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246. “Ten Minutes of Violence” - The Case of Julian Wood - North Olmsted, Ohio - [Part 2 - The Prosecution] · Least of These

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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to least of these, where I cover the cases that need it most because every life matters and everyone deserves justice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm your host Leia D. Today I'll be bringing you part two of the case of Julian Wood in North Olmstead, Ohio.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just another reminder, today's case involves the murder of a child.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Listener discretion is advised.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And with that said, let's get right to it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: After 32-year-old Bianca Ellis completed 8-month treatment in North Coast Behavioral Health, she was found competent to stand trial in February of 2025.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Through her attorneys, Ellis changed her initial not guilty plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As the case proceeded to trial, the community never forgot three-year-old Julian, I mean how could they?
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[SPEAKER_01]: As they waited for justice, they celebrated Julian's life.
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[SPEAKER_01]: News 5 Cleveland reported that almost a year after the stabbing, roughly a thousand runners showed up for the first ever Juju Dino Dash, a 5K race that honored his life and his love for dinosaurs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: North Olmsted Police were present at the race to show their support for the wood family.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Police detective Sean Ventries spoke about the impact this crime had on all of the officers stating, and policing we learned to build emotional armor, but this case pierced through it completely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It profoundly affected an entire community in the officer's sworn to serve it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The wheels of justice turned slowly, but they do turn, and finally, on October 6, 2025, Bianca Ellis was back in the Kaya-Hoga County Court of Common Police in front of Judge John Russo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The facts of the case, though they would be laid out, wouldn't be disputed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This case all came down to whether or not Bianca Ellis was insane by the legal definition at the time
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[SPEAKER_01]: Prosecutor Anna Faraglia told the jury that Bianca Ellis was angry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Pistoff at North Olmsted Police because they thought she had taken hundreds of dollars worth of her property.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Evidence showed that she walked straight from the police department to the volunteers of America, where she rummaged through the knives before selecting the two she went on to steal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She tested the knives on a concrete pillar outside of the shopping center, and then she took a 12 inch butcher knife into the giant eagle looking for a victim.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She knew what she was doing was wrong, but she did it anyway, and her words and actions proved it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Here's prosecutor Anna Faraglia.
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[SPEAKER_08]: have the burden of proof.
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[SPEAKER_08]: We accept the burden of proof.
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[SPEAKER_08]: The charges for you to consider in this case are those of aggravated murder, murder, philonious assault, child indangering, attempted murder of Margot Wood,
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[SPEAKER_08]: tampering with evidence and self, ladies and gentlemen, the state is confident that when you hear all the evidence in this case, and again, I ask you, pay attention to actions and to words.
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[SPEAKER_08]: They're very, very important in this case.
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[SPEAKER_08]: And when you do that, find Yaka Ellis, guilty beyond a reasonable doubt for each and every
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[SPEAKER_08]: She appreciated the wrongfulness of her actions.
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[SPEAKER_08]: You'd be the judge for actions.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Thank you, Your Honor.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As for the defense, defense attorney Fernando Mac told the jury that Bianca had long suffered for mental illness.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She was two different people on an off medication.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Bianca is the 34 years old.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She has no felony convictions.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She is suffered from mental illness, since the age of 22.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And Bianca has been treated on an outpatient basis at a place called Murders of Taylor for almost 10 years.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's been a lot of ups and downs as it relates to her treatment.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You'll hear from her mother, you'll find the eggleton.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She'll come in and so testify the struggles of trying to get murders Taylor to medicate Bianca because Bianca when she's on her medication versus when she's off her medication, she's two different people.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And she pushed hard for murders Taylor to try to do something about beyond the being one medication.
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[SPEAKER_04]: In
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[SPEAKER_04]: She doesn't represent a danger to herself or others, so there's nothing that we could do.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So tell you how she lost contact with Bianca over the course of six to eight months prior to this incident.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And I'll tell you that no one's going to dispute.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The evidence will show that she's a mentally ill person.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Between January of 2024,
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[SPEAKER_04]: Up until the day of this incident, June 3rd, 2024, Bianca was off of her medication.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The medication, the evidence will show stable eyes as her.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Bianca received his whole security check.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And what she did with that check was she traveled from the state of Ohio to the state of California.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She traveled from the state of California
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[SPEAKER_04]: and then down to Florida that eventually back to Ohio.
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[SPEAKER_04]: During that time frame, there were many occasions where Bianca exhibited mental illness.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There were occasions where she would go to a particular location and try to get herself arrested because she's living in a homeless shelter because she's living on the streets.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She's trying to find structure.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think the evidence will show that during her mental illness she tried to find places of refuge, unsuccessfully.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Fernando Mack went on to say that Bianca had no motive and no relationship to the victims.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She didn't try to run and still had the knife in her hand when confronted by police.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She was responsible for the attack on Margo and for Julian's murder, but couldn't be held accountable because she was insane at the time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The defense had their expert who would be testifying that she believed Ellis was insane at the time, but the prosecution had theirs too, and he was of a different opinion.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It would be a battle of the experts, but first the prosecution would have to lay out exactly what happened on that day of June 3, 2024.
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[SPEAKER_01]: On the second day of Bianca Ellis's murder trial, North Home's dead police officer Daniel Schuppt took the stand.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She was the officer who had spoke to Ellis at the police station just before the attack.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Officer Schuppt told the jury that Ellis was upset when she was told that the jail had no property in her name.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As the jury watched a surveillance video of the encounter, Officer shook stated in part, at this moment I feel like she's irritated.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's putting her stuff away.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She goes to walk out and then she looks back at me and then flips the light off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The jury watched as Ellis exited the lobby doors and abandoned her wheelchair in suitcase.
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[SPEAKER_01]: After leaving the police station, Ellis was captured again on video surveillance at the volunteers of America thrift store digging through the knife bin.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A manager took the stand and told the jury that she encountered Ellis in a back room where volunteers were sorting donations.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The manager assumed Ellis was just another volunteer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ellis asked for the bathroom was and the manager saw her walk away with a knife in her hand marked with a price tag sticker from the store.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Bianca Ellis then left the back room and left the store, never paying for the two knives in her hand.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Surveillance at a neighboring discount bin store showed her entering the store for a moment, looking around and then leaving.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Once she made it outside, she tapped the knives against a concrete pillar, dropped the flimsyre one of the two and continued in the direction of the giant eagle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The jury was shown the video of Ellis entering the giant eagle and Margo and Julian walking pastor.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As we know, Ellis stopped in her tracks, turned around and followed Margo and Julian into the parking lot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Detective Manual Roman walked the jury through every frame of the surveillance video leading up to the attack.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One by one witnesses took the stand describing a horrific scene, a mother and son attacked in the parking lot and brought daylight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They watched in horror as Ellis walked away from the scene knife in hand as Margot Scream for help.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Giant Eagle employee Griffin Shop told the jury that after hearing screams he ran towards Margo Silver minivan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He witnessed the attack stating, I saw a woman on the ground holding a child covered in blood and someone standing over them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He instructed his girlfriend to call 911 and he called 911 himself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Travis Bush had just pulled into the parking lot to pick up a door-dash order when he'd noticed Margo and Julianne.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He recalled that little Julianne had a smile on his face as Margo pushed the cart past his car on her way to put her groceries in the trunk of her minivan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He looked down at his phone and when he glanced back up he saw a female dressed all in black steps behind the mother and son.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Before he even had time to react, Margo and Julianne were attacked.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They got to a gray car and the trunk opened.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Who got to a gray car?
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[SPEAKER_03]: The lady, the lady pushing the car.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, she got to a gray car.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The back hatch opened.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's when I saw the black female dressing all black came around.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And Gray's are on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's when I saw the name, because the son just kind of, the son just made it, just stand out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And she stabbed the kid, drew back, stabbed him again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's when I saw the Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Wood,
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[SPEAKER_03]: Grab Julian, sorry, and pulling him out, the lady stabbed, towards them again, and the cart just fell to the ground, everything fell out, and she just, she cradled, Julian, inner arms, she fell to the ground, she started screaming, which I'll never get down
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it just, that's when I, I was trying to get out of my car than I, I was, I just, I, to try to bolt out, open the door.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And for some, I couldn't reach the handle because I just, it was just insane, but, um, I finally opened the door.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I ran to the scene.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There was another, uh,
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[SPEAKER_03]: There's a question.
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[SPEAKER_08]: So once that happened, what did you see the black woman do?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Where did she go?
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[SPEAKER_03]: She stood there for a second and then she walked off.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She walked off behind.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There was a couple cars.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She just walked off.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And there was another guy, a female who came out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I remember the guy yelling a call 911.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't have my phone on me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There was another lady who came and she, I saw her.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She was dialing 911 and I looked over again and she was trying to escape through, you know, the cars.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know she's by herself.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know she's working with somebody.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I ran back to my car.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I got in.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I tracked her down on the next aisle and I pulled up next door.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Another witness Matthew Stroud was there with his wife to get groceries.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He had just finished loading the groceries in his car when he heard the screens.
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[SPEAKER_08]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_08]: And so you heard some screaming and so when you turned around sir, what did you see?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I saw a woman stabbing a mother and child.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I saw the knife covered in blood.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I saw violent motions towards a mother and her child.
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[SPEAKER_08]: And sir, upon observing that, what did you do?
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[SPEAKER_05]: was kind of in shock at, you know, the first moment of it, as the act was completed and this person started walking towards me.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I got back into my vehicle with my wife and I instructed to call 911 immediately.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew's wife called 911 to report the stabbing and stayed on the phone as they followed the suspect dressed all in black as she walked calmly with the bloody knife still in hand until she was apprehended by police.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Travis Bush and Griffin Shop also followed Ellis.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When Travis caught up to her, he can front at her asking, do you know you just stabbed that kid?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Bianca Ellis shrugged her shoulders.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Griffin Shop testified that at one point Ellis had a smile on her face.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Police arrived moments later and ordered Ellis to the ground.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She dropped the knife and complied with officer commands.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She was taken into custody.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Back at the giant eagle, off-duty nurses rushed to Margo and Julian's side.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cheryl Malaski, a registered nurse of 35 years, saw a shopping cart overturned and heard screaming.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When she looked closer, she saw a woman on the ground holding a child in her arms and rocking.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cheryl took Julian and began to assess him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Julian wasn't breathing and had no pulse.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She started chest compressions and yelled for others to call EMS.
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[SPEAKER_01]: minutes later, pediatric ICU nurse Rachel Craven arrived at the store.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She heard and saw the commotion.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She ran to Julian and Cheryl an asked if Cheryl needed relief.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cheryl did so Rachel took over CPR.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cheryl Malazki then rendered a demargo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Rachel continued chest compressions until police
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[SPEAKER_06]: So what do you ever get into the store?
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[SPEAKER_02]: No.
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[UNKNOWN]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So what do you happen to them when you go back to your vehicle?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I had seen a crowd of people run one way and then a few people go another direction.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Once I was in my car, I decided to drive my car, the two parking lanes forward.
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[SPEAKER_02]: to where I parked in a several parking spaces next to me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There was a woman on the ground with a sliced tinctop, a tipped over shopping cart, and then a child on the ground with a woman performing CPR already.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I caught out of my car.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Next question.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Do you say when we come a lot, please be able?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I divulged to the other nurse that I was a pediatric ICU nurse and asked her if she wanted me to take over.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And how do you know she would nurse?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So how did you come to learn that she wasn't a nurse?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think after the fact.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And you asked that person, do you need ready to see it?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And it looked at that way that you did.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And did you talk to anybody now?
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[SPEAKER_02]: No.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And tell us a little bit about the place that we actually did before.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I did chest compressions.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I could not tell you how long for.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then at some point, someone from the store came out with an AED, so an external deferred berlator.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We put pads on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It did not identify a shockable rhythm and I continued CPR until the police came.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And in your training experience of the registered nurse, did you have concerns?
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[SPEAKER_06]: We've all been up this trial for training.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Did there come a time?
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[SPEAKER_06]: Well, yes, you just went and you leave that area and stopped.
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[SPEAKER_06]: She's your lazy husband.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I believe it was the police department came up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There was a gentleman that screamed for everyone to back off.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I got up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I stepped away.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He secured the scene and I stayed at my car.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Do you think I heard that you may, did you ever have a lot on your road
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[SPEAKER_06]: When did you do directly thereafter?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I, there was one police officer who was putting tape around the scene.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I had went up to him and I had let him know that at some point I threw on my sunglasses that those were mine.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I did not need them back, but I wanted to have been know that I performed CPR.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He advised me to wait by my car and another police officer came over.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was 36 weeks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At 36 weeks pregnant, Rachel Craven tried everything she could to save Julian Wood.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sadly, the wounds to his tiny body were just too much.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Even with immediate assistance from trained professionals, little Julian couldn't be saved.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As if everything this family had endured wasn't enough, Margo would had to take the stand and recount the day she lost her son.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You could hear a pen drop as she got up on the stand.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Margo broke down instantly at the mention of Julian's name.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Through tears she told the jury that she was a stay at home mom and that June third day was just like any other.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She and Julian headed to the giant eagle to pick up groceries for dinner.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They picked out flower baskets and groceries.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Margo checked out of the self-check out, but had to call for assistance when the machine wouldn't take her cash.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She paid with her card and walked out of the store.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Margo had made it to her mini van and was just about to unload her groceries.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was also routine until it wasn't.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I saw her coming walking towards us and I noticed
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[SPEAKER_07]: She had a knife in her hand, and I said, oh, no Julian.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I had the car, I stood in front of the cart, and I was trying to push him back with the key was still sitting in the cart, and um,
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[SPEAKER_07]: She stabbed the back of a trunk of a car, and I got scared.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But when I was pushing the car back, it fell over.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Then she came at me.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_07]: She came at me.
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[SPEAKER_07]: and she's stabbed him and the side of his face and then she's stabbed to me take a minute and ask her question
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[SPEAKER_07]: And she staffed you, what did you do, or what did you say?
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[SPEAKER_07]: I didn't say anything.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I was just, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't,
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[SPEAKER_07]: And then she stood up and stabbed him in the back.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Did you surprise?
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[SPEAKER_08]: Did you surprise?
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[SPEAKER_08]: After she stabbed her in the back,
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[SPEAKER_07]: What did she do now?
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[SPEAKER_07]: She just walked away.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Margo would then recounted her final moments with her son, violent, horrific, traumatizing moments no mother should ever have to endure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Margo recalled to the jury that she and Julian were taken to the hospital in separate ambulances and how one police officer stayed with her.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She was at the hospital when she was told her three-year-old son was gone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: After heartbreaking testimony from Julian's mother Margo, several officers took the stand and described Bianca Ellis' arrest and booking process.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Corrections officer Joan Selton told the jury that Ella seemed very angry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She explained that she complied with her request but was clearly agitated.
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[SPEAKER_01]: lead detective with the North Olmstead Police Detective Sean Benchries, walk the jury back through the timeline.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Through the surveillance videos from the police department, volunteers of America, the Ben store, and inside and outside of giant eagle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The jury watched body cam footage of the first officers on scene rendering a to Julianne.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The scene was chaotic and horrific.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The overturned shopping cart with grocery scattered across the parking lot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Margo Julian and the nurses would perform CPR covered in blood.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You could hear the panic and the voices of witnesses and even the first responders, as everyone tried to make sense of a scene that looked like it was ripped out of a horror film.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then it was time for the medical examiner.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Kaya Hoga County Medical Examiner, Dr. Elizabeth Mooney took the stand and told the jury just how catastrophic the wounds inflicted on Julian Woodward.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Julian had sustained two stab wounds, one to the face and one to the back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Both wounds were four inches deep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And just to put that in perspective, the standard size for a post-it note is 4x4 inches.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is me here and not the medical examiner's testimony, but think of the force it would require to leave a stab wound that deep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The wound to Julian's left cheek was so deep and had gone through his mandible, severed his corroded artery and nicked his spinal column.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The stab wound in his back had actually punctured his lung and hit yet another artery.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There was no question as to why, even with a media care, Julian Wood had succumbed to his injuries.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dr. Moni ruled that Julian's cause of death was stab wounds to the face and back, and the manner of death was homicide.
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[SPEAKER_01]: With that, the prosecution rested.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that my friends is where we're gonna leave things today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna be real honest with y'all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This case has been one of the most difficult cases I've ever covered.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been difficult to get through the trial testimony, the surveillance videos, all of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But Julian's story deserves to be told in its entirety.
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[SPEAKER_01]: An enlight of recent events, which believe me will get into.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's important to keep attention on this case, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been difficult.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And let me just say that in no way am I trying to make this about me?
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[SPEAKER_01]: If it's difficult for me to talk about new to listen to, I can't even imagine the pain Julian's family has endured.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My prayers are definitely with them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll bring you the conclusion of this case next week, the Battle of the Experts, the verdict, and the recent filings.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for listening.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for caring.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you know something, stay something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And until next time, be good to each other.
28:26
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey y'all, I'm so glad you stuck around.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is gonna be a whole lot less of a hot take and a whole lot more of me just checking in.
28:34
[SPEAKER_01]: This has been such a difficult case to cover.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I almost didn't do it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This case came in by listener request and just from the headline in the fact that as far as podcast go, there's basically no coverage.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I knew it was gonna be a top one, but I also know that tough cases are important to cover too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, no cases like a walk in the park,
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're all challenging in their own way, but some are harder to get through, and this is one of those cases.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just so heavy, he was a baby, and as a mom, my heart truly breaks for Margo, to have to endure that and then turn around and go through a trial.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's something no one should ever have to go through, and there's nothing our justice system can do to even come close to
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[SPEAKER_01]: The only thing we can do is make sure that this family is still supported because as we all know, it doesn't end with a trial.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It actually never ends for these families.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It just never ends.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm sure there's going to be at least one person out there complaining that this is three parts, but I really don't care, complain all you want, but I'll tell you this, the day these cases stop affecting me will be the day I hang up the mic and shut it all down, so there's that, y'all know I love you more in my luggage and I can't wait to talk to you next week, but until then, bye-bye thing.