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Dad Realizes His Daughter Is Actually The Killer · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: She's a girl who is my love.
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  Speaker 2: This man has just been told that his wife has
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  Speaker 2: been murdered. However, he never could have expected that it
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  Speaker 2: was his daughter that was responsible.
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  Speaker 3: Forever.
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  Speaker 2: On March third, twenty twenty, Ohio police responded to a
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  Speaker 2: nine to one one call at an address in Akron
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  Speaker 2: and found Brenda Powell on the floor of her kitchen
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  Speaker 2: thirty stab wounds in her neck. Her daughter, Sidney, was
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  Speaker 2: in the house at the time and told police this
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  Speaker 2: was a home invasion turned brutal murder. But even though
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  Speaker 2: Sydney was injured as well, there were still questions left unanswered.
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  Speaker 2: Things weren't adding up for the cops. Brenda was on
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  Speaker 2: the phone with one of Sidney's college professors at the
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  Speaker 2: time she was attacked, and during that call, she suddenly
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  Speaker 2: started screaming before the phone went dead, and when he
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  Speaker 2: called back, the voice on the other end of the
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  Speaker 2: phone claimed to be Brenda, but the college professor knew
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  Speaker 2: this was a lie and expected Sydney was pretending to
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  Speaker 2: be her mother. Fearing the worst, he called nine one
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  Speaker 2: one and the first responders arrived in no time. This scream,
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  Speaker 2: combined with being called to the location is enough probable
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  Speaker 2: cause for the police to forcefully enter the home. And
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  Speaker 2: this is what was waiting for him when he walked
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  Speaker 2: inside the house.
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  Speaker 4: Acher Place, Acer place, where's your mamma? Fick are nine?
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  Speaker 4: Get that thirty two role on here quick.
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  Speaker 5: We got a female down, blood all over the place.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, smart, you guess you got a crime. Take her
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  Speaker 4: out and sigh, you got She's blood.
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  Speaker 6: All over secure the scene. She looks like a twenty two.
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  Speaker 6: She looks like she's been out for a while. There's
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  Speaker 6: blood all over the place. There's a knife, fire ahead
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  Speaker 6: and stuff like that, and there's a huge pool of blood. No,
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  Speaker 6: I think she just walked in on it. There's a
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  Speaker 6: poken window in the back. So if you can just
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  Speaker 6: put up some crime, some tape shoes aft gets here,
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  Speaker 6: they're gonna pronounce her.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it turns out Brenda hasn't just been stabbed.
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  Speaker 2: She's also been hit over the head with an iron skellet,
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  Speaker 2: and her injuries are so devastating that her life hangs
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  Speaker 2: in the balance.
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  Speaker 4: Hold on, we gotta figure out what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, okay, come on, come on, come on.
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  Speaker 4: You should need the co op right with me, all right?
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  Speaker 1: What happened. What's going on? What's going on?
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  Speaker 4: We heard a bae.
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  Speaker 6: We heard a bae and she told me to get
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  Speaker 6: out and I heard screaming.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and she was on the ground. Okay, there's a
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  Speaker 2: big broken.
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  Speaker 1: What is your name, Sydney?
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  Speaker 4: Are you cut?
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  Speaker 5: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you cut something.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, your hand.
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  Speaker 4: No, I was helping her.
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  Speaker 1: I grabbed her all right, stop. Yeah, what's going on?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. We just got okay, wait, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Sydney appears to have been injured as well, is suffering
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  Speaker 2: from shock and struggling to hold herself together. Even the
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  Speaker 2: love her father, Steve Powell doesn't calm Sydney down. Police
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  Speaker 2: need to lock down the crime scene and try to
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  Speaker 2: figure out exactly what's happened. Broken.
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  Speaker 1: So you got the either, so.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, she's got inside the house. There's a broken window
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  Speaker 2: and the knife used to stab Brenda. But something isn't
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  Speaker 2: quite right, as the broken window had blood dripped on
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  Speaker 2: the outside of it, leading police to conclude it could
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  Speaker 2: have only been broken after Brenda had been stabbed. However,
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  Speaker 2: Sydney claimed that the intruder used the window to enter
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  Speaker 2: and was broken before the attack, leading to the first
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  Speaker 2: of many inaccuracies in her story. Okay, do you know
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  Speaker 2: who where which way.
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  Speaker 7: That this younger guy?
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  Speaker 3: Look at here pictures and there's a whole basement.
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  Speaker 2: Setup for.
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  Speaker 4: I'll you're back right, all right?
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  Speaker 3: Let me go report that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's brother, your brother.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'll see if we can find out who else
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  Speaker 6: lives here.
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  Speaker 2: With such a serious case, with so many unanswered questions,
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  Speaker 2: the cops spend some time talking with homeowners nearby. They
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  Speaker 2: have to try and collect as much information as possible,
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  Speaker 2: but right now, the only person making any sense is
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  Speaker 2: Sydney's father.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, did you but yeah, that's my Why there's my daughter.
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  Speaker 4: I held your daughter.
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  Speaker 2: She'll be twenty in March nineteen. Is she coming out?
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  Speaker 1: Hell no, no, my god, can't think Sidney. Can you
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  Speaker 1: tell me what happened? Huh Sydney, Sydney all the way?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah comment why, Yeah, that's them right here, huge hair.
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  Speaker 8: I have a.
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  Speaker 2: While trying to piece this puzzle together. Police speak to
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  Speaker 2: Steve Powell and one of Sydney's friends down at the
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  Speaker 2: station in the hopes that they may be able to
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  Speaker 2: help them shed some light. On exactly what happened. But
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  Speaker 2: unfortunately for Steve, he has absolutely no idea Sydney is
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  Speaker 2: the attacker, or even worse that his wife is in
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  Speaker 2: critical condition at the hospital and likely won't survive. Something
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  Speaker 2: detectives will have to break to him sooner than later.
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  Speaker 7: Would you get a call from Yeah, okay, he.
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  Speaker 8: Said it was a call went out a distress call
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  Speaker 8: from the university amount of Union where my daughter was going,
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  Speaker 8: and said, uh femail in distress.
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  Speaker 7: I said, well, that's funny. He could grind us day
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  Speaker 7: my wife. So I called Brenda and it rings her
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  Speaker 7: rings on her phone. No answer.
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  Speaker 8: I call Sydney back, brings her rings and rings no answer.
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  Speaker 8: I called it in back, no answer. I'm acting around.
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  Speaker 8: I called Jeep back, some phone the intel, there's no answer.
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  Speaker 7: My doctor calls me back. I said, oh, mom's on
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  Speaker 7: the phone with me with Mount Union. I said, cops
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  Speaker 7: are with me.
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  Speaker 8: She went, it was just a break yet and there's
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  Speaker 8: she's just started going off. She said what she said,
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  Speaker 8: there's been somebody broke into the house, his blood everywhere.
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  Speaker 7: She was hysterically crying. So at first when you talked
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  Speaker 7: to her, she said.
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  Speaker 8: Your wife was on the phone, Yes, and as soon
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  Speaker 8: as I said, cops are on the way, the hysterics started.
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  Speaker 7: Is she still attending.
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  Speaker 8: Well as far as we knew up until today, Yes,
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  Speaker 8: but apparently not for the last maybe a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: What Sydney hadn't told her parents was that she'd been
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  Speaker 2: kicked out of college weeks before this happened, and had
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  Speaker 2: been lying to them ever since. But she did tell
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  Speaker 2: her friends, including Lauren, who lived in the same dorm.
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  Speaker 7: Now we understand that Sidney was your roommate at my union. Yes,
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  Speaker 7: she was last year and this year, and so.
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  Speaker 5: You've been friends ever since.
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  Speaker 8: You saw freshman year at Samba go over each other's
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  Speaker 8: houses everything or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, she started off in exercise science freshman year her
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  Speaker 3: bir Sinster, but then she didn't like the classes, so
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  Speaker 3: she switched over to psychology and sociology.
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  Speaker 5: That she didn't really like that, so this year she
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  Speaker 5: switched to.
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  Speaker 3: Education and then she didn't like that either, And that's
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  Speaker 3: one of the reasons she left, is because she did
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  Speaker 3: find what she left. I think she struggled in her classes.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think these were the best, but she didn't
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  Speaker 3: really tell me that because I wasn't really struggling. I
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  Speaker 3: think she kept a lot of stuff hitting because when
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  Speaker 3: we were just talking or with our friends, she always
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  Speaker 3: seemed happy, that she seemed okay. That I couldn't tell
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  Speaker 3: until the end where she was kind of just like
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  Speaker 3: struggling and sad and just like Laurene, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what to do. I think she felt like everybody around
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  Speaker 3: her kind of had figured out what they wanted to
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  Speaker 3: do and.
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  Speaker 7: She had it.
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  Speaker 2: Establishing Sidney's state of mind leading up to the incident
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  Speaker 2: will help detectives find out if she simply snapped or
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  Speaker 2: if this was premeditated. The issue is Sydney is going
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  Speaker 2: to claim that she actually has no idea what happened
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  Speaker 2: throughout this entire case. In fact, she's going to base
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  Speaker 2: her entire defense on the fact that she blacked out
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  Speaker 2: and even claim insanity using this. This means the cops
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  Speaker 2: still have no solid proof that Sidney is the guilty party,
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  Speaker 2: but they're starting to discover she was hiding secrets from
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  Speaker 2: just about everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 3: I know she's had anxiety for a while, but I
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  Speaker 3: don't think I think those last like this last semester, like.
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  Speaker 5: Started coming back in January.
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  Speaker 3: That she's kind of more like upset because she really
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  Speaker 3: didn't know what she wanted to do. Friends and I
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  Speaker 3: were worried for her because we were just we didn't
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  Speaker 3: know what was going on.
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  Speaker 5: She didn't tell us.
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  Speaker 2: An Lauren knew something was wrong and tried to help.
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  Speaker 2: At first, she had no reason to doubt her and
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  Speaker 2: was as supportive as any friend could have been at
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  Speaker 2: a time like this, But even Lauren grew suspicious of
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  Speaker 2: Sydney's evasive behavior.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't tell she was getting more upset and more sad,
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  Speaker 3: and I told her if I'm here, like you can
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  Speaker 3: tell me, I'm here for you. If you need anything,
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  Speaker 3: I'm here. But she never really opened up until she
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  Speaker 3: was leading and saying that she was showing to school
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  Speaker 3: and that she she was kind of trying to figure.
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  Speaker 5: Out what was going on. And that's when I started
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  Speaker 5: to try to help her. Let's talk about this.
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  Speaker 3: You know you're her best friend, and this is difficult,
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  Speaker 3: but to tell us about her relationship with her parents.
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  Speaker 3: Her parents a really good relationship, like her mom and
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  Speaker 3: her were best friends. Probably they did everything together, Like
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  Speaker 3: one of the reasons she went home.
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  Speaker 7: Was to be with her mom.
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  Speaker 5: They were always close She never said anything bad about
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  Speaker 5: her mom. She never ever talked.
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  Speaker 3: About having an argument with her mom, like I can't
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  Speaker 3: recall every time she'd be going home, She's like, I
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  Speaker 3: can't wait to see my mom, Or when she goes
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  Speaker 3: home for weekends, she's ohm possibly.
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  Speaker 5: To hang out and then watch movies, and she loves
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  Speaker 5: like she loved being home.
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  Speaker 2: By this point, Sydney is becoming wrapped up in a
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  Speaker 2: lie that she's going to struggle to escape from. But
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  Speaker 2: instead of owning up, she decided to make out as
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  Speaker 2: if college just wasn't working out for her, and tried
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  Speaker 2: to convince her parents that they could save a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money on college bills if she left to pursue
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  Speaker 2: other things.
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  Speaker 7: What's going on, she was, I'm overwhelmed in school and
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  Speaker 7: I don't really like what I'm doing, and it seems
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  Speaker 7: like it's a waste of my time and your money.
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  Speaker 7: So that's all part of it.
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  Speaker 8: Nobody should tell you you need to do what you're
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  Speaker 8: doing when you're twenty. You need to figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not what she told her friends.
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  Speaker 7: When she's talking to you about, you know, the problem
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  Speaker 7: she's had in a school. Did she mentioned that she tried.
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  Speaker 5: Talking to her parents. Yeah, I know, she definitely, especially
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  Speaker 5: when she talked to them about again now.
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  Speaker 2: She told them that Laurence's suspicions were proved to be right.
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  Speaker 2: And Sydney was lying to her friends, But at the
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  Speaker 2: same time, she was also lying to her parents, who
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  Speaker 2: knew nothing of her problems at college until they received
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  Speaker 2: a phone call from Sydney's professor. So Steve and Brenda
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  Speaker 2: began crisis talks to find out exactly what was going
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  Speaker 2: on with their daughter. So I went back.
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  Speaker 7: I called my wife and my daughter's son.
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  Speaker 8: She could she was working down children's and she is
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  Speaker 8: what's wrong? And I basically told her, I said, you know,
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  Speaker 8: I mean Sidney had. I think the reason came an
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  Speaker 8: audience I had. She's enrolled, she hasn't going to school.
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  Speaker 2: Sydney became wrapped up in two sets of lies. The
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  Speaker 2: story she told her friends and the story she told
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  Speaker 2: her parents. Stale and grades aren't the end of the world,
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  Speaker 2: and any parent would support their child through such difficult times.
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  Speaker 2: But it seems she thought her parents would be mad
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  Speaker 2: and couldn't bring herself to tell them she'd been asked
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  Speaker 2: to the college.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we asked her she was doing and she said
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  Speaker 3: she was good, like she acted like what we would
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  Speaker 3: see was normal.
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  Speaker 5: When she was laughing, she was having fun. She said
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  Speaker 5: she got jobs.
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  Speaker 3: Because she worked at the Acrobubber Ducks. She's worked there
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  Speaker 3: for a couple of seasons, so she was gonna go
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  Speaker 3: back there. And then she also said she was looking
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  Speaker 3: for another job. And then everything was good and she
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  Speaker 3: was trying to figure out like next year and all
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  Speaker 3: this stuff, and she was gonna talk to her parents
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  Speaker 3: about housing, trying.
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  Speaker 7: To come back to now. Once she got to my
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  Speaker 7: home and Rintoun actually did it, said you ever drink alcohol?
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  Speaker 8: Or she did?
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  Speaker 7: Okay, just kind of describe that for us. She liked
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  Speaker 7: to drink.
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  Speaker 3: There was an incident in all of our freshman year
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  Speaker 3: where she drank too much and she wasn't alcohol buzzing,
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  Speaker 3: but she did end up in the hospital. Her mom
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  Speaker 3: came to dat her at to in the morning. Usually
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  Speaker 3: after that, her and I worked together and she did drink.
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  Speaker 3: I usually turned to sew her down after her a
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  Speaker 3: limit because she's small.
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  Speaker 2: Detected inspect Sydney snapped when Brenda was on the phone
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  Speaker 2: to her college professor and tried to cover up her
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  Speaker 2: lives by silencing her mother forever. The issue is again
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  Speaker 2: Sydney is claiming that she doesn't remember a thing, but
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  Speaker 2: it seems that she made some crucial and careless mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: Then let the detectives pick up pieces. Sydney grabbed an
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  Speaker 2: iron skillet and beat her mother into submission before plunging
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  Speaker 2: a steak knife into her neck over thirty times. She
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  Speaker 2: then impersonated her mother on the phone and staged a
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  Speaker 2: break in to try and cover her tracks.
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  Speaker 8: I made it in far enough to see the back figures.
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  Speaker 7: When you go into the front door, you come around the.
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  Speaker 8: Kitchen, you go in, you can see there's like a
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  Speaker 8: past between the kitchen and the family room.
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  Speaker 7: The back of the house.
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  Speaker 8: I could see the right hand there's two big sliding windows.
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  Speaker 8: I could see that window was clearly if left it
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  Speaker 8: was busted. Went down the hallway probably about two feet
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  Speaker 8: to see blood all the way down the hallway.
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  Speaker 2: Sadly, Brenda didn't survive her ordeal and passed away in hospital.
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  Speaker 2: The county Medical Examiner came to the conclusion that Brenda
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  Speaker 2: had died from blunt forced trauma to her head and
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: stab wounds to her neck. They ruled her death a homicide.
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  Speaker 2: This left detectives to deliver the tragic news to Steve
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  Speaker 2: that his wife was dead.
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  Speaker 7: I'm really bad wife.
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  Speaker 2: Detectives investigated Sydney's claims that an intruder was responsible, but
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  Speaker 2: their findings didn't seem to match her story and the
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  Speaker 2: evidence was painting a different picture. Altogether. This left detectives
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  Speaker 2: with one final devastating task to carry out, telling Steve
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  Speaker 2: that his own daughter killed his wife.
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  Speaker 9: Say someone broken to the house. I don't know if
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  Speaker 9: your wife. I mean the window was broken. There's no
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  Speaker 9: forced entryment. Did you like from Potter Ray?
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  Speaker 7: It's not as your son's outside? My son's here. Would
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  Speaker 7: you like one with your son and take your time
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  Speaker 7: for me?
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  Speaker 2: It's simply impossible to imagine the turmoil Steve must be
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  Speaker 2: going through at this moment, his wife murdered and his
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  Speaker 2: daughter the main suspect. Finally, Steve realizes the detectives might
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  Speaker 2: be right, leaving him to deliver the news to his son.
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  Speaker 7: Clearly they think Sidney did this. I was too.
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  Speaker 10: Whatever, did you know? They're going to do everything they
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  Speaker 10: can to make sure I know exactly what happened. Nothing's
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  Speaker 10: definite as it yet, you still have to do your investigating.
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  Speaker 7: Where's angels? Well, yeah, I don't care. I want.
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  Speaker 4: You.
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  Speaker 7: They don't know. They have told me the investigated.
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  Speaker 2: Sydney was arrested and charged for the murder of Brenda Powell.
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  Speaker 2: She claimed insanity at first, saying she had almost no
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  Speaker 2: memory of what happened, including hitting Brenda with the cast
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  Speaker 2: iron skillet and fatally stabbing her. The jury didn't believe Sydney,
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  Speaker 2: and she was found guilty on two counts of murder,
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  Speaker 2: one count of felonious assaults, and one count of tampering
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  Speaker 2: with evidence. Sidney Powell was sentenced to life in prison,
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  Speaker 2: with a chance of parole after fifteen years.