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CAUTION!!!_This_Case_Made_Me_Question_Humanity!_True_Crime_Docum · Weird Darkness:True crime & The unexplained

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  Speaker 1: It's a Wednesday night in a quiet cul-de-sac outside Houston,
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  Speaker 1: and a birthday party is winding down. Balloons are still
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  Speaker 1: taped to the mailbox. A car pulls up outside the house,
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  Speaker 1: one that shouldn't be there. Inside, an 11-year-old girl freezes.
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  Speaker 1: She's been dreading this exact moment for weeks, because deep down,
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  Speaker 1: she already knew he would come back on her birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Within minutes, three separate 911 calls are placed from inside
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  Speaker 1: that house. A teenage boy is hiding in a closet
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  Speaker 1: with his 3-year-old sister. Phone pressed to his ear, begging
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  Speaker 1: a dispatcher to send help. Outside, in the driveway, two
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  Speaker 1: guns are already drawn, and neither of them belongs to
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  Speaker 1: the man who's about to open fire. By the time
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  Speaker 1: police arrive, a family that had spent four years trying
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  Speaker 1: to build a wall between themselves and their past will
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  Speaker 1: be shattered. One man will be dead in his own driveway.
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  Speaker 1: A woman will be fighting for her life on the
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  Speaker 1: pavement outside her front door. and the man responsible will
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  Speaker 1: already be speeding toward the New Mexico border, convinced, even then,
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  Speaker 1: that he was the victim. This is the story of
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  Speaker 1: Amanda Harris, her husband Wayne, and the man neither of
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  Speaker 1: them could make disappear, stay with me, because what the
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  Speaker 1: courts eventually uncovered about how long this had been building,
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  Speaker 1: and how close this could have ended even worse... is
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  Speaker 1: understand what happened in that driveway in League City, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: you have to go back nearly a decade to a
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  Speaker 1: marriage that ended quietly and, at the time, seemed unremarkable.
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  Speaker 1: Amanda had been married to a man named Santan Goze.
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  Speaker 1: Their relationship ended in divorce in December 2008. Like a
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  Speaker 1: lot of divorces, it wasn't the end of a story
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  Speaker 1: anyone would have flagged as dangerous. There was no dramatic
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  Speaker 1: split reported, no restraining order in those early years. Amanda
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  Speaker 1: simply moved on, the way people do. By 2012, she
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  Speaker 1: had found that new chapter. She married Clarence Wayne Harris II,
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  Speaker 1: a man who friends and family would later describe, again
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  Speaker 1: and again, as exceptionally sociable, generous, hardworking, and deeply devoted
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  Speaker 1: to the people he loved. Wayne worked in sales, building
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  Speaker 1: a career across the oil and transportation industries, eventually rising
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  Speaker 1: to director of business development for Cheetah Transportation Systems. Outside
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  Speaker 1: of work, his real passion was dirt track racing. He
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  Speaker 1: was closely connected to the motorsports community, associated with the
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  Speaker 1: team of racer Morgan Bagley, and friends would later say
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  Speaker 1: that meeting Wayne once was often enough to make you
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  Speaker 1: a friend for life, that his circle of racing buddies
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  Speaker 1: stretched across the entire country. Amanda and Wayne built a
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  Speaker 1: blended family together. There was a son, Nick, who by
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  Speaker 1: 2017 was 17. Kelsey, the family's eldest daughter, held a
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  Speaker 1: more complicated place in that story. She had actually been
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  Speaker 1: born to Amanda's sister, Amanda's biological niece, and Amanda had
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  Speaker 1: legally adopted her as a baby when Amanda married Wayne
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  Speaker 1: in 2012, Wayne took on Kelsey as his own daughter
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  Speaker 1: in every way that mattered, raising her and loving her,
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  Speaker 1: even though he was not her biological father. Amanda stayed
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  Speaker 1: home to manage that care full-time, which meant Wayne alone
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  Speaker 1: was carrying the financial weight of the household. It was,
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  Speaker 1: by every account, a family that had made real sacrifices
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  Speaker 1: for each other, including quietly letting Wayne's life insurance policy
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  Speaker 1: lapse while they funneled every spare dollar into their daughter's
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  Speaker 1: medical needs, always intending to reinstate the coverage once things stabilized.
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  Speaker 1: They had no way of knowing how much that decision
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  Speaker 1: would eventually cost them, Friends who knew Wayne in those
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  Speaker 1: years describe a man who never seemed to run out
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  Speaker 1: of warmth for the people around him. He wasn't the
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  Speaker 1: kind of person you met once and forgot. People who
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  Speaker 1: spent time with him at the track, or at work,
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  Speaker 1: or simply as a neighbor, tended to describe the same
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  Speaker 1: thing in almost the same words, that he was the
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  Speaker 1: type of man who made you feel like family within
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  Speaker 1: an hour of meeting him. For Amanda... after everything that
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  Speaker 1: had come before. That steadiness must have felt like exactly
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  Speaker 1: what she and her children needed. While Amanda and Wayne
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  Speaker 1: were building this new life, Seanton Gose had not fully
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  Speaker 1: let go of his old one. The family first settled
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  Speaker 1: in Tomball, Texas. It was there, in 2013, that Gose
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  Speaker 1: showed up uninvited at their home for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: but not the last. police issued him a formal trespassing warning.
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  Speaker 1: On paper, that should have ended it. A clear boundary,
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  Speaker 1: backed by law enforcement. It didn't. In 2015, hoping for
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  Speaker 1: a fresh start, the family relocated to a new home
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  Speaker 1: in League City. But Gose found them again. He continued
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  Speaker 1: showing up unannounced, again and again, over the following two years.
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  Speaker 1: not out of any interest in Amanda, according to those
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  Speaker 1: close to the family, but because he had become fixated
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  Speaker 1: on Kelsey. That fixation had roots that went back further
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  Speaker 1: than the divorce. Kelsey had come into the family as
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  Speaker 1: a baby, while Amanda was still married to Ghosts. And
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  Speaker 1: for those first years of her life, he had lived
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  Speaker 1: under the same roof with her. When the marriage ended,
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  Speaker 1: Amanda's custody of Kelsey wasn't in question, but goes, by
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  Speaker 1: his own later description, never fully let go of the
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  Speaker 1: role he'd once played in her life. He wanted access
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  Speaker 1: to her. He wanted to insert himself into her life,
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  Speaker 1: on his own terms, regardless of what the family wanted
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  Speaker 1: or what the law had already told him. Each unwanted
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  Speaker 1: visit chipped away at the family's sense of safety in
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  Speaker 1: their own home. Amanda had, by her own account, an
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  Speaker 1: ongoing legal case against Ghosts. She had told him more
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  Speaker 1: than once that he needed to stay away. He had
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  Speaker 1: already been warned by police for trespassing. None of it mattered.
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  Speaker 1: He kept coming back. By the summer of 2017, that
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  Speaker 1: pattern of unwanted visits had been going on, in various forms,
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  Speaker 1: for roughly four years. June 28th, 2017, was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be a celebration. It was Kelsey's 11th birthday. She had
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  Speaker 1: turned 11 that very day, and the family had people over.
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  Speaker 1: It should have been an ordinary, happy evening in a middle-class,
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  Speaker 1: league-city neighborhood. Cyanton Ghosts showed up anyway. Amanda confronted him.
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  Speaker 1: Witnesses would later recall her yelling at goes in the driveway.
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  Speaker 1: How many times did he have to be told not
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  Speaker 1: to come to her house? They had been divorced since 2009.
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  Speaker 1: She made a point of saying the year twice. This
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  Speaker 1: wasn't ambiguous. This wasn't a misunderstanding. It was a boundary
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  Speaker 1: that had been stated outright over and over for years.
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  Speaker 1: This time, Amanda and Wayne decided they weren't just going
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  Speaker 1: to ask him to leave. They were going to make
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  Speaker 1: a citizen's arrest. Both of them retrieved firearms and held
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  Speaker 1: goes there in the driveway, at gunpoint, while Amanda called 911.
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  Speaker 1: Inside the house, two other 911 calls were happening. happening
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  Speaker 1: at almost the exact same moment. Nick, 17, had taken
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  Speaker 1: his three-year-old sister and hidden with her in a closet,
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  Speaker 1: staying on the line with a dispatcher describing what he
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  Speaker 1: could hear happening outside. Kelsey, watching from a car in
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  Speaker 1: the driveway with a friend, made her own call, the
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  Speaker 1: one where she told the dispatcher that goes literally stalks us,
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  Speaker 1: that he was at the house right now, and that
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  Speaker 1: she'd known somehow that he'd come today because it was
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  Speaker 1: her birthday. The dispatcher gave Amanda and Wayne clear instructions.
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  Speaker 1: Put the guns down. Police were already on their way.
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  Speaker 1: Amanda and Wayne complied. They lowered their weapons. Ghost then
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  Speaker 1: turned to leave. Wayne, unarmed at that point, tried to
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  Speaker 1: stop him from walking away. What happened next took only seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Ghost pulled out a firearm of his own and shot
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  Speaker 1: Wayne seven times, including twice in the head. Wayne, described
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  Speaker 1: in court records as having been unarmed during the actual
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  Speaker 1: physical struggle, collapsed. Gose then turned the gun on Amanda
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  Speaker 1: and shot her twice, once in the arm and once
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  Speaker 1: in the leg. Amanda ran. Security footage from the property
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  Speaker 1: showed Gose following her toward the front door, weapon raised,
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  Speaker 1: continuing to try to shoot her even as she fled.
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  Speaker 1: He got close enough to fire again as she reached
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  Speaker 1: the doorway, but his gun malfunctioned. That mechanical failure... more
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  Speaker 1: than anything else that happened that night, is very possibly
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  Speaker 1: the only reason Amanda Harris survived. Amanda managed to get
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  Speaker 1: inside and close the door. Ghosts fled the scene on
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  Speaker 1: foot to his vehicle, a gray 2011 Toyota Corolla, and
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  Speaker 1: drove away before police arrived. When officers reached the house
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  Speaker 1: on Mayhill Ridge Lane, They found Clarence Wayne Harris, the
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  Speaker 1: second dead in the driveway, having suffered seven bullet wounds.
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  Speaker 1: Amanda Harris, bleeding from two gunshot wounds, was rushed to
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  Speaker 1: a nearby hospital in stable condition. Once she was well
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  Speaker 1: enough to be interviewed, Amanda gave detectives the full picture.
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  Speaker 1: This was her ex-husband. They'd been divorced since 2008. He
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  Speaker 1: had a documented history of showing up uninvited. He'd already
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  Speaker 1: received a formal trespassing warning years earlier. And she told
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  Speaker 1: investigators plainly that he had been stalking her for years.
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  Speaker 1: Detectives began piecing together the timeline. The Tom Ball trespass warning.
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  Speaker 1: The repeated unwanted visits in League City. The fixation on Kelsey.
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  Speaker 1: And it started to become clear that this hadn't been
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  Speaker 1: a single, isolated outburst. It was the culmination of something
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  Speaker 1: that had been building for years. Investigators also collected a
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  Speaker 1: detail that would matter enormously later on. Amanda's own weapon,
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  Speaker 1: the one she had set down when the dispatcher told
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  Speaker 1: her to, was later found on the ground between the
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  Speaker 1: vehicles in the driveway. Surveillance footage from the property, however,
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  Speaker 1: never actually showed her picking it back up at any
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  Speaker 1: point before the shooting began. Meanwhile, Gose was gone. He
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  Speaker 1: had left Texas entirely driving west. For roughly 16 hours,
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  Speaker 1: he was a fugitive, until, on June 29, 2017, he
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  Speaker 1: was located and detained at a Border Patrol checkpoint near
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  Speaker 1: Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was arrested on the spot
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  Speaker 1: and extradited back to Texas to face charges, murder, aggravated
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  Speaker 1: assault with a deadly weapon, and stalking. A judge later
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  Speaker 1: ruled that the stalking charge would be handled in a
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  Speaker 1: separate proceeding from the murder and aggravated assault case. From
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  Speaker 1: the very beginning, Gose's position was that he was the
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  Speaker 1: one who had been attacked, that he had acted in self-defense.
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  Speaker 1: Gose's trial didn't begin until January 2020, two and a
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  Speaker 1: half years after the shooting, in Judge John Ellesore's 122nd
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  Speaker 1: District Court in Galveston, Texas. The opening day set the
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  Speaker 1: tone for everything that followed. Jurors heard the three 911
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  Speaker 1: calls from that night. Amanda's, Nick's, and Kelsey's played in
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  Speaker 1: open court. And during the prosecution's opening statements, Gose himself
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  Speaker 1: interrupted the proceedings, loudly objecting when prosecutors described how he
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  Speaker 1: had stalked his ex-wife for years. It was, from the
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  Speaker 1: very first day, a trial defined by Gose insisting on
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  Speaker 1: his own version of events, even as the physical evidence
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  Speaker 1: painted a very different picture. His defense rested almost entirely
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  Speaker 1: on self-defense, that he had been assaulted by Amanda and Wayne,
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  Speaker 1: and that everything he did that night was a response
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  Speaker 1: to that. The prosecution's case, laid out over the following days,
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  Speaker 1: methodically dismantled that framing. The physical struggle between Wayne and Gose,
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  Speaker 1: according to the evidence presented, had lasted only seconds. Hardly
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  Speaker 1: the sustained assault Ghost described. Wayne was unarmed during that
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  Speaker 1: exact moment of contact. He had already put his weapon
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  Speaker 1: down at the dispatcher's instruction. And while Ghost's account leaned
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  Speaker 1: heavily on the idea that Amanda's gun on the ground
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  Speaker 1: represented an active threat, the surveillance footage told a different story.
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  Speaker 1: It never showed her retrieving it. The jury was left
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  Speaker 1: to weigh genuine uncertainty about that gun on the ground
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  Speaker 1: against the far more concrete fact that Gose had fired
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  Speaker 1: his own weapon 11 times combined at two people who,
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  Speaker 1: by that point, had already complied with police instructions to disarm.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors also presented the case to the jury under alternative
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  Speaker 1: legal theories, not just intentional or knowing murder, but felony
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  Speaker 1: murder tied to the underlying stalking and aggravated assault. That
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  Speaker 1: mattered because it meant the jury wasn't limited to a
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  Speaker 1: single narrow theory of what was going on in Gose's
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  Speaker 1: mind that night. They could convict if the evidence supported
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  Speaker 1: any of several legitimate paths to the same conclusion. And
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  Speaker 1: then there was the flight. Gose's decision to drive nearly
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  Speaker 1: 16 hours toward New Mexico rather than remain at the
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  Speaker 1: scene or turn himself in, became, in the eyes of
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  Speaker 1: the law, powerful circumstantial evidence, the kind of behavior that
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  Speaker 1: juries are permitted to weigh as consciousness of guilt. Throughout
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  Speaker 1: the proceedings, jurors weighed all of it. The 911 calls,
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  Speaker 1: the surveillance footage, the ballistics, the flight to New Mexico—
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  Speaker 1: against a defense that asked them to believe Goss had
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  Speaker 1: been the one under threat, from a man the family
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  Speaker 1: had known for years and repeatedly warned away. In January 2020,
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  Speaker 1: after hearing all of it, the jury returned its verdict.
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  Speaker 1: Guilty on both counts, murder and aggravated assault with a
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  Speaker 1: deadly weapon. Sentencing came on March 5th, 2020. Sayantan Goss
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  Speaker 1: was sentenced to 50 years in prison. For most true
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  Speaker 1: crime cases, sentencing is where the story ends. This one
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  Speaker 1: kept going for years. He appealed his convictions to the
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  Speaker 1: 14th Court of Appeals, which affirmed both the murder and
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  Speaker 1: aggravated assault convictions on February 3, 2022. Unsatisfied, he then
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  Speaker 1: sought discretionary review from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals,
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  Speaker 1: the highest criminal court in the state. On September 21, 2022,
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  Speaker 1: that court refused to hear either petition. His requests for
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  Speaker 1: rehearing were denied about a month later, on October 26, 2022.
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  Speaker 1: That still wasn't the end. Acting entirely on his own
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  Speaker 1: without an attorney, Gose filed a handwritten petition for a
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  Speaker 1: writ of certiorari with the United States Supreme Court. The
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  Speaker 1: case was docketed on January 27, 2023, as Sayantan Gose v. Texas.
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  Speaker 1: In that petition, he asked for far more than a
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  Speaker 1: narrow legal correction. He wanted a new trial, a change
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  Speaker 1: of venue, a re-examination of Texas' citizens' arrest laws and
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  Speaker 1: jury instructions, a review of his own trial attorney's performance,
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  Speaker 1: and even, remarkably, a new national protocol for how citizens'
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  Speaker 1: arrests should be conducted. He described himself in the filing
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  Speaker 1: as an aspiring law professor and a missionary. And he
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  Speaker 1: continued to frame his ongoing efforts to reach Amanda's daughter
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  Speaker 1: as a family visitation dispute, rather than what courts had
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  Speaker 1: already determined it to be. On March 27, 2023, the
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court denied his petition. He asked for a rehearing
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  Speaker 1: on April 4. That was denied as well on June 26, 2023.
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  Speaker 1: His convictions and his 50-year sentence stood exactly as the
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  Speaker 1: jury in Galveston had decided them. Technical and Forensic Analysis
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  Speaker 1: Stepping back from the timeline, a few pieces of physical
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  Speaker 1: evidence in this case did enormous work in the courtroom.
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  Speaker 1: The gunshot pattern itself told investigators most of what they
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  Speaker 1: needed to know about intent. Wayne was shot seven times,
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  Speaker 1: including twice in the head. Not the kind of wound
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  Speaker 1: pattern typically associated with a brief, reactive act of self-preservation.
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  Speaker 1: Amanda was shot twice. In two separate parts of her
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  Speaker 1: body and forensic reconstruction combined with surveillance footage showed Ghosts
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  Speaker 1: actively pursuing her toward the front door and attempting to
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  Speaker 1: fire again, an action stopped only by a mechanical failure
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  Speaker 1: of his own weapon, not by any decision on his
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  Speaker 1: part to stop. The location of Amanda's firearm became one
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  Speaker 1: of the more nuanced pieces of the technical case. Found
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  Speaker 1: on the ground between the vehicles, it was exactly the
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: kind of detail a self-defense argument needs. A weapon within
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  Speaker 1: reach of an alleged threat. But surveillance footage never captured
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  Speaker 1: Amanda retrieving it, and she herself testified she couldn't recall
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  Speaker 1: whether she'd moved it, though she allowed it was possible.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Rather than resolving that ambiguity in Goze's favor, the jury
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  Speaker 1: was legally permitted to conclude that uncertainty alone didn't establish
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  Speaker 1: the kind of immediate deadly threat that would justify what followed. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: the timeline itself was forensically significant. A physical confrontation lasting
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  Speaker 1: only seconds, followed by 11 total rounds fired at two
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  Speaker 1: people who had already complied with a 911 dispatcher's instruction
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  Speaker 1: to disarm, is difficult to reconcile with a genuine self-defense scenario,
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  Speaker 1: and the jury, weighing the alternative legal theories prosecutors offered,
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  Speaker 1: evidently agreed. Psychological Analysis What makes this case so unsettling
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: isn't just the violence of one night. It's the years
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  Speaker 1: of pattern that preceded it, and the years of self-narrative
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: that followed it. Gose's behavior across nearly a decade shows
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  Speaker 1: a consistent refusal to accept a boundary once it had
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  Speaker 1: been set. A trespassing warning in 2013 didn't stop him.
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  Speaker 1: A relocation to a new city in 2015 didn't stop him.
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  Speaker 1: Years of being told explicitly and repeatedly to stay away
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  Speaker 1: didn't stop him. That kind of persistence, showing up again
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  Speaker 1: and again, Despite clear rejection, fixating specifically on continued access
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  Speaker 1: to a child who wasn't biologically his fits a recognizable
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: pattern of obsessive, boundary-violating behavior that escalates precisely because it
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  Speaker 1: is never met with a consequence severe enough to interrupt it.
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  Speaker 1: It's also worth noting what the case was not, based
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  Speaker 1: on the trial record. It wasn't simply a jealous ex-husband
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  Speaker 1: unable to accept his former wife's new marriage. The evidence
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  Speaker 1: instead points to a more layered motivation. Gose's fixation centered
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  Speaker 1: heavily on Kelsey. On maintaining access to her regardless of
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  Speaker 1: what the adults around her wanted, combined with a broader
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  Speaker 1: unwillingness to accept that Amanda had built an independent life
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  Speaker 1: that no longer included him, In his own later writings,
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  Speaker 1: Gose referred to himself as Kelsey's foster father, a description
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  Speaker 1: that has never been legally established and appears to be
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  Speaker 1: entirely self-characterized. Whatever the reality of the role he once
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: played in her early life, it did not entitle him
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: to override the boundaries Amanda and Wayne had since set,
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  Speaker 1: and courts at every level treated his continued pursuit of
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: contact with her as exactly what it looked like. Harassment,
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  Speaker 1: not fatherhood. Perhaps most telling is what happened after the conviction.
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  Speaker 1: Gose's self-representation in his own Supreme Court filing and later
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  Speaker 1: in an online prison correspondence profile shows almost no acknowledgement
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  Speaker 1: of what a jury, an appellate court, and the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court all independently concluded. In that profile, he refers
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: to himself as an aspiring law professor and consultant, claims
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: a background as a registered nurse, insists he is unlawfully
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: imprisoned for defending himself, and predicts he will eventually receive
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: financial compensation. He continues to seek business partners and pitch
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: ministry and media projects from prison. None of that can
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: be independently verified. It's self-authored. But as a window into
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  Speaker 1: his psychology, it's remarkably consistent. Even after every possible legal
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: avenue rejected his version of events, he continues to cast
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  Speaker 1: himself as the wronged party. The Family After For Amanda
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  Speaker 1: Harris and her children, the legal system moving forward didn't
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  Speaker 1: undo what had already happened at home. Two days after
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  Speaker 1: Wayne's death, a fundraiser was organized to help the family,
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  Speaker 1: and it revealed just how precarious their situation had become overnight.
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  Speaker 1: With Wayne gone, the family lost its primary source of
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  Speaker 1: income at the exact moment Amanda was recovering from two
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  Speaker 1: gunshot wounds and grieving, all while continuing to care for
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  Speaker 1: Gemma's ongoing medical needs, making it worse for The family
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  Speaker 1: had let Wayne's life insurance lapse years earlier, a sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: made specifically so they could afford Gemma's care, always intending
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  Speaker 1: to reinstate it later. That decision meant there was no
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  Speaker 1: insurance payout to soften the financial blow of losing him.
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  Speaker 1: The fundraiser ultimately raised $ 20, 000 across 153 donations. meaningful support
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  Speaker 1: but a fraction of what a family in that position
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  Speaker 1: actually needed long term. Even while still physically recovering, Amanda
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  Speaker 1: made it known to relatives that she intended to attend
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  Speaker 1: every single court hearing connected to the man who had
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  Speaker 1: killed her husband. She followed through on that commitment through
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  Speaker 1: a trial that didn't begin until more than two years
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  Speaker 1: after the shooting and through an appeals process that dragged
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  Speaker 1: on for years after that. It's a detail that speaks
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  Speaker 1: to who she was in the aftermath, not someone who
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  Speaker 1: withdrew from the process, but someone determined to see it
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  Speaker 1: through to the end, for her children and for Wayne.
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  Speaker 1: By the time the US Supreme Court finally closed the
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  Speaker 1: door on Gose's last appeal in the summer of 2023,
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  Speaker 1: Six years had passed since that birthday party in League City.
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  Speaker 1: Amanda's children had grown up in the shadow of that night. Nick,
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  Speaker 1: who hid in a closet with his baby sister, Kelsey,
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  Speaker 1: who blamed herself simply for being born on the day
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  Speaker 1: it happened, and the youngest, whose medical needs had quietly
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  Speaker 1: shaped so much of what the family sacrificed even before
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  Speaker 1: any of this occurred. Seyantan Gose remains in Texas Department
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  Speaker 1: of Criminal Justice custody, serving his 50-year sentence, still insisting
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  Speaker 1: even now that he was the one who was wronged.
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