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Teen model shot running for her life: What happened to Bridget Shiel? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Sirius XM Triumph Channel
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Speaker 1: one two. I feel so bad about what she was feeling,
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Speaker 1: all of afraid she must have been. She needs justice
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Speaker 1: just so her she arrest. I just saw her arrest.
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Speaker 1: She didn't deserve to die this way. But no, they
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Speaker 1: eat scared. What happened in in Atlanta neighborhood park there
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Speaker 1: in the Oakland City area, a gorgeous young model, Bridget
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Speaker 1: Shiel was in the final moments of her life. No witnesses,
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Speaker 1: no cameras, no one arrested. We have not forgotten. I'm
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grays. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being
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Speaker 1: with us. We want answers and the death of young Bridget.
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Speaker 1: She'll why did she have to die? Why did she die?
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Speaker 1: Her mother Angela heart broken. I feel like part of
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Speaker 1: my heart has been taken away. Part of me is missing.
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Speaker 1: She says she can't trust anybody now. She's even looking
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Speaker 1: at Bridget's friends, at everyone. All we know, her career
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Speaker 1: was just taking off. A model agency had gotten her
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Speaker 1: a job in a music video. It was a huge
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Speaker 1: break for her. Things were looking up, and then suddenly
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Speaker 1: in a public park she's found dead. Jorge a me.
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Speaker 1: CBS forty six Atlanta investigative reporter, Karen Greer, private investigator,
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Speaker 1: former Nashville p D Vincent Hill, and Dr Tiffany Sanders,
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Speaker 1: renowned psychologists joining us out of Chicago. Let's start with
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Speaker 1: Karen Greer from CBS forty six. Karen, you've been on
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Speaker 1: the case from the get go. Tell me what happened
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Speaker 1: at the very beginning, the very beginning of this story,
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Speaker 1: Nancy is just still very disturbing to all of us.
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Speaker 1: We had gotten a call about nineteen year old Bridget Shields,
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Speaker 1: body strips, naked found in a park in our area,
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Speaker 1: as you said, and really no clues. She had been
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Speaker 1: shot multiple times right in the back, as if she
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Speaker 1: had been, you know, running from someone who had been
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Speaker 1: chasing her in this park. Um. We talked to friends
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Speaker 1: of hers who said she was loving, she was sweet,
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Speaker 1: she had gone out that night. We followed her on
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Speaker 1: social media, saw her preparing to go out to that night,
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Speaker 1: and then saw her last Snapchat video where she looked
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Speaker 1: like she was in the park and she was fine
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Speaker 1: and she was going to meet someone. Um, and that's
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Speaker 1: where all the clues seemed to have stopped for police
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Speaker 1: and and even for us as we tried to get
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Speaker 1: some answers on this. So she was snapchatting right before
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Speaker 1: her murder. Yes, she did snapchatting right before her murder.
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Speaker 1: Her death, I mean she was barefoot running in a park.
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Speaker 1: We could see that with her and then that was
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Speaker 1: the last clue. Listen around seven am, this victim was
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Speaker 1: found in Oakland City Park at thirteen five Oakland Drive.
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Speaker 1: Um because victim was new, as we reported before and
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Speaker 1: suffered several gunshot wounds, A little a brief timeline of
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Speaker 1: her whereabouts. She was last seen the day before at
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Speaker 1: a friend's house near ten fifteen pm PM near South
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Speaker 1: Harrison Road and Red and Rode Into Kept. Only later
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Speaker 1: on that evening she was seen at a Chevron gas
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Speaker 1: station around PM Memorial Drive and Rockbridge Road with two
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Speaker 1: black males, one wearing a white T shirt, the other
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Speaker 1: having to go to and both in the early twenties
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Speaker 1: and thirty years old. Victim's vehicles discovered June one at
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Speaker 1: about six am at Riding Road. So that's the timeline.
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Speaker 1: I think we've reported that before. In regards to the investigation,
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Speaker 1: were continuing to look at phone records, social media accounts.
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Speaker 1: Victim associates, friends and family. Who would want Bridget chill dead?
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Speaker 1: Who would want her dad? Um? What do we know
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Speaker 1: from the autopsy report? Let's start with that, Karen Greer,
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Speaker 1: what does it show that autopsy showed that she had
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Speaker 1: been shot several times in her back? Uh as if
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Speaker 1: she has said was running away from her killer. Everybody
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Speaker 1: carrying Greer is at CBS forty six right now, so
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Speaker 1: you're hearing her newsroom in the background. In case you're
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Speaker 1: hearing those voices. Um. Just two hours and thirteen minutes
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Speaker 1: before she was murdered, she talked with a friend on
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Speaker 1: the phone. Everything was fine, but then just thirty minutes later,
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Speaker 1: she was in trouble, witnesses tell police. A witness says
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Speaker 1: she saw Bridget at a shell gas station about twenty
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Speaker 1: miles in the park where she would very soon be murdered.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to what her grandmother says. And I've
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Speaker 1: heard that she was at a gas station in her car.
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Speaker 1: She was not driving. She was in the front seat,
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Speaker 1: but in the passenger side. And I've heard that she
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Speaker 1: looked very unhappy. That is from Crime Watch. Deally was
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Speaker 1: in her car. She was not behind the wheel. We
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Speaker 1: learned that there were two men in her car, possibly
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Speaker 1: holding her captive. Nobody recognizes these guys at the Shell
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Speaker 1: gas station. Was she under some type of coercion? Was
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Speaker 1: she forced into the car according to detectives. Witnesses say
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Speaker 1: she did not look comfortable. She's sitting in the passenger
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Speaker 1: seat of her car. She's not in control of the vehicle.
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Speaker 1: After that, she's found dead in a public park. To
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Speaker 1: Vincent Hill, private investigator, former Nashville p D, there were
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Speaker 1: security cameras at the gas station. Did they catch anything
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Speaker 1: of Bridget's car or who was in it? Nancy? The
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Speaker 1: best that they were able to determine was one male
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Speaker 1: black appeared to be between twenty and thirty years old
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Speaker 1: with the white T shirt, and there was no clear
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Speaker 1: description of the other individual in the car. And to
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Speaker 1: your point, yes, there were witnesses that said Bridget did
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Speaker 1: not appear to be comfortable inside her own vehicle. So,
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Speaker 1: as an investigator, that tells me this is likely where
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Speaker 1: the trouble started for Bridget that night. Well, there's another
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Speaker 1: clue about the car. When the car was found the
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Speaker 1: day after, they find Bridget's body murdered in a public park.
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Speaker 1: Some of her clothing was inside her car. Obviously someone
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Speaker 1: had tried to find to hide the clothing. I guess
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Speaker 1: that means it was stuffed in the glove compartment or
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Speaker 1: stuffed under receipt or under something maybe a a a
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Speaker 1: floor mat. But her clothing was hidden in the car.
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Speaker 1: So her clothing was forced off of her in that car.
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Speaker 1: We think, um, we go ahead, Yeah, her her clothing
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Speaker 1: was in the car. Of course, she was found unfortunately naked.
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Speaker 1: I did receive a call from a source that was
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Speaker 1: close to her friend of Bridget, and the allegation was that, uh,
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Speaker 1: there was an attempt to burn Bridget's body to dispose
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Speaker 1: of it. So of course the easiest way to do
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Speaker 1: that is to make sure the body is naked. Uh.
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Speaker 1: There that hasn't been proven, but again this was a
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Speaker 1: source from someone close to Bridget. Everyone. The tipline in
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Speaker 1: this is four oh four five seven seven tips four
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Speaker 1: zero four five seven seven eight four seven seven to
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Speaker 1: Karen Greer joining me special guests out of CBS forty six. Karen,
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Speaker 1: her clothes were in the car. The car was found
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Speaker 1: not far from the Shell station. Her body was found
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Speaker 1: miles away in a public part. What does that lead
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Speaker 1: you to dds? Karen. We were concerned and as police
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Speaker 1: were when we talked to them about this that you know,
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Speaker 1: she perhaps knew, she knew who she was with. It
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Speaker 1: was her vehicle. Um, she was in the passenger seat
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Speaker 1: and she was driven. She somehow got to that park
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Speaker 1: where her body was found nude. Then hearing that there
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Speaker 1: were about seven gunshot wounds to her back, Uh, that
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Speaker 1: was startling information to hear from the autopsy. And they
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Speaker 1: were the type of bullets that exploded, uh once they
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Speaker 1: were fired in your body. So it was as if
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Speaker 1: it were someone who really didn't want her to be identified.
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Speaker 1: You know, the fact that she has shot so many
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Speaker 1: times very disturbing. You know, she's she's in several music videos. UM.
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Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about how this whole thing went down
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Speaker 1: and who would have shot her so many times as
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Speaker 1: she was running, running naked in a public park. What
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Speaker 1: more do we know about the autopsy report? Um, they
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Speaker 1: said that the shots to her torso were the ones
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Speaker 1: that actually caused her death. UM. And they had thought
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Speaker 1: earlier that she had been dumped at that part, but
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Speaker 1: upon further review, the police said that I believe it
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Speaker 1: all happened in the park and she was trying to
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Speaker 1: get away from whoever committed the murder. I want you
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Speaker 1: to hear this. Well, we initially thought that that she
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Speaker 1: was dumped there because her body was just laying there
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Speaker 1: with nothing, just a new body, no personal belongings, nothing,
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Speaker 1: so so the original theory was that someone for there
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Speaker 1: after she was killed and dumped the body. But upon
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Speaker 1: a further review, we we now believe that the incident
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Speaker 1: actually happened in the park and she was trying to
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Speaker 1: flee whoever it was that committed the murder. I mean,
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Speaker 1: just go ahead, and Nancy, I'm sorry, let me just
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Speaker 1: have this. I viewed the autopsy and some of those
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Speaker 1: rounds entered at a downward angle. So that tells me
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Speaker 1: Bridget was on the ground like we already did, and
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Speaker 1: someone still stood above her and fired those shots into
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Speaker 1: her back and into her buttocks. That's very sad, and
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Speaker 1: it's to me, a crime of rage, a crime of passion.
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Speaker 1: A gorgeous young girl, Bridget Sells shot while running for
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Speaker 1: her life. This was just weeks before she planned to
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Speaker 1: move to Washington, d C. Where she grew up in
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Speaker 1: a military family. Dan against ballet, playing on the soccer field.
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Speaker 1: Uh all American girl growing up. At least take a
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Speaker 1: listen to what her grandmother says. She was live wire,
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Speaker 1: full of energy, full of life, so so much fun
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Speaker 1: to be around. And she was very dramatic. If the
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Speaker 1: sun was shining, she wouldn't say the sun is shining,
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Speaker 1: she'd said, look at the day. That is from crime
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Speaker 1: watch deally And in just a matter of seconds, everything
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Speaker 1: comes to a screeching halt. But in those seconds, she
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Speaker 1: was terrified, terrified and running for her life. She knew
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Speaker 1: she was about to be murdered. To Dr Tiffany Sanders,
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Speaker 1: Chicago Psychologists joining us, I can't even imagine her frame
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Speaker 1: of mind as she's naked, running through a public park,
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Speaker 1: run for her life. Dr Tiffany, I'm sure she couldn't
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Speaker 1: even think straight. Put yourself in her shoes. She's afraid
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Speaker 1: it's dark. Uh, she she doesn't know where to turn. Um,
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Speaker 1: her heart is racing, that flight or flight is kicking in,
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Speaker 1: you know, and and that fear that something is looming
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Speaker 1: behind you. Uh. It's more than I bet her family
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Speaker 1: can't even bear to hear. I want you to hear this.
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Speaker 1: This is harsh but true. I feel worried, sick, and
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Speaker 1: she may have suffered. I don't know if she was
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Speaker 1: tortured that. I don't know what happens. Did she hurt,
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Speaker 1: did they beat her up? You know? How long could
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Speaker 1: she go that she was gonna die? And I'm worried
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Speaker 1: that she knew for hours that she might die. It's
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Speaker 1: feel so guilty the shadow what it could does her
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Speaker 1: mother angela heart broken? Absolutely, Nancy, It's just disturbing to
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Speaker 1: even hear the details. But um, and I'm very concerned
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Speaker 1: because a young lady that comes from a military background,
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Speaker 1: a sort of all American lifestyle, how would she how
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Speaker 1: did she get to the point where she's possibly involved,
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Speaker 1: uh with some unscrupulous people who are doing these things?
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Speaker 1: You know, it makes me question, um, certain things that
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Speaker 1: may have happened in her life, who who was mentoring her,
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Speaker 1: who was guiding her? Uh, you just don't get involved
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Speaker 1: in these type of activities at nineteen nineteen. You're supposed
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Speaker 1: to be in uh in college possibly or some sort
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Speaker 1: of trade school. So there are a lot of questions
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Speaker 1: that are unanswered. But in that moment, uh, it was
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Speaker 1: just fear that was likely in her mind, and she
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Speaker 1: was probably uh knowing that her life was coming to
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Speaker 1: an end Loo. Can you tell me about r I
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Speaker 1: P bullets with me? Vincent Hill, private investigator Karen Greer,
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Speaker 1: investigative reporter with CBS forty and Dr Tiffany Sanders out
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Speaker 1: of Chicago, Rest in Peace RIP radically invasive projectiles. What
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Speaker 1: can you tell me about those type of bullets, Vincent Hill? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I think their named appropriately Nancy r I P
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Speaker 1: because they're designed specifically to explode on impacts. So anytime
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Speaker 1: something enters your body and explodes, it's meant for mass
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Speaker 1: destruction and total damage. And obviously that's what happened here
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Speaker 1: with bridget Well. Another thing, she was shot, as we know,
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Speaker 1: seven times in the back, legs and buttocks with ripped
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Speaker 1: rounds r I P radically invasive projectiles. And these bullets
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Speaker 1: are a little bit like hollow point bullets that explode
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Speaker 1: inside of you. Uh, they're exploding bullets that leave a
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Speaker 1: quote snowstorm like shrapnel effect inside your body and no
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Speaker 1: powder burns. We also know from the autopsy report she
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Speaker 1: was shot at a distance by a killer on the move.
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Speaker 1: The gunshot wounds to the torso if she had been
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Speaker 1: shot thirty six inches or closer, there would have been
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Speaker 1: powder burns, uh gunshot residue or if even closer there
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Speaker 1: had been stippling burning from the the heat of the
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Speaker 1: gun and the gunshot powder. Um. When you look at
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Speaker 1: the path of the bullets, Vincent, they were all to
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Speaker 1: the back side of her, So you're convinced she was
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Speaker 1: definitely running away and then likely shot on the ground. Yeah. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: I mean there are no no ones to the to
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Speaker 1: the front of Bridget. Uh. So again you have to
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Speaker 1: think she's she's neked. She's in this park, it's dark,
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Speaker 1: So she was definitely running. She was definitely afraid, and
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Speaker 1: unfortunately this killer was able to uh get on target,
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Speaker 1: per se and and kill Bridget. So again the rounds
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Speaker 1: that interneted downward spiral tells me she was already on
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Speaker 1: the ground like we did, or just about to that
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Speaker 1: point when that occurred. Well, wouldn't you call this overkill?
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Speaker 1: Seven bullets? I mean, wait, they had to kill her
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Speaker 1: seven times? Over Yeah, absolutely, Nancy, I mean, any one
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Speaker 1: of those rounds one by itself could have killed Bridget.
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Speaker 1: To do it six more times was just nothing but overkill.
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Speaker 1: And again to me, it was rage interesting. Her fingernails.
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Speaker 1: Karen Greer joining me from CBS forty were absolutely perfect,
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Speaker 1: almost as if she were doing a hand add in
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Speaker 1: a magazine. She just had her nails and they were
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Speaker 1: absolutely perfect. And what is intriguing about that is there
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Speaker 1: was no fight her, Her nails were not torn off.
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Speaker 1: We don't know of any DNA under her nails. Nothing.
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Speaker 1: But police did tell me, Nancy in an interview months later,
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Speaker 1: that they did find some DNA in her coon that
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Speaker 1: they thought could help them identify the person who was responsible.
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Speaker 1: Will this then turn out to be a d NA
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Speaker 1: case as of right now, no arrests and no leads.
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Speaker 1: Hold on with that development from Caring Greer, let me
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Speaker 1: pause and think not only our guests Carrying Greer, Vincent Hill,
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Speaker 1: address the fact that DNA was found in Bridget's car
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Speaker 1: and what they may that may mean to the case.
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Speaker 1: But first I want to talk about her boyfriend. He
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Speaker 1: has not been formally named a suspect or a person
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Speaker 1: of interest in the case, although he considers himself the
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Speaker 1: prime suspect. Listen, did the police say that you were
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Speaker 1: a suspect? They said it was a sect, said it
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Speaker 1: was the number one suspect, this one suspect, So it
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Speaker 1: was the number one suspect, and everybody thought I did it.
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Speaker 1: But why would the police say that you're the number
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Speaker 1: one suspect and they think that you did it? What
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Speaker 1: did they tell you that they had on you? Um?
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Speaker 1: Me being the most recent person that she was with.
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Speaker 1: That's all they can tell me. Do the cops still
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Speaker 1: consider you their prime suspect? Uh? Date, I'm highly doubt that.
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Speaker 1: I highly doubt that I'm the prime suspect now because
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Speaker 1: when they called me back the second time to the
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Speaker 1: precinct and they were like, everybody thinks you did it.
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Speaker 1: I was, okay, Bro, I'm gonna sue his whole entire
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Speaker 1: tchituways and you can put us on me. Yeah, I'm
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Speaker 1: very confident. Like, Bro, I know some good lawyers, some
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Speaker 1: of the top followers in the US. Right now, Man,
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Speaker 1: I wish you would put goes with me, bro, Like
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Speaker 1: I would love to call them. I would love the
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Speaker 1: places call brout and they walked out and they can
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Speaker 1: maybe sorry, you can leave. Have they told you they've
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Speaker 1: ruled you out. No, but it doesn't bother me. Don't
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Speaker 1: bother me at all. It doesn't bother I don't even
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Speaker 1: think twice about it. I don't even think twice about
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Speaker 1: being a sussible. That is from Crime Watch Daily, interviewing
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Speaker 1: the boyfriend. So often when I prosecuted feel any cases
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Speaker 1: in inner city Atlanta, if I had access to a
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Speaker 1: nine on one call, I would play it for the
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Speaker 1: jury so they could hear the victim or go back
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Speaker 1: to the moment an incident occurred. Now, this is a
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Speaker 1: normal one call that Bridget herself made regarding fearing her
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Speaker 1: boyfriend and wanting help. He is not a suspect or
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Speaker 1: person of interest in her murder. But listen to Bridget
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Speaker 1: shield my mom, would you to the emergency um um place?
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Speaker 1: There was staying an order on the mark? Were you
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Speaker 1: have thought it in anyway? And what was this person
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Speaker 1: to you? He was my boyfriend. Okay, I don't want
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Speaker 1: you guys to go to this because he said they're
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Speaker 1: not calling. But there's a nine one call of Bridget
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Speaker 1: saying that you had her. I'm not aware of that.
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Speaker 1: I've never heard no call. I've never heard any of this.
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Speaker 1: I've never heard no calud and we're we'll be happy
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Speaker 1: to show you. But how do how do you not
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Speaker 1: know about this report? I mean, this is how do
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Speaker 1: you not know? Bridget this is nine one? She really called.
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Speaker 1: She really caused my fantasy. She called the cops. I mean, seriously,
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Speaker 1: you don't know this? How How was the person who
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Speaker 1: say you're in love with do this and you have
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Speaker 1: no idea who's living with you? I wasn't aware of this.
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Speaker 1: This is man. I really still want to see that.
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Speaker 1: I want to don't interview bro, I want to see
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Speaker 1: what you're talking on. That is from Crime Watch Dly
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Speaker 1: interviewing the boyfriend. Um, I want to go back to
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Speaker 1: the d n A that Karen Greer CBS forty six
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Speaker 1: is telling us about. Karen, do we know where the
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Speaker 1: DNA was? Could it have been innocent DNA? Why? Why
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Speaker 1: do you think this may hold the key to the killer? Well,
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Speaker 1: it didn't appear to be innocent because the police detective
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Speaker 1: that I talked to said that they believe the DNA
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Speaker 1: belongs to the killer, but they've had a problem connecting
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Speaker 1: that DNA with a suspect um, So that leads us
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Speaker 1: to believe that something was left behind. We have some
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Speaker 1: DNA from the scene, and we noted it is male DNA.
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Speaker 1: So we're hoping that at some point we'll we'll get
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Speaker 1: the DNA match to that person, and uh, sometimes it
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Speaker 1: takes a while. At a recent memorial service in Washington,
24:08
Speaker 1: d C. Bridget was remembered as one of a kind,
24:15
Speaker 1: a fashionista that loved everybody and hoping to crack into
24:21
Speaker 1: the world of modeling and fashion. Let's think this through.
24:29
Speaker 1: Police now looking for two men last seen with Bridget
24:32
Speaker 1: in her car outside a Shell Station convenience store. One
24:37
Speaker 1: had on a white T shirt with a goatee and
24:41
Speaker 1: was seen yelling at her. Shortly after, this girl's body
24:46
Speaker 1: was found full of bullets rest in peace, bullets, radically
24:55
Speaker 1: invasive projectiles. Now detectives are exploring every avenue, every avenue.
25:04
Speaker 1: But what we know from the autopsy, there was no
25:08
Speaker 1: sex attack Vincent Hill, That's correct, Nancy. There was no
25:11
Speaker 1: signs of any sexual assault that night, just unfortunately the
25:17
Speaker 1: homicide to Bridget shield mm. Now. Another thing we know
25:22
Speaker 1: is she had a college fund set up that the
25:27
Speaker 1: family was hoping she would use to reinvent herself and
25:32
Speaker 1: start over in college. I'm thinking about this girl's life
25:37
Speaker 1: and what that can mean to the investigation into her death. Also,
25:43
Speaker 1: what do we know about the DNA vincent Hill What
25:46
Speaker 1: can you tell us about CODIS regarding the DNA and
25:51
Speaker 1: APHIS regarding the fingerprints. Yeah, so of course that there's
25:55
Speaker 1: a match to the DNA, CODIS could tie that and
25:58
Speaker 1: of course most states now as if you're arrested and
26:01
Speaker 1: convicted of a felony, you have to give DNA samples. Now,
26:05
Speaker 1: the problem here is if this individual has never been
26:08
Speaker 1: arrested or never fingerprinted, uh, there may be difficulty tying
26:13
Speaker 1: that DNA to anyone. My suspicion is, if you're cold
26:17
Speaker 1: enough to shoot someone seven times, chances are you've been
26:21
Speaker 1: involved with law enforcement before, you're known to law enforcement.
26:26
Speaker 1: So I would suspect that that DNA is on file
26:29
Speaker 1: for someone and hopefully it leads to bridgets killer convincing.
26:32
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. That's one of the things that detectives said.
26:35
Speaker 1: It could take a while. Usually they are able to
26:38
Speaker 1: track it down, but sometimes it takes them a while
26:41
Speaker 1: to get those DNA matches. If the person is not
26:43
Speaker 1: in the system, if they don't have a previous felony record.
26:47
Speaker 1: I mean in a lot of states. Here, DNA doesn't
26:49
Speaker 1: go in the system unless you have a felony. Some
26:52
Speaker 1: states don't include misdemeanor crimes. But then there's also aphis
26:58
Speaker 1: for fingerprints, where any fingerprints found in the car? Everybody,
27:01
Speaker 1: for those of you just joining us here at series
27:03
Speaker 1: X two, Kring Greer from CBS forty six, Vincent Hill
27:07
Speaker 1: private investigator, and Dr Tiffany Sanders, Chicago psychologists joining us
27:13
Speaker 1: as we investigate the murder of a beautiful nineteen year
27:18
Speaker 1: old girl who had just launched her modeling career with
27:22
Speaker 1: a music video, Bridget Shiel Too Caring Greer, CBS forty six.
27:28
Speaker 1: Any fingerprints in the car? Uh? They mentioned no finger
27:32
Speaker 1: Prince Nancy that they could identify as as being anything
27:36
Speaker 1: that shouldn't have been there, you know, and you talked
27:38
Speaker 1: about Bridget being beautiful. She just graduated from high school
27:41
Speaker 1: not you know, months before, and was really trying to
27:45
Speaker 1: get started and do cosmetology training. She wanted to do
27:50
Speaker 1: hair and to do nails, so that was something she
27:53
Speaker 1: was looking forward to. Um how her life was just
27:57
Speaker 1: stopped so quickly and her young life is still something
28:02
Speaker 1: that police are looking to solve very quickly. They'd hope
28:06
Speaker 1: to have something by the end of last year. Now
28:08
Speaker 1: we're in another year and they still have no more
28:11
Speaker 1: leads than they had before. Do you think her case
28:14
Speaker 1: is being neglected, Karen? I would hate to say that, Nancy,
28:17
Speaker 1: because the detective I spoke with tearfully talk to me.
28:21
Speaker 1: It's something he thought of his daughter, um and he
28:24
Speaker 1: said he didn't want to rest until her killer was found.
28:27
Speaker 1: And he's about to retire from the force. Actually, you
28:30
Speaker 1: know what's so ironic to Dr Tiffany Sanders. Her motto
28:36
Speaker 1: was she lived and loved and laughed and left. That
28:44
Speaker 1: was her motto. It's almost like she predicted her death
28:47
Speaker 1: and demise early. UM, live, love and left. Wow. Uh
28:52
Speaker 1: And and it's a it's a great inspiring model, right,
28:55
Speaker 1: I'm gonna live and I'm gonna love. But she left
28:57
Speaker 1: too early. And for some who had a college fund,
29:01
Speaker 1: for someone uh to you know, move to another location
29:06
Speaker 1: to start their life and to be involved in school
29:08
Speaker 1: and and early job opportunities is very exciting. But at
29:12
Speaker 1: least me to question who uh guided her off track,
29:17
Speaker 1: who exposed her to these individuals who likely uh shot
29:23
Speaker 1: her in the back while she was fearing not likely
29:27
Speaker 1: they did shoot her in the back, as she's feared
29:29
Speaker 1: for her life. So I'm concerned that we're overlooking who
29:36
Speaker 1: possibly is influencing this young lady at eighteen nineteen. You're
29:39
Speaker 1: very impressionable, You're you're looking for guidance. Someone guided her
29:44
Speaker 1: off track and unfortunately, uh, it costed her. It costs
29:49
Speaker 1: her life, and and something that we should really be
29:51
Speaker 1: concerned about. Just wondering what, if anything that surveillance video
29:55
Speaker 1: can show. I know her family is heartbroken. Take a
29:59
Speaker 1: listen what her grandmother says. I spoke to her the
30:03
Speaker 1: day before she was murdered. I had sent her money
30:07
Speaker 1: because she needed a place to stay. She wanted to
30:10
Speaker 1: not stay with Kevin and go stay in a motel.
30:15
Speaker 1: I wanted her to be able to do that. On
30:19
Speaker 1: the day that she was murdered. She had texted me
30:22
Speaker 1: that morning, darling, I love you, and she had also called,
30:28
Speaker 1: but somehow my phone got turned off, so I missed
30:32
Speaker 1: her call. I miss her every day. I think of
30:36
Speaker 1: her every day. I just wish she was still here.
30:40
Speaker 1: I think she had a lot of growing up to do,
30:43
Speaker 1: and I wish she'd been given the chance to grow up.
30:48
Speaker 1: I will miss her forever. That was Bridget's grandmother who
30:53
Speaker 1: spoke to her just the day before that evening. Um
30:59
Speaker 1: Her mom, Angela, says her daughter's friend said the two
31:03
Speaker 1: were getting together that night to go to a party together,
31:08
Speaker 1: but that never happened. The friend says Bridget got into
31:14
Speaker 1: her car, said she'd be right back, and that was
31:18
Speaker 1: the last she saw of her. How did she end
31:21
Speaker 1: up in the car with these two guys, one allegedly
31:25
Speaker 1: yelling at her? What changed? And why can't I ask you?
31:30
Speaker 1: Vincent Hill? Are police so convinced that she was actually
31:34
Speaker 1: murdered in the park, not just dumped there. Well, Nancy,
31:37
Speaker 1: it's interesting that originally the the belief was that she
31:41
Speaker 1: was dumped there. However, once she started going back and
31:46
Speaker 1: looking at things, there was a call around one thirty
31:51
Speaker 1: in that park, uh of shots fired. The Staton snapchat
31:58
Speaker 1: kind of ties her to the park, so I think
32:00
Speaker 1: police were able to start putting that together to say
32:03
Speaker 1: this is where the murder actually occurred. And plus there
32:06
Speaker 1: were witnesses that said they saw a young female matching
32:09
Speaker 1: bridgets description in the park area just before the shooting,
32:13
Speaker 1: So I think police were able to tie that to
32:16
Speaker 1: say that's where the murders actually occurred, according to police
32:19
Speaker 1: investigator Vincent Velasquez. He insists that she was shot in
32:25
Speaker 1: the park, that there was no evidence that her body
32:30
Speaker 1: had been attempted to be burned, that she was not
32:35
Speaker 1: on the ground when she was shot, that they believe
32:37
Speaker 1: she was running from her attacker at that time. He
32:42
Speaker 1: claims that those reports have a negative impact on the family.
32:48
Speaker 1: To me, those are things left to be determined by
32:52
Speaker 1: the autopsy. You can't really tell about angles and trajectory
32:57
Speaker 1: paths unless you're perform mean the autopsy. Listen. There's no
33:03
Speaker 1: evidence to suggest that bridget Shield was shot while on
33:06
Speaker 1: the ground. There's no, excuse me, no evidence to suggest
33:13
Speaker 1: that the killer's plan on burning her body, uh it
33:16
Speaker 1: to suggests that is speculation. There's no evidence to suggest,
33:21
Speaker 1: excuse me, that her tattoos had anything to do with
33:26
Speaker 1: what happened to this victim. A lot of speculation surrounding
33:31
Speaker 1: this case. But the video, the video to carrying Greer
33:35
Speaker 1: CBS forty six, What specifically does the video show, which
33:39
Speaker 1: I was very afraid, a very nervous bridget Shield. It
33:43
Speaker 1: shows two gentlemen who are very forceful with her, who
33:48
Speaker 1: obviously we're not there to help her, assist her, make
33:52
Speaker 1: her comfortable. It shows a very suspicious scene, nothing that
33:59
Speaker 1: would if if it were daylight, people would probably be
34:02
Speaker 1: concerned about. But with it being late at night, that
34:05
Speaker 1: gas station, Memorial Drive and Rockbridge Drive and decapp County. Uh,
34:11
Speaker 1: it's it's an area that you know, it's frequently people
34:13
Speaker 1: going past there all the time, but really nobody paying attention.
34:17
Speaker 1: So it's interesting that they she was. The car was
34:22
Speaker 1: ditched behind a cell phone tower in Stone Mountains, several
34:26
Speaker 1: miles from that crime scene. Later on a police able
34:29
Speaker 1: to find it and you know, trying to still find
34:33
Speaker 1: whoever committed that murder. It was Major Adam Lee, the
34:38
Speaker 1: third of Atlanta Police, the homicide detective, who said he
34:42
Speaker 1: wanted to solve this um he thought of his own child.
34:46
Speaker 1: But he's retiring this year, so this is one of
34:48
Speaker 1: those cases that he was very upset. He's not able
34:51
Speaker 1: to find a conclusion to to find out who murdered
34:54
Speaker 1: this young, beautiful girl. And all Bridges mom can do
34:58
Speaker 1: now is wonder, wonder what her daughter's last moments must
35:02
Speaker 1: have been like. And she says, and I'm quoting, that's
35:05
Speaker 1: the worst part of all this, How did Bridget feel
35:09
Speaker 1: during the time when she was running. She wanted to
35:12
Speaker 1: be a model, She had a lot of friends. She
35:15
Speaker 1: was the type of young girl who could go out,
35:18
Speaker 1: not know anyone and walk away and everybody would be
35:21
Speaker 1: her friend. I don't think I can get past this
35:24
Speaker 1: point of grieving until someone has been found. What does
35:29
Speaker 1: that say to you, Dr Tiffany Sanders, Well, Nancy, it's
35:34
Speaker 1: a trauma. It's a trauma that happened to her family.
35:37
Speaker 1: It's overwhelming and it's difficult for her to process that.
35:41
Speaker 1: If if my young daughter beautiful, full of joy and
35:45
Speaker 1: loving and she trusted individuals, I don't know who to trust,
35:50
Speaker 1: I don't know if I should trust her friends her enemy.
35:53
Speaker 1: So it's very overwhelming and that level of grief is
35:56
Speaker 1: difficult to manage. Um, you know, all you can do
36:01
Speaker 1: and hope and pray is that she gets some sort
36:03
Speaker 1: of peace, knowing that the police are still actively pursuing
36:07
Speaker 1: this investigation and that it has not left in my
36:10
Speaker 1: minds of residents and family and friends in Atlanta. Again,
36:15
Speaker 1: the tip line four oh four or five seven seven
36:18
Speaker 1: tips you know another irony to Karen Greer with CBS
36:23
Speaker 1: forty six he's been on the case from the very beginning.
36:25
Speaker 1: That music video that she had just done, Uh, it
36:30
Speaker 1: was big Ya video and the translation is open fire.
36:39
Speaker 1: That's what the translation to that is open fire. Yes,
36:44
Speaker 1: it is. As Dr Tiffany has said, you know, it
36:47
Speaker 1: appears she almost knew. There were some signs that she
36:51
Speaker 1: would not make it to UM. Some of the things
36:55
Speaker 1: that perhaps the crowd she was running with. Dr Tiffany
36:58
Speaker 1: talked about who who had her out there and it
37:01
Speaker 1: changed her course in high school. UM kids talked about
37:04
Speaker 1: she was a quiet girl who's smart. UM, she'd done
37:08
Speaker 1: very well in high school and it appears started running
37:11
Speaker 1: with the wrong crowd that UM really put her in danger.
37:16
Speaker 1: Perhaps some were saying, and Vincent can speak to this,
37:19
Speaker 1: that she may have seen some things that she shouldn't
37:22
Speaker 1: have seen, and there were people that didn't want her
37:25
Speaker 1: to ever talk about it. UM. There were so many
37:29
Speaker 1: stories out there. We got calls from people who said
37:32
Speaker 1: they were friends and and they knew who might have
37:35
Speaker 1: done it, and that the person left town. So police
37:39
Speaker 1: telling us that they had so many calls about this case.
37:42
Speaker 1: And then why is it still cold? That's what I
37:46
Speaker 1: want to know. With all the calls and all the
37:47
Speaker 1: information DNA in the car. Why is the case still unsolved?
37:52
Speaker 1: Why is Bridget's mother still unable to move forward because
37:57
Speaker 1: no one has been caught And the murder of her
38:00
Speaker 1: little girl, the girl who is an amber Rose lookalike. Um,
38:08
Speaker 1: let me say, a young amber Rose found naked in
38:14
Speaker 1: a park, her body riddled with bullets. I don't. I
38:19
Speaker 1: just don't get power a lot. I'm gonna get what
38:23
Speaker 1: she should have done, right, I really don't. I can't
38:26
Speaker 1: think of any reason, not even one. We are back
38:32
Speaker 1: in the investigation in the murder of a teen girl
38:37
Speaker 1: found naked and riddled with bullets in a public park.
38:42
Speaker 1: Back to Vincent Hill, private investigator. I'm I'm looking at
38:47
Speaker 1: the surveillance video at that at the shell station of
38:51
Speaker 1: her car. What do you think about the car? What
38:53
Speaker 1: clues can we get from that? What assumptions can we
38:56
Speaker 1: make about the car? Well? What it tells me, Nancy,
38:58
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, it's it's someone that was familiar with that area,
39:02
Speaker 1: that may have lived in that area. I don't find
39:05
Speaker 1: a coincidence that the car was found just about three
39:08
Speaker 1: miles from that shell station behind the restaurant against somebody
39:13
Speaker 1: that knew the area in the car was at least
39:16
Speaker 1: twenty five miles from where the murders occurred. So somebody
39:21
Speaker 1: purposely drove that car there to get away from the
39:24
Speaker 1: crime scene, to get closer to their residents. And I
39:27
Speaker 1: think that's the circle where investigators should be looking at.
39:31
Speaker 1: I'm sure they are looking at, but it's very important.
39:34
Speaker 1: Who who drives twenty five miles if they live by
39:38
Speaker 1: the park con versus dumping the car by the park?
39:41
Speaker 1: Also interesting the car had a dent in the passengers
39:44
Speaker 1: side bump her um, I wonder what if anything that means,
39:48
Speaker 1: if it's connected to this. We know that she suffered
39:52
Speaker 1: multiple gunshot wounds to her back, buttocks, and legs. Did
39:57
Speaker 1: she ever even turn around? A license plate reader camera
40:02
Speaker 1: picked up a red Ford Fusion registered to her near
40:07
Speaker 1: Roswell and north Ridge Roads. That's twenty five miles from
40:10
Speaker 1: the scene. Now, how the car came to pass through
40:13
Speaker 1: that area at an even greater distance from the ultimate
40:18
Speaker 1: whereabouts of the car owners is yet to be understood.
40:22
Speaker 1: I mean, when you're talking about north Ridge Road and
40:25
Speaker 1: Roswell Road, that's a long way from Stone Mountain. Where
40:30
Speaker 1: was this car taken Vincent Hill and why, Yeah, absolutely, Nancy.
40:34
Speaker 1: And here's what's ironic about Roswell and north Ridge where
40:38
Speaker 1: that car was seen on the surveillance camera. The house
40:41
Speaker 1: that was rented out by Kevin McKinney, the bridget sealed
40:45
Speaker 1: portion at the time, was in that area. So that
40:49
Speaker 1: car was going in the route towards Kevin McKinney's mother's house.
40:55
Speaker 1: So it's ironic coincidence. Maybe not that Bridget's car after
41:04
Speaker 1: she was killed was seen going towards Kevin McKinney's mother's house.
41:09
Speaker 1: That's a huge clue in my mind. It's a huge
41:11
Speaker 1: red flag in this Yeah. As I always say, there's
41:14
Speaker 1: a coincidence in criminal law. Back to Karen Greer CBS
41:18
Speaker 1: forty six, Karen is the boyfriend a person of interest.
41:23
Speaker 1: It's my understanding he's not been formally named a person
41:26
Speaker 1: of interest or suspect in this case. He has not, Nancy,
41:29
Speaker 1: he has never been named a person of interest or
41:32
Speaker 1: a suspect, but he has said in interviews, several interviews,
41:35
Speaker 1: he is the main suspect. He's the one everybody's looking at.
41:39
Speaker 1: He broke down crying when he was asked about her
41:42
Speaker 1: and said he if he were there in that park
41:44
Speaker 1: in Oakland Park that night, he would have taken those
41:47
Speaker 1: bullets for her. So, um, yes, it's a very interesting situation.
41:54
Speaker 1: He had a new girlfriend. Um, he had a child
41:58
Speaker 1: by that that woman. There were even reports early on
42:01
Speaker 1: that perhaps Bridget was pregnant. The autopsy did not show pregnancy,
42:07
Speaker 1: but um, Vincent Hill and I had learned that perhaps
42:12
Speaker 1: she had had an abortion before that. Speaking of the
42:16
Speaker 1: boyfriend from Crime Watch Daily listened to this. Her autopsy
42:21
Speaker 1: showed that she was not pregnant. So what's the truth.
42:26
Speaker 1: I'm still even know where Bridget was still pregnant or not,
42:29
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure she was. I'm pretty sure it was. Yeah,
42:32
Speaker 1: that Bridget was carrying your child. You know, I'm pretty
42:36
Speaker 1: sure it was. There's no denying when I know for
42:38
Speaker 1: a fact. And what was your discussion with Bridget about
42:42
Speaker 1: this child on the way? It was two text message
42:45
Speaker 1: and I was at the mother of my child, and
42:48
Speaker 1: I had to basically like so Bridget, like I don't
42:52
Speaker 1: believe you. Like I had to play it off because
42:54
Speaker 1: I was trying to be a family man and I
42:55
Speaker 1: don't want to lose my son because when we get
42:57
Speaker 1: crazy with these type of things. The rumor after that
43:01
Speaker 1: is that Bridget ended the pregnancy, but it was a rumor.
43:05
Speaker 1: She would never be able to substantiate the story. Nancy
43:08
Speaker 1: is just there's still so many unanswered questions in this
43:12
Speaker 1: case that police are asking for any help they can
43:15
Speaker 1: to help solve it. To Dr Tiffany Sanders, Chicago psychologist,
43:18
Speaker 1: why aren't people coming forward with evidence? Well, Nancy, she
43:23
Speaker 1: was found running through park and shot seven times in
43:27
Speaker 1: the back. That's not a typical murder. As events alluded to,
43:31
Speaker 1: there was some sort of rage and passionate anger. So
43:35
Speaker 1: to hear that it wasn't some sort of random drive by,
43:39
Speaker 1: but that she was targeted in that heinous way, it
43:42
Speaker 1: would frighten many people from wanting to speak up and
43:45
Speaker 1: to be involved in any sort of investigation for their
43:48
Speaker 1: own lives. The world being uh So, it makes sense.
43:52
Speaker 1: It's it's not the best thing, but it definitely makes
43:54
Speaker 1: sense why people may be quiet. Where does it stand
43:57
Speaker 1: now to carrying career CBS forty six, We are trying
44:01
Speaker 1: to ignite the cold case of a murdered teen girl,
44:06
Speaker 1: Bridget Shield with the world in front of her. She
44:09
Speaker 1: had just gotten an offer to star in the music video,
44:14
Speaker 1: her dreams were coming true, her life cut short in
44:18
Speaker 1: a horrible way. Karen Career, CBS forty six. Where does
44:23
Speaker 1: it all stand now when Nancy Atlanta? Police are hoping
44:26
Speaker 1: some witnesses from that store that saw Shield and those
44:30
Speaker 1: men will come forward with some information. They said at
44:34
Speaker 1: least three, four or five even people went into that store,
44:37
Speaker 1: purchased something, went out and may have seen her. Um,
44:41
Speaker 1: and they may know who those guys are. The guys
44:44
Speaker 1: may have been regulars at the store because, as Vincent said,
44:46
Speaker 1: they knew that area. So police are hoping that will
44:50
Speaker 1: help them, and they're also helping that something comes back
44:54
Speaker 1: eventually on that DNA found in the car and on
44:57
Speaker 1: the crime scene. So that's they are with this. They're
45:00
Speaker 1: just waiting for something to break free in this case.
45:05
Speaker 1: I want you to hear this. Let me ask you this,
45:09
Speaker 1: and we got to be very clear now this is
45:11
Speaker 1: on the record. Did you Kevin had anything to do
45:16
Speaker 1: with the murder of Bridget Shield. No, not at all.
45:21
Speaker 1: I woke up to finding out that she got killed.
45:24
Speaker 1: I got the call and I just hook on tears. Um.
45:30
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. It was the most
45:33
Speaker 1: crazy craziest. I don't know where unexpected thing that ever
45:38
Speaker 1: happened in my life because no matter what, is this
45:41
Speaker 1: heartbreaking to me? Man, because that was the woman that
45:45
Speaker 1: I probably would have been married to. So yeah, bridget
45:50
Speaker 1: world alive today, you're saying you'd be with her. Yeah,
45:53
Speaker 1: I want married man. I gol have a ring on
45:55
Speaker 1: anything right now, bro, like a very expensive ring on
45:58
Speaker 1: finger right now. If you have any information regarding the
46:03
Speaker 1: death of this young girl, Brigitte Shiel, please call crime
46:07
Speaker 1: Stoppers at four zero four five seven seven Tips four
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Speaker 1: zero four five seven seven t I P. S. Nancy Grace,
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories, signing off, good bye friend,