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Neighborhood gossip led them to the KILLER - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: On the morning of December tenth, nineteen ninety five, a
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  Speaker 1: seasoned homicide detective walked into a house on a quiet
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  Speaker 1: street in the suburbs of Tucson, Arizona. Another officer led
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  Speaker 1: him down the hallway to a bedroom, and when the
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  Speaker 1: detective looked inside, he froze. Now, he'd seen a lot
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  Speaker 1: of crime scenes before, but this one had to be
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  Speaker 1: one of the worst. I mean, there was blood everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: all over the walls, all over the floors, the mattress.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was just a complete nightmare. But as
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  Speaker 1: much as it appeared like clearly he's looking at the
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  Speaker 1: scene of.
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  Speaker 2: A murder, there was a problem. There was no body.
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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. On the morning of December eighth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five, a forty one year old mother named
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  Speaker 1: Bonnie Sanborn set a box of cereal down on the
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  Speaker 1: dining room table inside of her home in Tucson, Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: She then called for her three kids to come eat breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: and just a few seconds later, her youngest son, ten
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  Speaker 1: year old Brandon, came bombing into the room and sat
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  Speaker 1: down at the table. Bonnie then poured herself a cup
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  Speaker 1: of coffee and carried it down the hallway to her
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  Speaker 1: thirteen year.
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  Speaker 2: Old daughter, Candace's room.
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  Speaker 1: Candace was busy putting on makeup, and when Bonnie reminded
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  Speaker 1: her that it was almost time to leave for school,
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  Speaker 1: she just rolled her eyes and said, you know, she'd
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  Speaker 1: be out in a minute. Then Bonnie continued going down
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  Speaker 1: the hallway and knocked on the door of her fifteen
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  Speaker 1: year old son Bradley's room, and when he didn't open
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  Speaker 1: the door, she shouted through the door that if he
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  Speaker 1: didn't get out of bed soon, she would come in
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  Speaker 1: there and literally drag him out. But there was still
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  Speaker 1: no response after she did this, so Bonnie put her
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  Speaker 1: ear to the door and listened for movement. She was
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  Speaker 1: hoping to hear sheets rustling or dresser drawers opening, but
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  Speaker 1: she didn't hear those sounds. Instead, she heard a different sound.
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  Speaker 1: It was like this weird clanking sound, like metal pounding
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  Speaker 1: against metal. And so because this noise was so unusual,
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  Speaker 1: she just opened up the door and she found her son, Bradley,
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  Speaker 1: along with his friend eighteen year old Jason Horbachevski, squatting
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the room, trying to pry open
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  Speaker 1: this big metal box with a crowbar and a hammer.
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  Speaker 1: Bonnie stepped fully inside the room to get a better look,
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  Speaker 1: and she saw there was a phone receiver dangling off
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  Speaker 1: the side of this metal box. It was clearly a
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  Speaker 1: payphone that Bradley and Jason had clearly stolen from somewhere
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  Speaker 1: out on the street, and now they were trying to
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  Speaker 1: steal the quarters out from inside of it. Bonnie was
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  Speaker 1: so shocked that all she could thing to do was
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  Speaker 1: just say what are you doing? And Bradley, he looked
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  Speaker 1: at his mom and just seemed to totally unfazed that
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  Speaker 1: she was in there, and he just said, what, We're
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  Speaker 1: just trying to get the change out of this payphone.
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  Speaker 1: And then before she could react to that, Jason, so,
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  Speaker 1: her son's friend, he looked over her shoulder at her
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  Speaker 1: also very nonchalantly, and just began laughing in a way
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  Speaker 1: that made Bonnie wonder if he was high on something.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, Bonnie just stepped back into the hallway
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  Speaker 1: and just tried to think through what she should even
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  Speaker 1: do here. I mean, this is so obvious that they're
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  Speaker 1: committing a crime in her house right now, like what
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  Speaker 1: in the world. But at the same time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: she'd been having problems with her son, Bradley for a
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  Speaker 1: long time.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this was definitely not the first time she
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  Speaker 1: had caught her son, you know, doing something bad.
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  Speaker 2: Her son had been known to throw.
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  Speaker 1: Parties in their house that he definitely was not supposed to.
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  Speaker 1: He would pick fights with basically everybody in the house,
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  Speaker 1: all the family members, and on top of that, she
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  Speaker 1: also knew that periodically he would hang out with known
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  Speaker 1: gang members. Now, for a while, Bonnie had tried to
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  Speaker 1: be understanding and supportive because she remembered how hard it
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  Speaker 1: was to be a teenager herself, But her son's trouble
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  Speaker 1: really just kept escalating, and this this Python thing was
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  Speaker 1: like a breaking point.
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  Speaker 2: She knew she could not let something like this slide.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was literally criminal and so obviously so,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and if she didn't step in now it
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  Speaker 1: was clear her son would just continue to push the
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  Speaker 1: limits further and further until he got hurt, or got
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  Speaker 1: somebody else hurt, or you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, wound up in jail or something like.
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  Speaker 1: This was the moment she had to put her foot down,
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  Speaker 1: and so, without saying another word to her son or Jason,
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  Speaker 1: who were now back to banging on this metal box,
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  Speaker 1: she just turned and walked back into the kitchen where
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  Speaker 1: her other kids, Brandon and Candace were now eating their
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  Speaker 1: breakfast and looking annoyed by all the chaos being caused
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  Speaker 1: by their older brother, and she walked right past them,
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  Speaker 1: picked up the phone and she called nine to one one,
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  Speaker 1: and when the dispatcher picked up her call, Annie said
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  Speaker 1: she wanted to report a theft, and she gave the
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  Speaker 1: dispatcher her own address, and then after she hung up,
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  Speaker 1: she told Candace and Brandon to go get their ba
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  Speaker 1: and go outside so they didn't miss the bus. A
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  Speaker 1: few minutes later, Bonnie heard a knock on the front
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  Speaker 1: door and she opened it up to find two sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: deputies standing on the doorstep. She actually recognized the deputies,
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  Speaker 1: and she knew they also recognized her because this was
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  Speaker 1: not the first time they'd been called to the Sanborn house.
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  Speaker 1: They'd been there several times actually, recently to deal with
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  Speaker 1: domestic issues largely caused by her son. But Bonnie knew,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Bradley, even though he was the obvious main problem,
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  Speaker 1: at least in terms of her current issues, she was
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  Speaker 1: already seeing that her thirteen year old child, Candace, had
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  Speaker 1: begun acting out a lot lately, and she was also
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  Speaker 1: worried what would happen when her ten year old Brandon
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  Speaker 1: became a teenager himself, Like would he begin, you know,
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  Speaker 1: following the footsteps of his brother and maybe his older
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  Speaker 1: sister as well.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't know, but she just couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: Understand why her kids just were misbehaving.
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  Speaker 2: So much, Like what did she do wrong?
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  Speaker 1: And so Bonnie showed the deputies to Bradley's room, where
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  Speaker 1: he and Jason were still actively trying to pry open
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  Speaker 1: this payphone. And when Bradley looked up and saw the police,
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  Speaker 1: he looked furious. He screamed at his mother that he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't believe she'd call the cops on him. But Bonnie,
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  Speaker 1: you know, she did her best to push down the
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  Speaker 1: natural bit of guilt she was feeling, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: she didn't want to have to call the cops on
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  Speaker 1: her son. The deputies ultimately handcuffed both Bradley and Jason,
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  Speaker 1: and they walked them outside, and Bonnie trailed right behind them.
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  Speaker 2: And then as the police.
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  Speaker 1: Were putting the kids in the back of the squad car,
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  Speaker 1: Bonnie pulled one of the deputies aside and asked if
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  Speaker 1: he could make sure Bradley spent at least one night
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  Speaker 1: in the juvenile detention center.
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  Speaker 2: She knew this was a very tough.
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  Speaker 1: Love sort of approach, I mean, basically demanding your kid
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  Speaker 1: stays effectively in jail overnight, but she was also hoping
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  Speaker 1: that in addition to being maybe scared straight here, he
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  Speaker 1: would also get counseling in the juvenile detention center and
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  Speaker 1: maybe begin to see the value of staying out of trouble.
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  Speaker 2: The deputy nodded and said he'd see what he could do.
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  Speaker 1: As the squad car drove away, Bonnie saw movement in
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  Speaker 1: a window of the house across the street. She squinted
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  Speaker 1: and saw that one of her neighbors was peering out
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  Speaker 1: the curtains to get a look at all the commotion.
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  Speaker 1: And then further down the street, a couple out for
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  Speaker 1: a morning jog had slowed down and was just staring
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  Speaker 1: at the squad car as they passed by. And now
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  Speaker 1: for Bonnie, I mean, she wasn't that surprised. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: she'd be looking out the window too if police showed
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  Speaker 1: up on her street. But at the same time, it
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  Speaker 1: still made her very embarrassed. I mean, she knew people
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  Speaker 1: in this neighborhood were already very aware of.
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  Speaker 2: Her family's problems and it was a lot to bear.
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  Speaker 1: And frankly, making it even worse was the fact that
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  Speaker 1: generally speaking, Bonnie's neighbors were nice to her in person
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  Speaker 1: when they were face to face with her, people even
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  Speaker 1: like went out of their way to help her, you know,
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  Speaker 1: But she knew behind her back people in this neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: gossiped constantly.
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  Speaker 2: About her family.
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  Speaker 1: Now for Bonnie this was obviously humiliating and also very frustrating,
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  Speaker 1: because how could she possibly stop gossip.
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  Speaker 2: I mean she couldn't. But more than just.
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  Speaker 1: Dislike it the fact that there were all these people
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  Speaker 1: talking about her, she also just felt very isolated. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: she was married, but her husband, Robert, had gotten a
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  Speaker 1: job in Maryland and he only came home every other weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Bonnie had actually tried to sell the house in Tucson
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  Speaker 1: and moved the whole family to Maryland, but she'd eventually
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  Speaker 1: decided it just wasn't really worth the trouble. Plus, Robert
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  Speaker 1: had already talked to a supervisor about potentially transferring back
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  Speaker 1: to Tucson, and he was supposed to be coming back
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  Speaker 1: for good just next week. And so at this point
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  Speaker 1: Bonnie was just trying to survive here. You know, she
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  Speaker 1: still felt very isolated, but she knew, you know, Robert, he'd.
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  Speaker 2: Be back soon and she wouldn't be alone anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And she would get to deal with the kids, with
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  Speaker 1: the nosy neighbors, with the police, with her partner. It
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  Speaker 1: just felt like that would be a whole lot better.
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  Speaker 1: About sixteen hours later, around eleven forty five pm that night,
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  Speaker 1: Bonnie brushed her teeth and put on her pjs. The
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  Speaker 1: house was quiet for once, except for the TV humming
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  Speaker 1: in the living room. She'd gotten a call from the
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  Speaker 1: juvenile detention center that afternoon, and Bradley was being held
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  Speaker 1: there on theft charges, which Bonnie thought was for the best,
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  Speaker 1: but his friend Jason was eighteen years old, so he
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  Speaker 1: was not held. Instead, he was just given a ticket
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  Speaker 1: and released the same day, and Bonnie knew that as
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  Speaker 1: soon as Bradley was out again, he and Jason would
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  Speaker 1: reconnect right away and just fall right back into their
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  Speaker 1: same old antics. Before she went to bed, Bonnie went
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  Speaker 1: to the living room where her other two kids, Candice
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  Speaker 1: and Brandon, were on the couch watching TV, and she
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  Speaker 1: told them it was time for bed time, to turn
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  Speaker 1: off the TV and go to your rooms, but they
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  Speaker 1: just ignored her and just continued to watch TV. It
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  Speaker 1: was a Friday night and the two kids didn't have
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  Speaker 1: anywhere to be in the morning, and Bonnie had just
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  Speaker 1: done enough fighting for the day, so she just decided,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, let them stay up. They can go
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  Speaker 1: to bed when they want to. And so she told
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  Speaker 1: the kids to you know, don't stay up too late
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  Speaker 1: and go to bed soon. Then she left, you know,
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  Speaker 1: leaving them on the couch. She went to her own
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  Speaker 1: bedroom and she turned out her lights. A few hours later,
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  Speaker 1: Bonnie woke up and looked over at the clock and
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  Speaker 1: saw it was near three am, and she also could
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  Speaker 1: still hear the TV on out in the living room,
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  Speaker 1: and so Bonnie cracked open her door and yelled down
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  Speaker 1: the hallway to the kids to turn off the TV
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  Speaker 1: and go to bed. And then as Bonnie got back
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  Speaker 1: in her bed, she heard the sound of the TV
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  Speaker 1: turning off, and she heard footsteps walking down the hallway,
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  Speaker 1: and then the house was quiet.
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  Speaker 2: And she drifted back to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: But some time before dawn, when it was still dark out,
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  Speaker 1: she woke up again, and when she rolled over in
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  Speaker 1: her bed, she opened her eyes and she saw there
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  Speaker 1: was a large figure standing over her bed. Later that
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  Speaker 1: same morning, around ten forty five am, ten year old
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  Speaker 1: Brandon woke up to a eerily silent house. Normally, his
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  Speaker 1: mother would have already been awake, making breakfast or getting
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  Speaker 1: started on chores, but when he went out.
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  Speaker 2: In the hallway, he didn't hear.
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  Speaker 1: He went into the kitchen and he checked to see
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  Speaker 1: if she was there, but she wasn't, and there were
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  Speaker 1: no dirty pans or plates in the sink and no
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  Speaker 1: coffee in the pot. It looked like his mom hadn't
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  Speaker 1: even woke up yet, which was weird for a Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 1: So he went to ask his older sister, Candace, if
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  Speaker 1: she knew where their mom was, but Candace said she
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  Speaker 1: hadn't seen her, So Brandon and Candace both went down
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  Speaker 1: the hallway to.
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  Speaker 2: Their mother's bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: They knocked on the door, and when she didn't answer,
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  Speaker 1: Brandon pushed the door open and looked inside, and what
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  Speaker 1: he saw made him gasp in horror. The bedroom was
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  Speaker 1: covered in blood, but the bedroom was also empty.
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  Speaker 2: His mom wasn't in there.
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  Speaker 1: Later that same morning, Detective Brad Faust pulled up outside
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  Speaker 1: of a house in the suburbs of Tucson. He was
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  Speaker 1: there to investigate a mother's apparent kidnapping from her own home.
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  Speaker 1: Faust was actually feeling a bit frustrated to be called
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  Speaker 1: out to yet another case like this when he was
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  Speaker 1: already juggling so many others. Nineteen ninety five had proven
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  Speaker 1: to be the deadliest year in Tucson's history. There had
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  Speaker 1: already been nearly a hundred murders just that year, and
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  Speaker 1: the Pima County Sheriff's office was swamped.
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  Speaker 2: But as far as.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone knew at this point, this was not a murder.
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  Speaker 2: It was a kidnapping, you know.
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  Speaker 1: All Faust had been told was that Bonnie Sanborn was
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  Speaker 1: missing and her kids had called nine one one after
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  Speaker 1: seeing that and also seeing all the blood in her bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: So Faust was holding out hope here that this was
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  Speaker 1: actually nothing that serious and that they would find Bonnie
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  Speaker 1: relatively quickly and she'd be okay. He got out of
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  Speaker 1: his car and he saw that officers had already taped.
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  Speaker 2: Off the house.
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  Speaker 1: There was a young boy and girls sitting out on
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  Speaker 1: the front curb, looking terrified and visibly distraught, and Faust
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  Speaker 1: also noticed that there was blood on both of their shirts,
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  Speaker 1: and so he figured that they must be Bonnie's kids,
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  Speaker 1: the ones who had made the nine to one one call,
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  Speaker 1: and he made a mental note that he would need
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  Speaker 1: to talk to them later. Then he walked through the
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  Speaker 1: front yard and went into the house, and right away
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  Speaker 1: a crime scene photographer greeted him and then led him
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  Speaker 1: down the hallway. As he walked, Faust caught a glenn
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  Speaker 1: of a family photo on the wall which showed Bonnie
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  Speaker 1: and her husband and their three kids, all smiling and
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  Speaker 1: looking like the perfect all American family. Before opening the
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  Speaker 1: door to Bonnie's bedroom, the photographer paused and warned the
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  Speaker 1: detective that there really was a lot of blood in here.
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  Speaker 1: Faus nodded, and then the photographer opened the door, and
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  Speaker 1: Faust immediately saw what he was talking about. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there was blood spattered all over the walls, the floor,
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  Speaker 1: the windows, and the mattress. He felt his heart sink
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  Speaker 1: as he realized that with this much blood loss, they
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  Speaker 1: probably would not be finding their victim alive here. But
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  Speaker 1: he knew it was going to be very hard to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what had happened here or who was responsible
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  Speaker 1: until they found her dead or alive, and so Fous
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  Speaker 1: stepped into the room closer to the bed where a
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  Speaker 1: forensic technician was swabbing for fingerprints. The mattress was completely
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  Speaker 1: soaked in blood, and on one of the pillows he
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  Speaker 1: could clearly see a bloody handprint.
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  Speaker 2: He figured it either.
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  Speaker 1: Belonged to Bonnie or her kidnapper, but they'd have to
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  Speaker 1: wait for test results to be sure. Faus stepped back
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  Speaker 1: and he noticed that the shep he had been partially
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  Speaker 1: pulled off the bed and were sort of balled up
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  Speaker 1: on the middle of the mattress. And to him, it
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  Speaker 1: seemed like, you know, given how much blood is in
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  Speaker 1: here and the fact that obviously Bonnie is not here,
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  Speaker 1: that clearly some sort of long and violent struggle took
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  Speaker 1: place in this room, and it seemed to him like
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  Speaker 1: the struggle must have originated on the bed, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: even the bulk of the struggle was happening on the bed.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, its soaked in blood and the sheets were
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  Speaker 1: all messed up, and he's thinking, you know, very likely
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  Speaker 1: then Bonnie was in bed when the attack began. Faust
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  Speaker 1: also noticed there was a folding knife with a red
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  Speaker 1: handle on the mattress, and there was also a purse
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  Speaker 1: that had been poured out. There were multiple credit cards
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  Speaker 1: and a check book that were just sitting on the bed,
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  Speaker 1: and the fact that these items were not stolen made
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  Speaker 1: Faust think that robbery probably was not part of the
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: motive for whatever happened to Bonnie. But then something on
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: the floor by the bed caught Fau's eye. After double
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: checking that the room had already been photographed, Faust put
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: on a paragloves and then crouched down and he picked
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: it up, and what it was was a small brown button.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: He carried it over to the closet and dug through
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Bonnie's clothes that were in there, and the button didn't
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: seem to match anything that she owned, and so based
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: on where it was found in the room, Faus thought,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: you know, this button must have come off of somebody's clothes.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: In the middle of this attack.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: It obviously could belong to Bonnie. It could have come
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: off with what she was wearing and maybe is still wearing.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Or this button could have come off of the attacker's
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: close and so Faus gave the button to a forensics
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: officer and told him to bag it up.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Then he kept looking around, and.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: In the midst of all the blood that had been
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: sprayed all over the room, he noticed there was a
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: clear trail of red droplets that snaked across the carpet.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: The trail led to a sliding glass door that led
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: into the backyard, and when he tried to open it,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: he realized it was already unlocked. The forensics officer told
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: him that nobody had touched that door all morning, so
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: it must have been unlocked before anybody arrived. Faus slid
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: the door open and stepped out into the backyard, and
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: he followed the trail of blood across the grass all
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: the way to a door that led into the garage.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: He noticed there were no drag marks in the grass,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: so Bonnie's attacker must have been carrying her, which sort
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: of naturally suggested that whoever did this likely was bigger.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: And stronger than Bonnie. But also, judging from.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: The photos he'd seen on the walls, Bonnie was very petite,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: so really that didn't narrow it down very much. A
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: lot of people could potentially lift Bonnie and carry her.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Faust reached the.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Door that led into the garage, and he turned the
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: knob and it was unlocked. He opened it up, and
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: when he looked inside, there wasn't a car in there,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: but the trail of blood clearly went into the garage
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: at least a few feet before it disappeared. So it
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: seemed like the suspect had literally carried Bonnie in here,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: loaded her into the car that likely was in here
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: and now was not, and they drove it away, carrying
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Bonnie with them. And so Faust knew his best shot
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: at finding Bonnie was to one identify the car that
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: would normally be in this garage, and then once you
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: have the identity of the car, to go find it.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Once Faust had done his initial sweep of the house,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: he went outside and he crouched down next to Bonnie's
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: two younger kids, Candace and Brandon, and both kids were
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: still very shaken up and totally confused, and so Faust
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: very gently asked them about the last time they had
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: seen their mother, and Candace said it was around maybe
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: eleven forty five the night before, when their mom had
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: gone to bed, but she also added that maybe around
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: three am, she and her brother Brandon were still up
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: watching TV in the living room and their mom had
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: shouted from her bedroom for them to turn off the
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: TV and go to bed. She said that when their
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: mom did that, they did get up, they turned off
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the TV, and they went to their own bedrooms and
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: went to sleep, and both kids said they didn't hear
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: or see anything until they woke up later that morning
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: and found what they found in their mother's bedroom.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: And so this gave Fous something.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: To work with because it meant, if what the kids
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: were saying was true, that Bonnie must have disappeared sometime
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: after three am, because that's when she yelled to.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Her kids at three.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Plus, if the suspect came in through that backsliding door
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: that went right into Bonnie's room and they were able
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: to do so without waking up the kids, and then
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: after the attack being able to find very likely Bonnie's
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: car keys, because that's the assumption they found her keys
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and then loaded Bonnie into the car and drove off
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: again without waking anybody in the house.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: It suggested that whoever did.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: This, they likely were relatively familiar with the layout of
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the house and had probably been there before, so maybe
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: this is somebody that they all knew. Fous pointed to
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the blood that was on Candace and Brandon shirts, and
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: he asked them where it came from, and Candace would
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: admit that before she called nine to one one, she
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and her brother had desperately gone looking for their mom
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: in the room, in this horrible, bloody bedroom, but they
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: couldn't find her, and in their efforts to find her,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: they had gotten blood on themselves. Now, of course Faust
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: understood that these kids had been through this hole horribly
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: traumatic thing, and they were just looking for their mom.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: But he also now knew that very likely their crime
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: scene was contaminated now because the kids went in there
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: and touched a bunch of stuff. But of course he
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: did not tell the kids that he was in any
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: way annoyed with them or that they had done anything wrong. Instead,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: he just told the kids to go inside and change
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: their clothes and then give the clothes that had blood
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: on them to the forensics texts because they needed to
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: collect them as evidence, and he also told the kids
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: to not go anywhere near at their mother's bedroom. Candace
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: nodded and stood up and grabbed her little brother by
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the hand, and as they walked back towards the house,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the sheriff's deputy came up to Faust and told the
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: detective that he should also make sure to talk to
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Bonnie's oldest child. She had a fifteen year old son
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: whose name was Bradley. That evening, Detective Foust paced down
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: the hallway of the Pima County Juvenile Court Center holding
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: a file folder in his hand. When he opened the
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: door to a small office, a teenage boy was already
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: there waiting, and Faust recognized him from the mumm shot
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: in the folder he had as Bradley Sandborn, Bonnie's oldest child.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Faust walked in and as gently as he could, he
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: told Bradley that his mother was missing, and based on
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the blood and the knife they'd found in her bedroom,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: she'd likely been viciously attacked, kidnapped, and she could even
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: be dead. So Faust knew that Bradley could not have
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: attacked his mother because he'd been here in the juvenile
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: detention center the whole time the attack took place. But
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Faust had done some digging on Bradley's friends. He slapped
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the file folder he was carrying down onto the desk
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: in front of Bradley and began flipping through it, showing
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Bradley the information he'd found about, in particular his friend
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Jason Horbachevsky. Jason was a known gang member, and according
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: to several informants, he was known for carrying a knife
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: around and sometimes, apparently he would pull that knife out
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: and stab himself in the side of the head. And
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: so Faust wondered out loud if the knife they'd found
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: in Bonnie's bedroom was Bradley's friend Jason's, and maybe the
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: attack on her was retribution for his mother calling the
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: cops on Jason and Bradley that morning. But when Faust
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: looked at Bradley for his reaction, he saw there were
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: all these tears rolling down his cheeks, and Bradley choked
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: out that he really didn't know anything, and as much
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: as he argued with his mom, he would never hurt her.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: To Faust, Bradley's reaction actually seemed really genuine, and so
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: he immediately figured that if the gang Jason was a
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: part of, you know, was responsible for whatever happened to Bonnie,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Bradley appeared out of the loop, and so to get
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: a better read on this situation, Faust felt like, you know,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: trying to ask Bradley questions was not going to go
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: very far. Instead, he would just go to Jason and
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: talk to him. Later that same night, Faust sat in
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the station with a cup of coffee, combing through records
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: on Bradley and also on Jason and Jason's gang. After
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: speaking to Bradley earlier, Faust had immediately tried to locate
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: and interview Jason, which proved to be much more difficult
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: than he'd anticipated. He knew Jason was not in police
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: custody since he'd been released pretty much immediately after the
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: payphone debacle, but Jason also was not at any addresses
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: that he'd been associated with in the past, so it
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: was hard to tell where he even was.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: So a few hours ago.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Faust had sent out officers to speak to as many
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: members of Jason's gang as possible to see if they
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: knew where he was, and also to see if they
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: knew anything about Bonnie. Now, so far they had not
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: located Jason, and nobody had brought anything up about Bonnie.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: But just then Fausts office door opened and a deputy
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: told him there was someone he really ought to speak
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to that was out in.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: The lobby, and so Foust got up.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: He went in the lobby, and who was waiting for
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: him but none other than Jason. When Faust walked out there,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Jason stood up from his chair, acting cocky and confident
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and told Faust that he'd heard the Sheriff's department was
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: looking for him and he was there to prove he
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: had nothing to hide.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: And Faust he didn't even.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Bother asking where Jason had been. Instead, he just led
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: him into an interrogation room, and when he sat down
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: across from his newest suspect, he noticed the buttons on
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Jason's shirt. They were small and brown, just like the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: button that was found on Bonnie's bedroom floor, and also
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: a few of the buttons on his shirt appeared to
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: be missing. Now Faust controlled his excitement and didn't show it,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: and decided pretty much right away that he was not
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: going to ask about the button, at least not at first.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: He didn't want to overplay his hand. Instead, he started
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the interview by asking Jason some standard questions about his
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: relationship with Bradley and also, by extension, his relationship with Bonnie,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Bradley's mom, and also where Jason was at the time
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: of the attack. And Jason would admit that he was
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: mad about Bonnie calling the police on him and Bradley,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: but he didn't have some big plan to get revenge.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: He insisted that he didn't know where Bonnie was or
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: what had happened to her, and he'd been at home
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: asleep on the night she was attacked. And at the
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: end of the interview he agreed to give Faust a
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: DNA sample, and he even turned over his shirt with
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: the missing brown buttons for forensic analysis. And so after that,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Faust released Jason and decided it was time to.
• 25:05
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• 26:16
  Speaker 1: The next morning, Sunday, December tenth, so a day after
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Bonnie went missing, Faus sat in his office and sorted
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: through all the information his team had collected the day before.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: While Fauss had interviewed Bradley and Jason, other members of
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: his team had spoken to Bonnie's friends, family, and neighbors,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: but so far it looked like.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Nobody knew anything that was helpful.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: A few neighbors had mentioned that the Sanborn's had family problems,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: but apart from that, they all said Bonnie seemed nice
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: and they had no idea who would want to hurt her.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Fouss continued reading, looking for some kind of clue in
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: all the interviews. When his office phone rang, he picked
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: it up, and the man on the line sounded terrified,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: and he said he had a tip in the Bonnie
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Sanborne case. The man explained that earlier that morning he'd
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: seen a news report about Banni's disappearance and how the
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: detectives were looking for her car, which the police had
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: learned was a light blue Chrysler, and he said that
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: just the day before, he and his wife had actually
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: passed a car just like that on their morning run.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: It was abandoned on the side of the road in
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: the desert just outside of town. He said at the time,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: he and his wife had not gotten too close to
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the car, and they really hadn't thought much of it
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: until they had seen this news report, and so after
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: seeing the report just a few minutes ago, he and
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: his wife had gone back to the desert to see
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: if the car was still there, and he said, not
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: only was the car still there, but when they walked
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: up close, they could see in the back seat what
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: appeared to be a woman's body. Faust immediately wrote down
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the car's location, and when he looked at a map,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: he realized it was only about a half mile away
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: from Bonnie's house.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: He thanked the man hung up the phone, and then
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: he got in his car and he raced out toward
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: the desert.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: And when he got past the edge of town into
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the open desert, he saw right up ahead a light
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: blue Chrysler parked in the sand.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: He stopped car on the shoulder near the car.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: He got out, and he approached the Chrysler and he
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: peered through the window, and almost immediately he did see
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: a woman's body. It was Bonnie's body, and she was
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: slumped over in the back seat, just as the man
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: had said. Bonnie's arms were bound behind her back, and
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: there was a sock stuffed in her mouth, and the
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: lower half of her body was naked. And for Faust,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: you know, in seeing this, he wasn't surprised, but at
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the same time he had held out hope that maybe
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Bonnie was alive. You know, just seeing her dead in
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: such a horrible way in the back of this car
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: was just it was heartbreaking, and so Faust went back
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: to his car. He radioed the station and he waited
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: until a forensics team arrived, and then at that point
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: he went back over to the chrysler and he began
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: to examine the body. Faust put on gloves and he
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: leaned into the car and he lifted up Bonnie's head,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: and he found there were wounds all over her skull,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: as if she'd been repeatedly struck in the head with
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: something very sharp, and her partial nudity made it seem
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: likely that she was also sexually assaulted. There were also
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: clear defensive wounds on her hands and forearms, which suggested
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: she had fought back hard against her killer. One of
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: the forensics officers pulled out a black light and began
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: running it across the back seat of the car to
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: check for potential DNA evidence, and Faust watched as the
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: forensics officer ran the light over Bonnie's leg and it
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: lit up a spot, and the officer told Faust that
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: almost definitely that spot was the killer. Seamen and so
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: he swabbed the area and put the swab into an
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: evidence bag and told Faust that in a matter of
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: maybe a few weeks they should get the DNA profile
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: back from the lab and maybe they'd know who their
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: killer was. In the meantime, the fingerprints found in Bonnie's
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: bedroom were analyzed and they'd come back with a match
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: that really surprised Detective Faust. All the fingerprints and that
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: bloody handprint on the pillow belonged to Bonnie's thirteen year
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: old daughter, Candice. And even though Faust really did not
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: want to consider that a thirteen year old girl had
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: in some way helped with a plot to kill her
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: own mother, he now had to consider it, not only
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: because of the hand print and fingerprints, but also because
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: there was a long record of family problems inside of
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the Sanborn house. Now, obviously Candace could not have committed
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: this crime on her own, but she certainly could have
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: helped whoever did. So Faust confronted Candace, and when he did,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: she just broke down sobbing. She said she had just
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: been really scared and confused and was just looking in
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the bedroom for her mom and just didn't realize what
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: she was doing by getting her prints everywhere and looking
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: at this scared teenager, Faust knew that Candace really didn't
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: make sense as a potential suspect here, but he still
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: felt like Bonnie's killer had to be somebody who knew
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Bonnie personally then had been in her house before, and
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: there was one person who still had not been ruled out,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Bonnie's husband, Robert. Later that day, Faust was sitting at
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: his desk with the phone pressed to his ear. He
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: was on hold and had been for some time, and
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: as he tried to tune out the awful music that
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: was playing on the line, he looked down at the
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: handwritten list of airline names and flight numbers that were
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: on his desk. Bonnie's husband, Robert, had been working in
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Maryland for the past couple of months, and he had
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: not been scheduled to come back home to Tucson on.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: The weekend his wife was killed.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: But just because he claimed that that he had been
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: in Maryland that whole weekend didn't mean he actually was.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: There were multiple flights from Maryland back to Tucson that,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: in theory, he could have secretly taken to come home
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: kill his wife and then go back to work in
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: time for his next shift. So Faust had compiled a
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: list of every single flight Robert could have theoretically taken,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: and one by one he was calling the airlines to
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: check the passenger manifests. And so far there hadn't been
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: a Robert Sanborn on any of the flights he had checked.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: And now he'd made it to the very last flight
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: on that list, and just then the on hold music
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: suddenly cut out, and the woman on the line told
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Faust that she had triple checked and there was no
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Robert Sanborn on that flight either, the one from Maryland
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: to Tucson. Anything actor hung up inside.
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  Speaker 2: Now, keep in mind.
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  Speaker 1: This took place before the events that happened on nine
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  Speaker 1: to eleven. Since nine to eleven, air travel has been
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  Speaker 1: much more rigidly controlled, especially in the United States.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, security is so so much higher.
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  Speaker 1: But pre nine eleven, that really wasn't the case. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: people didn't even necessarily have to show their ID to
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  Speaker 1: get on a domestic flight. And so Faust knew right now,
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  Speaker 1: even though he's being told that Robert's name didn't show
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  Speaker 1: up on the manifest of any of these flights, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't really ruled him out because he could have theoretically
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  Speaker 1: been traveling under a fake name. But there was a
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  Speaker 1: next step that would show if Robert had something to
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  Speaker 1: do with this, and that would be to ask Robert
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  Speaker 1: for a DNA sample and hope that when the evidence
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  Speaker 1: came back from the lab it would be conclusive enough
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  Speaker 1: to give a clear answer. One morning in early January
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen ninety six, so about a month after Bonnie
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  Speaker 1: was murdered, Faust answered his office phone and he heard
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  Speaker 1: a tech from the crime lab on the other end.
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  Speaker 1: In the past few weeks, there had been five more
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  Speaker 1: murders in the Tucson area that Faust and his team
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  Speaker 1: were now dealing with. So when the lab tech said
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  Speaker 1: he had results in the Bonnie Sanborn case, it actually
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  Speaker 1: took Faust a few seconds to remember which murder that
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  Speaker 1: was for. But once he remembered, he quickly sat down
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  Speaker 1: at his desk and he grabbed a pen to take notes,
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  Speaker 1: and he held his breath as the lab tech told
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  Speaker 1: him that they had tested the sample found on Bonnie's
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  Speaker 1: leg and it was not a match for her husband, Robert,
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  Speaker 1: nor was it a match for her son's friend Jason Horbachevsky.
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  Speaker 1: Those brown buttons on Jason's shirt also didn't come back
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  Speaker 1: as matching the button that was found in Bonnie's bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: so it really was just a coincidence that they looked
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  Speaker 1: alike to the naked eye. Faust was disappointed, but he
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: knew this was going to be a possibility.
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  Speaker 2: And he had a backup plan.
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  Speaker 1: He asked the lab tech to run the DNA sample
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  Speaker 1: against the DNA of every sex offender on the state
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  Speaker 1: registry to see if there was a match there. But
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  Speaker 1: as the crime labs slowly began doing that, they kept
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  Speaker 1: calling Faust to update him that they had not found
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  Speaker 1: a match yet, and eventually the search for a DNA
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  Speaker 1: match ultimately just stalled and Faust was pulled onto other cases,
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  Speaker 1: and so by that summer it was looking like Bonnie's
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  Speaker 1: murder case might go cold. Then, after nine months without
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  Speaker 1: any progress, an anonymous tip came in that summer. In
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  Speaker 1: September of nineteen ninety six, Detective Faust sat inside of
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: an interrogation room at the Sheriff's department across from a
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  Speaker 1: forty year old drug dealer named Lyle Winstead. The anonymous
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  Speaker 1: tipster had said that Lyle had sold drugs to several
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  Speaker 1: people in Bonnie's neighborhood, and he'd said some things about
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  Speaker 1: the case that the tipster thought were very concerning, and
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  Speaker 1: when Faust had dug through Lyle's records, he'd found that
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  Speaker 1: Lyle had a history of violent crimes involving knives. Sitting
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  Speaker 1: inside the entire rogation room, Lyle seemed obviously nervous and
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  Speaker 1: very jumpy, and when Faust started asking him questions about
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  Speaker 1: Bonnie's murder, Lyle made excuses for the killer, saying that
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  Speaker 1: maybe the killer wasn't such a bad guy, maybe he
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  Speaker 1: was just quote on a bad trip. Now, Faust thought
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  Speaker 1: this was incredibly suspicious to be talking that way, so
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  Speaker 1: he asked Lyle for a DNA sample, and he got
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  Speaker 1: one and he sent it off to the crime lab
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  Speaker 1: and Faust had to wait several weeks for the results,
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  Speaker 1: and when they finally came in, Lyle Winstead was not
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  Speaker 1: a match. And at that point Faust was feeling really frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they'd already put in so much work with
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  Speaker 1: really nothing to show for it, and he didn't want
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the momentum on the case to die again. So before
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: he put Bonnie's file back on the shelf, he decided
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  Speaker 1: to go back to square one and make sure there
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  Speaker 1: wasn't anything he just plane missed. The next month, between
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: all the other cases he was working on, Faust found
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  Speaker 1: time to go literally door to door through Bonnie's neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: and rein interview everybody his team had already spoken to
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  Speaker 1: almost a year ago. Faust knew how gossip spread in
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  Speaker 1: quiet communities like this one, and even though nobody had
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  Speaker 1: been able to offer any leads the first time around,
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  Speaker 1: he wondered if maybe anything unusual might have surfaced since then,
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  Speaker 1: So he knocked on one door after another, and eventually
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  Speaker 1: at a house down the street, a woman told him
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  Speaker 1: that she didn't know anything personally, but there was a
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  Speaker 1: rumor circulating around the neighborhood that he might want to
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  Speaker 1: look into. So Faust did, and after so many frustrating
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: dead ends to this point, it was ultimately this rumor
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  Speaker 1: that did allow him to solve the case. Based on
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: that rumor and also DNA and other evidence that was
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: later uncovered, this is what police believe happened to Bonnie
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  Speaker 1: Sanborn on December ninth, nineteen ninety five, around two thirty
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, Bonnie's killer watched her house from a
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  Speaker 1: hiding spot where nobody could see them. The killer knew
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  Speaker 1: the Sandborns had been trying to move to Maryland, but
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: the killer felt like before they did go to Maryland,
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  Speaker 1: if they did that there was something the killer had
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  Speaker 1: to do. Around three am, as the killer's watching the house,
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  Speaker 1: they saw the light in Bonnie's living room finally go dark,
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  Speaker 1: and then the killer saw some movement behind the curtains
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  Speaker 1: in one of the bedroom windows, and then that lamp
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  Speaker 1: went out, leaving the entire house completely dark. The killer
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  Speaker 1: had intentionally waited for this moment. They wanted to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that not just Bonnie but her children were asleep
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  Speaker 1: by the time they went inside, and so now that
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  Speaker 1: the lights were off and that it seemed like the
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  Speaker 1: coast was clear, the killer grabbed their flex ties and
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  Speaker 1: also their chipping hammer, and then began making their way
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  Speaker 1: towards the home. A chipping hammer is a very particular
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  Speaker 1: type of hammer that has a sort of typical one
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  Speaker 1: side that you would use to strike something, but the
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  Speaker 1: back of that hammer is sharp, almost like a pickaxe.
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  Speaker 1: And so with this barbaric tool they were about to
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  Speaker 1: use in hand, they slowly crept their way across Bonnie's
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  Speaker 1: backyard right up to the sliding glass door at the
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  Speaker 1: back of the house, and they found it was unlocked, just.
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  Speaker 2: Like they thought it would be.
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  Speaker 1: After all, they'd been to this house before, they sort
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  Speaker 1: of understood this one typically stayed unlocked, and they also
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  Speaker 1: knew what was on the.
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  Speaker 2: Other side of the stor it was Bonnie's bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: After sliding open the door, the killer stepped in and
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  Speaker 1: they found Bonnie asleep under the covers in her bed,
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  Speaker 1: and so, thinking here was their chance, the killer began
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  Speaker 1: moving towards the bed, but as they stepped closer, a
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  Speaker 1: floorboard creaked and Bonnie stirred awake, and she rolled over
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  Speaker 1: and looked in the direction of the creaking sound and
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  Speaker 1: made eye contact with.
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  Speaker 2: The killer, and the killer knew they had to strike.
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  Speaker 1: Bonnie tried to fight back, but it was no use.
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  Speaker 2: The killer completely overpowered her.
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  Speaker 1: Once Bonnie stopped struggling, but before she stopped breathe, the
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  Speaker 1: killer used those flex ties to bind her hands behind
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  Speaker 1: her back. Then, as she was laying there, unable to
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  Speaker 1: defend herself, they searched around for her purse, and when
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  Speaker 1: they found it, they dumped it out on the bed,
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  Speaker 1: and after they had emptied it, they found her car keys,
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  Speaker 1: and so they grabbed the keys, and then the killer
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: picked up Bonnie, still very much alive, and they carried
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  Speaker 1: her out that sliding door into the backyard and then
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  Speaker 1: out into the garage. There they used her car keys
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  Speaker 1: to unlock Bonnie's car, the blue Chrysler, and they put Bonnie.
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  Speaker 2: In the back seat. Then they hopped in.
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  Speaker 1: The driver's seat, and they drove the car out into
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  Speaker 1: the desert, where they parked on the side of the road.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: When the killer was done with Bonnie, they simply got
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: out of the car and left it where it was
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  Speaker 1: and walked back into town. And as the sun began
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: to rise, the killer wandered right back down Bonnie Street
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: in the direction of the Sandborn house. It would turn
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  Speaker 1: out Detective Vows had been so focused on finding the
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: killer amongst Bonnie's immediate family and friends that he really
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  Speaker 1: hadn't even considered somebody else who was literally physically closest
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  Speaker 1: to the sanborns her across the street, neighbor, twenty two
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  Speaker 1: year old Freddie Rouvel. Now Freddie was not actually you know,
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  Speaker 1: emotionally close with the Sanborns. But he and his dad
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  Speaker 1: had in the past gone out of their way to
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: help Bonnie, you know, by doing some repair work at
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  Speaker 1: her house. But what Faust had learned when he had
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: gone back and reinterviewed all the people on the street
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  Speaker 1: to see if he had missed something, one of the
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: other neighbors, who was not remotely involved in what happened
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  Speaker 1: to Bonnie, told Faust that there was actually a rumor
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: that Freddie had found Bonnie attractive, and there was also
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: another rumor floating around that Faust learned that previously a
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: woman had been assaulted by a younger man in this
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: neighborhood and that maybe it was Freddie. Now it's unknown
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: if Freddie actually was the subject of that second rumor,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: but it was enough for Faust and the police to
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  Speaker 1: go collect DNA samples from every young man on the block,
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  Speaker 1: and wouldn't you know it, Freddy's DNA.
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  Speaker 2: Came back as a match.
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  Speaker 1: Freddie roy Volt was arrested in January of nineteen ninety seven,
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  Speaker 1: a little over a year after Bonnie's murder. He was
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  Speaker 1: convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
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• 41:25
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• 41:27
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