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Shocking Discovery Unravels A Careful Cover-Up_ The Murder of Diana Duve · The Mind of a Man

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  Speaker 1: On Friday, June 21st, 2014, 26-year-old Diana Dubé went missing.
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  Speaker 1: Diana's last message to her mother early that morning stated
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  Speaker 1: only that she would not be returning home. Then, there
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  Speaker 1: was silence. Investigators tracked clues left behind from her last
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  Speaker 1: night out, friends and witnesses who helped piece together a
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  Speaker 1: timeline and point them towards a suspect. Days later, Diana's
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  Speaker 1: car was discovered abandoned in a store parking lot an
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  Speaker 1: hour from her home. And yet more devastating discoveries were
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  Speaker 1: still to be made. Hi there, I'm Kevin and welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Just Thought Lounge. Today's case unravels rapidly. A mysterious
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  Speaker 1: missing persons turned into a manhunt which led to an
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  Speaker 1: arrest and it all came together inside of one week.
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  Speaker 1: This is the story of how even careful killers get caught.
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  Speaker 1: Vero Beach police station at just after 8 a.m. on
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  Speaker 1: June 21, 2014. She was there to report her daughter,
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  Speaker 1: 26-year-old Diana Duvet, missing. The last communication she had with
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  Speaker 1: Diana was a text message sent just past 1.30 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: the previous day, stating that she would not be returning
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  Speaker 1: home that night. That message was sent in her native Russian,
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  Speaker 1: the language Diana used to communicate with her mother. Every
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  Speaker 1: message Lena sent following that, asking where she was and
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  Speaker 1: when she would be home, went unanswered. Eventually, Lena made
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  Speaker 1: contact with Diana's boyfriend, 31-year-old Mike Jones. Mike told Lena
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  Speaker 1: that Diana was sleeping at his house. He would have
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  Speaker 1: her call later. But no call was ever made. Even
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  Speaker 1: more troubling, following this exchange with Lena, Mike Jones also
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  Speaker 1: dropped out of contact. Beginning that Saturday, June 22nd, no
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  Speaker 1: one could reach the young couple. And neither Diana, a
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  Speaker 1: dedicated nurse, or Mike, a successful wealth planner, had shown
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  Speaker 1: up for work on Friday. 31-year-old Mike Jones had earned
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  Speaker 1: a master's in law degree from the University of Miami.
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  Speaker 1: After launching his career at the investment bank Merrill Lynch,
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  Speaker 1: based in Fort Lauderdale, he had accepted a role at
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  Speaker 1: PNC Wealth Management in Vero Beach. Mike oversaw millions of
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  Speaker 1: client funds, and by most accounts, he was respected and
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  Speaker 1: well-liked by colleagues and clients alike. A regular on the
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  Speaker 1: local bar scene, it was at one of these establishments
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  Speaker 1: that Mike had met Diana roughly six months earlier. By
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  Speaker 1: the spring of 2014, They were living together in Mike's
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  Speaker 1: residence at 1620 42 Square. According to friends, Diana was
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  Speaker 1: never as smitten with Mike as he was with her.
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  Speaker 1: The 26-year-old has always been popular and made friends easily.
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  Speaker 1: It had taken some effort from Mike to win her over.
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  Speaker 1: Born in Moldova, Diana had moved to Florida with her
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  Speaker 1: mother at the age of 13 when Lena married stepfather
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  Speaker 1: Bill Andrews. Arriving as a young teen without a word
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  Speaker 1: of English, she had learned rapidly and fit in just
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  Speaker 1: as quickly. Diana graduated college with a nursing degree with
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  Speaker 1: a specialization in oncology. She worked with cancer patients at
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  Speaker 1: a local medical clinic, a role in which she was
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  Speaker 1: deeply committed. That Friday, however, she did not show up
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  Speaker 1: for work, and no one at the clinic had heard
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  Speaker 1: from her. A search warrant was drawn up for Mike
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  Speaker 1: Jones' house in Vero Beach. It was the last known
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  Speaker 1: location for both Mike and Diana. When they entered, they
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  Speaker 1: found no one at home. It also seems that not
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  Speaker 1: much appeared out of place. Neither Diana's black Nissan nor
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  Speaker 1: Mike's gold Mazda was at the residence, though a neighbor
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  Speaker 1: told police they were called seeing Diana's vehicle parked out
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  Speaker 1: front on Friday night. In the garage on the floor
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  Speaker 1: near the base of the door, Investigators identified droplets of
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  Speaker 1: a blood-like substance. The need to locate the couple intensified.
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  Speaker 1: Notifications to law enforcement agencies across the state were made
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  Speaker 1: in an effort to find Mike and Diana's vehicles and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully lead to their location. Meanwhile, detectives began to retrace
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  Speaker 1: their movements prior to those early morning texts on the 21st.
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  Speaker 1: On the evening of Wednesday, June 18th, two days before
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  Speaker 1: the disappearance, Diana and Mike went to the Scampi Grill
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  Speaker 1: for dinner. Michael Major had been their server. Michael recognized
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  Speaker 1: the couple as soon as they came in. He and
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  Speaker 1: a co-worker had been out for drinks just a few
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  Speaker 1: days before at a bar called The Grove, where they
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  Speaker 1: had encountered Mike and Diana.
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  Speaker 2: I went up to the table to introduce myself. They
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  Speaker 2: seemed a little on edge.
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  Speaker 3: Did you know them at that time? No, we had
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  Speaker 3: seen them.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, one of the employees here kevin and i had
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  Speaker 2: encountered him uh friday night say him who are.
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  Speaker 4: You talking about uh michael okay you're talking about michael jones.
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  Speaker 2: Yes sir um we were at the grove having a
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  Speaker 2: couple beverages after work and uh kevin made contact with
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  Speaker 2: the girlfriend at the time and just a casual conversation
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  Speaker 2: and he came up with attitude and stuff and We
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  Speaker 2: were already a few drinks into the night.
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  Speaker 3: We're like, you know, this is garbage.
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  Speaker 5: We're on a long day.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just leave it at that and go home.
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  Speaker 6: So we did.
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  Speaker 2: We left it at that and went home. So when
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  Speaker 2: they came in Wednesday night, Kevin was working with me.
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  Speaker 2: He goes, that guy look familiar to you?
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, yeah, he does.
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  Speaker 2: He goes, that's the guy from the Grove that tried
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  Speaker 2: to get into it with me.
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  Speaker 1: Michael told the detective that a short exchange Kevin had
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  Speaker 1: with Diana at the Grove caused a jealous reaction from Mike,
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  Speaker 1: who unnecessarily confronted them in a threatening manner. The servers
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  Speaker 1: de-escalated the exchange and left, only to see the couple
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  Speaker 1: show up at the scampi grill days later. Their demeanor
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  Speaker 1: was tense. Michael noted how they seemed to maintain a
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  Speaker 1: heated exchange throughout their dinner, though keeping their voices low
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  Speaker 1: enough to conceal their words.
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  Speaker 3: You could visibly see that something was going on with her.
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  Speaker 3: The demeanor didn't change at all.
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  Speaker 2: And I looked through service window at the table every
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  Speaker 2: so often just to check on them. and you could
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  Speaker 2: see that there was agitation between the two of them.
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  Speaker 2: I was talking to Kevin about it, too. I'm like, dude,
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  Speaker 2: that is not a happy table. I'm like, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of agitation going on. And he noticed it, too.
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  Speaker 3: Would you say that he's aggressive with her? Oh, the
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  Speaker 3: way he was talking to her?
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: His body motion was absolutely aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: Mike and Diana left Scampi Grill at around 8.30 that evening.
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  Speaker 1: An hour later, Mike was back at the Grove. He
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  Speaker 1: was alone. A friend who saw him there later told
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  Speaker 1: detectives that Mike was visibly upset and had been crying profusely.
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  Speaker 7: By all accounts, Diana and Mike.
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  Speaker 6: Had ended their relationship over dinner at Scampi's Grill on
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  Speaker 6: Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 1: Mike complained to co-workers the following day that Diana had
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  Speaker 1: left without removing all of her clothing from his apartment.
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  Speaker 1: He also told them that he had plans to visit
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  Speaker 1: friends in Orlando, which served as an explanation for his absence,
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  Speaker 1: but he did not leave right away. Despite their apparent breakup,
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  Speaker 1: he and Diana were spotted out together once more the
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  Speaker 1: very next night. A bartender at What a reported that
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  Speaker 1: after having a drink, Mike paid their tab by credit
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  Speaker 1: card and the two left, together, at just after 1am.
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  Speaker 1: It was the last sighting of Diana before she lost
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  Speaker 1: contact with everyone, and she was getting into her car
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  Speaker 1: with her now ex-boyfriend. This was not the first time
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  Speaker 1: that the two had parted ways. Diana's best friend and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes roommate, Chelsea, told detectives that their first split had
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  Speaker 1: taken place back in April. During a heated argument at
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  Speaker 1: their home, Mike's yelling and threats caused a neighbor in
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  Speaker 1: the building to place a call to 911 concerned for
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  Speaker 1: Diana's safety.
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  Speaker 8: She called me hysterically crying. She asked me where I
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  Speaker 8: was and I said I was working. I'm still, you know,
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  Speaker 8: at the bar closing up. She's like, okay, well, I'm
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  Speaker 8: coming up there.
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  Speaker 9: She came up hysterical, talking about how they were in
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  Speaker 9: a fight, and at one point.
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  Speaker 8: During the fight, he ended up choking her.
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  Speaker 1: Chelsea said she could clearly see the signs of the
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  Speaker 1: attack on her friend's neck. They had documented the incident
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  Speaker 1: with photos. The next day, accompanied by Chelsea's father, they
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  Speaker 1: went to Mike's apartment and collected her things. She moved out,
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  Speaker 1: and that was meant to be the end of it.
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  Speaker 8: They went through a period of time of not really.
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  Speaker 9: Though Mike's temper on that night back in April had
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  Speaker 9: come as a surprise to many of Diana's friends.
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  Speaker 3: It seems it was not out of character.
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  Speaker 6: Mike was described as a.
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  Speaker 8: Controlling and jealous partner, and a man with.
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  Speaker 10: A bad temper.
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  Speaker 1: Diana's friend Kyle told detectives that he tried to warn
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  Speaker 1: her off of Mike, sensing that he was not a
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  Speaker 1: good person. On one occasion, they ran into each other
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  Speaker 1: at a bar and greeted each other with a hug.
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  Speaker 1: Spotting the exchange, Mike wasted no time confronting Kyle in
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  Speaker 1: what he described as a jealous rage. It was behavior
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  Speaker 1: reminiscent of what Michael and Kevin had experienced only days
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  Speaker 1: before the disappearance.
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  Speaker 3: And he pursued again.
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  Speaker 11: With aggression, more aggression to try to fight you. What
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  Speaker 11: did he exactly say to you, Kyle? Didn't really say nothing.
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  Speaker 11: Just stared at me and started walking towards me with anger.
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  Speaker 11: Did he have his fists clenched?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, fists were clenched. He was ready to fight. Out
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  Speaker 3: of rage and jealousy.
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  Speaker 10: Not much.
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  Speaker 3: I believe, you know, it was a while back, but
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  Speaker 3: I believe he said, get that fuck off her. And
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  Speaker 3: it was a simple hug as a friend. Would you
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  Speaker 3: say he's got some jealousy issues?
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Further digging into Mike Jones' past revealed a criminal history,
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  Speaker 1: a conviction in Fort Lauderdale for aggravated stalking of an ex-girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: a felony. On Sunday, June 22nd, only days after Diana's
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  Speaker 1: last confirmed communication, Mike Jones' gold Mazda was spotted in
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  Speaker 1: the parking lot of a Hampton Inn on Reynolds Drive,
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  Speaker 1: in Fort Pierce. Despite his apparent plans to visit friends
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  Speaker 1: in Orlando, surveillance footage captured him checking into a room
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  Speaker 1: only 25 minutes away from his home in Vero Beach.
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  Speaker 1: He paid cash and gave explicit instructions to hotel staff,
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  Speaker 1: do not put through any phone calls and do not
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  Speaker 1: tell anyone that he was there. Detectives were nonetheless handed
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  Speaker 1: a key card to his room and they paid him
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  Speaker 1: a visit.
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  Speaker 8: You have a pretty good reason why we're here, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 3: Basically, you know the reason why we're here. We're still
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  Speaker 3: trying to find out.
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  Speaker 10: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: That's the biggest reason why we've been doing the last
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  Speaker 3: couple days. That's what we're going to continue to do.
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  Speaker 10: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to talk to you about our whereabouts.
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  Speaker 10: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: But I have to read you Miranda warning first, okay?
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  Speaker 3: You understand that so far? I know you got a
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  Speaker 3: little of your law degree, so you're really intelligent.
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  Speaker 9: Remember again why we're here, and that's to find out.
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  Speaker 1: Following this brief statement, Mike asserted his right to counsel,
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  Speaker 1: and the conversation ended. Less than 12 hours after Mike's
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  Speaker 1: Mazda was spotted in Fort Pierce, Diana's black Nissan was
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  Speaker 1: located in a Publix parking lot in Melbourne, a nearly
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  Speaker 1: hour drive from her home in Vero Beach. Officers opened
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  Speaker 1: the trunk of the car to find Diana Duvet, dressed
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  Speaker 1: in only her underwear. She had likely been deceased for days.
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  Speaker 1: An autopsy would later determine that Diana had suffered blunt
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  Speaker 1: force trauma to her head. She had also been strangled.
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  Speaker 1: It was a devastating outcome to the missing person search
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  Speaker 1: that family and friends had desperately hoped would result in
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  Speaker 1: locating Diana alive.
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  Speaker 5: Anybody that got a chance to meet Diana knows that
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  Speaker 5: she just brought a smile to their face and was
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  Speaker 5: a bright spot in their life. You get to know
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  Speaker 5: who people are, and she's one of those people that
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  Speaker 5: you won't find anybody that has anything bad to say
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  Speaker 5: about her. You could see from the outreach from the
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  Speaker 5: community that just speaks volumes of who she was. It's
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  Speaker 5: a devastating loss.
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  Speaker 1: Detectives spoke with a Publix employee who had arrived for
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  Speaker 1: her shift just before 5 a.m. on Saturday morning. The
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  Speaker 1: employee recalled watching as the black Nissan drove in and parked.
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  Speaker 1: She did not, however, get a clear view of the driver.
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  Speaker 8: Did you see who was driving the black vehicle?
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 1: The employee thought that perhaps a second vehicle, which entered
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  Speaker 1: the lot only moments later, could have been traveling with
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  Speaker 1: the black Nissan. If so, it would suggest the killer
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  Speaker 1: had an accomplice, though the witness did not see an
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  Speaker 1: interaction between the drivers. So, investigators began to contact local
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  Speaker 1: taxi services. They reasoned that the driver who abandoned Diana's
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  Speaker 1: car needed to leave the parking lot somehow. This logical
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  Speaker 1: deduction proved accurate. A Black Diamond taxi reported collecting a
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  Speaker 1: fare a quarter mile from the Publix from the local
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  Speaker 1: Wendy's restaurant at roughly 8.30 a.m. on Saturday morning. The
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  Speaker 1: destination was Vero Beach. The driver told detectives that he
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  Speaker 1: collected a thin-built white man in a red hoodie from
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  Speaker 1: the bus stop. He remembered it clearly because it was
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  Speaker 1: the only fare he had that day, and it was
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  Speaker 1: unusual to collect someone from the side of the road
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  Speaker 1: for a long journey. They made small talk on the way.
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  Speaker 9: How did you get down here? And he said, well,
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  Speaker 9: he came down with a friend of his. And he
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  Speaker 9: said her car broke down.
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  Speaker 10: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: And he had no way to get back. So she
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  Speaker 9: couldn't get her car fixed. And he said, oh, I
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  Speaker 9: don't know. She was pretty pissed anyway, so I doubt
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  Speaker 9: she would have gave me a ride back.
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  Speaker 1: The taxi driver dropped off the man in the hoodie
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  Speaker 1: at an address in Vero Beach directly across the street
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  Speaker 1: from the apartment at 1620 42 Square. When asked to
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  Speaker 1: identify the man in a police lineup, the driver identified
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  Speaker 1: Michael Jones. On Wednesday, June 25th, one week from the
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  Speaker 1: day Diana broke up with him, Michael Jones was formally
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  Speaker 1: charged with first-degree murder. He was held in custody without bond.
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  Speaker 12: This is a tragic case of dating and domestic violence
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  Speaker 12: by a weak, insecure, cowardly individual who felt the need
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  Speaker 12: to control his relationship with Diana Duvet by way of
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  Speaker 12: verbal and physical abuse. Quite frankly, Michael David Jones disgusts
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  Speaker 12: me and is a very poor excuse for a man.
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  Speaker 1: Upon his arrest, officers located a second burner phone amongst
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  Speaker 1: his things. the same phone that had been used to
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  Speaker 1: call the taxi cab company for a ride from the
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  Speaker 1: Melbourne Wendy's. Had he used this phone exclusively, instead of
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  Speaker 1: occasionally powering on his regular device, detectives may have been
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  Speaker 1: unable to track him. As it was, they could trace
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  Speaker 1: the purchase of the burner phone to a Walmart in
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  Speaker 1: Palm Bay. At approximately 6.52 a.m. on Saturday the 21st,
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  Speaker 1: a black four-door Nissan was captured arriving at the store.
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  Speaker 1: Cameras in the parking lot and inside showed only Mike
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  Speaker 1: Jones emerging from the vehicle and entering the store. He
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  Speaker 1: purchased the flip phone and was captured leaving. Though he
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  Speaker 1: drove Diana's car, she was not seen with him. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: if the timeline established by detectives was correct, Diana was
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  Speaker 1: already in the trunk when Mike drove her car to
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  Speaker 1: the Walmart that morning. Michael Jones pleaded not guilty to
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  Speaker 1: the murder and awaited his trial from county jail. He
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  Speaker 1: refused to speak with detectives.
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  Speaker 4: I want to point out to you, the first time
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  Speaker 4: we talked to you, we were there to talk to
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  Speaker 4: you about a missing person, okay? Now we're here to
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  Speaker 4: talk to you about the murder, okay? That being said,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to go ahead and read you Miranda rights.
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  Speaker 10: You understand?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Okay. Using my right to silence and unequivocally requesting my
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  Speaker 10: right to counsel. So you don't want to talk to us?
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  Speaker 10: I request my right to counsel. Okay. That's all you
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  Speaker 10: have to say to us.
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  Speaker 1: During this period, investigators were learning more about the wealth
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  Speaker 1: planner's sordid past. Ex-girlfriends reported controlling behavior and a pattern
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  Speaker 1: of emotional and physical abuse. It also emerged that Mike
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  Speaker 1: had a history of telling grandiose, overt lies. Though he
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  Speaker 1: drove a 10-year-old Mazda, he claimed this was only to
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  Speaker 1: keep his other car, a Porsche, from becoming damaged. He
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  Speaker 1: also spoke about the penthouse he claimed to own in
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  Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale. While in law school, he told professors and
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  Speaker 1: some fellow students that he was battling cancer, which made
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  Speaker 1: it difficult for him to regularly attend classes and meet
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  Speaker 1: project deadlines. And apparently, he was also a self-made man.
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  Speaker 1: He claimed to have been adopted and raised in poverty.
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  Speaker 1: These lies helped him get admitted to academic programs and
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  Speaker 1: boost his reputation with colleagues. But His tales were a
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  Speaker 1: stark contrast to the wealthy upbringing and private school education
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  Speaker 1: that his biological parents had actually provided him. After his arrest,
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  Speaker 1: his many connections abandoned him. His lies had been revealed.
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  Speaker 1: While awaiting trial, Mike was supported by a single co-worker
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  Speaker 1: who visited him only a few times.
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  Speaker 10: Can I ask you an honest question? Sure. Other than
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  Speaker 10: you and her?
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  Speaker 13: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 10: Do you think I really have any friends left?
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  Speaker 13: Don't consider that they're not your friends. They're just not
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  Speaker 13: in a good place, you know? And I hope they
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  Speaker 13: still are your friends, you know?
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  Speaker 6: Okay?
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  Speaker 13: Have you seen your family at all, Michael?
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  Speaker 10: No. You're the only person that has visited me, and
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  Speaker 10: literally I got one letter from Guy and one letter
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  Speaker 10: from you, and that's it.
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  Speaker 13: Do you want me to contact your family?
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  Speaker 10: No, my attorney talked to them.
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  Speaker 13: The police detective has said to me that they've tried
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  Speaker 13: to talk with you and that you won't talk with them.
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  Speaker 13: And I guess I'm... I don't care for my... It's
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  Speaker 13: not what I want to know why you won't talk
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  Speaker 13: to them. I want the best for you, Michael. And
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  Speaker 13: I'm just wondering... why you think it's beneficial to you
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  Speaker 13: not to talk to them.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, that's something I can't talk about.
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  Speaker 13: You know, Michael, they don't tell us details and stuff,
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  Speaker 13: and this is upset for you, I'm sure, but they
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  Speaker 13: tell us that they have lots of evidence. If you
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  Speaker 13: don't weigh in at all, that your voice is not
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  Speaker 13: going to be heard, Michael, and the next thing you
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  Speaker 13: know will be in the middle of some big sensational trial.
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  Speaker 13: I just don't want to see you, I just don't
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  Speaker 13: want to see you publicized or damaged further than you
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  Speaker 13: need to be.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah. I don't know that I have much choice in
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: that matter, though. Well, I think that in the next
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  Speaker 10: few days, um, I think they're going to decide whether
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  Speaker 10: they go with the death penalty or not.
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  Speaker 13: I don't know what the facts are, but you can't
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  Speaker 13: change the facts, Michael. And if the facts aren't good,
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  Speaker 13: you need to find a place to... You don't want
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  Speaker 13: to die, do you?
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: No, that's a pretty scary thing.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Michael Jones stood trial for Diana Duvet's murder in October 2019.
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  Speaker 1: The state declared their intention to seek the death penalty
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  Speaker 1: should the jury return a guilty verdict. The defense argued
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  Speaker 1: that the evidence for murder was circumstantial. They suggested that
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  Speaker 1: Diana could have sustained her fatal injuries accidentally. If that
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: was the case, Mike was only guilty of panicking by
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  Speaker 1: placing her in the trunk of her car, abandoning it
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  Speaker 1: in a parking lot, and hiding at a Hampton Inn.
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  Speaker 1: A medical expert for the defense testified that the blunt
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  Speaker 1: force injury to her head alone could have killed her,
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  Speaker 1: or Diana could have still been alive when she was
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  Speaker 1: placed in the trunk. Under intense cross-examination, however, even this
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  Speaker 1: expert conceded that her death was best categorized as a homicide.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Jones elected not to testify at his trial. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: his version of events, it would not be heard. It
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  Speaker 1: took the jury only 45 minutes to convict him of
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  Speaker 1: first-degree murder. The same jurors would return the next month
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  Speaker 1: for the sentencing phase of the trial, when they would
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  Speaker 1: decide if he should be put to death.
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  Speaker 6: Michael David Jones can never be let back out into
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  Speaker 6: the public. You know, he's a murderer. He stole the
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  Speaker 6: life of my daughter. And, you know, I don't want
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  Speaker 6: him to even stay the rest of his life in jail.
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  Speaker 6: I want murder one sentence down.
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  Speaker 1: Lena Andrews spoke extensively during the penalty phase. Diana had
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  Speaker 1: been her only child. The two had been extremely close.
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  Speaker 1: She spoke of the plans that her daughter had made
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  Speaker 1: for her own life and how thoughts of that lost
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  Speaker 1: future would haunt her forever. Despite these heartbreaking pleas, when
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  Speaker 1: the jury returned, there was one holdout. The vote was
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  Speaker 1: 11-1 in favor of imposing a sentence of death.
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  Speaker 8: Did the jury unanimously find that the defendant, Michael Jones,
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  Speaker 8: should be sentenced to death?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 1: A recent change in Florida law meant that for the
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  Speaker 1: sentence to be imposed, the decision needed to be unanimous.
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  Speaker 7: You came to my home, you sit at my table,
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  Speaker 7: and you took my daughter with you. There is no punishment,
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  Speaker 7: no harsh enough for what you took from me. You know,
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  Speaker 7: if he could kill, he would be dead by now
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: for what you took.
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  Speaker 1: From him. In November 2019, Michael David Jones was sentenced
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  Speaker 1: to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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  Speaker 3: It's all gone for me.
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  Speaker 8: I'm never going to have grandchildren. I'm never going to
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  Speaker 8: see my dog and forgive him all. wise, you know,
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  Speaker 8: get married, be happy. I know she's gone, but it's
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: so hard to believe it now.
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  Speaker 1: And that was the case of Diana Duvet. Thanks for watching,
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