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  Speaker 1: I'm Chris Hansen right now on Crime Watch Daily from
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  Speaker 1: here in New York City. Soon, a beloved single mother
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  Speaker 1: of two is a no show at work.
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  Speaker 2: What time was she.
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  Speaker 3: Supposed to be at work?
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  Speaker 4: Eight o'clock?
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  Speaker 2: Something's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Police are dispatched to her house and walking in on
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  Speaker 1: a horrible discovery.
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  Speaker 5: She's laying in this giant pool of blood.
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  Speaker 1: She's been brutally beaten, stabbed, and left for dead.
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  Speaker 6: I was just in shock.
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  Speaker 4: There was the worst crime scene that I'd ever been.
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  Speaker 7: Involved in the only thing I could really recognize on
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  Speaker 7: her was her hands.
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  Speaker 1: Not an enemy in the world who would want to
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  Speaker 1: kill Marty Hill.
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  Speaker 8: No sexual assault, There wasn't a robbery.
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  Speaker 1: A former lover, a suspicious handyman. And then something miraculous
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  Speaker 1: happened and Marty wakes up.
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  Speaker 8: You're an inspiration today.
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  Speaker 1: Her incredible survivor story. Was she able to identify.
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  Speaker 9: Her attackers kept why what are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Then a Houston police officer.
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  Speaker 10: That's in best shape in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Gets a crushing diagnosis.
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  Speaker 10: I tell me have full blown stage four cancer.
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  Speaker 1: But when Hurricane Harvey hits, nothing can stop him from
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  Speaker 1: the call of duty.
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  Speaker 11: You yourself aren't safe, but you're still moving forward and
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  Speaker 11: helping others.
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  Speaker 1: Today we surprise him with our bad Javanne. We have
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  Speaker 1: with Crimewatch Daily.
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  Speaker 8: I'm Michelsa Gona from Crimewatch Dailey, Yes, let's.
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  Speaker 10: It's Ana Garcia from Crime Watch Daily.
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  Speaker 12: You got anything to say?
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  Speaker 1: He is crime Watch Daily? What mean you don't know?
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  Speaker 8: If she's thirteen?
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  Speaker 2: You're running away?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to crime Watch Daily, everyone, I'm Chris Hansen. Oftentimes
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  Speaker 1: we let people into our homes with very little thought
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  Speaker 1: that maybe the person we're opening our door to could
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  Speaker 1: be hiding deadly intentions. Our Michelle Sagona is in Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City now with today's story, The Devil you know, Chris.
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  Speaker 12: When Marty Hill failed to show up for work, panicked
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  Speaker 12: coworkers contacted police to check to see if everything was okay.
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  Speaker 12: But when authorities arrived here at this home, they weren't
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  Speaker 12: prepared for what they would find. Bludgeoned in her basement
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  Speaker 12: and left to die.
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  Speaker 13: He strangled her. He pounded her head into the concrete,
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  Speaker 13: and then he cut her.
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  Speaker 8: Throat on both sides.
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  Speaker 12: Marty Hill was found so badly beating her own children.
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  Speaker 12: Could it recognize her?
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  Speaker 5: It didn't look like her, It didn't.
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  Speaker 7: The only thing I could really recognize on her was
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  Speaker 7: her hands.
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  Speaker 12: But who would want to kill the single mother?
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  Speaker 8: And why did you know if she had any enemies?
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  Speaker 9: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Never.
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  Speaker 2: I can't even imagine in a million years if someone
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  Speaker 2: would a.
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  Speaker 12: Real who done it? That left one quiet Kansas community
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  Speaker 12: living in fear.
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  Speaker 3: It was very much not your normal crime that takes
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  Speaker 3: place in Prey Village, Kansas.
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  Speaker 12: Still loved her job as a graphic artist for an
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  Speaker 12: apparel company in Overland Park, Kansas, and her coworkers loved her.
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  Speaker 2: Good person, good heart, hard worker, just someone you want
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  Speaker 2: to be around.
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  Speaker 12: The single mother of two rarely took a day off
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  Speaker 12: and was never late getting to the office.
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  Speaker 2: Very reliable. That's probably the best word describer.
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  Speaker 5: She was a a hard worker.
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  Speaker 6: She implemented that and me and my sister as well.
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  Speaker 12: So one morning, when Marty wasn't in the office by
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  Speaker 12: her usual eight am, then missed a weekly operations meeting
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  Speaker 12: two hours later, everyone took notice.
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  Speaker 7: They didn't even really end up having the meeting, They
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  Speaker 7: just kind of started talking about how she hadn't shown up, and.
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  Speaker 2: We worked so closely together that she would have told
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  Speaker 2: me that she wasn't going to be there.
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  Speaker 12: But Marty hadn't told anyone she wouldn't be at work
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  Speaker 12: that day. When they tried calling and texting, they got
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  Speaker 12: no answer.
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  Speaker 14: Your gut instinct is telling you something's wrong. Something's wrong
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  Speaker 14: was their pan and the office.
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  Speaker 2: We were all remain pretty calm, but we thought that
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  Speaker 2: something needed to be done.
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  Speaker 12: So Marty's bass drove to her house in nearby Prairie Village.
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  Speaker 12: He immediately notices her SUV parked in the driveway, but
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  Speaker 12: there was no sign of Marty.
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  Speaker 2: He knocks on the door, no answer, kind of walked
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  Speaker 2: around the house, didn't see anything suspicious.
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  Speaker 12: When everyone at the office heard Marty's truck was there,
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  Speaker 12: but she wouldn't answer the door, they called police.
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  Speaker 13: We were wondering if somebody could drive by and do
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  Speaker 13: a welfare.
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  Speaker 8: Check on her.
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  Speaker 2: She lives by herself.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, her daughter was there's part time, but she's in
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  Speaker 4: high school.
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  Speaker 10: We didn't want to call no alarm her.
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  Speaker 2: What time was she supposed to be at work?
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  Speaker 15: Eight o'clock?
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  Speaker 9: She just never misses without telling us.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, well, check and.
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  Speaker 1: Well, give me a callback if we need somebody.
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  Speaker 10: Nobody has a key or anything.
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  Speaker 1: There, do they?
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  Speaker 12: The Kansas neighborhood Marty called home was known for its quiet,
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  Speaker 12: safe streets, getting.
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  Speaker 5: Very few calls in that area.
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  Speaker 16: The calls we knew get typically are of the property
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  Speaker 16: crime type.
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  Speaker 12: Around midday on a Wednesday, Officer Bill Baldwin answered the
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  Speaker 12: call to check on a woman who hadn't shown up
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  Speaker 12: for work. You arrive on the scene here, Yes, what's
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  Speaker 12: the first.
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  Speaker 8: Thing you do?
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  Speaker 5: I went to the front door, knocked. I didn't receive
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  Speaker 5: any kind of answer.
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  Speaker 12: He then walked around the outside of the house, looking
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  Speaker 12: through windows to see if anybody was home. At what
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  Speaker 12: point do you start to make entry into the house.
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  Speaker 16: When I realized that the front door had been unlocked.
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  Speaker 12: Once inside, the officer immediately noticed something suspicious.
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  Speaker 16: I first noticed that there was a woman's purse sitting
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  Speaker 16: on the kitchen dining room table.
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  Speaker 12: Her car's out front, her purses on the table. The
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  Speaker 12: house is quiet, and there's still no signs of her.
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  Speaker 12: But you think that she's probably close.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I believe she's probably close.
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  Speaker 12: At this point, Officer bad been searched every room on
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  Speaker 12: the first level, then found stairs leading to a basement
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  Speaker 12: and started making his way down.
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  Speaker 8: Is it dark.
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  Speaker 16: It's very dark, and I've got a flashlight, and I'm
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  Speaker 16: announcing my presence the entire time. I don't want to
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  Speaker 16: scare anybody that actually lives there.
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  Speaker 12: Before reaching the bottom of the stairs, he noticed blood
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  Speaker 12: on the floor, then spotted someone lying nearby.
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  Speaker 16: I don't know this is Marty for sure at this point,
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  Speaker 16: but it appears to be a female subject, and she's
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  Speaker 16: laying in this giant pool of blood, facing away from
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  Speaker 16: the stairs, in kind of a fetal position.
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  Speaker 8: It had to be difficult for you to see someone
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  Speaker 8: like that.
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  Speaker 5: It's a little unnerving, to say the least.
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  Speaker 12: Officer Baldwin wasn't sure if she was dead or alive.
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  Speaker 5: I could not feel a pulse.
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  Speaker 12: But then she turned towards him, revealing her extensive injuries.
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  Speaker 16: Her face what looked ex greenly swollen, her hair was
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  Speaker 16: just soaked in blood.
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  Speaker 5: I looked down a little further and then I saw
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  Speaker 5: the cutting on her.
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  Speaker 12: Throat, covered in blood from head to toe and unable
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  Speaker 12: to speak. Officer Baldwin still was uncertain this was Marty Hill.
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  Speaker 12: The paramedics arrived and rushed the woman to the hospital.
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  Speaker 12: Sergeant Luke Roth wrote along in the ambulance.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be honest with you, she was covered in blood
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  Speaker 3: to the point I did not know what.
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  Speaker 5: Race she was.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I thought she was a black female
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  Speaker 3: until she got cleaned up for surgery, and I mean
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  Speaker 3: that's how dried the blood was.
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  Speaker 12: On the way to the hospital, he was hoping Marty
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  Speaker 12: could provide some sort of clues to what had happened.
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  Speaker 3: We were trying to get what you would call a
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  Speaker 3: dying declaration, some sort of statement as to who did this,
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  Speaker 3: and we were unable to ever get any response from her.
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  Speaker 12: One of Marty's co workers, who would returned to the house,
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  Speaker 12: delivered the terror news to the office.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing she said to us was there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of blood and that's all that she said.
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  Speaker 8: That had to be terrifying.
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  Speaker 2: It was terrifying because we didn't know if she was
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  Speaker 2: dead or alive at that point.
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  Speaker 12: When paramedics reached the hospital, doctors declared Marty a Level
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  Speaker 12: one trauma patient.
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  Speaker 7: My mom had very deep lacerations on her throat. She
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  Speaker 7: also had multiple skull fractures.
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  Speaker 12: Her chances of surviving not good. Detectives knew it was
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  Speaker 12: unlikely that Marty Hill would be able to help them
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  Speaker 12: find the person who'd beat, stabbed and left her to die.
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  Speaker 3: They had a personal reason for the extent of injuries
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  Speaker 3: that she suffered.
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  Speaker 12: But who would want to kill Marty Hill? And were
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  Speaker 12: they done trying?
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  Speaker 3: There was concern on the famili's part. Could they come
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  Speaker 3: to the hospital.
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  Speaker 12: And try to make sure she's dead? Correct Up next
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  Speaker 12: the search for suspects that leads to a fine your face.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't understand why my dad would have been a
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  Speaker 7: suspect and a.
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  Speaker 12: Tip for Marty's mom leads to a stunning twist in
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  Speaker 12: the case that no one saw come of them.
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  Speaker 3: He was shocked when we showed up at his front
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  Speaker 3: door room.
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  Speaker 1: For several tense days, it wasn't clear if Marty Hill
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  Speaker 1: would live or die. In those same days, it also
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  Speaker 1: wasn't clear just exactly who tried to kill her. Michelle
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  Speaker 1: Sagona is back with today's story, The Devil you Know.
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  Speaker 12: When cops in Prairie Village, Kansas found Marty Hill beaten
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  Speaker 12: and stabbed in the basement of her own home, they
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  Speaker 12: were in shock.
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  Speaker 4: There was the worst crime scene that I've ever been
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  Speaker 4: involved in.
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  Speaker 12: Doctors aren't sure she'll survive. Her injuries so extensive. Her
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  Speaker 12: own family wasn't sure it was her.
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  Speaker 7: When I walked into the room, I saw her in
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  Speaker 7: front of me. My first reaction was kind of fell
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  Speaker 7: to the The only thing I could really recognize on
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  Speaker 7: her was her hands.
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  Speaker 17: It's like blood creeping out of one of her eyes,
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  Speaker 17: besides the swelling of her face, so that was really
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  Speaker 17: hard to watch.
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  Speaker 6: I was just in shock.
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  Speaker 12: Marty was unconscious, and detectives knew they'd have to find
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  Speaker 12: a suspect without any help from their victim. Had there
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  Speaker 12: been other attacks like this in your area? No, there
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  Speaker 12: had not, so you were starting at ground zero.
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  Speaker 1: We were.
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  Speaker 12: Sergeant Luke Rowth and Detective Jason Wakefield were assigned as
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  Speaker 12: lead investigators on the case.
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  Speaker 14: No sexual assault, There wasn't a robbery, no fourth entry.
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  Speaker 8: Who were you thinking could have done this?
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  Speaker 2: Start?
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  Speaker 3: Initially it was the ex husband or a boyfriend that.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody knew about.
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  Speaker 12: Marty had been divorced from Steve Hill for seven years,
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  Speaker 12: but the two were in constant contact because they share
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  Speaker 12: a custody of daughter, McKenzie.
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  Speaker 18: She had McKenzie on the weekends and i'd have it
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  Speaker 18: during the week. I saw Marty pretty regular.
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  Speaker 12: On the day of the attack, Steve had been trying
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  Speaker 12: to reach his daughter after school, but his calls were
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  Speaker 12: going unanswered.
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  Speaker 18: I was getting a little frustrated with it because I
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  Speaker 18: kind of thought she was, you know, dodging her dad.
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  Speaker 12: It wasn't until late that evening that he learned what
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  Speaker 12: had happened.
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  Speaker 18: Who told you the privileged police department.
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  Speaker 12: Cops called to say his ex wife had been attacked
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  Speaker 12: and he was a person of interest.
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  Speaker 18: Being my ex husband that I've watched enough television shows.
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  Speaker 18: I knew that they were coming to question me, and
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  Speaker 18: I didn't know to the severity. I had no idea
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  Speaker 18: what had happened to her other than she had been
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  Speaker 18: attacked in her home.
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  Speaker 12: But Steve wasn't told how dare this situation actually was.
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  Speaker 8: Had no idea that she was likely about to die.
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  Speaker 12: When cops came knocking at his door, Steve was more
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  Speaker 12: than happy to cooperate.
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  Speaker 3: He did everything we asked. The best way to put
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  Speaker 3: it is he wanted to find out who did this just.
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  Speaker 5: As much as we did.
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  Speaker 12: Steve in an alibi for that morning. He told cops
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  Speaker 12: he brought his daughter to school, then he went to work.
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  Speaker 12: Before leaving, officers got a DNA sample.
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  Speaker 18: They wanted to scrape underneath my fingernails and take harafollical
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  Speaker 18: samples and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 12: So all of course, but until the DNA results came
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  Speaker 12: back and his alibi can be confirmed, Steve wasn't even
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  Speaker 12: allowed to see his daughter.
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  Speaker 18: I couldn't get my daughter after school. They basically wanted
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  Speaker 18: to keep her away from me until they had eliminated
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  Speaker 18: me as a suspect.
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  Speaker 12: To daughter Mackenzie, who was fifteen years old at the time,
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  Speaker 12: it didn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 7: I knew that he would never do anything like this
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  Speaker 7: to her, so that was really hard for me to
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  Speaker 7: understand at the time.
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  Speaker 12: But like police, Marty's son, Stephen Kirby, thought everyone in
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  Speaker 12: his mom's life should be considered a suspect, even the
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  Speaker 12: man he once called step dad.
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  Speaker 6: In my head, he was a suspect, but he wasn't
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  Speaker 6: my number one. I felt like we were after somebody else.
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  Speaker 12: And the same question lingers, who would want to kill
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  Speaker 12: Marty Hill? Her family, friends and co workers had no idea.
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  Speaker 8: Did you know if she had any enemies?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Never, I can't even imagine. In a million years if
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  Speaker 2: someone would.
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  Speaker 12: But later that night, after detectives left Steve's house, a
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  Speaker 12: strange thought surfaced.
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  Speaker 18: I just remembered somebody told me that she had had
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  Speaker 18: somebody working on her house. So I tried to call
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  Speaker 18: one of the detectives. Then I ended up getting a
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  Speaker 18: voicemail on a cell phone, and I just left him
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  Speaker 18: a message.
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  Speaker 12: Marty's mom, Shirley Roth, had already told cops about the handyman.
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  Speaker 12: She's the one who recommended Brian Pennington to her daughter
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  Speaker 12: after he did work on her own home.
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  Speaker 5: It was stucco in the house and.
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  Speaker 8: He was just fine.
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  Speaker 12: He did a really nice job.
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  Speaker 8: He became friend of ours.
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  Speaker 12: Shureley hoped maybe Brian had seen something suspicious while working
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  Speaker 12: at her daughter's home, something that could help with the investigation.
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  Speaker 17: So right away I looked at my phone and gave
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  Speaker 17: him Brian's telephone number.
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  Speaker 12: Him being Sergeant Roth, that was another person for you
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  Speaker 12: to look at.
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  Speaker 3: Quite honestly, we were looking to see if he might
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  Speaker 3: have seen anybody at the house that was staying with Marty,
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  Speaker 3: that she may have been dating, that she may have
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  Speaker 3: been in communication with. Because we had nothing to go with.
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  Speaker 12: Detective Jason Wakefield first reached Brian Pennington by phone. You
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  Speaker 12: call this person and he agrees to meet with you.
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  Speaker 10: He did.
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  Speaker 8: It's a good sign.
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  Speaker 4: He invited us to his house.
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  Speaker 12: Two days after the brutal attack left Marty Hill at
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  Speaker 12: death's door, Detective Wakefield and Sergeant Roth head to the
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  Speaker 12: home of her handyman. Their entire ninety minute conversation with
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  Speaker 12: the father of two was recorded.
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  Speaker 3: Would you think when you're good Marty an attacked?
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  Speaker 10: I really didn't know what then. She's very decent.
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  Speaker 12: Lady, but even before going inside, a red truck in
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  Speaker 12: Brian's driveway sparked suspicion. All the day of the attack,
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  Speaker 12: Marty's neighbor told cop she'd seen a beat up red
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  Speaker 12: truck on their street.
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  Speaker 4: She said she saw this truck around eight o'clock in
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  Speaker 4: the morning and it was being driven by a white
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  Speaker 4: male of smaller stature.
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  Speaker 12: Then another red flag. Scratches on the handyman's face.
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  Speaker 4: He told me they were from a pitbull. When I
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  Speaker 4: looked at him, it didn't appear. There were dog scratches
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  Speaker 4: that appeared. There were more fingernail type scratches.
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  Speaker 12: Detectives asked Brian if he had been back to Marty's
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  Speaker 12: house since finishing the work two weeks earlier. He cleaned
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  Speaker 12: that would have been impossible.
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  Speaker 10: He's so far right now and came aford to go
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  Speaker 10: to the YES station early.
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  Speaker 3: The entire time he talked about his financial struggles, where
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  Speaker 3: there was no way he could have drove to Praie Village, Kansas,
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  Speaker 3: an hour and a half away.
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  Speaker 12: His wife, Jessica, corroborated his alibi.
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  Speaker 3: She said he was home all night with her.
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  Speaker 12: With so much blood in Marty's basement, detectives were sure
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  Speaker 12: any suspect would have blood evidence on their clothes.
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  Speaker 15: Hey, Brian, you don't have any clothes with any blood
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  Speaker 15: on them or anything like that.
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  Speaker 5: Dude, Now you mind if I take a look real quick?
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  Speaker 5: Is that all right with you?
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  Speaker 12: Brian agrees to let detective search through the laundry hamper.
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  Speaker 3: We had recovered a pair of jeens that had red
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  Speaker 3: stains that we could see on the hymns and within
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  Speaker 3: the thigh portions.
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  Speaker 12: But the handyman had an explanation.
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  Speaker 5: You know what this.
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  Speaker 15: Stuff is on the bottom grace grace.
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  Speaker 5: Not blood though right yeah?
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  Speaker 12: By now, cops weren't buying it. Brian had quickly become
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  Speaker 12: their prime suspect. But could they push him to confess.
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  Speaker 15: There's just so much evidence. I mean, it's overwhelming. Somebody's
• 17:01
  Speaker 15: gonna get confidence. There's no doubt in my mind. Absolutely,
• 17:04
  Speaker 15: z rode out. We just have to figure out why
• 17:07
  Speaker 15: this happened. What do you want to tell us?
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: Broken?
• 17:14
  Speaker 12: Before leaving, detectives ask if they can take Brian's stain jeans.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Mind if I take these right, that's all right.
• 17:23
  Speaker 14: When you left his house that night and you were
• 17:25
  Speaker 14: in the car on the way back, what was that conversation.
• 17:28
  Speaker 8: Like with your partner?
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: We were shocked.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: We went to this house with the thought process that
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Brian might lead us to whoever was responsible. We now
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: left the house thinking there was a good chance Brian
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: was responsible, and then we might have a key piece
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: of evidence that could solve that.
• 17:46
  Speaker 12: Investigators deliver the jeans to the Johnson County Crime Lab
• 17:50
  Speaker 12: that very night. Preliminary tests confirmed the stains are human blood.
• 17:55
  Speaker 12: The next day, more confirmations the blood matches Marty Hill.
• 18:00
  Speaker 12: Cogs were close to making an arrest, but before they pounds,
• 18:05
  Speaker 12: Marty's family had some even bigger news to share.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: We got a phone call that Marty had started talking
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: up next.
• 18:13
  Speaker 12: Beaten, stabbed, and left to die, Marty Hill defies the odds.
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: They all called her miracle.
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: Marty.
• 18:21
  Speaker 12: Not only did she survive, Marty is naming her attacker.
• 18:25
  Speaker 12: She's telling her harrowing story to Crimewatch Daily, and you
• 18:29
  Speaker 12: won't believe what else she reveals.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Now to the conclusion of today's story, the Devil you Know.
• 18:38
  Speaker 19: Here's Michelle Sagana Chris.
• 18:40
  Speaker 12: They are often some of our most compelling interviews, people
• 18:43
  Speaker 12: who narrowly escape a nightmare and live to tell their
• 18:47
  Speaker 12: survival story. No one expected her to live, but three
• 18:54
  Speaker 12: days after Marty Hill was beaten and stabbed inside her
• 18:57
  Speaker 12: Kansas home, the single started talking for the first time.
• 19:02
  Speaker 12: Her friends and family were ecstatic, but Marty doesn't remember
• 19:06
  Speaker 12: any of it.
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: The first memory you have is waking up in the
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: hospital and seeing your dad.
• 19:12
  Speaker 12: Yes, that was twelve days after the attack, which happened
• 19:17
  Speaker 12: just before she headed to work.
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: Talk to me about that morning. You were getting ready
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: to leave for work.
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: So I heard something and kind of looked out the
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: front window.
• 19:27
  Speaker 12: Brian Pennington was out the door, a handyman who'd completed
• 19:31
  Speaker 12: work inside her home two weeks earlier.
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: I think I was kind of wondering why he would
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: be there in the area that early.
• 19:37
  Speaker 12: That's because she knew Brian lived ninety minutes away in Leeton, Missouri.
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: Thinking maybe he had another job in the area.
• 19:45
  Speaker 12: Marty was considering selling her home at the time, and
• 19:48
  Speaker 12: Brian said there was something in the basement he wanted
• 19:51
  Speaker 12: to show her that needed to be fixed, so she
• 19:55
  Speaker 12: invited him inside. Before they reached the basement, she noticed
• 19:59
  Speaker 12: something was odd.
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: I remember talking and I don't exactly know what I
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: was saying or asking him, but I'm feeling like he's
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: he's not answering or he's not saying anything, Like.
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: You were walking down ahead of him.
• 20:12
  Speaker 9: Yeah, so I'm ahead of him, and then two steps
• 20:15
  Speaker 9: away from the stairs, I kind of looked to see,
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: you know why he's not responding or saying anything. At
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: the same time, he grabs my neck. I just remember
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: him holding so very tight, and when I'm trying to look,
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: he was uh away from me, which it just all
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: seems so odd. He was, and it was just getting tighter,
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: and I kept saying why and what are you doing?
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: And I don't understand what are you doing?
• 20:41
  Speaker 12: Marty felt her voice get weak just before she passed.
• 20:44
  Speaker 14: Out At this point, You're on the ground in your basement.
• 20:48
  Speaker 14: Do you remember anything after that?
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: I then remember waking. I'm against something and my back
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: is hurting, and I'm trying to get back up and
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: get balanced, and just still fighting and fighting and kicking
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: and asking him to leave and what are you doing?
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: And just so puzzled and still so confused, And it
• 21:08
  Speaker 9: was all happening so fast. After that, I remember nothing.
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: Isn't that at all?
• 21:15
  Speaker 12: When he was done, Marty had several fractures to her skull,
• 21:18
  Speaker 12: face and a severe brain concussion. She also had four
• 21:23
  Speaker 12: quarter inch deep, six long stab wounds.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: In the neck.
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: So the way that he cut her neck had missed
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: the crowded artery, and if he would have been just
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: millimeters away, she would have let out.
• 21:37
  Speaker 12: About four hours after the attack, Marty's boss was at
• 21:41
  Speaker 12: her doorstep.
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: Could you hear anyone knocking on the door?
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Yep?
• 21:46
  Speaker 12: When she wouldn't answer the door, her co workers called police.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: And you say, her truck is there, Her truck's there?
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: Not called in, She's not returning her phone calls and
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: she's single.
• 21:57
  Speaker 12: Had her coworkers not followed their gut instinct and call
• 22:00
  Speaker 12: police Marty likely wouldn't be here today.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Well, they saved her life. I don't think she had
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: much more time to lay on that basement floor.
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: Can you think of them as your angels that day?
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: I definitely definitely do. I mean I definitely would have
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: been there for them.
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: I feel like there's a huge lesson in all of that.
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: I think it's important to make sure you're being respectful
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: to your other coworkers, and I think that that will
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: be given back to you.
• 22:30
  Speaker 12: Three days after the attack, with her eyes still swollen shot,
• 22:34
  Speaker 12: Marty started to speak and the first thing she said
• 22:39
  Speaker 12: was her attacker's name.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: When she was saying his name, it was very it
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: was shocking.
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: Kind of understand that. I was just doing whatever I
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: could to get that out.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: I was mumbling it out, and I'm so proud that
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: she could say that so soon.
• 22:57
  Speaker 12: The same day, cops also identify Brian Pennington as the
• 23:01
  Speaker 12: suspect after blood found on his jeans matched Marty's. It
• 23:06
  Speaker 12: was information they didn't want anyone to know, including her family.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: We did not want to cloud anybody's responses or feed
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: anybody's information.
• 23:16
  Speaker 12: They also wanted to gather more evidence before taking Brian
• 23:19
  Speaker 12: into custody, which happened two days later.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: We actually saw him driving down the highway. Jessica was driving.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: He was seated in the passenger's seat, and we actually
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: did a car stop on the highway and took him
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: into custody.
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: Was he surprised, No.
• 23:34
  Speaker 12: Marty's family and the entire community were relieved, especially her
• 23:39
  Speaker 12: mother who had referred Brian to Marty.
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: That was great that we were still stressed about.
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: Marty's situation.
• 23:49
  Speaker 12: Doctors were now cautiously optimistic that Marty would pull through,
• 23:53
  Speaker 12: but the road to recovery wouldn't be easy.
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: We didn't really know the extent of the injuries, and
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: we didn't know exactly what was going to heal all
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: the way, and you know, if she would ever be
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: her normal self again.
• 24:06
  Speaker 12: In the beginning, even the most simple things were difficult
• 24:09
  Speaker 12: for Marty to do.
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: Her eyes were completely swollen shut, so in order for
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: her to look at my brother and I, she would
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: just hold her eye open.
• 24:19
  Speaker 12: Once the swelling went down, she still had trouble seen.
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: I specifically remember them asking me to walk down a
• 24:26
  Speaker 9: line and my response was which line I was seeing too?
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: And there was one.
• 24:33
  Speaker 12: She also had to learn to walk again.
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: Balance was a big issue for a long time.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: I remember we would put a harness on her and
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: I would hold the back of it while she would
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: kind of balance back and forth and walk down the hallways.
• 24:46
  Speaker 12: Marty was hospital lines for nearly a month, and after
• 24:49
  Speaker 12: her release required around the clock care.
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: I know that I would have been there for them,
• 24:55
  Speaker 9: but you never You don't always get that opportunity to
• 24:58
  Speaker 9: see who's going to just really show up and be there,
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: said a lot of people.
• 25:05
  Speaker 12: After years of rehabilitation, Marty still has trouble hearing out
• 25:09
  Speaker 12: of one ear.
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: When echoes when I talk. And they actually said I'd
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: get used to that, but that has not happened.
• 25:16
  Speaker 12: She says getting back to the gym was a big
• 25:19
  Speaker 12: part of her recovery.
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: They lost a lot of strength, and just finally getting
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: back to where I was working out doing what I
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: had done before.
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: Just made a big difference.
• 25:31
  Speaker 12: Marty would need her strength to face her attacker in court.
• 25:35
  Speaker 12: Brian Pennington was ultimately charged with attempted first degree murdered
• 25:39
  Speaker 12: and aggravated burglary. Prosecutors say he had a long rap sheet.
• 25:44
  Speaker 13: He had twenty six prior convictions. Those types of crimes
• 25:47
  Speaker 13: were domestic violence. There were also crimes of dishonesty, burglaries.
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: And thefts.
• 25:52
  Speaker 13: He just seemed to be a very short tempered individual.
• 25:55
  Speaker 12: In addition to jeans with Marty's blood on them, Brian's
• 25:58
  Speaker 12: cell phone also tied him to the attack.
• 26:02
  Speaker 13: His wife texted him at I think it was approximately
• 26:05
  Speaker 13: seven to fifty nine am to ask where he was located.
• 26:08
  Speaker 13: The cell phone information provided a tower location in next
• 26:11
  Speaker 13: to Marty's house.
• 26:13
  Speaker 12: The tax also blew his alibi, proving that he wasn't
• 26:17
  Speaker 12: home the morning of the attack, Like Jessica first told cops.
• 26:21
  Speaker 13: I think she gave that information to protect herself and
• 26:25
  Speaker 13: her children. He had been physically abusive to her.
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: Do you think she was afraid for her own safety? Absolutely?
• 26:31
  Speaker 13: When she found out what he had done to Marty
• 26:34
  Speaker 13: was when she was done protecting him.
• 26:36
  Speaker 12: Brian Pennington eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to twenty
• 26:40
  Speaker 12: eight years in prison.
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: You had to face your attacker in court. What was
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: that like for you?
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: Gosh, mostly just the flooding of why and I just
• 26:51
  Speaker 9: don't understand and you're not the person I thought you were.
• 26:56
  Speaker 12: Brian never offered an apology or an explanation for the attack.
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: I probably will never know. There's not going to be
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: a good answer.
• 27:06
  Speaker 12: Marty is now focused on using her experience to help others.
• 27:10
  Speaker 12: She talks to groups about how to stay safe and
• 27:13
  Speaker 12: how to get through traumatic events. She also recently started
• 27:16
  Speaker 12: writing a book.
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: I feel like that is such a gap in my life.
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: I just I think by putting every detail down and
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: walking through it, it becomes where I know it and
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: I understand it.
• 27:29
  Speaker 12: I asked Marty if there was one thing she could
• 27:31
  Speaker 12: say to Brian what it would be.
• 27:33
  Speaker 14: I don't think I have anything to say to him,
• 27:36
  Speaker 14: But is there any part of you I can never
• 27:38
  Speaker 14: forgive this man for what he took from you.
• 27:41
  Speaker 9: I feel like it would only be hurting me to
• 27:44
  Speaker 9: not forgive him. I think it wouldn't affect him. Really,
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: I think it makes my life different to be able
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: to forgive and move on and be stronger.
• 27:56
  Speaker 12: Hard to imagine Marty Hill becoming any stronger than she
• 28:00
  Speaker 12: already is.
• 28:02
  Speaker 14: You're an inspiration to me and to everyone at Crime
• 28:05
  Speaker 14: Watch daily, and it really is an honor to sit
• 28:08
  Speaker 14: across from you.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: And Marty promises she'll be at every parole hearing. Pennington
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: will have during his twenty eight year sentence to make
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: sure he can't do this to someone else coming up.
• 28:24
  Speaker 10: That's been a bumpy road.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: A police officer's battle with cancer doesn't stop him from
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: jumping into action during Hurricane Harvey.
• 28:32
  Speaker 20: These children you save, they're now here and you help
• 28:35
  Speaker 20: keep them from drowning.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Is incredible story of heroism.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: That's next.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: We're back now with more of today's Crime Watch Daily,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: and in our next story, we're honoring a true hero.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: News and Night is in Texas with the latest recipient
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: of our.
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: Badge of Honor, Chris Here.
• 28:54
  Speaker 20: On Crime Watch Daily, we travel the country off and
• 28:57
  Speaker 20: telling stories of terrible tragedies or heartbreaking mysteries.
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: Well, today we're looking.
• 29:02
  Speaker 20: At the other side of crime, the heroes who are
• 29:05
  Speaker 20: on the front lines making a difference.
• 29:11
  Speaker 14: Hurricane Harvey let people about to find out.
• 29:14
  Speaker 21: That a catastrophic event of epic proportions that pummeled.
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: Houston trying to get safety.
• 29:23
  Speaker 21: It touched you to the court, a natural disaster that
• 29:27
  Speaker 21: inspired supernatural acts of heroism.
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: There were tons and tons of people helping everybody. It
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: was good to say everybody come together.
• 29:37
  Speaker 21: But there is one hero who was not just battling
• 29:40
  Speaker 21: the deadly hurricane, he was also battling his own deadly
• 29:46
  Speaker 21: terminal illness.
• 29:48
  Speaker 22: He could have retired right after he had his diagnosis,
• 29:50
  Speaker 22: but he's chosen to keep working and keep doing what
• 29:54
  Speaker 22: he loves, which is being a police officer.
• 29:58
  Speaker 21: Norbert Ramone, twenty four year veteran of the Houston Police Department,
• 30:02
  Speaker 21: has a passion for his job and as a patrolman,
• 30:06
  Speaker 21: he saw plenty of action.
• 30:08
  Speaker 11: What's your favorite thing about being a police officer.
• 30:11
  Speaker 10: It's not routine.
• 30:12
  Speaker 23: It's different every day, you know, so you could be
• 30:16
  Speaker 23: in a helstorm one day, or you know, you can
• 30:19
  Speaker 23: meet all kinds of people.
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: There's always a different channel.
• 30:22
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 30:23
  Speaker 21: But one day will forever be seared in the mind
• 30:26
  Speaker 21: of Officer Ramone, the day he was diagnosed with stage
• 30:30
  Speaker 21: four colon cancer.
• 30:32
  Speaker 10: It's been a bumpy road.
• 30:35
  Speaker 21: Ramone got the devastating diagnosis after a routine colonoscopy.
• 30:40
  Speaker 23: That I had no symptoms. Man, I was in and
• 30:43
  Speaker 23: ours in the best shape in my life, running, you know,
• 30:46
  Speaker 23: just doing everything.
• 30:47
  Speaker 10: Lost all this weight.
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: This just came out of nowhere.
• 30:50
  Speaker 11: You were feeling good and right healthy.
• 30:53
  Speaker 10: Never sick at all.
• 30:55
  Speaker 21: In a one two punch, the doctors delivered the news.
• 30:58
  Speaker 21: Nobody wants to hear a death sentence. Officer Ramone had
• 31:04
  Speaker 21: only two to five years to live.
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: It hits you like a ton of bricks.
• 31:09
  Speaker 21: The dead and grandfather of three was pulled from patrol
• 31:13
  Speaker 21: and placed on death duty while he underwent chemotherapy every
• 31:16
  Speaker 21: two weeks.
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: They immediately started me on chemo after that.
• 31:20
  Speaker 23: So I was getting a lot of pains and the
• 31:24
  Speaker 23: stomach could almost I'm almost killed over.
• 31:29
  Speaker 21: But when Hurricane Harvey hit, so did the brave call
• 31:32
  Speaker 21: of duty.
• 31:33
  Speaker 23: I don't sit here and dwell on my cancer. The
• 31:36
  Speaker 23: only time it hits me is when I go to
• 31:38
  Speaker 23: the doctor. In reality hits me again.
• 31:42
  Speaker 21: With the floodwaters rising, Officer Ramone forgot his own troubles
• 31:46
  Speaker 21: and plunged into action. He couldn't make it to headquarters,
• 31:50
  Speaker 21: so he reported to a nearby station, Houston p D's
• 31:53
  Speaker 21: Lake Patrol.
• 31:55
  Speaker 22: When I showed up the works Saturday morning, he was
• 31:56
  Speaker 22: already here. He actually beat me here.
• 31:59
  Speaker 21: Sergeant Garza has worked alongside Officer Ramone for fifteen years.
• 32:04
  Speaker 21: He was thrilled to see his longtime buddy turn up
• 32:07
  Speaker 21: to Linda hand.
• 32:08
  Speaker 22: I knew this was going to be serious, and I
• 32:10
  Speaker 22: could use all the help I could need, especially with
• 32:12
  Speaker 22: officers who got experience like himself and voting.
• 32:15
  Speaker 21: But Sergeant Garza knew he had to keep his good
• 32:18
  Speaker 21: friend from getting in over his head since he was
• 32:20
  Speaker 21: the only other person who knew about Officer Ramone's cancer battle.
• 32:25
  Speaker 22: And I briefed everybody, and I briefed him to the side,
• 32:27
  Speaker 22: and we talked. I'm like, hey, just let me know
• 32:29
  Speaker 22: how you feel, if you need to take a break,
• 32:30
  Speaker 22: or if you need a rest or you know. In
• 32:32
  Speaker 22: other words, I want to give him special treatment, but
• 32:35
  Speaker 22: he's not that type. He doesn't want it. If everybody
• 32:38
  Speaker 22: else is out there working, guess what, he's going to
• 32:40
  Speaker 22: be out there working too.
• 32:42
  Speaker 12: No, he's not.
• 32:43
  Speaker 21: In fact, even working round the clock for days, none
• 32:47
  Speaker 21: of the other cops had any clue Ramone was facing
• 32:50
  Speaker 21: a terminal condition.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: Somebody had to tell me he had cancer. I didn't
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: even know.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: He made the rest of us feel like we need
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: to step up our game a little bit.
• 32:58
  Speaker 21: Ramone and the patrol team rave the rising floodwaters, tirelessly
• 33:02
  Speaker 21: rescuing trapped and desperate people on boats. Had to beyond capacity.
• 33:09
  Speaker 21: Right now, it's just us and we've got all the
• 33:10
  Speaker 21: room in the world.
• 33:11
  Speaker 20: But when you were on this boat during Hurricane Harvey,
• 33:13
  Speaker 20: what did it look like?
• 33:14
  Speaker 8: What did it feel like here?
• 33:15
  Speaker 23: Oh, this whole deck was covered with people, her hair,
• 33:19
  Speaker 23: her back size, as many as were to put on.
• 33:22
  Speaker 20: You saved children from second story apartments.
• 33:26
  Speaker 23: Yeah, if you had to stand on the top and
• 33:28
  Speaker 23: had to reach, and you know, I reached as far as.
• 33:30
  Speaker 10: I can and then they hand them to me.
• 33:32
  Speaker 23: The baby, Yeah, the babies and stuff, and I set
• 33:34
  Speaker 23: them down and then and then some adults are trying
• 33:37
  Speaker 23: to climb.
• 33:38
  Speaker 10: Oh my god.
• 33:40
  Speaker 21: But Officer Ramone is quick to point out he was
• 33:43
  Speaker 21: only a small part of the rescue effort. Many officers
• 33:46
  Speaker 21: risked it all to save the stranded. In fact, some
• 33:50
  Speaker 21: of his brothers in Blue actually had to be snatched
• 33:53
  Speaker 21: from the raging waters themselves. But it wasn't just rising
• 33:58
  Speaker 21: floodwaters that danger to Officer Ramone. The toxins in the
• 34:03
  Speaker 21: water posed an added danger in his weakened condition.
• 34:08
  Speaker 11: What do you think your doctors would have said if
• 34:10
  Speaker 11: they'd known what you were doing?
• 34:12
  Speaker 23: At first, They're like, cause, he's crazy, what's he doing
• 34:15
  Speaker 23: out there?
• 34:16
  Speaker 11: It's muddy, there's debris there, are chemicals, there are toxins,
• 34:19
  Speaker 11: and that.
• 34:20
  Speaker 10: Water bugs, you know, just everything, you know so just.
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: But you didn't think about that.
• 34:25
  Speaker 21: No, No, even with all the devastation, Ramone says, there
• 34:31
  Speaker 21: were bright spots thanks to his fellow comrades.
• 34:34
  Speaker 11: They say, you were the energizer bunny though. You were
• 34:36
  Speaker 11: just NonStop. You were going and going. You were just
• 34:40
  Speaker 11: full of energy and vitality.
• 34:42
  Speaker 23: When you work with these guys and they joke around
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  Speaker 23: like that, you know, they keep you going, the guys
• 34:47
  Speaker 23: around your clowns.
• 34:48
  Speaker 10: I mean, they keep you laughing. There's never a dull moment.
• 34:51
  Speaker 21: And of course a superfood that's been one of Officer
• 34:55
  Speaker 21: Ramone's secret weapons for all these years.
• 34:58
  Speaker 8: How did you get the strength with stage four cancer?
• 35:02
  Speaker 11: Where did your strength come from?
• 35:04
  Speaker 10: I guess all the donuts they brought us here are No.
• 35:08
  Speaker 23: I didn't get no food, that's all. The local community
• 35:11
  Speaker 23: was so funny. I never seen so many donuts before
• 35:13
  Speaker 23: in my life.
• 35:15
  Speaker 21: All joking aside, Eventually the team got wind of Ramone's
• 35:19
  Speaker 21: grave condition.
• 35:20
  Speaker 22: We actually slept here at the station.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 35:23
  Speaker 22: I was the only one that knew about his diagnosis,
• 35:27
  Speaker 22: and one night, you know where all the guys are
• 35:29
  Speaker 22: fixing to go to bed, and one of the guys goes, hey,
• 35:33
  Speaker 22: I don't want to get in Austra Ramone's business, but.
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: Have you seen him?
• 35:36
  Speaker 19: Have you seen his feet?
• 35:37
  Speaker 22: Something's wrong with him. Well, because of the of the
• 35:41
  Speaker 22: treatments that he takes because of chemo, it makes his
• 35:44
  Speaker 22: feet turn colors. I had to tell him the truth
• 35:47
  Speaker 22: of what his diagnosis was and they were just all amid.
• 35:52
  Speaker 21: Officer Ramone didn't complain, not for a single second, And
• 35:56
  Speaker 21: after saving all those lives, he still had to say
• 36:00
  Speaker 21: himself with the airports closed, he then drove through the
• 36:04
  Speaker 21: wreckage to Oklahoma for his own treatments.
• 36:08
  Speaker 11: You save people and then is immediately after saving people,
• 36:11
  Speaker 11: you went for chemo treatment.
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  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 36:15
  Speaker 21: Officer Ramone has lived for two years with stage four
• 36:18
  Speaker 21: colon cancer. He battles every morning for one more day
• 36:23
  Speaker 21: and there are at least sixteen hundred people who are
• 36:27
  Speaker 21: here because of his courage.
• 36:32
  Speaker 11: We hear that he saved fifteen hundred people, and.
• 36:35
  Speaker 22: That number actually is probably in the low end. But
• 36:38
  Speaker 22: I've always said to me, what's the most remarkable. It's
• 36:41
  Speaker 22: just him just doing it and not complaining and not
• 36:44
  Speaker 22: being one to be treated anything special, and.
• 36:47
  Speaker 21: When the floodwaters finally cleared, the man who helped save
• 36:51
  Speaker 21: more than fifteen hundred lies still refuses to take credit
• 36:56
  Speaker 21: for his heroism.
• 36:58
  Speaker 11: Because of your heroics, there are are generations who will
• 37:01
  Speaker 11: still be around.
• 37:03
  Speaker 8: Because you didn't give up even though you have cancer.
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: Do you feel like you're a hero? We do?
• 37:09
  Speaker 23: Oh, I know what, recall it. I just can't accept it.
• 37:12
  Speaker 23: I mean, the officers out there work and do what
• 37:16
  Speaker 23: we do regardless. You know, I consider every officer out
• 37:20
  Speaker 23: there working, you know, they're are hurls to me.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: Up.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Next, Officer Ramone and his wife Cindy join me here
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: at Crimewatch Daily with an update on his health. And
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: we've got a huge surprise for that.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: That's next.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Houston Police Officer Norbert Ramone was not alone when he
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: rescued more than fifteen hundred people during Hurricane Harvey. However,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Officer Ramone's story is quite unique. That's because along with
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: battling the rising of floodwaters, he was battling an aggressive
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: form of cancer.
• 37:52
  Speaker 19: And right now I'm honored to be joined by this
• 37:54
  Speaker 19: brave officer. Thanks for being here.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: How are you feeling, I'm feeling good.
• 37:57
  Speaker 19: How is the battle against cancer going.
• 37:59
  Speaker 10: It's going good.
• 38:00
  Speaker 23: Good.
• 38:00
  Speaker 10: I mean I try not to dwell on it.
• 38:02
  Speaker 23: I tried just to keep my knife normal, stay busy,
• 38:05
  Speaker 23: do a lot of recreational activities, keep my mind free.
• 38:09
  Speaker 19: What was it like being in that situation that had
• 38:12
  Speaker 19: to be overwhelming?
• 38:13
  Speaker 23: The first day we went out, we had a lot
• 38:15
  Speaker 23: of children and families that we rescued, and that was
• 38:18
  Speaker 23: all day, eight or nine hours, just back and forth,
• 38:22
  Speaker 23: back and forth.
• 38:23
  Speaker 19: Well, I want to bring in someone who obviously is
• 38:25
  Speaker 19: very supportive of you, your wife, City City, come on
• 38:27
  Speaker 19: in here. Thanks for big with us.
• 38:28
  Speaker 10: I appreciate it. Thank you.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: What did you think when he said he was going
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: to work with all these things going on with his health.
• 38:35
  Speaker 17: Well, that's a huge concern of mine, of course, because
• 38:38
  Speaker 17: he is battling stage four colon cancer and it's an
• 38:41
  Speaker 17: aggressive form of cancer. Always doing just prays and God
• 38:45
  Speaker 17: please keep this man safe, keep him healthy. I knew
• 38:47
  Speaker 17: he was going to be out there doing what he
• 38:48
  Speaker 17: loves to do, helping people.
• 38:49
  Speaker 19: Tell me one thing about your husband that no one
• 38:51
  Speaker 19: else knows.
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: He's a big teddy bear.
• 38:53
  Speaker 17: He might put on this front that he's big burly,
• 38:57
  Speaker 17: meaning to time that he's a sweetheart.
• 38:58
  Speaker 19: Well, your action that day did not just touch the
• 39:02
  Speaker 19: people of Houston, they touched us here at Crime March Staalien.
• 39:04
  Speaker 19: Right now, we would like to award you with our
• 39:06
  Speaker 19: special Badge of Honor. It's a little title we reserve
• 39:08
  Speaker 19: for those who go above and beyond the call of duty,
• 39:11
  Speaker 19: and you certainly deserve it. And here is a check
• 39:14
  Speaker 19: for five thousand.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Dollars which is made out to the Assist the Officer
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Foundation in Texas.
• 39:20
  Speaker 19: It's a great organization when we're very fond of. And
• 39:22
  Speaker 19: there's something else.
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: They told us that.
• 39:24
  Speaker 19: They're going to award this to you guys, so as
• 39:26
  Speaker 19: yours to help in your battle and your struggle and
• 39:29
  Speaker 19: everything that we got going on in life.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: It is the very least we could do.
• 39:32
  Speaker 19: And God bless and we wish you nothing but God's speaking.
• 39:34
  Speaker 10: But thank you so much. I believe in prayers and
• 39:37
  Speaker 10: thank you for everything.