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Man Walks Outside To Find Decapitated Roommate · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: Hey, sir, was attacked.
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  Speaker 2: I know what I heard.
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  Speaker 3: I heard it.
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  Speaker 4: She's screaming. She's thrown to the ground.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, sir, come here.
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  Speaker 2: This man just led police to a dead body. The victim,
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  Speaker 2: Amy Harwick, a celebrity therapist, was found lying unconscious under
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  Speaker 2: her third story balcony. Officers were immediately suspicious of Amy's roommate,
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  Speaker 2: Michael Hermann.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, can I see your hands?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where I poked it on the climbing over
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  Speaker 2: the bed. Okay, I got it, Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, dude, something that something's off.
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  Speaker 2: The blood on Michael's hands and the signs of struggle
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  Speaker 2: found inside Amy's bathroom made it clear that this was
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  Speaker 2: a crime scene and Michael is the prime suspect.
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  Speaker 6: You still he screaming When I was leaving, I yelled
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  Speaker 6: up there, hey, mother, because I wanted her to think
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  Speaker 6: I was coming upstairs and maybe he'd like stop and run.
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  Speaker 2: However, detectives began to have doubts. The further they investigated,
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  Speaker 2: the clearer it became that there was more to this
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  Speaker 2: crime than meets the eye. And as they dig deeper
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  Speaker 2: and they uncover that Amy had a history of troubled
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  Speaker 2: relationships and many people had it out for her, but
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  Speaker 2: one relationship stood out from the rest, one that was
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  Speaker 2: plagued with stalking, violence, and abuse, leaving disturbing clues that
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  Speaker 2: would lead detectives to one deranged killer. I have so
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  Speaker 2: much I need to say. Please. Give me a chance
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  Speaker 2: to say please. At one eleven am on February fifteenth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty nine point one received a harrowing call from
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  Speaker 2: Amy's roommate.
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  Speaker 6: I want to do to stay there? Four twenty four
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  Speaker 6: just attacked my roommate were first boundary?
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  Speaker 3: Fine?
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  Speaker 1: How you thought that?
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  Speaker 6: What happened in three?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I was downstairs.
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  Speaker 6: I heard screaming. Who's gonna copy her?
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  Speaker 3: Screaming?
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  Speaker 6: Inside? Here?
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  Speaker 1: Can pick right now?
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  Speaker 3: Amy, Amy Horwick. I mean, who is she curiated her
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  Speaker 3: her roommates?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, she screaming for help? Yeah, okay, did you see anything?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? No, I heard her.
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  Speaker 6: I heard her screaming, and I heard her view.
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  Speaker 2: All right out that somebody's screaming.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, and she didn't see anything. You don't know she's
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  Speaker 6: been attacked.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure, but I know she's been attack.
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  Speaker 2: I heard her thrown to the ground with sirens blaring.
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  Speaker 2: Multiple law enforcement agents rush to the scene. The information
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  Speaker 2: that they have as they arrive is limited. All they
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  Speaker 2: know is that there is a situation with a screaming
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  Speaker 2: woman and that somebody appears to be in danger. As
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  Speaker 2: soon as they arrive, Michael Herwin Amy's roommate is the
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  Speaker 2: first person to come into contact.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, sir, how can help you?
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  Speaker 3: My roommate was attacked.
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  Speaker 6: I know what I heard.
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  Speaker 3: I heard it.
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  Speaker 4: She's screaming. She was thrown to the ground.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't find my phone.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't find anything.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, hold on, Okay, So so you have access to here? No,
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  Speaker 5: is there anybody else inside the house? My roommate, just
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  Speaker 5: your roommate by yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you didn't check hun.
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  Speaker 1: Her, dude, I heard screaming. I don't know if that
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  Speaker 1: guy had a diet gunder a knife. I came running
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  Speaker 1: trying to I couldn't find my phone.
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  Speaker 5: Becose there somebody else inside? I think, do me a favor,
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  Speaker 5: do me a favorite. Calm down, calm down, other than
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  Speaker 5: your roommate. Is there anybody else inside out?
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: You didn't see anyone.
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  Speaker 4: I just heard her screaming.
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  Speaker 1: I got throw him to the ground.
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  Speaker 4: I'd be calling for her through's windows.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's answering nothing. So you're where's your Kia?
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  Speaker 3: Inside?
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  Speaker 6: Downstairs? At the backward.
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  Speaker 1: You get.
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  Speaker 5: Sixty fifteen, advises the responding So we had to off
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  Speaker 5: the fence.
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  Speaker 6: We're gonna be the the location.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, sir, come here, relaxed, Take a seat, Take a seat.
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  Speaker 5: Oh God, what was going on tonight?
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  Speaker 2: When officers move into the courtyard, there lies Amy Harwick
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  Speaker 2: twenty feet beneath her third floor balcony, going into continuous
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  Speaker 2: seizures with glass surrounding her body.
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  Speaker 3: But she's having a Oh Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Amy lived in a relatively safe area in Hollywood Hills
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  Speaker 2: and was a well known family and marriage therapist, so
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  Speaker 2: her home being broken into was unusual, and whoever did
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  Speaker 2: it made sure she had a painful death. She was
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  Speaker 2: thrown off her balcony, resulting in several serious injuries. The
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  Speaker 2: trauma to the head was so severe that it had
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  Speaker 2: resulted in a subgalial and a subdural hemorrhage, sending her
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  Speaker 2: into continuous seizures. Not only that, but her next showed
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  Speaker 2: signs that she had been strained gold before falling off
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  Speaker 2: her balcony. Even though Amy started receiving urgent care. This
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  Speaker 2: situation was far from over. Not knowing whether the assailant
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  Speaker 2: is still in the house, officers began to breach and
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  Speaker 2: clear the ground floor.
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  Speaker 5: Do you know if there's anybody else inside the house?
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  Speaker 6: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Anyone else inside is the l a p D. Come
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  Speaker 3: out your hands up? Hey, somebody pat him down please,
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  Speaker 3: probably my couch. Anyone else inside is l A p D.
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  Speaker 3: Come out your hands up? Alright, So you guys can
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  Speaker 3: move up in unison on you guys, just hold it.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna move on in us your good cost whatever.
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  Speaker 3: You guys are ready to go ahead, go go go,
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  Speaker 3: go buckhead. I got an open room. There's up, There's
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  Speaker 3: a balcony to the top, got couches.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like a kitchen to the right.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, the responsible for Amy's condition has managed to escape,
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  Speaker 2: and as cops make their way through the home, they
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  Speaker 2: noticed that everything is organized and spotless, besides a few
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  Speaker 2: areas of interest. It's sticky bees. This is urine urine,
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  Speaker 2: but none of that. Amy's bedroom was a mess, with
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  Speaker 2: the covers thrown off and a pool of urine in
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  Speaker 2: the connecting bathroom. Often when a victim is strangled, it
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  Speaker 2: results in the involuntary loss of bowel control. Moreover, officers
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  Speaker 2: would discover something strange right on the balcony from where
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  Speaker 2: Amy fell. A syringe filled with nicotine had fallen to
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  Speaker 2: the ground. So there's a loaded syridge on this Extreme
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  Speaker 2: doses of nicotine like the one found in this syringe
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  Speaker 2: act as a poison, causing organs in the body to
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  Speaker 2: fail and slowly kill an individual as they suffer from vomiting, nausea, diarrhea,
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  Speaker 2: and severe abdominal pain. Strangely enough, these types of drugs
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  Speaker 2: were never even present in the home, and even if
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  Speaker 2: they were, Amy would never take them. As her roommate explains,
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  Speaker 2: loaded her in. So, sir, do you know her history
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  Speaker 2: of drug use?
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  Speaker 1: That she's so, she doesn't drink it, she didn't even drink.
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't drink.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't even drink.
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  Speaker 3: So nobody, nobody in this house is doing.
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  Speaker 1: Drugs, smoke pot and stuff. Yeah, okay, what do you
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  Speaker 1: mean a stuff?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, So she's sober, completely, sober, completely.
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  Speaker 1: How how sure of that are you?
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  Speaker 7: I'm positive, I'm absolutely sharp.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, dude, something that something's off here.
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  Speaker 2: That rig is loaded completely hasn't been used.
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  Speaker 5: It hasn't been used. Hey, can I see your hands?
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  Speaker 2: That's where I poked it on the climbing over the bed.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, got it?
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  Speaker 2: So what about this one here?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what that is?
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  Speaker 5: Can you can you pull your can you pull your
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  Speaker 5: sleeve back on this one?
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  Speaker 3: On this one, this one, can you flip it for me?
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  Speaker 2: Do me?
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  Speaker 6: Fair?
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  Speaker 5: Look up, people, You're shirt down a little bit here.
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  Speaker 1: Really, so it's really like, see, this whole thing's very weird.
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  Speaker 5: Hanna, did you see that I was wrapped her?
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  Speaker 2: It's weird. Although Michael seems incredibly suspicious, finding out whether
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  Speaker 2: he's guilty comes second. The first priority is to ensure
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  Speaker 2: Amy's survival, whose condition was worsening by the second. Her
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  Speaker 2: pulse was nearly non existent, and she was rushed to
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  Speaker 2: a nearby hospital, where it was determined that she had
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  Speaker 2: sustained many serious injuries since dropping about twenty feet from
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  Speaker 2: the balcony, including lacerations to her liver and brain damage,
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  Speaker 2: and despite the best attempts from doctors, Amy Harwick was
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  Speaker 2: soon pronounced dead. The syringe filled with nicktine, Amy's injuries
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  Speaker 2: before the fall, and no missing items. These were all
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  Speaker 2: clues that this was not a burglary gone wrong, but
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  Speaker 2: a planned murder. For police, this would make sense because
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  Speaker 2: working as a specialized sex therapist and one that was
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  Speaker 2: very public with several shows and media presents at the time,
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  Speaker 2: was risky. There could have been too many people who
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  Speaker 2: had it out for her, since therapists often have to
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  Speaker 2: deal with emotionally problematic and sometimes obsessive individuals. For now, though,
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  Speaker 2: Michael Hermann was the only person around Amy when she
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  Speaker 2: was murdered, making him the first suspect. Michael was already
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  Speaker 2: a suspicious individual, as his frequent cannabis use led officers
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  Speaker 2: to believe that he had at least some knowledge of
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  Speaker 2: drugs and could be behind the nicotine syringe. But more
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  Speaker 2: telling was the fact that his arms were covered in
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  Speaker 2: blood and scratches, which made him look even more guilty.
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  Speaker 2: So to get to the bottom of this, Michael was
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  Speaker 2: brought in for an interview where he would stay adamant
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  Speaker 2: about his innocence.
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  Speaker 1: Can you remember, do you still hear?
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  Speaker 6: Still here?
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  Speaker 7: And when we were at the house, when I was
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  Speaker 7: yelling so I was leaving, I yelled up there, hey mother,
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  Speaker 7: really loud, because I wanted her to think I was
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  Speaker 7: going upstairs and he'd like stop and run, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, that would know that he's not in the house.
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  Speaker 4: A loan to it, yeah, right, right, right right.
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  Speaker 6: And I didn't know if it was like you know,
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  Speaker 6: I didn't know it was multiple people, you know, I
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  Speaker 6: just didn't know. And I just hope that that would
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  Speaker 6: like that they would make the person flee.
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  Speaker 2: Michael claims that after returning home, he heard screams from
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  Speaker 2: inside the house and then shouted loudly to scare off
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  Speaker 2: the potential attacker. He then entered the home to find
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  Speaker 2: the front door open and Amy Harwick's body on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: He immediately called nine to one one and attempted to
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  Speaker 2: provide aid while waiting for emergency responders. Not only does
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  Speaker 2: Michael fully cooperate with law enforcement, but he also has
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  Speaker 2: a solid alibi and witness testimonies supporting his account. Additionally,
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  Speaker 2: there is no forensic evidence linking Michael to the crime. Still,
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  Speaker 2: detectives can't rule out Michael just yet, as there are
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  Speaker 2: no other suspects and nobody had seen anyone outside of
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  Speaker 2: Michael enter or leave the building. But this is when
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  Speaker 2: police received footage from a nearby ring doorbell camera a
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  Speaker 2: crucial piece of evidence that would turn the entire case
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  Speaker 2: upside down. When the cops looked at the footage, they
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  Speaker 2: saw Michael come running out of the home, trying to
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  Speaker 2: wake up the neighbors and call for help. This was
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  Speaker 2: exactly what he told them he had done, which confirms
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  Speaker 2: the fact that he was likely only a witness to
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  Speaker 2: all of this. But the camera also picks up someone
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  Speaker 2: else at the scene, a strange male figure wearing gloves,
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  Speaker 2: hopping fences and running through backyards. In many cases, this
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  Speaker 2: man can even be seen covering cameras with a gloved hand. Undeniably,
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  Speaker 2: this masked individual was the one responsible for this murder,
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  Speaker 2: but finding out who this could be was difficult. As
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  Speaker 2: they began looking into her life, there were very few
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  Speaker 2: people who wanted to hurt her. She was on good
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  Speaker 2: terms with her family and friends and had almost no enemies,
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  Speaker 2: so police began to believe that this may have been
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  Speaker 2: a case of one of Amy's past relationships coming back
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  Speaker 2: to haunt her. But yet again, almost all of her
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  Speaker 2: boyfriends came up clean, all but one of them, Gareth Percehouse,
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  Speaker 2: a man who was reported by Amy's friends to be
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  Speaker 2: an obsessive ex lover and someone who had previously stalked her.
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  Speaker 2: But before officers look into Gareth, they decide to consolidate
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  Speaker 2: all of the evidence they have first. Because of the
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  Speaker 2: presence of the syringe filled with pure nicotine, detectives believe
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  Speaker 2: that whoever broke into Amy's apartment intended to kill her
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  Speaker 2: by injecting her with the syringe, but that their plans
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  Speaker 2: somehow went awry. Amy began resisting and a physical altercation
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  Speaker 2: occurred that would be proven by a black rosary that
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  Speaker 2: Amy had been wearing around her neck. Beads of this
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  Speaker 2: rosary were found trailing all the way from her bedroom
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  Speaker 2: to the balcony. Not only that, a black leather jacket
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  Speaker 2: that was turned inside out was also discovered at the scene.
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  Speaker 2: It is likely that the attacker snuck up behind her,
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  Speaker 2: grabbed her by her jacket, and a struggle ensued. The
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  Speaker 2: attacker then likely choked Amy, dragged her out to the balcony,
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  Speaker 2: and threw her over the top. With all of this
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  Speaker 2: in mind, officers began looking for somebody who would want
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  Speaker 2: to hurt Amy in this manner. Undeniably, the masked individual
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  Speaker 2: was responsible for the murder. However, identifying them could be
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  Speaker 2: challenging because despite being a well known public figure, Amy
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  Speaker 2: had no known enemies. Police start their investigation by questioning
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  Speaker 2: friends and family of Amy, looking for any clues on
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  Speaker 2: who could have committed this heinous crime, and it wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: take long for them to get a strong lead. Amy's
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  Speaker 2: friends revealed to police that about a month before her murder,
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  Speaker 2: they began receiving concerning messages from Amy. She expressed fear
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  Speaker 2: for her life, mentioning that she had recently encountered a stalker.
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  Speaker 2: A stalker which it would turn out, she had an
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  Speaker 2: abusive relationship with a decade prior, forty one year old
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  Speaker 2: photographer Gareth perce House. Amy and Gareth had met ten
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  Speaker 2: years earlier in twenty eleven, when Gareth had worked as
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  Speaker 2: a photographer on a therapy event Amy attended. They dated briefly,
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  Speaker 2: but Amy's friends took note of the relationship being far
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  Speaker 2: from normal. In May of twenty eleven, Amy tried to
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  Speaker 2: file a restraining order for the abuse she suffered in
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  Speaker 2: the relationship. Gareth often suffocated her, slamming her against the walls,
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  Speaker 2: dropped her on the ground, and punched her. Yet somehow
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  Speaker 2: this order was denied as authorities believed there was a
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  Speaker 2: lack of evidence. Of course, this meant a quick end
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  Speaker 2: to the relationship, at least for Amy. This was unacceptable
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  Speaker 2: for Gareth, as he started obsessing heavily over Amy and
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  Speaker 2: his emotional state worsened. But Amy was the one who'd
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  Speaker 2: have to face the brunt of Gareth's mental decline. In
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  Speaker 2: the months after the breakup, weird occurrences began happening at
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  Speaker 2: Amy's residence. She would walk into her home to find
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  Speaker 2: picture frames were smashed. Sometimes there would be Rose's taped
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  Speaker 2: to her front door, and on other occasions, Gareth would
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  Speaker 2: refuse to leave her doorstep for hours. A year later,
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twelve, Amy tried to file another restraining order
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  Speaker 2: against Gareth because he had once again assaulted her and
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  Speaker 2: dragged her out of a car. Fortunately, this time the
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  Speaker 2: order would be approved by a judge, barring Gareth from
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  Speaker 2: seeing Amy for five years. However, according to her closest friends,
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: Gareth's behavior became even more creepy and intense in the
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  Speaker 2: years after the restraining order was issued. If Gareth couldn't
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  Speaker 2: see her physically, he'd tarnish her reputation on every one
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  Speaker 2: of Amy's social media pages, every single time she posted,
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  Speaker 2: she would get derogatory comments, and all of her publications
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  Speaker 2: in her field as a therapist would get bombarded with
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  Speaker 2: comments criticizing and degrading her work. But things would take
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  Speaker 2: a turn for the worst one month before Amy's murder.
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  Speaker 2: On January seventeenth, twenty twenty, Amy was attending the ex
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  Speaker 2: Biz Awards where she was a panelist of an organization
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  Speaker 2: called Pineapple Support, which was meant to focus on therapy
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  Speaker 2: related to workers in the sex industry. However, as Amy
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  Speaker 2: was having drinks before her segment began, she would hear
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  Speaker 2: a familiar voice, Gareth's voice, who was working as a
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  Speaker 2: photographer at the event. At this point in time, Amy
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  Speaker 2: had not seen Gareth in nearly a decade yet. He
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  Speaker 2: would approach, which Amy angry and upset, saying that she
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  Speaker 2: ruined his life. One of Amy's friends would outline what
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: the two talked about as Amy called him for help.
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  Speaker 6: The first phone call, which she called I couldn't hear.
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  Speaker 6: It was a lot of loud commotion, it was chaotic,
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  Speaker 6: so I couldn't understand and my own number. And then
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  Speaker 6: thirty seconds later I received another phone call from her
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  Speaker 6: as well, and all I could hear amongst the chaos
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  Speaker 6: were the sounds that were for the loud sounds was
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  Speaker 6: get the f over here, you should see them walk away.
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  Speaker 6: I first check in with my friend who called me,
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  Speaker 6: and she told me, this guy is freaking out on
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  Speaker 6: your friend. So I then walked over to where the
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  Speaker 6: two of them had walked to. As I was walking
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  Speaker 6: towards them, the only words I heard was ruined my life, bitch.
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  Speaker 2: After this event, Amy was extremely scared of Gareth and
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  Speaker 2: told friends and family that if anything happened to her,
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  Speaker 2: Gareth would be responsible, and he had sent her voice
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  Speaker 2: messages after the event, I have so much I need
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  Speaker 2: to say. Please give me a chance to say it. Please.
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  Speaker 2: And her concerns were proven to be true because when
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  Speaker 2: officers matched a picture of Gareth to the man seen
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  Speaker 2: on the ring doorbell footage on the night of the murder,
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  Speaker 2: it was an exact match. But for authorities to be
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  Speaker 2: sure that Gareth is the same man they're looking for,
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  Speaker 2: they needed to search his home. Obtaining the warrant itself
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  Speaker 2: was not hard because the sheer amount of evidence against
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Gareth gave officers reasonable suspicion to do so. However, this
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  Speaker 2: suspicion would soon turn into shock as syringes filled with
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: nicotine were discovered in Gareth's home exactly like the one
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  Speaker 2: found on Amy's balcony. Not only that, but Gareth himself
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  Speaker 2: had sustained injuries on his body and had bloody clothes
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  Speaker 2: scattered all over the home. But there was one piece
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  Speaker 2: of evidence that proved to be a definitive breakthrough in
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  Speaker 2: this case, a DNA comparison between the fingernail screen of
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  Speaker 2: Amy's body and Gareth would turn up an exact match.
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  Speaker 2: Detectives knew that this was exactly the man they were
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: looking for, so by about five o'clock PM the day
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: after the murder, the cops locate and approach gareth purse house.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: In the face of Gareth's history with Amy and him
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: being caught on camera, officers decide to charge him with
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Amy's murder. While sitting in jail awaiting a murder trial,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Gareth doesn't show an ounce of remorse. In fact, while
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: on a jailhouse phone call with some of his buddies,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: he cracks jokes and makes light of the whole situation.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: He even tells them that due to the public's interest
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: in him, they could become millionaires by selling old jokes
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: he told while working as a stand up comic. But
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: this is far from the strangest thing, he says.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, turn those into a book. Try to find right now, actually,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: try to find a publisher that'll give you money ahead
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: of time for that, just based on my name because
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: of the media, Like that could be a million bucks.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know, But I do have a joke for you.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: What's the most feminine candy bar? Huh?
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: Her?
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: She's yeah, you get your sense of humor, you're making
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: the best of it.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: And then yeah, well and people are posting like crazy
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: hate and there's like why bother so so.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: You said you're not getting out, correct Ever, is that
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: what he's trying to say.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, I've seen what's coming at me and it's not good.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I'm not getting out.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Super Fie Gareth Purson House has made it very clear
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: that he believes he is going down for Amy's murder,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: and he has completely accepted that. One could likely assume
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: that if this man were not truly guilty of this
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: horrific crime, he would not be speaking this way. Despite this,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Gareth was bonded out of jail before his trial began.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: But Gareth was certainly panicking because right after he was
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: released on bond, the first place he visited was Los
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Angeles International Airport to escape the country. Normally, a person
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: who has their bond posted is not allowed next to
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: any airports or borders to prevent them from leaving the country,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: and if they're found doing so, they're arrested immediately and
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: given no chance for a second bond. Exactly what would
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: happen to Gareth as he was arrested once more. The
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: trial of Gareth Pershouse began in August of twenty twenty three.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: The defense claims that Gareth was only there to talk
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: to Amy and that her death was an accident. They
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: also argued that while Gareth had brought that syringe filled
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: with nicotine to the scene, he had only intended it
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: to be used for his own side. But the prosecution
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: took a different approach and painted Gareth as an obsessive killer.
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: Sheeted his advances she could not all count and to
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: punish it for her, he broke injure house. He broke
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: in there when he syringed loaded with the lethal dose
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: of nate.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: The prosecution's argument was solid, However, they had a major
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: point that they would have to prove if they wanted
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: to get a guilty verdict. That point was that Gareth
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: came to Amy's apartment on the evening of February fifteenth,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty, with the intention of killing her, not just
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: to have a conversation, as the defense alleged. The defense
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: also suggested that Amy may have ended up on the
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: concrete below the balcony while attempting to get away from
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Gareth out of fear.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: One likely scenario for how miss Harvick came to rest
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: where she did the fatio is if she comes home,
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: encounters mister Purshouse in a panic, she runs through her
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: treasure to her balcony, climbs hut and over the rating,
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: attempts to lower herself or climb down, and is unsuccessful.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Before throughout the entire trial, Gareth purs House never once
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: took the stand to testify on his own behalf. Most
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: legal experts will say that this is something that can
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: be very telling to a jury. After all, if an
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: innocent person has nothing to hide, then it is vicious
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: that he wouldn't speak out to defend himself. But whether
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: or not the jury in this case, we'll see things
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: his way. Only time will tell. After finishing the deliberation process,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: the jury in this case reached their decision in September
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: of twenty twenty three, with.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: The jury the love inside of the action finding finnant
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Gareth Purshouse he'll gie lucrons a murder in the first degree,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Pleadies and gentlemen of the jury, or he's your verdicts,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: so say.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: You want to say you all, thank you, And just
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: like that, Gareth Percehouse was officially convicted of the murder
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: of Amy Harwick. The only thing left was for Gareth
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: to finally be sentenced. Gareth Percehouse was sentenced to life
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: in prison without the possibility of parole.