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Murder In Moscow: Morgan Wallen And The Chapin Family · Beyond The Horizon

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the program. Back
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  Speaker 1: in July, country music superstar Morgan Wallen did something pretty
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  Speaker 1: cool for Ethan Chapin's family. After Morgan Wallen heard that
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  Speaker 1: Ethan Chapin was a gigantic fan of his, he reached
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  Speaker 1: out to Ethan Chapin's family and invited them to a concert.
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  Speaker 1: Not only that, he took the time to meet with them,
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  Speaker 1: hang out with them, and give them the whole entire experience. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not too much of a fan of country music.
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  Speaker 1: I usually prefer my music to come without mullets. But
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  Speaker 1: this is a solid move on the part of Morgan Wallen,
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  Speaker 1: and this is the kind of thing I love to
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  Speaker 1: see famous people do. I mean, look, you have the
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  Speaker 1: greatest life going right, You're a music star, You're making
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  Speaker 1: millions of dollars. You hear that somebody who's been murdered
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  Speaker 1: loved you, enjoyed your music, then you take the time
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  Speaker 1: to reach out to their family. That's a solid move
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  Speaker 1: and mister Wallin and his mullet both deserve a pat
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  Speaker 1: on the back for it. Today we have an article
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  Speaker 1: from Delhi mail dot com and the headline country music
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  Speaker 1: star Morgan Wallen gives family of murdered Idahost student Ethan
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  Speaker 1: Chapin free concert tickets after hearing he was a huge fan.
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  Speaker 1: This article was authored by Claudia Aora. Country music star
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  Speaker 1: Morgan Wallen has gifted the family of murdered Idahost student
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  Speaker 1: Ethan Chapin free concert tickets after hearing that the student
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  Speaker 1: was a huge fan. And usually when I see stuff
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  Speaker 1: like this from musicians or from famous people, the first
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  Speaker 1: thing I think is that it's a ploy. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that's the case here. This guy had actively
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  Speaker 1: been following along with what was going on, and this
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem to me some kind of artificial ploy to
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  Speaker 1: get some publicity by his people coming to him and saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we got this kid who was murdered, and we can
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  Speaker 1: score some points if we invite his family to the concert.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see that being the case here. This seems
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  Speaker 1: to me that Morgan Wallen is just a good dude
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  Speaker 1: and a man who saw that the family was suffering.
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  Speaker 1: The family was going through it, and he decided to
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  Speaker 1: help out any way that he could, and the way
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  Speaker 1: that he could help out is give the family a
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  Speaker 1: night of enjoyment, a night out in honor of Ethan
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  Speaker 1: and for the Chapins and everything we've heard of them
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  Speaker 1: thus far, that seems like the best thing that you
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  Speaker 1: could have done for them. Chapin twenty was killed alongside
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  Speaker 1: his girlfriend Xana Kernodle twenty and her two housemates Madison
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  Speaker 1: Mogan twenty one Kelly Gonsalvez twenty one in November of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Brian Koberger twenty eight is set to
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  Speaker 1: stand trial for their murders this fall. The country star
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  Speaker 1: Wallin thirty found out that Ethan and his family were
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  Speaker 1: big fans of his music and invited his mother, father,
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  Speaker 1: and his triplet siblings, Mazie and Hunter to his show
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  Speaker 1: in San Diego. Ethan's mother, Stacy, also revealed that the
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  Speaker 1: family were taken backstage to meet the star, who graciously
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  Speaker 1: gave them a donation for Ethan's charity. Now, I can
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  Speaker 1: tell you firsthand that this kind of thing happens with
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  Speaker 1: some musicians. I worked in live entertainment for fifteen years
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  Speaker 1: at the Joint at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: and we had countless musicians come through who did things
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  Speaker 1: like this, and a lot of them did it without
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  Speaker 1: any publicity, they would come in, they'd have meet and greets,
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  Speaker 1: then they would do certain things for people that were
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  Speaker 1: at those meet and greets, depending on the circumstances. And
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  Speaker 1: in my fifteen years working in live entertainment, one of
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  Speaker 1: the coolest guys to do it, one of the nicest
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  Speaker 1: men I've ever met was Corey Taylor, the lead singer
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  Speaker 1: from Slipknot. This guy was top notch, above board when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to just being a great guy. For example,
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  Speaker 1: we were doing a show for his other band and
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  Speaker 1: it was out at the pool at the hard Rock
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  Speaker 1: and as you know, Las Vegas gets very, very hot. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we were outside in about one hundred and ten hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifteen degree weather and Corey Taylor comes out for
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  Speaker 1: his sound check and to take a look at things,
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  Speaker 1: and after all was said and done, he looks at
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  Speaker 1: me and says, it is way too hot for your
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  Speaker 1: guys to be out here. Why don't you guys all
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  Speaker 1: go hang out in the dressing room until we need you.
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  Speaker 1: And for those of you who work in entertainment or
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  Speaker 1: know how this whole entire thing operates, it's very rare
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  Speaker 1: that the act will offer that to the house crew,
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  Speaker 1: So not only did he do that, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: let the guys drink whatever they wanted as far as
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  Speaker 1: soft drinks have food. Just an all around great guy.
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  Speaker 1: And there's several examples of people like that throughout my
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  Speaker 1: experience inside of live entertainment that have come through the
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  Speaker 1: hard rock at least, who have done really cool things.
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  Speaker 1: And I always shake my head when you have these
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  Speaker 1: famous ass people who don't use their fame for good,
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  Speaker 1: Like you have all this money, all this fame, what
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  Speaker 1: are you doing being an asshole? The whole idea for me, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: is if I earn more, I can give more, I
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  Speaker 1: can give back, I can help out in whatever little
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  Speaker 1: way I can. Right certainly not you know, showing up
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  Speaker 1: with Morgan Wallen money, But the fact is we can't
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  Speaker 1: wait around for people to save us. We all have
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  Speaker 1: to step up when we can and help out where
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  Speaker 1: we can. Ethan's mom called it one of the kindest
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  Speaker 1: gestures in her life. On Mother's Day in twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: Ethan sent his mom a text about Morgan Wallen's song
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  Speaker 1: I thought you should know which the star had written
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  Speaker 1: for his own mother. That's pretty powerful think about your
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  Speaker 1: own mom and songs that you might have sent to her,
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  Speaker 1: and then for this to happen to Ethan, and then
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  Speaker 1: for it to come full circle where the man who
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  Speaker 1: sang that song is inviting them to the concert. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a sign from Ethan almost, you know, Ethan reaching
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  Speaker 1: down and telling his mom, look, things are good, I'm
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  Speaker 1: all right, and I want you to know that I'm
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  Speaker 1: with you. You know, that's the kind of message that
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  Speaker 1: you take from that as a parent or a family member.
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  Speaker 1: And I bet you that Ethan's family found a lot
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  Speaker 1: of solace in this. Of course, it doesn't change things,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't fix the fact that Ethan's gone, but the fact
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  Speaker 1: that that Morgan Wallen would reach out to them and
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  Speaker 1: offer this generosity it goes a long way. Ethan suggested
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  Speaker 1: that it could be their song too. The song was
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  Speaker 1: frequently played in the Chapin household, the family said, and
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  Speaker 1: was a symbol of a special bond between Ethan and
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  Speaker 1: his mother before his tragic death. So it's not like
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  Speaker 1: just some random guy invited them to a concert. This
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  Speaker 1: is an impactful event for them and I'm sure it
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  Speaker 1: was emotional as hell. An update from Ethan's Smile Foundation,
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  Speaker 1: a charity set up in Ethan's name. After the killings read,
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  Speaker 1: a very kind person made an introduction, and last night
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  Speaker 1: the Chapin family got to meet Morgan Wallen. They were
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  Speaker 1: gifted tickets to his show in San Diego. Morgan's mom
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  Speaker 1: even flew in for the occasion. We hope you enjoy
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  Speaker 1: these pictures from this treasured experience, Stacy, Ethan's mother said
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  Speaker 1: following the concert. It was an incredibly bittersweet, full circle moment.
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  Speaker 1: And I can only imagine, you know, you share this
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  Speaker 1: song with your son, and then her son gets murdered,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a bond that they still have that is
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  Speaker 1: here in the ethereal world that she can still you know,
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  Speaker 1: cling onto, and it reminds her of her son whenever
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  Speaker 1: she hears it. And I know in my own life
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  Speaker 1: there are certain songs that come on the radio where
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  Speaker 1: I think of lost loved ones and I say to
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  Speaker 1: myself every time I hear one of those songs, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So and So's keeping it on me now, even though
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a big time religious guy or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: Music for me anyway, just as a way of evoking
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  Speaker 1: that kind of feeling that's somebody that you love, somebody
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  Speaker 1: that you shared that bond with with that music is
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  Speaker 1: there with you, even if it's in spirit. Only truthfully
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  Speaker 1: the show would have been enough. We were all over
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  Speaker 1: the moon, and then Morgan handed us a donation check
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  Speaker 1: to the Ethan Smiles Foundation. This Morgan Wallen guy is
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  Speaker 1: getting me to want to go out and buy some
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  Speaker 1: of his music. It was one of the kindest gestures
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  Speaker 1: in my life. I still cannot believe it happened, and
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  Speaker 1: it isn't easy to recognize it all came at a
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  Speaker 1: massive cost to our family. The murders of the four
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  Speaker 1: students shocked the nation, and the university says it has
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  Speaker 1: gone back and forth over what to do with the
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  Speaker 1: murder house as a constant reminder, this article keep in
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  Speaker 1: mind was from July eighteenth, so some things have changed
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  Speaker 1: with the house. A recent memo from the college said,
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  Speaker 1: since that fateful night in November, the house on King
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  Speaker 1: Road where four of our fellow vandals were senselessly killed,
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  Speaker 1: has stood as a stark reminder of what was lost.
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  Speaker 1: We lost our innocence and our sense of safety. We
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  Speaker 1: realize that evil can visit our town, and we lost
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  Speaker 1: four bright souls from our vandal family. In response to this, tragedy.
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  Speaker 1: We have tried to do what is right, knowing full
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  Speaker 1: well there are no actions or decisions that will be
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  Speaker 1: met with full support. This is why the decision about
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  Speaker 1: what to do with the King Road House is so difficult.
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  Speaker 1: On the one hand, some people want it taken down.
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  Speaker 1: It is a constant reminder of the heinous acts that
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  Speaker 1: went on inside it. It is also a place that
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  Speaker 1: continues to draw unwanted attention from the media, YouTubers and others.
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  Speaker 1: On the other hand, it elicits deep emotional responses from
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  Speaker 1: those who are working through grief and to fear that
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  Speaker 1: its destruction could impact the court case. We hear all
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  Speaker 1: these arguments, take them seriously and weigh them against the
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  Speaker 1: greater good for our university. And we now know that
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  Speaker 1: the whole entire project has been paused. How long that
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  Speaker 1: pause is going to be, we don't know yet, but
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  Speaker 1: there's no doubt that it's been put on pause for now,
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  Speaker 1: and there's going to be some conversation between the families,
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  Speaker 1: between the prosecutors, and certainly the university about this house
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  Speaker 1: and what's to come of it. Now with the child
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  Speaker 1: being delayed, it puts a whole different perspective on the
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  Speaker 1: house right as far as what they're going to do
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  Speaker 1: with it and timeframe wise, But I think it would
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  Speaker 1: be foolish to do anything to that house besides leave
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  Speaker 1: it as is. That way, if the jurors decide they
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  Speaker 1: want to go take a trip there and take a
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  Speaker 1: look for themselves, it's available for them. And while it
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  Speaker 1: might prove burdensome in the short term, I think that
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  Speaker 1: the long term benefits trial wise, outweigh any risks or
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  Speaker 1: any sort of continuous disturbances that might occur. Now as
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  Speaker 1: soon as the trial's over, for sure, get rid of it.
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  Speaker 1: If that's what you want to do. Knock that bad
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  Speaker 1: boy down, but not until the trial's over, not until
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  Speaker 1: we have resolution. Let's not give anybody any ability to
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  Speaker 1: use the technicality or a loophole to get themselves off.
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  Speaker 1: All right, folks, that's gonna do it for this one.
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