buyers
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Speaker 1: for a test drive, who never comes home.
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Speaker 2: I plead to whomever as my husband to please let
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Speaker 2: him go.
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Speaker 1: The mystery deepens when detectives investigate the wealthy heir to
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Speaker 1: a family fortune, a strange connection to a missing girl,
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Speaker 1: and a machine known as the Eliminator. It's a case
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Speaker 1: that comes to a chilling conclusion.
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Speaker 3: Either two of the stupidest people on earth.
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Speaker 1: Then a star cheerleader dreaming of becoming an actress shot
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Speaker 1: dead in a car after a concert. First on the scene,
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Speaker 1: the security guard, a former Army National Guard sergeant.
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Speaker 4: There was a gunshot, and I radioed in for my
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Speaker 4: supervisor and told her I had shots fired.
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Speaker 3: Did you check for a pulse? Did you give her
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Speaker 3: any CPR?
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Speaker 4: No?
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Speaker 5: Think anybody wish to vive something like that.
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Speaker 1: Suddenly the key witness becomes the prime suspect.
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Speaker 6: Raymond Lee's a documented prolific fire but he is he
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Speaker 6: a murderer?
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Speaker 1: The jury thinks so, convicting and throwing him in prison
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Speaker 1: for forty years to life. Was he in the wrong
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Speaker 1: place at the wrong time right now?
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Speaker 3: Andrea isisam Sir with Crimewatch Daily.
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Speaker 7: Jason Matara with Crime Watch Daily.
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Speaker 8: This I'm Elizabeth, I'm here with Crimewatch and Michelle from
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Speaker 8: Crimewatch Daily.
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Speaker 9: Anagarcia from Crimewatch is crime Watch Dale.
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Speaker 5: Put off my flu We'll find you again, we always do.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to crime Watch Daily, everyone, I'm Chris Hansen. We
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Speaker 1: start today with a case that made headlines around the world.
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Speaker 1: A young father disappears and one of the main suspects
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Speaker 1: is a millionaire party boy. At the age of fourteen,
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Speaker 1: started flying planes and helicopters.
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Speaker 9: Chris tim Bosma kissed his wife goodbye and then went
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Speaker 9: with two guys on a test drive. They were interested
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Speaker 9: in buying his pickup truck, but Tim would never come home.
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Speaker 9: How could a young father simply vanish? Tim has been
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Speaker 9: stolen from us, Who could possibly want him gone? And
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Speaker 9: why would he be taken It.
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Speaker 6: Was just a truck.
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Speaker 9: The answers will reveal the twisted world of a thrill
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Speaker 9: seeking petty crook who some believe may have just graduated
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Speaker 9: to serial killer.
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Speaker 3: No question, this story is far from over.
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Speaker 9: Tim Bosma and his wife Charlene were the picture of
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Speaker 9: bliss raising a young daughter in the quiet of the countryside.
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Speaker 9: But money was tight, according to author and Brocklehurst, and
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Speaker 9: that led Tim to sell his beloved Dodge Ram pickup.
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Speaker 10: Tim Bosma was trying to sell this black Dodge Ram
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Speaker 10: truck that had become a bit of a financial burden.
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Speaker 3: He wanted to buy a cheaper truck.
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Speaker 10: Ad been advertised online for a few weeks, hadn't gotten
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Speaker 10: much interest at all, and then he gets a call
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Speaker 10: from these guys who seem like serious prospective buyers.
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Speaker 9: On a Sunday evening, the two men arrive for a
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Speaker 9: test drive, but they show up late and on foot.
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Speaker 9: According to investigative journalist Alex Pearson, Tim had a bad
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Speaker 9: feeling right from the start.
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Speaker 3: He had said right.
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Speaker 7: Before he went out with these men, he was feeling
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Speaker 7: uneasy while putting his daughter down. He's feeling uneasy about
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Speaker 7: it because they were late. It was an odd time
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Speaker 7: to be coming to look for a truck. It was
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Speaker 7: later in the evening.
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Speaker 9: Tim asked his wife Charlene whether he should still take
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Speaker 9: the men on a test drive. The answer she gave
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Speaker 9: haunts her to this day. A little after nine o'clock,
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Speaker 9: Tim kissed Charlene goodbye and said he'd be right back.
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Speaker 9: An hour later, he still wasn't home.
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Speaker 10: And she started phoning him and texting him and got
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Speaker 10: no answers.
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Speaker 7: When initially we heard that Tim Bosman had gone missing,
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Speaker 7: it's like any adult who goes missing. The opinions of
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Speaker 7: everybody that something must have happened. Tim must have had
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Speaker 7: a drug deal or something nefarious was going on here.
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Speaker 9: But cops have a different feeling.
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Speaker 7: They subpoenaed to Tim Bosma's phone record, so it was
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Speaker 7: almost immediate and someone.
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Speaker 3: Was reported missing.
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Speaker 7: You wait twenty four hours, but the police knew I
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Speaker 7: think instinctively this was a different kind of case because
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Speaker 7: it involved online ads, two guys coming to look for
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Speaker 7: a truck, and that he was supposed to be back
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Speaker 7: and he wasn't.
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Speaker 9: Meanwhile, Tim's wife, Charlene makes a desperate plea aimed at
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Speaker 9: the men who took her husband. I ask, can I bake?
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Speaker 2: Can I plead to whomever has my husband to please
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Speaker 2: let him go?
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Speaker 9: Please let him come home.
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Speaker 10: She wanted her husband back and she felt that if
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Speaker 10: she could make this appeal it would help bring him back.
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Speaker 10: But it was also so that people could understand this
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Speaker 10: was just a normal guy who gone on a test drive.
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Speaker 7: It was just a truck.
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Speaker 8: It is just a truck.
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Speaker 9: You don't need him, but I do. While waiting for
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Speaker 9: answers at home, Charlene gets a heart stopping phone call.
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Speaker 9: It's from Tim's phone.
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Speaker 3: They must have thought he was alive.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, but the call is from someone who found Tim's
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Speaker 9: phone while mowing the lawn in a nearby industrial area.
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Speaker 9: It's a huge lead. The cops are already onto something big.
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Speaker 9: Tim's phone records show that the car shoppers called on
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Speaker 9: a burner phone, a seeming dead end, except when police
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Speaker 9: checked the call history of the burner phone the day
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Speaker 9: before it called another man selling a Dodge Ram pickup,
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Speaker 9: an ex Israeli soldier named Igor.
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Speaker 7: Igor Tumenenko, unlike Tim Bosma, was built like a truck.
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Speaker 3: He was a big, big, big guy.
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Speaker 7: He's the kind of guy that when you meet him,
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Speaker 7: in your head you're saying, I'm not messing with that guy.
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Speaker 9: Igor tells police that he remembered one man had a
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Speaker 9: distinctive tattoo on his forearm, the word ambition.
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Speaker 7: And it was just by coincidence he mentioned this tattoo,
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Speaker 7: and they were able to go through the records of
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Speaker 7: profiled and see that tattoo in the police records, and
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Speaker 7: that's what led them to Dela Mallard.
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Speaker 9: Before he was a marked man, Delan Millard was a
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Speaker 9: boy wonder, the heir to an aviation fortune, who made
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Speaker 9: headlines at the age of fourteen when he became the
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Speaker 9: first teenager to fly solo in a helicopter and an
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Speaker 9: airplane on the same day.
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Speaker 10: Like holding a plate on your finger trying to keep
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Speaker 10: that thing straight.
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Speaker 9: Sadly, Millard's father committed suicide in twenty twelve, right after
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Speaker 9: he invested over three million dollars in this new air.
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Speaker 10: And Millard was never very keen on this business idea,
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Speaker 10: and within a matter of days after his father died,
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Speaker 10: he canceled all the licenses, all the permits, all the
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Speaker 10: certification required to work on aircraft.
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Speaker 7: So here's Dellan Millard who's got all the money in
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Speaker 7: the world thanks to daddy, and instead of, you know,
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Speaker 7: using what he had to make something for himself and
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Speaker 7: continue this aviation dynasty that the Millard family had, he's
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Speaker 7: out there partying like a rock star, doing a lot
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Speaker 7: of drugs and hanging around nefarious people and stealing stuff.
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Speaker 10: Millard always surrounded himself with people who were younger than
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Speaker 10: him four or five years.
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Speaker 3: And he was the leader.
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Speaker 10: He paid for everything, so he gained a certain amount
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Speaker 10: of control and status by bankrolling these younger friends.
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Speaker 9: One of those groupies was this man, Mark Smitch, a
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Speaker 9: wanna be rapper.
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Speaker 11: It's like a pretty style session with no lesson, no question,
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Speaker 11: I'm killing you on possessions.
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Speaker 10: Smitch was going to be a rap star, and I
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Speaker 10: guess Millard saw himself as maybe the producer, the manager who's.
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Speaker 9: Who blues clues, tell the cops anything and then you
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Speaker 9: die on the news.
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Speaker 7: This is a guy who met his dream of old dreams,
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Speaker 7: a rich guy. He could do drugs with, steal cars with,
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Speaker 7: hang around and play video games with.
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Speaker 3: But it escalated for Mark Smitch.
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Speaker 10: Millard and Smitch and a group of friends went on
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Speaker 10: what they call missions, and the mission was to steal things.
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Speaker 9: What was going on inside that hangar? What kind of
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Speaker 9: business did he have?
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Speaker 7: There was no planes, So for an airplane hangar, this
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Speaker 7: thing was not doing what it was supposed to be
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Speaker 7: a use for, which was storing planes and servicing planes.
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Speaker 3: Now this thing was a full blown chop shop.
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Speaker 7: These guys were out stealing anything and they could get
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Speaker 7: their hands on.
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Speaker 3: They were stealing a lot.
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Speaker 7: Of construction equipment, bringing in, stripping it down, selling it
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Speaker 7: for parts.
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Speaker 9: Five days after Tim Bosma went missing, cops tracked Millard
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Speaker 9: to a bank where he spotted withdrawing three grand. Minutes later,
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Speaker 9: he's arrested. They find the keys to Bosma's truck in
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Speaker 9: his possession, but for now he's only charged with unlawful detention.
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Speaker 9: What police really want to know is where's the truck
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Speaker 9: and the bigger question, where is Tim Bosma up next?
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Speaker 9: Another missing person's case points the finger at Millard.
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Speaker 3: Morea babcock simply vanished into thin air, and.
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Speaker 9: The shocking discovery of a bizarre killing machine.
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Speaker 1: Tim Bosma did what thousands of people do every day.
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Speaker 1: He posted his pickup truck for sale online, but police
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Speaker 1: say instead of a p respective buyer, that ad would
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Speaker 1: attract two sick individuals who were looking for more than
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Speaker 1: just a good deal. Anna Garcia is back with more
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Speaker 1: of our all new investigation.
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Speaker 9: Charlene Bosma, whose husband Tim has been missing since he
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Speaker 9: took two strangers on a test drive, just got hopeful news.
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Speaker 9: Police arrest a suspect, Delan Millard, a millionaire bad boy,
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Speaker 9: and he's got the keys to Tim's truck in his
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Speaker 9: pocket when cops grab him. So where's Tim?
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Speaker 4: Due to the unusual nature of this disappearance, the homicide
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Speaker 4: unit will now take the lead.
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Speaker 9: Millard isn't talking, and using surveillance video, police are piecing
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Speaker 9: together a very different ending to this story. This video
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Speaker 9: from a neighboring business shows Bosma's truck driving past shortly
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Speaker 9: after Tim left his house. Police believe that's Delan Mallard
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Speaker 9: behind the wheel, his sidekick Mark Smich in the back,
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Speaker 9: and in the passenger seat Tim. But remember how Tim's
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Speaker 9: cell phone was found in a nearby industrial park. Video
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Speaker 9: from that location shows two vehicles arriving at the scene.
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Speaker 9: Police experts say this one with the running lights on
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Speaker 9: top is Tim's, the one trailing is Millard's suv. Bosma's
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Speaker 9: phone was found about three hundred yards from this very spot.
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Speaker 9: And then there's video from the Millard airplane hangar. The
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Speaker 9: same two vehicles drive up about two hours later, but
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Speaker 9: this time Bosma's truck is towing a large piece of equipment.
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Speaker 9: Footage from inside the hangar shows the two men arriving,
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Speaker 9: Smitch on the left, Millard on the right. Moments later,
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Speaker 9: a bright flame can be seen erupting from outside the hangar.
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Speaker 9: It would burn all.
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Speaker 7: Night marks mentioned. Della Millard are not smart guys. I mean,
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Speaker 7: these are two of the stupidest people on earth. They
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Speaker 7: took this truck and put it in his hangar, and
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Speaker 7: they told their employees don't come in, But then the
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Speaker 7: employees should start showing up the next day to the hangar.
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Speaker 3: And there's this black truck that's all over the news.
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Speaker 9: After Millard is arrested, police search the hangar but can't
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Speaker 9: find the truck again. Surveillance video tells the tale. Two
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Speaker 9: days after Tim went missing, Millard's red pickup is seen
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Speaker 9: here towing a large fifth wheel trailer from the hangar.
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Speaker 9: You can probably guess what's inside. Of all the places
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Speaker 9: to hide the truck, where did they decide to hide
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Speaker 9: this truck?
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Speaker 7: Mammy Dearess, Mommy Dearis's house had this truck.
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Speaker 9: Thanks to a tip from neighbors. Cop searched the trailer
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Speaker 9: and find Tim's truck concealed inside. It confirms their grim suspicions.
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Speaker 9: Despite the fact that the two front seats have been
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Speaker 9: stripped out. Police fined a thirty eight caliber shell casing
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Speaker 9: in the back seat, Dellan Mallard's fingerprints and bloodstains from
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Speaker 9: tim Bosma. Infrared luminal examination reveals even more blood which
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Speaker 9: was hastily washed away, plus a thirty eight caliber pistol
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Speaker 9: is found in a toolbox owned by Millard. In some ways,
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Speaker 9: they seem like they were very dumb about how they
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Speaker 9: covered up their tracks.
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Speaker 7: Dumb does not begin to explain Mark Smich and Delamalard.
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Speaker 3: Or maybe it was that Delamalard was so.
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Speaker 7: Drunk on his own narcissism that he felt he would
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Speaker 7: never be caught.
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Speaker 9: A search of Millard's property turns up the most disturbing
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Speaker 9: evidence yet hidden in the woods, police find the Eliminator,
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Speaker 9: an industrial incinerator that burns up to a scorching fourteen
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Speaker 9: hundred degrees fahrenheit, and its riding atop a trailer Millard
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Speaker 9: had specially built to make it mobile.
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Speaker 7: This huge, hulking piece of equipment used to incinerate cow's horses,
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Speaker 7: huge livestock, that's what it's meant for.
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Speaker 3: Did he have any livestock?
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Speaker 7: No, he didn't have any pets except for a dog
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Speaker 7: named Peto.
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Speaker 9: Police believe this was the heavy equipment being towed that
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Speaker 9: night to the hangar, and also the source of the
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Speaker 9: flame seen burning white hot for several hours. A forensic
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Speaker 9: pathologist combs the inside of the eliminator, finding bone fragments,
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Speaker 9: a tooth, and a bloodstain on the outside matching thirty
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Speaker 9: two year old Tim Bosma.
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Speaker 10: This woman got into the incinerator.
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Speaker 3: She had the police by her.
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Speaker 10: A little hand held that cam cleaner so she could
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Speaker 10: get every last bit of Tim's remains and give them
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Speaker 10: to the family.
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Speaker 9: Police quickly arrests Millard's partner in crime, Mark Smitch, and
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Speaker 9: charged both men with murder. But during the trial, Smitch
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Speaker 9: turned snitch.
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Speaker 3: So what was their defense? He did it?
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Speaker 7: Mark Smitch very quickly pointed out that he was just
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Speaker 7: in it to steal a truck, didn't know anything about
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Speaker 7: killing anybody. And then all of a sudden, Dela Molard
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Speaker 7: pulled out a gun and shot the guy, and he
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Speaker 7: was so scared he just went along for the ride
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Speaker 7: to help burn the body, cover up the crime, which
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Speaker 7: is just an absolute load of bs. He was in it,
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Speaker 7: he did it, He partook in it. And he got caught.
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Speaker 9: According to prosecutors, throughout the trial, Millard wrote letters begging
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Speaker 9: his girlfriend to lie in his defense.
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Speaker 7: Be like I love you, We're going to have babies,
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Speaker 7: We're going to travel the world. But by the way,
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Speaker 7: can you tell you know Andrew and all of its
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Speaker 7: can you tell him not to say that? Or can
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Speaker 7: you tell them to change the story? Or it didn't
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Speaker 7: happen like that?
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Speaker 3: Hey love you.
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Speaker 10: In one he suggests that Smitch and two of his
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Speaker 10: friends actually went to on the test drive, that Millard
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Speaker 10: wasn't there at all, and the letters said destroy this letter,
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Speaker 10: all over them after you've read it. But she very
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Speaker 10: helpfully put them in the bedside table so that when
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Speaker 10: the police arrested her they found them.
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Speaker 9: We may never know which man actually pulled the trigger,
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Speaker 9: but the jury is convinced that Millard and Smitch are guilty.
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Speaker 9: They're sentenced to life behind bars. But according to Anne Brocklehurst,
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Speaker 9: who literally wrote the book on this horrific murder, the
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Speaker 9: questions don't.
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Speaker 10: End there, and just when you think something stranger couldn't happen,
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Speaker 10: it does.
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Speaker 9: Laura Babcock, a young woman struggling with drug and mental
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Speaker 9: health issues, has been missing for over four years.
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Speaker 3: Laura Babcock simply vanished into thin air.
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Speaker 9: Police say her last known contact was with none other
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Speaker 9: than Dell and Millard. And get this, he bought the
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Speaker 9: eliminator shortly before she vanished.
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Speaker 3: Do the police have any idea what happened to her?
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Speaker 10: Police sources told The Hamilton Spectator that they believe that
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Speaker 10: Laura was incinerated.
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Speaker 9: And then there was Millard's father, who supposedly committed suicide
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Speaker 9: by shooting himself shortly before his son turned the family
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Speaker 9: air hanger into a chop shop party house. The illegal
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Speaker 9: gun he used was traced back to this man, a
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Speaker 9: notorious gun dealer and police say associate of Delan Millard.
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Speaker 7: I think this case, when it's all said and done
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Speaker 7: and the story's all told, Delan Millard, I think will
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Speaker 7: go down one of the most prolific serial killers in
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Speaker 7: Canadian history.
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Speaker 9: Both men are awaiting trial in the murder of Laura
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Speaker 9: Babcock and Millard with the murder of his father. But
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Speaker 9: in this madness, it's easy to lose sight of Tim
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Speaker 9: Bosma's tragic and senseless death.
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Speaker 10: I mean, people came to feel like they knew or
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Speaker 10: were connected to in some way. This family, who were
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Speaker 10: a great young family.
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Speaker 7: Dela Mallard could afford fifty trucks. He could have gone
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Speaker 7: out and bought any truck that he wanted. I think
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Speaker 7: the headline really is about Tim Bosma, not Dela Mallard.
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Speaker 7: Tim Bosma was everything right in life. He was what
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Speaker 7: everyone aspires their child.
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Speaker 3: To be, and he got wiped out for a truck.
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Speaker 1: Up next, a college student murdered in her beloved mustang.
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Speaker 1: The man who witnessed the shooting turns into the prime suspect.
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Speaker 3: Do you think he did it?
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Speaker 6: He just knew too much?
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Speaker 1: Prime Watch Daily with the mystery in California that would
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Speaker 1: lead police down a road full of twists and turns.
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Speaker 1: Coming up, we're back now with the story of an
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Speaker 1: eighteen year old girl shot to death inside her car
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Speaker 1: in California. On the outside, it sure looks like a
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Speaker 1: robbery gone wrong, and the search for the killer would
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Speaker 1: ultimately uncover a very unlikely suspect. Our nurse and Ida
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Speaker 1: as the.
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Speaker 8: Story Murder in the Blue Mustang, Michelle's been shot. Aspiring
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Speaker 8: actress Michelle O'Keefe was gunned down as she sat in
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Speaker 8: her beloved pony car. Mike O'Keeffe says his daughter was
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Speaker 8: a brilliant eighteen year old who had it all together.
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Speaker 6: These are a couple of trophies from cheerleading.
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Speaker 8: A star cheerleader in high school.
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Speaker 6: She has ribbons and yeah they'd won for different things.
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Speaker 8: And a whiz at math.
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Speaker 6: She was a good finished all her college calculus before
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Speaker 6: she even finished high school, and she finished high school
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Speaker 6: a year early.
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Speaker 8: But the numbers, Mike says, that were more exhilarating to
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Speaker 8: Michelle the two hundred and sixty horses throbbing under the
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Speaker 8: hood of her Mustang GT.
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Speaker 6: I remember she made me a deal. She was, Dad,
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Speaker 6: if I can get my bachelor's degree in the year,
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Speaker 6: will you buy me new rims for a Mustang? And
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Speaker 6: I said, you know what, if you gets your degree
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Speaker 6: in another year, sure we'll spring for rims for her car.
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Speaker 8: Michelle jungled college courses in computer science with part time
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Speaker 8: work as a TV and film extra.
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Speaker 6: She was dead like the work. I could do this
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Speaker 6: every day if I want to, and we're both encouraged her.
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Speaker 6: I go, well, that's great, but why don't get your
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Speaker 6: school knocked out first.
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Speaker 8: It was a cold February in California's Antelope Valley, Michelle
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Speaker 8: and her friend were on the way to LA for
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Speaker 8: an unbelievable gig.
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Speaker 6: On that particular date, her and her friend were set
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Speaker 6: up to be extras and skid Rock video in downtown LA.
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Speaker 8: Michelle didn't want to drive the Mustang the sixty miles
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Speaker 8: into the city, so she pulled into this parking ride
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Speaker 8: lot off the freeway in Palmdale, parked under a light
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Speaker 8: and rode with her friend for a night with Kid Rock.
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Speaker 6: Michelle was still conscientious of her Mustang. She wanted to
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Speaker 6: park it underneath the light stand there, so you know,
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Speaker 6: to minimize any kind of risk of vandalism.
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Speaker 8: There's Michelle and her friend in the front row as
21:03
Speaker 8: Kid Rock performed. The production went into overtime, as they
21:07
Speaker 8: often do. By the time they returned, Michelle was late
21:11
Speaker 8: for class and still needed to change out of the
21:14
Speaker 8: rocker girl outfit she wore for the video.
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Speaker 12: At nine twenty two, Michelle was changing her clothes from
21:20
Speaker 12: that video in her car for her class.
21:23
Speaker 6: They were running late and the class was going to
21:26
Speaker 6: end at ten o'clock, so she told her friend looking
21:27
Speaker 6: and slipp into my jeans and my head down there
21:30
Speaker 6: and tell the teacher what had happened.
21:33
Speaker 8: Michelle's friend dropped her off and told Mike she saw
21:36
Speaker 8: her put the Mustang into reverse.
21:40
Speaker 6: She assumed she was going to leave, And actually what
21:42
Speaker 6: Michelle had done was move from one parking space down
21:44
Speaker 6: to another to change these club clothes that were in
21:47
Speaker 6: for the part they were playing into, you know, just
21:51
Speaker 6: typical student kind of attire.
21:54
Speaker 8: And what her friend didn't see is that Michelle's car
21:57
Speaker 8: went into reverse, hit a planter and came to a stop.
22:01
Speaker 8: And this was no accident. Someone had just blasted four
22:08
Speaker 8: nine millimeter slugs into her face and chest.
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Speaker 5: I just couldn't believe what I was looking at.
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Speaker 8: Security guard Raymond Jennings was patrolling the lot that night.
22:22
Speaker 5: Right around nine thirty.
22:23
Speaker 4: I heard a car alarm go off, and as I
22:27
Speaker 4: started to walk down to where that car alarm was sounding,
22:31
Speaker 4: there was a gunshot.
22:33
Speaker 5: And subsequently after that, there.
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Speaker 4: Was multiple gunshots, and I radioed in for my supervisor
22:39
Speaker 4: and told her I had shots fired. They patched you
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Speaker 4: through to the Sheriff's department.
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Speaker 8: What Jennings, an Army National Guard sergeant, found was a
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Speaker 8: crime scene as bloody as any in a rock.
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Speaker 3: When you approached Michelle, did you check for a pulse?
22:57
Speaker 3: Did you give her any CPR?
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Speaker 5: No? I didn't check.
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Speaker 4: There was multiple gunshots to Michelle, I didn't think anybody
23:05
Speaker 4: would survive something like that.
23:06
Speaker 6: When he's sorry, he saw a faint pulse and he
23:09
Speaker 6: saw her hand twitching, And how could a man that's
23:12
Speaker 6: been training the military, a trained infantryman not instantaneously want
23:15
Speaker 6: to jump in and do CPR. His comment the police was,
23:18
Speaker 6: I didn't want to disturb a crime scene. That doesn't
23:22
Speaker 6: make any sense.
23:23
Speaker 8: The only other witnesses for people in another car smoking
23:28
Speaker 8: weed and listening to music. They reportedly heard the car
23:31
Speaker 8: alarm than what they call tapping noises. Over the next
23:36
Speaker 8: few weeks, LA Sheriff's detectives tried to piece the puzzle
23:40
Speaker 8: together with what Jennings could tell them. That's Jennings in
23:47
Speaker 8: what detectives call a cognitive interview. It's a scientific way
23:52
Speaker 8: to help a witness recall crucial information they may have forgotten.
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Speaker 5: I thought she was a protote because of what she
23:59
Speaker 5: was dressed, and she was in a kid a kid.
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Speaker 3: He said.
24:05
Speaker 8: His view was blocked by another car parked next to
24:08
Speaker 8: Michelle's Mustang, but the detective's interest was piqued. They believed
24:13
Speaker 8: Jennings volunteered information only the killer would know, such as
24:17
Speaker 8: the order of the gunshots and the trajectory of the bullets.
24:21
Speaker 5: And I've first seen her the gunshot in her chest.
24:26
Speaker 5: That to me looked like a very first shot that
24:28
Speaker 5: was fired. It was his close ran, it was very
24:30
Speaker 5: close rank.
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Speaker 8: And he gave chilling details of how he says Michelle died.
24:38
Speaker 5: Like her hand was twitching to shaying like that or
24:41
Speaker 5: just popping up and down. And then.
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Speaker 4: I've seen you can see a slight pulse in her neck,
24:47
Speaker 4: just a real line.
24:48
Speaker 5: I thought she was still alive.
24:50
Speaker 8: Jennings was so helpful. Investigators wondered, how does a security
24:55
Speaker 8: guard know so much about a shooting? He says he
24:59
Speaker 8: didn't see.
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Speaker 12: When you were talking to investigators afterward. Did you ever
25:04
Speaker 12: at any point think to yourself, I better stop talking
25:09
Speaker 12: or they're going to start looking at me.
25:11
Speaker 4: You know, I figured when I went home, I was like,
25:13
Speaker 4: you know, as I sat down and talked to my
25:15
Speaker 4: wife at the time and told her, I think they
25:17
Speaker 4: believe that I did it.
25:18
Speaker 3: He was right.
25:20
Speaker 8: Next the key witness becomes the prime suspect.
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Speaker 6: He had an incredible amount of information. I'm minimum way
25:27
Speaker 6: security guard doesn't normally have.
25:32
Speaker 1: You have the right to remain silent, something Raymond Jennings
25:35
Speaker 1: probably wishes he would have listened to, because after he
25:39
Speaker 1: started talking to cops about the shooting death of a
25:41
Speaker 1: team in California, Jennings would become the prime suspect. But
25:45
Speaker 1: was he the right guy or was the military event
25:48
Speaker 1: just at the wrong place at the wrong time. Here's
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Speaker 1: Narissa Knight.
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Speaker 8: Michelle O'Keefe had just returned to the parking ride in Palmdale, California,
26:00
Speaker 8: after a night with Kid Rock performing as an extra
26:04
Speaker 8: in one of his music videos. Eighteen year old Michelle
26:10
Speaker 8: was in her blue Mustang in a cold, lonely parking lot,
26:14
Speaker 8: changing her clothes so she could go to class. Then
26:18
Speaker 8: from out of the dark, four gunshot blasts ended her life.
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Speaker 12: Do you think Michelle would have put up a fight
26:29
Speaker 12: for her Mustang?
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Speaker 5: Oh?
26:30
Speaker 6: Absolutely, she put up a fight, There's no doubt about it.
26:32
Speaker 6: She had a blow which is like a similar to
26:34
Speaker 6: a button of a gun on her nose, so there
26:38
Speaker 6: was actually a battle took place.
26:40
Speaker 8: When Michelle didn't come home from school, her parents, Mike
26:44
Speaker 8: and Pat instinctively felt something was horribly wrong.
26:49
Speaker 6: I remember about three o'clock. I wake up and I
26:51
Speaker 6: look at Patt and she's on the edge of the
26:53
Speaker 6: bed weeping, and I go, what are you doing? She goes,
26:56
Speaker 6: Michelle's not home. I know something's wrong. About that time,
26:59
Speaker 6: the phone rang and it was the Sheriff's department, and
27:02
Speaker 6: I goes, is there been an accident? They go, well,
27:05
Speaker 6: not exactly, and I said, oh, and they go michelle'sman shot.
27:10
Speaker 6: They just piece of me died at that point.
27:14
Speaker 8: Was it a carjacking gone bad, a robbery attempt, or
27:18
Speaker 8: an assault that turned deadly? The key witnessed the unarmed
27:23
Speaker 8: security guard patrolling the parking lot that night, Raymond Jennings,
27:28
Speaker 8: I was.
27:28
Speaker 5: Thinking that she got shot in the chest and was trying.
27:31
Speaker 4: I was trying to get out of there, and like
27:34
Speaker 4: when she was she put in a car in reverse
27:36
Speaker 4: and was backing up.
27:36
Speaker 5: That's when the rest of the shots fired up. That's
27:38
Speaker 5: a igh speculator.
27:41
Speaker 8: Jennings sure was helpful. During his videotaped interview with the
27:45
Speaker 8: LA Shearers detectives. He led them straight to their suspect himself.
27:52
Speaker 8: Do you think you being.
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Speaker 12: So observant and so helpful is what made them hone
27:57
Speaker 12: in on you?
27:58
Speaker 5: I do.
27:59
Speaker 4: I think that played a major role in my own
28:02
Speaker 4: demise for the most part.
28:04
Speaker 8: But it would take five years before the Iraq war
28:07
Speaker 8: veteran was in custody on a murder charge.
28:11
Speaker 5: At first I was confused.
28:14
Speaker 4: There was a shock, I think would be the best
28:17
Speaker 4: word to describe it, being that I've never been in
28:20
Speaker 4: that situation before.
28:22
Speaker 8: But did they have the right man? There was no
28:26
Speaker 8: evidence connecting Jennings to Michelle's murder. You no what identified
28:30
Speaker 8: him as the shooter. He owned a thirty eight caliber gun,
28:32
Speaker 8: but the murder weapon was a nine to millimeter. There
28:35
Speaker 8: was no gunshot residue or blood on his uniform, and
28:39
Speaker 8: someone else's DNA was underneath Michelle's fingernails.
28:43
Speaker 3: Do you think that Ray Jennings is guilty? Do you
28:46
Speaker 3: think he did it?
28:47
Speaker 6: I think that at a minimum, he had to have
28:51
Speaker 6: been accompliced because he just knew too much. He had
28:54
Speaker 6: an incredible amount of information that a minimum waste security
28:57
Speaker 6: guard doesn't normally have. Either the angle of the shots.
29:00
Speaker 6: He was able to describe Michelle's death, how she passed away,
29:05
Speaker 6: and these are things you're only going to know if
29:09
Speaker 6: you're there and so everything pointed him.
29:13
Speaker 8: Jennings told investigators he saw Michelle's car rolling backwards into
29:17
Speaker 8: a planter and then ducked for cover when he heard
29:21
Speaker 8: the gunshots.
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Speaker 12: You only worked there as a security guard for a
29:25
Speaker 12: short time, but did you notice people coming to the
29:28
Speaker 12: parking lot to hang out, do drugs other type of crimes.
29:32
Speaker 4: I never noticed any of that myself. I mean it
29:35
Speaker 4: was a very active parking lot. There are cars coming
29:37
Speaker 4: in and out of the parking lot at all times
29:40
Speaker 4: of day and night.
29:41
Speaker 8: Prosecutors believed Jennings a post Michelle's car with flirtation in mind,
29:45
Speaker 8: but ended up killing her instead. Jennings has always maintained
29:49
Speaker 8: his innocence.
29:50
Speaker 3: But he soon faced a murder.
29:52
Speaker 8: Trial because of pre trial publicity. The trial was moved
29:57
Speaker 8: to the downtown LA Courthouse. The first jury deadlocked, a
30:02
Speaker 8: mistrial declared, then a second jury deadlocked, another mistrial.
30:10
Speaker 4: I didn't think that they would convict me based upon
30:13
Speaker 4: the evidence and what the state presented. I didn't believe
30:17
Speaker 4: that they presented a strong case to convict me.
30:21
Speaker 8: But when the third trial was moved back to the
30:24
Speaker 8: Antelope Valley where Michelle was from, Jennings was scared.
30:28
Speaker 4: I was extremely worried and due to the fact of
30:32
Speaker 4: the media attention that the case had drawn, it was
30:35
Speaker 4: very negative towards me in a sense, and I didn't
30:39
Speaker 4: think I would get a fair trial.
30:40
Speaker 8: Up there, the verdict guilty of second degree murder. Raymond
30:46
Speaker 8: Jennings was sentenced to forty years to life in prison.
30:52
Speaker 4: How did that hit you, man, Well, it hit me
30:54
Speaker 4: like a ton of bricks. I just remember picking up
30:56
Speaker 4: the phone and the one person I called was Granny.
31:00
Speaker 4: You tell Granny you got forty years.
31:02
Speaker 5: Well she was crying. I mean she was hurt.
31:04
Speaker 4: Because as everybody knows that knows me, they knew I
31:09
Speaker 4: wasn't responsible for this young lady's death.
31:12
Speaker 8: The detectives, prosecutors, and the jury all thought otherwise. But
31:18
Speaker 8: as you're about to learn, it was all a huge mistake.
31:24
Speaker 8: Next the unmaking of a murderer.
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Speaker 13: They were trying to make Ray look guilty.
31:31
Speaker 8: How a board guy surfing the internet turned the case
31:34
Speaker 8: upside down and a new court decision that would shock everyone.
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Speaker 1: Raymond Jennings san in prison, convicted of second degree murder,
31:44
Speaker 1: a murder he swears up and down he didn't commit
31:47
Speaker 1: Our nurse and Night is here now with more.
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Speaker 8: The prisons are filled with cons who claim they're innocent.
31:55
Speaker 7: I sit here as an innocent maid.
31:58
Speaker 8: And Raymond Jennings is no different.
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Speaker 4: I'm at peace in my life and I laugh and
32:03
Speaker 4: I smile because I hold no remorse, because I didn't
32:06
Speaker 4: kill your sisters.
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Speaker 1: That is the bottom line.
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Speaker 8: A dramatic moment in the courtroom, Jennings is defiant as
32:16
Speaker 8: he's sentenced to forty years to life for the murder
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Speaker 8: of Michelle lo Keith.
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Speaker 4: I don't ask any mercy from his court because I
32:23
Speaker 4: know I don't have any coming. I will take my
32:26
Speaker 4: time and I will hold my head up as a man.
32:29
Speaker 5: My five children will know who their father is and
32:31
Speaker 5: they will know he is not a burden.
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Speaker 8: But that's not what the state says. Jennings resigned himself
32:38
Speaker 8: to life behind bars, posing for pictures with his fiance
32:42
Speaker 8: in front of a fake tropical background, and watching TV
32:45
Speaker 8: with the other inmates.
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Speaker 4: The crazy thing is most prisoners love to watch crime stories,
32:51
Speaker 4: even crime watched daily. People watch that on a regular
32:54
Speaker 4: basis in prison.
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Speaker 8: It was a news story about Michelle's murderer that would
32:58
Speaker 8: be the key to unlocked the cell door and the
33:01
Speaker 8: man holding the key, just some bored guy surfing the internet.
33:08
Speaker 13: My son Clinton came to me, I guess what had
33:12
Speaker 13: happened is that he had been randomly surfing the internet
33:16
Speaker 13: and saw a link to a television program and it
33:21
Speaker 13: was about an Iraq war veteran who supposedly murdered a
33:25
Speaker 13: girl in a parking lot, and he wondered to himself,
33:29
Speaker 13: why would that happen.
33:30
Speaker 8: Attorney Jeffrey Erlich says his son, a foreign policy expert,
33:34
Speaker 8: was intrigued enough to investigate the Jennings case and concluded
33:40
Speaker 8: he was railroaded.
33:42
Speaker 13: He went online and looked up the Court of Appeal
33:45
Speaker 13: opinion in Ray's case, and actually what he was hoping
33:49
Speaker 13: was that it would sort of show him that Ray
33:51
Speaker 13: was guilty, and then he didn't think about this anymore. Instead,
33:54
Speaker 13: he read the opinion and it raised a lot of
33:56
Speaker 13: questions in his mind, and he came to me the
33:58
Speaker 13: next day and said, if I had found an Iraq
34:03
Speaker 13: war veteran who is wrongfully convicted of murder and who's innocent,
34:08
Speaker 13: would you like to try to get.
34:10
Speaker 8: Him out of prison Erlik a prominent civil attorney isn't
34:14
Speaker 8: a criminal defense lawyer, but he became one overnight.
34:18
Speaker 12: When you saw the evidence, did you think that Ray
34:21
Speaker 12: Jennings killed Michelle O'Keefe.
34:23
Speaker 13: It was just the opposite. That the deeper we dug
34:26
Speaker 13: into the case, the stronger our conviction was that he
34:31
Speaker 13: was clearly innocent.
34:33
Speaker 8: Jennings was convicted despite no physical evidence connecting him to
34:37
Speaker 8: the murder. He just happened to be the parking lot
34:40
Speaker 8: security guard who discovered Michelle dying in her mustang.
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Speaker 13: The state's entire case against Ray, at its most fundamental level,
34:48
Speaker 13: was he was there and there was no one else
34:51
Speaker 13: there that could have committed the crime. Therefore he must
34:54
Speaker 13: have done it.
34:55
Speaker 8: But Jennings wasn't the only one in the parking lot
34:58
Speaker 8: that night. Remember there were four other people hanging out
35:02
Speaker 8: in another car nearby getting high.
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Speaker 13: The state knew that he wasn't the only one there.
35:08
Speaker 13: A person that has been since identified that we'll call
35:11
Speaker 13: him John Doe number one, who was a convicted carjacker,
35:15
Speaker 13: a gang member who had done whole invasion robberies and
35:18
Speaker 13: who used a nine millimeter pistol which is the same
35:21
Speaker 13: kind of pistol used in the killing.
35:23
Speaker 8: And according to court papers, four months after Michelle's murder,
35:27
Speaker 8: John Doe number one was busted for carjacking a Mustang.
35:32
Speaker 8: When he was arrested, he was wearing an ear ring
35:35
Speaker 8: matching the description of the ear rings Michelle was wearing
35:39
Speaker 8: the night she was murdered, and one of those was missing.
35:43
Speaker 13: The case really had no validity, and so the state
35:47
Speaker 13: tried to make up for that by just heaping.
35:49
Speaker 8: On piles of piles of irrelevant matter.
35:52
Speaker 13: And so we just sort of peeled an onion and
35:55
Speaker 13: showed piece by piece how none of it hung together
35:57
Speaker 13: and none of it made sense.
35:59
Speaker 8: The Los Angeles District Attorney's Conviction Review Unit looked at
36:02
Speaker 8: the new evidence, and they agreed.
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Speaker 11: Our office no longer has confidence in the conviction of
36:10
Speaker 11: mister Jennings. What we're saying is very very clearly that
36:14
Speaker 11: if a jury was in possession of the information that
36:18
Speaker 11: we're aware of now, they would not have convicted him.
36:22
Speaker 8: A judge ordered Jennings immediate release. After almost eleven years,
36:26
Speaker 8: he was free.
36:29
Speaker 3: You're freeman. How does it feel.
36:32
Speaker 5: It's overwhelming? It feels great.
36:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's no words to actually describe that.
36:39
Speaker 8: But he wasn't off the hook yet. There was still
36:42
Speaker 8: one final day in court.
36:45
Speaker 4: The judge vacated the sentence and discharged dismissed all the charges.
36:50
Speaker 8: Three weeks ago, a judge rule Jennings factually innocent, meaning
36:54
Speaker 8: he was right all along he didn't kill Michelle.
36:59
Speaker 4: I just breathe this relief, you know, I exhaled and
37:02
Speaker 4: I was very thankful that it finally came down.
37:05
Speaker 12: You spent most of your adult life in prison for
37:09
Speaker 12: a murder that it's now stated you did not commit.
37:13
Speaker 4: Well, on one hand, there's a lot of anger, there's anger,
37:17
Speaker 4: there's bitterness. But on the other hand, I mean I've
37:22
Speaker 4: learned from it. I've grown from.
37:23
Speaker 8: It up next. Despite the court ruling, Michelle's father Mike
37:28
Speaker 8: still believes Jennings isn't the choir boy he professes to be.
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Speaker 12: Do you feel that Ray Jennings had something to do
37:35
Speaker 12: with Michelle's death?
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Speaker 8: Ray Jennings is a free man after spending eleven years
37:46
Speaker 8: in prison for the murder of Michelle O'Keeffe. Ray was
37:50
Speaker 8: just released the California court system admitting they got the
37:54
Speaker 8: wrong guy.
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Speaker 5: It's overwhelming, it feels great.
37:58
Speaker 8: Despite the court, Michelle's father, Mike still believes Jennings knows
38:04
Speaker 8: more than he's saying.
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Speaker 12: Do you feel that ray Jennings had something to do
38:08
Speaker 12: with Michelle's death.
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Speaker 6: I'm one hundred percent convinced Raymondlee Jennings was right there
38:13
Speaker 6: when this is all going on. Raymond Lee's a documented prolific.
38:17
Speaker 3: Liar, but is he a murderer.
38:20
Speaker 6: I think he's involved in a murder.
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Speaker 12: Michelle's dad, Michael o'keef, thinks that if you didn't do it,
38:27
Speaker 12: then you had something to do with it.
38:30
Speaker 4: I think it's the simple fact that mister o'keef has
38:34
Speaker 4: had over the last seventeen years almost now seared in
38:39
Speaker 4: his head that I was responsible for his daughter, and
38:43
Speaker 4: the facts that I know of that the public is
38:47
Speaker 4: not privy to show that I had nothing to do
38:51
Speaker 4: with his daughter's death, and he'll have to come to
38:53
Speaker 4: that on.
38:53
Speaker 5: His own terms.
38:55
Speaker 8: Now, Jennings is moving on from his decade long ordeal,
38:59
Speaker 8: catching up on and all those lost years.
39:02
Speaker 4: You just got your passport, right, yeah, I just got
39:04
Speaker 4: my passport a couple of weeks ago.
39:06
Speaker 8: What's next for you?
39:07
Speaker 4: All?
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Speaker 2: Continuing to build our relationship, you know, marching our families.
39:12
Speaker 2: I have children, he has children and marriage. We've got
39:16
Speaker 2: a vacation plan to Mexico and May for his birthday.
39:21
Speaker 8: Jennings says the trip to Mexico is just a prelude
39:24
Speaker 8: for a honeymoon in Tahiti.
39:27
Speaker 3: Watch out world, here comes Ray.
39:29
Speaker 5: I'm coming.
39:31
Speaker 4: I just live it every day and just grateful that
39:33
Speaker 4: I'm allowed to walk freely.
39:38
Speaker 8: But if Jennings didn't murder Michelle o'keith, who did What
39:42
Speaker 8: about those other four people reportedly in the parking lot
39:45
Speaker 8: smoking weed the night of the shooting. Cops won't say
39:48
Speaker 8: who they're looking at, only that the investigation is continuing,
39:54
Speaker 8: and at the lonely parking lot on a hill across
39:57
Speaker 8: marks the spot where she was murdered, a sad reminder
40:01
Speaker 8: Michele's killer is still out there, lurking somewhere in the
40:07
Speaker 8: dark of night.