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Killers Amongst Us: David Temple beloved coach, murderer? (part 5) · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Hi, guys, Nancy Grace here, Welcome back to Killers amongst Us,
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  Speaker 1: a production of iHeartMedia and Crime Online. Eight months pregnant,
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  Speaker 1: Melinda Temple found dead in her own bedroom closet, the
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  Speaker 1: door to the home open, and light of the fact
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  Speaker 1: police can't find the murder weapon, they circle back to
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  Speaker 1: David Temple. Temple's sex relationship with a fellow teacher, Heather,
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  Speaker 1: has been unearthed. There's still the issue of the video.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace and this is Killers amongst Us. On Monday,
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  Speaker 1: January eleventh, just like every day, Evan was in daycare
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  Speaker 1: while his parents were at work, but he was sent
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  Speaker 1: home early that day with a fever. David came home
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  Speaker 1: to watch him. You mean he took a bath, Mattris,
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  Speaker 1: temperature is good, and we just played and waited from
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  Speaker 1: home to get home. When Belinda returned around four o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: David says, she went upstairs to rest, and that's when
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  Speaker 1: he took Evan out to play. We went to the
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  Speaker 1: park in our neighborhood, which we spent a lot of time.
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  Speaker 1: He enjoyed being ale, so that's where we went first.
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  Speaker 1: After that, he says, they made their trip to the
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  Speaker 1: grocery store and then to the home depot, never imagining
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  Speaker 1: what awaited them at home. When they got back, Temple
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  Speaker 1: says he saw the broken back door, dropped Evan off
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  Speaker 1: at the neighbors, then ran up the stairs and found
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  Speaker 1: Belinda's body sprawled on the floor of the bedroom closet.
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  Speaker 1: Our friend Richard Schlessinger at forty eight hours to Catherine Casey,
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  Speaker 1: author of Shattered on Amazon, was their video surveillance of
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  Speaker 1: David Temple with his son Evan at the park, the
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  Speaker 1: grocery store or the home depot? There was There was
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  Speaker 1: video of him coming in with even they stopped and
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  Speaker 1: Evan rode a little mechanical horse out in front of
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  Speaker 1: the Berkshire Brothers grocery store, and then there was a
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  Speaker 1: video later that afternoon of him going to the home depose.
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  Speaker 1: So there's surveillance video of home depot and what was
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  Speaker 1: the name of the grocery store, Berkshire Brothers. I remember
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  Speaker 1: those little horses that you'd drop in a quarter or
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  Speaker 1: nicole and you'd ride around and around and around. What
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  Speaker 1: about the part where Temple says he took his son,
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  Speaker 1: Was there any video surveillance there or did anyone place
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  Speaker 1: him there. You know, the park was a problem. The
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  Speaker 1: police officers went to the park for days afterward and
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  Speaker 1: tried to find someone anyone who saw David and Evan
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  Speaker 1: there that afternoon. They were never able to find anybody
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  Speaker 1: who saw them. David actually changed which park he had
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  Speaker 1: gone to be originally said it was one park, and
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  Speaker 1: then he changed it to another, so that part of
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  Speaker 1: the alibi was never able to be substant to Stephen Lampley,
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  Speaker 1: detective and author of Outside Your Door, I could see
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  Speaker 1: a parent confusing the name of a park. Could you
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  Speaker 1: as you know which park could go to? You know,
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  Speaker 1: most people have a favorite park. He, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: he knew exactly which park he went to. Know why
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  Speaker 1: he changed, I don't know, But I believe fully that
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  Speaker 1: he knew exactly which park. He wouldn't Well, what I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to say is, yes, I wouldn't imagine he knows
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  Speaker 1: which park he went to. I mean, he's been living
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  Speaker 1: there for years and years and years. This is his hometown.
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  Speaker 1: But I could also see him just rattling off the
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  Speaker 1: wrong name. Do I totally buy it? No? But since
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  Speaker 1: there's video surveillance of him at the home depot and
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  Speaker 1: the Brookshire Brothers grocery store. Why would he be lying
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  Speaker 1: about the park? Listen to this. David maintains he has
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  Speaker 1: an airtight alibi, having been seen on surveillance videos at
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  Speaker 1: local stores that afternoon, but investigators start to believe he
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  Speaker 1: might have had the opportunity to commit the murder before
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  Speaker 1: he left the house. At first glance, the detectives thought
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  Speaker 1: that David Temple had a potential alibi because there is
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  Speaker 1: a videotape showing David Temple in the store, so you
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  Speaker 1: would think, oh, wow, he really was running the errands
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  Speaker 1: that he said he was. But when you break it down,
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  Speaker 1: he's got plenty of time before he leaves the house
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  Speaker 1: that day to murder Belenda, and more evidence, including the
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  Speaker 1: behavior of the Temple's dog, Shaka, begins to pile up.
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  Speaker 1: One of the strongest pieces of evidence we had was Shaka. Everybody, friend, neighbor, cop,
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  Speaker 1: anybody that knew anything about David and Belenda agreed on
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  Speaker 1: how ferocious and fears and protected that dog was. It
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  Speaker 1: was odd that anyone could get past the dog without
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  Speaker 1: someone recognizing it or coming over to see what the
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  Speaker 1: problem was. Shaka would not have allowed a stranger into
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  Speaker 1: that yard. He was very protective. If the police couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get past that dog. Howard a burglar to Brandy Keon
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  Speaker 1: Seni with the Katy Times, the owner of the Katy Times.
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  Speaker 1: It's tough if your strongest evidence is behavior of a dog.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the purp could be somebody the dog knew before.
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  Speaker 1: It could be somebody in the neighborhood. It could be
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  Speaker 1: the bug guy, the delivery guy, the yard guy, anybody
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  Speaker 1: that the dog may have known. That's a tough sell,
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  Speaker 1: it is. However, Shaka was consistent in being extremely protective
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  Speaker 1: of the family. And really the only people that the
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  Speaker 1: dog healed you were David and Belinda, So even the
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  Speaker 1: neighbors said that the husband when he when he went
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  Speaker 1: over there, Shaka was very aggressive towards him and would
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  Speaker 1: take a while to When Belinda and David would go
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  Speaker 1: out of town and he would go feed Shaka, he
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  Speaker 1: would have to stand outside the gate and wait and
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  Speaker 1: talk to the dog, and it would take quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit of time for Shaka to calm down enough to
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  Speaker 1: allow him to come into the yard to feed, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to put feed out. And it just doesn't seem logical
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  Speaker 1: that even if it was someone that Shaka knew that
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  Speaker 1: the dog would calm down quickly enough before Belinda would
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  Speaker 1: have noticed that Shaka was marking and creating a stir
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  Speaker 1: in the backyard. Catherine Casey, though, let's follow this through
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  Speaker 1: to its logical conclusion. Does that mean that Belinda Temple
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  Speaker 1: came home. We know she was at school. I guess
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  Speaker 1: till around three this she comes home, that David Temple
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  Speaker 1: comes home and shoots her dad while Evan is in
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  Speaker 1: the home. Would that be a working theory. Well, Evan
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  Speaker 1: had been sick and was on medication, and when he
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  Speaker 1: left daycare that day, Belinda carried him out, and he
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  Speaker 1: was so tired he never woke up. So if the
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  Speaker 1: thought is that he was probably in his in his
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  Speaker 1: bedroom asleep at the time that all of this happened.
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  Speaker 1: The closet was kind of a perfect area to muffle
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  Speaker 1: the sound because of all the clothes around it. There
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of talk about how with the door
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  Speaker 1: closed and the shot might not even have been heard
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  Speaker 1: outside of the house. So the thought is that David
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  Speaker 1: was there that afternoon. Belinda arrived home around something he
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  Speaker 1: said in his original statement at three forty five that
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  Speaker 1: afternoon from school, she walked into the house and an
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  Speaker 1: argument ensued. David was angry. He'd been angry that afternoon
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  Speaker 1: when he left school. You know, Belinda was angry at David.
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  Speaker 1: Tensions were high in that house. My thought is that
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  Speaker 1: he met her at the back door with the shotgun
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  Speaker 1: and that he'd been waiting for and that he walked
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  Speaker 1: her upstairs and walked her to the closet and executed
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  Speaker 1: her in the closet. He was done. David Temple had
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  Speaker 1: a history with women in college. He had had a
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend and they'd been very serious, and he was constantly
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  Speaker 1: pludging his affection and love for her. As soon as
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  Speaker 1: he met Belinda, he dropped the other girl and wanted
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  Speaker 1: her gone. He wanted Belinda gone in this case because
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  Speaker 1: he now had Heather. But it wasn't as easy with
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  Speaker 1: Belinda because they had Evan. She was pregnant with his
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  Speaker 1: little girl. It was a more complicated situation. To Joseph
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  Speaker 1: Scott Morgan, Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University, why yeah, Joe Scott, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I gotta tell you, Nancy, we're talking. We're
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  Speaker 1: talking about dogs, We're talking about video cameras and everything else.
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  Speaker 1: I think that one of the most important things here
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  Speaker 1: is what did they find relative to the body. You know,
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  Speaker 1: as a former medical legal death investigator in Atlanta and
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  Speaker 1: in New Orleans, one of the first things that we
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  Speaker 1: do at the scene is to try to determine what's
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  Speaker 1: referred to as postmortal interval. I'd really like to know
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  Speaker 1: what the authorities did at the scene as far as
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  Speaker 1: exam the remains, to judge the level of roger mortis,
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  Speaker 1: postmortem labidity, the settling of the blood, and alga mortis,
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  Speaker 1: which is actually the body temperature. I'd like to know
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  Speaker 1: what the status was when the authorities first arrived and
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  Speaker 1: they made their initial assessment of the body. One of
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  Speaker 1: the interesting things about Texas is that Texas doesn't have corners.
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  Speaker 1: They're heavily relying on the justice of the peace. I
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  Speaker 1: think in Houston they have a medical examiner, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that any representative of a medical legal authority
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  Speaker 1: actually went to the scene to examine the body. So
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be key because if we can
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  Speaker 1: determine these changes that have happened after death relative to
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  Speaker 1: the body, that's going to narrow down the timeline a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And here we're relying on signs we're not relying on
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Doolittle movies, as you had mentioned earlier, and I'd
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  Speaker 1: really like to know what those figures were. While certain
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  Speaker 1: members of the police force are looking at David Temple,
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  Speaker 1: they backtracked to a neighbor student, not Riley Joe Sanders,
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  Speaker 1: but a student named Mark. An autopsy has conducted on
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  Speaker 1: Belinda's body. It reveals that she was shot at point
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  Speaker 1: blank range in the back of the head with a
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  Speaker 1: twelve gage shotgun, but the weapon cannot be found. However,
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  Speaker 1: there is someone nearby who has access to a twelve
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  Speaker 1: gage shotgun. Belinda's troubled teenage student Mark could he be
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  Speaker 1: a killer? He had been involved with a group of
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  Speaker 1: kids who had been involved in a house robbery and
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that was stolen was a twelve
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  Speaker 1: gage shotgun. Police bring Mark in for question. There were
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  Speaker 1: good reasons why police were looking at the teenager next
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  Speaker 1: door as a suspect. One of them was that he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't where he said he was that afternoon. He told
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  Speaker 1: police initially that he was at school, but the truth
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  Speaker 1: was that he cut his classes and left early. Another
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  Speaker 1: thing was that he repeatedly failed polygraphs that he agreed
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  Speaker 1: to take. As detectives dig deeper, they struggled to find
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  Speaker 1: hard evidence to link Marked to the murder. It turned out, however,
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  Speaker 1: when they took a closer look at the kid next door,
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  Speaker 1: that he didn't have a motive for doing this. He
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  Speaker 1: had never appeared angry at Belinda. There was no forensic
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  Speaker 1: evidence found that showed him he had been ever in
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  Speaker 1: the Temple household, and there were others who substantiated his
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  Speaker 1: alibi for the day without a clear motive, and this
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  Speaker 1: alibi holding up police cross mark off their suspect list.
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  Speaker 1: So you were hearing our friends at Scorn and that
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  Speaker 1: was the voice of Katherine Casey who was with us
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  Speaker 1: right now, author of Shattered with Riley. Joe Sanders out
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  Speaker 1: as a suspect as well as his friends. Police start
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  Speaker 1: testing the evidence. What did they do, Katherine Casey, Well,
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  Speaker 1: they started looking at David's alibi and trying to put
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  Speaker 1: it together. They did things like timing the drive from
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  Speaker 1: the Temple house to the park. They tried to find
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  Speaker 1: someone who could place David at the park and Evan,
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  Speaker 1: but they were never able to do that. They time
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  Speaker 1: to drive to Brookshire Brothers. They time to drive to
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  Speaker 1: home depot. They time to drive back and they canvassed
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  Speaker 1: the neighborhood and tried to find people who saw David
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  Speaker 1: that day or who had heard anything, and some people
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  Speaker 1: started coming forward. There were people who there was one
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  Speaker 1: man named Bendaman who said that he saw David that afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: a little after five. I believe it was and that
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  Speaker 1: David was in his that he had evident in the
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  Speaker 1: car with him, and that he was in a place
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  Speaker 1: where he shouldn't have been. It wasn't on the road
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  Speaker 1: to Brookshire, Brothers. It wasn't on the road to home depot.
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  Speaker 1: It was near David's parents' house. Oh, because too, Joe
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  Speaker 1: Scott Morgan. That's two inconsistencies. Now, I was willing to
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  Speaker 1: let the confusion about the name of the park. He
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  Speaker 1: was at slide, okay, But now he's somewhere he conveniently
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  Speaker 1: leaves out of his alibi. He's somewhere completely different. Now
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  Speaker 1: could he have just driven by his parents house? Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I take a sentimental route when I know in other
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  Speaker 1: route's faster. But that's not what happened here according to police. No,
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  Speaker 1: And you know that's that's that's striking Nancy when you
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  Speaker 1: begin to think about this. This is mister everything in
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  Speaker 1: this town. I mean, he is known foreign wide, his
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  Speaker 1: great athletic exploits, he's the teacher, or he's the friend,
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  Speaker 1: he's everything else. But yet he can't remember basic geography.
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  Speaker 1: He can't remember these ideas or constructs about where he
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  Speaker 1: actually lives and spends his time. For me as an investigator,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure that Stephen would probably agree with me
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  Speaker 1: on this, I'm going to have real our time with
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  Speaker 1: this if I'm pressing the sky for information and he
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  Speaker 1: is starting to hit upon all of these inconsistencies. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like he's in a foreign country. Is well. So far,
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  Speaker 1: I've only got two inconsistencies. But I look at the
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  Speaker 1: evidence in a different way. I look at it as
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  Speaker 1: if if I want to prove this case, do I
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  Speaker 1: have evidence to make out a homicide prosecution? Two inconsistencies
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  Speaker 1: not enough, But as you say, it can mount bottom Lyne.
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  Speaker 1: This is where police are left and they're doubts that
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  Speaker 1: Blenda was killed by a burglar. Escalate. The condition of
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  Speaker 1: the scene points to it being staged. One of the
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  Speaker 1: most compelling pieces of evidence in this whole alleged burglary
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  Speaker 1: explanation of David Temple's was the glass that came from
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  Speaker 1: the back patio door. If the glass had been broken
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  Speaker 1: by a burglar, police would have expected to find the
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  Speaker 1: broken glass directly behind the door, but most of the
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  Speaker 1: glass is off to an angle on one side of
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  Speaker 1: the door. It doesn't add up. The common sense explanation
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  Speaker 1: for that is that glass was broken when the door
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  Speaker 1: was already opened in a jar, or why in the
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  Speaker 1: world would a burglar do that? The robbery just didn't
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  Speaker 1: look like a robbery. There was jewelry that was sitting
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  Speaker 1: out in the open that would have been easily seen
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  Speaker 1: and easy to take by a true burglar. There was
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  Speaker 1: a late with David's watch and his gold championship ring
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  Speaker 1: from college sitting out in the open. No one had
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  Speaker 1: disturbed it. So why break into a house and shoot
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  Speaker 1: an eight and a half month pregnant woman in the
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  Speaker 1: back of the head, upstairs, in her closet, inside of
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  Speaker 1: her master bedroom, going through the whole house, walk out
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  Speaker 1: the back door, and not even take anything? Why do that? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Why with no sex attack on Belunda Temple, nothing stolen
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  Speaker 1: from the home, nothing at all. What could be a
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  Speaker 1: possible motive and then whatever the relationship was, it was
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  Speaker 1: not a secret anymore. And David knew that put him
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  Speaker 1: under suspicion. I knew there would always be a cloud
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  Speaker 1: there from what had happened, and people would have dows.
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  Speaker 1: Three months after the crime, a grand jury was convened
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  Speaker 1: and in the end indicted nobody, not Riley Joe Sanders,
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  Speaker 1: the neighbor who police all but dismissed as a suspect,
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  Speaker 1: Not David Temple, the man police believed committed the crime.
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  Speaker 1: So how did you feel when you heard that they
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  Speaker 1: decided not to indict you. You don't get any joy
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  Speaker 1: from knowing that you didn't kill your wife. She's still gone.
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  Speaker 1: With no hard evidence connecting anybody to this murder, the
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  Speaker 1: case went cold, and David Temple got on with his life.
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  Speaker 1: The case goes cold, Everyone seemingly gets on with their life.
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  Speaker 1: Will there ever be justice from Belinda Temple, Nancy Grace Killers,
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  Speaker 1: amongst us? Signing off goodbye friend,