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Serial Killer Documentary - Tracie Andrews · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: On December 1st, 1996, Tracy Andrews and her fiancé Lee
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Speaker 1: Harvey were driving home after a night out when suddenly
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Speaker 1: they began to be pursued by another car. It was
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Speaker 1: a chase that would end in Lee's murder.
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Speaker 2: He was stabbed in the throat, back, front, repeatedly, viciously
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Speaker 2: and continuously.
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Speaker 1: Just two days later, 27-year-old Tracey gave a heart-wrenching press
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Speaker 1: conference appealing for the public's help to find her partner's killer.
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Speaker 3: But all was not what it seemed.
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Speaker 4: You get behind the wheel of a car. Sometimes you
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Speaker 4: change personality.
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Speaker 3: And we all kind of looked at each other and thought,
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Speaker 3: this enormous story just got ten times bigger again if
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Speaker 3: she is the killer.
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Speaker 1: There had been no car chase. There had been no
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Speaker 1: random attack. Tracey Andrews had stabbed her own fiancé to
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Speaker 1: death and was trying to get away with murder.
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Speaker 3: This is a woman of cunning, of deceit, and with
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Speaker 3: a vicious temper.
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Speaker 1: Tracey Andrews had deceived a nation and become one of
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Speaker 1: the world's most evil killers. It was a press conference
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Speaker 1: that shocked Britain when 27-year-old Tracey Andrews defiantly appeared in
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Speaker 1: front of the world's media on December 3rd, 1996. She
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Speaker 1: wept over the murder of her fiancé Lee Harvey. She
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Speaker 1: claimed a stranger had stopped the couple in their car
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Speaker 1: before stabbing her 25-year-old partner to death in a savage attack.
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Speaker 5: I just.
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Speaker 4: Tried to stop the bleeding, really.
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Speaker 3: And comfort him as much.
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Speaker 4: As I could.
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Speaker 1: But it was all a lie. In reality, Andrews had
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Speaker 1: killed Lee in the most brutal of manners. At her trial,
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Speaker 1: Andrews continued to try and sell her fabricated story. The
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Speaker 1: media were fascinated by her. Daily Mirror journalist Rod Chater
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Speaker 1: managed to interview the wannabe model at Birmingham Crown Court
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Speaker 1: on the day of her conviction.
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Speaker 3: I'm sat next to Tracy. I didn't feel threatened, obviously.
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Speaker 3: She's a killer, but we're not in any kind of
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Speaker 3: environment in which she's likely to suddenly launch an attack
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Speaker 3: on me. So I said, well, you know, do you
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Speaker 3: stick to your story? Yes, I stick to my story.
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Speaker 3: Did you kill him?
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Speaker 6: No, I didn't.
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Speaker 1: Just minutes later, Tracy Andrews was given a life sentence
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Speaker 1: for the murder of her own fiancé.
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Speaker 3: I worked as a national newspaper journalist for For many years,
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Speaker 3: I covered thousands of stories, dozens of murders. Some stories
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Speaker 3: just stay with you, and this is one of the
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Speaker 3: ones that stays with me.
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Speaker 1: It's a story that begins over 45 years ago. Tracey
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Speaker 1: Andrews was born on the 9th of April 1969 in.
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Speaker 6: The West Midlands.
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Speaker 7: Well, Tracey was brought up just outside Birmingham in Redditch
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Speaker 7: and Althchurch, and she was the middle child. She had
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Speaker 7: an older sibling and a younger sibling and several half-siblings,
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Speaker 7: and her parents broke up when she was around about
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Speaker 7: 6 years old because they'd had quite a volatile relationship.
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Speaker 1: The separation of her parents in 1975 had a lasting
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Speaker 1: effect on young Tracey.
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Speaker 7: Well, Tracy's parents split up and her mother got married
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Speaker 7: to another man. And when we look at our parents' relationships,
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Speaker 7: they are quite important because they inform our expectations of
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Speaker 7: other people, our expectations of the relationships that we go
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Speaker 7: on to have.
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Speaker 8: Kids need attention, you know. They need to be loved
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Speaker 8: and cuddled and everything. And a lot of kids that
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Speaker 8: come from those kind of broken homes, in the case
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Speaker 8: of Tracy, they want to be loved by mother, father
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Speaker 8: or somebody. That is definitely, in my opinion, one of
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Speaker 8: the things that pushed her into always wanting the attention
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Speaker 8: of other men.
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Speaker 1: Tracy left school in 1986, and aged 21, she had
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Speaker 1: a baby daughter. But the relationship with her partner lasted
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Speaker 1: barely a year, and they soon went their separate ways.
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Speaker 7: What we've got here is a woman who doesn't like
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Speaker 7: her partner's having a life that doesn't involve her. She
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Speaker 7: doesn't like her partners going out without her. She gets
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Speaker 7: very jealous. She's very possessive.
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Speaker 3: She certainly had a temper. Everybody who knew her said
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Speaker 3: she had a temper. And when she lost her temper,
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Speaker 3: everybody knew about it. She would shout at the top
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Speaker 3: of her voice. The whole street would hear.
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Speaker 1: By 1994, 25-year-old Tracy was living in a council flat
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Speaker 1: in Alfchurch and working as a barmaid. But her aspirations
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Speaker 1: went far beyond pulling pints.
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Speaker 3: She had visions, she had dreams of becoming a model,
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Speaker 3: and she was very photogenic. She looked good on camera
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Speaker 3: and she knew it, and she had some pictures taken
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Speaker 3: and a photograph. album put together, but that never really
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Speaker 3: took off either.
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Speaker 8: She became a barmaid working in a pub, but she
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Speaker 8: still dressed very provocatively and she still loved talking to
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Speaker 8: men and chatting to men. Again, seeking the attention that
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Speaker 8: she wanted to get as a model, because obviously when
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Speaker 8: you're that pretty and you're a model, you do get
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Speaker 8: a lot of attention.
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Speaker 1: Living nearby to Tracy was 23-year-old Lee Harvey. He also
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Speaker 1: had a daughter from a previous relationship.
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Speaker 7: Lee Harvey was a young man from a very close family,
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Speaker 7: and he worked as a bus driver for West Midlands Travel.
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Speaker 7: So this was a job that involved meeting many people
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Speaker 7: on a daily basis. He was very outgoing. He was
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Speaker 7: interested in cars and was always very well turned out.
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Speaker 7: So he was your typical young Birmingham lad, essentially, very
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Speaker 7: close to his mum, very close to his sister.
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Speaker 1: The paths of the two young single parents would soon cross.
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Speaker 7: Well, Lee and Tracy met in October 1994 in Ritzy's
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Speaker 7: nightclub in Birmingham, and this relationship really did develop at
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Speaker 7: a lightning pace. They had moved in with one another
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Speaker 7: only around three months into the relationship, so this was
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Speaker 7: going very, very fast. And their relationship was quite a
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Speaker 7: volatile one. They were both quite possessive, quite jealous, when
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Speaker 7: it came to the other's relationships with the opposite sex.
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Speaker 7: And you often find this in relationships that develop very quickly.
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Speaker 7: You haven't got that foundation of trust that's been built.
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Speaker 7: You're always a little bit kind of suspicious as to
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Speaker 7: what the other person's up to because you don't really
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Speaker 7: know them.
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Speaker 3: And they would row, and they would fight like cat
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Speaker 3: and dog, and neighbors would report how voices would be
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Speaker 3: raised at all hours of the day and night and
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Speaker 3: would go on and on for hours. and then stop,
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Speaker 3: and then start again.
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Speaker 1: The couple got engaged after just six months, but their
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Speaker 1: volatile relationship would often see them break up, only to
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Speaker 1: get back together again soon after.
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Speaker 8: It was maybe almost a carbon copy of what Tracy
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Speaker 8: grew up with in her house. She had a very
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Speaker 8: explosive temper, and Lee Harvey also, in a way, wouldn't
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Speaker 8: like just... to her screaming, so he would scream back.
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Speaker 2: She was forever throwing him out into the street, and
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Speaker 2: she would throw his clothes out of the window or
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Speaker 2: in a black bin bag and chuck him out the
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Speaker 2: front door, change the locks, and then they would have reconciliations.
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Speaker 2: Lee would go back, more violence, Lee would leave, Lee
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Speaker 2: would go back, more violence. This went on for a
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Speaker 2: period of about two years.
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Speaker 1: Their explosive relationship finally came to a head on December
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Speaker 1: the 1st, 1996.
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Speaker 3: So they'd been rowing all day. Lee tended to be
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Speaker 3: the peacemaker, and it was probably Lee's suggestion, why don't
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Speaker 3: we go for a drink? Why don't we just get
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Speaker 3: a change of scene, a breath of fresh air? Let's
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Speaker 3: get out of here. Let's just go and relax and
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Speaker 3: have a drink. And that's what they did.
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Speaker 1: But Lee Harvey would never make it home again. By
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Speaker 1: 11 p.m., he would be dead. The only witness to
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Speaker 1: the fatal altercation was his fiancée, Tracy Andrews. And her
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Speaker 1: version of events would soon make it one of the
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Speaker 1: most talked-about murders of the decade. On December the 1st, 1996,
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Speaker 1: 27-year-old Tracey Andrews and her 25-year-old fiance Lee Harvey were
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Speaker 1: at a pub in Bromsgrove in the West Midlands. After
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Speaker 1: arguing all day, the couple were trying to patch things up,
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Speaker 1: but their night was about to turn deadly.
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Speaker 7: Tracy claimed that after they'd left the pub and that
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Speaker 7: Lee was driving, that they'd become involved in a road
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Speaker 7: rage incident, essentially, that a man in a dark Ford Sierra,
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Speaker 7: there'd been some kind of altercation, and he'd started following them.
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Speaker 3: And she's suddenly aware that this car is behind, lights
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Speaker 3: flashing right on their tail. Lee starts to accelerate. They're
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Speaker 3: snaking together through the lanes. The other car then effectively
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Speaker 3: draws Lee to a halt.
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Speaker 1: Tracy later told detectives that the man following the couple
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Speaker 1: along rural Cooper's Hill got out of his car and
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Speaker 1: Lee did the same. A confrontation was inevitable.
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Speaker 3: The driver then said what he... He wants to say, apparently.
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Speaker 3: He gets back in the car. Lee is still outside
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Speaker 3: of his car. And then the passenger gets out, a
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Speaker 3: fat man with staring eyes, and he goes up to
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Speaker 3: Lee and attacks Lee in a way that Tracy doesn't
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Speaker 3: quite see. Then she piles in, she says, to go
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Speaker 3: to Lee's defence, because she says... She's not the kind
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Speaker 3: of girl to just sit there and see her man
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Speaker 3: being attacked, at which point she gets smacked by the
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Speaker 3: fat man in the eyes and repeatedly gets up and
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Speaker 3: is knocked down. And then she says, it all gets
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Speaker 3: a bit hazy from that point and then she kind
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Speaker 3: of comes to almost and leaves there and he's covered
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Speaker 3: in blood and she's cradling him and it all goes
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Speaker 3: very vague.
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Speaker 1: Lee's car had ended up right outside a house called
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Speaker 1: Keeper's Cottage. The commotion in the road had alerted one
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Speaker 1: of the residents.
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Speaker 3: The guy made his way down the little path to
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Speaker 3: the road and there sees in poor light, just shown
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Speaker 3: by the security light, but there's a woman standing there
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Speaker 3: with her back to the car. There's a a body,
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Speaker 3: prone body, on the floor. He instantly runs back into
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Speaker 3: the house, saying, call the police, call the police, call
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Speaker 3: the ambulance.
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Speaker 1: The case was immediately given to Detective Superintendent Ian Johnston.
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Speaker 6: I received a call from West Merseyside Constabulary Operations Room,
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Speaker 6: which directed me to the scene at Cobless Hill, where
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Speaker 6: I met with divisional representatives. Present at that time was
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Speaker 6: Lee's car, and Tracey Andrews was inside Keeper's Cottage, having
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Speaker 6: been found in the road outside. I could see Lee's vehicle.
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Speaker 6: It was pulled in on the near side of the road,
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Speaker 6: traveling towards Alfchurch, and it didn't appear to have been
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Speaker 6: stopped in any great hurry. It looked as though it
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Speaker 6: had been fairly neatly parked to the side.
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Speaker 1: Detectives at the scene spoke to Tracey to find out
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Speaker 1: exactly what had happened.
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Speaker 6: The incident appeared to have started from the Marlbrook Public House.
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Speaker 6: There'd been a road situation down the A38 towards the
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Speaker 6: M42 motorway. Lee's car had been stopped, and then an
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Speaker 6: altercation had taken place between a member of that chasing
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Speaker 6: vehicle and Lee. Lee collapsed, and then the other vehicle
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Speaker 6: made its escape.
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Speaker 1: Lee Harvey died at the scene. It was clear that
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Speaker 1: he'd been the victim of a savage and frenzied attack.
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Speaker 2: This is a severe, sustained, brutal attack with a penknife. Now,
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Speaker 2: the estimates of how many wounds Lee suffered vary. Some
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Speaker 2: local reports said 42. What is clear, he was stabbed
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Speaker 2: in the throat, back, front, repeatedly. viciously and continuously.
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Speaker 9: To produce 42 stab wounds, it's a sustained assault. It's
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Speaker 9: 42 movements of your hand. This is not something that
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Speaker 9: you can do in a second or two seconds in
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Speaker 9: a moment of madness. You have to keep going and
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Speaker 9: it is not easy. In Lee Harvey's case, the fatal
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Speaker 9: stab wound was a stab wound to the carotid artery.
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Speaker 9: That is a large artery in the neck, And a
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Speaker 9: stab wound to an artery of that size is going
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Speaker 9: to cause very rapid, very heavy bleeding. Without prompt medical attention,
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Speaker 9: it's most likely to be a fatal injury.
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Speaker 1: With an initial statement taken, a bruised and bloodied Tracy
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Speaker 1: Andrews was whisked away.
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Speaker 6: In an ambulance.
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Speaker 3: And she's treated for those injuries and for shock in
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Speaker 3: hospital and cared for and tended for. while police launch
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Speaker 3: a massive murder hunt for whoever has done this terrible
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Speaker 3: thing to Lee.
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Speaker 6: Tracy had told us that the following vehicle, which had
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Speaker 6: followed them from the Marlbrook, was a dark-colored Ford Sierra,
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Speaker 6: F registered. And obviously, we started a vehicle inquiry with
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Speaker 6: the DVLA for the owner details of any vehicle that
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Speaker 6: might fit that description.
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Speaker 1: As reports of the apparent road rage murder reached news
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Speaker 1: desks across the country, journalists immediately headed to the West Midlands.
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Speaker 3: From the very first moment, it was clear that this
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Speaker 3: was going to be a huge story, an absolutely huge story.
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Speaker 3: Just the idea of a road rage murder made it
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Speaker 3: already a big story. And as the first morning progressed,
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Speaker 3: everything we discovered made it a bigger story. Photographs began
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Speaker 3: to emerge of Tracy. She looked an attractive young woman.
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Speaker 3: Photographs began to emerge of Lee, the victim. Handsome young man.
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Speaker 3: And so more and more of the elements that make
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Speaker 3: a big story young, attractive, bizarre, unimaginable circumstances all started
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Speaker 3: slotting into place.
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Speaker 1: Detectives knew that the best way to try and find
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Speaker 1: the killer was to make an appeal through the media.
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Speaker 1: A press conference was arranged for Tuesday, December the 3rd,
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Speaker 1: two days after the fatal attack.
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Speaker 6: I met Tracy somewhere around about 10 a.m., I believe,
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Speaker 6: just before we were going to do the press conference.
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Speaker 6: I asked her if she was content to do the
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Speaker 6: press conference, if it was something that she wanted to do.
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Speaker 6: She said that she was. She said she really wanted
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Speaker 6: to do it.
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Speaker 3: NISP. hugely hiked up the media interest because we were
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Speaker 3: going to have put in front of us, it was said,
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Speaker 3: the key witness and someone, we'd all seen the pictures
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Speaker 3: by this time, an attractive blonde, and she was going
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Speaker 3: to sit there in front of us and answer our questions.
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Speaker 3: There was massive media interest in this.
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Speaker 1: As the press conference began, all the focus was on
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Speaker 1: 27-year-old Tracey.
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Speaker 3: The noise of the cameras, the motor drives going off
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Speaker 3: as Tracy walked in the room was absolutely deafening. And
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Speaker 3: appearing in front of us, I don't think we'd all
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Speaker 3: thought what would appear really, but we'd all seen these
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Speaker 3: glamorous shots. Here was a woman, red-eyed, haggard, completely unmade up,
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Speaker 3: two black eyes, cut on her nose.
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Speaker 7: And Tracy did look like a victim. She had the
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Speaker 7: injuries to her face. She looked incredibly distressed, incredibly upset.
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Speaker 1: But Tracy seemed very comfortable when faced with all the
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Speaker 1: camera flashes and questions from the journalists.
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Speaker 6: The press really wanted to hear from Tracy. And so,
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Speaker 6: you know, I became a bit of a sideline, really,
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Speaker 6: which was fine. You know, it was about It was
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Speaker 6: about the story, it was about the situation. And the
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Speaker 6: press were interested in Tracy and she was quite happy
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Speaker 6: to deal with the press.
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Speaker 5: Both me and the other person were playing cat and
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Speaker 5: mouse with each other for a while. And they overtook us.
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Speaker 4: I was shouting at me to slow down, just ignore them,
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Speaker 4: stop the comedy. I don't know. I don't know if
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Speaker 4: a lot of men are like it. I know a
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Speaker 4: lot of women are like it. You can get behind
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Speaker 4: the wheel of a car. Sometimes you change personality.
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Speaker 3: During the press conference, when talking about the alleged killer,
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Speaker 3: there was a moment when suddenly her eyes came up,
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Speaker 3: and she was mostly downcast throughout the press conference, but
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Speaker 3: her eyes came up, and they flashed fiercely. and her
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Speaker 3: mouth dropped open a bit with that famous slightly jutting draw,
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Speaker 3: and she looked really angry. And at that point, again,
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Speaker 3: all the motor drives went off. Every press photographer reacted
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Speaker 3: to that. There was a crash of noise as every
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Speaker 3: camera was hit.
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Speaker 4: It was just the way he looked. His eyes, he
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Speaker 4: had starey eyes. He just didn't seem normal. I saw
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Speaker 4: the man.
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Speaker 9: Hit me.
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Speaker 4: I don't know what with. I didn't see anything.
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Speaker 6: And suddenly she, starts appealing to the driver of the car, saying,
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Speaker 6: you're not in any trouble, you know, come forward and
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Speaker 6: tell the police what it's all about.
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Speaker 4: Whoever this person is that was with you, you obviously
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Speaker 4: know him. But he's ruined my life. Please just tell
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Speaker 4: us who he is because you won't get in any
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Speaker 4: trouble at all. It was not your fault.
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Speaker 6: And I'm thinking, well, that's not strictly true, is it?
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Speaker 6: You've driven your friend to a murder scene, he's killed
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Speaker 6: someone and you've driven him away, so you are in trouble,
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Speaker 6: but OK.
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Speaker 1: And as the questioning progressed, Tracey seemed to contradict her
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Speaker 1: original statement.
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Speaker 3: I said, Tracey, sorry, but... I clearly understood the police
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Speaker 3: to say that it was about ten past ten when
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Speaker 3: you left the pub. And she kind of looked at me,
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Speaker 3: sort of head down under her lashes, and said, no,
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Speaker 3: it was ten to ten. And sat on her left
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Speaker 3: was Superintendent Johnston. And I just saw him react to
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Speaker 3: that answer from Tracey. And very slowly his head turned
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Speaker 3: to the right and he just looked at her in
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Speaker 3: a kind of assessing way, a kind of appraising way.
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Speaker 3: And at that moment I thought, wow, there's something going
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Speaker 3: on here.
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Speaker 4: I just tried to stop the bleeding really and comfort
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Speaker 4: him as much as I could.
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Speaker 1: The inconsistency in Tracey's story surprised the majority of reporters
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Speaker 1: in the room.
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Speaker 3: The press conference finished and the national newspaper journalists gathered
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Speaker 3: outside in a bit of a pack, as we would
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Speaker 3: tend to do, all friends, all know each other, work
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Speaker 3: against each other, and somebody said, what do you think?
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Speaker 3: And I said, I think she did it. And we
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Speaker 3: all kind of looked at each other and for this
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Speaker 3: enormous story just got ten times bigger again if she
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Speaker 3: is the killer.
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Speaker 1: Was it really conceivable that Tracey Andrews had been lying
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Speaker 1: all along? As the investigation continued, new evidence suggested that
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Speaker 1: maybe there was no road rage incident at all. Andrews
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Speaker 1: would go from the only witness to the number one
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Speaker 1: suspect in the murder of Lee Harvey. On December the 3rd, 1996,
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Speaker 1: 27-year-old Tracy Andrews appeared at an emotionally charged press conference
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Speaker 1: in an appeal to find the passenger of a Ford
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Speaker 1: Sierra who she claimed had stabbed her fiancé Lee Harvey
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Speaker 1: to death. But unbeknownst to Andrews, the police were beginning
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Speaker 1: to work out the truth, that she had been the
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Speaker 1: one responsible for the murder of 25-year-old Lee.
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Speaker 7: It's self-preservation. That's what's driving her behavior at this point
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Speaker 7: in time. She's got absolutely no empathy whatsoever for Lee
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Speaker 7: or for Lee's family or, indeed, for her own family,
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Speaker 7: who are also going to be really badly affected by this.
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Speaker 7: So she's thinking, how do I best preserve myself? I'm
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Speaker 7: going to take that role of the victim and I'm
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Speaker 7: going to put myself in it.
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Speaker 1: Andrew's claim that she and Lee had been the victim
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Speaker 1: of a road rage incident didn't seem to add up.
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Speaker 1: A witness statement from a child staying in a house
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Speaker 1: on Cooper's Hill put her version of events in doubt.
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Speaker 3: It was December, the windows were closed, but she could
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Speaker 3: clearly hear a row going on. What she remembered was
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Speaker 3: that one was a distinctly male baritone voice. The other
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Speaker 3: voice was much softer. And she said it was much
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Speaker 3: more like a woman's voice.
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Speaker 1: Forensic searches of the road had discovered more clues into
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Speaker 1: what really happened.
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Speaker 3: We couldn't get anywhere near the scene on the first morning,
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Speaker 3: or indeed for a few days afterwards. The police completely
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Speaker 3: sealed it off while they drafted in officers to carry
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Speaker 3: out a fingertip search of the area. What they found,
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Speaker 3: we later discovered, were a couple of bits and pieces,
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Speaker 3: including a tiny spring and another element from a multifunction penknife.
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Speaker 3: What police didn't find was any trace of a car
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Speaker 3: overtaking another car on the soft December winter verges of
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Speaker 3: this pretty narrow road.
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Speaker 1: Police had also found a black beanie hat in the
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Speaker 1: hedgerow next to where Lee's car had been parked.
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Speaker 6: So her assumption was, well, this has maybe fallen out
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Speaker 6: of the assailant's pocket and he's not realized it. So,
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Speaker 6: of course, that went to the laboratory fairly quickly with
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Speaker 6: a view towards DNA and from hair samples, that sort
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Speaker 6: of thing. And we have the report back by the
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Speaker 6: Wednesday that this was animal hair, and it was cat hair,
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Speaker 6: black and white cat hair. Well, there's a black and
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Speaker 6: white cat at Tracey's. And so we went down and
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Speaker 6: took a sample of the hair from the cat, and
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Speaker 6: it was the cat hair. And then, as I understand
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Speaker 6: it later on, it was accepted that this was Lee's hat,
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Speaker 6: but had been in Tracey's pocket prior to the offence
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Speaker 6: taking place.
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Speaker 1: Andrew's lie about the hat was just one of many
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Speaker 1: inconsistencies in her story.
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Speaker 7: In Lee's hand, they found between 80 and 100 strands
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Speaker 7: of Tracy's hair that have been pulled from Tracy's head
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Speaker 7: as Lee has tried to defend himself. Now, if Lee
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Speaker 7: had been murdered by this fat man with staring eyes,
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Speaker 7: why would he have Tracy's hair in his hand?
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Speaker 6: Well, the pathologist's evidence was that this was more than
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Speaker 6: just a death-grasp stroke in Lee's hand. that it was
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Speaker 6: a reasonable clump, that it had a good pull. But,
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Speaker 6: of course, Tracey's view was, well, this must have been
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Speaker 6: when he was going and he got his hand in
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Speaker 6: my hair, you know? So it came as a sort of,
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Speaker 6: as Lee was passing away, he pulled some hair from
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Speaker 6: her head.
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Speaker 1: It was beginning to look more and more likely that
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Speaker 1: Andrews had killed Lee in a fit of rage.
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Speaker 4: I mean, if you.
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Speaker 8: attack somebody that you're supposed to be in love with
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Speaker 8: and stab them 42 times and that's pretty out of control.
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Speaker 2: She wasn't thinking to herself as she set off from
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Speaker 2: the pub that evening, oh, tonight's the night I think
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Speaker 2: I'm going to kill Lee. She just exploded like a volcano.
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Speaker 2: Over a matter of minutes, literally, she went from mildly
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Speaker 2: angry to obsessively angry and that therefore he had to die.
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Speaker 7: When we talk about premeditated murder, we tend to assume
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Speaker 7: that it's something that's days, weeks or months in the planning,
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Speaker 7: but actually premeditation only needs to take seconds. You only
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Speaker 7: need to have a few seconds to decide that you
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Speaker 7: are going to end somebody's life, and she made that
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Speaker 7: decision on this evening.
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Speaker 1: And it seemed that Andrew's guilty conscience was beginning to
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Speaker 1: get the better of her. On Wednesday, December 4th, the
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Speaker 1: day after the Telltale press conference, she tried to kill herself.
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Speaker 7: Tracy takes an overdose, and I think this is a
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Speaker 7: very deliberate, a very determined act on her part. I
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Speaker 7: think she was absolutely set on ending her own life
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Speaker 7: because over the past few days, the situation has spiraled
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Speaker 7: completely out of her control. She's trying to keep her
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Speaker 7: story together. She's trying to present this face as the victim,
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Speaker 7: and it's all getting a bit too much because it's
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Speaker 7: starting to unravel. So I think this is an attempt
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Speaker 7: to take back control, to say, actually, I'm going to
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Speaker 7: decide to do something now that I'm fully in control of,
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Speaker 7: and that's what this was.
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Speaker 1: On the same evening, detectives were given their biggest steer yet.
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Speaker 1: Two people had seen Lee's distinctive white Ford Escort on
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Speaker 1: the night of his murder.
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Speaker 6: Two witnesses who said, we've seen it in the local paper.
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Speaker 6: I know I've seen this white car. We were driving
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Speaker 6: from Half Church in the opposite direction. We came through
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Speaker 6: Coopers Hill, past Coopers Cottage. We came down the hill.
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Speaker 6: And as we came to the junction at the bottom,
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Speaker 6: I saw this car go past. And he said, it's
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Speaker 6: a white Escort G Reg, spoked wheels, everything that it was.
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Speaker 6: And he said, you know, there is no doubt that
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Speaker 6: was the car. He said, and from that point to
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Speaker 6: when we got into Bromsgrove, we saw no car that
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Speaker 6: fits any description of what you've been told. And there
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Speaker 6: certainly wasn't any car chasing that car in the vicinity
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Speaker 6: of Cooper's Hill. So we'd got the confirmation that we
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Speaker 6: were looking for, that the road rage incident had not occurred.
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Speaker 6: And so that changed the way that we looked at
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Speaker 6: the investigation.
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Speaker 7: Her story really was starting to crumble at that point
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Speaker 7: in time. And combined with her suicide attempt, I think
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Speaker 7: the police decided that's enough evidence. We can now move
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Speaker 7: in and arrest her.
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Speaker 1: On Saturday, December 7th, 1996, six days after Lee's murder,
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Speaker 1: Tracey Andrews was arrested in hospital and taken into custody.
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Speaker 10: The 27-year-old woman was arrested at 11 o'clock today, but
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Speaker 10: so far detectives have released no further details. Until this development...
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Speaker 10: the police had been looking for two men who they
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Speaker 10: believe may have escaped from the scene in a dark
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Speaker 10: Ford Sierra.
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Speaker 6: The evidence from the two witnesses who'd seen Lee Harvey's
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Speaker 6: vehicle through the junction that night was extremely impactive. And realistically...
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Speaker 6: without a following vehicle, without a dark-colored Ford Sierra chasing
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Speaker 6: that car, then the whole being of that explanation from
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Speaker 6: Tracy just didn't stand up.
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Speaker 1: Further evidence pointed towards Andrews being the killer after the
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Speaker 1: clothes she was wearing on the night of the murder
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Speaker 1: were forensically tested.
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Speaker 6: The forensic scientist who had examined one of Tracy's zip-up boots,
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Speaker 6: she had a pair of ankle boots on, and within that,
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Speaker 6: he'd found a mark in the leather, which had a
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Speaker 6: rounded top on it, and seemed to bear all the
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Speaker 6: impression of the outside shape of the knife. And that's
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Speaker 6: the hypothesis, that she carried the knife away from the
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Speaker 6: scene in her boot, and that as soon as she
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Speaker 6: got to the hospital, she was able to dispose of it.
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Speaker 8: She could have easily just thrown the knife into the
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Speaker 8: grass or into the forest, whatever it was, and hoped
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Speaker 8: the police wouldn't find it. She even thought, no, these
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Speaker 8: guys are going to bring dogs, they're going to search
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Speaker 8: the whole area, they'll probably find something.
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Speaker 1: Tracy Andrews was officially charged with the murder of Lee
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Speaker 1: Harvey on December the 19th, 1996. Her trial was set
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Speaker 1: for July, and she was going to plead not guilty.
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Speaker 1: Andrews was sticking to her story. The prosecution would have
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Speaker 1: to prove that she was a liar later.