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Breast Cancer Warrior Discovers Hubby's Affair during Chemo, GOES "MISSING" · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a beautiful young mom just
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Speaker 1: completes her treatments for breast cancer. She just completes them
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Speaker 1: when she mysteriously goes missing. I mean, see Grace. This
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Speaker 1: is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here
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Speaker 1: We start with breaking news this morning out of Boone County.
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Speaker 1: The Sheriff's office there is searching for this missing woman
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Speaker 1: for Elizabeth Nicki will Hoot is five three with very
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Speaker 1: short brown hair and blue eyes. She was last seen
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Speaker 1: at her home Thursday night, just northeast of Lebanon. The
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Speaker 1: sheriff's office says she could be in danger. If you
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Speaker 1: know where she is, you are asked to call the
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Speaker 1: Boom County Sheriff's Office. Let me introduce to you an
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Speaker 1: all star panel to break it down and put it
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Speaker 1: back together based on what we know right now. First
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Speaker 1: of all, high profile lawyer joining us out of Jacksonville,
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Speaker 1: former fed with the FBI from Heer, Federal agent Dale Carson,
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Speaker 1: author of Arrest Proof Yourself. Doctor Joey Krossen, psychologist, faculty
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Speaker 1: Saint Leo University, consultant with the Blue Wall Institute and
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Speaker 1: author of Operation s o S. Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University,
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Speaker 1: author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon, and star
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Speaker 1: of a new hit series, Bodybags with Joe Scott Morgan
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Speaker 1: on iHeart but first to climb online dot Com investigative
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Speaker 1: reporter Nicole Parton. Nicole, thank you for being with us. Nicole,
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Speaker 1: I'm hearing she had just finished her chemo or radiation
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Speaker 1: treatment and that's why her hair is so short. She
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Speaker 1: had lost all her hand is just growing back, right,
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Speaker 1: and then she disappears. Right, just one week prior to
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Speaker 1: her disappearance, she had completed her very last chemo treatment.
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Speaker 1: She was fighting for her life, a survivor of breast cancer.
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Speaker 1: She had just overcame that. One week later, she's missing.
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Speaker 1: Tell me about Lebanon, Indiana. Lebanon is a small rural area,
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Speaker 1: a lot of farmers. Nikki and her husband, her family.
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Speaker 1: They two were farmers. They grew livestock, active in the
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Speaker 1: four h A small town, neighborly country feeling kind of area.
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Speaker 1: He's trying to get Timmy by throwing in for H
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Speaker 1: because you know, my mom was a state champion in
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Speaker 1: for H. My sister. Let's see, my mother expertise was salad.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever seen those salads where they make flowers
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Speaker 1: out of like carrots, that cabbage that she can do
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Speaker 1: that make her own dressings. I mean, that was a
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Speaker 1: big deal for a little girl off Hartleybridge Road exit
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Speaker 1: in South Bibb County. Because if you win the state championship,
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Speaker 1: you go on to Nationals, which traditionally settled in Chicago.
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Speaker 1: Then my sister one in four H in forestry. She
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Speaker 1: was into forestry. She won. I settled with being a
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Speaker 1: four H camp counselor. I did not make it to
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Speaker 1: Chicago at that time. However, I see you're trying to
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Speaker 1: get to me by throwing in the four H angle.
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Speaker 1: But you know, I'm glad that you did, Nicole, because
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Speaker 1: when you hear about four h most people mistakenly think
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Speaker 1: of a rural setting, a bucolic background, farms, and in
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Speaker 1: this case, all that is true. So missing Elizabeth Billowett
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Speaker 1: worked the farm with her family. They were cattle breeders.
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Speaker 1: And the significance to that as it relates to her
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Speaker 1: going missing, is that it's a very very low crime area.
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Speaker 1: And you know, fighting breast cancer is not easy at all.
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Speaker 1: Joe Scott. It is brutal, the chemo, the radiation. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the chemo itself can kill you. But it's you're a
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Speaker 1: real survivor, a real warrior to get through that, right,
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Speaker 1: Joe Scott. Yeah, you know, Nancy, it is is tough.
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Speaker 1: You know, some days these patients that are only going
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Speaker 1: chemo can't even get their head up off the pillow.
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Speaker 1: They're so weakened. You know, they're like little lambs, you know,
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Speaker 1: newborn lambs. It's very very difficult that you know, their
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Speaker 1: immune systems compromised. They feel bad all of the time
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Speaker 1: because of this kind of chemical stew that's going on
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Speaker 1: their body. And for those that make it to the
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Speaker 1: other they sometimes you know, you actually hear them say
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Speaker 1: that the treatment was worse than the disease. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's very difficult, says circumstances to being under and she
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Speaker 1: was at the end, Nancy at the anti just finished
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Speaker 1: her last treatment and then bam, she disappears or does
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Speaker 1: she take a Listen to our friend Kalla Milander at
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Speaker 1: w RTV friend Safe will Hoid's smile could light up
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Speaker 1: a room. She was just fun. Could always count on
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Speaker 1: her to have a funny story or just to make
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Speaker 1: you laugh in some way. She went by Nikki even
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Speaker 1: when Mary Smith knew her in high school. She could
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Speaker 1: be friends with anybody. It was. She was just fun.
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Speaker 1: She was fun to be around and just really devoted mom.
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Speaker 1: Will Hoid is a mother of two, stepmother to a third.
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Speaker 1: She lived on a farm in rural Lebanon. When she
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Speaker 1: didn't show up to work on Friday, her colleagues called
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Speaker 1: the Boone County Sheriff. They looked for her at home,
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Speaker 1: but she was nowhere to be found. The sheriff opened
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Speaker 1: an investigation and a search and suit. Lived on a
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Speaker 1: farm in rural Lebanon. Lebanon, mother of two, just suddenly,
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Speaker 1: out of the blue goes missing. Shout out to Dale
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Speaker 1: Carson joining us, now high profile lawyer in Jacksonville, former
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Speaker 1: fed with the FBI. I'm just thinking about what Joe
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Speaker 1: Scott said about how weak she would have been. Well,
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Speaker 1: she would have been weak, obviously, and the likelihood of
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Speaker 1: her leaving and going somewhere is to be highly unusual
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Speaker 1: under those circumstances. And you add to that the fact
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Speaker 1: that not only are they under cancer treatment, you're looking
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Speaker 1: death square in the eye when you're receiving those treatments
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Speaker 1: to kill the cancer. I mean, you know that your
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Speaker 1: exit strategy has already planned, and it's a frightening experience,
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Speaker 1: very frightening. You're right, Dale, Carson Tory crossing. I add
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Speaker 1: something too, Yeah, jump in. I've treated patience when I
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Speaker 1: was in private practice with that, and you try to
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Speaker 1: get them futuristic perspective, and that could be just to
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Speaker 1: the very next day, Just like Dale was saying, you know,
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Speaker 1: they're facing death and you know we've discussed that, you're
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Speaker 1: kind of processing that now. For the ones that you know,
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Speaker 1: go into remission, you know, they you see this mind
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Speaker 1: shift that they've got, like a reprieve, and there's positives
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Speaker 1: in their life that they start to you know, put
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Speaker 1: together and that helps build the future perspective, you know,
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Speaker 1: and that could be a lot of like I'm discarding
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Speaker 1: a bunch of this luggage I've been carrying for the
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Speaker 1: last couple of years and stuff. So you know, they
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Speaker 1: get a new perspective when they go into remission. You
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Speaker 1: know what I was about to say to you before
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Speaker 1: you broke in with that very valuable insight, doctor Jerry,
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Speaker 1: something along those lines. But I remember when my father,
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Speaker 1: I was just either fifteen or sixteen when he had
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Speaker 1: his first major cornea, a thrombosis. He was in his
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Speaker 1: late thirties, and the doctors warned to my mother and
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Speaker 1: all of us that after a near death experience like
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Speaker 1: he had, that you could have a severe depression. I remember,
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Speaker 1: as a teen girl thinking, Wow, why would you have
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Speaker 1: a depression. I would think you'd be happy that you
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Speaker 1: lived through this ordeal, this horrible, painful ordeal. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I can't remember waking up early, early in the morning,
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Speaker 1: at five o'clock in the morning and running down the
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Speaker 1: hall because I could hear my mom yelling. I'd never
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Speaker 1: heard her and my father yelled at each other ever,
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Speaker 1: and she was screaming mac mac mac. And I ran
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Speaker 1: in there and Daddy was on the floor. She was
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Speaker 1: beating him in the chest and we were waiting, you know,
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Speaker 1: for nine one one to get there. And I would think, wow,
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Speaker 1: why would he be depressed? He lived through that. But
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Speaker 1: you know, fighting breast cancer the way Elizabeth had been,
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Speaker 1: and living through near death like my dad did, some reason,
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Speaker 1: it makes you depressed. Why, Well, you're putting a lot
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Speaker 1: of energy and that's very stressful into the daily living. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so you're at an up level, you know, and at
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Speaker 1: some point you're gonna crash, and that crash is going
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Speaker 1: to bring you normally into depression. I mean that that's
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Speaker 1: just physiologically and psychologically. See, I thought it was because
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Speaker 1: they face their mortality, they look at they're looking down
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Speaker 1: the wrong end of a barrel. Nancy Dale. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: could speak. I had a deep sea diving accident overseas
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Speaker 1: and I was I was just thinking about that. I
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Speaker 1: did too go ahead, and well I was in a
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Speaker 1: coma for a while when I got back to the States,
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Speaker 1: and the result was that I was I felt like
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Speaker 1: I was losing ground where everything that I was trying
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Speaker 1: to accomplish, well I couldn't. And so it took years
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Speaker 1: to overcome that depression anxiety. You know. When I had
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Speaker 1: a dive accident overseas, I when I lived through it
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Speaker 1: and came to I was so happy and had the
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Speaker 1: other effect on me. I was just so happy. Children, right, No, no,
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Speaker 1: you know, I gave up diving when I had the twins.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna leave them and meet at the bottom
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Speaker 1: of the ocean of my husband, remarry some tramp to
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Speaker 1: raise my children. That's not happening. No, No, I have
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Speaker 1: not died. That was after the dive accident, was long
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Speaker 1: before I had children. He'd never find anyone equal to you, Nancy, Yes,
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Speaker 1: for sure. Equal maybe, but he might disagree with you
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Speaker 1: on that. But I'm just trying to get the frame
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Speaker 1: of mind everything this woman had been through and then
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Speaker 1: she suddenly just boom, vanishes, disappears off the face of
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Speaker 1: the earth. It just doesn't seem right now. He just
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Speaker 1: Scott Morgan was telling us, she's just such a weakened condition.
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Speaker 1: How could she just walk away from the life that
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Speaker 1: she knew? How could this happen? Listen to this, friends saying,
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Speaker 1: Nikki filed for divorce last week. She had her last
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Speaker 1: chemotherapy treatment the next day and everything was looking up.
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Speaker 1: But after spending the last few months fighting for her life,
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Speaker 1: she's gone suddenly, and a community is left to process
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Speaker 1: its loss. She's fighting to stay alive, you know, so
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Speaker 1: your kids grow up and to you know, continue on
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Speaker 1: with her life. And then to have it end like this,
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Speaker 1: it's just a tragedy that no one should have to
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Speaker 1: no one should have to go through. Will They touched
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Speaker 1: many lives in Boone County and beyond. It was clear
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Speaker 1: to learn that through talking with her friends today. So okay,
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Speaker 1: just Lord, something brand new. Not only had she gone
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Speaker 1: through this horrible ordeal, very extensive and alreadyous fight against cancer,
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Speaker 1: she suddenly decide she was going to file for divorce.
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Speaker 1: Time stories with Nancy Grace. Okay, big question back to you,
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Speaker 1: doctor Jory Crassen. Psychologist, Doctor Jory. You know, don't they
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Speaker 1: tell you not to make life changing decisions after a
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Speaker 1: major illness, like don't sell your house or decide you're
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Speaker 1: gonna move, or you're gonna go be an expat in
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Speaker 1: France or by a sports car. A divorce that's a
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Speaker 1: big decision. Yes, that's true, you don't make decisions major
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Speaker 1: decisions after coming out of that. But if she had
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Speaker 1: been building and gathering information to make that decision over
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Speaker 1: her last period of time while she's fighting for her
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Speaker 1: an undergoing chemo, and then when she gets the reprieve
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Speaker 1: and goes into remission, that's just the normal course that
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Speaker 1: would be. You know, as a counselor, I'd be the
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Speaker 1: first thing I'd tell her to do. So, long story short,
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Speaker 1: it sounds like Elizabeth Nicki Willouette wanted a completely fresh start.
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Speaker 1: She was shedding her battle with breast cancer, getting a divorce,
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Speaker 1: and starting all over. Take a listen to our friends
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Speaker 1: at Daily Based. Elizabeth Nicki Willhoyd just wanted a fresh
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Speaker 1: start after being diagnosed with breast cancer last fall. The
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Speaker 1: forty two year old had just completed her last round
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Speaker 1: of chemotherapy, an achievement the mother of two documented on
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Speaker 1: social media. She was such a strong woman. Mary Smith,
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Speaker 1: one of Elizabeth's childhood friends, told The Daily Beast on
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Speaker 1: Monday she had just finished up chemo last week, but
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Speaker 1: authorities save. The milestone was almost immediately eclipsed when Elizabeth
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Speaker 1: learned that Andrew, her husband with whom she raised livestock
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Speaker 1: in rural Indiana, had been having an affair. Elizabeth hired
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Speaker 1: a lawyer and submitted a petition for legal separation in
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Speaker 1: Boone County Circuit Court on March eighteenth. On the same day,
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Speaker 1: her husband took note of her health progress online. Very
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Speaker 1: proud of you, Andrew Wilhoyd wrote, alongside a photo of
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Speaker 1: his smiling wife of twelve years. So he's riding publicly,
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Speaker 1: so proud of you that she's completing her chemo and radiation.
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Speaker 1: Yet he's sleeping around. Now those are our friends at
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Speaker 1: the Daily Base. You earlier heard our friends at WRTV
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Speaker 1: sleeping around having an affair on his wife who's fighting
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Speaker 1: breast cancer. No wonder she took off, No wonder she
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Speaker 1: left Doctor Jerry crosson What kind of guy's gonna have
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Speaker 1: an affair while his wife is fighting breast cancer? Again,
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Speaker 1: looking at the behavior, I see where she's coming from.
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Speaker 1: And as she learned about that, she's probably putting in
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Speaker 1: perspective a lot of other incidents that you know she's
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Speaker 1: known about or maybe even was suspicious about, involving him
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Speaker 1: and maybe other women. Okay, so she's finding out. Let's
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Speaker 1: just break it down. Okay, I don't want to hear
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Speaker 1: some educational treatise. He is screwing around on his wife
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Speaker 1: while she's fighting breast cancer. And I will tell all
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Speaker 1: of you a disclaimer. I had a very dear friend
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Speaker 1: fighting breast cancer that came and told me her husband
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Speaker 1: was cheating, cheating, even though she was in the middle
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Speaker 1: of breast cancer. I said, you may want to think
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Speaker 1: about it and wait till you finish your battle, but
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Speaker 1: I would leave him in a New York minute. I
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Speaker 1: would drop him like a hot potato, because this is
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Speaker 1: the time you need your husband with you more than ever.
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Speaker 1: You don't need him running across the street for a
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Speaker 1: cigarette while you're in the middle of chemo, much less
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Speaker 1: screwing the neighbor lady or whoever else this guy has found. Heck, yes,
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Speaker 1: she should divorce him, but is that too much at
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Speaker 1: once to you know what? No, I would divorce him
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Speaker 1: right then, Dale Carson, Now you're the high profile lawyer
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Speaker 1: out of Jacksonville. What is it? Why demand just leave
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Speaker 1: the wife emotionally during her breast cancer battle. This is
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Speaker 1: not the first time we've seen it. Well, I guess
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Speaker 1: it's about whether she's not pretty anymore. Well, no, no,
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Speaker 1: it's about men and women not having a serious view
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Speaker 1: of their marriage rows, which are until we're parted by death.
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Speaker 1: And I see that more and more increasingly, the divorce
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Speaker 1: rates in the United States are skyrocketing. Don't try to
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Speaker 1: throw me a bunch of statistics. I'm talking about men
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Speaker 1: having sex with other women while their wife is fighting
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Speaker 1: breast cancer. What a po s. That's a technical legal term.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you learned that in law school,
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Speaker 1: But let me ask you, doctor jury, when you're in
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Speaker 1: that situation as Elizabeth found herself. Should you wait to
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Speaker 1: make a divorce decision or she's you know, trying to
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Speaker 1: finish up chemo. She had to know about it during chemo.
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Speaker 1: Should you go? I would want to get rid of
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Speaker 1: him as fast as I could. I would think that
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Speaker 1: would determine my getting well. It would, and I would
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Speaker 1: work it into the treatment program. I mean, that's just
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Speaker 1: the simple way as a counselor I would view it.
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Speaker 1: You know, start getting your ducks in a row, get
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Speaker 1: with a lawyer, start talking about options and stuff, but
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Speaker 1: move forward with a positive manner. And again you want
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Speaker 1: to direct her to the future. You know, here's what
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Speaker 1: can be happening down the road. You got to look
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Speaker 1: down the road because now you're in remission. You found
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Speaker 1: out about this, because those are all that stresses not
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Speaker 1: need and she needs a good, healthy, fresh start. How
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Speaker 1: does that really affect he just got Morgan. How does
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Speaker 1: stress affect your cancer recovery? Well? I mean it's proven
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Speaker 1: that even for fully healthy people, Nancy, that stress can
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Speaker 1: impact your immune system. So you're more subject to, you know,
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Speaker 1: catching a cold or some kind of virus that's out there.
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Speaker 1: How much more so if you're already immunocompromised relative to
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Speaker 1: this treatment that you're undergoing, you know, And I would
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Speaker 1: think also, there's this, you know, this moment in time
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Speaker 1: where you realize and first look, the bottom line is
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Speaker 1: I don't need this, you know, I just don't need this,
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Speaker 1: you know, after all I've been through. I look at
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Speaker 1: how precious life is now at this point in time,
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Speaker 1: and this guy's going to have the nerve to go
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Speaker 1: around and run around on me and make a fool
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Speaker 1: of me while I'm suffering. Well, I don't know that
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Speaker 1: she's the fool. I think he's the fool. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: witting on a woman that's been by him twelve years,
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Speaker 1: had two children. Now, she's been a warrior woman and
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Speaker 1: thought cancer and she seemingly has one. Now this presents
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Speaker 1: a problem, Nicole pardon, because police find all this out
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Speaker 1: and they think, hey, maybe she just took off. She
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Speaker 1: had had it. She's divorcing him, she's got through a chemos,
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Speaker 1: she's not bound to this area or this hospital, this
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Speaker 1: treatment facility. She's gone. Sure, that could be speculation, but
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Speaker 1: when she didn't show up for work and her co
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Speaker 1: workers knew this is not like her. Okay, Yeah, you're right,
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Speaker 1: you're right. I don't think that she would leave her
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Speaker 1: job and just not show up. But the children, she
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Speaker 1: wouldn't believe with the children, how old were How old
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Speaker 1: are the children, Nicole? We know that they are adolescent.
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Speaker 1: Their exact ages have not been disclosed, but they're still
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Speaker 1: in school and they're still living at home with Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're right, she wouldn't take off and leave them behind.
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Speaker 1: But of course cops are plagued with the thought did
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Speaker 1: she just filed for divorce and high tail out of here?
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Speaker 1: And then a development? Take a listen to Max Lewis
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Speaker 1: Fox fifty nine. She was initially reported missing on Friday
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Speaker 1: morning when she didn't show up for work, and when
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Speaker 1: sheriff's deputies did a welfare check at the family home,
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Speaker 1: they realized something wasn't right. The Boone County Sheriff's Office
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Speaker 1: says deputies found evidence at the couple's rural home that
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Speaker 1: led them to believe this missing person's case maybe a
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Speaker 1: homicide investigation. The sheriff asked the Indiana State Police to
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Speaker 1: take over because Andrew Wilhoyt's mother is on the county council.
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Speaker 1: There are some things that just didn't seem to be
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Speaker 1: adding up things not adding up. There's something that they
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Speaker 1: found in the home that makes them question the idea
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Speaker 1: that Elizabeth is missing. Elizabeth, also known as Nikki, take
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Speaker 1: a listen to our friends at the Daily Beast. When
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Speaker 1: officers showed up to the Wiloid's home, about thirty minutes
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Speaker 1: outside of Indianapolis, they were greeted by three of Andrew
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Speaker 1: Wilhoyd's children, one of whom was from a previous marriage.
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Speaker 1: Two of the children indicated that Elizabeth was not home
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Speaker 1: and that they had been trying to contact her themselves.
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Speaker 1: The stepdaughter, the affidavit states, added that Elizabeth might be
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Speaker 1: with her sister and that Elizabeth leaves when she gets upset.
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Speaker 1: As authorities were starting to leave the family farm, the
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Speaker 1: affidavit states, Andrew Willhoit pulled into the driveway in a
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Speaker 1: blue tractor and indicated that his wife was missing. Andrew
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Speaker 1: stated that they had a pretty good fight last night
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Speaker 1: and she was drunk. The affidavit states, Willhoit then allegedly
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Speaker 1: began to tell authorities that his wife had slept on
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Speaker 1: the couch the night of March twenty fourth after a fight,
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Speaker 1: and that he did not see her the next morning,
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Speaker 1: when he left early to haul korn, Andrew stated that
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Speaker 1: he was laying in the bed and Elizabeth was flipping out.
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Speaker 1: The affidavit states Andrew advised that it is not the
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Speaker 1: first time that an incident like this has occurred. Nicole Parton,
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Speaker 1: let me follow up on what I'm just hearing. Three
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Speaker 1: children answer the door and approached the cops. Two of
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Speaker 1: them are saying they've been trying to call their mom.
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Speaker 1: I take it those are the two young ones, the
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Speaker 1: so called adolescents. They're trying to find mommy. The third
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Speaker 1: one is older and she is Nikki's stepdaughter. She the stepdaughter,
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Speaker 1: immediately launches into a discussion that Nikki might be with
22:21
Speaker 1: her sister, that she leaves the home when she gets upset.
22:25
Speaker 1: Then we hear the husband, Andrew Willowette piling On, stating
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Speaker 1: that they had an argument and that his wife got
22:34
Speaker 1: drunk and slept on the sofa. Wow, none of this
22:40
Speaker 1: is ringing true to me. None of it. We have
22:43
Speaker 1: no indication she had ever left her two bio children,
22:47
Speaker 1: the little children alone before. We have no indication that
22:51
Speaker 1: she would leave and go to her sister's house. In fact,
22:55
Speaker 1: we have no indication she ever did that before in
22:57
Speaker 1: the past. Now we're hearing she was drunk on the
23:01
Speaker 1: sofa and went bersert on him that it was not
23:05
Speaker 1: the first time an instant like this had occurred. That
23:08
Speaker 1: makes me wonder how many affairs had he had. But
23:12
Speaker 1: the information is coming from the husband's bio daughter, Nikki's stepdaughter,
23:19
Speaker 1: right right, that's correct. So authorities went out to do
23:23
Speaker 1: a well check because Nikki didn't show up for work.
23:26
Speaker 1: So it was actually a coworker that alerted authorities that
23:31
Speaker 1: they had not been able to reach her by phone.
23:33
Speaker 1: She didn't show up for work. This was unlike her,
23:36
Speaker 1: completely out of character. So authorities went out to do
23:40
Speaker 1: the well check, and that's when they were greeted by
23:43
Speaker 1: the three children, the two younger the two biological children
23:47
Speaker 1: saying we've been trying to call mommy. We don't know
23:50
Speaker 1: where she is, the older stepchild saying she could be
23:54
Speaker 1: at her sisters. She leaves when she gets upset, and
23:57
Speaker 1: then the husband saying she's drunk, yes, and then the
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Speaker 1: husband saying she had drank. In his words, she drank
24:04
Speaker 1: a bottle of rum. She was drunk. We had what
24:07
Speaker 1: he called a pretty good fight last night. I went
24:10
Speaker 1: to bed, she slept on the couch. He said he
24:12
Speaker 1: got up the next morning early to go haulcorn on
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Speaker 1: the family farm, and that she was missing. Nicole parton
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Speaker 1: crime online dot com, I'm glad you brought up the
24:22
Speaker 1: fact that it was not the family that calls about
24:28
Speaker 1: her being missing. It's a coworker. Take a listen to
24:31
Speaker 1: our friends at crime online. The search for Nicky Wilhoyt
24:35
Speaker 1: began after a friend called police when will Hooi didn't
24:38
Speaker 1: show up for work. A Boon County deputy conducts a
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Speaker 1: welfare check at the eleven and farm owned by will
24:43
Speaker 1: Hooi and her husband. Andrew Willhoitt says he last saw
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Speaker 1: his wife around eleven pm the night before, sleeping on
24:49
Speaker 1: their couch. Willhoid says that sometimes his wife leaves the
24:53
Speaker 1: house when the couple argue, but she usually returns the
24:56
Speaker 1: next morning. As police search the farm, they find Nikki's
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Speaker 1: first inside a car parked in the garage. The case
25:03
Speaker 1: is upgraded from a missing person to an endangered missing person.
25:08
Speaker 1: Jill Carson joining US, former fed with the FBI, now
25:12
Speaker 1: lawyer in Jacksonville. That doesn't make sense that she took
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Speaker 1: off on her own or even went to her sisters
25:21
Speaker 1: her car with the purse in it is at the
25:25
Speaker 1: home and it was snowing. Was it wasn't there snow
25:29
Speaker 1: on the ground at the time. I mean, what do
25:30
Speaker 1: you walk in the snow after you've had more therapy
25:34
Speaker 1: and you can hardly move around? I mean, that's just ridiculous.
25:38
Speaker 1: They would you need to start a surch right there,
25:41
Speaker 1: right now to try to find her. So what was
25:45
Speaker 1: the temp Nicole parton joining us? It's Lebanon, Indiana. Was
25:51
Speaker 1: it snowy? There was snow and the temps were freezing
25:54
Speaker 1: temperatures below freezing that night in the mid thirties during
25:58
Speaker 1: the day, but there was snow on the ground and
26:01
Speaker 1: it was still snowing the next day when authorities went out,
26:04
Speaker 1: okay to you doctor Jerry Cross and psychologist and faculty
26:08
Speaker 1: sat Leo University. That just defies logic. It reminds me
26:14
Speaker 1: of two cases. Number one, Drew Peterson's wife Stacy, remember her,
26:21
Speaker 1: his fourth wife? Fourth wife not judging because you know,
26:26
Speaker 1: when Elizabeth Taylor does it, it's glamorous when you have
26:28
Speaker 1: a lot of marriages, but somebody else does it somehow,
26:31
Speaker 1: it's always the woman's fault. So here's my question. In
26:36
Speaker 1: that case, according to Drew Peterson, the former cop, he
26:41
Speaker 1: and Stacy had this big fight and she just left.
26:47
Speaker 1: How all of her clothes were still there? All of
26:50
Speaker 1: her stuff is still there, her car is still there?
26:54
Speaker 1: What she walked to timbuctwo? I mean that doesn't make sense.
26:58
Speaker 1: And in this case, it's actually she's snowing outside. Yeah.
27:01
Speaker 1: I wouldn't buy that at all, because you know, you
27:04
Speaker 1: could confront the husband. You're telling me that she just
27:06
Speaker 1: walked out into the snow and disappeared. I mean, even
27:09
Speaker 1: after her fight, she would maybe take some personal belongings
27:13
Speaker 1: if she was going to go to her sister's, or
27:15
Speaker 1: she definitely would take the car. I mean in the
27:18
Speaker 1: cold weather. That just defies logic. Okay to you just
27:23
Speaker 1: got Morgan, what do you make of the car locked?
27:26
Speaker 1: They're on the premises with the purse inside. Yeah, the
27:30
Speaker 1: fact that it is locked when you know you begin
27:34
Speaker 1: to consider this, you know where the keys that operate
27:37
Speaker 1: the vehicle, and why would somebody do this? You got
27:39
Speaker 1: the purse in the car. I don't know. Maybe she
27:41
Speaker 1: leaves her purse in the car in a rural area
27:44
Speaker 1: just so that it's there and she doesn't miss it.
27:46
Speaker 1: I know that my wife wouldn't do that. I know
27:48
Speaker 1: most people wouldn't do that because you're afraid somebody's going
27:51
Speaker 1: to come in and knock out the window and steal
27:52
Speaker 1: the purse. Was it to give the idea perhaps that
27:56
Speaker 1: she had maybe considered leaving in the car and then
27:59
Speaker 1: just kind of under it off. It's another thing. They
28:02
Speaker 1: live up there in this rural area. These these are
28:04
Speaker 1: hard working people, Nancy. Uh, there's no fascination with her
28:08
Speaker 1: with the snow and the cold weather. A matter of fact,
28:11
Speaker 1: they probably view it as an inconvenience. She's not going
28:14
Speaker 1: out for a little joy joyful little walk or to
28:18
Speaker 1: catch her thoughts in this environment. It's harsh. It's harsh.
28:21
Speaker 1: And not to mention, you pile on this idea. She's
28:24
Speaker 1: just coming off of chemo, Nancy. She's weak as a
28:27
Speaker 1: kitten and she's gonna wander around out there in this environment.
28:31
Speaker 1: And I'm not buying this whole thing about her being
28:33
Speaker 1: drunk either. I think that that's that's that's just to
28:37
Speaker 1: put people off the seth here. You know, I'm curious
28:40
Speaker 1: about that detail. Because doctor joy Cross and psychologists joining us.
28:45
Speaker 1: I feel that that's a way to make her look bad,
28:48
Speaker 1: to smear her reputation, to suggest she would just get
28:51
Speaker 1: drunk and then leave her children. I'm not buying that, No,
28:55
Speaker 1: And that adds to her judgment capability to meet to
28:59
Speaker 1: see is she's intoxicated in it would assume that she's
29:02
Speaker 1: going to be doing, you know, something irrational or just
29:07
Speaker 1: following her emotions. But the other thing with chemotherapy, I
29:13
Speaker 1: can't recall having a patient that drank. I mean, that's
29:17
Speaker 1: one of the things because your immune systems compromise, there's
29:20
Speaker 1: other things, and uh, you know, to be drinking, like
29:23
Speaker 1: he said, I had a bottle of rum or something.
29:25
Speaker 1: That's just that's not logical at all either. It doesn't
29:29
Speaker 1: make sense to me. So how would alcohol affect her
29:33
Speaker 1: chemotherapy or radiation? Joe Scott, that's going to greatly impact
29:38
Speaker 1: her because you know, we have to think that. You know,
29:40
Speaker 1: with chemotherapy, many times people will actually lose weight and
29:44
Speaker 1: body mass, and so as a result of that, alcohol
29:48
Speaker 1: can impact you even at a greater a greater level
29:52
Speaker 1: because you don't have the ability to absorb the alcohol
29:55
Speaker 1: that's in your system, and so it's going to impact
29:59
Speaker 1: you even greater, not to mention you're compromised anyway physically,
30:03
Speaker 1: So any anything that you kind of put into your
30:06
Speaker 1: body is going to let's say, prior to you having
30:10
Speaker 1: gone through chemotherapy, let's say that you did like to
30:13
Speaker 1: have a drink or two, maybe a couple of glasses
30:16
Speaker 1: of wine prior to this diagnosis. It's not going to
30:18
Speaker 1: impact you the same way after you've gone through this
30:22
Speaker 1: horrible treatment. It's going to compromise your ability to make decisions.
30:26
Speaker 1: It's going to and it would make you feel not better,
30:30
Speaker 1: you know, to relax, it's probably going to make you
30:32
Speaker 1: feel worse. Crime stories with Nancy Grace to you, Nicole
30:51
Speaker 1: apart and joining us some crime online. Nicole, what can
30:55
Speaker 1: you tell me about three thousand dollars missing for the
30:59
Speaker 1: family's joint account. We do know that she had taken
31:03
Speaker 1: a withdrawal of this three thousand dollars, but we also
31:06
Speaker 1: know that she had used that to contact this attorney
31:09
Speaker 1: where she was filing for divorce. So the money was
31:13
Speaker 1: not taken out of the account so that she could
31:15
Speaker 1: run away or go on an unannounced vacation, but she
31:18
Speaker 1: took that money out to go file for divorce. Okay,
31:22
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I misstated something. The three thousand dollars
31:26
Speaker 1: was withdrawn, but it was from her retirement account, not
31:31
Speaker 1: their mutual account. Is that correct. That's correct, but she
31:35
Speaker 1: specifically withdrew that for the attorney fee. As police are
31:40
Speaker 1: there feeling just to hunt that this story is not
31:44
Speaker 1: adding up, they noticed something very significant, something small, something minute,
31:52
Speaker 1: but critical in the search for Nikki. Take a listen
31:56
Speaker 1: to our friends at crime Online. Police say things just
32:00
Speaker 1: do not add up. Andrew will Holt tells investigators his
32:03
Speaker 1: wife discovered he was having an affair. Nicky will Hold
32:06
Speaker 1: withdrew three thousand dollars from her retirement account and hires
32:10
Speaker 1: an attorney to file for divorce. Investigators show Andrew Willhoitt
32:14
Speaker 1: photographs of blood founded their bedroom. Will Hoyt says he
32:17
Speaker 1: had a nosebleed, pointing out that the blood is on
32:20
Speaker 1: his side of the mattress. Willhoitt then ends the police
32:24
Speaker 1: interview asking for a lawyer. Okay, right there, the day
32:29
Speaker 1: she goes missing, he gets a nosebleed, and now he
32:34
Speaker 1: wants a lawyer. I mean, that is a bad look.
32:38
Speaker 1: We all have a right to a lawyer. But Dale
32:41
Speaker 1: Carson I mean, just think about it. It reminds me
32:44
Speaker 1: a little bit of Brian Laundry and his family. When
32:49
Speaker 1: Gabby Petito goes missing, they suddenly hire a high profile
32:53
Speaker 1: defense attorney and clam up, that's not helping find Gabby
32:57
Speaker 1: at all. And a husband who was afraid his wife
33:01
Speaker 1: might be injured in the snow would behave entirely differently
33:05
Speaker 1: than he has. We never hear any reported him saying
33:08
Speaker 1: let's go search. We've got to find her now. And
33:11
Speaker 1: there's probably a reason for that, you know, that's curious,
33:14
Speaker 1: Nicole Pardon. Was there ever any evidence that the husband
33:17
Speaker 1: goes out and searches for her, None at all, None whatsoever.
33:21
Speaker 1: He neatly told the authorities when they came to him
33:24
Speaker 1: at the farm, he said, yeah, she's missing. We had
33:27
Speaker 1: a fight last night. But there's no report whatsoever that
33:30
Speaker 1: he ever looked for her. He got up the next morning,
33:33
Speaker 1: went out to haulcorn to the pigs, went about his
33:36
Speaker 1: normal daily activity. And youve got to remember about pigs, now,
33:41
Speaker 1: why do you want me to remember about pigs? It's
33:43
Speaker 1: a way and used historphy to dispose of human remains.
33:48
Speaker 1: Thank you Del Carson for putting that in my head.
33:51
Speaker 1: So now police have noticed something my neat, something small
33:56
Speaker 1: but critical. Blood in the bed. He says, he had
34:02
Speaker 1: a noseblade. Well, that's quiet the coincidence, isn't it. She
34:05
Speaker 1: disappears while he has a noseblade. But what does her
34:10
Speaker 1: father say? Take a list of our France at daily base.
34:14
Speaker 1: Andrew Wilhoyd just found out from his accountant that approximately
34:17
Speaker 1: three thousand dollars had been taken out of their bank
34:19
Speaker 1: account and that he had been advised that Elizabeth had
34:21
Speaker 1: a lawyer and was filing for divorce. The affidavit says
34:25
Speaker 1: Willhoid then allegedly went as far to say that he
34:27
Speaker 1: believed maybe something drug related occurred with his wife, But
34:30
Speaker 1: authorities say Andrew Wilhoid's story began to unravel once authorities
34:34
Speaker 1: spoke to Elizabeth's father, who clarified that his daughter took
34:37
Speaker 1: out money from their bank account on March eighteenth because
34:40
Speaker 1: she was going to have to divorce Andrew. Her father,
34:43
Speaker 1: Thomas Richards, added he believed maybe Wilhoid did something to Elizabeth.
34:47
Speaker 1: The affidavit says during a search of the property, authorities
34:51
Speaker 1: discovered blood on the bedsheets and pillow of the Wiloida's
34:54
Speaker 1: master bedroom, along with small droplets on and around the
34:57
Speaker 1: door and inside the master bathroom on the sink. Circling
35:01
Speaker 1: back to Joe Scott Morgan joining US Professor Forensics. You know,
35:06
Speaker 1: the type of blood evidence is very important because now
35:11
Speaker 1: you have blood on the bed, blood on the pillow,
35:15
Speaker 1: blood in the bathroom sink, and blood on the door. Yeah,
35:19
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right, Nancy. You know, what what's the status
35:22
Speaker 1: of it? If you're talking about blood spatter, you know
35:25
Speaker 1: that kind of dynamic movement of blood. Is it a
35:28
Speaker 1: passive thing? You know, like nosebleed has been mentioned. Anybody's
35:32
Speaker 1: ever having nosebleed and you're standing there, is it, you know,
35:35
Speaker 1: just kind of freely dripping and it just lands in
35:38
Speaker 1: a very focal area. We've got blood drops, but you know,
35:42
Speaker 1: you have to understand is there any kind of energy
35:44
Speaker 1: behind this? You know, we classify blood blood stain velocity
35:52
Speaker 1: by low, medium, and high. And if you're talking about
35:57
Speaker 1: say a blood droplet that's just passing through there, that's
35:59
Speaker 1: that's kind of low the velocity. But if someone has
36:02
Speaker 1: been struck, for instance, it's going to have a different appearance.
36:05
Speaker 1: You mean, if blood you drip blood like you have
36:09
Speaker 1: a nosebleed and you're standing and the kit get the
36:13
Speaker 1: bathroom counter and you're looking in the mirror. You oh,
36:15
Speaker 1: I've got my nose is bleeding and one drop falls
36:19
Speaker 1: into the sink. That looks a lot different from if
36:23
Speaker 1: someone is hit in the head and blood is cast off. Yeah,
36:28
Speaker 1: you will, and it'll be it'll kind of splatter out
36:31
Speaker 1: or spatter out rather, and you'll have it contact on
36:35
Speaker 1: different surfaces. I've worked cases where individuals have literally been
36:39
Speaker 1: beaten to death in their bed and they have like
36:41
Speaker 1: a dark hardwood headboard on their bed and you couldn't
36:44
Speaker 1: see it with the unaided eye, but you can see
36:47
Speaker 1: it on the sheets. And the thing about it is
36:50
Speaker 1: if someone is in the middle of one of these
36:52
Speaker 1: dynamic things, they don't think about where the blood is going.
36:55
Speaker 1: And that's generally how we catch them or how we
36:58
Speaker 1: can kind of put together other what actually happened. You know,
37:02
Speaker 1: there's that old saying that says blood will tell, and
37:05
Speaker 1: it certainly does. And then you go back and you
37:08
Speaker 1: type that blood. You know, that's the old way that
37:10
Speaker 1: we used to it before DNA. You decide what's the
37:13
Speaker 1: ABO grouping on this a pause, you know, so forth
37:16
Speaker 1: and so on. And then when you get down into
37:19
Speaker 1: the weeds with it, what DNA signature comes back on
37:21
Speaker 1: this blood? Who does it? Actually? Bought another thing about
37:24
Speaker 1: the blood spatter or drop or transfer, Prancess. My hand
37:29
Speaker 1: is bleeding and I pick up this paper, I transfer
37:33
Speaker 1: a blood mark, and that's very different from a drop
37:37
Speaker 1: or a spatter. And then there's the issue of throwback
37:41
Speaker 1: if you were beating someone, And it just brings to
37:44
Speaker 1: mind Ted Bundy in the kaya Bega house when he
37:47
Speaker 1: bludgeoned a victim and then swung back. The blood then
37:52
Speaker 1: went all the way up on the ceiling. I remember
37:55
Speaker 1: the first time I had a bludgeon case, and I
37:58
Speaker 1: stupidly or just really innocently, I was uneducated in that said,
38:03
Speaker 1: how did the blood get all the way to the
38:05
Speaker 1: back of the room. And it was the violence of
38:09
Speaker 1: the beating when he came back with the weapon, it
38:13
Speaker 1: shot blood all the way to it threw blood all
38:17
Speaker 1: the way to the back of the room. So you
38:18
Speaker 1: would look for that as well. We can have blood
38:20
Speaker 1: up on the ceiling, yeah, and the individual can have
38:22
Speaker 1: blood on him too. I've had cases where the perpetrator
38:25
Speaker 1: when after they were actually arrested, you begin to look
38:28
Speaker 1: at them and then all of a sudden, famously had
38:30
Speaker 1: a really good friend that did this. They're questioning this
38:32
Speaker 1: guy and they don't know he's a suspect, and they
38:34
Speaker 1: look at him and he's got this diagonal line that's
38:37
Speaker 1: running from his right shoulder blade all the way over
38:40
Speaker 1: to the area just above his left kidney on a
38:42
Speaker 1: white tshirt and you can faintly see it in this
38:45
Speaker 1: kind of cast off that's happened on his back, and
38:47
Speaker 1: he was actually drawing up a mallet as he did
38:51
Speaker 1: over shoulder. And I teach my kids at Jacksonville State
38:54
Speaker 1: when we're talking about blood evidence is if you just
38:57
Speaker 1: think about dipping a paint brush into a paint can
39:00
Speaker 1: and then kind of flipping it over your shoulder, that's
39:02
Speaker 1: an example of cast off. And there's no predictability to it. Now,
39:06
Speaker 1: there's no predictability whatsoever. Then a sudden turn in the case.
39:11
Speaker 1: Take a listen to our cut ten our friends at
39:14
Speaker 1: wt R thirteen. We have an update this morning. The
39:17
Speaker 1: Boone County Corner now confirms the death of eleven and
39:20
Speaker 1: wife and mother this weekend was a homicide. The exact
39:23
Speaker 1: cause of death of forty one year old Elizabeth Nicki
39:25
Speaker 1: Wilhoit will be released once that autopsy is complete. But
39:29
Speaker 1: on Saturday, police found her body in a pond, less
39:31
Speaker 1: than a day after a co workers reported her missing.
39:34
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine the overwhelming grief that the family
39:37
Speaker 1: is going through, also their friends and the community as
39:41
Speaker 1: a whole. And Nikki filed for separation from her husband
39:44
Speaker 1: just over a week ago. Posts on social media indicate
39:47
Speaker 1: that she'd also just completed Chemotherapy two Nicole parton joining
39:52
Speaker 1: us from crime Online. What do police believe happened? After
39:58
Speaker 1: interviewed by authorities, her husband Andrew, after asking for that attorney,
40:03
Speaker 1: said that he wanted to make a statement, and in
40:04
Speaker 1: that statement, he detailed the gruesome death. He said he
40:08
Speaker 1: physically picked Nikki up and threw her out of the
40:12
Speaker 1: front door. She somehow made it back to her feet
40:17
Speaker 1: and began to come toward him. At that point, he
40:20
Speaker 1: picked up a cement gallon sized flower pot that was
40:25
Speaker 1: packed with dirt and hit her in the face with
40:28
Speaker 1: that and at that point she hits the ground. He
40:33
Speaker 1: disposed of the body. He then puts her instead of
40:36
Speaker 1: trying to revive her in his pickup truck and throws
40:40
Speaker 1: her into a nearby pond. We also know that there
40:45
Speaker 1: were traces of blood in the couple's bedroom, obviously from
40:49
Speaker 1: scratches that were seen on the husband's neck. I would
40:53
Speaker 1: guess defensive attacks on her part, trying to fight for
40:57
Speaker 1: her life. He is now behind bars in awaiting trial.
41:02
Speaker 1: And let me point out that the single most dangerous
41:06
Speaker 1: time in a domestic violence or abusive relationship, it's when
41:11
Speaker 1: the woman tries to leave. She filed for a divorce
41:17
Speaker 1: one week prior to her murder. If you or anyone
41:23
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41:28
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