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  Speaker 1: here with crime What then if your child went missing,
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  Speaker 1: you do anything to find them, wouldn't you? So why
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  Speaker 1: won't this mother cooperate with police?
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  Speaker 5: So?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, why won't you cooperate with the investigation?
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  Speaker 5: Julia, my son is it's not here? I her know
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  Speaker 5: where he is.
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  Speaker 2: A heartbroken father desperate for answers, a mother in hiding.
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  Speaker 2: Wait until you hear how she says her two year
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  Speaker 2: old son's sky vanished.
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  Speaker 7: What parent would leave their child in the car and
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  Speaker 7: walk a mile to the gas station.
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  Speaker 2: It's a story Our Jason Matteria won't let go Sky
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  Speaker 2: was your son.
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  Speaker 1: You won't talk to Cox right now.
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  Speaker 6: Andrea isisen Ser with crime Watch.
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  Speaker 3: Off my property.
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  Speaker 9: We'll find you again.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome to Crime Watch Daily. I'm Chris Hansen.
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  Speaker 1: We start with the story of a two year old
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  Speaker 1: boy named Sky. He vanished after his mom says she
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  Speaker 1: left him for more than an hour in the backseat of.
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  Speaker 6: A car our.
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  Speaker 1: Jason Mattera has the story.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Chris, this case has really haunted the tight knit
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  Speaker 7: city of police here. Tell me that they've spent more
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  Speaker 7: than fourteen thousand hours and more than two million.
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  Speaker 9: Dollars trying to find little Sky.
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  Speaker 7: Julia, why is this mother running for my questions?
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  Speaker 6: Jayson Mate with Crimewatch Daily.
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  Speaker 7: What does she have to hide?
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  Speaker 6: Why won't you cooperate with the investigation, Julia?
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  Speaker 7: Shouldn't she want to help in any way possible to
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  Speaker 7: find her missing son? Come on, Julia, and maybe the
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  Speaker 7: most pressing question, why is she calling the cops on
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  Speaker 7: me when the cops are dying to talk to her?
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  Speaker 7: You call the cops, but yet you don't want to
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  Speaker 7: cooperate with the police. It all starts with a loving
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  Speaker 7: two year old.
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  Speaker 5: He was like a boy boy love to jump on
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  Speaker 5: me when he was older, and.
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  Speaker 7: His dad, Solomon says, it's his big brown eyes that
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  Speaker 7: can melt any harm.
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  Speaker 5: He was just just pure love.
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  Speaker 7: Happened to Sky Metalwaala on a chilly November day in
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  Speaker 7: Washington State is now a mystery that has investigators scratching
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  Speaker 7: their heads and has everyone else pointing fingers.
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  Speaker 10: Our community wants justice if something really happened to Sky.
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  Speaker 7: Sky's father, born in Pakistan, met his wife, Julia Burryakova,
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  Speaker 7: out of all places, a gas station.
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  Speaker 9: What attracted you to Julia her looks?
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  Speaker 5: Of course, she's beyond beautiful.
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  Speaker 7: Julia a teenager at the time who was born in
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  Speaker 7: the Ukraine, and Solomon hid it off immediately. He said,
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  Speaker 7: she was the love of your life.
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  Speaker 5: She was very giving. She also was very supportive.
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  Speaker 7: The two quickly married and had a daughter named Miley,
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  Speaker 7: but Solomon started to notice some strange things about his
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  Speaker 7: new wife. She would obsessively clean the house three to
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  Speaker 7: four hours a day, seven days a week.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, this is cannot be normal, but that I didn't
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  Speaker 5: really understand the until you.
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  Speaker 7: Know now, and as a mother, Solomon says, Juliet was
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  Speaker 7: really starting to struggle.
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  Speaker 5: Only thing Julia had to do was get up in
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  Speaker 5: the morning, get money, dress and take her to daycare.
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  Speaker 5: And that's it, you know. But she couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 7: After Sky was born, Solomon knew his wife needed help,
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  Speaker 7: especially after he heard these chilling words from his young daughter.
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  Speaker 5: Miley started to say I want to kill myself. Because
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  Speaker 5: Julie was saying it so much when she was around Miley.
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  Speaker 9: I must have been completely disturbing to you.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it was.
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  Speaker 7: Then, according to court documents, Solomon received a terrifying text
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  Speaker 7: from his wife that said, in part quote, I cannot
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  Speaker 7: live another day. I am dead on the inside anyway,
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  Speaker 7: and have been dead for a long time. Juliet was
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  Speaker 7: immediately committed to a hospital. Months later, after changing medication,
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  Speaker 7: she seemed to be turning things around.
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  Speaker 9: Kriife was good. That's good.
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  Speaker 5: I've just got way good.
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  Speaker 7: But that didn't last long. Julia's tortured ritual of cleaning
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  Speaker 7: the house got even worse. Now she was up to
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  Speaker 7: six hours a day and she even forced the family
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  Speaker 7: to eat outside.
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  Speaker 4: It was just.
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  Speaker 5: Very, very bad.
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  Speaker 7: Solomon says he had no other choice but to divorce
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  Speaker 7: Julia and take custody of the kids, but Juliet wasn't
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  Speaker 7: going to let that happen without a fight.
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  Speaker 10: Julia and her husband were in the middle of a
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  Speaker 10: bitter custody battle.
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  Speaker 7: David Rose, host of Washington's Most Wanted, covered every brutal blow.
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  Speaker 10: We're going back and forth on who would have custody
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  Speaker 10: of Sky and his sister. Both of them had protection
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  Speaker 10: orders against each other, and the kids were caught right
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  Speaker 10: in the middle of this.
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  Speaker 7: Juliet told the court that Solomon was not telling the
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  Speaker 7: truth about her mental illness and obsessive cleaning, and then
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  Speaker 7: she lobbed some very ugly accusations toward him.
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  Speaker 9: After the separation, Juliet and said that you had abused
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  Speaker 9: the children.
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  Speaker 5: When she told me that, I go, what are you
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  Speaker 5: talking about?
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  Speaker 7: In court documents, she also claimed Solomon beat both children
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  Speaker 7: and her with the wooden spoon, a detail backed up
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  Speaker 7: by an independent witness. Most disturbing of all, she even
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  Speaker 7: claimed Solomon sexually.
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  Speaker 9: Abused his daughter.
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  Speaker 5: Why would she say that?
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  Speaker 7: A CPS investigation found that claim to be unfounded, and
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  Speaker 7: Solomon vehemently denies any and all abuse allegations. He even
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  Speaker 7: took a lot of detective test and passed. Still, the
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  Speaker 7: judge awarded full custody. To his wife, what.
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  Speaker 9: Would I like to have your kids taken from you?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you just killed my whole family.
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  Speaker 7: Because of the nature of the allegations, Solomon would go
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  Speaker 7: a full year without seeing Sky or Miley. Then Juliet
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  Speaker 7: finally gives in and sets up a time.
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  Speaker 5: I was gonna see them.
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  Speaker 7: That wins in, sadly that reunion would never happen. Just
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  Speaker 7: days after their new agreement, Sky suddenly disappears in the
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  Speaker 7: most unbelievable way.
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  Speaker 10: His mom said that Sky was sick that morning, so
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  Speaker 10: she was going to take him to the doctor in Bellevue.
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  Speaker 10: On the way to the doctor, Julia claims that the
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  Speaker 10: vehicle had some kind of car trouble, ran out of gas,
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  Speaker 10: or just wouldn't run.
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  Speaker 7: Julie tells police she grabs her four year old daughter,
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  Speaker 7: Miley and walks a mile to the nearest gas station
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  Speaker 7: for help.
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  Speaker 9: But what about two year old Sky?
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  Speaker 10: Well, the strange thing is she left that little boy
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  Speaker 10: in the car seat in the back by himself. She
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  Speaker 10: goes to the gas station, she doesn't get gas, She
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  Speaker 10: calls a friend to come get her. They go back
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  Speaker 10: to the car and Sky is gone.
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  Speaker 7: What parent would leave their child in the car and
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  Speaker 7: walk a mile to the gas station. Lieutenant Dave de
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  Speaker 7: vaut is one of the lead detectives in Sky's disappearance,
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  Speaker 7: and the.
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  Speaker 9: Child was reportedly sick. Right, exactly does that make sense
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  Speaker 9: to you? No, it does not.
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  Speaker 7: Something Bellevue Chief of Police Steve Milette has a hard
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  Speaker 7: time under standing as well. You're a father, if your
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  Speaker 7: child doesn't feeling well, do you just leave him abandoned
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  Speaker 7: on the side of the road and then walk to
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  Speaker 7: a gas station.
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  Speaker 9: It's a great question. It's a great question.
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  Speaker 7: What's going through your mind when the police officers say
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  Speaker 7: that Sky has gone missing?
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  Speaker 5: I think you're in a shock, so your brain doesn't think.
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  Speaker 7: Bellevue police would launch a massive search for Sky, but
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  Speaker 7: it didn't take long for investigators to find cracks in
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  Speaker 7: Julia's story.
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  Speaker 11: We started recognizing that there was some inconsistencies that caused
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  Speaker 11: us to step back and reevaluate whether or not this
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  Speaker 11: was something that involved foul play. Ms Berakova had reported
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  Speaker 11: that the vehicle had mechanical problems turned out to be
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  Speaker 11: not true. It had plenty of gas in the tank.
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  Speaker 7: So there was gas on the car and nothing mechanically
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  Speaker 7: wrong with it.
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  Speaker 12: Correct.
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  Speaker 9: That's exactly the opposite of what Julia said.
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  Speaker 12: Correct.
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  Speaker 7: So how would Julia explain that? Well, investigators would never
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  Speaker 7: get a chance to ask her.
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  Speaker 12: She was brought down to the station where we were
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  Speaker 12: going to do some follow up discussions. Her attorney came
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  Speaker 12: in and that was the end of our contact with.
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  Speaker 7: A little boy missing, a mother not talking, a father
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  Speaker 7: desperately searching for answers.
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  Speaker 6: Do you believe her?
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  Speaker 5: Hello?
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  Speaker 9: What part of her story does it bring true?
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  Speaker 5: All of it.
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  Speaker 9: Coming up?
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  Speaker 7: What really happened to little Sky? Was it a real
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  Speaker 7: life version of his mom's favorite television show, Law and
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  Speaker 7: Order SVU?
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  Speaker 10: There are a lot of people in this community that
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  Speaker 10: believe that Sky was never in that car in the
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  Speaker 10: first place.
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  Speaker 7: And I go knocking on the door of the one
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  Speaker 7: person who holds the key to this mystery, Julia Buryakhova.
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  Speaker 6: Why won't you cooper away the investigation? Julia?
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  Speaker 8: Did you ever know that you were a registered sexistieity?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a chance now to look into that camera?
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  Speaker 1: Did you have anything to do with Since disappear, the
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  Speaker 1: Crime Watch Daily has never been afraid to get in
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  Speaker 1: your face and ask the tough questions. Today, our Jason
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  Speaker 1: Mattera is on the keys of a missing little boy.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason, his mother has been ignoring the police,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't ignore us.
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  Speaker 7: How does a happy, go lucky two year old boy
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  Speaker 7: simply vanish off the earth?
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  Speaker 5: My son, it's not here and I don't know where
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  Speaker 5: he is.
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  Speaker 10: Did the little boy get kidnapped? Those kind of things
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  Speaker 10: just don't happen in that community.
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  Speaker 7: David Rose, host of Washington's Most Wanted, has covered the
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  Speaker 7: disappearance of Sky Metawhila from day one.
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  Speaker 10: People are frustrated and they wonder how could somebody do
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  Speaker 10: something to a little boy like this, or how could
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  Speaker 10: a little boy just vanish?
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  Speaker 7: Making things even more troubling, the mounting evidence that foul
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  Speaker 7: play may have been involved, and the one person who
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  Speaker 7: could help solve this case isn't talking.
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  Speaker 12: Julia holds the key to this case, and we beg
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  Speaker 12: her to come forward and talk to us.
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  Speaker 7: Julie is Skuy's mother, who claimed Sky was sick the
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  Speaker 7: day of his disappearance and as she drove him and
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  Speaker 7: his four year old sister to the hospital. She reportedly
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  Speaker 7: had car trouble. Julia told police had her car ran
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  Speaker 7: out of gas at this intersection, so she decided to
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  Speaker 7: leave her two year old son in the car alone
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  Speaker 7: and walked to the nearest gas station, which is about
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  Speaker 7: a mile away. When she returned to the car more
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  Speaker 7: than an hour later, Sky was gone.
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  Speaker 10: Why would she walk a mile with her daughter in
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  Speaker 10: the cold of a November morning to a gas station
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  Speaker 10: doesn't make.
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  Speaker 7: Sense, investigators agree. In fact, a long list of troubling
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  Speaker 7: facts started to surface. First, officers said the car had
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  Speaker 7: nothing wrong with it.
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  Speaker 11: It had plenty of gas in the tank. In fact,
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  Speaker 11: we drove the vehicle, and we drove it for a
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  Speaker 11: long period of time.
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  Speaker 7: Fact number two, She and her ex husband, Solomon were
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  Speaker 7: in the middle of a nuclear sized divorce war, Julia
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  Speaker 7: leveln claims of child abuse, and Solomon maintaining she suffered
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  Speaker 7: from severe mental illness.
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  Speaker 5: We've had, you know, conversations about okay, you need to
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  Speaker 5: go get help, and her response was, you know, I'm fine.
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  Speaker 7: Fact number three, this wasn't the first time little Sky
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  Speaker 7: would be left in a car. Two years earlier, Julia
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  Speaker 7: and Solomon were both sided by police after locking the
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  Speaker 7: little boy in a car while they went shopping inside
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  Speaker 7: a target for fifty five minutes. You're clearly remorseful for
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  Speaker 7: leaving Sky in the car in two thousand and nine,
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  Speaker 7: you just said it was dawn inexcusable.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 7: And lastly, fact number four, perhaps the strangest of all.
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  Speaker 7: The night before Sky went missing, on Order SVU aired
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  Speaker 7: an episode where a mother tried covering up the death
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  Speaker 7: of her child by claiming the kid was abducted from
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  Speaker 7: a parked car. The show is reportedly Julia's favorite program.
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  Speaker 10: I think it's very possible that little Sky was ever
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  Speaker 10: in the vehicle that day, and that Julia made up
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  Speaker 10: the entire story to cover up something horrible.
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  Speaker 7: Solomon hadn't seen either of his kids in more than
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  Speaker 7: a year because of their ugly divorce, and he believes
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  Speaker 7: Sky was never in that car. So when was the
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  Speaker 7: last time that somebody outside of Julia's family saw Sky?
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  Speaker 5: It was six months before the day he went missing.
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  Speaker 9: Do you have any theories about what happened to Sky?
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  Speaker 5: At this point, I am thinking somehow she sold him
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  Speaker 5: to who. We would love to know that with a.
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  Speaker 7: Way, there's been some chatter that maybe Julia smuggled Sky
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  Speaker 7: out of the country, that he maybe's in Ukraine.
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  Speaker 12: I will say that that has been followed up on
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  Speaker 12: and that we have closed that loop.
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  Speaker 7: It has now been nearly five years since Sky went missing.
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  Speaker 7: Julia has lost custody of their door. Miley, Does Julia
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  Speaker 7: hold the key to unlocking the mystery of Sky's does it?
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  Speaker 9: My God, Yes, she does.
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  Speaker 6: She does.
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  Speaker 11: She's the only person we haven't been able to talk to.
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  Speaker 11: And again I'm begging you, please come forward and talk
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  Speaker 11: to us.
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  Speaker 7: Police are now calling Julia a person of interest in
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  Speaker 7: the case. And the only thing Julia has said since
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  Speaker 7: Guy's disappearance came back in twenty eleven in several angry
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  Speaker 7: emails to ABC News correspondent Neil Karlinski, in which she stated, quote,
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  Speaker 7: my former husband is a sadistic Muslim Pakistani. No one
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  Speaker 7: has any idea. This is all too difficult. What about
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  Speaker 7: what Sky's father, Solomon? Has he been cooperative with the investigation?
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  Speaker 12: Very cooperative?
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  Speaker 11: I have four children, and all I can tell you
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  Speaker 11: I know what my response would be. But that being said,
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  Speaker 11: I don't know why she will not come forward.
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  Speaker 7: Well, since Julia won't go and talk to the police.
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  Speaker 7: We decided to go to her.
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  Speaker 9: Julia's heading to the trunk of her car.
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  Speaker 7: Julia Jason Mattera with Crime Watching Daily.
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  Speaker 6: Why won't you cooperate with the police.
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  Speaker 7: Why won't you cooperate with the police with the investigation
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  Speaker 7: for Sky? We're doing a story on Sky's disappearance. Are
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  Speaker 7: you trying to hide something? Why won't you cooperate with
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  Speaker 7: the investigation? Julia, Sky was your son. It's been now
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  Speaker 7: almost six years. You won't talk to cops. She calls
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  Speaker 7: the cops on us. It's odd that a mom doesn't
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  Speaker 7: want to talk about their missing son. You call the cops,
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  Speaker 7: but yet you don't want to cooperate with the police.
• 15:35
  Speaker 7: They want the police help now. But when it comes
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: to Sky's disappearance, not so much. You think Julia may
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  Speaker 7: have seen too much of you and Sky and then
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  Speaker 7: taking it out on him.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to want to think that. That would
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  Speaker 5: be horrible.
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  Speaker 9: Do you believe your son is still alive?
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna believe that he is because no one can
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  Speaker 5: prove me he's done.
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  Speaker 7: As for police, they have released new pictures of Julie
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  Speaker 7: at the gas station from the day of Sky's reported disappearance,
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  Speaker 7: hoping to get new eats as well as this new
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  Speaker 7: age progression photo of what the two year old would
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  Speaker 7: look like today. And to say this case is a
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  Speaker 7: personal one for investigators would be an understatement.
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  Speaker 11: Look at this little boy, Look at him. He's two
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  Speaker 11: years old. He could be your son, It could be
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  Speaker 11: my son. I commend you in this program for bringing
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  Speaker 11: this case forward and keeping it alive.
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  Speaker 9: What would finding Sky mean to you? Personally?
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  Speaker 11: Get on my knees and just thank God that we
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  Speaker 11: were able to find him. And I get on my
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  Speaker 11: knees and I pray that he's alive.
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  Speaker 7: Until that day. Chief Steve Milet makes us this promise.
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  Speaker 11: This picture will stay on my desk for as long
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  Speaker 11: as I'm Chief and beyond, and we're going to keep
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  Speaker 11: on searching and following every lead until we bring him
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  Speaker 11: home and return him to his family.
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  Speaker 7: And to do that they need an interview with Julia Barryakova. However,
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: she's had quite the past twelve months. She gave bert
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  Speaker 7: to a new baby boy, but she was declared an
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  Speaker 7: unfit parent by Child Protective Services. We saw the baby
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  Speaker 7: though still with her. As for the father, his name
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: is Alan Morgan and he's a convicted felon. They both
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: have court orders not to see each other.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Coming up the Chicago tanning salon owner police call a serial.
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: Rapist Mark Mark Winner.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Our Elizabeth Smart is chasing him down and talking to
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  Speaker 2: one of his victims in question what I was wearing, what.
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  Speaker 5: I was doing.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Then a celebration turns to horror as a gunman ripped
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  Speaker 2: through a high school house party to get revenge on
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  Speaker 2: his ex girlfriend for people ranging on.
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  Speaker 4: The ground like Bendred Dead.
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  Speaker 2: The clues he dropped on social media moments before the attack.
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  Speaker 1: That's coming up all right now to a story that
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  Speaker 1: will send chills up the spine of any woman who's
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  Speaker 1: ever been to a tanning salon. And to cover it
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  Speaker 1: for us, we sent in the ultimate victim's advocate, our
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  Speaker 1: own Elizabeth Smart. She joins me now high Elisbeth Chris.
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  Speaker 13: It was one of the most popular tanning salons in Chicago,
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  Speaker 13: but police say the owner was using it to prey
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  Speaker 13: on employees and customers.
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  Speaker 8: He is the man who has several women in the
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  Speaker 8: Chicago area screaming rape Mark Winner free on the streets.
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  Speaker 8: Crime Watch Daily is there after his most recent status
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  Speaker 8: hearing winners facing charges on four vicious rapes over six years.
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  Speaker 8: He's pled not guilty to all counts, most of them
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  Speaker 8: allegedly perpetrated on customers and employees of his now shut
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  Speaker 8: down to salons.
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  Speaker 3: I literally became a person nobody recognized. I wasn't me anymore.
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  Speaker 8: She is Leslie Barton, a former career political consultant and
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  Speaker 8: the first woman to step forward an accuse Winner of
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  Speaker 8: raping her on top of a tanning bed in his salon.
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  Speaker 3: It nearly completely and utterly destroyed, destroyed me.
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  Speaker 8: Crime Watch Daily Special correspondent Elizabeth Smart knows better than
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  Speaker 8: anyone what it is like to be a survivor of
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  Speaker 8: violent sexual abuse at age fourteen, kidnapped, raped and tortured
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  Speaker 8: over nine months while police searched for her. Today, she
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  Speaker 8: is a champion.
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  Speaker 5: You're shaking. It's okay.
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  Speaker 8: No one can hurt you now for victims of sexual
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  Speaker 8: abuse in their fight for justice.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, okay.
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  Speaker 8: Leslie is sharing her nightmare for the first time on
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  Speaker 8: national television and only with Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 4: Did he say anything to you when you were saying no, men, no,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't want this.
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  Speaker 3: He just ignored it completely, did not acknowledge it. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't exist.
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  Speaker 8: Leslie Barton says her nightmare began it one of Mark
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  Speaker 8: Winner's tanning salons on Chicago's North Shore.
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  Speaker 3: It's a different name now, it's still tanning salon. It
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  Speaker 3: was called the Tanning Oasis.
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  Speaker 4: Is it hard for you to be back?
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  Speaker 5: It's not easy, She says.
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  Speaker 8: She asked Winter if a friend could use her membership
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  Speaker 8: for one day at the salon.
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  Speaker 3: He turned and looked at me and he's like, now
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: you can't, and he's screaming at the top of his sons.
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  Speaker 8: Later that evening, she says, she visits a neighborhood bar
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  Speaker 8: with a friend.
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  Speaker 3: And I was at this you know, cheers type place
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  Speaker 3: near my house that everyone really does know your name.
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  Speaker 8: And she's surprised to see a neighbor sitting there with
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: Mark Winner.
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  Speaker 3: I said, you screamed at me as a customer in
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  Speaker 3: your tanning salon. I said, you really need to get
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  Speaker 3: that anger under control. And then he started it very angry.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah really, and I just I walked away.
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  Speaker 8: When who should appear moments later but Mark Winner with
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: a peace offering in his hand.
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  Speaker 3: He shows up with a drink and he said, you
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  Speaker 3: know what you're right. I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 8: And then, in what Leslie will forever remember as the
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: biggest mistake in her life, she says, she took the
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: offered drink from Winter and I.
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  Speaker 3: Drink maybe half of it, and I sat and talked
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  Speaker 3: to them for a while. It was already pretty late
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  Speaker 3: and I was really getting like kind of tired.
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  Speaker 4: So you're a phil I'm pretty sure then that he
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: had drugged your drink.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty sure. I can never prove it. I mean I
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: never felt like this. It was this fog, this strange fog.
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  Speaker 5: She says.
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  Speaker 8: Winner then offered to take her out for food.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, no, I don't think so He's like,
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  Speaker 3: come on, I know your neighbor. You go to my
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  Speaker 3: tanning flon.
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  Speaker 8: She agrees to go, and then says Mark Winner pulls
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  Speaker 8: the car up to a stop, not at a restaurant,
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  Speaker 8: but at his tanning salon.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, where are we? He has me walk in first.
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  Speaker 3: He's behind me, and so my back's to him, and
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  Speaker 3: I hear the turn of the lock.
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  Speaker 4: So he's locked you in with him.
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  Speaker 3: And at that moment, my whole body cringed. I mean
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  Speaker 3: everything in me just went, it just stopped I lose
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  Speaker 3: time again, and when I woke up, I'm standing inside
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  Speaker 3: one of the tanning rooms and I turn around and
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  Speaker 3: I see him, and he's standing in the doorway, blocking
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  Speaker 3: my way out.
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  Speaker 8: Leslie says she tried to force her way past him,
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  Speaker 8: but that's when Mark Winner made his move.
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  Speaker 3: And he lifted me up and slammed me down on
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  Speaker 3: the tanning bed and he's strangling me.
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  Speaker 4: What was going through your mind when he grabbed your neck?
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: And I'm thinking, this isn't happening, This can't be happening.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to kill me. I'm certain of it. He's
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: gonna kill me, and he just squeezes tighter and tighter
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  Speaker 3: around my neck. I wanted to live. I wanted to live.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I somehow gurgled out, you stop stop, I'll stop fighting,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: and then he got back on me and he raped me.
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  Speaker 3: I just no longer existed in that moment. I was gone.
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  Speaker 8: Next, Leslie Barton faces the gut wrenching decision speak out
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  Speaker 8: or stay silent.
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  Speaker 3: In my identity, my self worth? It was just taken
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  Speaker 3: an instant.
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  Speaker 8: Mark Winner and Elizabeth goes on the hunt for Mark Winner.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: We're back with more on the case of the tanning
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  Speaker 1: salon owner accused of sexually assaulting employees and customers. To
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  Speaker 1: the horror of those alleged victims, that suspect remains out
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  Speaker 1: on the streets while he awaits trial. Let's head back
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  Speaker 1: to Chicago, where our Elizabeth Smart tried to get his
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  Speaker 1: side of the story.
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  Speaker 8: It's the morning after the most terrific night of Leslie
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  Speaker 8: Barton's life.
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  Speaker 3: I had no idea why. It was so absolutely terrified
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  Speaker 3: of everything. I just severe post man extrass And.
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  Speaker 8: She's sharing her nightmare of being raped for the first
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  Speaker 8: time on national television with our Elizabeth Smart.
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  Speaker 3: What happened after the attack, I couldn't sparely speak, and
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  Speaker 3: my neck is killing me.
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  Speaker 8: Her physical scars pale compared to the emotional trauma.
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  Speaker 3: And look in the mirror and then there's like fingerprints
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  Speaker 3: of bruises all around my neck everywhere. When the shadow
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  Speaker 3: would go past the window, I jump. And then the
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  Speaker 3: next day I said to my friend, I said, many flashbacks.
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  Speaker 3: I'm starting to get my memory back. I said, I
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: think I was ripped.
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  Speaker 8: Leslie claims she was raped on a tanning bed in
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  Speaker 8: a tanning salon and says, this is the man who
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  Speaker 8: attacked her Mark Winner. Crime Watch Daily has learned Winter
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  Speaker 8: once managed and later owned the salon. Leslie shares with
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  Speaker 8: Elizabeth the tortures so many rape victims endure to tell
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  Speaker 8: or to keep quiet.
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  Speaker 3: If I tell anybody, I'll never work in my profession again.
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  Speaker 3: I knew where this could go. But then also the
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  Speaker 3: thought of if I don't tell someone, he's gonna do
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  Speaker 3: this to someone else.
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  Speaker 4: Not only that, but it would destroy you from the
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  Speaker 4: inside out.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it would.
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  Speaker 4: As a rape survivor myself, I will never forget the
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: feelings of filth and just total loss of value in myself.
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  Speaker 4: The feeling of filth is so overwhelming. And six days
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  Speaker 4: was how long you waited before you reported to the police.
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  Speaker 4: That's not long at all.
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  Speaker 3: Still, even then it was a little shaky. I actually,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: male friend of mine called the police and they called me,
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  Speaker 3: and then I went in.
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  Speaker 8: To Leslie's great relief. Police head over to the Tan
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  Speaker 8: salon and Mark Winner is arrested on suspicion of criminal
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: sexual assault. But Leslie gets a shocked a few days
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  Speaker 8: later when she sits down for a talk with the
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  Speaker 8: felony reviewer on the case.
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  Speaker 3: He asked me, why didn't you run to the nearest house.
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  Speaker 3: Why didn't you break open the door? Why didn't you
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: do this? Why didn't you do that? So the felony
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  Speaker 3: reviewer who decided he would not charge him with criminal
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  Speaker 3: sexual assault.
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  Speaker 4: How did you feel when you found out he was
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  Speaker 4: just being charged with battery?
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  Speaker 7: Enraged?
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  Speaker 3: To be honest, the justice system failed me so miserably.
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  Speaker 8: A disappointed Leslie is present for every hearing. When Winner
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: appears before a judge, he.
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  Speaker 3: Would yell at me as he walked out of the
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  Speaker 3: cart room. She's a liar and he had absolutely zero remorse.
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  Speaker 9: What was it like seeing him again?
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  Speaker 3: I was grateful to have my mom by my side
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  Speaker 3: the whole time. She was just terrified of how her
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  Speaker 3: daughter was going to get hurt, but she was there
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  Speaker 3: every moment by my side.
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  Speaker 8: Then the shocking news mark Winner will get probation and
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: not serve another day behind bars. That makes Leslie feel
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  Speaker 8: violated all over again.
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  Speaker 3: They come to me and tell me that they want
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  Speaker 3: to only go for two years probation and he's willing
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  Speaker 3: to plead guilty on my wait two years. She gets
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: his freedom entirely. And the craziest part about it, though,
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: is at the end when he left, angry in rage
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  Speaker 3: that he had put you know, they pleaded guilty to
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: bout her a.
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: Leslie is crushed, telling Elizabeth she's terrified he'll go on
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: to rape other women. Now at least four other women
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  Speaker 8: are claiming Winner did the same thing to them after
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  Speaker 8: walking free.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't stop him. Even though granded the system failed me,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: I still couldn't stop him. And since I couldn't stop him,
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: these other women, unfortunately are right.
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  Speaker 8: Mark Winner's criminal record reportedly includes convictions for duy, driving
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  Speaker 8: with a revoked license, theft, and possession of cocaine. One
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  Speaker 8: witness reportedly told investigators that he and Winter would cruise
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: the streets late nights looking for intoxicated women and lure
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: them into the car with quote free tans, drugs and alcohol.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Mark Winner and the Mark Winners out there. They get
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: emboldened when they get off with a slap on the wrist, basically,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: oh yeah, I can go out and do that again.
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  Speaker 8: His current charges of four violent sexual assaults ranged between
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: two thousand and nine and twenty fifteen, and that includes
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: the kidnapping of one woman he allegedly brought to his
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: mother's home and raped at Nice point, and now Leslie
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: says insult is again added to injury to see Mark
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  Speaker 8: Winner walk free again after posting bond on his four
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  Speaker 8: pending rape charges.
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  Speaker 3: He changed my life forever, But you know, I hate
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: saying that because that means he still has control and
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  Speaker 3: power over me, and he doesn't.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Brian Mitchell changed my life forever, but that doesn't mean
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: he has power controlling exactly.
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: Elizabeth decided to track down Mark Winner at his Chicago home.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, Mark, Mark Winner.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody answered.
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  Speaker 13: This is his gate right here, and it's locked up
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  Speaker 13: pretty tight, and you can see right here. He's got
• 30:53
  Speaker 13: a security camp. So if he's at home, then he
• 30:56
  Speaker 13: can probably see us, and he doesn't want to talk
• 30:58
  Speaker 13: to us. And this is also his garage right here
• 31:01
  Speaker 13: that we've been watching all morning and we haven't.
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: Seen him leave the house Mark Mark Winner.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 6: I'm here with Crime Watch. I'd like to ask you
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: a few questions.
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: He may be free, but he's keeping a very low
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: profile these days. We figure the last person he wants
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: to see is our Elizabeth Smart.
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  Speaker 13: So we still think he is inside, just not willing
• 31:24
  Speaker 13: to speak to us.
• 31:25
  Speaker 8: Winner's attorneys send Crime Watch Daily this statement. We prefer
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: to try these cases in the courtroom at that time.
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: We believe people will see these charges are without merit.
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: We did get a good look at Winner the day
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: he posted bond to get out of jail. He wears
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: an ankle monitor and is under a seven pm curfew,
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: but he was too busy running away to answer any questions.
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: But count on it he will return soon to the
• 31:56
  Speaker 8: halls of justice to answer some deadly serious questions before
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: a judge.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm so grateful that you are sharing your story.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: Do you find it at all cathartic or do you
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: just feel it's just kind of hard and kind of painful.
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  Speaker 3: And not only on camera. I'm saying my name, I'm
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: saying his name. I'm letting my face be seen. I'm
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: not letting my voice be distorted. Because the reality is
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: is that we shouldn't have to hide.
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  Speaker 5: They should