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Florida Cop’s Dark Secret Ends in Girlfriend’s Death · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, everyone, to The Deep Dive. We have a really
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  Speaker 1: intense one for you today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're looking at something that is, well, it's just
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  Speaker 2: a tragic sequence of events.
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  Speaker 1: It really is. I mean, we've got our hands on
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  Speaker 1: a highly detailed transcript of a police interrogation.
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  Speaker 2: Right, from the Law and Crime Network YouTube channel.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. And our mission for you today is to basically
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  Speaker 1: dissect this harrowing night. We're looking at a psychological chess
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  Speaker 1: match inside an interrogation room where the suspect is actually
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  Speaker 1: a veteran cop.
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  Speaker 2: And we're also going to explore the really severe legal
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  Speaker 2: mechanics of what happens when a fatal accident isn't just
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  Speaker 2: an accident.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Okay, let's unpack this, because the contrast between the
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  Speaker 1: two people involved here is just staggering.
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  Speaker 2: It really is.
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  Speaker 1: We have to start with the victim. Her name was
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  Speaker 1: Paulina Annette Wright. She was born right at the very
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  Speaker 1: end of 1998, December 31st.
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  Speaker 2: Grew up in Floor City, Florida, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. And when you look at her background, you
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  Speaker 1: see someone Who is just relentlessly constructing her future.
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  Speaker 2: Like she wasn't just drifting.
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  Speaker 1: No, not at all. She got an AA in accounting.
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  Speaker 1: She was working as a bookkeeper. And she moved to
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  Speaker 1: Ocala in 2021. And she had big plans, right?
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  Speaker 2: She was pivoting her career.
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  Speaker 1: Huge plans. She was getting ready to start a job
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  Speaker 1: as an optometrist tech. And her ultimate goal, like the
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  Speaker 1: big dream, was to become a radiology technologist.
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  Speaker 2: Which is fascinating because you're looking at a deeply analytical
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  Speaker 2: mind there. Right. Accounting, optometry, radiology. I mean, these are
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  Speaker 2: fields defined by absolute precision.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Careful measurements, no margin for error.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Reducing that margin for error to zero. And she
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  Speaker 2: was just 25.
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  Speaker 1: Just 25 on the verge of this incredibly right, secure future.
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  Speaker 2: And then you contrast that with the man sitting across
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  Speaker 2: the table from her that night.
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  Speaker 1: Leslie Dale Boilo. He's 32.
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  Speaker 2: And he's deeply entrenched in a completely different world, a
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  Speaker 2: career defined by chaos and risk mitigation.
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  Speaker 1: He was an eight year veteran of the Marion County
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office.
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  Speaker 2: Right. We're talking about a guy who spends 40 plus
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  Speaker 2: hours a week navigating high stress environments. He enforces the law.
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  Speaker 2: He carries firearms daily.
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  Speaker 1: And he wasn't just like an average cop flying under
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  Speaker 1: the radar. Back in June of 2017, he got a
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  Speaker 1: Medal of Commendation.
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  Speaker 2: For saving a young boy's life.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. He was a decorated lifesaver.
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  Speaker 2: Which is just, well, what's fascinating here is how drastically
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  Speaker 2: a person's narrative can shift in a single evening.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, totally.
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  Speaker 2: You go from a commended lifesaver to a suspect reading
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  Speaker 2: his own rights in an interrogation room.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a glitch in reality. Because just hours before
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  Speaker 1: he was in that room, Boilo called 911 from his
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  Speaker 1: personal phone.
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  Speaker 2: And what does he tell the dispatcher?
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  Speaker 1: He claims he accidentally shot his girlfriend while cleaning a rifle.
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  Speaker 1: After a night of drinking, no less.
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  Speaker 2: Which, you know, we really need the listener to think
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  Speaker 2: about for a second.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, put yourself in her shoes.
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  Speaker 2: If you're with a trusted professional, someone literally trained in
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  Speaker 2: life or death safety, you'd think you're safe.
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  Speaker 1: Right, you'd inherently trust that a firearm on the table
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  Speaker 1: is completely safe. Because he's the expert.
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  Speaker 2: But then he becomes the very source of fatal danger.
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  Speaker 1: It's terrifying. So let's move right into the visceral reality
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  Speaker 1: of that crime scene. When responding officers walked into Boilo's kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: the physical evidence told a horrifying story.
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  Speaker 2: Just a perfect macabre puzzle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Paulina is sitting in a chair, a single gunshot
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  Speaker 1: wound to the forehead.
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  Speaker 2: And what's in her lap?
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  Speaker 1: A 9mm handgun is resting right in her lap. And
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  Speaker 1: a rifle is just lying on the kitchen table in
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  Speaker 1: front of her.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a paused frame in a movie.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. The geometry of those weapons, the placement, it tells
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  Speaker 1: a story before anyone even opens their mouth.
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  Speaker 2: But the craziest part isn't the physical layout. It's Boilo's reaction.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. The very first words out of his mouth to
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  Speaker 1: the arriving detectives. He doesn't scream for help. He just
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  Speaker 1: looks at them and says, I know this looks really bad.
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  Speaker 2: Which is such a window into psychology in that moment.
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  Speaker 1: How so? Like, is it just shock?
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  Speaker 2: It's a brain simultaneously experiencing profound trauma, but defaulting entirely
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  Speaker 2: to its specialized training.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: A civilian would be hysterical or dissociating or focused completely
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  Speaker 2: on the victim.
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  Speaker 1: But he's evaluating the optics.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. He's instantly self-aware. He sees the 9mm in her lap.
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  Speaker 2: He sees his rifle on the table. He is mentally
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  Speaker 2: running the exact same checklist the arriving detectives are running.
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  Speaker 1: Because he knows how crime scenes are evaluated.
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  Speaker 2: He anticipates the accusation before they even ask. He knows
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  Speaker 2: that when a woman is found shot in her home,
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  Speaker 2: the partner is suspect number one. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Then we get to the 911 call itself. Boileau calls
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  Speaker 1: it in, but he tells detectives later he was in
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  Speaker 1: such shock that he dropped the gun. He couldn't remember
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  Speaker 1: if he unloaded it.
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  Speaker 2: Or if he just dropped the magazine.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And he immediately calls for help.
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  Speaker 2: But we have to break down this concept of the
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  Speaker 2: accidental discharge that he tries to live on.
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  Speaker 1: Because cops hate that phrase. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Law enforcement vehemently rejects that term. Modern firearms don't just
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  Speaker 2: go off.
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  Speaker 1: They have so many safety mechanisms. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Overlapping safeties. An accidental discharge implies a mechanical failure, like
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  Speaker 2: a drop safety breaking.
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  Speaker 1: But this wasn't that.
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  Speaker 2: Almost never is. What we're dealing with is a negligent discharge,
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  Speaker 2: meaning a human being bypassed those safeties through improper handling.
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  Speaker 1: So the detectors aren't just asking what happened. The ballistics
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  Speaker 1: tell them that.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. They need to know why. Was it a tragic
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  Speaker 2: lapse in judgment, reckless negligence, or something sinister?
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  Speaker 1: Which brings us to the interrogation room. We go from
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  Speaker 1: this chaotic, bloody kitchen into this sterile, calculated environment.
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  Speaker 2: And the psychological game begins immediately.
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  Speaker 1: But it starts so casually. The detective walks in and
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  Speaker 1: literally apologizes for coming in late. He says, I'm on
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  Speaker 1: the back end of this whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: Which is a brilliantly disarming tactic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he plays dumb. He asks Boileau to spell his
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  Speaker 1: last name. B-O-I-L-E.
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  Speaker 2: Right, because by playing the uninformed investigator, he subverts the
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  Speaker 2: whole power dynamic.
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  Speaker 1: He's not slamming a file on the table.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. He's asking Boilo for help. It strokes the ego
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  Speaker 2: of a veteran cop who's used to being in control.
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  Speaker 1: And asking him to spell his name, that gets him talking, right?
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  Speaker 2: It establishes a baseline of verbal compliance, and it grounds
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  Speaker 2: his traumatized brain in a mundane administrative task.
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  Speaker 1: Pulling him out of fight or flight.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Just enough to start a dialogue.
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  Speaker 1: But then the detective pulls out the Miranda warning. And
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  Speaker 1: this is crazy. He reads him his rights. And Boilo
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  Speaker 1: completely waves them.
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  Speaker 2: He waves Miranda, a veteran cop.
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  Speaker 1: He literally says, that's why I didn't ask for a lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't mean for this to happen.
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  Speaker 2: It's the absolute contradiction of the night.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, civilians wave Miranda because they don't understand the system, right? Right.
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  Speaker 2: They think explaining themselves sets them free. But an officer
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  Speaker 2: knows the exact opposite is true.
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  Speaker 1: He's probably read that card to a hundred people.
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  Speaker 2: He knows anything you say can and will be used
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  Speaker 2: against you is an absolute certainty. Any defense attorney will
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  Speaker 2: tell you, Never talk to the police without representation, especially
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  Speaker 2: if you're innocent.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, really? It's wild to think a veteran cop wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: see the writing on the wall. Why do police use
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  Speaker 1: this tactic of letting a suspect think they're going home?
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  Speaker 1: Does it work better on their own colleagues?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's highly probable that his hubris is just overriding
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  Speaker 2: his tactical training here.
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  Speaker 1: Because of the brotherhood culture.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. There's this unspoken belief that we take care of
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  Speaker 2: our own. Boilo might genuinely believe that if he just
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  Speaker 2: lays it out man to man, cop to cop, his
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  Speaker 2: colleagues will see it as a tragic accident.
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  Speaker 1: He thinks the badge shields him.
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  Speaker 2: He thinks it affords him the benefit of the doubt
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  Speaker 2: he would never extend to a civilian in that same chair.
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  Speaker 1: And the detective feeds that illusion so hard. Boilo is
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  Speaker 1: in there having just confessed to shooting his girlfriend and
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  Speaker 1: he starts worrying about who is going to take care
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  Speaker 1: of their cat.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Logistics.
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  Speaker 1: He tells the detective, I can't stay there. referring to
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  Speaker 1: his house. He's planning his sleeping arrangements for the night.
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  Speaker 2: And the detective doesn't correct him. He doesn't say, Leslie,
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  Speaker 2: you committed a homicide. You're going to a cell.
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  Speaker 1: He talks about the cat food with him.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's a psychological pressure valve. If the police say,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to jail for 30 years, the suspect's brain
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  Speaker 2: goes into lockdown.
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  Speaker 1: The trainee kicks in. He asks for a lawyer.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. But by discussing house keys and pet care, the
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  Speaker 2: detective keeps freedom on the table. It keeps Boilo relaxed
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  Speaker 2: and talking.
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  Speaker 1: The detective even uses the brotherhood language. He says, you
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  Speaker 1: and I have known each other for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to bullshit.
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  Speaker 2: If we connect this to the bigger picture, it shows
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  Speaker 2: how modern interrogation techniques are evolving.
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  Speaker 1: Away from the aggressive stuff. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Away from the confrontational read technique, which often produces false
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  Speaker 2: confessions toward an information gathering model.
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  Speaker 1: Using empathy as a weapon.
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  Speaker 2: Empathy as a scalpel. He leverages that pre-existing relationship To
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  Speaker 2: extract a timeline without raising any defenses.
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  Speaker 1: And that timeline is what we need to get into next.
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  Speaker 1: Boilo starts laying out the setup for the evening, and
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  Speaker 1: it is so mundane.
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  Speaker 2: Chronologically, it's just a normal date night. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Dinner at Las Magos Mexican restaurant around 7 p.m., and
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  Speaker 1: they were drinking. Boilo says they had three margaritas each.
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  Speaker 1: He literally tells the detective, it's kind of our thing.
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  Speaker 2: We really have to evaluate the biological reality of three
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  Speaker 2: margaritas here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a lot of tequila for an hour and
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  Speaker 1: a half dinner.
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  Speaker 2: Depending on the pore, that could be two ounces of
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  Speaker 2: tequila per drink. That is a significant amount of alcohol.
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  Speaker 1: Enough to impair fine motor skills.
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  Speaker 2: Fine motor skills, spatial awareness, and crucially, risk assessment. The
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  Speaker 2: prefrontal cortex is chemically suppressed.
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  Speaker 1: So his judgment is already shot.
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  Speaker 2: Completely degraded.
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  Speaker 1: So they leave when it's dark, get back to his house,
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  Speaker 1: a house he bought in 2019 between 8 and 8.30 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: The football game is on.
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  Speaker 2: Game one starts after 8. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And Boilo gets a point. package in the mail, new
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  Speaker 1: gun cleaning supplies and a green mat. So he sets
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  Speaker 1: this mat up on the kitchen table.
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  Speaker 2: And the geography of this table is the focal point
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  Speaker 2: of the entire investigation.
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  Speaker 1: OK, picture this. If you walk through the front door,
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  Speaker 1: Boilo is sitting on the left side of the table
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  Speaker 1: by the green mat and Paulina is sitting directly across
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  Speaker 1: from him.
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  Speaker 2: This is a catastrophic breach of foundational firearm safety before
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  Speaker 2: a gun is even touched.
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  Speaker 1: Why? Just sitting across from each other?
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  Speaker 2: In any standard training environment, individuals sit side by side
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  Speaker 2: facing a designated safe direction, like a berm or a
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  Speaker 2: reinforced wall.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, right. Because of where the barrel points.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Setting up a workstation where the natural resting position
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  Speaker 2: of the weapon points at the torso or head of
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  Speaker 2: a human being sitting three feet away, it's a massive
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  Speaker 2: structural failure in risk management.
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  Speaker 1: And there are two guns on this table, a 9mm
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  Speaker 1: pistol and Boyleau's Daniel Defense 5.56 rifle, which he notes
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  Speaker 1: is in a pistol configuration.
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  Speaker 2: And that distinction is vital.
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  Speaker 1: Because it changes how the weapon handles, right?
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  Speaker 2: A Daniel Defense 5.56 in a pistol configuration is an
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  Speaker 2: AR-15 style platform, but with a significantly shorter barrel. It
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  Speaker 2: has a stabilizing brace instead of a standard stock.
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  Speaker 1: So it's lighter?
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  Speaker 2: Lighter, shorter, shorter. Incredibly maneuverable. It's meant for close quarters.
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  Speaker 2: But on a table, that short barrel means it's very
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  Speaker 2: easy to inadvertently sweep the muzzle across the room.
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  Speaker 1: Or across the prison sitting opposite you.
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  Speaker 2: With just a slight bump.
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  Speaker 1: So they're sitting there and Boilo starts methodically breaking down
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  Speaker 1: the sequence for the detective. They're trading parts back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: He's showing her how to clean it.
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  Speaker 2: Which means the weapon is completely unloaded and safe at
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  Speaker 2: this exact moment.
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  Speaker 1: Right. But then he reassembles it. And Polina dry fires
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  Speaker 1: it a few times.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Boilo even turns on the red dot sight for her.
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  Speaker 2: Dry firing is standard practice. You pull the trigger of
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  Speaker 2: an unloaded gun to practice your grip and trigger press.
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  Speaker 1: But they're sitting across from each other.
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  Speaker 2: Which breaks the non-negotiable rule of dry firing. No live
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  Speaker 2: ammo anywhere near the weapon and point it at a
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  Speaker 2: safe backstop.
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  Speaker 1: Like a brick wall, not your girlfriend.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. It shows how deeply the alcohol and complacency have
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  Speaker 2: already eroded his protocol.
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  Speaker 1: Then Boilo takes the rifle back and he tells the detective,
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  Speaker 1: He puts a loaded magazine into the rifle because he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to put it away for home defense. But he
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  Speaker 1: claims he didn't chamber a round.
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  Speaker 2: We really need to break down the mechanical reality of
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  Speaker 2: the AR-15 platform here.
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  Speaker 1: Because his statement is a massive contradiction.
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  Speaker 2: Huge. When you insert a loaded magazine into an AR-style
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  Speaker 2: weapon where the bolt is closed, the weapon cannot fire.
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  Speaker 2: The ammo is sitting below the bolt carrier group.
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  Speaker 1: So how does a round get in the chamber?
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  Speaker 2: You have to physically pull the charging handle at the
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  Speaker 2: rear of the receiver all the way back and let
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  Speaker 2: it go. That strips the round and forces it into
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  Speaker 2: the firing chamber.
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  Speaker 1: And Boileau's claiming he didn't do that.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so while he's messing with his rifle, Polina picks
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  Speaker 1: up the loaded 9mm and starts waving it around. And
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  Speaker 1: she's inexperienced. Never shot a gun before.
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  Speaker 2: Notice his awareness here. The trained professional sees a novice
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  Speaker 2: waving a loaded gun and his threat detection spikes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he intervenes. He unloads her 9mm because he knows
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  Speaker 1: it's dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: He neutralized the threat. He exercised proper control.
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  Speaker 1: But then, and here's where it gets really interesting. Mere
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  Speaker 1: seconds later, he goes back to his own rifle. He
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  Speaker 1: decides to dry fire it. He pulls the trigger once. Click.
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  Speaker 1: Then he pulls it a second time and it fires.
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  Speaker 2: A live 5.56 round detonates.
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  Speaker 1: And strikes her in the forehead. But wait, mechanically, how
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  Speaker 1: does an AR-15 go... Click and then bang on a
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  Speaker 1: second trigger pull.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't. On a standard mil-spec trigger, if it goes click,
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  Speaker 2: the hammer has fallen. The trigger is dead until the
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  Speaker 2: action is cycled again.
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  Speaker 1: Meaning the bolt has to travel backward to reset the hammer.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. If he got a click and then a bang,
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  Speaker 2: he either manually racked the charging handle between pulls without
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  Speaker 2: realizing it.
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  Speaker 1: Which takes force.
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  Speaker 2: Very deliberate force. Or the weapon had a catastrophic malfunction.
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  Speaker 2: Or his memory of the sequence is entirely fabricated. To
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  Speaker 2: hide the fact that he chambered around and forgot.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, a gun doesn't load itself. He literally tells
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  Speaker 1: the detective, I unloaded her gun and I forgot mine
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  Speaker 1: had a magazine in it.
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  Speaker 2: The gravity of that contradiction is staggering.
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  Speaker 1: He saw the danger she posed, but was totally blind
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  Speaker 1: to the danger he posed. And pointing it at her,
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  Speaker 1: he admits to the detective they were pointing guns in
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  Speaker 1: general direction.
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  Speaker 2: There is no general direction at a kitchen table. If
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  Speaker 2: a muzzle is pointed in a 45-degree cone toward the
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  Speaker 2: other side, it's pointed at a vital organ.
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  Speaker 1: The golden rule is never point a weapon at anything
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  Speaker 1: you don't intend to destroy, right?
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  Speaker 2: Day one of the academy. Treat every weapon as if
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  Speaker 2: it's loaded. He didn't just break a rule. He abandoned
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  Speaker 2: his profession's entire philosophy.
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  Speaker 1: And he knows it. He tells the detective, after drinks,
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  Speaker 1: I get sloppy, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: That phrase, getting sloppy, is an explicit acknowledgment of his negligence.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he knew better. So now we hit the turn
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  Speaker 1: in the interrogation. The detective leaves the room. He says
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  Speaker 1: he needs to step out.
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  Speaker 2: But he isn't taking a break. Right.
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  Speaker 1: What is he actually doing?
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  Speaker 2: He is ground-truthing Boilo's story. He's verifying the narrative against
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  Speaker 2: the physical evidence at the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Like testing the blueprint Boilo just drew. Does the chair position,
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  Speaker 1: the spent casing, the 9mm in her lap, does it
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  Speaker 1: all match the dry fire story? Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. The evidence either corroborates the narrative or it shatters it.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Well, it must have shattered it because when the detective
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: comes back, the vibe is entirely changed. The camaraderie is gone.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: He hands Boylo an orange striped uniform.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: And says, here's dinner and clothes. You're going to be
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: arrested for manslaughter.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Imagine the whiplash. One minute you're talking about your cat.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: The next you're putting on an orange jumpsuit. How does
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: a suspect's brain process that immediate loss of control?
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: It's a psychological drop. The illusion of going home to
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: feed the cat is instantly shattered. It's a complete degradation ceremony.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: The procedural stuff is so cold. They take pictures of
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: him in his overalls. They take his clothes. They secure
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: his house with his own keys.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: They leave his phone at the house.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he asks for his phone, and he even gives
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: them his passcode, 303. But they tell him no. Every
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: ounce of agency is gone. He even asks if he
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: can just call his dad.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: He's been formally excised from the Brotherhood. He is now
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: in the custody of the Bolt.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: So let's talk about the fallout and the legal reality
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: of this. The immediate consequences are swift. Boilo is fired
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: from the Marion County Sheriff's Office.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Standard institutional reflex.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: He's booked into jail, meets his $ 30, 000 bond. And Police
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Chief Mike Belkin releases a statement.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Saying justice will be served and offering condolences to the
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: victim's family.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: But the public perception is where this gets really muddy.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: There's this hero dilemma. A local resident actually said that
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Because Boiler had commendations and provided excellent service, that should
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: be taken into consideration before making a decision that ruins
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: his life.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: This raises an important question. How does society view police
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: officers off-duty versus on-duty? Should past heroism mitigate gross negligence?
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Some people think a badge should grant a little leniency
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: for one terrible mistake.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: But the counterargument is that his training demands a harsher
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: standard of accountability. A civilian might not know how a
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: floating firing pin works.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: But Boileau has no excuse. None.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: He was entrusted with lethal force, and he abandoned all
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: care while consuming alcohol.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: So this is all heading to a jury. A court
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: document filed June 20, 2025, sets a hearing for September 18, 2025,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: to schedule jury selection and the trial.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: And that jury is going to face a very specific
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: menu of justice.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Let's break down those options. At the top, manslaughter with
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: a firearm specification.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: That carries a maximum of 30 years.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Then there's standard manslaughter, maximum 15 years.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Below that is culpable negligence, which is one to five years.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: And finally, negligent discharge of a firearm, which is up
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: to one year or, of course, 15. not guilty.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: The whole trial will hinge on the legal difference between
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: culpable negligence and manslaughter.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: What's the dividing line there?
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Manslaughter by culpable negligence requires proving a reckless disregard for
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: human life or a conscious indifference to consequences.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Like pointing an AR-15 at someone after three margaritas.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Exactly. The defense, however, will argue standard culpable negligence. They'll
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: say it was a gross deviation from the standard of care,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: but he lacked that conscious disregard. They'll argue he genuinely
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: forgot the chamber was loaded.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: It's a terrifying distinction for a jury to make.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Deciding years of a man's life based on whether an
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: alcohol-soaked brain consciously disregarded a risk or just forgot mechanical detail.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: So what does this all mean? When you strip it
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: all away, we are looking at the profound tragedy of
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Paulina Wright's death. She was a 25-year-old with her whole
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: life ahead of her.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Meticulously planned out.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: And it was ended in a split second of admitted
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: sloppiness by someone whose literal job was public safety. It
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: just shows how fast life changes when protocols are abandoned.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: It really does. And I want to leave the listener
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: with a final provocative thought here. We've talked about his training,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: but if expertise breeds comfort and comfort breeds complacency, are
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: experts sometimes more dangerous than novices in routine situations?
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow. I never thought of it like that.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Think about Boileau's deep familiarity with firearms. The dry fire drills,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: trading parts, that extreme exposure might have created a false
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: sense of invincibility.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: A beginner would be terrified to point an AR across
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: a table.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Exactly. A beginner wouldn't dare entertain that. The fear keeps
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: them safe. But Boileau's fear was gone. Does mastering a
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: deadly tool eventually make you blind to its danger?
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: That's chilling.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Think about that the next time you see a professional
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: casually handling something perilous. The moment you stop fearing the tool,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: you become its greatest liability.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: That is, yeah, that's going to stick with me. Thank
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you all for joining us on this deep dive. Yeah.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: It's a heavy one, but an important one. We'll catch
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: on the next one.