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SPECIAL WEEKEND CRIME STORIES UPDATE: Dead wife's FitBit says hubby's lying, GUILTY · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a gorgeous young woman in
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  Speaker 1: the prime of her life, shot dead in the family
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  Speaker 1: home just two days before Christmas while they're two little
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  Speaker 1: boys are in school. I'm talking about Connie Debate. Why
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  Speaker 1: was this young mom gunned down in the home by
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  Speaker 1: amassed man? Take a listen to this our friends at CBS.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone who lives on Birchfew Drive in Ellington remembers that
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  Speaker 1: awful day it was shot. It was just no way
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  Speaker 1: in the world that you could comprehend it. December twenty third,
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, their friend and neighbor, Connie Debate, was shot
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  Speaker 1: and killed inside her home. Stuff like that doesn't happen here.
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  Speaker 1: You see it on TV the movie sitcoms, but you
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  Speaker 1: don't see it on your streets. Time moved on, but
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  Speaker 1: for Connie's friends, like Russell Stone, life was never quite
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  Speaker 1: the same here. The conversation is two minutes and then
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  Speaker 1: it goes right there Connie and you know, it's just
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  Speaker 1: a shadow hanging over everybody's head. To make it more mysterious,
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  Speaker 1: that masked man that guns down the mom leaves the
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  Speaker 1: dad alive and ties him up with zip ties. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: as he Grace. This is Crime Stories, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: being with us here at Flex Nation in series six,
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  Speaker 1: sim one eleven. You know this woman, Connie Debate. Her
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  Speaker 1: whole life was her family, her whole world. So how
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  Speaker 1: does she end up gunned down in her own home?
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  Speaker 1: No rape, no robbery, and Daddy somehow lives to tell
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  Speaker 1: the tale. Richard claims that a masked intruder, Mmm, here
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  Speaker 1: we go with the masked intruder breaks in to their
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  Speaker 1: upscale Connecticut home and ties him Richard Debate to a chair. PS.
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  Speaker 1: It was a folding chair and when Cop Scott there,
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  Speaker 1: he had one arm and one leg tied to it.
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  Speaker 1: But for some reason they didn't tie the wife to
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  Speaker 1: a chair. They decided to chase her through the home
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  Speaker 1: and murder her. Take a listen to her friends at NBC.
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  Speaker 1: Richard Debate told Connecticut police a terrifying story about the
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  Speaker 1: morning of December twenty third, twenty fifteen, an intruder covered
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  Speaker 1: in a dark green camouflage suit with a mask tortured
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  Speaker 1: him and fatally shot his wife, Connie. According to court documents,
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  Speaker 1: Debate told police his wife came home during the intrusion.
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  Speaker 1: He told her to run, then said the intruder chased
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  Speaker 1: her to the basement and shot her. Now this is
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  Speaker 1: the problem, Richard. The husband calls the cops and tells
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  Speaker 1: them everything that happened, and then cops get there. They
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  Speaker 1: find the wife brutally murdered. No forced entry, no burglary
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  Speaker 1: alarm goes off. I don't think anything was taken. I
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  Speaker 1: guess they just broke in and committed murder and left,
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  Speaker 1: you know, forget about the TV, the VCR and the
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  Speaker 1: jury and the money. Just you know, Okay, that didn't
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  Speaker 1: work out, So they left, and they left a witness alive.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, I forgot one important fact, Ninette Sosa joining me.
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  Speaker 1: He claimed the masked intruders sounded a lot like Van Diesel.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the problem. The fitbit. Listen to our friends
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  Speaker 1: at NBC, Connie's fitbit log more than twelve hundred steps
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  Speaker 1: in the house. Police say total distance from garage to
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  Speaker 1: basement would have been one hundred and twenty five feet.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Daniel Bober, forensics psychiatrist and MD Ashley Wilcot lawyer
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  Speaker 1: and well known child advocate. Joseph Scott Morgan forensics expert
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  Speaker 1: and Professor Form Zicks at Jacksonal State University, Nanette Sosa
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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories investigative reporter joining us Nanette. What does a
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  Speaker 1: fitbit have to do with Richard Debate's story to cops? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the fitbit and it's actually referred to in some places
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  Speaker 1: as the murder. The fact is that it shows that
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  Speaker 1: she was active at the house, but it was one
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  Speaker 1: hour after he said the alarm with whoopsie. I just
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  Speaker 1: hate when that happens, Ashley Wilcot. His whole timeline is blown.
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  Speaker 1: So the cops show up and he goes, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they murdered her like two hours ago. And I've been
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  Speaker 1: tied to this chair all this time and I just
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  Speaker 1: got loose and called you, and then they find her fitbit.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how she did it. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how Connie did it. But after she was brutally murdered,
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  Speaker 1: she walked around the house for about an hour and
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  Speaker 1: a half, logging like what three or four thousand steps?
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  Speaker 1: How does that work? And this is one of the
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  Speaker 1: first times you hear about pub using a fitbit by
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  Speaker 1: criminal investigators. What a great tool. This has solved the
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  Speaker 1: murder mystery, but it did in this case pretty pretty
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  Speaker 1: good investigation here, And I just think he's an idiot.
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  Speaker 1: Let's be honest. Not only is he a murder or,
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  Speaker 1: he's an idiot when you look at his story, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. Late, late one night in November, Connie
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  Speaker 1: Debate was texting her husband a photo of herself and
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  Speaker 1: some sexy lingerie. So obviously she had no idea that
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  Speaker 1: anything may be wrong within the marriage. But one day
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  Speaker 1: before that, back to Nanette's so so Crime Stories investigative reporter,
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  Speaker 1: one day before the sexy lingerie photo, she sends to
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  Speaker 1: her husband, her husband, Richard Debate, was texting somebody else too,
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  Speaker 1: the girlfriend. Nancy. He has a girlfriend, she's ten weeks preject.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, wait a minute, Wait a minute, Nette, Nanette.
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  Speaker 1: I know that you're used to just rattling off the
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  Speaker 1: information and knowing every detail. But I gotta I gotta
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  Speaker 1: take us in for a moment. Doctor Daniel Bober with me.
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  Speaker 1: I think I need to shrink. I'm pretty sure I
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  Speaker 1: just heard Nanette Sosa say, as his wife is sending
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  Speaker 1: him photos of herself and sexy lagie, he's texting his
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  Speaker 1: ten week pregnant girlfriend. Doctor Bober helped me out. Do
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  Speaker 1: I hear a motive, Nancy? This guy really is an idiot.
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  Speaker 1: His story has more holes and Swiss cheese. From the
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  Speaker 1: first moment in between the fitbit, it seems like he's
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  Speaker 1: all done. Ten week pregnant girlfriend take a listen to
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  Speaker 1: our friends at Fox. When asked whether there were any
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  Speaker 1: relationship issues, Debate told a detective that Connie had wanted
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  Speaker 1: to have another baby, but due to medical issue, she
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  Speaker 1: could not conceive. Debate told a detective that a mutual
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  Speaker 1: friend of theirs was single and wanted to have a baby.
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  Speaker 1: Now the report, Debate says he fathered a child outside
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  Speaker 1: of the marriage and that Connie Debate agreed they would
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  Speaker 1: be co parenting that child. However, Debate goes on to
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  Speaker 1: reveal that he thought the situation ultimately bothered his wife,
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  Speaker 1: and finally, investigators examined an iPhone belonging to Connie Debate,
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  Speaker 1: which he had a special sections in the note portion
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  Speaker 1: labeled why I want a divorce? All right, Nanette? So
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  Speaker 1: so this girlfriend apparently somebody he's known since childhood. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: according to Richard, they had gone to high school together,
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  Speaker 1: he had told the investigate When he gives investigators a
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  Speaker 1: couple of versions of the story. First and one part,
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  Speaker 1: he says that he and his wife Connie had an
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  Speaker 1: untraditional type of marriage, and that Connie was okay with this,
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  Speaker 1: and that they planned to co parents, and that they
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  Speaker 1: was cheating on both sides. So there's that part, Doctor
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  Speaker 1: Daniel bober hold on holding Nanette. I gotta go back
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  Speaker 1: to our shrink on this, doctor Bober Why is it
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  Speaker 1: always have you noticed a trend? Now? This is just
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  Speaker 1: anecdotal on my part. I haven't done a statistical study.
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  Speaker 1: But why is it always the man who is standing
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  Speaker 1: over the dead wife's body going, oh, yes, she was
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  Speaker 1: fine with me dating other people, We had an arrangement,
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  Speaker 1: we had an open marriage. Why isn't the woman ever
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  Speaker 1: saying yeah, we had an open marriage? And why is
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  Speaker 1: it always the man? Bober? It just seems to work
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  Speaker 1: out better for men that way, Nancy. I'm not really
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  Speaker 1: sure why, but it seems like whenever they make that assertion,
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  Speaker 1: the only person that can refute that is dead. I'm
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  Speaker 1: so glad you didn't even bother to put up a
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  Speaker 1: fight with me on that one. Ash Ashley willcot with me,
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  Speaker 1: renowned lawyer and child afcan Ashley an open marriage? M No, bull,
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  Speaker 1: He's just full of crap. I mean, he's just saying
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  Speaker 1: what he thinks he can say to get away with it,
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  Speaker 1: because he no. I cannot imagine she said, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's great. And the other thing is she knew something
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  Speaker 1: was amiss with the marriage. I stand by and I've
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  Speaker 1: always said, if any spouse, male or female, has gut
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  Speaker 1: feelings or rights things down about reasons to divorce my spouse,
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  Speaker 1: you have some sense that something's amiss, even if you
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  Speaker 1: don't know what it is. Nanette Sosa, I so rudely
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  Speaker 1: interrupted you, but I had to just isolate the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the husband, when his girlfriend pops up ten weeks pregnant,
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  Speaker 1: says to cops, Oh, we had an open marriage. She's
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  Speaker 1: fine with it. Ninette, what were you about to say? Well,
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  Speaker 1: there was that one version, and then the other version
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  Speaker 1: is where they have pecked police source that texts about
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  Speaker 1: him to the girlfriend that this is getting a slow
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  Speaker 1: move divorce to make it easier on our kids. Quote
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  Speaker 1: talking way by way, I've got to I've got to
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  Speaker 1: dissect that too, Ninette Sosa. A slow moving divorce, that's
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  Speaker 1: his words. Richard debates words not mine, a slow moving
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  Speaker 1: divorce so as not to affect the children. Yeah, let's
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  Speaker 1: just rip the band aid off very slow, oly to
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  Speaker 1: just drag out the pain. Time stories with Nancy Grace
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  Speaker 1: Connie Debate, a gorgeous young mom gunned down in her
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  Speaker 1: home just two days before Christmas. The husband's story never
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  Speaker 1: made sense, nor to the fact he was having an
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  Speaker 1: affair with a woman who was pregnant at the time.
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  Speaker 1: His wife was murdered by a mysterious intruder. To Joe
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  Speaker 1: Scott Morgan. Connie Debate was shot dead in the Ellington
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  Speaker 1: home with a three fifty seven magnum. What kind of
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  Speaker 1: bullet is that, Joe Scott Morgan. A very large bullet, Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: It's fired from a revolver, which is a weapon with
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  Speaker 1: a selling and it's a very ominous looking handgun. When
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  Speaker 1: you see one of these things compared to say, like
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  Speaker 1: something an old fashioned thirty eight special, you know. Even
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  Speaker 1: more significant, though, I think than the size of the bullet,
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  Speaker 1: which I was interested in, that the killer would inflict
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  Speaker 1: so much pain on their victim, is the fact that
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  Speaker 1: we now know Joe Scott Morgan this three fifty seven
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  Speaker 1: magnum was one her purchase her husband had purchased just
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  Speaker 1: a month or so before the shooting. This is she's
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  Speaker 1: murdered with her husband's own gun. Yeah, and there's tie
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  Speaker 1: back to that. You can place this weapon in his
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  Speaker 1: hand at the time of purchase. And what's really kind
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  Speaker 1: of compelling about this, Nancy, is the fact that this
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  Speaker 1: woman didn't want guns in the house, she didn't feel
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  Speaker 1: comfortable around them. But yet he purchased not a small weapon,
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  Speaker 1: but one of the largest weapons you can purchase over
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  Speaker 1: the counter, you know, at a gun store where you
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  Speaker 1: walk in and say, yeah, I don't you know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want a small one. I want to get the
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  Speaker 1: three fifty seven Magna two Doctor Daniel Bober joining me
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  Speaker 1: forensic psychiatrist and medical doctor. The husband Richard Debate claims
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  Speaker 1: that he was subdued, Okay, brace yourself. Debate tells police
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  Speaker 1: he struggled with the masked intruder, but that the intruders
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  Speaker 1: subdued him by quote applying pressure two. Debates wrists, what
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  Speaker 1: does that mean pressure on your wrist? I mean you
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  Speaker 1: didn't even have a bruise, Bober. Nothing, You didn't even
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  Speaker 1: get roughed up, nothing, Nancy, It's just, uh, it's just
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  Speaker 1: complete nonsense. I Mean, he really, he really should have
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  Speaker 1: thought it through a better if he was going to
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  Speaker 1: come up with a story, there's just too many holes.
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  Speaker 1: He well, how can you subduct? What does it mean
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  Speaker 1: to put pressure on your wrists? I guess he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to say that he was, you know, trying to mobilize
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  Speaker 1: him by you put it or putting pressure on the wrist,
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  Speaker 1: so that could Debate says the intruder put quote pressure
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  Speaker 1: on the husband's wrists to subdue him. Now, how did
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  Speaker 1: he get Debates gun? It doesn't fit. It doesn't make
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  Speaker 1: any sense. Again, as we have learned, Connie did not
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  Speaker 1: like guns, did not want them in the home, and
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  Speaker 1: there was no indications in their emails or text she
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  Speaker 1: had any idea her husband was having an affair or
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  Speaker 1: had gotten another woman pregnant. Take a listen to this
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  Speaker 1: our friends at CBS. State police arrested the man they
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  Speaker 1: say murdered Connie, her husband. Rick Debate not surprised. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we expected something like this a long time ago. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: wondering why, and you know they're thinking, you know, did
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  Speaker 1: somebody drop the ball. Did a mistake get made in
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  Speaker 1: the prosecution of the crime scene. State police say it's
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  Speaker 1: nothing like that, But this murder investigation is very complicated
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  Speaker 1: and detectives needed to cross every tea and dot every eye.
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  Speaker 1: The arrest warrant to answer some questions as to what
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  Speaker 1: led up to the murder. It says Connie wanted to
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  Speaker 1: have another baby and that due to health issues, she
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  Speaker 1: was not able to, so Rick did some untraditional things
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  Speaker 1: and had a baby with another woman he was having
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  Speaker 1: a relationship with. The Laurrant also says they were all
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  Speaker 1: going to co parent the baby, but even after these
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  Speaker 1: details came to light, other questions still surround the case.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's got speculation. Everybody has a fact or something that
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  Speaker 1: they know is to be true, and it's all speculation.
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  Speaker 1: So it's tough. Take a listen to this. Richard Debate
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  Speaker 1: was held on a one million dollar bail after being
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  Speaker 1: charged with killing his wife. Richard Debate's family used four
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  Speaker 1: pieces of property as collateral, including the home owned by
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  Speaker 1: his parents, Richard and Julie Debate. The other property was
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  Speaker 1: Richard and Connie's home in Ellington. Richard Debate's father also
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  Speaker 1: posted an eighty nine thousand dollars cash bond. The properties
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  Speaker 1: in cash totaled eight hundred thousand dollars in equity. The
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  Speaker 1: remaining balance was paid through a bail bondsman. Richard Debate
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  Speaker 1: was released from prison bond. As she willcot. How did
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  Speaker 1: that happen? I don't know how he got out on
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  Speaker 1: bond or why a judge would set upon frankly that
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  Speaker 1: he could get out on because from all accounts, the
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  Speaker 1: evidence is there he was in jail. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: understand how he's out. And during that time, as she Willcot,
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  Speaker 1: he has gone into the insurance accounts and bank accounts
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  Speaker 1: and drain nearly eighty thousand dollars out of the accounts. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: At the time of her death, Connie Debates estate was
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  Speaker 1: worth about seventy seven thousand dollars, but of fiscal accounting
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  Speaker 1: just months later showed debates estate only worth six dollars
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  Speaker 1: and forty two cents. Connie debates will was finalized before
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  Speaker 1: either of her children were born and never updated. All
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  Speaker 1: of debates assets were left to her husband. A judge
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  Speaker 1: removed Richard Debate as executor of his wife's will after
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  Speaker 1: he was charged with murder. The estate was frozen and
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  Speaker 1: the judge ordered an inventory. Debate had withdrawn more than
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  Speaker 1: ninety thousand dollars from a Fidelity investment account that belonged
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  Speaker 1: to his wife, Connie. Debate also had four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy five thousand dollars life insurance that Richard Debate tried
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  Speaker 1: to claim five days after the murder, but the insurance
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  Speaker 1: company did not release the money. I also know that
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  Speaker 1: he had a secret credit card, has charged about twelve
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars at a strip club, was using it for
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  Speaker 1: flowers for his girlfriend and hotel rooms. This is during
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  Speaker 1: his wife's life. The focus right now is the legal
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  Speaker 1: issue of the Fitbit. As Nanette Sosa told us, this
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  Speaker 1: has been called the Fitbit and Murder case. I think Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be like every other test in court
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  Speaker 1: with the first time they used fingerprints somebody said, wow,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have much faith in this, or the first
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  Speaker 1: time you used DNA or fiber or hair analysis. You
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  Speaker 1: have to undergo a test of reliability and prove that
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  Speaker 1: in court. So how are we going to get I
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  Speaker 1: see it being the way for instance Sirie and Alexa
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  Speaker 1: and on Star Fitbit. We surround ourselves with technology, we
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  Speaker 1: rely on it. And now you know you live by
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  Speaker 1: the sword, you die by the sword. How are they
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  Speaker 1: going to get the fitbit evidence in that his story
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  Speaker 1: is a lie. It's going to be like a cell
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  Speaker 1: phone record. In my opinion, it's as an electronic footprint
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  Speaker 1: or record that shows exactly where the steps were and
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  Speaker 1: when they were taken. And so I think it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a series of questions that an attorney will
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  Speaker 1: use to lay the foundation to do exactly what you said,
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  Speaker 1: which is to show it's reliable electronically. This is the footprint,
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  Speaker 1: this is the record, and it's like any other record
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  Speaker 1: that we all have to introduce in court to lay
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  Speaker 1: the foundation and make it admissible. It's probably going to
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  Speaker 1: be challenged because it's new, but like you said, once
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  Speaker 1: you get that certain list of questions to lay the
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  Speaker 1: proper foundation, I suspect it's going to be admitted, just
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  Speaker 1: like a cell phone record. Take a listen to our
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  Speaker 1: friends at Fox, because the prosecutors plan to use data
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  Speaker 1: from the device to prove their suspect killed his wife.
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  Speaker 1: Tersapriolo in the newsroom now and look at how this
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  Speaker 1: could really set legal precedent. Prosecutors say that the fitbit
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  Speaker 1: shows Connie Debate was moving when her husband says she
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  Speaker 1: was dead, calling into question his alibi and his statements.
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  Speaker 1: This case also questions the science behind fitness trackers and
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  Speaker 1: their reliability when it comes to criminasis debates legal team
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  Speaker 1: attempting to have that data tossed. The issue of whether
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  Speaker 1: or not a fitbit can be used in court is
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  Speaker 1: one that's gone all the way to the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 1: James Casourus is a criminal defense attorney. There is a
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  Speaker 1: tremendous amount of litigation. The Supreme Court of the United
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  Speaker 1: States has dealt with these issues. You know your phone
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  Speaker 1: not only can track your text messages, your emails, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all of the things that are stored on it, but
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  Speaker 1: also your GPS. Cassurus believes there's a lot still unknown,
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  Speaker 1: including if the device also tracked Connie's heart rate and
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  Speaker 1: the overall reliability of the science. If it sufficiently contradicts
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  Speaker 1: the statements that the defendant made, then it certainly can
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  Speaker 1: be used by the prosecution to attack the credibility of
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  Speaker 1: his statements, to attack the credibility of his story. Alan,
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  Speaker 1: do you joining me with me? From LA Now? A
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  Speaker 1: police spokeswoman explained the fitbit. What did she say, Alan, Well,
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  Speaker 1: she explains how detectives where they realized that she was
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  Speaker 1: wearing it. They access the data and it is what
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  Speaker 1: allowed them to nail down the timeline of when she
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  Speaker 1: actually was killed. Let's listen to it. So once that
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  Speaker 1: movement stops, the fitbit stops, detectives were able to determine
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  Speaker 1: the time that Connie, unfortunately stopped moving in the last hours.
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  Speaker 1: The jury hands down a guilty verdict in the fatal
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  Speaker 1: shooting of Connie Debate, a gorgeous young mom gunned down
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  Speaker 1: in her home just two days before Christmas. The husband's
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  Speaker 1: story never made sense, nor to the fact he was
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  Speaker 1: having an affair with a woman who was pregnant at
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  Speaker 1: the time his wife was murdered by a mysterious intruder.
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  Speaker 1: While the jury could see through Richard Debate's story, there
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  Speaker 1: were so many holes in it. Listen. Richard Debate was
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  Speaker 1: found guilty of all three charges against him, murder, tampering
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  Speaker 1: with evidence, and making false statements to authorities. Judge Krinclatt
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  Speaker 1: sentenced Debate to sixty years for his wife's murder, five
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  Speaker 1: years for tampering with evidence, and one year for giving
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  Speaker 1: false statementship police, a total of sixty five years to
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  Speaker 1: be served. Richard Debate headed to the benitentiary. Nancy Grace
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  Speaker 1: Crime Story signing off goodbye friend,