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  Speaker 1: I'm Chris Hansen right now on Crime Watch Daily from
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  Speaker 1: here in New York. An adorable five year old to
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  Speaker 1: you a.
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  Speaker 2: Horrifying car rack. It crushes it. You just can't understand it.
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  Speaker 1: Little Daniel Dana tragically lost in what looks like a
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  Speaker 1: fiery accident, But a clue hidden in the back seat
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  Speaker 1: will reveal something much more sinister.
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  Speaker 3: It was a premeditated, horrific crime.
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  Speaker 1: Crime Watched Daily's Michelle Sagona with a story of shocking betrayal, revenge.
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  Speaker 4: They were using Daniel as a pawn.
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  Speaker 1: And an unspeakable crime.
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  Speaker 2: What did he do that.
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  Speaker 5: Was so bad?
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  Speaker 2: Murdered and sat on fire?
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  Speaker 1: Then a Crime Watched Daily update, A team vanishes and
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  Speaker 1: the trail leads to the last place his parents ever
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  Speaker 1: imagine you.
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  Speaker 6: Could barely hear myself think with my heart pounding in
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  Speaker 6: my chest.
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  Speaker 1: Their close family friend keeping a dark secret in his
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  Speaker 1: small garage, and it opens a can of.
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  Speaker 7: Warm How many boys subsequently have come forward?
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  Speaker 3: Right now, Andrea Isisen serve with Crime Watch Daily, Jason
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  Speaker 3: Mataro a Crime Watch Darry This, I'm Elizabeth, I'm here
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  Speaker 3: with Crimewatch.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Michelle from Crimewatch Daily.
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  Speaker 6: Anagarcia from Crime Watch is crime Watch Dale.
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  Speaker 8: We'll find you again, we always do.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to crime Watch Daily everyone, I'm Chris Hansen. First
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  Speaker 1: up today, Paramedics rushed to an awful sea. A car's
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  Speaker 1: engulfed in flames, a mother and her five year old
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  Speaker 1: son inside. What first responders wouldn't know is that terrible
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  Speaker 1: accident was more of a setup. Michelle Sagona is in
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  Speaker 1: Maryland now with details A heartbreaking tragedy.
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  Speaker 3: One firefighter says, is that a body.
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  Speaker 9: A five year old boy killed in a fiery car crash.
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  Speaker 2: There was in fact a small body in the back
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  Speaker 2: of the car, which was Daniel.
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  Speaker 9: His mother badly burned.
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  Speaker 4: She's suffering from burns over thirty five to forty percent
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  Speaker 4: of her body.
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  Speaker 9: Fire investigators sit through the charge wreckage.
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  Speaker 2: There's just something odd about it.
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  Speaker 9: And uncover a dark secret barry in the backseat.
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  Speaker 3: That was a premeditated, horrific crime on one of the
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  Speaker 3: most vulnerable among us, a five year old little boy.
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  Speaker 9: You no one ever thought this would be Daniel Dane's
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  Speaker 9: last birthday.
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  Speaker 4: Beautiful video of Daniel at his fifth birthday party, surrounded
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  Speaker 4: by his father and a grandmother and an aunt.
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  Speaker 9: Daniel was a bright, curious, soon to be first grader
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  Speaker 9: who loved karate and playing his guitar.
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  Speaker 4: You can see the love, you can see the happiness,
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  Speaker 4: and you can see Daniel's beautiful smile and face. Daniel
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  Speaker 4: was a beautiful child who was loved.
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  Speaker 9: The only thing that made the little five year old
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  Speaker 9: sad his parents constant fighting.
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  Speaker 3: They met in Iran, got married, and shortly thereafter he
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  Speaker 3: brought her to the United States. I think it was
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  Speaker 3: challenging for the marriage.
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  Speaker 9: Attorney Marybeth Ayres says Nargus chafferad and to me, Dana's
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  Speaker 9: marriage was doomed from the beginning.
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  Speaker 3: They're actually related their first cousins, but not biologically. She
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  Speaker 3: was adopted.
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  Speaker 9: Court records show the Iranian immigrants had filed restraining orders
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  Speaker 9: against each other. Prosecutor Steve Chakin says there were even
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  Speaker 9: allegations of abuse.
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  Speaker 4: There was a lot of going back and forth with
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  Speaker 4: arguing text messages.
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  Speaker 9: Their bitter divorce was followed by an even nastier custody
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  Speaker 9: battle over little Daniel. Airs says Nargus was jealous over
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  Speaker 9: a young nanny Hamid had hired and was livid when
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  Speaker 9: Daniel spent time with them. Seems like at this point
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  Speaker 9: she was willing to do anything and to go to
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  Speaker 9: any link to make sure that child would not spend
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  Speaker 9: time with his father.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and I think the way she saw the child
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  Speaker 3: was kind of spoils of the custody war.
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  Speaker 9: Hamid, in turn, hired a private investigator to prove Nargus
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  Speaker 9: was an unfit mother.
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  Speaker 4: He wanted custody and it was horrible they were using
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  Speaker 4: Daniel as a pawn.
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  Speaker 9: The day before the final hearing to determine which parent
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  Speaker 9: would win primary custody of Daniel, Nargus asked a friend
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  Speaker 9: to borrow his car and drives to Daniel's school in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
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  Speaker 5: Talk to me exactly about what happened.
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  Speaker 3: It was the last day of school and she picked
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  Speaker 3: up Daniel. She took him to a lot of different
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  Speaker 3: restaurants and then just started to drive around.
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  Speaker 9: Sometime around three am, Nargus decides to drive Daniel to
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  Speaker 9: Ocean City, Maryland, about four hours away, for a spontaneous
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  Speaker 9: beach trip, but they never make it. On a dark,
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  Speaker 9: twisting suburban road, Nargus loses control of the car barrel's
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  Speaker 9: over a common creek median and the car explodes into
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  Speaker 9: a firebomb.
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  Speaker 10: In a distance, I saw a vehicle that was like
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  Speaker 10: on fire.
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  Speaker 5: You saw the actual vehicle on fire.
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  Speaker 9: Paramedic RG. Kepke just happened to be returning from another
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  Speaker 9: call and rushed to the scene. What's the first thing
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  Speaker 9: you did when you actually got out to the vehicle.
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  Speaker 10: I asked the bystanders outside if there was anybody in
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  Speaker 10: the car. Some of the bystanders said, there was an
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  Speaker 10: individual on the ground on the other side of the car.
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  Speaker 9: It's Nargus, face down on the asphalt, writhing in pain.
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  Speaker 5: Was she badly burned?
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  Speaker 10: Some of her clothes were burnt off, and she had
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  Speaker 10: some dark colored skin going on. So she was talking.
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  Speaker 10: She was screaming, and I asked her if there anybody
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  Speaker 10: else in the car, and she said her son was
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  Speaker 10: in the car, but the car was still on fire.
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  Speaker 9: The desperate bomb pleads for Kepke to save her only son,
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  Speaker 9: but all four the car doors are locked.
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  Speaker 10: The whole inside I was covered with smoke. All the
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  Speaker 10: windows were dark. I was able to bust out a
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  Speaker 10: window open some doors. I didn't see anything except like
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  Speaker 10: a bunch of blankets on the floorboards, and I didn't
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  Speaker 10: see a child's car seat or anything in the back seat.
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  Speaker 9: Moments later, a Montgomery County fire engine arrives and firemen
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  Speaker 9: extinguished the flames, but there's no sign of Daniel.
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  Speaker 5: What did you do at that point?
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  Speaker 10: I still asked if she had her son in there,
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  Speaker 10: and she said yes, So I didn't know if she
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  Speaker 10: was like out of her mind, like you know, maybe
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  Speaker 10: she thought he was there, but he wasn't.
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  Speaker 9: Nargus Is rushed to a burn trauma center and grave condition.
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  Speaker 9: Firefighters then began digging through this still smoldering car. They
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  Speaker 9: find heartbreak.
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  Speaker 5: What did you discover?
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  Speaker 11: The firefighters discovered a body in the back seat, literally
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  Speaker 11: covered up by blankets.
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  Speaker 5: Did you actually see Daniel in the back seat?
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  Speaker 10: I saw part of them.
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  Speaker 9: Daniel is burned beyond recognition, but it's where his little
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  Speaker 9: body is found.
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  Speaker 5: The raises eye.
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  Speaker 11: Wasn't you figure I was wrapped up and pushed down
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  Speaker 11: the back seat. It wasn't in the car seat that
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  Speaker 11: she started going, Okay, this isn't right.
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  Speaker 9: Fire investigator Joel Shackett and a crash reconstruction team are
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  Speaker 9: called in to determine how the car caught fire, and
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  Speaker 9: more importantly, how little Daniel died. Was the fire pretty significant.
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  Speaker 2: To the interior of the car?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, police photos revealed the cars badly charred interior, But oddly,
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  Speaker 9: there's little damage of any kind to the outside of
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  Speaker 9: the car.
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  Speaker 2: It just didn't seem to be adding up for something
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  Speaker 2: that had that much action. You'd think that it would
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  Speaker 2: be a very high speed collision.
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  Speaker 9: And even stranger, the car's fuel tank was completely intact.
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  Speaker 5: There was nothing wrong with the vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: There were no leaks, There was nothing that was broken
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  Speaker 2: during the collision, fuel tank, fuel pump, fuel lines.
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  Speaker 9: If there was no damage to the fuel tank, then
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  Speaker 9: what would explain this.
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  Speaker 2: Several people had said that they smelled something that they
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  Speaker 2: believed was gasoline.
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  Speaker 9: Was Daniel's death a tragic accident or a twisted cover up?
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  Speaker 2: What did he do that was so bad?
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  Speaker 9: So bad that he had to be murdered and set
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  Speaker 9: on fire?
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  Speaker 1: We returned to today's Crime Watch daily mystery about a
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  Speaker 1: Marilyn mother who was badly burned her son killed in
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  Speaker 1: a tragic car fire.
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  Speaker 2: Let's head back to Michelle Segona.
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  Speaker 9: Chris, a thirty five year old mother is covered in burns,
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  Speaker 9: her car englfed in flames, and her five year old
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  Speaker 9: son is dead in the back seat. But as investigators
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  Speaker 9: would take a closer look at this accident, a much
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  Speaker 9: different picture was revealed. Fire investigators in Gaithersburg, Maryland are
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  Speaker 9: about to uncover the most heartless crime imaginable.
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  Speaker 2: They saw that there was something that wasn't right.
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  Speaker 9: When rescuers arrive on the scene, they initially believe five
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  Speaker 9: year old Daniel Dana is the innocent victim of a
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  Speaker 9: fiery crash.
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  Speaker 5: When you're there and you see this little body in
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  Speaker 5: the back.
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  Speaker 2: It crushes you, you just can't understand it. But we
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  Speaker 2: have a job to that. We have to find out
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  Speaker 2: what caused this fire.
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  Speaker 9: Daniel's mother, Nargus Chafferad, who was driving the boy to
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  Speaker 9: the beach that night, is also severely burned and rushed
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  Speaker 9: to a burn.
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  Speaker 10: Unit, mainly her hand. So I thought at that time
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  Speaker 10: that she was maybe trying to put the fire out.
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  Speaker 9: By all appearances, a horrific tragedy until an arson dog
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  Speaker 9: gets a whiff of something truly terrible.
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  Speaker 2: The investigator that was actually up on the car said
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  Speaker 2: he thought he had an odor of something similar to gasoline.
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  Speaker 9: The odd thing that odor is not coming from the
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  Speaker 9: outside of the car. It's from the inside.
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  Speaker 2: It was on Daniel's close it was on the blanket
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  Speaker 2: Daniels wrapped in. It was on the front seat. It
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  Speaker 2: was on the floor in the front seat. It was
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  Speaker 2: along the door rails. It was on the floor of
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  Speaker 2: the back seat where Daniel was located.
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  Speaker 9: US getters can't figure out is how the gas got there.
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  Speaker 2: We found no mechanical problems with the vehicle at all.
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  Speaker 5: This was just an odd scene from the beginning, what
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  Speaker 5: you say.
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  Speaker 11: We finally figured out that there was something more than
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  Speaker 11: just a car fire.
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  Speaker 9: After an accident, cops head to the burn center to
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  Speaker 9: speak with Little Daniel's mom. She's in grave condition, but
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  Speaker 9: offers up a strange explanation, claiming she was hauling two
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  Speaker 9: gallons of gasoline in the front seat.
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  Speaker 5: Ch actually gave an excuse to say that.
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  Speaker 2: That she was supposed to be going to the beach
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  Speaker 2: and she didn't want to run on a field.
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  Speaker 9: Nargis tells investigators she filled two water jugs with gasoline
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  Speaker 9: in case she couldn't find a late night gas station
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  Speaker 9: on their way to the beach, stowed them in the
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  Speaker 9: passenger seat for god, then a short while later, lights
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  Speaker 9: up a cigarette and the Carie rocks.
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  Speaker 3: She had fumes on her right hand, and that's what
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  Speaker 3: ignites first, is her right hand, and then some of
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  Speaker 3: her body ignites as well, and then she throws herself
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  Speaker 3: out of the car.
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  Speaker 9: The distraught mom's explanation, while bizarre, seems feasible, but it's
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  Speaker 9: what Nargus doesn't ask investigators that raises real suspicion.
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  Speaker 3: She never once asked the police about her son. You know,
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  Speaker 3: is he dead? How did he die?
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  Speaker 12: Not?
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  Speaker 3: And didn't even shed a tear.
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  Speaker 9: Do you think she had any plans at all to
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  Speaker 9: go to Ocean City, Maryland?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely not. I think that that was a made up story.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody who has any sort of small life experience knows
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  Speaker 3: that there's gas stations between here and someplace that's at
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  Speaker 3: least four hours away.
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  Speaker 9: As detectives continue to sit through the scorched wreckage, they
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  Speaker 9: hit what they call an aha moment.
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  Speaker 3: The gas tank in the car wasn't even full. So
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  Speaker 3: when she said she filled up the extra gasoline and
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  Speaker 3: the containers just in case there weren't gas stations on
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  Speaker 3: the way to Ocean City, we know that's a lie
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  Speaker 3: because she didn't even fill up her own gas tank.
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  Speaker 5: All the way.
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  Speaker 9: Then this prosecutor, Steve Schaffen, says, detectives discover someone tried
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  Speaker 9: to torch the car before it erupted into a deadly firebomb.
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  Speaker 4: We can see the attempt on the right side front door.
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  Speaker 4: You can see the charring where somebody took a lighter
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  Speaker 4: and actually just tried to light the car on fire.
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  Speaker 2: That didn't work.
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  Speaker 9: Could it be possible a loving mom douses her five
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  Speaker 9: year old with gas, lights him on fire, then stands
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  Speaker 9: back and watches and burn to death.
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  Speaker 4: We believe that she's now using the gasoline to sprinkle
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  Speaker 4: it on Daniel, and it even reached his underwear.
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  Speaker 9: Then, the most shocking revelation of all.
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  Speaker 2: The medical examiner told us that he didn't have any
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  Speaker 2: SOT in his lungs, so that means he wasn't breathing
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  Speaker 2: at the time of the fire. He was already dead,
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  Speaker 2: So Daniel was already that.
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  Speaker 9: Up. Next, if the five year old wasn't killed in
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  Speaker 9: the fire, how did Daniel die?
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  Speaker 4: This was an attempt to cover up a brutal murder
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  Speaker 4: of her own child and make it look like an accident.
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  Speaker 9: Five year old Daniel. Dana did not die in a
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  Speaker 9: tragic carfire. His death was not an accident, it was murder.
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  Speaker 9: At what point did your investigation take a turn down
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  Speaker 9: the homicide path?
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  Speaker 2: The very second we were informed from the Chief Medical
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  Speaker 2: Examiner's office ad they were going to call it a hamsuck.
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  Speaker 9: The medical examiner says the little boy was dead before
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  Speaker 9: the first flame. Toxicology reports show he was poisoned given
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  Speaker 9: a fatal dose of dyfhen hydromine.
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  Speaker 3: What's interesting is diffhen hydromine is not a drug that
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  Speaker 3: you find an average children's medicine. You really only find
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  Speaker 3: it in benadryl. But that's not medicine that you give
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  Speaker 3: to a child to bring down a fever or for
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  Speaker 3: a cold or anything like that. It's medicine you would
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  Speaker 3: give to a child for allergies, poison, ivy, a rash,
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  Speaker 3: none of which he had.
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  Speaker 9: And the amount of the drug found in little Daniel's
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  Speaker 9: body horrifying.
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  Speaker 3: He had two and a half times in his blood
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  Speaker 3: what would kill an adult.
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  Speaker 9: Daniel's mom, Nargus Chafferd tells detectives that fatal overdose was
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  Speaker 9: also an accident, claiming she unknowingly gave her only son
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  Speaker 9: too much medicine for his cold, then panicked when he
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  Speaker 9: stopped breathing.
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  Speaker 3: She gave her son, Daniel, at least a bottle of liquid,
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  Speaker 3: maybe more.
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  Speaker 9: An accidental overdose not likely, but nobody wants to believe
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  Speaker 9: a mother would kill her own five year old son.
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  Speaker 9: Then police uncovered this text message Nargus sent to Daniel's
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  Speaker 9: father months earlier. It explains in detail the proper dosage
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  Speaker 9: of medicine to give Daniel for a cold.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't as if she was clueless. She knew the
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  Speaker 3: exact amounts like any good parents should.
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  Speaker 9: And the most heartbreaking news out of the Montgomery County
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  Speaker 9: Corner's office, this sweet little boy actually tried to fight
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  Speaker 9: for his life against his own mother.
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  Speaker 4: He had injuries to his eyelid, to his cheek, to
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  Speaker 4: his face, parts of his face because physically the medicine
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  Speaker 4: was forced down his throat.
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  Speaker 3: What's really horrifying in this case is that there are
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  Speaker 3: injuries that are fresh that the medical examiner said shows
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  Speaker 3: no signs of healing, which means that they most likely
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  Speaker 3: occurred right around the time of his death, yes to
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  Speaker 3: making him take it.
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  Speaker 9: Prosecutor Steve Jakin says Daniel's brutal murder and cover up
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  Speaker 9: was staged by the one person he trusted to love
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  Speaker 9: and project him.
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  Speaker 4: She planned it, she executed it, and instead of calling
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  Speaker 4: nine one one, she went and poured gasoline on it.
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  Speaker 9: Detectives believe Daniel most likely suffered for hours while his
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  Speaker 9: mother drove around force feeding.
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  Speaker 5: He couldn't even defend himself.
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  Speaker 2: What did he do that was.
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  Speaker 9: So bad, so terrible, and so bad that he had
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  Speaker 9: to be murdered and then stuffed in a car.
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  Speaker 2: And sat on fire.
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  Speaker 4: This was an attempt to cover up a brutal murder
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  Speaker 4: of her own child and make it look like an accident.
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  Speaker 4: He burned to death, woe as me, and to gain
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  Speaker 4: pity and sorrow because she was the victim in the case.
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  Speaker 9: Prosecutors believe Daniel's death was a cruel case of revenge.
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  Speaker 9: Nargus was trying to get back at her a strange husband,
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  Speaker 9: Hamid Dana, for divorcing her and trying to take Daniel away.
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  Speaker 4: Father wanted custody more than anything. Mother stopped that from
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  Speaker 4: happening because she killed him. Father will never get custody.
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  Speaker 9: Court record show Nargus sent him this haunting text message
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  Speaker 9: just days before Daniel's death, saying simply, I will make
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  Speaker 9: you cry. You will be sorry.
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  Speaker 4: They were using Daniel as a pawn, and in this
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  Speaker 4: war of divorce, the spoils of the war was murdered.
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  Speaker 9: Instead of dragging everyone through a trial, the mother in
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  Speaker 9: this case actually pled guilty to her charges, and Crime
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  Speaker 9: Watch Daily was inside the courtroom on the day of sentencing.
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  Speaker 9: Cameras were banned, but what I witnessed was raw and emotional.
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  Speaker 9: You were fighting hard today for the maximum sentencing. Yes,
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  Speaker 9: because you believe this was premeditating.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and it was an extremely premeditated and determined murder.
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  Speaker 9: Nargus chafferad begged for mercy, telling the judge she was
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  Speaker 9: a broken woman. The prosecution believes it was a desperate
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  Speaker 9: act for a lighter sentence.
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  Speaker 3: I actually looked over at her at one point and
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  Speaker 3: she was doodling, drawing pictures in her notebook.
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  Speaker 9: Daniel's father so heartbroken he tried to speak but couldn't,
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  Speaker 9: instead releasing this written statement. Daniel didn't pass in an accident.
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  Speaker 9: He passed because this woman wanted to get back at
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  Speaker 9: me and seek revenge for divorcing her. No human should
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  Speaker 9: do this to her own child. No parent should have
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  Speaker 9: to bury their child. Then Circuit Judge Nelson Rupe delivers
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  Speaker 9: his sentence.
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  Speaker 13: Judge Nelson Rupe of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County
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  Speaker 13: gave Miss Sapharad, who was the mother of Daniel, a
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  Speaker 13: sentence of life suspend all but fifty years.
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  Speaker 5: Did the judge get it right today?
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: I think justice won today, and that is always something
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: great to take home with you.
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  Speaker 9: But firefighters want Daniel's father to take something else home
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: with him.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: The fire is what killed Daniel, and at some point
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: in time I hope that he's able to at least
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: understand that his son is now in a better place
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: and at some point they will meet again.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: At sentencing, Daniel's father, Hamid, also told the judge the
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: last words he spoke to his son when he was
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: dropping him off at his mother's house the day of
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: his murder. He said, please be strong. Daniel responded, Daddy,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I'm strong.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: You be strong.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Hamid is now living up to that word, devoting his
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: life to being an advocate for children who were victimized
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: by domestic abuse. Up next their son's mysterious disappearance.
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  Speaker 6: I got a sinking feeling in my stomach.
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  Speaker 12: Are not rated?
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  Speaker 1: Letterard needs a couple to a suspicion they don't want
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: to believe.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: To barely hear myself think with my heart pounding in
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: my checks.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: As the two year anniversary approaches, Caleb Deal's father gives
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: our Jason Matterra his theory on what happened.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: That I believe with every fiber of my heart that
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: you've murdered my son.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: That's next book. Next week will mark the two year
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: anniversary in the search for Texas teen Caleb Deal. Just
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: two weeks after his eighteenth birthday, Caleb would borrow a
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: family friend's trout he would never be seen again. Jason
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Mattera is in Texas now with the details.
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: For the parents of now twenty year old Caleb Deal,
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: life has become a waiting game.
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: These things happen, they go go on, but then all
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: of a sudden, wow, is this a possibility in our life?
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 8: Waiting for him to miraculously walk through the front door,
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: or waiting for the news they dread to here.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: I'm not ready to let him. I want to just
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: still think there is a chance that they're wrong.
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: One thing is for sure. Nobody has seen any sign
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: of Caleb since the day he disappeared, nearly two years
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: ago and now Crimewatch Delhi has new development in the case.
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: Caleb disappeared from his mother's house in Nicoona, Texas, about
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: one hundred miles northwest of Dallas, with a population of
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: just over three thousand people. It's a small town with
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: some heavy baggage.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: If there's any good thing that could come out of
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: what has happened to Caleb is the exposure to the
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: reality of what took place in the denial that so
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: much of this town has been under. They can no
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: longer live in this state of denial.
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: Caleb Deal is the youngest of the family, with three
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: sisters and a brother.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: Tell me about your brother, Caleb.
• 21:01
  Speaker 14: He was a baby and mama's a boy.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: And here's I mean. He was awesome, really outgoing, friendly.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Everyone loved him, fearless. He wasn't one to back down
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: from anything.
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  Speaker 12: Really.
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  Speaker 8: Caleb sister Courtney, is the last one to see him
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: alive on a Monday evening when he heads out the
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: door and nobody has any idea where he's gone.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: He said he was going to visit a friend. His
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: friend wasn't even in town and we found out later
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: the loss of hisn.
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  Speaker 8: And according to police, the friend in question later says
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: that he and Caleb never had any plans to meet.
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: It's a question that has plagued this family for days
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: on end. Where on earth is Caleb and what happened
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: to him?
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: Did anything seem unusual? No, not at all.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: He had just applied for a job and he was
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: planning on going back that next day for his interview.
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: K Gleb is driving a Chevy pickup truck borrowed from
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: this man. Ricky Howard a family friend with a wife
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: and kids and a close friend of Caleb's family as well.
• 22:04
  Speaker 14: But Whitewater rafting all of the family, their kids were
• 22:08
  Speaker 14: very close in age, with all of us gone along
• 22:10
  Speaker 14: really well.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: Ricky Howard is a successful and popular businessman in town,
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: but with a checkered past. A former bank president, he
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: was convicted and served time on bank for our charges
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: in two thousand and seven, but he still keeps his
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: friends close.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: He was a good friend. He was the kind of
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: friend that if you needed something, he was the first
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: one to be there and help you. He was a kind,
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: enjoyable guy to be around.
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: Caleb works odd jobs for Ricky, who has investments in farming,
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: cattle and oil wells and owned several properties in the area.
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: In fact, police say that the last known person that
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: Caleb contacted before his disappearance was Ricky Howard.
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: What did Ricky Howard say they were talking about work?
• 22:55
  Speaker 12: Ricky Harard told us that Caleb had told him that
• 22:57
  Speaker 12: he was wanting to bar the trucks to go to Oklahoma,
• 23:00
  Speaker 12: where he met a girl and worked for her. Nobody
• 23:04
  Speaker 12: else knew anything about it. That's just what Ricky told us.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Knowing what you know. Now, do you think that story
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: is believa will to me?
• 23:10
  Speaker 12: I think no.
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: And when nobody in the family sees or hears from
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: Caleb for two days, one of the first people they
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: contact is Ricky Howard. He tells them the same story
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: about Caleb running away to Oklahoma.
• 23:24
  Speaker 15: That was the first anybody, you know, none of us
• 23:26
  Speaker 15: had heard anything about some job. He was supposed to
• 23:28
  Speaker 15: be going to school, so that was just kind of unusual.
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: Two days after Caleb disappears, Tammy Deal files a missing
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: person's report with the police.
• 23:38
  Speaker 15: Never would he just leave and not tell anybody, you know,
• 23:40
  Speaker 15: we were all too close, and he was too close
• 23:42
  Speaker 15: with his brother and sisters.
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: But even as she heads out to file the report.
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: The borrow pickup truck suddenly shows up the same day,
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: but without Caleb, and police and the family are stunned
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: at exactly where it turns out of all places, right
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: smack in the middle of Ricky Howard's locked garage.
• 24:03
  Speaker 12: She called Ricky Howard and told him that she was
• 24:07
  Speaker 12: fishing to know the police and reported missing. About an
• 24:10
  Speaker 12: hour and a half. He would take from that, Ricky
• 24:12
  Speaker 12: Hard tells the police department said the truck that Caleb
• 24:15
  Speaker 12: was in, which belonged to Ricky Harard, was found inside
• 24:18
  Speaker 12: his barn.
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: And police say the truck in Ricky's garage raises some
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: important questions that are still unanswered to this day. Was
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: there anything unusual inside the truck?
• 24:29
  Speaker 12: There were three one hundred dollar bills zip tied to
• 24:32
  Speaker 12: the stern wheel. The key to the shop, which is
• 24:35
  Speaker 12: normally above the walking door to get in the shop,
• 24:38
  Speaker 12: was in the seat of the pickup. The shop was
• 24:42
  Speaker 12: locked up. The only other person that could have access
• 24:45
  Speaker 12: to the shop with Ricky Haghard.
• 24:47
  Speaker 16: It was kind of suspicious that nobody has an explanation
• 24:51
  Speaker 16: from the money zip tied to the steering wheel, But
• 24:53
  Speaker 16: Ricky Howard fully cooperates, giving cops permission to search his property,
• 24:58
  Speaker 16: and they make some more curious discoveries.
• 25:01
  Speaker 12: He had guns and stuff in a gun safe.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Was that illegal? Yes?
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: Did he realize that he was a convicted felon and
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: couldn't own these weapons.
• 25:08
  Speaker 12: I'm sure he did, but it didn't stop it.
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: Ricky is charged with illegal possession of firearms and cops
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: stay focused on finding Caleb and any evidence that can help.
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: But something is missing.
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: When you searched Howard's properties, I mean a guy who
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: was running a business.
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: You didn't find any computers.
• 25:26
  Speaker 12: We didn't find any computers. They were up and running. Now,
• 25:28
  Speaker 12: we did find some that have been destroyed and burnt up.
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: According to police, Ricky's place is a hotbed of destroyed technology.
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: Caleb obviously he's a teenager.
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: He has a cell phone.
• 25:40
  Speaker 12: Was his cell phone ever recovered? His cell phone was
• 25:43
  Speaker 12: never recovered by us. After interviewing Ricky Howard, he stated
• 25:46
  Speaker 12: that he found a cell phone smashed in the shop
• 25:49
  Speaker 12: when he was taking the garbage out and put it
• 25:51
  Speaker 12: in the garbage. In the time the truck was found,
• 25:53
  Speaker 12: the garbage had already been picked up, so we have
• 25:55
  Speaker 12: no evidence if that was Caleb's phone.
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: Police come the surrounding countryside with dogs, searching for any
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: sign of Caleb, but as they ponder Ricky Howard's story,
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: the Deal family only worries more for their son's faith.
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: Something isn't right.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: I got a sinking feeling in my stomach because things
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: just weren't adding up. I had the what if in
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: my mind.
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: But it isn't until Chad says he meets with state
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: and federal lawmen that he becomes truly alarmed.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: All the pieces of the puzzle that had the Texas
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: Rangers and the FBI persuaded that Ricky was most definitely
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: involved with Caleb. That was their persuasion, and so I
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: couldn't ignore. You know, these professionals in the line of
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: business they're in.
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: There is no move to charge Ricky with any fan
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: play in Caleb's disappearance, and the Texas Rangers and the
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: FBI have not responded to our request for comment, but
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: Chad says he cannot return until he clears the air
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: with Ricky Howard.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: I tell everybody there at the table, I want them
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: to know that I've loved the Howard family for a
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: long time, and I didn't want anybody to think that
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: I didn't love or care about him, but that I
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: needed to talk to Ricky alone.
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: Next, Chad goes face to face with a man he
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: once called his best friend, demanding answers.
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: I could barely hear myself think with my heart pounding
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: in my chest.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Now back to a crime Watch daily update.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Where's Caleb?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Signs are up all over the town of Dacona, Texas
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: with one simple message, bring Caleb home. The eighteen year
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: old vanished nearly two years ago after borrowing the truck
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: of a family friend. A man who's no stranger to
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: trouble with the law. Jason Mattera is in Texas now
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: with the latest on the search.
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: Rumors and speculation and gulf the small town of Dakona,
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: Texas in the days and weeks following the mysterious appearance
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: of the pickup truck in Ricky Howard's garage. The last
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: person seen driving the truck then eighteen year old Caleb Deal,
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: who borrowed it from Ricky. His fate remains unknown and
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: his family is left living in a limbo of fear
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: and worry.
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: To this day, Ali any theories on what happened and why?
• 28:20
  Speaker 14: I have absolutely, no idea. I know a lot of
• 28:24
  Speaker 14: people want to go to that Ricky did something to
• 28:30
  Speaker 14: him and that he's gone, but it's very hard for
• 28:34
  Speaker 14: me to go there.
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: I need proof, Courtney, your mom said it's difficult to
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: take any more family photos with all her kids because
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: Caleb's not in them.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: Absolutely. I mean just before we came inside, we took
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: a picture and it's just something missing. To be something missing,
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: girls and two