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Truly Twisted - The Murder of Justine Vanderschoot · PNW Haunts & Homicides

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  Speaker 1: Fire Eyes Media. Justine Vanderschute had her whole life ahead
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  Speaker 1: of her at just seventeen years old. She was bright
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  Speaker 1: and vibrant, always the life of the party. She was
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  Speaker 1: known to be quite funny, and her family described her
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  Speaker 1: as being a little firecracker. Unfortunately, before she even got
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  Speaker 1: the chance to make some tough decisions for herself, her
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  Speaker 1: life was cut short. With that said, let's get into
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  Speaker 1: Justine's story. Welcome to another episode of Truly Twisted. As always,
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Alicia Watson, and every Thursday, I will
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  Speaker 1: be bringing you a true and twisted story that is
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  Speaker 1: always victim focused and fact based. Thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: your commute to work, cleaning your house, or at the gym,
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  Speaker 1: I do just want to warn you that this story
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  Speaker 1: is hard to hear, and I would like to give
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  Speaker 1: a trigger warning for domestic abuse before we get started.
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  Speaker 1: On September first, two thousand and three, Justine Vanderschute and
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  Speaker 1: her family were celebrating Labor Day by having a family barbecue.
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  Speaker 1: Justine would invite her boyfriend Danny over, and it was
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  Speaker 1: just like any other night at the household. Danny Besmer
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  Speaker 1: did not have the greatest home life himself and would
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  Speaker 1: often spend time at Justine's house. They had become the
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  Speaker 1: family that he never got to have. Justine and her
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  Speaker 1: older sister Christine were extremely close and just eighteen months apart,
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  Speaker 1: so they shared a lot of the same friends. That
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  Speaker 1: is actually how Danny and Justine would meet in the
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  Speaker 1: first place. Christine had become friends with Brandon Fernandez and
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  Speaker 1: he invited his best friend Danny to her pool party. Originally,
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  Speaker 1: he had planned to set up Christine and Danny, but
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  Speaker 1: Danny hit it off with Justine. They had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of common interests and for him, it was definitely love
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  Speaker 1: at first sight. Of course, Christine didn't mind, but just
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  Speaker 1: so you get an idea of their circle and how
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  Speaker 1: they met. Danny and Justine became serious fast and often
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  Speaker 1: talked about their future together and marriage. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: Justine was fifteen and Danny was seventeen. Justine's father, Don
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  Speaker 1: got Danny a job working with him at an auto
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  Speaker 1: dealership as his first job, and he quickly became a
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  Speaker 1: part of their family. Given Danny's home life, her parents
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  Speaker 1: wanted to give him that support. He even got a
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  Speaker 1: key to the Vanderschut's house in case he needed to
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  Speaker 1: come there when they weren't home. Justine was incredibly creative
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  Speaker 1: and would often design and sew her own clothing. She
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  Speaker 1: was heading into her graduating year in two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: three and she wanted to work in fashion when she
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  Speaker 1: was done school. Honestly very cool. She was incredibly ambitious
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  Speaker 1: in fact, and Danny didn't really like that. He was
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  Speaker 1: obsessed with the fear of losing her. Danny was controlling
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  Speaker 1: over who Justine's friends were and would make her feel
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  Speaker 1: bad anytime she did anything outside of hanging out with him.
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  Speaker 1: When he saw her next, he would ask her a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of questions about who was there and what they did.
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  Speaker 1: It was honestly starting to feel a little bit suffocating.
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  Speaker 1: Justine would confide in Brandon's girlfriend, Lindsey Morris about their troubles,
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  Speaker 1: and was even quoted as saying she was worried if
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  Speaker 1: she ever broke up with him that he wouldn't ever
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  Speaker 1: really let her go. Justine believed that part of the
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  Speaker 1: issues in her relationship was Danny's friendship with Brandon. She
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  Speaker 1: knew that he had cheated on his own girlfriend and
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  Speaker 1: didn't feel like he was a very good person or
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  Speaker 1: a good influence on that matter. Danny and Brandon would
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  Speaker 1: lose touch for about a year as a result, but
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and two the boys would reconnect and
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  Speaker 1: actually ended up moving in together. Danny had graduated and
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  Speaker 1: he needed to get his own place, and because of
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  Speaker 1: the trouble with Justine, he couldn't always rely on being
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  Speaker 1: at her house. The tensions became quite high between Justine, Danny,
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  Speaker 1: and Brandon. Brandon openly hated Justine, calling her a whore.
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  Speaker 1: He thought of her as a thorn in his friendship
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  Speaker 1: with Danny. By April of two thousand and three, things
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  Speaker 1: had reached ahead during a spring break trip to Florida
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  Speaker 1: and April, Justine had met someone she really liked. He
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  Speaker 1: was a Navy seal in Pensacola, and if anything, the
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  Speaker 1: meeting opened her eyes even more to the problems that
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  Speaker 1: she was facing with Danny. Nothing happened between the two
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  Speaker 1: of them, but she was very unhappy in her relationship.
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  Speaker 1: Justine would tell her friends about the Navy seal guy,
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  Speaker 1: how she thought he was cute and that she would
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  Speaker 1: like to spend more time with him, but again, leaving
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  Speaker 1: a relationship that is controlling is hard and not to
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  Speaker 1: mention statistically dangerous. Rumors began to spread and Danny became
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  Speaker 1: obsessed with the fact that Justine must be cheating on him.
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  Speaker 1: While at a party at Danny and Brandon's house, Justine
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  Speaker 1: and Lindsey had a major heart to heart on the
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  Speaker 1: front porch. They both felt like they deserved better in
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  Speaker 1: their relationships and that they had had enough. They made
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  Speaker 1: a pack to break up with the boys, which brings
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  Speaker 1: us back to the start of our story. The next morning,
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  Speaker 1: September two, when Justine's mother went into her room to
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  Speaker 1: say goodbye before she left for work, she found that
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  Speaker 1: she wasn't in her bed. In fact, the front door
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  Speaker 1: was unlocked and Justine's truck was gone. Many searches would
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  Speaker 1: be held for Justine in the community. Missing person's flyers
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  Speaker 1: with a pink ribbon were hung up all over town
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  Speaker 1: because pink was her favorite color, and Justine's family had
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  Speaker 1: shirts and distributed them amongst everyone. They were incredibly worried
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  Speaker 1: as this was not like their daughter. Danny was also
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  Speaker 1: very involved with the searches and appeared to be incredibly distraught.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators got their first break in the search when Justine's
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  Speaker 1: truck was located at a park and ride. The doors
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  Speaker 1: were locked and it appeared that she had left it
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  Speaker 1: there intentionally. This was also along a very busy interstate,
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  Speaker 1: so she could have gone anywhere. Did she possibly go
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  Speaker 1: and meet up with this Navy seal guy? Did she
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  Speaker 1: run away on her own accord, or did something horrible
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  Speaker 1: happen to her. Investigators were able to track down the
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  Speaker 1: Navy seal guy pretty much right away, but it became
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  Speaker 1: clear quickly that he knew nothing about Justine's disappearance and
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  Speaker 1: was cleared as a suspect. Police continued to search the
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  Speaker 1: immediate area around the park and ride, and that is
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  Speaker 1: what am named Matt Scribner came forward. He said that
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks prior, while riding the trails in the
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  Speaker 1: area training one of his horses, that he had come
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  Speaker 1: across a freshly dug hole. He thought it was strange,
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  Speaker 1: but at the time he didn't think anything of it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not until he saw investigators in the area searching
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  Speaker 1: for Justine that something clicked for him and that the
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  Speaker 1: two things could possibly be involved. But when he had
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  Speaker 1: ridden back to the area, a week later where he
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  Speaker 1: saw the hole. It didn't appear to be there anymore,
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  Speaker 1: and he couldn't find where it was, but at least
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  Speaker 1: this gave them an area to search and some people
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  Speaker 1: to talk to. At just eighteen years old, Danny had
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  Speaker 1: a history of run ins with the law, having been
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  Speaker 1: arrested for theft and possession of stolen property. Brandon Fernandez,
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  Speaker 1: at twenty one, was not much better. He was known
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  Speaker 1: for his intelligence and cunning nature, and he seemed to
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  Speaker 1: have a fascination with violence, often discussed harming others. He
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  Speaker 1: even went as far as creating a website ranking levels
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  Speaker 1: of violence, complete with images of crime scenes and dead bodies.
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  Speaker 1: Truly disturbed. Like I said earlier, Danny didn't have a
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  Speaker 1: great upbringing and looked up to Brandon in a way. This,
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  Speaker 1: along with Brandon's hatred of Justine and Danny's controlling nature,
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  Speaker 1: is likely what led to Justine's tragic murder. Danny and
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  Speaker 1: Brandon were both interviewed in the early days of the investigation,
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  Speaker 1: having been close with Justine, but claimed to have been
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  Speaker 1: home together the evening of September first. According to Danny,
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  Speaker 1: he went home after dinner at the Bandershoots and hung
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  Speaker 1: out with Brandon. Police were definitely suspicious of the two
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  Speaker 1: of them from the beginning because of their past experiences
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  Speaker 1: with the law. Justine's friends coming forward with concerns over
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  Speaker 1: Danny and reports of how controlling he tended to be
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  Speaker 1: also solidified their suspicions. Brandon's girlfriend, Lindsay even reported that
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  Speaker 1: he had told her if he ever wanted to kill
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  Speaker 1: her that no one would find her, and while he
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  Speaker 1: played this off as a joke, it was incredibly disturbing
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  Speaker 1: and given that Auburn, California, where this story takes place,
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  Speaker 1: is incredibly wooded and vast, that would scare me. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: continued to follow up with Danny and Brandon and enlisted
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  Speaker 1: the help of the FBI to do further interviews with them.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon's phone had two miss calls to Justine on the
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  Speaker 1: evening of September. First, he said that he had been
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  Speaker 1: jet skiing with friends while Danny was at the Vanderschoots
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  Speaker 1: and headed home because he wasn't feeling very well. He
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  Speaker 1: said that the reason that he'd called Justine twice was
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  Speaker 1: because he had gotten pulled over for running a stop
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  Speaker 1: sign on the way home and meant to call his
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend Lindsey and that their names are side by side
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  Speaker 1: in his phone. Okay, but the boys would be caught
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  Speaker 1: in their first lie. Brandon's cousin, Clayton Cole, and a
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  Speaker 1: friend had actually spent the night at Danny and Brandon's
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  Speaker 1: the night that Justine went missing, so they weren't home
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  Speaker 1: alone hanging out together as they had previously said. Clayton
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  Speaker 1: told detectives that he had seen Brandon and Danny leave
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  Speaker 1: the house and that they did not come back until
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  Speaker 1: much later. During their second interview with Brandon, the FBI
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  Speaker 1: had some new proof up their sleeves as a result.
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  Speaker 1: After this tip, Clayton was asked to call Brandon and
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  Speaker 1: wear a wire, and they played that recorded call back
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  Speaker 1: to Brandon. In the call, basically, it says that Clayton
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  Speaker 1: is feeling guilty and that he needs to go to
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  Speaker 1: the police about Justine. Brandon tells his cousin that he
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  Speaker 1: can't do that because it would basically fuck up their plan.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon was completely rattled by this phone call, and FBI
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  Speaker 1: asked him if he had ever seen anyone die. Brandon
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  Speaker 1: went completely white and hung his head, telling agents how
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  Speaker 1: afraid he was of Danny and that he needed protection
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  Speaker 1: before he told them anything else. He said that Danny
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  Speaker 1: strangled Justine in the back of his car, and that
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  Speaker 1: he had no idea Danny was going to do that.
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  Speaker 1: He said that the three of them were planning on
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  Speaker 1: sneaking out and stealing some marijuana from a local farm.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently Danny had tapped Justine's phone and was trying to
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  Speaker 1: catch her cheating, and he was planning on hurting her,
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  Speaker 1: but he had no idea what it would be. That night,
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  Speaker 1: he said that he had met Danny and Justine at
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  Speaker 1: the park and ride around midnight, and they drove his car.
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  Speaker 1: Danny was giving him directions on where to go and
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  Speaker 1: when they parked, he said that Danny told him he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be alone with Justine to talk privately, so
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  Speaker 1: he got out of the car and walked aways away
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  Speaker 1: to give them some privacy. Brandon then said that he
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  Speaker 1: heard a car horn followed by a scream and hurried
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  Speaker 1: back to find Danny had strangled Justine. Brandon's statements became
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  Speaker 1: more inconsistent. On the one hand, he said that he
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that Danny was going to do that, but
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, he said that he was worried
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  Speaker 1: about Justine and that the two missed calls on her
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  Speaker 1: phone were him trying to get a hold of Danny
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  Speaker 1: to stop him. But you also walked away and left
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  Speaker 1: him alone with him. Nothing is adding up here. Brandon
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  Speaker 1: claimed that all he had done was help Danny bury
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  Speaker 1: the body. He blamed everything on Danny in fact, but
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  Speaker 1: he would lead investigators to where she was buried. Truly twisted.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this quick ad break, and
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  Speaker 1: on September eighteenth, two thousand and three, over two weeks
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  Speaker 1: after Justine had gone missing, her remains would be found,
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  Speaker 1: and the grave was covered in debris to cover the
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  Speaker 1: disturbed dirt, which is why Matt wasn't able to find
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  Speaker 1: it again when he went back. Danny had removed Justine's
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  Speaker 1: clothes before putting her in the grave and then dumped
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  Speaker 1: chemicals all over her to beat up decomposition. Brandon's interview
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  Speaker 1: gives even more inconsistencies to her time of death as well.
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  Speaker 1: In one account that he gave, she was lifeless when
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  Speaker 1: he came back to the car, and in another she
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  Speaker 1: was still breathing slightly after they placed her in the grave,
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  Speaker 1: and he began crying and praying for her to just
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  Speaker 1: go so that it would all be over. Allegedly, Danny
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  Speaker 1: told Brandon that if he told anyone, he would kill him, Lindsey,
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  Speaker 1: and himself. Brandon said that he was scared and that's
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  Speaker 1: why he didn't intervene. So there's just inconsistencies all over
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  Speaker 1: the map. But the interview was four and a half
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  Speaker 1: hours before he led investigators to where Justine was buried.
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  Speaker 1: Danny and Brandon were immediately arrested for Justine's murder. The
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  Speaker 1: search for her was finally over, but justice would continue
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  Speaker 1: to be a fight. Danny would be interviewed again and
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  Speaker 1: told detectives that he started to strangle Justine, but she
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  Speaker 1: said in a fight for her life, Danny, I love you,
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  Speaker 1: and that Brandon encouraged him to keep going, saying that
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  Speaker 1: it was too late now and that it would already
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  Speaker 1: be attempted murder. After she was placed in the grave,
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  Speaker 1: they poured drain cleaner over her and Brandon poured some
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  Speaker 1: down her throat. Justine's official cause of death was homicidal violence,
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  Speaker 1: but her autopsy showed dirt deep with in her lungs,
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  Speaker 1: indicating that she was still alive when she was buried
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  Speaker 1: and had ingested some of the dirt. The Vanderschoots wanted
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  Speaker 1: to avoid a lengthy and painful trial, so instead, prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: offered Danny a plea deal for full information of Brandon's
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  Speaker 1: involvement in exchange for a sentence of twenty five years
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  Speaker 1: to life for first degree murder. This would mean that
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  Speaker 1: there was a possibility of Danny being released when he
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  Speaker 1: was forty five years old. Brandon Fernandez pled guilty to
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  Speaker 1: second degree murder and was charged with fifteen years to life,
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  Speaker 1: even though Matt Scribner's testimony indicated that there was premeditation
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  Speaker 1: in Justine's murder and the grave being dug in advance. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: there was no way at this point to prove that
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  Speaker 1: Brandon had helped Danny digget. Justine's parents, Don and Lynnette
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  Speaker 1: planted many of the flowers that were given to them
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  Speaker 1: through condolences outside of their daughter's bedroom window. They put
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  Speaker 1: a footprint impression of her as well from when she
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  Speaker 1: was small, and her favorite trees. They affectionately call it
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  Speaker 1: Justine's Garden. Even though it's been almost twenty two years,
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  Speaker 1: it still feels fresh for her family. A large part
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  Speaker 1: of this is that they do not get to rest.
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  Speaker 1: Danny and Brandon continue to apply for pearl and try
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  Speaker 1: and get released early from prison. The family has been
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  Speaker 1: in courts seven times to give statements since Justine's murder
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  Speaker 1: to keep her killers behind bars. Her sister, Christine says
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  Speaker 1: that she misses her best friend every day and feels
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  Speaker 1: lost without Justine. She understands that she needs to continue
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  Speaker 1: to be her sister's voice and fight for her so
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  Speaker 1: that she can rest easy. Brandon was up for his
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  Speaker 1: first parole in twenty seventeen, but was denied given the
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  Speaker 1: victim statements of the Vanderschoots. But in twenty eighteen, California
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  Speaker 1: changed their murder laws and in twenty twenty Brandon Fernandez
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  Speaker 1: would file a petition to be retried as an accessory
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  Speaker 1: to murder. Given this new law, this meant that anyone
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  Speaker 1: who did not actually commit the crime could not be
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  Speaker 1: given a life sentence, and I can only imagine the
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  Speaker 1: devastation in this for Justine's family, as it's clear that
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  Speaker 1: Brandon has not taken any responsibility nor does he feel
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  Speaker 1: any remorse. Despite the judge denying Brandon's motion for a retrial,
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  Speaker 1: that was overturned given this new law, and a trial
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  Speaker 1: would need to be held proving his involvement beyond a
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  Speaker 1: reasonable doubt. In May of twenty twenty four, prosecutors would
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  Speaker 1: use Danny as their star witness in proving Brandon's guilt,
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  Speaker 1: and it's very clear that the two played off each
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  Speaker 1: other planning Justine's murder. Brandon purchased the drain cleaner that
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  Speaker 1: they used to dump over her body and borrowed a
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  Speaker 1: pickaxe from his parents' house to dig the grave. The
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  Speaker 1: two dug the grave over several days leading up to
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  Speaker 1: September first, matching the testimony of Matt Scribner having seen
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  Speaker 1: the freshly dug dirt. There was additional evidence found at
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  Speaker 1: Brandon's work as well, indicating his knowledge of the plan,
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  Speaker 1: including the wiring device that Danny used to tap Justine's
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  Speaker 1: phone and a shredded receipt for a new set of
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  Speaker 1: tires from the day after her murder. Brandon's defense claimed
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  Speaker 1: that Danny being the only witness was problematic because of
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  Speaker 1: course he would say or do anything to increase his
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  Speaker 1: chances of pearl himself one day. They claim that Danny
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  Speaker 1: is the real monster, and in my opinion, They're both
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  Speaker 1: absolutely heartless monsters, and my heart just aches for Justine
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  Speaker 1: and her family. Justine's father, Dawn, was quoted as saying
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  Speaker 1: that he fears that he may never get the full
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  Speaker 1: story of what happened to his daughter from either of
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  Speaker 1: her killers. Over the years, their family has heard at
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  Speaker 1: least five different versions of the event. On August first,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, after all evidence and testimony had been
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  Speaker 1: gathered against Brandon Fernandez, he would stand trial. If his
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  Speaker 1: case won, he would be able to walk free, but thankfully,
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  Speaker 1: his motion was denied and the judge upheld his sentence.
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  Speaker 1: In the judge's statement, he himself said that the legal
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  Speaker 1: system can be very unfair to the victim's families and
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  Speaker 1: survivors of crime. We see this all the time, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm just really glad that somebody of this caliber is
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  Speaker 1: the person to say it. Justine's family will have two
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  Speaker 1: more hearings for Brandon and Danny in the next two years,
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty seven and twenty twenty eight. They said
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  Speaker 1: that they will never stop fighting for her. Their lives
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  Speaker 1: just keep getting put on pause. They're never really able
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  Speaker 1: to fully move forward. If there is a possibility that
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  Speaker 1: either of them can get out. In the meantime, though,
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  Speaker 1: they have done something very beautiful to honor Justine's memory.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty three, Justine's Law was passed to develop
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  Speaker 1: a statewide teen dating violence prevention resource to support participating
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  Speaker 1: school districts. Justine's family will tell you that there were signs,
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  Speaker 1: but they thought at the time it was just a
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  Speaker 1: young teenage boy acting bigger than he truly felt. It
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  Speaker 1: seems harmless until after the fact, but they're hope in
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  Speaker 1: creating Justine's Law is to prevent any more stories from
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  Speaker 1: ending this way. Justine's mom says that her daughter visits
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  Speaker 1: her as a hummingbird in her garden, coming right up
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  Speaker 1: to her face, and she talks to them as a
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  Speaker 1: way of bringing her comfort. And you could help Justine's
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  Speaker 1: family by signing the petition to stop the release of
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  Speaker 1: Danny and Brandon on their next paroles, and I will
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  Speaker 1: link that for you in the show notes. And in
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  Speaker 1: the meantime, I do hope that Justine's family is able
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  Speaker 1: to find their piece one day and that her killers
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  Speaker 1: remain behind bars. Remember that you are loved, you are wanted,
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  Speaker 1: and you deserve to be here. And I will see
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  Speaker 1: you next week. Truly Twisted is a proud production of
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  Speaker 1: show is hosted, researched, and edited by me Alicia Watson,
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