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A Student of Murder · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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  Speaker 1: It was early evening of August thirty first, twenty twelve,
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  Speaker 1: when Nancy Nole left work and headed home.
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  Speaker 2: He started driving.
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  Speaker 1: His battered old Subaru up Interstate five. At some point
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  Speaker 1: he encountered a man in a BMW. He had no
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  Speaker 1: way of knowing that he was going to be dead
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  Speaker 1: in ten minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Nancy no was just a guy who lived in North Seattle,
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  Speaker 3: had a girlfriend and a dog, like to climb mountains.
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  Speaker 4: He was one of us.
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  Speaker 1: When you prosecute murder cases for as long as as
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  Speaker 1: we have, the random nature of death is what gets
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  Speaker 1: in your head.
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  Speaker 4: He was my best friend for twenty two years. He
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  Speaker 4: was my touchdown. He was the guy who kept me grounded.
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  Speaker 1: People adored him. The last few moments of Yancy Knowle's
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  Speaker 1: life were pulling up at a stoplight. The BMW pulled
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  Speaker 1: up next to Yancey's Subaru. Nancy turned and saw this
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  Speaker 1: car and this man next to him. He saw the
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  Speaker 1: gun pointed at his head, and he saw the bullet
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  Speaker 1: that shattered the window and tore apart his face. And
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  Speaker 1: then he turned and was shot three more times in
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  Speaker 1: the head.
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  Speaker 3: The witnesses really didn't know what had happened. They heard
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  Speaker 3: the shots, and then they saw the BMW pull into
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  Speaker 3: oncoming traffic, screeched out, leaving tire marks, going so fast
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  Speaker 3: that when the car hit a hill, it took air
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  Speaker 3: and then sped out of sight.
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  Speaker 5: When I arrived that day at the murder scene, it
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  Speaker 5: was dusk. They had yellow crime scene tape around Yancy
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  Speaker 5: Nole's Subaru. There was blood outside the driver's door. The
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  Speaker 5: driver's seat was saturated with blood.
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  Speaker 3: When police respond to a murder, they're looking for a reason.
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  Speaker 3: Was anybody mad at Yancy? Did Yancy have any enemies?
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  Speaker 5: There might have been some kind of road incident, some
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  Speaker 5: kind of traffic incident, and.
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  Speaker 6: What are people thinking that there's a killer on the loose.
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  Speaker 7: There was a killer on the loose. Anybody could have
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  Speaker 7: been the next target.
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  Speaker 8: Police didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: They were looking for a student of murder, someone who would.
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  Speaker 5: Kill just to kill.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Peter van sacked tonight on forty eight hours, student
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  Speaker 6: of murder.
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  Speaker 3: This case is about the presence of evil in our world.
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  Speaker 1: It was like a bomb had dropped.
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  Speaker 3: None of us is ever safe. Any of us could
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  Speaker 3: have been Nancy Noll.
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  Speaker 6: Prosecutors Adrian McCoy and Kristin Richardson say, the murder of
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  Speaker 6: Yancey Noll in twenty twelve, shot to death in his
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  Speaker 6: car while stopped at a red light, put the city
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  Speaker 6: of Seattle on edge.
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  Speaker 1: The police went all out. They took it very seriously.
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  Speaker 2: Police are still looking for the suspect.
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  Speaker 6: Nancy Knowle was shot and killed one week ago tonight,
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  Speaker 6: right now, the shooter is on the loose.
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  Speaker 8: How big a story was this?
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  Speaker 4: This was a very big story.
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  Speaker 6: Allison Grandie is a reporter for Cairo seven, a CBS
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  Speaker 6: News affiliate.
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  Speaker 7: We have shootings in Seattle. We don't necessarily have many
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  Speaker 7: shootings in that area of Seattle, that time of day
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  Speaker 7: and that type of victim.
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  Speaker 6: What were you hearing? Did Yancey no have any enemies?
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  Speaker 7: From talking to his friends, Yancey didn't have any enemies.
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  Speaker 7: He was an outdoorsy guy who enjoyed fine wine, loved
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  Speaker 7: what he did working as a wine steward at QFC.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, what's your name?
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  Speaker 6: Yancy bottom line? Forty two year old Yancey Nol was
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  Speaker 6: a good hearted, happy go lucky guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and friends say the idea that Yancey exploded into
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  Speaker 6: a road rage battle is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: He drove like a grandma. He was very, very careful.
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  Speaker 6: Longtime friend Brad Kenney.
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  Speaker 8: He had a.
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  Speaker 4: Subaru wagon not known for its speed.
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  Speaker 6: Was he an angry man?
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  Speaker 10: No?
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  Speaker 8: Was he impulsive, No, reckless? Never verbally abusive?
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  Speaker 4: God no, not even close. He was so careful and
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  Speaker 4: mindful with how he interacted with people.
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  Speaker 6: Investigators suspect Yancey and his killer crossed paths around seven
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  Speaker 6: pm on State five, just north of Seattle.
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  Speaker 4: It's possible that there was some sort of confrontation and
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  Speaker 4: Yancy pulled up to the intersection thinking nothing of it.
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  Speaker 6: Do you think he ever knew what hit him?
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  Speaker 8: Never?
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  Speaker 4: He was killed instantly. Thank god, he had no idea
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  Speaker 4: what happened.
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  Speaker 6: The details of this shooting were curious, to say the least.
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  Speaker 6: Right here, five shots were fired with remarkable accuracy. It
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  Speaker 6: was at about this time of day, and the shooter
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  Speaker 6: killed Yancey Nol just a few feet from other motorists.
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  Speaker 11: Five rabbis shots kind of like a pop pop pop
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  Speaker 11: pop pop.
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  Speaker 6: Friends Kevin Watts and Angelo Rama were driving together when
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  Speaker 6: they heard those five pops behind them. The next thing
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  Speaker 6: they saw was a car speed away into oncoming traffic.
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  Speaker 11: It drove by and I was like, that's kind of
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  Speaker 11: where someone wouldn't wait for a red light.
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  Speaker 6: Upset that the driver had run the red light, the
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  Speaker 6: two friends hit the gas and gave chase.
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  Speaker 11: We couldn't catch up to him.
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  Speaker 6: How fast did that vehicle peel out of here?
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  Speaker 11: Zerba sixteen? Like two three seconds? He was gone.
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  Speaker 6: Rama and Watts gave up the chase and returned to
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  Speaker 6: the scene, where a Subaru was still at the curb
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  Speaker 6: with its motor running. The friends had a sinking feeling
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  Speaker 6: that those pops they'd heard likely were gunshots.
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  Speaker 11: I saw a lot of blood, I saw where the
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  Speaker 11: bullet holes were, and I realized that there was just
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  Speaker 11: there's absolutely nothing I could do.
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  Speaker 6: The shooter's bullets had hit Yancy four times in the head.
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  Speaker 6: The case was about to consume detectives Frank Clark and
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  Speaker 6: Dana Duffy for the next two years.
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  Speaker 5: Yancey had no criminal history, no history of being a
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  Speaker 5: hot head. We really didn't have a lot to go on.
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  Speaker 6: After closely inspecting the crime scene, the detectives realized Yancey's
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  Speaker 6: window was down and the shooter had fired those five
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  Speaker 6: shots right through his own passenger side window. That's so
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  Speaker 6: strange to me the shooter would shoot through the passenger
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  Speaker 6: side window of his car at someone else. Have you
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  Speaker 6: ever heard of such a thing?
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  Speaker 5: No, it was strange to us as well. That was
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  Speaker 5: a huge piece of evidence.
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  Speaker 6: The police now knew the shooter's car had a broken
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  Speaker 6: passenger side window, and there was more. Even though witness
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  Speaker 6: Angelo Rama had only glimpsed the fleeing car for a
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  Speaker 6: split second, something registered.
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  Speaker 9: My first guest was an M four. It's a BMW car.
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  Speaker 9: The one that I saw was a convertible.
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  Speaker 5: It was silver.
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  Speaker 6: Was the top up or down? It was down?
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  Speaker 9: And when he was driving by, I noticed that really
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  Speaker 9: really nice silver rims.
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  Speaker 6: Armed with his detailed description, the police advised the public
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  Speaker 6: to be on the lookout for that BMW model with
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  Speaker 6: that broken passenger side window.
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  Speaker 11: As for the driver, I looked at the person who
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  Speaker 11: was driving a car because I'm really good with faces.
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  Speaker 6: Kevin Watts helped a police artist come up with this
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  Speaker 6: remarkably detailed sketch of the shooter. Within a week, the
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  Speaker 6: sketch was released to the public, along with grainy steel
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  Speaker 6: photos of the car from a nearby security camera.
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  Speaker 7: We knew that police in Seattle were looking for a
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  Speaker 7: silver BMW and they were pulling them.
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  Speaker 6: Over all over the city.
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Police were desperate to stop the killer from striking again,
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  Speaker 6: not knowing if or when he would. Two weeks went by,
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  Speaker 6: and then a suspec surfaced who surprised everyone.
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  Speaker 3: When you see something like this from somebody who has
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  Speaker 3: it all together.
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  Speaker 4: He's not crazy, he's just evil.
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  Speaker 11: Police are still looking for He was driving a silver
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  Speaker 11: Yi his twenties or thirties.
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  Speaker 6: Did witnesses say.
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  Speaker 5: Plea for anyone with them?
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  Speaker 10: With me?
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  Speaker 6: In the two weeks that followed Yancey Nole's brutal execution,
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  Speaker 6: cops received hundreds of tips about that dark haired suspect
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  Speaker 6: in a silver sports car.
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  Speaker 12: It seemed at that time like everybody in the city
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  Speaker 12: of Seattle was driving a BMWZ four or a Z three.
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  Speaker 6: Then on September fourteenth.
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  Speaker 5: A woman calls in an anonymous tip.
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  Speaker 6: For the first time, this mysterious man has a name.
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  Speaker 5: And she provides a name of din Bowman and his address,
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  Speaker 5: which is less than ten blocks from the shooting site.
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  Speaker 5: When we pulled up a photo of him matched the
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  Speaker 5: description of our sketch.
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  Speaker 6: Did his hairstyle match?
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  Speaker 5: Yes? And the age description.
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  Speaker 6: Match, and yet the twenty nine year old Din Bowman
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  Speaker 6: appears to be the most unlikely of potential suspects. He's
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  Speaker 6: a dazzling engineer with an inventive imagination.
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  Speaker 4: The golf ball.
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  Speaker 13: Hits the lever of this press, which drives the drill,
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  Speaker 13: which spins the wire.
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  Speaker 6: With like this rude Goldberg contraption he created just forfon.
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  Speaker 13: It swings over and hits this water bottle. The bottle
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  Speaker 13: of the water bottle is a magnetic plunger.
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  Speaker 5: The people that we've spoken to have described him as brilliant,
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  Speaker 5: a genius. Others have titled him as a genius.
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  Speaker 13: Which then triggers this flamethrower.
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  Speaker 6: Bowman was only a twelve year old when he entered college.
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  Speaker 6: In his twenties, Bowman opened his own business, a boutique
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  Speaker 6: engineering company called Vague Industries that specialized in robotics. And
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  Speaker 6: then in two thousand and seven, Bowman met Jennifer Palm,
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  Speaker 6: a successful dentist, at an education seminar. They were married
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  Speaker 6: a year later.
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  Speaker 11: I thought they were what I considered to be a
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  Speaker 11: power couple, very very sophisticated.
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  Speaker 6: Jessin Matta was a friend of the Bowman's hope. Were
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  Speaker 6: they like as a.
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  Speaker 11: Couple, loving the both of them I think understood one another.
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  Speaker 6: But it was up to detectives Duffy and Clark to
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  Speaker 6: figure out Din Bowman, and they quickly learned that he
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  Speaker 6: had owned a BMW.
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  Speaker 12: We wanted to know does he still have that BMW's
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  Speaker 12: it's still at his house, And immediately we came up
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  Speaker 12: with the plan that we're going to set up a
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  Speaker 12: surveillance on his residence, a steakout, a steakout.
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  Speaker 6: A tense week went by with no sign of the
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  Speaker 6: BMW coming or going, but then the garage door opens
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  Speaker 6: up just enough for the detectives to spot a silver
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  Speaker 6: sports car.
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  Speaker 12: Based on that information, we're able to obtain a search warrant.
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  Speaker 6: Before dawn on September twenty first, twenty twelve, as Din
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  Speaker 6: and Jennifer were leaving for work, police swooped in to
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  Speaker 6: arrest Din Bowman.
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  Speaker 5: Din was placed in handcuffs and transported down to our office.
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  Speaker 8: So you know the police facility and everything is being recorded.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I would just let you know that.
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  Speaker 6: Bowman has to wait two hours for detectives to arrive
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  Speaker 6: to question him while he's killing time. Bowman doesn't appear
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  Speaker 6: to be concerned. He enjoys some snacks and a cup
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  Speaker 6: of coffee. Exasperated, Bowman complained, his precious time is being wasted.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, yes, so kind of getting a little annoyed at
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  Speaker 10: how long this is taking.
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  Speaker 13: Do I need to like, sorry, it has to take as.
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  Speaker 12: Long as it takes, Okay, He was pretty confused about
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  Speaker 12: the whole thing.
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  Speaker 8: It was kind of weird.
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  Speaker 6: Bowman also didn't realize that in another room, his wife, Jennifer,
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  Speaker 6: had agreed to answer questions from detectives Clark and Donnie,
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  Speaker 6: have you heard of.
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  Speaker 12: Any murders like within a few blocks of your house
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  Speaker 12: in the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 9: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 12: You're not sure.
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  Speaker 5: It's a yes or no question.
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  Speaker 10: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 12: We call it the I'm not sure interview.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 10: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 12: Because her responses were overwhelmingly I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 5: So you're honesty right now.
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  Speaker 10: Is paramount, and I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 4: But I can tell you.
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  Speaker 6: Jennifer didn't know that the detectives had already inspected Din's
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  Speaker 6: BMW and had discovered from these markings that the passenger
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  Speaker 6: side window had been replaced. Remember, investigators were certain the
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  Speaker 6: killer had fired through that glass.
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  Speaker 5: The first thing we did was open the passenger door,
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  Speaker 5: and you could see glass shards in the well of
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  Speaker 5: the door jam. Also within the garage, there was this
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  Speaker 5: fresh smell of paint.
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  Speaker 6: That's because the BMW's silver rims had been painted black.
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  Speaker 5: What about the paint smell that we're smelling in there?
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  Speaker 10: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 6: Do you know anything that going on in your house?
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  Speaker 6: For nearly four hours led all over.
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  Speaker 12: The fricking streets of Seattle, Okay?
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  Speaker 6: Investigators hammered Jennifer for answers.
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  Speaker 14: How do you sit in there?
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  Speaker 12: Planned them.
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  Speaker 6: While the interview was going on, investigators entered the Bowman's house,
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  Speaker 6: which was surprisingly bare.
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  Speaker 5: We knew that Jennifer was the primary breadwinner in that household,
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  Speaker 5: and we knew from serving some of our search warrants
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  Speaker 5: that she made probably two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 5: a year. But when we got into the home, she
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  Speaker 5: had hardly any bedroom furniture. Her mattress laid on the floor.
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  Speaker 6: As they went room to room, investigators discovered a small
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  Speaker 6: arsenal of weapons and ammunition. Everything except the suspected murder weapon,
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  Speaker 6: a nine millimeter glock When detectives finally got to Bowmen,
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  Speaker 6: they hoped he would answer a few questions, but Bowman
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  Speaker 6: was smart enough to shut down the interview.
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  Speaker 5: Do you want to talk to a lawyer? You want
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  Speaker 5: to talk to us first?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I guess I'd like to call a lawyer.
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  Speaker 6: Bowman might have been done with the detectives, but they
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  Speaker 6: were far from finished with him.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to be charged with a crime.
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  Speaker 4: Of what?
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  Speaker 10: Murder of what?
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  Speaker 8: Of who?
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  Speaker 5: Murder of a human being?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it was something to see. At least forty five
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  Speaker 2: friends of murder victim Yancy Nole packed a raimit court
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  Speaker 2: this morning to get a look at this man.
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  Speaker 4: You watch this man walk in and you see this
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  Speaker 4: unassuming person, and you go, why, why, why would you
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  Speaker 4: do this?
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  Speaker 6: Din Bowman has been in custody for four months for
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  Speaker 6: the murder of Yancey Nol and at this hearing, Bowman
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  Speaker 6: learns his bail is set at a stunning ten million dollars,
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  Speaker 6: a sum he cannot make.
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  Speaker 4: He hasn't shown any sign of guilt or even fear.
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  Speaker 6: Brad Kenny is desperate for answers.
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  Speaker 4: It just feels you with so much anger.
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  Speaker 6: While Bowman appears stoic in court. Prosecutors say the alleged
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  Speaker 6: killer has a quirky side that emerges in hundreds of
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  Speaker 6: recorded jail house phone calls with his wife, Jennifer.
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  Speaker 3: They had pet names. Dinn was Bunny and Missus Bowman.
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  Speaker 4: Jennifer was snuggles Bunny and snuggle.
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  Speaker 5: Bunny and Snuggles.
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  Speaker 1: When they talk to each other, they talk and baby.
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  Speaker 10: Talk Bunny Bunny. How are you?
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  Speaker 13: I'm trying.
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  Speaker 10: How is my little snuckle cake? I just to wote
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  Speaker 10: you in email.
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  Speaker 3: It was very strange, very strange.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 6: I know I don't have a snuggle You don't have
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  Speaker 6: a snuggle plum next to you.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone warned us, don't listen to the jail calls. Don't
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  Speaker 1: listen to the jail calls. You'll want to throw up.
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  Speaker 10: I'm just going to say.
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  Speaker 6: Meanwhile, back among the grown ups, detectives Frank Clark and
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  Speaker 6: Dana Duffy were methodically building their homicide case against Bowmen.
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  Speaker 6: They discovered that four years that tech savvy genius had
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  Speaker 6: been downloading these books, articles, and videos to his computer
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  Speaker 6: on the subject of death and murder.
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  Speaker 12: It's not that he just had a little bit of it.
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  Speaker 12: He had tons of it.
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  Speaker 6: And then there was Bowman's obsession with this man bomb
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  Speaker 6: Jaman's bomb, and it showed in Bowman's computer videos. That's
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  Speaker 6: Din Bowman driving a car at high speeds around an
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  Speaker 6: obstacle cores. And here he is blasting away in shooting
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  Speaker 6: demonstrations where he proved he was an expert marksman with
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  Speaker 6: either hand.
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  Speaker 12: I don't believe the den Bowman got up that morning
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  Speaker 12: thinking today's the day that I'm going to shoot somebody.
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  Speaker 12: This situation presented itself somehow, But once it did that,
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  Speaker 12: all his self training and research kicked in.
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  Speaker 15: We're going to talk about shooting through glass.
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  Speaker 6: And one of Bowman's videos, made by a firearms expert,
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  Speaker 6: really shocked police.
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  Speaker 15: I've come into a situation where I feel threatened by
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  Speaker 15: somebody off to my passenger side.
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  Speaker 5: It was a play by play of Nancy's murder.
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  Speaker 15: Of course I recognize, I come down, I grip, I
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  Speaker 15: cross parallel, extend, touch press.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to know how to shoot somebody in
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  Speaker 3: traffic from your very fancy sports car.
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  Speaker 5: Is an awfully helpful video.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't even have to roll down his window.
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  Speaker 6: Prosecutors came to believe Bowman wanted to kill someone just
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  Speaker 6: for the thrill of it. Why would he commit this
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  Speaker 6: murder in broad daylight where there are witnesses around who
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  Speaker 6: could see his car, perhaps see him.
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  Speaker 3: What's the fun of it. If there's no challenge, if
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  Speaker 3: there's no witnesses, if there's no need to get away,
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  Speaker 3: to speed off and fly through neighborhood streets and hide
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  Speaker 3: your car in your garage, that was the fun for him.
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  Speaker 6: Soon after the murder, police say that Bowman went to
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  Speaker 6: his computer, where he had his vast library of murder
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  Speaker 6: related books, including a rest Proof Yourself, how to cover.
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  Speaker 5: Up a murder, how to get rid of a gun,
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  Speaker 5: how to get rid of gunshot residue.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: And police say Bowman now had an accomplice, Jennifer Bowman
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: aka Snuggles.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Do you understand how serious this is?
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Right now?
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Jennifer. Jennifer to me, seemed very very nervous.
• 22:10
  Speaker 11: Tell us the truth.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: Poor eye contact. I could see that she was shaky.
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: Tell me the truth right now.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: I have told you.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: Jennifer never asked for a lawyer and handed over her
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: purse where police found receipts that aided the investigation. Do
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: either of you have the belief that Jennifer had prior
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: knowledge of this attack.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: I don't think she had prior knowledge, but I believe
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: that at some point Din told her what happened. She
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: had to know something, because the next day she went
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: to Portland with him.
• 22:46
  Speaker 13: Why did you go to Portland?
• 22:48
  Speaker 10: It was just a little day trip to Little.
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: Rocha, a trip that led to this autoglass shop, where
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: police say Bowmen began to cover up his crime. His
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: wife by his side stand office. She didn't say much.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: Repairman Jeff Shields, he just seemed like he needed a
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: window right away. Bowman told Shields that BMW window had
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: been shattered by a thief while he and Jennifer were
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: eating in Portland.
• 23:14
  Speaker 12: And what time of day was the window broken?
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: We found it in the afternoon at approximately what puts
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: It was right up to eat lunch.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: But detectives say a restaurant receipt from Jennifer's purse told
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: a different story.
• 23:29
  Speaker 12: They were never there for lunch, They went there at
• 23:32
  Speaker 12: dinner time.
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: Well.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: Three weeks later, the Bowman's visited a tire store in
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: northern Seattle. Manager Doug Haskett says Bowman used the name
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: Peter while his wife avoided eye contact. She was a
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: blonde and she just kind of looked at the ground.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: She rarely wouldn't talk to anybody. Bowman bought four cheaper
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: tires to replace the expensive BMW tires. How would he
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: get new tires.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Because during our investigation the media released that there were
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: tire tread tracks left at the scene.
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: Why did you get new tires?
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: I'm not sure.
• 24:10
  Speaker 11: I will you marder?
• 24:12
  Speaker 13: Were the other ones wore out?
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: I'm not sure.
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: What if we put you on a polygraph test today.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: He'd feel it like a sack of potato.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: I mean, I can tell your line is looking at you.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: Police say they later found the set of expensive, practically
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: new BMW tires inside Bowman's workshop at Vague Industries. The
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: murder weapon was never recovered, but prosecutors felt they had
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: enough evidence to try Din Bowmen for first degree murder,
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: and he would soon take the stand and tell a
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: story he had long kept secret.
• 24:52
  Speaker 13: If I didn't do something right then I was going
• 24:55
  Speaker 13: to die.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: Frank, what do we have here, Peter.
• 25:13
  Speaker 12: We're in the evidence warehouse of the Seattle Police Department.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: Two vehicles side by side, once again, just as they
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: were on that summer evening in August twenty twelve.
• 25:24
  Speaker 12: This is Din Bahman's BMW Roster Z four and Yancy
• 25:29
  Speaker 12: Knowles super room.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: What brought them together is unclear. The result of their
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: encounter is not what goes through your mind when you
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: look inside this car.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: Sadness, devastation for Yancey.
• 25:51
  Speaker 12: This family lost a loving member. Murder is very ugly,
• 25:55
  Speaker 12: It's never pretty.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: And now, on November nineteenth, twenty fourteen, two years after
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: Yancy Nole was savagely gunned down, his alleged killer enters
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: the courtroom to face the charge of first degree murder.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: Cleat is now in session.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: By the time of trial, he looked like he was thirteen.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: Din Bowman is transformed. Gone is the confident, cocky young
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: man who first met with detectives.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Do you want to talk to a lawyer? You want
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: to talk to us first, Well.
• 26:32
  Speaker 10: I guess I'd like to call to a lawyer.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: And in his place is what appears to be a
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: clean cut college student.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: This guy doesn't look like a killer, and that's not
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: at all uncommon for defendance to change their appearance in
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: order to appeal.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: To the jury.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: Bowman's mother a native of Vietnam, and his father a
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: Boeing engineer are in court every day to support their
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: only child, but his cooing wife, Jennifer his snuggles is
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: nowhere to be seen.
• 27:04
  Speaker 16: We are ready to begin opening statements.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: Prosecutor Adrian McCoy tells jurors that the motive for murder
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: was in greed or jealousy.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: This was a fulfillment of a quest.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: But something far more macabre.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: A quest to know what it would be like to
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: kill someone.
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: McCoy attempts to take the jury inside Bowman's mind by
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: showing these training videos recovered from his computer.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: We're going to talk about shooting through glass.
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: From video to thousands of pages of research on killing
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: another person. Prosecutors paid a portrait of a premeditated murder.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: It was the equivalent of the Library of Congress on death.
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: Have you ever seen anything like this before in your career?
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Not even close.
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: Why was all that stuff on his computer?
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: He hoarded information.
• 28:07
  Speaker 17: He had a lot of things on his computer that
• 28:10
  Speaker 17: are totally bizarre.
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: Having possession of it doesn't mean anything.
• 28:14
  Speaker 17: Mister Bowman was actually trying to create a library of
• 28:16
  Speaker 17: basically everything.
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: Bowman's lawyer, prominent defense attorney John Henry Brown, whose former
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: clients include serial killer Ted Bundy says there's no evidence
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: that Bowman ever read or watched any of these materials.
• 28:31
  Speaker 17: There were thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of pages
• 28:36
  Speaker 17: about engineering techniques, but also there was all this bizarre
• 28:39
  Speaker 17: stuff that the prosecutors used in order to.
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: Make up their motive.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: As the defense presents its case, Brown takes a big gamble.
• 28:52
  Speaker 14: You swear for another penalty.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: In later trading, he puts DN Bowman on the stand.
• 29:00
  Speaker 13: I felt like it was just this crazy, bad dream,
• 29:04
  Speaker 13: and I was just right. I was running from a monster.
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: And Brown knows he's risking it all on Bowman's ability
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: to sway jurors and convince them that he was the
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: victim of road range.
• 29:17
  Speaker 13: If I didn't do something right, then I was going
• 29:20
  Speaker 13: to die.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: Bowman explains that it all began when he accidentally cut
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: off Yancey Noel on the interstate.
• 29:28
  Speaker 10: There was sort of a.
• 29:30
  Speaker 13: Stream of swearing. I think the phrase that caught my
• 29:36
  Speaker 13: attention was you better learn how to drive that fancy
• 29:41
  Speaker 13: card boy where you're gonna get yourself up.
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: Bowman says. Yancey closely followed him off the interstate to
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: this traffic light where they both stopped.
• 29:55
  Speaker 13: And it was that point when I got frim.
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that wham, Bowman says, was a wine bottle thrown
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: by Yancy that hit him in the head.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: He's an absolute liar. That's sacrilegious to Yancey would never
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: throw and waste wine on somebody like that.
• 30:12
  Speaker 13: I remember seeing his eyes really like bulging and like
• 30:20
  Speaker 13: as he was kind of as he was yelling. I
• 30:22
  Speaker 13: would describe it as just like violent hatred that you
• 30:25
  Speaker 13: would I had only seen in the movies.
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: Did you think it was possibly a gun? Yeah?
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I was scared, fearing for his life. Bowman says
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: he pulled out his nine millimeter glock, pointed it at Yancy
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: and fired.
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: You intentionally shot?
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: Was it your intent to kill him?
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: No?
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: Road rage is by definition not premeditation.
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: And Bowman says he shot Yancy Nol in self defense.
• 30:59
  Speaker 13: I remember opening my eyes seeing that I had the
• 31:02
  Speaker 13: gun in my hand and I had just dropped the
• 31:05
  Speaker 13: gun and stepped on the gas.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: Though Bowman claims he was the victim, he didn't call
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: the police. Panicked, Bowman says he collected evidence from his car,
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: including the wine bottle and the gun, and threw it
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: all away, throwing away of the evidence that would support
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: his own story. This is a guy who's genius level IQ.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 31:31
  Speaker 17: Well, but yeah, but a lot of geniuses I know
• 31:33
  Speaker 17: don't have a lot of common sense.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: He threw away the evidence that you could show the
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: police to prove you were not a criminal.
• 31:39
  Speaker 14: Right.
• 31:41
  Speaker 13: I didn't think they would even believe me.
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: But Prosecutor Kristin Richardson isn't buying a word of Bowman's story.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: They don't think that most husbands would go home to
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: their wives and say, oh my god, I almost got killed.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: I figured the more that he talked, the worse it
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: was going to get for him.
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: You're an expert shooter.
• 32:03
  Speaker 16: What was your target?
• 32:06
  Speaker 13: There was no aiming involved in this?
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well you did a pretty good job, didn't you,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: because you hit him four times in the head, including
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the temple.
• 32:12
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: That surprised me for three days. Richardson hammers away at Bowman's.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: You lied to your parents, you lied to your wife.
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 32:23
  Speaker 8: Is that a question?
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: But he never loses his composure.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: You have no trouble answering yes or no to mister Brown.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Is there something wrong with the way I asked questions
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: of you.
• 32:36
  Speaker 13: No, it seems like a strange question.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, well that's the first note I think have gotten
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: from you, So I guess the point's been made. I
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: have nothing else.
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: You mentioned no answer to thy As din Bowman steps down,
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: the question is did he convince the jury that he
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: killed Yancy Noel to save his life?
• 32:57
  Speaker 17: I think dem deeply believed if the jury would see
• 33:00
  Speaker 17: that self defense is justifiable homicide.
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: Or simply for the thrill.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Is he guilty of murdering the first degree? Yes?
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: I will never forget Yancy.
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: Every time he hikes this trail, Brad Kenny thinks of
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: his friend Yancey Noel.
• 33:44
  Speaker 8: I really miss him. Is it never going to be over?
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: And I'll always miss him? I mean, it's good to
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: be here, but it's it's really difficult.
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: After three weeks and thirty one witnesses, Din Bowman's murder
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: trial is coming to a close.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: He hasn't shown one iota of remorse. He's just completely stoic.
• 34:12
  Speaker 14: I think we're ready for the Jermys.
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: On December ninth, twenty fourteen, more than two years after
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: Yancy noles murder and coincidentally, Din Bowman's thirty second birthday,
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: jurors begin deliberations.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: It's the worst part of the job, waiting for a verdict,
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: but it's just the nature of it.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: You always doubt yourself.
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: One person not doubting himself is Din Bowman, as he
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: confides to his wife Jennifer in recorded jailhouse phone calls.
• 34:42
  Speaker 16: We should chastise that a juris take longer than to one.
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: Jennifer has not appeared a single day of Bowman's trial,
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: but she stays in constant contact and has no doubt
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: whatsoever of his innocence.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: This is obvious to ac quit.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: How could they consider anything else.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: You'd have to be completely irrational to believe anything at else.
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: Be sated.
• 35:07
  Speaker 8: Please.
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: On day three, the jury returns.
• 35:14
  Speaker 16: I understand the jury has reached the verdicts. I will
• 35:18
  Speaker 16: read the verdict for him.
• 35:20
  Speaker 14: We the jury find the defendant, Thomas Bin Bowman, guilty
• 35:28
  Speaker 14: of the crime of murder and the first degree as
• 35:31
  Speaker 14: charged guilty.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: The jury didn't buy Din Bowman's.
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: He admits he killed Noel, but said the three murder
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: required premeditation.
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: It's a total surprise to Bowman, but sweet relief to
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: Yancey's girlfriend and his supporters, the verdict is read. What
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: was that moment like for Dinn?
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: Well, he was so emotionally upset, he said, I can't
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: believe it. I can't believe it. I can't believe it.
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: Three weeks later, a very different looking Din Bowman is
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: back in court for sentencing.
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: Mister Bowman made some bad decisions.
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: The once cocky boy genius is gone as the reality
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: of the guilty verdict sinks in, and his parents stepped
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: forward to beg the judge for mercy.
• 36:16
  Speaker 10: I know this is my fault.
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: Defense Attorney Brown must finish reading her statement.
• 36:27
  Speaker 8: Our son's acts are our faults.
• 36:32
  Speaker 17: My husband and I we provide and allowed him to
• 36:36
  Speaker 17: learn a gun for self protection.
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: Brown, a seasoned trial lawyer, can't help but show emotion
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: as Din's mother asks the judge to send her to
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: Prism in place of her only child.
• 36:50
  Speaker 17: I please ask you to allow myself to substitute any
• 36:54
  Speaker 17: punishment by placing myself in Dinn's role.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: It was heartbreaking to watch his mother at sentencing. For
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: her to offer herself in his place to do his
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: punishment for him. That's real.
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: Moments later, it's Bowman's turn.
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: Dam are you able to speak?
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: But Yancey's girlfriend and his supporters refuse to listen.
• 37:23
  Speaker 10: I'm disappointed that the Jews didn't believe me.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: And the first words out of Den's mouth when he's
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: asked to make a statement at sentencing is not about
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: his parents or his heartbroken mother, or Yancy's friends or family.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: It's I can't believe the jury didn't believe me. That's
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: his focus.
• 37:47
  Speaker 10: I don't envy your task of having to make the
• 37:52
  Speaker 10: burden of deciding my fate, and I'm sorry for placing
• 37:57
  Speaker 10: you in that situation. And all I could ask is
• 38:03
  Speaker 10: for your perth'syat and for your help.
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: As the judge is about to deliver Bowman's sentence, he
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: has something he feels compelled to say.
• 38:16
  Speaker 16: I feel very sorry for your parents, mister Bauman, and
• 38:21
  Speaker 16: I want to tell them that it is not their fault.
• 38:27
  Speaker 16: Mister Bauman is responsible for his own actions.
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: Bowman gets twenty nine years and one month, slightly less
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: than the maximum. The case against Inn Bowman is over,
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: but the police feel there's unfinished business. Was Jennifer misleading
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: or dishonest or lying at any point during this questioning? Yes,
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: she was.
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: I would very much like her to be charged with
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: a crime.
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: The crime of helping her husband cover up Yancey's murder. Frank,
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: would you like could be charged with the crime? Yes,
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: I would. Jennifer today has changed her name and her job.
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: She opened the door that we tracked her down in Seattle. Hey, Jennifer,
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: Peter Van sent forty eight hours, Why did you lie
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: to detectives? Why did you help your husband cover up
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: a murder? You can talk to us. No answer is
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: still Ultimately, the state attorney chose not to bring charges
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: against Jennifer, and she, in turn, has cut off all
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: ties with the man she once endearingly called her Bunny. Today,
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: the house the couple lived in sits empty. The two
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: cars at the heart of this case remain in a
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: police warehouse, but the memories of Yancey Noll remain as
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: alive as ever.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Wait b