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Murder In Broad Daylight - Jamie Faith - Part 2 · Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

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Speaker 1: Today we continue the story of the murder of Jamie Faith.
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Speaker 1: We covered a lot of information in last episode that
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Speaker 1: is very critical to understanding the full story, so be
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Speaker 1: sure you go back and listen to part one before
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Speaker 1: joining us in today's episode, which is in fact part two.
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Speaker 1: But if you're ready, then let's begin. My name's Ben.
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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole, and you're listening to Wicked and Grim, a
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Speaker 2: true crime podcast.
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Speaker 3: Listener discretion is advised.
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Speaker 1: It's October 16th today, which means it is officially over
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Speaker 1: halfway through October.
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Speaker 2: That is true.
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Speaker 1: Halloween is almost here. It is upon us. Dun, dun, dun.
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Speaker 2: You're not excited at all.
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Speaker 1: Not at all, no. We have our photo shoot lined
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Speaker 1: up here coming up soon.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited for that. That's always so fun.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you don't know, we do an annual
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Speaker 1: Halloween photo shoot every year. We do some cool stuff.
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Speaker 1: We've done some pretty interesting ones in the past, including
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Speaker 1: me turning into a zombie and Nicole bashing my brains in.
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Speaker 1: Last year, we were a 1920s murderous couple burying a
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Speaker 1: body in the woods. It was great. That's my personal
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Speaker 1: favorite photo shoot so far, honestly.
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Speaker 2: I think mine was the skeleton.
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Speaker 1: The skeleton onesies?
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Speaker 2: We just got to wear, yeah, skeleton onesies. It was
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Speaker 2: so cozy and the dogs were part of it too.
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Speaker 1: That's what made it though. The dogs had the skeleton bandanas.
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Speaker 1: So we were just a skeleton family.
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Speaker 2: It was super cute.
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Speaker 1: It was good. That photo shoot was super quick too,
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Speaker 1: which was really nice.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It was easy. It was act a fool and get
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Speaker 1: photos done.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, it was the quickest one for sure. Though
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Speaker 1: to be fair- I have a feeling this year's photos
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Speaker 1: might be even quicker. Yeah. Because we don't have to
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Speaker 1: do a whole lot.
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Speaker 2: There's not a lot to them. I thought we were
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Speaker 2: giving more hints.
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Speaker 1: Oh, no, that's all I'm saying.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we just basically got to stand there and
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Speaker 1: get our photo taken. That's about it. The costumes are cool.
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Speaker 1: The premise is really cool. But I mean, that's it. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well, in due time, everyone will know.
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Speaker 1: The smirk on your face right now is massive. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You're just like, they don't know, but I know.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 2: It's a secret.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be good. But I think we should
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Speaker 1: continue with the part two instead of talking too much
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Speaker 1: prior to this episode begins. Because, hey, we have a
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Speaker 1: part two today.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's antsy pansy to see what happened or is happening.
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Speaker 1: How this plays out. So do you want me to
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Speaker 1: give you the whole recap breakdown from part one?
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Speaker 2: That would be lovely.
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Speaker 1: Okay. So in part one of Jamie Faith's story. We
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Speaker 1: traveled to Dallas, Texas, where on the morning of October 9th, 2020,
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Speaker 1: the 49-year-old American Airlines executive was brutally murdered while walking
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Speaker 1: his dog with his wife. A masked gunman approached the
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Speaker 1: couple from behind, shooting Jamie a total of seven times
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Speaker 1: before attacking his wife, Jennifer, binding her wrists with duct
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Speaker 1: tape and fleeing in a black Nissan Titan pickup truck. Now,
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Speaker 1: The shocking attack left a quiet neighborhood absolutely terrified in
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Speaker 1: its wake. There was a family that was devastated, and
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Speaker 1: investigators were struggling to understand why anyone would want Jamie dead.
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Speaker 1: In the weeks that followed, his wife, Jennifer, became the
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Speaker 1: grieving face of the investigation, appearing in TV news interviews
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Speaker 1: and pleading for public's help to identify her husband's killer.
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Speaker 1: Friends and neighbors rallied around her and their daughter, Amber.
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Speaker 1: organizing meals, offering emotional support, and raising more than $ 60, 000
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Speaker 1: through a GoFundMe campaign. Meanwhile, detectives struggled to make sense
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Speaker 1: of the evidence, particularly the excessive number of gunshot wounds
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Speaker 1: and the suspicious figure captured on surveillance footage near the
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Speaker 1: Faith home only hours before the murder. But the investigation
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Speaker 1: took an unexpected turn when detectives examined Jennifer's cell phone
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Speaker 1: and discovered that she had been involved in an emotional
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Speaker 1: affair with a former boyfriend named named Darren Lopez. Now,
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Speaker 1: Darren was a retired Special Forces soldier living approximately 650
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Speaker 1: miles away in Tennessee. An investigator soon learned that he
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Speaker 1: owned a black Nissan Titan pickup truck matching the description
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Speaker 1: of the killer's vehicle, even down to a white T
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Speaker 1: decal on it. And yes, I said in part one, decal,
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Speaker 1: we're Canadian, not decal. We get it. We get the dispute.
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Speaker 1: Don't worry. But we're committed. It's decal. Now, as detectives
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Speaker 1: dug deeper, they discovered that Jennifer and Darren had exchanged
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Speaker 1: an astonishing number of text messages in the months surrounding
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Speaker 1: Jamie's death. Yet, despite communicating almost constantly, their messages had
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Speaker 1: abruptly stopped on the afternoon of October 8th, only to
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Speaker 1: resume the evening after that Jamie was murdered. For approximately
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Speaker 1: 28 hours, the two had gone completely silent, and somewhere
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Speaker 1: within that unexplained gap, Jamie Faith had been killed. And
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Speaker 1: that's where we left off. The authorities were just investigating
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Speaker 1: Darren and they did some aerial surveillance and they found
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Speaker 1: that white deckle on the pickup truck on his property.
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Speaker 2: Such a wild ride.
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Speaker 1: Exactly. And there's this gap that they're just like, well,
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Speaker 1: why aren't they talking then? They talked so much with
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Speaker 1: hundreds of daily messages every other day, but not that day.
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Speaker 2: I remember feeling like such a bitch too because I
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Speaker 2: was like suspicious of Jennifer. But you hadn't said anything
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Speaker 2: bad yet. And then all of a sudden it came,
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Speaker 2: some stuff came out, some dirt came out.
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Speaker 1: Some dirt definitely came out. And I have a sneaky
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Speaker 1: suspicion that your opinion of Jennifer may change in today's episode.
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Speaker 1: But when I say change, I don't mean you're going
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Speaker 1: to change your opinion. I just think your opinion is
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Speaker 1: going to get stronger.
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Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
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Speaker 1: Holy shit.
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Speaker 2: Okay. Well, if I wasn't ready, I sure am now.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Well, let's continue. So with Darren Rubin Lopez now
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Speaker 1: connected to a pickup truck resembling the vehicle seen leaving
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Speaker 1: Jamie's murder scene, investigators turned their attention to establishing his
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Speaker 1: whereabouts on October 8th and 9th in the year of 2020.
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Speaker 1: Now the interruption in his communication with Jennifer was certainly
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Speaker 1: suspicious to say the least, but detectives needed more than
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Speaker 1: just phone records showing that the two had stopped exchanging messages.
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Speaker 1: So they began examining Darren's financial transactions. They examined his
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Speaker 1: cell phone location data, navigation history, and even security recordings
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Speaker 1: from businesses along the route between Tennessee and Texas that
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Speaker 1: he would have been traveling. Now together, these records allowed
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Speaker 1: investigators to reconstruct much of the journey that he had
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Speaker 1: made during the hours surrounding Jamie's death. The financial records
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Speaker 1: were able to establish that Darren had clearly been preparing
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Speaker 1: his truck for some sort of travel shortly before the shooting.
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Speaker 1: Because on Wednesday, October 7th, he visited a Valovine Service
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Speaker 1: Center in Dixon, Tennessee, which does like stop in oil
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Speaker 1: changes and such. There was a transaction for $ 133. 69 that
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Speaker 1: was recorded there. The following afternoon, Thursday, October 8th, his
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Speaker 1: account showed purchases at a Huck's convenience store near his
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Speaker 1: home as well. Then at approximately 1.42 p.m. and 1.44 p.m.,
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Speaker 1: two transactions were recorded for $ 100 and $ 21. 75. These purchases
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Speaker 1: occurred shortly after his communication with Jennifer stopped at 1.07pm.
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Speaker 1: Then approximately at 2.01pm, Darren's phone had been used to
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Speaker 1: obtain Google Map directions directly to Jamie and Jennifer's residence
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Speaker 1: in South Waverly Drive in Dallas. Meaning that these transactions
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Speaker 1: and the timeline shows he was preparing to hit the road.
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Speaker 2: Holy shit.
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Speaker 1: Investigators followed the electronic trail westward through Tennessee and into Arkansas.
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Speaker 1: At approximately 4.51 p.m., Darren's financial records placed him at
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Speaker 1: a pilot travel center near West Memphis, Arkansas, where he
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Speaker 1: purchased items that included snacks, energy drinks, and even DVDs.
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Speaker 1: Surveillance footage from the location showed a man matching Darren's
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Speaker 1: appearance wearing a blue surgical mask and the black Nissan
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Speaker 1: Titan wearing Well, it was also visible, including the distinctive
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Speaker 1: white T-deckle on its rear window. Now, I do want
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Speaker 1: to clarify with this blue surgical mask, you have to
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Speaker 1: remember this is 2020. This is peak COVID-19 era. So
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Speaker 1: him walking through a convenience store with a surgical mask
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Speaker 1: is completely normal.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably the only way, like you had to, I bet.
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Speaker 3: 100%.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, further transactions included a $ 100 ATM withdrawal at
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Speaker 1: approximately 5.02 p.m. and a fuel purchase of $ 51 at
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Speaker 1: a nearby Flying Jays around 5.09 p.m. These records were
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Speaker 1: essential because they connected Darren directly to his vehicle and
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Speaker 1: his electronic devices to the route towards Dallas, where Jamie
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Speaker 1: was murdered. Now, from there, the journey continued southwards towards Texas,
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Speaker 1: and investigators examined cell phone connections and navigation activity to
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Speaker 1: continue to establish when Darren's phone was active and where
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Speaker 1: it had been used. And during the early morning hours
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Speaker 1: of Friday, October 9th, the device recorded activity consistent with
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Speaker 1: his arrival in Dallas. At approximately 2.19 a.m., location information
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Speaker 1: placed it near the Faith residence. on South Waverly Drive,
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Speaker 1: which is especially significant because the family security camera had
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Speaker 1: recorded a man moving around the vacant neighboring property at
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Speaker 1: about 2.30 a.m., and the clothing, mask, and general appearance
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Speaker 1: of the figure were consistent with the man witnessed on
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Speaker 1: the camera not only in that residence, but also in
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Speaker 1: the surveillance footage from Darren traveling all this route, and
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Speaker 1: also the individual who is seen shooting Jamie at the scene.
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Speaker 2: This is just, this just feels so disappointing to me. Yeah? Like,
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Speaker 2: I don't know this case. I just, because they seem
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Speaker 2: so happy and so perfect, you know, how you described
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Speaker 2: them at the beginning?
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Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: And I guess sometimes what is on- on the surface
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Speaker 2: isn't actually what is.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think that's something that we deal with a
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Speaker 1: lot in today's age, especially with social media.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You don't understand what's going on behind the scenes or
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Speaker 1: below the surface of any sort of relationship or connection.
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Speaker 1: Only those actually present within it really fully understand.
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Speaker 2: You only put out the good stuff.
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Speaker 1: Exactly. And if I'm honest, I have to say regarding
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Speaker 1: this episode, I don't even think Everyone involved in this
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Speaker 1: one knew it was going on below the surface because
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Speaker 1: Jamie certainly had no clue.
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Speaker 2: Holy frig. Okay.
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Speaker 1: But I'm getting ahead of myself. Now, whoever had been
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Speaker 1: captured on the security footage had clearly arrived in the
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Speaker 1: neighborhood several hours before Jamie and Jennifer left to walk
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Speaker 1: their dog that morning. So detectives examined the possibility that
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Speaker 1: the individual had positioned himself near the vacant property and
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Speaker 1: remained there until the couple emerged. shortly after 7.30 a.m. Now,
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Speaker 1: the footage, unfortunately, didn't show the entire five-hour period, though,
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Speaker 1: and investigators couldn't determine every movement the person had made
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Speaker 1: while they were waiting. What they did have was the
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Speaker 1: combination of Darren's location records, the distinctive vehicle, the security footage,
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Speaker 1: him being similarly dressed to the individual at the murder scene,
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Speaker 1: all of this, that combined some very significant evidence. All
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Speaker 1: in all, let's just say it was... It was very
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Speaker 1: difficult to explain it all as a coincidence. Now, investigators
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Speaker 1: also traced Darren's return towards Tennessee on October 9th. His
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Speaker 1: cell phone connected with cellular towers along the eastbound Interstate
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Speaker 1: 40 corridor during the afternoon, with one connection at around 4.32 p.m.,
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Speaker 1: placing the device approximately 62 miles from his home. Another
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Speaker 1: connection at approximately 5.11 p.m. placed it roughly 20 miles
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Speaker 1: of Cumberland Furnace. Then, at 5.18pm, Darren resumed texting Jennifer,
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Speaker 1: ending the unusually long interruption in their communications. Jennifer replied,
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Speaker 1: at 5.41pm, and the two exchanged approximately 50 messages that evening.
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Speaker 1: Financial records also showed a purchase at Huck's, which is a,
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Speaker 1: as I mentioned already, convenience store in Dixon, at approximately 10.21pm,
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Speaker 1: confirming that Darren had returned to the area where he lived. Now,
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Speaker 1: by combining the travel records with the evidence collected in Dallas,
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Speaker 1: investigators had established an extremely compelling timeline. Darren had traveled
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Speaker 1: towards Texas immediately after his communications with Jennifer stopped, arriving
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Speaker 1: near her home during the early morning hours of October
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Speaker 1: 9th and returned to Tennessee before their regular texting resumed.
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Speaker 1: And the same black Nissan Titan associated with him matched
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Speaker 1: the vehicle scene leaving the murder scene. But nevertheless, detectives
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Speaker 1: still needed to determine whether Jennifer knew anything about his
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Speaker 1: journey over this way and whether the two had discussed
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Speaker 1: Jamie's murder before or after the fact. So the investigators
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Speaker 1: continued quietly through November and into December with their work.
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Speaker 1: On December 2nd, Jennifer appeared in a TV interview discussing
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Speaker 1: the unidentified pickup truck and its white T-deckle, which she
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Speaker 1: continued to describe as resembling a Texas Rangers emblem. Then
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Speaker 1: the following day on December 3rd, investigators recovered communication showing
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Speaker 1: that she sent Darren a link to the interview and
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Speaker 1: urged him to remove that decal from his truck.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. This bitch.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 2: I'll just let you continue. But like she's accepting. has
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Speaker 2: been accepting like go fund me and like meals and shit. Oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: So Jennifer explained that she had woke up feeling panicked
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Speaker 1: and would feel considerably better if he had removed the
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Speaker 1: deckle and thoroughly clean that window right away. Darren though
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Speaker 1: was initially reluctant to do so because his daughter might
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Speaker 1: notice the change, but Jennifer continued pressing him to act quickly.
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Speaker 1: Surveillance photos taken from the air on December 4th over
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Speaker 1: his property were showed that the sticker remained in its place.
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Speaker 1: But then on December 6th, Darren informed Jennifer that it
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Speaker 1: had been removed. She responded enthusiastically by feeling relieved and
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Speaker 1: thanked him for doing it. And by December 8th, surveillance
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Speaker 1: confirmed that that distinctive white T-deckle was gone from the truck.
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Speaker 1: The removal mattered a lot because investigators had been searching
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Speaker 1: for precisely that identifying feature, And Jennifer's messages demonstrated she
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Speaker 1: was privately encouraging Darren to alter the appearance of his
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Speaker 1: vehicle while it was being searched for publicly, as it's
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Speaker 1: associated with the killer of her husband. Ultimately, though, it
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Speaker 1: also demonstrated guilt and a cover-up with Jennifer being involved.
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Speaker 1: Detectives now had substantial reason to suspect both individuals were responsible.
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Speaker 1: Now on January 7th, authorities obtained a rest warrant for
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Speaker 1: Darren while federal agents prepared to search his property in
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Speaker 1: Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee. The operation was coordinated with Dallas investigators
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Speaker 1: who also wanted another opportunity to question Jennifer without giving
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Speaker 1: her advance warning that Darren was about to be taken
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Speaker 1: into custody. So on Sunday, January 10th, Detective Chris Walton
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Speaker 1: contacted Jennifer and asked her to come to the Dallas
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Speaker 1: police headquarters for an interview the following day. Then shortly
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Speaker 1: after at approximately 5 50 PM, Jennifer informed Darren about
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Speaker 1: this request at 6 PM. She instructed him not to
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Speaker 1: text her Monday because she intended to delete their messages
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Speaker 1: and factory reset her phone clearly to try and erase evidence.
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Speaker 1: 15 minutes later, she provided a specific explanation. They could
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Speaker 1: both used if questioned Darren was an old friend going
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Speaker 1: through a difficult divorce. Jennifer had been helping him financially
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Speaker 1: and supporting him with his daughters. She emphasized that they
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Speaker 1: needed matching explanations to which Darren responded, quote, good idea.
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Speaker 1: I like it. End quote. And on Monday, January 11th,
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Speaker 1: agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives,
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Speaker 1: or better known as ATF, were conducting surveillance along Highway
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Speaker 1: 48 in Dixon County, Tennessee, when they spotted a silver
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Speaker 1: 2006 Toyota Scion. It was Darren's daughter, Mackenzie Lopez. She
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Speaker 1: was driving, and Darren was sitting in the front passenger seat.
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Speaker 1: Agents followed the vehicle into Dixon and approached after Darren
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Speaker 1: exited the vehicle. An ATF Special Agent Jackson Reeves took
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Speaker 1: him into custody and asked whether he was carrying any weapons.
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Speaker 1: Darren replied that he had a loaded. 45 caliber handgun
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Speaker 1: inside a bag in the Scion, with a cartridge already chambered.
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Speaker 1: A subsequent search recovered the pistol, ammunition, military patches, Jennifer's
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Speaker 1: credit cards, a blue surgical mask, and Darren's Samsung Galaxy
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Speaker 1: cell phone. Now, the agents also searched Darren's residence in
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Speaker 1: Cumberland Furnace, where they discovered a large FedEx box on
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Speaker 1: the porch addressed from Jennifer to Darren. And inside the
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Speaker 1: house was an unopened Samsung television that had been shipped
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Speaker 1: directly to him as well. But more importantly, investigators located
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Speaker 1: a tan satchel, containing a second handgun, an unopened can
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Speaker 1: of Red Bull, and two DVDs. The firearms that they found, well,
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Speaker 1: it was a Smith & Wesson Model 4506, a. 45
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Speaker 1: caliber semi-automatic pistol, which was silver in color, and consistent
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Speaker 1: with Jennifer's description of the gun used to shoot Jamie.
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Speaker 1: The drink and DVDs also appeared to match purchases Darren
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Speaker 1: had made at the Pilot Travel Center in West Memphis, Arkansas.
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Speaker 1: while driving towards Dallas on October 8th. Now, the gun
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Speaker 1: became one of the investigation's most significant discoveries, because not
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Speaker 1: only did it match the silver color, but forensic testing
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Speaker 1: soon identified Jamie's blood was present on the weapon, while
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Speaker 1: ballistic comparisons linked the firearm directly to the cartridge casings
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Speaker 1: recovered from South Waverly Drive. Investigators used the National Integrated
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Speaker 1: Ballistics Information Network to support that identification. The gun was
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Speaker 1: also traced through federal firearms records to a dealer in Belgium,
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Speaker 1: although its ownership history is not established exactly why Darren
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Speaker 1: was in possession of it. But with Jamie's blood in
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Speaker 1: the handgun and its connection to the shooting, detectives now
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Speaker 1: had an extremely powerful piece of physical evidence tying Darren
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Speaker 1: directly to the murder.
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Speaker 2: Unbelievable. Okay, I went from being like disappointed to just,
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Speaker 2: I'm just like flat out disgusted now.
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Speaker 1: Fair enough. I mean, he's had this murder weapon sitting
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Speaker 1: here with... remnants of the blood on it, not only
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Speaker 1: in his possession, but also now in his daughter's vehicle
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Speaker 1: for months.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: What, why, what is he doing?
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Speaker 2: Well, obviously they're both idiots, really.
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Speaker 4: Clearly.
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Speaker 1: Clearly. Now, while agents searched his property in Tennessee, Jennifer
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Speaker 1: was questioned in Dallas at the police headquarters by Detective
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Speaker 1: Walton and ATF Special Agent Paul Williams. During the recorded interview,
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Speaker 1: Jennifer acknowledged that she had been communicating with Darren Daly,
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Speaker 1: but she initially denied any sort of inappropriate relationship with him.
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Speaker 1: But when Detective Walton confronted her with evidence of their
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Speaker 1: romantic exchanges, she admitted they had discussed rekindling old feelings,
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Speaker 1: but insisted... that she had ended that possibility. She maintained
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Speaker 1: that Jamie knew about the situation and that their marriage
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Speaker 1: remained a loving one. Then as Detective Walton presented information
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Speaker 1: about the Nissan Titan, Darren's movements, and the thousands of
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Speaker 1: messages exchanged between them, Jennifer simply denied knowing who had
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Speaker 1: killed her husband at all or any of this. Like, sure, okay,
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Speaker 1: maybe there's links, whatever. I know nothing is kind of
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Speaker 1: her attitude. Not involved, not me, no way. The detective
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Speaker 1: though also questioned why so many communications were conveniently missing
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Speaker 1: from Jennifer's phone. Now she said that she routinely deleted
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Speaker 1: messages to free up storage space, including even conversations with Jamie.
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Speaker 1: Detective Walton challenged that explanation though and asked why someone
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Speaker 1: who communicated with Darren so frequently would erase so much
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Speaker 1: of their correspondence. But Jennifer wasn't budging. She still maintained
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Speaker 1: that their contact was simply part of a close friendship.
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Speaker 1: and nothing more. Then when Detective Walton revealed that Darren
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Speaker 1: was actually already in custody, she acted shocked and continued
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Speaker 1: insisting she had no knowledge of his involvement in Jamie's
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Speaker 1: murder whatsoever, and ultimately the interview ended without Jennifer admitting
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Speaker 1: responsibility for Jamie's murder, and she was allowed to leave.
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Speaker 1: Now investigators continued examining the evidence recovered from Darren's phones,
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Speaker 1: A federal search warrant for it was obtained on January 14th,
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Speaker 1: and on approximately January 21st, a Homeland Security Investigations forensic
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Speaker 1: specialist processed the device using Celebrate software. They recovered messages
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Speaker 1: absent from Jamie's phone, including conversations about deleting correspondence and
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Speaker 1: avoiding police's attention. On November 30th, they found that Darren
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Speaker 1: had told Jennifer that he reset his phone and believed
22:27
Speaker 1: the old messages were completely erased. Her response was, quote,
22:31
Speaker 1: Big smile over here at that, end quote. Other messages
22:37
Speaker 1: documented their romantic involvement too. They also documented the removal
22:41
Speaker 1: of the tea deckle on the truck and Jennifer's instructions
22:45
Speaker 1: about what Darren should tell investigators. Financial evidence provided another
22:49
Speaker 1: important part of the investigation too. See, Darren's mortgage was
22:54
Speaker 1: at least 120 days overdue with approximately $ 38, 000 overdue. outstanding
23:00
Speaker 1: and foreclosure proceedings had already initiated. His water service had
23:05
Speaker 1: been disconnected for non-payment in October of 2020, and investigators
23:09
Speaker 1: also learned that Jennifer was the beneficiary of Jamie's approximately $ 629, 000
23:17
Speaker 1: life insurance policy, although the claim had not yet been
23:20
Speaker 1: paid out. Records from the community GoFundMe showed withdrawals of $ 30, 307. 71
23:24
Speaker 1: on October 13th, then $ 7, 649. 61 on October 14th, and $ 6, 082. 92
23:36
Speaker 1: on October 15th. Additional evidence also documented Jennifer providing Darren
23:42
Speaker 1: with money, credit cards, travel expenses, and gifts as well.
23:47
Speaker 1: Then on January 22nd, Darren was federally charged with transporting
23:51
Speaker 1: a firearm across state lines with the intent to commit murder.
23:56
Speaker 1: He was extradited to Dallas on February 5th. to face
23:59
Speaker 1: the state murder charge. Investigators, meanwhile, continued building their case
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Speaker 1: against Jennifer, focusing particularly on the deliberate destruction of communications
24:09
Speaker 1: and her effort to conceal Darren's connection to the shooting.
24:13
Speaker 1: On February 24th, 2021, Jennifer was also arrested and charged
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Speaker 1: with obstruction of justice. Following her arrest, investigators continued examining
24:24
Speaker 1: the electronic evidence recovered during their searches of the Faith residence.
24:28
Speaker 1: Computers and email accounts associated with Jennifer contained extensive correspondence
24:33
Speaker 1: with Darren, including messages describing serious allegations of abuse involving
24:39
Speaker 1: her murdered husband. Some emails appeared to have been written
24:44
Speaker 1: by Jamie herself, while others came from people claiming to
24:47
Speaker 1: have witnessed his behavior. These messages described a man whose
24:52
Speaker 1: conduct was completely at odds with the person Jamie's family, friends,
24:56
Speaker 1: and colleagues all remembered. Detectives began examining these correspondence to
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Speaker 1: determine whether the allegations were genuine and how they related
25:04
Speaker 1: to Darren's decision to travel to Dallas. Now, these communications
25:09
Speaker 1: took investigators all the way back to March 17th of 2020,
25:13
Speaker 1: when Darren reconnected with Jennifer through LinkedIn after approximately 27
25:18
Speaker 1: years apart. Their conversations initially centered on their shared history,
25:23
Speaker 1: including their teenage relationship, military service, marriages, and families. Darren, though,
25:29
Speaker 1: expressed regret in those conversations about the relationship ending, and
25:33
Speaker 1: the two began discussing the possibility of beginning to do
25:38
Speaker 1: it all over again. Their exchanges from there quickly became romantic,
25:43
Speaker 1: with Jennifer calling Darren her angel, and both expressing affection
25:48
Speaker 1: for one another quite consistently. Then, by May 2nd, Darren
25:53
Speaker 1: had even outlined a five-year plan for their future together,
25:56
Speaker 1: allowing time for his young daughters to finish school even.
26:01
Speaker 1: Jennifer had even mentioned his plan to her friend, Tina Spring,
26:06
Speaker 1: showing just how serious she was actually considering this relationship
26:10
Speaker 1: to be. It was within weeks of their reconnection that
26:13
Speaker 1: Jennifer began telling Darren that her marriage to Jamie, though,
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Speaker 1: was troubled. It started out with just dissatisfaction, but it
26:23
Speaker 1: quickly developed into allegations that Jamie had was physically violent
26:27
Speaker 1: and controlling. Jennifer began to tell Darren Jamie was regularly
26:33
Speaker 1: monitoring her communications, that he threatened her, and became increasingly
26:37
Speaker 1: violent whenever he discovered she was speaking with another man.
26:41
Speaker 1: You see, according to Jennifer, Jamie would beat her badly
26:45
Speaker 1: enough to leave extensive bruising across her body, sometimes forcing
26:49
Speaker 1: her to spend days recovering from these injuries. She also alleged...
26:54
Speaker 1: that he deliberately restrained her, tied her up, and subject
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Speaker 1: her to violent sexual assault and rape as punishment for
27:03
Speaker 1: maintaining contact with Darren. But Jennifer's allegations went considerably farther
27:09
Speaker 1: than that. She claimed Jamie sometimes invited other men over
27:14
Speaker 1: to participate in these assaults too, including one of his
27:17
Speaker 1: longtime friends, Jeremy Gibler. According to her alleged accounts, Jamie
27:22
Speaker 1: would arrange for multiple men to sexually assault her, sometimes
27:26
Speaker 1: describing these attacks as a way of humiliating and controlling her.
27:31
Speaker 1: She alleged that Jamie also burned her, threatened to have
27:35
Speaker 1: her assaulted by other strangers, and subjected her to increasingly
27:38
Speaker 1: brutal treatment that left her terrified of what he might
27:42
Speaker 1: do next. One of the most disturbing stories Jennifer told
27:47
Speaker 1: involved the hot tub at the Faith residence. She claimed
27:52
Speaker 1: Jamie held her underwater during a sexual assault incident until
27:56
Speaker 1: she lost her consciousness, and that he had actually subsequently
28:00
Speaker 1: had to perform CPR to revive her. Jennifer presented this
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Speaker 1: incident as evidence that her husband was becoming so violent
28:08
Speaker 1: that he might eventually kill her. She also described threats
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Speaker 1: of another particularly severe assault involving other several men, leaving
28:16
Speaker 1: Darren increasingly concerned that Jennifer's life was in fact in
28:20
Speaker 1: immediate danger. Jennifer even strengthened these stories by providing photos
28:26
Speaker 1: that documented her injuries to Darren. Some depicted extensive bruising
28:31
Speaker 1: and facial injuries, while others showed burns and additional physical trauma,
28:36
Speaker 1: even sexual. Now, investigators eventually established that these photos that
28:41
Speaker 1: she provided did not document abuse by Jamie. In fact,
28:45
Speaker 1: several were images that were not even of Jennifer herself.
28:47
Speaker 1: They were simply photos that she obtained off the internet,
28:50
Speaker 1: while others showed injuries that she had sustained, but they
28:54
Speaker 1: were of injuries from a vehicle accident in 2012, approximately
28:58
Speaker 1: eight years before the murder of her husband. Additional images
29:03
Speaker 1: allegedly depicted rape, while they were also identified as material
29:07
Speaker 1: that was taken from different porno productions. Investigators also discovered
29:13
Speaker 1: that Darren and had received threatening messages from accounts appearing
29:17
Speaker 1: to belong to Jamie. These communications claimed that Jamie knew
29:21
Speaker 1: about the relationship they were having, and he was deliberately
29:25
Speaker 1: punishing Jennifer because of it. Some described her as being restrained,
29:29
Speaker 1: of course, others threatened or violently raped, sexual assault, etc.
29:33
Speaker 1: But then they even taunted Darren about his inability to
29:38
Speaker 1: intervene from Tennessee. even describing the fake assaults involving other men.
29:44
Speaker 1: One message even threatened further violence over an upcoming weekend,
29:49
Speaker 1: while another continued to mock Darren for being unable to
29:52
Speaker 1: prevent it. Ultimately, Darren believed he was receiving messages from
29:57
Speaker 1: an abusive husband who who was using Jennifer's suffering to
30:01
Speaker 1: torment him. However, investigators found no evidence that Jamie had
30:07
Speaker 1: written these emails or ever communicated with Darren in this
30:10
Speaker 1: manner at all. Instead, it seems that Jennifer was the
30:15
Speaker 1: one who was sending these messages.
30:17
Speaker 2: Oh, she is like freaking batshit crazy.
30:21
Speaker 1: Yes, she is.
30:23
Speaker 2: I was having trouble, even when you started, I was like, well,
30:25
Speaker 2: I guess that could have been happening, but I was
30:27
Speaker 2: having a little bit of trouble believing it. But holy shit,
30:32
Speaker 2: she is nuts.
30:34
Speaker 1: She's manipulating Darren to do what she wants, to get
30:38
Speaker 1: what she wants, to murder her own husband.
30:41
Speaker 2: Like, how dare you?
30:43
Speaker 1: Wow. Now, another email account appeared to belong to Jennifer's
30:48
Speaker 1: former colleague and friend, Rob Schmidt. And on May 13th,
30:52
Speaker 1: Darren sent a message seeking Rob's assistance, explaining that Jennifer
30:56
Speaker 1: was allegedly being subject to physical and sexual violence. Correspondents
31:01
Speaker 1: from the account subsequently reinforced the allegations, describing injuries and
31:05
Speaker 1: encouraged Darren to actually intervene with the situation. And during
31:09
Speaker 1: a May exchange, Darren expressed that he would not feel
31:12
Speaker 1: comfortable until Jennifer was away from Jamie or he was
31:17
Speaker 1: permitted to shoot him. A response from the supposed friend
31:21
Speaker 1: encouraged the idea and even offered a provided alibi. For Darren,
31:26
Speaker 1: these communications, well, it provided an independent confirmation of all
31:31
Speaker 1: of this from someone who knew Jennifer personally. Now, detectives
31:36
Speaker 1: located the real Rob Schmidt and questioned him about these messages.
31:40
Speaker 1: Rob denied writing the emails attributed to him and said
31:42
Speaker 1: who he had. I mean, he had never done this
31:44
Speaker 1: sort of communication. He'd never communicated with Darren at all.
31:48
Speaker 1: So investigators examined information associated with the email accounts and
31:52
Speaker 1: established that the email addresses impersonating Rob and Jamie had
31:57
Speaker 1: been created specifically for the correspondence and were subsequently deleted
32:01
Speaker 1: shortly after Jamie's murder as well. And further examination of
32:05
Speaker 1: Jennifer's electronic devices connected her directly to these accounts, meaning
32:11
Speaker 1: she was the one behind them all. So rather than
32:15
Speaker 1: communicating with Jamie or receiving independent confirmation from Rob, Darren
32:19
Speaker 1: had been corresponding with Jennifer while she was impersonating both men. Now,
32:26
Speaker 1: regarding the accusation involving Jeremy Gibbler, a longtime friend of
32:29
Speaker 1: Jamie who had actually helped bring Jamie and Jennifer together
32:32
Speaker 1: in the first place, Jennifer had implicated Jeremy in the
32:35
Speaker 1: supposed incidents of group rape, claiming that he participated alongside
32:40
Speaker 1: Jamie and other men. When investigators contacted Jeremy, he was
32:45
Speaker 1: shocked and flat out denied these allegations. Not only that,
32:48
Speaker 1: but Jeremy lived in Arizona, hundreds of miles from Dallas,
32:53
Speaker 1: and investigators examined his whereabouts during the period in questioning
32:57
Speaker 1: and found no evidence supporting Jennifer's allegations or placing him
33:01
Speaker 1: at the supposed site of these incidents. Investigators also noted
33:05
Speaker 1: that Jeremy remained part of the private group messages too,
33:08
Speaker 1: the one that was receiving Jennifer's updates about Jamie's murder,
33:12
Speaker 1: despite her privately portraying him to Darren as someone she feared. Now,
33:16
Speaker 1: all of this revealed just how Jennifer had constructed several
33:20
Speaker 1: overlapping accounts of the same imaginary abuse, presenting herself as
33:25
Speaker 1: a frightened victim, impersonating Jamie as a violent aggressor, and
33:31
Speaker 1: using supposed witnesses to reinforce her claims and all to
33:35
Speaker 1: manipulate Darren. And through it all, she repeatedly discouraged efforts
33:41
Speaker 1: to involve police, suggesting that intervention was would endanger her
33:45
Speaker 1: further or devastate her daughter, Amber. The evidence established that
33:50
Speaker 1: Jennifer had fabricated all of these allegations, but investigators still
33:55
Speaker 1: needed to determine precisely what she had asked Darren to
33:58
Speaker 1: do and how much planning had occurred before October 9th.
34:03
Speaker 1: So as investigators examined the fabricated emails, they continued to
34:06
Speaker 1: question Darren too. Darren explained that the stories of abuse
34:11
Speaker 1: had started within weeks of their reconnection in March of 2020.
34:16
Speaker 1: He claimed she regularly described violent incidences occurring late at night,
34:20
Speaker 1: sometimes telling him that Jamie had taken her phone and
34:23
Speaker 1: was sending threatening messages himself. Darren remembered becoming physically sick
34:28
Speaker 1: while reading these accounts, and struggled to even sleep at
34:31
Speaker 1: night because he believed Jennifer was being seriously harmed. According
34:36
Speaker 1: to his statements, he repeatedly encouraged her to go contact
34:41
Speaker 1: the police or find somewhere somewhere safe to stay. But
34:45
Speaker 1: she resisted those suggestions, claiming that involving authorities would make
34:49
Speaker 1: matters worse. The allegations, of course, became increasingly extreme, including
34:54
Speaker 1: the incidents involving multiple men, rape, and she claimed Jamie
34:57
Speaker 1: was threatening further attacks while she had no reliable means
35:01
Speaker 1: of escaping. Darren told investigators Jennifer eventually began asking about
35:06
Speaker 1: ways Jamie could be killed. He maintained that these discussions
35:10
Speaker 1: occurred only during telephone conversations, though, rather than through written messages.
35:16
Speaker 1: And among the possibilities discussed was poisoning, although Darren claimed
35:20
Speaker 1: he rejected methods that might endanger or inadvertently hurt others,
35:25
Speaker 1: specifically Amber. Then as their discussion progressed, Darren began considering
35:30
Speaker 1: how he could approach Jamie without attracting any sort of attention.
35:35
Speaker 1: And the COVID-19 pandemic had complicated his planning because Jamie
35:39
Speaker 1: was spending much of his time working from home. But
35:42
Speaker 1: Darren explained that Jennifer had described the couple's daily routine,
35:46
Speaker 1: including the morning walks they took with their dog Maggie.
35:49
Speaker 1: He knew approximately when they left the house, which route
35:52
Speaker 1: they normally followed, and according to his account, Jennifer was
35:55
Speaker 1: well aware that the attack was planned, and it was
35:58
Speaker 1: planned to occur on that walk. Darren also described their
36:02
Speaker 1: decision to stop communicating while he traveled to Texas, eliminating
36:06
Speaker 1: the usual stream of text messages between their phones. Then
36:10
Speaker 1: on Thursday, October 8th, Darren told Jennifer he was going
36:14
Speaker 1: to Greg's house and would speak to her on Friday.
36:17
Speaker 1: But during his interview, he explained that this was a
36:20
Speaker 1: coded message that indicated he was hitting the road traveling
36:24
Speaker 1: to Dallas. He also told his daughters he was leaving
36:28
Speaker 1: on a hunting trip. So after servicing his truck and
36:31
Speaker 1: purchasing some supplies, Darren drove approximately 650 miles from Tennessee,
36:36
Speaker 1: reaching the Faith neighborhood during the early morning hours of
36:40
Speaker 1: October 9th. He then positioned himself around the vacant house
36:44
Speaker 1: adjoining their property, where the family security camera recorded a
36:47
Speaker 1: figure at approximately 2.30 a.m. There he remained in the
36:51
Speaker 1: area until Jamie and Jennifer emerged with Maggie shortly before 7.35 a.m.
36:58
Speaker 1: Darren described the shooting himself. He said it was a
37:02
Speaker 1: military-style operation, rescue operation in his mind anyways. He claimed
37:08
Speaker 1: he believed Jennifer was in immediate danger, that Jamie needed
37:12
Speaker 1: to be eliminated to protect her. So when the couple
37:15
Speaker 1: began walking along South Waverly Drive, Darren emerged from the
37:18
Speaker 1: neighboring property and approached Jamie from behind. He admitted that
37:22
Speaker 1: he raised his. 45 caliber handgun and fired repeatedly, striking
37:27
Speaker 1: Jamie seven times. During subsequent interviews, Detective Eric Barnes specifically
37:35
Speaker 1: questioned Darren about the gunshot wound to Jamie's groin. According
37:39
Speaker 1: to Detective Barnes, Darren admitted deliberately shooting him there because
37:44
Speaker 1: of the alleged rape against Jennifer. And Darren said he
37:48
Speaker 1: wanted Jamie to suffer for what he had done to her.
37:53
Speaker 2: This is making me feel ill.
37:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not surprised.
37:57
Speaker 2: I cannot even believe this crazy bitch what she has done.
38:01
Speaker 3: Right?
38:02
Speaker 2: Like, Darren was literally convinced that he was... Taking someone
38:08
Speaker 2: out of this world that was a terrible person when
38:11
Speaker 2: in reality he was like a freaking saint. Yeah. Because
38:14
Speaker 2: Jennifer is crazy.
38:17
Speaker 1: Exactly. He was convinced he was saving someone.
38:20
Speaker 2: Yeah.
38:21
Speaker 1: When in reality he was murdering someone in cold blood
38:23
Speaker 1: because she, as you put it, is a crazy bitch.
38:26
Speaker 1: And I totally agree. She is.
38:29
Speaker 2: Just sitting here listening to this is just freaking mind blowing.
38:32
Speaker 1: The amount of manipulation.
38:34
Speaker 2: What she's done.
38:35
Speaker 1: Is nuts.
38:35
Speaker 2: What she's gone through. Like the lengths that she's gone
38:38
Speaker 2: through to come up with this fucking story. Yeah. And
38:42
Speaker 2: like Jeremy too, right? Was the guy's name that she
38:46
Speaker 2: was like accused of raping.
38:48
Speaker 1: Her or something? Not only that, Jeremy was the one
38:51
Speaker 1: responsible for putting Jamie and Jennifer together as a couple.
38:56
Speaker 2: God.
38:56
Speaker 1: He's the one who got them together. And then she
38:59
Speaker 1: turns around and says, oh, he's involved in gang raping me.
39:02
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, he's probably just sitting at home eating a bowl
39:04
Speaker 2: of ramen. The police come and knock on the door
39:07
Speaker 2: and is like, are you raping her? And he's like,
39:11
Speaker 2: the fuck? As a noodle's falling out of his face. Like,
39:14
Speaker 2: I just can't. Why the fuck are you specifically ramen?
39:16
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just can't get that visual out
39:20
Speaker 2: of my head that someone coming to his door asking
39:23
Speaker 2: about this shit. And he is just like, the fuck?
39:26
Speaker 1: I'm i mean yeah that's base i mean i don't
39:29
Speaker 1: know if that's exactly what happened but that's essentially the
39:32
Speaker 1: situation yes.
39:34
Speaker 2: Like i that is i don't know if ramen was
39:36
Speaker 2: involved but probably not but this just is a visual
39:38
Speaker 2: in my brain that i just i just i can't
39:41
Speaker 2: believe actually happened.
39:43
Speaker 1: Anyway Well, as for the recovered firearm, cartridge casings, blood evidence,
39:48
Speaker 1: the surveillance recordings, all the evidence that they had, it
39:52
Speaker 1: supported the reconstruction of Darren's movements and the shooting himself
39:55
Speaker 1: and what he was admitting. Then after killing Jamie, though,
39:59
Speaker 1: Darren turned towards Jennifer. He chased her and knocked her down,
40:03
Speaker 1: bound her wrists with duct tape. He told investigators that
40:06
Speaker 1: Jennifer had known Jamie would be killed, but she did
40:10
Speaker 1: not know that he intended to assault her afterwards. This was,
40:14
Speaker 1: of course, to make it look more realistic. Darren then
40:18
Speaker 1: left Dallas immediately after the shooting and drove back towards
40:21
Speaker 1: Cumberland Furnace, where he resumed communicating with Jennifer that evening.
40:26
Speaker 1: The relationship continued during the following months, with Jennifer sending
40:30
Speaker 1: affectionate messages, money, gifts, all while publicly appealing for information
40:36
Speaker 1: about her husband's killer. Now, even after Darren's arrest in
40:40
Speaker 1: January of 2021, Jennifer continued trying to maintain their relationship.
40:46
Speaker 1: According to investigators, she tried to arrange for a message
40:49
Speaker 1: to be passed through a third party directly to him
40:52
Speaker 1: while he was behind bars. And the message was assuring
40:55
Speaker 1: Darren that she would always love him and stand by
40:57
Speaker 1: his side regardless of what happened. Investigators, though, suspected that
41:02
Speaker 1: Jennifer continued these declarations of love as more manipulation, intending
41:07
Speaker 1: to discourage Darren from revealing what he knew about Jamie's murder.
41:12
Speaker 1: Investigators also went back and examined Jennifer's earlier relationships. Her
41:16
Speaker 1: former husband, Rick Erlaub, said Jennifer had previously described being
41:21
Speaker 1: abused by her first husband while they were dating. Rick
41:26
Speaker 1: recalled becoming so angry about the alleged mistreatment that he
41:30
Speaker 1: actually even considered killing the man, although he never acted
41:34
Speaker 1: on those thoughts. According to Rick, Jennifer eventually discouraged him
41:39
Speaker 1: to do so by referring to her daughter, Amber, and
41:44
Speaker 1: the relationship with her biological father. So clearly, this was
41:49
Speaker 1: not the first time she was presenting this sort of manipulation.
41:52
Speaker 2: Holy, that's scary.
41:54
Speaker 1: Now, regardless, by September 2021, federal prosecutors believe the evidence
41:59
Speaker 1: established that Jennifer had in fact deliberately manipulated Darren into
42:03
Speaker 1: murdering Jamie. The financial assistance she provided, fabricated allegations, impersonated emails,
42:11
Speaker 1: and communications surrounding the killings formed the foundation of the case,
42:14
Speaker 1: and Jennifer was charged with murder for hire, which was
42:18
Speaker 1: an offense carrying the possibility of a life sentence or
42:21
Speaker 1: even the death penalty. Now, on February 7, 2022, Jennifer
42:28
Speaker 1: Lynn Faith appeared in federal court in Dallas, Texas, accompanied
42:32
Speaker 1: by her defense attorney, Toby shook. Nearly 16 months had
42:37
Speaker 1: passed since Jamie was shot in cold blood, but rather
42:40
Speaker 1: than proceed to trial, she entered a guilty plea to
42:44
Speaker 1: one count of using interstate commerce in the commission of
42:48
Speaker 1: murder for hire. Under the agreement, prosecutors would not pursue
42:52
Speaker 1: the death penalty. They would instead recommend life in prison.
42:58
Speaker 1: Jennifer also formally acknowledged that Jamie had never physically or
43:02
Speaker 1: sexually abused her, and that she had indeed manufactured the
43:06
Speaker 1: accusations which were used to convince Darren Lopez that her
43:09
Speaker 1: husband was dangerous. Her admissions confirmed the extensive deception uncovered
43:15
Speaker 1: during the investigation, that Jennifer had impersonated Jamie and other
43:19
Speaker 1: individuals through fabricated email accounts, sent photographs falsely depicting injuries,
43:25
Speaker 1: and repeatedly encouraged Darren to believe she was in danger
43:30
Speaker 1: and needed savings. On June 21, 2022, Jennifer returned to
43:35
Speaker 1: federal court for sentencing before U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle.
43:40
Speaker 1: The proceedings addressed the deliberate nature of the conspiracy, Jennifer's
43:44
Speaker 1: exploitation of Darren's beliefs that he was protecting her, and
43:48
Speaker 1: the extensive efforts she made to conceal her involvement. Judge
43:53
Speaker 1: Boyle was reportedly particularly critical of Jennifer's betrayal of Jamie
43:58
Speaker 1: and her attempts to portray herself as a victim. According
44:01
Speaker 1: to investigators who attended the hearing, Jennifer even began crying
44:05
Speaker 1: as the judge addressed her conduct, prompting Judge Boyle to
44:08
Speaker 1: even challenge the sincerity of her tears. She described Jennifer's
44:12
Speaker 1: actions as pure evil, emphasizing that Jamie had been killed
44:17
Speaker 1: because of a deception created by the person he had
44:21
Speaker 1: trusted most. Judge Boyle ultimately sentenced Jennifer to life in
44:27
Speaker 1: prison in federal custody. She was also ordered to pay
44:31
Speaker 1: a $ 250, 000 fine and $ 6, 500 in restitution for Jamie's unpaid
44:38
Speaker 1: funeral expenses. Now for Darren's trial. It began in Dallas
44:42
Speaker 1: County in July of 2023. Unlike Jennifer, he maintained a
44:47
Speaker 1: not guilty plea and argued that he had been manipulated
44:51
Speaker 1: to commit this murder. His defense attorney, Juan Sanchez, emphasized
44:56
Speaker 1: Darren's traumatic brain injury. His post-traumatic stress disorder, and long-standing
45:01
Speaker 1: military background, arguing that Jennifer had deliberately exploited his vulnerabilities.
45:07
Speaker 1: Darren testified that he genuinely believed Jamie was violently abusing Jennifer,
45:12
Speaker 1: and that killing him was necessary to protect her. He
45:16
Speaker 1: acknowledged that he had taken an innocent man's life, explaining
45:19
Speaker 1: that he was devastated when he discovered the allegations were
45:22
Speaker 1: all fabricated. His defense maintained that he had interpreted the
45:28
Speaker 1: situation as an emergency rescue rather than a calculated murder
45:33
Speaker 1: for personal gain. Prosecutor Brandy Mitchell and the prosecution team
45:38
Speaker 1: challenged that explanation, though. They argued that Darren had spent
45:42
Speaker 1: months considering the situation. He had traveled approximately 650 miles
45:47
Speaker 1: to Dallas, waited several hours near Jamie's home, then approached
45:52
Speaker 1: an unarmed man from behind and shot him repeatedly. Whatever
45:57
Speaker 1: Darren believed about Jennifer's circumstances, prosecutors maintained that he had
46:01
Speaker 1: numerous opportunities, or countless if you ask me, to contact authorities,
46:08
Speaker 1: verify her allegations, or pursue alternatives that did not involve
46:13
Speaker 1: killing someone. On August 2nd, 2023, following approximately a week
46:19
Speaker 1: of proceedings, the jury came back with their verdict. And
46:22
Speaker 1: Darren was ultimately convicted of murder and sentenced to 62
46:26
Speaker 1: years in Texas State Prison. For Jamie's family and friends,
46:32
Speaker 1: the convictions didn't undo what had happened that fateful day.
46:36
Speaker 1: His parents, sister, and daughter had lost someone central in
46:40
Speaker 1: their lives, while friends who had trusted Jennifer struggled with
46:44
Speaker 1: the discovery that she had planned his death. The family
46:49
Speaker 1: home in Dallas was eventually sold. Amber moved away from
46:52
Speaker 1: Texas with Maggie. Neighbors who had welcomed the Faiths into
46:57
Speaker 1: their community were left remembering the gatherings, conversations, and friendships
47:02
Speaker 1: they had shared with Jamie. The company GoFundMe subsequently offered
47:07
Speaker 1: refunds to those who had contributed to Jennifer's fundraiser. Jamie
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Speaker 1: was 49 years old when he died. He had built
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Speaker 1: a successful career, raised a daughter that he had chosen
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Speaker 1: to adopt, and maintained friendships that stretched back Those who
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Speaker 1: knew him remembered his generosity, his humor, and the genuine
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Speaker 1: interest he took in other people's lives. Jamie's friend Ross
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Speaker 1: Jensen even expressed hope that Amber would carry something of
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Speaker 1: her father's character forward, preserving the qualities that made him
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Speaker 1: such an important part of their family. And that's the
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Speaker 1: story of Jamie Faith.
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Speaker 2: That story is incredibly sad.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, bringing up Amber there at the end, like
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Speaker 2: how could Jennifer do that even to her kid like that?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Because I'm sure that they had like, being that Jamie
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Speaker 2: was so wonderful, I'm sure they had like such a
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Speaker 2: lovely little relationship and she would, Amber would have loved
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Speaker 2: her dad.
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Speaker 1: For sure. She finally had a dad in her life.
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Speaker 1: He adopted her. Yeah. And she took that away from
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Speaker 1: her daughter.
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Speaker 2: So that alone, just thinking how the fuck you can
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Speaker 2: do that.
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Speaker 4: Hold on.
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Speaker 2: Bizarre.
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Speaker 1: Sorry. She gave that to her daughter, then took it
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Speaker 1: away from him. Which is even worse.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Sorry. Well, that's just even hard to comprehend.
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Speaker 1: She's a monster.
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Speaker 2: Let alone what the hell she did to this amazing man. Like,
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Speaker 2: oh my goodness gracious. And even, like, Darren had kids. Like,
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Speaker 2: I kind of feel bad for Darren. I do and
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Speaker 2: I don't. Because, like, he still did make a choice.
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Speaker 2: But he was really... really manipulated to this choice he
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Speaker 2: was and like now his kids don't have a dad
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Speaker 2: right like well they do but he's in jail so
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Speaker 2: he's not really gonna be a present.
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Speaker 1: Dad but he's got life in prison ah so he's
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Speaker 1: not much of a present dad no their dad's now
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Speaker 1: a murderer too and all because jennifer what needed more
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Speaker 1: not only needed more she just had regrets in life
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Speaker 1: and wanted to go back to her high school boyfriend who.
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Speaker 2: It wouldn't have even ended up working out either.
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Speaker 1: No, it wouldn't have. She wouldn't have been happy with him. Guaranteed.
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Speaker 2: She would have found something wrong. Like, she just likes
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Speaker 2: to be a victim or something. Like, who the fuck
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Speaker 2: comes up with these kind of stories of shit that
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Speaker 2: they're saying happened to them? Like, that's gross.
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Speaker 4: It is.
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Speaker 1: She's a piece of shit.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Honestly, Jamie, just for the fact of how genuine and
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Speaker 1: kind and amazing this man was, I want to label
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Speaker 1: him our badass of the day because we need more
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Speaker 1: people like him in the world. And I'm going to
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Speaker 1: name Jennifer our fucking bitch of the day because she's
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Speaker 1: a fucking bitch.
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Speaker 2: We now have a fucking bitch of the day.
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Speaker 1: Apparently. I'm just throwing that out there. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if it's going to carry on forward, but I just... Today,
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Speaker 1: she's our fucking bitch of the day.
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Speaker 2: Today, you need that. Yes.
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Speaker 1: Because that's exactly what she is.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Beyond.
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Speaker 1: Beyond the fucking bitch of the day. The bitch of
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Speaker 1: the century. Anyways, thank you guys for being here. This
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Speaker 1: was a very deep dive in this story. There's a
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Speaker 1: lot of information, especially in this part two. So hopefully
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Speaker 1: you enjoyed that. Hopefully you enjoyed this story and Try
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Speaker 1: and be more like Jamie. The world needs more Jamie
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Speaker 1: out there. Just be kind, be compassionate, be a genuine
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Speaker 1: good person. Even when other people are being rude, just
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Speaker 1: try and be like Jamie.
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Speaker 2: That's good advice.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Anyways, I'm going to leave it at that. Thank you
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Speaker 1: for being here. You're amazing. And until next time.
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Speaker 2: Stay wicked.
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Speaker 1: Stay wicked.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.