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• 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,080 I have shaped the transcript into a single flowing investigative narrative, 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:07,760 keeping the central evidence, timeline, investigation, 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:10,480 suspects, and eventual conviction from the source. 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:15,680 I have also avoided unnecessary graphic detail while preserving the seriousness of the case. 5 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:19,360 The Winter Killer, the murder of Dr. Jeffrey Farcus. 6 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:23,840 What if the safest place you thought you had chosen became the place where your life ended? 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,960 On the freezing night of December 3, 1989, 8 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:32,320 a young doctor returned to his home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, unaware that someone had already 9 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:36,480 entered his quiet neighborhood, and that the investigation that followed would leave an entire 10 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:41,200 city wondering who was hiding behind the winter darkness. At the time, Pittsburgh was going through 11 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:45,680 a period of transformation. The city was still known for the bitter cold that swept through its 12 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:52,080 neighborhoods, but it was also rebuilding its identity around education, technology, medicine, 13 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:57,760 and research. Children's hospital had become one of the city's most respected medical institutions, 14 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:03,680 particularly in pediatric medicine and transplantation. For 26-year-old Drive Jeffrey Farcus, 15 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:08,320 that environment seemed like the beginning of the life he had worked toward. He had chosen medicine 16 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:13,120 because he wanted to help children, and after completing medical school in Michigan, he came to 17 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:17,840 Pittsburgh for his internship. He also believed the city offered something important to him, 18 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:24,000 safety. Jeff was not simply a young doctor whose name would later appear in a homicide investigation. 19 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:29,520 To the people who knew him, he was unusually warm, approachable, and generous. His father remembered 20 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:34,960 the moment Jeff told him that he wanted to become a doctor. It was a demanding path, but Jeff had 21 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:39,840 already discovered that working with children gave him a sense of purpose. His colleagues described 22 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:44,560 someone who could make frightened children feel comfortable in a hospital environment. One young 23 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:49,680 patient with Crohn's disease reportedly enjoyed the simple humor Jeff used during examinations, 24 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:54,640 turning an intimidating medical experience into something she could tolerate. That ability to make 25 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:59,600 people feel safe would become one of the defining memories his colleagues carried after his death. 26 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:06,080 But on Sunday, December 3, 1989, Jeff's life took a completely different course. That evening, 27 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:11,360 he returned to the house he rented on Beachwood Boulevard in Squirrel Hill. It was not even his first 28 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:16,880 trip home that night. At some point, a friend who had been at a restaurant nearby discovered that his 29 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:22,240 car battery had died. He called Jeff for help, and according to those who knew him, asking Jeff for 30 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:26,880 something like that was completely natural. He was the kind of person who would leave the warmth of 31 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:32,480 his home on a freezing Sunday night simply because a friend needed assistance. Several hours later, 32 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:38,640 shortly after four in the morning, one of Jeff's roommates, Dr. Kent Driscoll returned to the house, 33 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:44,800 something immediately felt unusual. Lights were still on upstairs. Yet Jeff's car was missing. 34 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:50,000 The front door was slightly open. Kent entered and noticed that the house did not look the way it 35 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:55,040 normally should. Then he reached the kitchen and saw Jeff's wallet, driver's license, 36 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:59,920 and credit cards scattered around. There was also evidence that something violent had happened 37 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:05,440 inside the home. Kent became frightened. He left the house and drove to the zone's six-pitzburg 38 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:11,040 police station, where he reported that his roommate had been murdered. The response was immediate. 39 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:15,680 Pittsburgh's homicide detectives and crime scene investigators were called to the property, 40 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:20,000 and the house became the center of an investigation that would soon attract the attention of the 41 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:25,920 entire city. What investigators encountered raised more questions than answers. The violence appeared 42 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:30,720 extreme, yet there was no obvious sign that the killer had forced their way into the house. 43 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:35,040 There were no broken windows and no damaged door suggesting an obvious forced entry. 44 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:39,600 That detail became important because it suggested that Jeff might have known whoever entered the 45 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:44,960 home or that the person had another way of getting inside. His two roommates had keys, 46 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:49,120 which immediately placed them among the people detectives needed to investigate. 47 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:54,320 The crime scene also appeared to tell conflicting stories. Some belongings had been disturbed, 48 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:59,280 and several items were eventually discovered to be missing, including electronic equipment, 49 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:04,960 a telephone, an answering machine, and a camera. This created an early theory that the incident 50 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:10,240 might have begun as a burglary and then escalated into homicide. Yet the level of violence made 51 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:15,040 detectives wonder whether something much more personal had taken place. Was the apparent burglary 52 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:20,400 genuine or had someone deliberately created the appearance of a robbery to hide the real motive? 53 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:26,320 That uncertainty became one of the central problems of the case. Investigators could not simply assume 54 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:31,360 that the scene represented what it appeared to represent. Every detail had to be tested, 55 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:37,280 then came another unusual discovery. A cord had been removed from a household vacuum and tied in 56 00:04:37,280 --> 00:04:42,880 a complex knot. Detectives wondered whether the person responsible had some previous experience with 57 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:48,640 that type of knot. Nearby, a distinctive wooden Caribbean mask belonging to Jeff had been left at 58 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:53,920 the scene. It had personal significance because it had been given to him by his parents after a trip to 59 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:59,920 NASA. Why would a burglar take other possessions but leave such a personal object behind? And why would 60 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:05,120 that particular object become part of the crime scene? Those questions encouraged investigators to 61 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:10,560 consider the possibility that the killer knew something about Jeff's personal life. At the same time, 62 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:16,320 the missing property and signs of a possible burglary kept another theory alive. The case was becoming 63 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:22,400 a puzzle in which individual pieces appeared to contradict one another. Detectives began where homicide 64 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:28,720 investigations often began with the people closest to the victim. Kent Driscoll, the roommate who reported 65 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:34,560 the crime, came under scrutiny. His fingerprints were found on an item inside the house, but can 66 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:39,680 explain that he had entered the home, realized something was wrong, and had picked up an object because 67 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:45,120 he was frightened. Investigators examined his movements and questioned the gaps in his timeline. 68 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:50,880 Kent had worked late at the hospital before returning home. At first, detectives could not account 69 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:56,640 for every minute of his evening. That meant he could not immediately be eliminated. The principle was 70 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:02,800 simple. In a homicide investigation, investigators cannot treat the person who reports the crime as 71 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:07,920 automatically innocent. They must establish what happened and eliminate people based on evidence 72 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:13,520 rather than assumptions. The other roommate, Donovan Lenz, was also questioned. His situation was 73 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:18,800 different. Investigators were able to verify that he had spent almost the entire evening with his 74 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:24,400 girlfriend. His whereabouts were sufficiently supported that detectives eventually eliminated him 75 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:30,080 from consideration. Then, investigators found something potentially significant outside the house. 76 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:34,320 There were footprints in the snow. The impressions appeared to belong to someone wearing 77 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:40,880 approximately size 13 shoes. A size that did not match Jeff or either roommate. In 1989, 78 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:46,320 investigators did not have the technological advantages available today. There were no widespread 79 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:51,520 digital surveillance systems, no smartphones continuously recording locations, and no modern 80 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:56,560 automated fingerprint databases immediately available to detectives. The snow itself therefore 81 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:02,000 became evidence. Investigators carefully preserved the impressions and began searching the surrounding 82 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,640 neighborhood for anyone who might have seen a person matching the evidence. Residents reported 83 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:12,320 seeing a tall man wearing an army style coat with a hood and carrying a dark backpack. One man had 84 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:17,840 reportedly approached houses asking for a woman named Cindy. The story appeared suspicious because 85 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:23,680 the residents did not know anyone by that name. A police officer was eventually called to the area. 86 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:28,560 Using a flashlight, the officer noticed footprints leading toward the rear of a house. 87 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:34,080 The officer searched but did not find the man. That moment would become one of the haunting details 88 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:38,560 of the investigation. The police had apparently encountered signs of someone suspicious in the 89 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:42,880 neighborhood. But they did not know that the person they were looking for could already be connected 90 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:48,880 to Jeff's murder. The investigation widened. Jeff's missing 1989 Accura was eventually found 91 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:54,400 the next morning approximately three miles away in homestead. Across the Mananga Heeler River, 92 00:07:54,400 --> 00:08:00,320 the discovery gave detectives another location to examine. Once again, snow provided a potential 93 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:05,280 trail. Footwear impressions around the abandoned vehicle appeared consistent with the impressions 94 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:10,800 found near Jeff's home. Detectives began canvassing the area. They questioned bus drivers and 95 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:16,240 contacted taxi companies. Hoping someone remembered transporting a person on that freezing night, 96 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:21,680 the cold itself became part of the investigation. Detectives reasoned that whoever had abandoned 97 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:26,160 the vehicle would probably not have walked an extremely long distance in those conditions. 98 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:30,880 One of the most important leads came from a fast food restaurant near the homestead area. 99 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:35,680 Investigators spoke with the manager who remembered a very tall man wearing a backpack and an 100 00:08:35,680 --> 00:08:41,840 army style jacket with the hood raised. The man had purchased food, paid with cash, and left. 101 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:47,440 There was no security camera to provide investigators with a recording. There was no digital trail to 102 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:52,240 follow. There was only the memory of a witness and the description of a stranger who appeared 103 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:58,160 to fit the emerging profile. Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh community was becoming increasingly frightened. 104 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:02,720 Jeff's murder was unlike the ordinary crimes detectives were accustomed to handling. 105 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,880 The apparent randomness of the attack meant residents did not know whether they were dealing with 106 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:11,280 someone who had targeted Jeff specifically or someone who might strike again. The FBI was 107 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:16,880 contacted because of the unusual nature of the crime. A criminal profiler reviewed the circumstances 108 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:20,880 and reportedly warned investigators that the person responsible might have committed similar 109 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:26,160 crimes before and could potentially kill again. For police, that warning transformed the 110 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:32,480 investigation into a race against time. Three days after the murder, Jeff's family held his funeral. 111 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:37,840 Hundreds of people attended, including colleagues, friends, and people who had known him through 112 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:42,960 his work with children. His family began to see something that the homicide investigation could 113 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:48,400 not measure with fingerprints or footprints. Jeff had affected an extraordinary number of lives 114 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:53,840 in a very short time. His father had lost a son who had only recently completed his medical 115 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:59,520 training. His colleagues had lost a young doctor whose career was just beginning. His patients had 116 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:04,720 lost someone who had made a frightening medical environment easier to endure. The tragedy was not 117 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:10,160 simply that a homicide had occurred. It was that an entire future had been taken away. 118 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:16,320 Still, detectives had a case to solve. They continued examining fingerprints collected from the house. 119 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,880 Most belonged to Jeff, his roommates, or people who legitimately had reason to be there. 120 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:26,240 But one partial thumbprint remained unexplained. It was found on the bathroom door and contained a 121 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:30,480 distinctive characteristic suggesting that the person might have had a bandage on the finger at the 122 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:36,960 time the print was deposited. That small detail became extremely important. Investigators also followed 123 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:42,480 the missing car and the witness reports. Several people came under suspicion, including men with 124 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:47,920 criminal histories who seemed to fit portions of the description. One suspect, Lucas Hillman, 125 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:52,560 was known to police for previous offenses and had been in the area where Jeff's car was found. 126 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:58,000 Yet his fingerprints did not match the evidence and investigators were eventually able to establish 127 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:04,080 enough information to clear him. Another man, Jamal Jackson, also attracted attention. He reportedly 128 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:09,760 matched the physical description, wore a backpack, and was known to wear an army style jacket. 129 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:14,960 But once again, investigators checked the evidence instead of stopping at appearances. 130 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:21,040 Jackson provided an alibi. His shoe size did not match the footprints and detectives cleared him. 131 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:26,320 This is one of the most important lessons hidden inside the case. A suspicious person is not 132 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:31,840 necessarily the person responsible. Criminal investigations can be damaged when investigators allow 133 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:38,800 assumptions, reputation, or appearance to replace evidence. In Jeff's case, several people looked 134 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:44,320 suspicious before evidence ultimately cleared them. Eventually, detectives turned their attention 135 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:48,800 to parole records in the surrounding area. They were looking for someone who matched the 136 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:55,120 unusually tall description. Among hundreds of records, one name stood out. 24-year-old William 137 00:11:55,120 --> 00:12:00,160 Yarborough. He was approximately six feet eight inches tall and had previously been on parole 138 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:05,760 for burglary in the same general area. When detectives saw his photograph, they believed he closely 139 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:10,400 resembled the composite sketch. They obtained his fingerprint records and compared them with the 140 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:15,360 unidentified print recovered from Jeff's home. The match changed the investigation. 141 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:20,960 Detectives located Yarborough and took him into custody without incident. Investigators then 142 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:26,880 examined his workplace a fast food restaurant. There, they found a pair of size 13 shoes associated 143 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:31,920 with him. The pattern on the saws was consistent with impressions recovered near Jeff's home and 144 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:37,920 the abandoned car. Even more significantly, investigators found Jeff's blood on one of the shoes. 145 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:43,600 Then came another detail that connected several previously unexplained pieces of the case. Yarborough 146 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:49,360 had a bandage on one of his fingers. The fingerprint evidence had suggested that the unidentified print 147 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:54,480 could have been left by someone wearing a bandage. Investigators also learned that when Yarborough was 148 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:59,600 younger, he had attended a camp for troubled youth where he learned various skills, including not 149 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:05,040 tying. One type of not reportedly taught there was consistent with the unusual not discovered 150 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:10,640 during the investigation. Investigators also uncovered evidence that Yarborough had a fascination with 151 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:15,840 violent slasher films. Prosecutors later argued that his interest in those films had influenced the 152 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:21,040 way he behaved during the crime, including some of the unusual symbolic elements investigators had 153 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:27,280 found at the scene. Yarborough pleaded not guilty. A trial, prosecutors presented their theory of what 154 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:32,800 happened on December 3, 1989. They argued that Yarborough had been moving through the neighborhood 155 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:38,400 looking for a house to burglarize. When people were present, he moved on. When he reached Jeff's home, 156 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:43,760 prosecutors argued that he found an opportunity to enter because the front door had not been properly 157 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:49,840 secured. According to the prosecution's account, the burglary was interrupted when Jeff returned home. 158 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:55,360 What followed was not simply a property crime. It became a homicide. The evidence presented 159 00:13:55,360 --> 00:14:00,560 against Yarborough included the fingerprint recovered from the bathroom door. Jeff's blood on one of Yarborough's 160 00:14:00,560 --> 00:14:05,520 shoes. The shoe pattern corresponding with the impressions found at the crime scenes and other 161 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:11,040 circumstances connecting him to the events. The trial lasted four days. The jury deliberated for 162 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:16,560 approximately three hours before finding William Yarborough guilty of robbery, burglary, and first 163 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:23,760 degree murder. The conviction came on December 3, 1990, exactly one year after Jeff Marcus was killed. 164 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:29,120 Yarborough received life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. For investigators, the 165 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:35,040 conviction brought an answer to a case that had consumed enormous resources. For Jeff's family, however, 166 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:40,800 an answer was not the same thing as restoration. His father expressed relief that the person responsible 167 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:45,920 was no longer free to harm someone else. But the conviction could not return his son. He had 168 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:51,680 imagined seeing Jeff grow into his medical career. He had imagined visiting him at children's hospital 169 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:56,240 and watching the young doctor become the physician he had worked so hard to become. That future 170 00:14:56,240 --> 00:15:01,920 disappeared on one freezing night in Pittsburgh. Yet Jeff's story did not end with the courtroom. 171 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:06,720 Children's hospital continued to remember him through an annual award named in his honor. 172 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:11,600 The award recognizes an in turn who demonstrates exceptional compassion toward patients and their 173 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:16,320 families. In that way, the young doctor who wanted to make frightened children feel safe 174 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:21,360 continues to influence the medical community decades after his death. And perhaps that is the part 175 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:26,720 of this case that deserves to be remembered most. Jeff Marcus arrived in Pittsburgh believing he had 176 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:31,840 found a city where he could build a life and serve children. He had no criminal world around him, 177 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:37,600 no reputation for dangerous behavior, and according to those who knew him, no enemies. He was simply 178 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:43,600 a young doctor beginning his career. His death also exposes something that remains relevant today. 179 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:49,200 We often imagine that danger has a particular appearance. We assume that safe neighborhoods protect 180 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:54,880 us from violent crime that familiar places are automatically secure or that we can identify a dangerous 181 00:15:54,880 --> 00:16:00,560 person simply by looking at them. But real investigations are rarely that simple. The case also 182 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:06,240 demonstrates why evidence matters. Several men appeared suspicious during the investigation. 183 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:12,240 Some had criminal histories, some matched portions of the description. Yet detectives continued 184 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:17,920 testing their stories, checking alibis, comparing fingerprints, examining footwear, 185 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:22,480 and following physical evidence until those individuals could be cleared. The footprints in the 186 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:28,560 snow, the abandoned car, the unidentified fingerprint, the bandage, the shoes, and the blood evidence 187 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:34,160 may have appeared insignificant when viewed separately. Together they form to trail. That is often 188 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:40,240 how justice works. The truth does not always arrive as one dramatic revelation. Sometimes it is 189 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:46,000 buried inside small details that investigators refuse to ignore. There is also a lesson about 190 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:50,720 the legacy of a victim. Jeff's murder could have reduced his entire life to a crime scene, 191 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:57,040 a case number, and a courtroom verdict. But the people who knew him refused to let that happen. 192 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:01,600 They remembered the doctor who cared for children, the son whose father was proud of him, 193 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:06,560 the friend who would leave his warm home on a freezing night to help someone whose car had broken down, 194 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:11,920 and the young physician whose career was only beginning. A crime can explain how a person died, 195 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:17,520 cannot fully explain who that person was. More than three decades later, the most enduring part of 196 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:21,920 Jeffrey Farkas' story may therefore not be the identity of the man who killed him, 197 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:26,320 but the life that existed before the crime and the lives he continued to touch afterward. 198 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:32,720 On December 3, 1989, a young doctor entered a Pittsburgh home expecting an ordinary night. 199 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:38,640 By the early morning hours of December 4, his family was receiving devastating news. Investigators 200 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:43,600 were facing one of the city's most disturbing homicide scenes, and an entire community was asking 201 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:49,840 the same question. Who had entered that home and why? The answer eventually came through persistence, 202 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:55,760 forensic evidence, and details that could easily have been overlooked. But the final lesson is much 203 00:17:55,760 --> 00:18:00,960 larger than the conviction. Jeffrey Farkas was not remembered because of the violence that ended 204 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:06,400 his life. He was remembered because of the compassion with which he lived it. And when a life is 205 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:11,920 taken suddenly, the responsibility of those left behind is not only to seek justice, but also to 206 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:16,320 make sure the person who was lost is remembered for more than the worst moment of their story. 207 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:22,640 This is u.ssecretcrimespodcast. Stick to us for more of information and stories of this nature 208 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:23,840 see you on the next one.