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Terrifying dead of night kidnapping or elaborate 'Gone Girl' hoax? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. We all saw, or at
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Speaker 1: least heard of, the hit movie Gone Girl, But what
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Speaker 1: about a real life so called Gone Girl? Crime Stories
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Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace. The premise of the movie Gone Girl
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Speaker 1: is a woman fakes her disappearance with death and an
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Speaker 1: attempt to frame her husband. That's what it's all about.
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Speaker 1: But in real life, take a listen to this. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this twenty nine year old woman fake her own disappearance
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Speaker 1: just like the Ice Prince Gone Girl. If anyone out
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Speaker 1: there has any information, police are outraged that our investigation
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Speaker 1: has concluded that none of the claims has been substantiated.
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Speaker 1: It started Monday when Denise huskins living boyfriend told cops
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Speaker 1: an intruder had broken into their home in Vallejo, California
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Speaker 1: during the night and kidnapped his girlfriend. He said, to
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Speaker 1: kidnap her demanded eighty five hundred dollars in ransom. The
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Speaker 1: woman's father appealed for her safe return. I want her
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Speaker 1: to know that the family is there, We're we love her.
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Speaker 1: The woman at the heart of what you were just
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Speaker 1: hearing from our friends inside edition is a gorgeous young woman,
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Speaker 1: Denise Huskins, who seemingly vanishes from her own place. This
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Speaker 1: is how it all starts. To take a listen to
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Speaker 1: our friends at CBS San Francisco. A woman in Valeo
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Speaker 1: is missing this morning. Police believe she may have been
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Speaker 1: kidnapped and her kidnapper maybe holding her for ransom. Her
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Speaker 1: name is Denise Huskins. She's thirty years old, and a
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Speaker 1: witness told police he saw her being taken against her
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Speaker 1: will on Kirkland Avenue on Mayor Island. That sounds pretty
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Speaker 1: believable to me. Police immediately go full throttle. Take a
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Speaker 1: listen again. Here's Ryan Takeo CBS San Francisco. Oh, yes,
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Speaker 1: is here. Also, the county has some other cruise here.
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Speaker 1: The Sheriff's apartment is here at this staging area. There's
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Speaker 1: some search and rescue trucks at the ready, and we've
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Speaker 1: noticed in the last fifteen minutes there has been some
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Speaker 1: more movement here. We know. Vallejo PD also asked the
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Speaker 1: FBI to help. Yesterday afternoon, a thirty year old man
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Speaker 1: reported Huskins missing, saying there was a kidnapping on the
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Speaker 1: five block of Kirkland Avenue early yesterday morning. We don't
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Speaker 1: know why it took a couple of hours, at least
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Speaker 1: for that report to be made, but police say they
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Speaker 1: found huskins car yesterday. They won't say where overnight. I
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Speaker 1: did talk on the phone with one of Denise's cousins
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Speaker 1: who works for her sister station in la She says
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Speaker 1: Denise's boyfriend lives on Kirkland Avenue. The family figures he's
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Speaker 1: the one who called police. She told me they worked
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Speaker 1: together at Kaiser and Vallejo, where Denise is part of
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Speaker 1: a specialized physical therapy program. Most of the family is
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Speaker 1: down in La over in Huntington Beach, down in the
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Speaker 1: southern California area. Her father, Denise's father, is coming up
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Speaker 1: here this morning. We plan to track him down and
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Speaker 1: continue to follow this here from this stage in command center,
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Speaker 1: just right down the block from the house where Denise
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Speaker 1: Huskins was reported missing. So it sounds like it's the boyfriend,
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Speaker 1: Aaron Quinn that reports her kidnapped. With me and All
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Speaker 1: Star panel to break you down and put it back
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Speaker 1: together again, California prosecutor, author of Read Flags, host of
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Speaker 1: Today with doctor Wendy KCBQ, San Diego, Wendy Patrick. You
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Speaker 1: can find her at Wendy Patrick PhD dot com. Doctor
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Speaker 1: Jorry Crasen, psychologist faculty Saint Leo University, Research consultant with
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Speaker 1: the Blue Wall Institute and author. Dr Michelle dupri forensic pathologist,
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Speaker 1: former medical examiner and author of Homicide Investigation Field Guide.
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Speaker 1: Karen Smith, forensic expert, host and founder of Shattered Souls
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Speaker 1: podcasts and lecturer at University of Florida. But first, Levi
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Speaker 1: Page Climb online dot com, investigative reporter, host of Crime
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Speaker 1: and Scandal true crime podcast Levi. Let's start at the beginning, who, well, where, when, why?
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Speaker 1: How did she go missing? And I'm talking about, of course,
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Speaker 1: Denise Huskins. Three am in the morning and Denise Huskins
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Speaker 1: and Aaron Quinn are asleep. They're twenty nine years old,
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Speaker 1: their physical therapists. They're a sleep in their been at
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Speaker 1: Aaron Quinn's house in Valeo, California. That's the waterfront community
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Speaker 1: in the San Francisco Bay area, about an hour from
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Speaker 1: San Francisco. And this is in the early morning hours.
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Speaker 1: The couple is asleep and they suddenly hear an armed
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Speaker 1: intruder yelling at them wake up. This is a robbery.
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Speaker 1: And when they woke up, they discovered an armed man
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Speaker 1: in the bedroom wearing a scuba suit, wearing a scuba suit.
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Speaker 1: That's really unusual, right there, Karen Smith, Because a scuba suit,
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Speaker 1: it's not that easy in which to move around. No,
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Speaker 1: I mean, this whole story is just as our nancy.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean the scuba suit, you know, they're
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Speaker 1: hard to get on, they're hard to pull off. Was
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Speaker 1: it a full body suit? Didn't have a hood? I mean,
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Speaker 1: all of these questions are flooding my mind. I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure what to make of this. So leavi page you said,
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Speaker 1: I believe it's two thirty am. They wake up too.
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Speaker 1: This is a robbery. Somebody's already standing over them in
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Speaker 1: their bedroom, got into the home without making any kind
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Speaker 1: of ruck us at all, and as wearing a scuba suit. Correct, Yes,
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Speaker 1: it's this masked man wearing a scuba suit. Put headphones
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Speaker 1: over her and Aaron Quinn's ears, and the headphones had
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Speaker 1: a recorded message and that message played and it informed
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Speaker 1: them you're going to be sedated and we need you
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Speaker 1: to cooperate. The recording said that Denise Huskins was going
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Speaker 1: to be kidnapped and she will be returned in forty
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Speaker 1: eight hours if all directions are followed. And it's this
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Speaker 1: prerecorded message also told Aaron Quinn not to call police
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Speaker 1: and said, you're being watched. We had recording devices around
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Speaker 1: your house. You're not to leave your home. And this
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Speaker 1: couple was bound with zip tize. They were forced to
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Speaker 1: wear goggles over their eyes that had blackout take on them,
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Speaker 1: and they had to drink sedatives which knocked them out.
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Speaker 1: So leavi page from what the fiance the boyfriend Aaron
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Speaker 1: Quinn says was the armed Yes, he saw and heard
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Speaker 1: a gun. What he saw a gun and heard a
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Speaker 1: noise like a gun clicking like it was about ready
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Speaker 1: to be shot. Okay, And so the two of them
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Speaker 1: sat compliant while they drank sedative. Yes, they were bound
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Speaker 1: with zip tize. Okay. Then the story gets even more complex.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen our friend Ama Covic at CBS San Francisco. Now,
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Speaker 1: in another strange twist, someone claiming to be a kidnapper
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Speaker 1: sent an email to the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday. Reporters
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Speaker 1: there say the email said Denise will be returned safely
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Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Quote. Any advance on us or our associates
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Speaker 1: will create a dangerous situation for Denise. Wait until she
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Speaker 1: has recovered, and then proceed how you will we will
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Speaker 1: be ready. End quote. That email also included an audio
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Speaker 1: file with what sounded like Denise's voice referencing that plane
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Speaker 1: crash that happened in France, so everybody would know that
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Speaker 1: its currents and personal information, so people could verify that
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Speaker 1: it was her. Wow. So the plot thickens with and
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Speaker 1: odd a bizarre email sitting to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Speaker 1: Let's go straight out to Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor, author
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Speaker 1: red flags. It's very rare that you have a kidnapper
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Speaker 1: or a Perpavini type contact police or the newspaper or
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Speaker 1: a website giving information that's usually in books and movies.
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Speaker 1: Although I mean, we did see it with BTK Buy Torture,
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Speaker 1: Kill Dennis Writer, but very rare, wouldn't you agree? I would?
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Speaker 1: That's exactly where I was going to go first. Is
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Speaker 1: Hollywood inspired allegations and assumptions and causing people to jump
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Speaker 1: to conclusions. So this is one of those cases where
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Speaker 1: just because it sounds unusual or unbelievable doesn't mean it
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Speaker 1: isn't true. So the fact that you do have things
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Speaker 1: unfolding in a very let's say, unorthodox fashion simply means
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Speaker 1: that's leap for the law enforcement agencies to follow up on,
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Speaker 1: not necessarily that any of this is false, just because
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Speaker 1: it might remind them of a favorite film or Netflix
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Speaker 1: series or something like this, which you're right, that is
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Speaker 1: one of the things that complicates a plot like that
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Speaker 1: very very bizarre time stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, we
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Speaker 1: are talking about the disappearance of Denise Huskins, a beautiful
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Speaker 1: young woman asleep in her own bed with her boyfriend,
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Speaker 1: both of them physical therapists. They say they wait, well,
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Speaker 1: he says, they wake up at two thirty am to
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Speaker 1: a guy wearing a scuba suit standing over them that
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Speaker 1: gives them a prerecorded message on headsets and forces them
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Speaker 1: to drink sedative. That's the story to doctor Jerry Cross,
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Speaker 1: And I want to follow up with the theory about
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Speaker 1: how unusual it is for a kidnapper or a violent
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Speaker 1: offender to actually make contact with police or a news
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Speaker 1: outlet because that leads to their discovery. Yes, and you
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Speaker 1: think about the details that he put in there to
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Speaker 1: kind of verify everything you know, and it follows right
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Speaker 1: along with the details of the actual crime itself, like
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Speaker 1: wearing that wetsuit, the prerecorder we'll look at all the
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Speaker 1: evidence that he's leaving behind. The two taken from their bed,
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Speaker 1: with the boyfriend being tied up. We understand that they're
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Speaker 1: seemingly a light at the end of the tunnel because
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Speaker 1: that prerecorded message says she will be returned in forty
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Speaker 1: eight hours if all the instructions are followed. So leave
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Speaker 1: page Crime online dot Com investigative reporter. What were the
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Speaker 1: alleged instructions the perp gave them? So? The perp told
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Speaker 1: Aaron Quinn not to contact police and that they he
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Speaker 1: would be given not to leave the house, that there
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Speaker 1: were recording devices that were watching him and they would
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Speaker 1: know if he left the house. And he also got
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Speaker 1: an email that morning and it said, we are demanding
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Speaker 1: seventeen thousand dollars in ransom. If we receive this, your wife,
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Speaker 1: your girlfriend will be released. All of this. Ever, seventeen
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars really okay, that in itself doesn't seem right
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Speaker 1: to me. Now. Isn't it true that the perp tales
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Speaker 1: of victims I've been watching you via drone? That is true? Okay,
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Speaker 1: that is a pretty twisted and fantastical plot. Would everybody
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Speaker 1: agree with me on that? I mean, this is rare
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Speaker 1: as far as m modus operandi method of operation. Doctor
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Speaker 1: Michelle Dupre, forensic pathologists and author of Homicide Investigation Field Guide.
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Speaker 1: You've investigated a lot of cases, and this really throws
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Speaker 1: a wrench in the works, does it not? Because it
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Speaker 1: doesn't really seem to fit any of our statistical analyzes,
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Speaker 1: it does, Nancy. And the other thing is to use
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Speaker 1: a drone. That's interesting technology. And seventeen thousand dollars what
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Speaker 1: an odd amount. This raises all kinds of questions about
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Speaker 1: this person knowing a lot about these people, knowing a
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Speaker 1: lot about them, an intimate knowledge of their movements, of
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Speaker 1: who they are. What about it? To you? Wendy Patrick,
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Speaker 1: California prosecutor and author, It indicates someone extremely familiar with
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Speaker 1: these two victims. That's right. So when we have something
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Speaker 1: like this that's alleged, obviously you start closest to the victim,
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Speaker 1: and obviously that often means the spouse the partners looked
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Speaker 1: at first. But then as you begin to move outwards,
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Speaker 1: who would have known when they would be asleep? I mean,
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Speaker 1: maybe maybe nobody would have been asleep at three am.
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Speaker 1: Maybe somebody who works a swing ship especially in the
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Speaker 1: medical field. Who would know when they would be asleep,
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Speaker 1: when the alarm would be up, if they even had
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Speaker 1: an alarm, whether they had dogs that would bark, those
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Speaker 1: the old school alarms I grew up with. But somebody
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Speaker 1: would have to be familiar enough with their comings and
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Speaker 1: goings and habits to know that this would be the
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Speaker 1: time of night they could get away with this. Let
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Speaker 1: me go back to you leave my page up. Tell
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Speaker 1: me about the location. Was it urban, was it suburban?
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Speaker 1: Was it rural? Did they live in an apartment or
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Speaker 1: a home? Was there a gate? Was there an alarm?
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Speaker 1: Why can't you tell me so? Valeo, California is a
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Speaker 1: high crime area, as is most of the San Francisco area.
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Speaker 1: Very large city. It's a suburban kind of a bedroom
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Speaker 1: community to San Francisco. It's about an hour or it
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Speaker 1: takes about an hour to drive there from San Francisco.
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Speaker 1: It's about thirty two miles north of San Francisco. And
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Speaker 1: they lived in a home. They lived in the home.
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Speaker 1: It looked to me like a scene. It looked to
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Speaker 1: me like a single um for homes. Modest but very
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Speaker 1: good for you know, people in their twenties that they
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Speaker 1: were palm trees everywhere looked like a very nice So
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Speaker 1: we don't know if there was a burglar, alarm, or
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Speaker 1: a dog in the home. We don't know. We don't
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Speaker 1: know that. You know, Karen Smith, do you remember of
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Speaker 1: the Golden State Killer. Oh yeah, that would stake out
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Speaker 1: a home for who knows how many days or weeks
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Speaker 1: before he would go in and either rape or rape
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Speaker 1: and kill the victim. He would have staken out, staked
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Speaker 1: out the home for a long time to figure out
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Speaker 1: who lives there, are their children, is there a husband
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Speaker 1: or a live in? Do they have an alarm system?
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Speaker 1: Is there a dog? He knew the ways in, the
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Speaker 1: ways out of the home, the backyard, are their fences, everything,
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Speaker 1: And if these allegations are true, then that's the same
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Speaker 1: thing that happened here. This guy, the purp in the
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Speaker 1: scuba suit, knows so much more that this is not
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Speaker 1: just a casual break in, highly planned, very intricate, absolutely
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Speaker 1: highly planned. Knew their names, and you know, brought all
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Speaker 1: of these tools, the goggles with black tape on them,
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Speaker 1: the recorder with headphones. I mean, this was a serious
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Speaker 1: I would call it a murder kid or a rape kid.
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Speaker 1: But this guy was very, very sophisticated, not only staking
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Speaker 1: out their home, but knowing their name, knowing their habits,
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Speaker 1: when they went to bed, watching the lights go out
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Speaker 1: likely and when they went to bed, so that he
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Speaker 1: could make this furtive entry with all of these things,
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Speaker 1: these tools, and his kid. It's mind boggling. Nancy. Well,
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Speaker 1: according to Aaron Quinn, the boyfriend who was also woken
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Speaker 1: up that night about this part, Karen Smith, it's very,
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Speaker 1: as I like to say, mission impossible. Have you ever
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Speaker 1: seen those or read them where you start off with
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Speaker 1: a tape recording telling you your mission? Right? Yeah, in
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Speaker 1: this scenario, the alleged perp actually has recorded instructions and
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Speaker 1: makes these two put on headsets to hear what they're
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Speaker 1: supposed to do. That that indicates a lot of planning,
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Speaker 1: an inordinate amount of planning, weeks, months. This is not
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Speaker 1: something that was overnight. This has been planned for a
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Speaker 1: very very long time, targeted, and it really the story
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Speaker 1: in itself is hard to digest. And you know, when
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Speaker 1: you think about a preplanned recording with names, who is
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Speaker 1: this person and what do they have? And the money
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Speaker 1: amount is just still bizarre. Everything about this is absolutely bizarre.
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Speaker 1: Why do you say it's hard to hold on. I
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Speaker 1: think I'm your doctor, joy crows and jumping in. Why
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Speaker 1: do you if you do agree that this scenario painted
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Speaker 1: by the boyfriend erin Quinn is hard to digest down
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Speaker 1: to the detail. That's what's really getting me psychologically when
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Speaker 1: I start to look at the perpetrator, how he is
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Speaker 1: really fine tuned and planning this down to these very
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Speaker 1: specific details. And that goes not only with the actual
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Speaker 1: pulling it off, but the planning of it and then
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Speaker 1: the message that goes out to the media. Everything is
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Speaker 1: just specifically detailed. It sounds like a spy novel. Emphasis
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Speaker 1: on novel, Doctor Michelle Dupree. In all your years, have
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Speaker 1: you seen a case like this? The only case that
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Speaker 1: I have seen, well not the only, but one of
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Speaker 1: the only where the actually taughts police or local news
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Speaker 1: outlets was BTK bhind torture killed Dennis Raider the Dogcatcher.
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Speaker 1: But Nancy, I've seen one similar to this, and again
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Speaker 1: it was sort of a fatal attraction type situation where
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Speaker 1: the person was stopped, which is you know why we
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Speaker 1: have a lot of stocking loss nowadays. So you've seen one,
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Speaker 1: seen one in all your years? One case, One authentic,
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Speaker 1: real case, not a spy novel, not a movie script,
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Speaker 1: but one real case. In all your years working in
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Speaker 1: crime time stories with Nancy Grace, Guys, this young woman
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Speaker 1: goes missing from her own bed, and according to her boyfriend,
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Speaker 1: the perk comes in in the middle of the night,
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Speaker 1: forces them to drink sedatives with prerecorded messages on headsets,
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Speaker 1: wearing a scuba outfit and take the girl well aloa behold,
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Speaker 1: there's a twist in the case. Take a listen to
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Speaker 1: our friends as CBS San Francis. Woman reported to have
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Speaker 1: been kidnapped in Valleo and held for ransom is safe
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Speaker 1: and police just confirmed what the woman's family has been
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Speaker 1: saying all morning long, that she is alive and well
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Speaker 1: down in Huntington Beach, where her parents lived. Twenty nine
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Speaker 1: year old Denise Hudskins. She is a physical therapist at
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Speaker 1: Kaiser Permanente in Valleo, and she moved here from southern
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Speaker 1: California last summer. She's been missing since Monday, when her
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Speaker 1: living boyfriend called police reporting that she had been abducted
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Speaker 1: from their home some eleven hours earlier and that somebody
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Speaker 1: was demanding ransom. Police searched that home on Mayor Island,
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Speaker 1: but they maintained that the boyfriend was not a suspect
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Speaker 1: or a person of interest in her disappearance. Well, immediately
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Speaker 1: the police suspects to listen to our friends at Casey
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Speaker 1: are A three, News are Cut seven. It's just the
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Speaker 1: latest twist in this case. It started out as a
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Speaker 1: kidnapping for ransom and Vallejo, than the discovery that Huskins
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Speaker 1: was alive and well in southern California. Here's the first
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Speaker 1: video we saw of Huskins today in the hoodie, alive
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Speaker 1: and well, being escorted by police. Her relatives visibly relieved
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Speaker 1: that she was okay today and then earlier tonight, the
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Speaker 1: Vallejo Police Department released a statement saying huskins disappearance was
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Speaker 1: an orchestrated event and not a kidnapping. The police also
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Speaker 1: revealed that FBI agents were preparing to fly Huskins back
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Speaker 1: to northern California where they could interview her about her ordeal.
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Speaker 1: Only problem now they cannot locate Huskins. They say it
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Speaker 1: was an orchestrated event. What does that mean, Wendy Patrick,
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Speaker 1: An orchestrated event, not a kidnapping. Well, when we talk
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Speaker 1: about an orchestrated event, it normally is signaling that this
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Speaker 1: is not something that genuinely happened. Rather, it's something that
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Speaker 1: was staged, orchestrated events or things that are made up
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Speaker 1: by somebody to get attention. They're mischaracterized, they're misrepresented. But
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Speaker 1: that's what that choice of words would seem to insinuate.
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Speaker 1: And to you, Doctor Jerry Crawsen, psychologists faculty Saint Leo
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Speaker 1: University and author, what does it mean to you when
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Speaker 1: cops come out and say this is an orchestrated event,
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Speaker 1: this is not a kidnap. You've got Denise Huskins saying
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Speaker 1: she was not only kidnapped but raped repeatedly. Yes, I
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Speaker 1: agree with it, That's exactly what it is. And you
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Speaker 1: know I would buy that same story. I mean I
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Speaker 1: just go this was set up. Everything doesn't fall into place.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there is too much deep deal to it,
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Speaker 1: and so I would go with that that it was
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Speaker 1: an orchestrated event. They would definitely sell them be off
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Speaker 1: because you know, Karen Smith, we deal constantly with statistics
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Speaker 1: in the back of our minds. You don't expect a
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Speaker 1: purp to call the news and to us or send
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Speaker 1: an email giving the details of their crime, right you
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Speaker 1: don't expect this type of detail. Kidnaps are very often
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Speaker 1: a grab and goat. Yeah, yeah, you don't expect people
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Speaker 1: to be left behind to tell the tale or make
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Speaker 1: an eyewitness identification. It violates every known preset of criminal
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Speaker 1: law and kidnap absolutely, it's textbook. It's textbook to look
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Speaker 1: first at the husband or the boyfriend. That's textbook and homicide.
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Speaker 1: But when you have this much detail, and that's kind
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Speaker 1: of what set me off. And I agree with doctor
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Speaker 1: Jerry Cross and at first it would seem that way,
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Speaker 1: but when you look at the details, and when you
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Speaker 1: look at her story and all of the details involved
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Speaker 1: in that, you have to start taking that bias, that
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Speaker 1: learned behavior that we all have as investigators sort of
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Speaker 1: out of the picture just for a moment and go,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, could this really possibly have happened? And
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Speaker 1: maybe expand that why didn't that met just a little bit,
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Speaker 1: just a little bit, take a listen to our France
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Speaker 1: at k C A R. Three. Please also say that
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Speaker 1: Huskins and Quinn of the Community and Apology Now police
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Speaker 1: said when Quinn initially contacted them, he said that the
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Speaker 1: kidnappers demanded eighty five hundred dollars in ransom. They also
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Speaker 1: say his story just didn't add up from the get go,
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Speaker 1: and while they cannot locate Denise Huskins tonight, they also
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Speaker 1: say they have not taken Quinn into custody as of now. Then,
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Speaker 1: this has taken so many twists and turns. Here's a
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Speaker 1: look at the timeline of events. This investigation started on
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Speaker 1: Monday afternoon, when Huskins's boyfriend told police she had been
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Speaker 1: kidnapped for ransom. Eight hours earlier, dozens of officers from
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Speaker 1: multiple agencies, including the FBI searched the Vallejo area. Yesterday,
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Speaker 1: dive team searched the water off of Mayor Island after
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Speaker 1: police dogs hit on a scent. Then this morning, Huskins's
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Speaker 1: father says his daughter called him to say she'd been
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Speaker 1: dropped off at her mother's house in Huntington Beach. And
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Speaker 1: tonight again, Vallejo police say they have not been able
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Speaker 1: to contact Huskins or her family to ask more questions,
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Speaker 1: and she's apparently hired an attorney. Wow, Okay, and there's more.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to the actual valet Hoo police speaking.
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Speaker 1: The Valeo Police Department and the FBI made arrangements to
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Speaker 1: have miss Huskins flown up to northern California in a jet.
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Speaker 1: As of right now, we have not heard from Miss
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Speaker 1: Huskins and we are no longer in contact with any
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Speaker 1: of the family members. If you can imagine devoting all
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Speaker 1: of our resources twenty four hours a day on well,
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Speaker 1: I will classify as a wild goose chase. It's a
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Speaker 1: tremendous loss. It's disappointing, is disheartening, and the fact that
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Speaker 1: we've essentially wasted all of these resources for really nothing
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Speaker 1: is upsetting. But who who would pull off a hoax
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Speaker 1: like this? Dodger Jerry Cross? And this is not a movie,
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Speaker 1: This is not a movie script like Gone Girl or
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Speaker 1: a book. What kind of mentality would go to this
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Speaker 1: length to pull off a fake kidnapping? Now we've gotten
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Speaker 1: reports of eighty five hundred dollars ransom seventeen thousand dollars ransom,
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Speaker 1: both of them seem insignificant amounts in exchange for a
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Speaker 1: violent kidnap and rate. So who would dream this up
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Speaker 1: and pull off a hoax? This? Would? You know? There's
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Speaker 1: various personality disorders that would support this kind of behavior, historyonic, narcissistic,
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Speaker 1: all of these. But I go back with Karen, you know,
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Speaker 1: once you start really looking at it, you got to
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Speaker 1: step out of our bias and say hold it, let's
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Speaker 1: let's wait a minute. Wait, wait wait. I don't think
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Speaker 1: making extrapolating based on hundreds of years of crime statistics
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Speaker 1: is bias. I disagree with you on that. I think
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Speaker 1: that's an assumption the police went to. But you know what,
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Speaker 1: the claims that this is a wild goose chase and
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Speaker 1: claims that Huskins is part of a hoax. Then she disappears.
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Speaker 1: When the FBI and other law enforce that want to
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Speaker 1: speak to her, they can't find her. Take a listen
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Speaker 1: to our friends at Inside Edition Cut twelve, the twenty
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Speaker 1: nine year old woman who's been called the real life
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Speaker 1: Gone Girl, is fighting back after police called her kidnapping
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Speaker 1: a hoax. She is absolutely, unequivocally, one positively a victim
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Speaker 1: and this is no host. Denise huskins lawyer insists she
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Speaker 1: is fully cooperating with cops even though they've denounced her
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Speaker 1: kidnapping claims. Of course, she's distraught, she's emotionally physically broken.
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Speaker 1: Huskins says she was abducted Monday night from her living
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Speaker 1: boyfriend's home in Vallejo, California. She turned up two days later,
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Speaker 1: four hundred miles away in Huntington Beach at her father's
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Speaker 1: apartment building. Her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn also and says the
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Speaker 1: kidnapping is hoax. His lawyer says he was tied up
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Speaker 1: and drugged by the kidnappers. He has basically died and
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Speaker 1: gone to hell. He is in terrible shape. According to police,
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Speaker 1: it's all an act Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. As
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Speaker 1: the investigation goes on, we learn about a second email
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Speaker 1: sent take a list of our friends and inside edition.
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Speaker 1: And just when you thought this story couldn't get any
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Speaker 1: more bizarre, the newspaper now says it has received a
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Speaker 1: second email from a person claiming to be one of
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Speaker 1: Denise's kidnappers. The email actually goes after the cops for
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Speaker 1: suggesting it was all a hoax, saying it was all
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Speaker 1: very real. The supposed kidnappers demanded an eighty five hundred
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Speaker 1: dollar ransom. On amount veteran investigators find pretty strange. Eighty
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Speaker 1: five hundred dollars split between two kidnappers. That's a little
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Speaker 1: over four thousand dollars a piece. Most of us could
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Speaker 1: get an advance on our master card without the chance
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Speaker 1: of going to prison for thirty years. The story is
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Speaker 1: being compared to the movie Gone Girl, where a beautiful
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Speaker 1: woman fix her own kidnapping. De Niza's aunt is coming
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Speaker 1: to her defense. We love our niece and we're happy
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Speaker 1: that she's safe, and we believe in her, and it's
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Speaker 1: a prue story will come out. The true story. Well, okay,
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Speaker 1: the true story. What is the true story? So now
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Speaker 1: I've got the kidnapper slash rapist writing back saying, oh no,
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Speaker 1: it's no hopes, this is all real. Okay, that in
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Speaker 1: itself is bizarre. It's all over. She's been recovered and
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Speaker 1: he's still writing. Okay, let's take a listen to our
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Speaker 1: friends at ABC. Lawyers for Huskin's boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, also
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Speaker 1: speaking out. He reported Huskin's abduction to police. He has
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Speaker 1: basically died and gone to hell, They say. Quinn waited
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Speaker 1: ten hours to report the alleged abduction because he was
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Speaker 1: bound and drugged by at least two assailants, who later
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Speaker 1: demanded an eighty five hundred dollar ransom. One of the
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Speaker 1: things that he did voluntarily was give a blood time.
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Speaker 1: The San Francisco Chronicle also reporting Thursday that it received
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Speaker 1: a second email from a person claiming to be one
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Speaker 1: of the kidnappers, saying the abduction was real. More questions
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Speaker 1: as investigators try to determine whether this gone girl will
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Speaker 1: soon be finding herself in trouble with the law. I'm
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Speaker 1: assuming that any police officer and or any district attorney
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Speaker 1: will see that there is no basis whatsoever to file charges,
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Speaker 1: the attorney, insisting his client is not a liar, that
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Speaker 1: this all really happened. So are you going to believe
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Speaker 1: the cops? The alleged rapist kidnapper, who then sends another
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Speaker 1: email saying, Hey, it's not a hoax. I really did
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Speaker 1: this all right? Take a listen to our cut fifteen
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Speaker 1: Denise Huskins attorney says he has a proof his client
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Speaker 1: isn't a liar but a victim. I have come to
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Speaker 1: receive a fifteen page, single spaced email from the kidnappers.
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Speaker 1: The San Francisco Chronicle receiving four emails from the purported kidnappers,
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Speaker 1: who describe themselves as a sort of Oceans eleven gentlemen, criminals.
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Speaker 1: I've been the recipient of all the emails, so they're
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Speaker 1: saying that you don't underestimate us. We are the ones
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Speaker 1: who are responsible for Leah, please better apologize and it's
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Speaker 1: unbelievable what this is happening. Do you think we'll ever
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Speaker 1: know if it was a hoax or not? It's possible.
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Speaker 1: Only time will tell. This case changes by the hour.
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Speaker 1: Investigators including the FBI now searching for the answer tonight.
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Speaker 1: And according to this single space fourteen page email taut
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Speaker 1: to buy the attorney for the alleged victim, the perps
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Speaker 1: said he quote felt so bad about what had happened.
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Speaker 1: He just dropped her off in her hometown where they
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Speaker 1: thought she would be safe, but now feels that the
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Speaker 1: real perp must defend Denise and her boyfriend. That's not
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Speaker 1: the end of the story. Take a listen to Action News. Eighth,
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Speaker 1: we have vindication for a Valeho woman who said she
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Speaker 1: was kidnapped last March. Police, even the FBI did not
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Speaker 1: buy her story. And now the FBI agents say that
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Speaker 1: Denise Huskins was telling the truth and a suspect from
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Speaker 1: the Sacramento area has been arrested. That's right, all along,
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Speaker 1: Huskins and her boyfriend are telling the truth. But who
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Speaker 1: is this guy? Who is the guy that takes her
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Speaker 1: out of her bed in the middle of the night
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Speaker 1: sedates her and her boyfriend is dressed in a scuba
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Speaker 1: outfit and what about police calling this a wild goose
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Speaker 1: chase and demanding the sheet the rape victim apologize. Take
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Speaker 1: a listen to Dan Green Action News eight cut nineteen.
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Speaker 1: Name is Matthew Muller. He is from Orange Vale, a
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Speaker 1: Harvard Law school grad and former marine. He told detectives
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Speaker 1: he suffers from Gulf War illness and psychosius. The FBI
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Speaker 1: says they tracked him down following the kidnapping in Valet
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Speaker 1: home marks twenty third. There was a home invasion in
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Speaker 1: Dublin June fifth with similar circumstances, and in that case,
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Speaker 1: the robber left by the cell phone investigator's trace to
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Speaker 1: a place in South Lake Tahoe. That's where he was arrested.
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Speaker 1: Malaria is being held in the Alameda County Jail right
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Speaker 1: now on the Dublin home invasion charge. Next step in
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Speaker 1: the case will be for federal prosecutors to seek an
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Speaker 1: indictment a Harvard law grad behind this violent kidnap and rape.
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Speaker 1: Harvard law grad. I bet they're proud. Take a listen
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Speaker 1: now to our cut twenty. This is Cecilia Vega ABC.
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Speaker 1: This morning vindication. Today is a fabulous day for Denise Huskins,
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Speaker 1: for Aaron Quinn, they are absolutely one hundred percent not
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Speaker 1: just not guilty, but innocent. It was a real life
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Speaker 1: gone girl. The Northern California couple accused of staging a
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Speaker 1: kidnapping just like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster, A
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Speaker 1: meticulously stage your crime scene, please accusing them of making
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Speaker 1: up an elaborate story of being tied up, drugged, and
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Speaker 1: held for ransom. Mister Quinn and miss Huskins has plundered
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Speaker 1: valuable resources away from our community. But now, four months
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Speaker 1: after the mystery began, the FBI announcing an arrest in
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Speaker 1: the case. Thirty eight year old Matthew Muller, a former Marine,
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Speaker 1: a Harvard lawgrad, a disbarred immigration lawyer. A criminal complaint
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Speaker 1: has been lodged against him, the charging kidnapping, completely not guilty.
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Speaker 1: A couple holding hands and holding back tears. This changes
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Speaker 1: nothing about the humiliation, the violence that was perpetrated on
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Speaker 1: them nearly four months ago by a psychopath. And he
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Speaker 1: is hiding behind syndrome typically associated with people that have
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Speaker 1: served in our military. He's using that as an excuse
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Speaker 1: for days and days of drugging and raping Denise Huskins,
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Speaker 1: taking her to her remote house hours away for days
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Speaker 1: on end, he drugs and rapes her. She lives and
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Speaker 1: then is subjected to humiliation, shame. How could she go
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Speaker 1: back to her job, her friends, the community, everybody thinks
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Speaker 1: she lied along with her boyfriend and staged this whole thing,
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Speaker 1: a self stage kidnap and rape. So tell me leavi page.
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Speaker 1: How did they catch Matthew Muller explaining how that happened? Financy,
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Speaker 1: He was attempting to kidnap someone else left behind a
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Speaker 1: cell phone and they used the cell phone to trace
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Speaker 1: where he had been and arrested him, Matthew Mueller. And
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Speaker 1: when they arrested him in the place where he was staying,
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Speaker 1: they found a pair of goggles, the goggles that were
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Speaker 1: used to put over Denise Huskins, and it had a
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Speaker 1: strand of her hair still on it. They also found
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Speaker 1: the laptop of Aaron Quinn as well, So they find
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Speaker 1: her hair and a pair of goggles in his possession,
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Speaker 1: and there was more evidence take a listen to our
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Speaker 1: friends KPX time Among the items the FBI collected after
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Speaker 1: arresting thirty eight year old Matthew Mueller for the crime
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Speaker 1: were three drones from this Vallejo storage facility. In the
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Speaker 1: criminal complaint, the fetes quoted a rambling email they say
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Speaker 1: Mueller sent to the San Francisco Chronicle allegedly said he
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Speaker 1: and his co conspirators used them to surveil the Mayor
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Speaker 1: Island neighborhood prior to abducting Denise. The FEDS also found
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Speaker 1: video cameras wirelessly set up allegedly to let the suspects
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Speaker 1: monitor Aaron inside his home to be sure he was
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Speaker 1: following their instructions. After Denise was thrown in a trunk.
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Speaker 1: While most in Valejo city ranks weren't breaking the thin
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Speaker 1: blue line, councilmember Bob Sampan, a thirty year vet of
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Speaker 1: police work, offered up this to Denise and Aaron. Of course,
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Speaker 1: I would want to say I'm sorry that they've had
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Speaker 1: to go through this. I know both the attorneys involved
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Speaker 1: in this case, and it's difficult for their clients, as
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Speaker 1: it would be for anybody that would be involved in
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Speaker 1: this kind of an incident, and as victims, I think
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Speaker 1: that our city should have been a bit more sensitive
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Speaker 1: and the way we dealt with them, well, you know
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Speaker 1: what with the rapist kidnapper Harvard grad Matthew Muller now
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Speaker 1: a lot to away. The Keith thrown away as well.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes a simple verbal apology doesn't do the trick the
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Speaker 1: way a lawsuit can. Tell me about the lawsuit, Leavi
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Speaker 1: page They filed a lawsuit Aaron Quinn and Deneath Huskins,
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Speaker 1: and it was for emotional and physical distress. And the
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Speaker 1: city of Lao, California settled and they got a two
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Speaker 1: point five million dollar pl Not only that, they are
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Speaker 1: now appearing in a TV special and promoting their new book.
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Speaker 1: What is the name of the book, Levi, It is
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Speaker 1: Victim f I can't wait to read it. God bless
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Speaker 1: both of them, Denise Huskins and Eron Quinn. And it
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Speaker 1: shows just how much you can be tricked by statistics,
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Speaker 1: by everything you think you know, and how important it
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Speaker 1: is to listen to a crime victim. Nancy Grace Crime
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Speaker 1: story signing off Good Life