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The Brutal and Disturbing Murder of Ariana Wolk [True Crime Documentary] · NO FILTER

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Speaker 1: In July twenty twenty, the granddaughter of a Manson family
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Speaker 1: victim was discovered by a friend deceased in her Colorado apartment.
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Speaker 1: Arianna Woke had been brutally stabbed to death, meeting the
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Speaker 1: same violent end as that suffered by her grandmother five
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Speaker 1: decades earlier. Neighbors recounted seeing Ariana earlier in the day,
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Speaker 1: and she was not alone. What these witnesses told detectives
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Speaker 1: was not only revealing, but also deeply disturbing. Hi there,
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Speaker 1: I'm Kevin, and welcome to Just Thought Lounge. Today's case
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Speaker 1: takes us to Colorado in twenty twenty, but the details,
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Speaker 1: unfortunately hearken back to a brutal murder that took place
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Speaker 1: in California five decades earlier. The details surrounding this case
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Speaker 1: are far less well known, yet some are chillingly similar
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Speaker 1: and equally strange. Let's take a look. On Friday, July third,
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Speaker 1: just before nine thirty pm, a call was placed to
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Speaker 1: Denver nine one one from a resident of an apartment
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Speaker 1: building on North Oneida Street. The caller explained that a
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Speaker 1: man had knocked on their door moments earlier, stating that
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Speaker 1: they arrived at the unit upstairs to find their friend
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Speaker 1: who lived there dead.
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Speaker 2: And then I went to my house which is on
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Speaker 2: just about Mountain six day and I was there the
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Speaker 2: whole time, so I just came back.
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Speaker 3: You walked inside.
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Speaker 4: The back room was open, and I.
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Speaker 2: Stay down here and asked her to call because my
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Speaker 2: son's actually in her room.
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Speaker 1: Forty year old Ariana Woke was found on her bedroom
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Speaker 1: floor near the closet. The single mother of a young son,
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Speaker 1: was pronounced dead by paramedics upon their arrival. She had
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Speaker 1: suffered nearly twenty stab wounds, many to her back and neck.
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Speaker 1: The friend who had discovered Ariana told officers on scene
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Speaker 1: that she had been struggling recently with alcohol addiction. They
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Speaker 1: were staying at the apartment temporarily to assist her sobriety.
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Speaker 1: Ariana's son was with other family on the night of
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Speaker 1: her death. That day, she had plans to attend a
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Speaker 1: barbecue with her boyfriend earlier.
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Speaker 2: Today was where I led. She was like, and I
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Speaker 2: was like, no, I need to go home. I change
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Speaker 2: anything in two days. So I said, I'm going, and
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Speaker 2: she was supposed to be going to City Park to
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Speaker 2: see too.
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Speaker 1: Barb Officers then spoke with the neighbor who called nine
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Speaker 1: one one. That individual had seen Ariana earlier in the
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Speaker 1: day and she had not been alone. The neighbor described
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Speaker 1: the man that she saw with Ariana that night.
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Speaker 5: So what time today did you see him?
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Speaker 3: He was the light outside, dark outside.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was told by blind to nine and I
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Speaker 2: saw him. I looked out the back window and he
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Speaker 2: was there, and he went around the back park.
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Speaker 3: He came in, went into the ground. The white guy, guy, black, white, white.
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Speaker 1: The downstairs neighbor told the officer un scene that the
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Speaker 1: unknown man knocked on her door around eight forty five pm.
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Speaker 1: He wanted to speak with her about what he said
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Speaker 1: was Arianna's strange behavior.
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Speaker 4: Twice, and he asked you could I come up? Can
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Speaker 4: I talk to you about to do it right?
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Speaker 6: You know?
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Speaker 3: And he says, well, I don't like she's a weird
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Speaker 3: and everything to her.
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Speaker 7: But he said she was, you know, acting strange.
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Speaker 3: Okay, he said, okay, he went back up stand but he.
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Speaker 4: Said he was reading.
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Speaker 8: Okay.
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Speaker 4: But later I saw him in the backroom the dog.
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Speaker 1: So that was that. After stating that Ariana was a
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Speaker 1: threat to herself, the man said he was leaving, except
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Speaker 1: he didn't. The neighbor saw him in the backyard just
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Speaker 1: a half an hour later, and he was shirtless. It
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Speaker 1: was only fifteen minutes after that Arianna's friend found her
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Speaker 1: on the bedroom floor. Arianna had lived on Oneida Street
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Speaker 1: alone for only a short time. Her on again, off
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Speaker 1: again boyfriend had moved out only a few months prior
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Speaker 1: to her death. Described by friends as a sweet person
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Speaker 1: and a loving mother, she was known for her generous spirit,
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Speaker 1: her silliness, and positive personality. Ariana was born on Easy
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Speaker 1: Street in Penn Valley, California, into a family that had
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Speaker 1: experienced tragedy years before. In August nineteen sixty nine, her mother,
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Speaker 1: Susan Laberge, had discovered her own mother, Rosemary, and stepfather
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Speaker 1: Lino LaBianca, brutally murdered in their Los Angeles home, victims
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Speaker 1: of Charles Manson and his followers. The LaBianca murders took
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Speaker 1: place the night following the infamous killing of actress Sharon
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Speaker 1: Tate and four of her companions. Manson was reportedly unhappy
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Speaker 1: with how the Tape murders had gone down too much
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Speaker 1: panic insufficient weapons, so the next night he took the
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Speaker 1: four murderers from the night before, as well as two
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Speaker 1: more followers in search of another house to break into,
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Speaker 1: more people to murder. For reasons that are debated, he
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Speaker 1: chose the home of Lino LaBianca, who was a wealthy
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Speaker 1: grocery store executive. He and wife Rosemary, Ariana's grandmother, were
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Speaker 1: brutally murdered. Rosemary was found in the living room, Lino
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Speaker 1: in the bedroom. Each had been stabbed dozens of times.
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Speaker 1: Ariana was born in nineteen seventy nine, ten years after
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Speaker 1: the killings. At forty years old, she was just two
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Speaker 1: years older than her grandmother had been when she too
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Speaker 1: was stabbed to death in her home. Shortly after officers
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Speaker 1: secured the scene and began interviewing witnesses, detectives arrived. They
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Speaker 1: found what appeared to be a trail of blood beginning
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Speaker 1: in the bedroom, through the living room on the floor,
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Speaker 1: and leading into the kitchen. There was a folding knife
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Speaker 1: with blood on it in the kitchen sink, as well
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Speaker 1: as residue on the faucet. The obvious suspect was Arianna's
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Speaker 1: sometimes boyfriend, a man named Patrick. Friends reported that she
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Speaker 1: was meant to meet with him that day. There was
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Speaker 1: also a history of domestic violence in their relationship. In fact,
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Speaker 1: Patrick was on pre trial release from an incident that
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Speaker 1: took place between the two of them in May of
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Speaker 1: that year. Since then, he had been living out of
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Speaker 1: his car. Patrick sat down with detectives the day following
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Speaker 1: the murder.
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Speaker 8: Were you at anywhere near you and Ice Street address?
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Speaker 8: At early yesterday?
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Speaker 3: Closest I was was the Walgreens? Okay?
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Speaker 4: What time was that?
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Speaker 3: Two three o'clock, like right after that barbecue?
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Speaker 8: Did you have any contact with Arianna yesterday in person?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 8: I did at the Walgreens.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, and at the Walgreens or another business nearby Walgreens?
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Speaker 3: Okay, can you do me you real quick?
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Speaker 8: Keepe your hands out like that for me, and then
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Speaker 8: can you check your hands over?
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Patrick told the detective that he spoke with Ariana briefly
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Speaker 1: at a Walgreens the afternoon before she died. She seemed
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Speaker 1: to have been drinking, he said, and was too inebriated
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Speaker 1: to continue with their plans, so he left. He also
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Speaker 1: introduced another line of inquiry. Patrick stated that Ariana was
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Speaker 1: quick to make new friends. He claimed that she had
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Speaker 1: a habit of inviting strangers back to her apartment. Often
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Speaker 1: these were individuals without a home of their own. According
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Speaker 1: to Patrick, she befriended random people on the street.
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Speaker 10: The thing with Ariana is if she gets intoxicated, she
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Speaker 10: brings some people.
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Speaker 8: Okay, vay grants.
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Speaker 10: I mean I used to be like a homeless and
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Speaker 10: so like she would bring home people and complete strangers
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Speaker 10: and just put trust in them.
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Speaker 6: What do you mean by that, Like, here's my debit card,
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Speaker 6: go to the store, like okay, no thought process when
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Speaker 6: drinking about people taking advantage or doing.
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Speaker 4: Stuff like that.
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Speaker 10: So how often is she bringing people to the house frequent?
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Speaker 8: Like daily?
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Speaker 3: Okay?
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Speaker 10: No, it was just like friendly, like I'm trying to.
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Speaker 8: Feed them, help them out type of okay.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: When Patrick encountered Arianna at the Walgreens, he said that
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Speaker 1: she was with an unknown young man. They had just
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Speaker 1: met on the street while on her way to the store.
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Speaker 1: Only minutes before.
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Speaker 8: Was she with anyone.
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Speaker 10: She was intoxicated, and she was with like a younger
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Speaker 10: twenty year old kid.
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Speaker 3: You look like like the.
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Speaker 10: Kind of flamboyant dark dark hair, white black, hispanic, oh white,
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Speaker 10: you're seeing flamboyant?
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Speaker 3: Soay? I mean.
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Speaker 10: Like he just had like like like a gayer stylish haircut.
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Speaker 9: I'm trying to not be drawing forward, You're saying younger, Like, how.
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Speaker 3: Twenty she said. She was like, Oh I met this okay,
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Speaker 3: twenty year old blah blah blah blah blah.
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Speaker 8: She was like, do you know what he was wearing.
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Speaker 10: I might have had a red shirt, but I mean
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Speaker 10: I just briefly saw him.
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Speaker 8: Did she introduce him?
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Speaker 3: She did, but I don't remember his name.
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Speaker 10: She met him supposedly walking from one night at the Walgreens.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: While detectives spoke with Patrick, they also verified his alibi.
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Speaker 1: One condition of his pre trial release was an ankle monitor.
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Speaker 1: Pre Trial services tracked Patrick's GPS from that device on
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Speaker 1: the day of the murder and found that he was
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Speaker 1: not at Ariana's address at any time. He was eliminated
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Speaker 1: as a suspect in her murder. As strange as it seemed,
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Speaker 1: he was not the only one to tell detectives that
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Speaker 1: Ariana had a habit of inviting vacrants to her home.
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Speaker 1: Returning to the neighbors in her building, They spoke with
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Speaker 1: the son of one tenant who was frequently visiting the
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Speaker 1: downstairs apartment. He not only confirmed that seeing Ariana with
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Speaker 1: new people regularly was common, but he also described seeing
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Speaker 1: a man that matched the description provided by Patrick.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 4: New faces well that she had every day.
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Speaker 8: Uh did you see the neighbor at the house?
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Speaker 3: Uh?
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Speaker 4: Yes, she was coming from the.
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Speaker 7: The liquer store, I guess, okay, and she was she
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Speaker 7: had to go walk walking the door, okay?
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Speaker 4: Did was she with anyone else at that time?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 4: Did you hear.
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Speaker 3: Somebody else or see somebody else?
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Speaker 4: Seeing this guy? And I've never seen before? My mom says,
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Speaker 4: you see, okay, what do you look like? It was
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Speaker 4: a Mexican gun with a box hout. I seen him
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Speaker 4: real good. When you know, she felt unstead here on
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Speaker 4: in the like the back door, okay, I.
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Speaker 7: Mean her foot was playing on the top. I don't okay, football,
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Speaker 7: you know from the top. It was on the top.
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Speaker 7: And I said, oh, did you push you? Did you
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Speaker 7: just push her? And he said no, she said no,
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Speaker 7: he's gay.
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Speaker 1: Surveillance video from a camera on East cool Fax Avenue
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Speaker 1: in North Monaco Street at five fifteen pm on July
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Speaker 1: third showed Ariana walking eastbound on the street in the
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Speaker 1: company of a man with black hair. Her friend's small
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Speaker 1: dog walked with them. The man was wearing all black
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Speaker 1: with bright red shoes. They were captured crossing the street
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Speaker 1: and continuing in the direction of Ariana's apartment on Oneida
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Speaker 1: On Colfax Street, the two had entered a store that
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Speaker 1: was equipped with internal security cameras. Still images from these
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Speaker 1: cameras showed the man in black carrying a clear plastic
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Speaker 1: Starbucks cup filled with a pink drink. He also had
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Speaker 1: a distinctive tattoo on his left forearm. It was the
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Speaker 1: Starbucks cup that detectives narrowed in on. One similar to
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Speaker 1: it had been discarded on the front yard of Ariana's
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Speaker 1: building and spotted by officers. That cup was later recovered
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Speaker 1: from the lawn and sent for testing. Fingerprints pulled from
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Speaker 1: the plastic returned a match. Jose Sondeval Romero was twenty
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Speaker 1: four years old with a matching build to the man
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Speaker 1: in the surveillance. He had short, dark brown hair and
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Speaker 1: a red tattoo on his arm, which appeared to match
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Speaker 1: the one captured on camera. On July seventh, Jose was
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Speaker 1: brought into the station for questioning. Unlike Patrick, who had
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Speaker 1: no visible cuts or scratches on his hands or arms,
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Speaker 1: Jose had two separate, partially heeled cuts to his right
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Speaker 1: hand it was a telltale sign consistent with a knife
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Speaker 1: slipping as he made stabbing motions. These cuts were also
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Speaker 1: thought to be the cause of the blood droplets observed
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Speaker 1: on the living room and kitchen floors at the murder scene.
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Speaker 1: Complaining of light sensitivity, Jose wore his sunglasses for most
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Speaker 1: of the interview. He began by explaining how he had
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Speaker 1: encountered Ariana that afternoon while she was arguing with Patrick.
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Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, this lady and his
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Speaker 3: guy were fighting outside of the walgings when the lady
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Speaker 3: started coming up to me asking me like are you like,
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Speaker 3: are you okay? And I'm like, uh, do I know you?
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Speaker 3: Is that your boyfriend right there is he's gonna try
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Speaker 3: to beat me up if I talk to you. The
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Speaker 3: boy friend got out the car and you don't try
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Speaker 3: to talk to her. But she said that he had
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Speaker 3: like a restraining order on her or something or ankle bracelet,
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Speaker 3: and I was like, you don't need to cry, it's okay.
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Speaker 3: She just kept telling me that she wanted to put
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Speaker 3: some type of drug in me, because she said that
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Speaker 3: she does these type of drugs to herself. She says
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Speaker 3: she puts fog poison in her body, and she says
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Speaker 3: that she wanted me to go with her and do
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Speaker 3: the same thing, and I told her, no, I don't
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Speaker 3: know nothing about that stuff.
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Speaker 8: What Walgreens you're talking about is the one that's next
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Speaker 8: to frosted leaf? Is that the walgreens you're talking about? Yeah, okay,
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Speaker 8: So you.
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Speaker 9: Say you run into this lady and this guy, so
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Speaker 9: they're arguing, so he ends up leaving and then you guys.
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Speaker 1: Jose said that after Patrick left, he and Ariana purchased
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Speaker 1: food for a man they encountered in the alleyway. After that,
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Speaker 1: he was compelled to help her home because she did
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Speaker 1: not appear capable of getting there on her own. He
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Speaker 1: continued to insist that he did not want to go
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Speaker 1: with her, that her strange references to feeding him frog
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Speaker 1: poison frightened him.
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Speaker 3: And then we went and gave the bumb of food.
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Speaker 3: And then from there she kept stumbling on the ground
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Speaker 3: and she had a dog and a bunch of stuff
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Speaker 3: carrying her. She's like, I cannot go home by myself.
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Speaker 3: Please you could come, And I'm like, miss I really
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Speaker 3: don't want to hang out with you. There's something wrong
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Speaker 3: with you. You have so much stuff, and for some reason,
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Speaker 3: you just keep stumbling on the ground.
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Speaker 1: Jose did agree to help Ariana home. Once inside, he
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Speaker 1: made her a cup of tea. He claimed to be
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Speaker 1: unaware that she was intoxicated, primarily because he did not
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Speaker 1: see her actually consume any alcohol. He did, however, know
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Speaker 1: that something was not quite right making some.
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Speaker 3: Tea, makes in coffee. Let me do anything that make
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Speaker 3: you feel better. And I started making her coffee tea,
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Speaker 3: and she would just keep crying, and she would just
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Speaker 3: keep trying to fight with me. And at some point
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Speaker 3: she just started like actually trying to fight with me.
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Speaker 3: And after that, I just I just kind of lost it,
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Speaker 3: and you know, and there's kind of just self said.
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Speaker 1: The portion of the story that Jose believed was self
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Speaker 1: explanatory was that he proceeded to stab Ariana multiple times
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Speaker 1: in the back. They had met only hours earlier. At first,
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Speaker 1: the twenty four year old claimed that he had tried
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Speaker 1: to leave. He went to the downstairs neighbor and told
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Speaker 1: her that Ariana was acting strangely. He claimed this was
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Speaker 1: in order to help her so he could leave, knowing
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Speaker 1: that the paper would check in on her later.
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Speaker 3: And then I went downstairs told me the hey, it
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Speaker 3: is crazy. I gotta go, like, there's something wrong with her.
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Speaker 3: In a couple of hours, can you come and check
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Speaker 3: up on her? I was like, I'm trying to go.
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Speaker 3: I'm not trying to comfort this girl. I'm trying to go.
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Speaker 3: Can you go and check up on her. She's like,
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Speaker 3: you see, that's the thing about hers. Where were and
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Speaker 3: we're scared of her? And we don't we don't know
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Speaker 3: if she was like, I'll just call it cops because
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to be dealing with her. That's not
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Speaker 3: I'm too old, and and I'm like, okay.
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Speaker 1: But instead of leaving, he went back to the apartment.
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Speaker 1: Then he said that Ariana began messing with his head.
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Speaker 3: I just I don't know how she did it. And
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Speaker 3: she just played me. She pretty much. I don't know
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Speaker 3: why she fucking pulled me to go with her. Is
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Speaker 3: that he literally picked me her from the street, and
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Speaker 3: she made me feel bad. And every time I would
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Speaker 3: leave her, she would stumble on the ground and made
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Speaker 3: me feel bad, and every time and said, no, I
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Speaker 3: got a girl, since he's not right with you, And
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Speaker 3: then she was stumbling on the ground and cry and
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Speaker 3: she was just stumbled on the ground and cry and
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Speaker 3: I just I don't know. She just played me. She
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Speaker 3: played me, but I pretty much played myself by listening.
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Speaker 3: I'm telling you, she drug me like she drug.
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Speaker 1: Jose told detectives a confusing cocktail of motives for the killing.
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Speaker 1: His overarching assertion was that Ariana convinced him to kill her.
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Speaker 1: He claimed they came to an agreement about it, and
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Speaker 1: that in a matter of only a few hours, he
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Speaker 1: came to believe it was the only way to help her.
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Speaker 1: But he played with the idea that he was defending
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Speaker 1: himself by claiming that she threatened him that her boyfriend
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Speaker 1: was on his way to the apartment with another man
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Speaker 1: and they planned to kill him. Finally, he asserted that
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Speaker 1: Ariana had abruptly turned violent, at one point, coming at
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Speaker 1: him with the knife. He managed to fight her off,
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Speaker 1: though the attack made him angry, so he used the
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Speaker 1: knife to stab Ariana.
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Speaker 3: And the only way to help her was apparently her
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Speaker 3: crazy way he help kill her.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, So when she's talking me about that, you kind
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Speaker 9: of you're telling me, and again, correct me if I'm
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Speaker 9: not understanding you.
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Speaker 8: What you're saying is you thought the only way to
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Speaker 8: help her was to kill her.
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Speaker 3: She was gonna have her boyfriend show up, and then
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Speaker 3: she called her boyfriend and I don't know what they
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Speaker 3: talked about, but she pretty much told me that, like
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Speaker 3: we were going to die.
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Speaker 4: End it.
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Speaker 3: Okay, she talked me into it and I listened. That's it.
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Speaker 5: Why didn't you called in one one?
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Speaker 3: Because her boy she told me her boyfriend and her
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Speaker 3: gay boyfriend's friend was gonna come and kill me. They
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Speaker 3: had this plan.
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Speaker 5: So instead you killed her.
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Speaker 3: She wanted to kill me.
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Speaker 9: So when you abed her, is it because you were
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Speaker 9: trying to help her or because you were mad?
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Speaker 3: It was bull that's only That's the only way you
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Speaker 3: can get that mixed up.
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Speaker 1: Jose approached Ariana when she entered her bedroom and was
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Speaker 1: walking towards her closet. He claimed he stabbed her twice.
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Speaker 8: So you said, when she walks into the bedroom, she's
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Speaker 8: walking to her closet. Is that the first time you
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Speaker 8: stab her? So she's facing away from.
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Speaker 3: You, Well, yeah, she's walking to the after Yeah, after
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Speaker 3: she like pretty much took the knife out and pretty
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Speaker 3: much tried to stab me and stumbled. I took it away,
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Speaker 3: and then.
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Speaker 9: She walks into the bedroom towards the closet, you follow
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Speaker 9: her into the bedroom, and then that's the first time
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Speaker 9: you stab her.
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Speaker 8: So she's she's facing her closet and you're behind her.
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Speaker 3: She was running for something. Yes.
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Speaker 1: After the murder, jose fled the scene and disposed of evidence.
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Speaker 1: He stripped off all of his clothing as he left
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Speaker 1: the apartment and threw them in a nearby dumpster along
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Speaker 1: with his shoes. He spent the next several days at
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Speaker 1: his mother's house, watching the door, waiting to see if
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Speaker 1: law enforcement would find him.
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Speaker 9: If you have enough thought to get rid of your
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Speaker 9: bloody clothes, because you're like, I got blood all over
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Speaker 9: my clothes because I just stabbed this woman to death.
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Speaker 9: That I think you understood what you were doing. We
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Speaker 9: both understood what we were doing. And do me a favorite,
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Speaker 9: take those glasses off. I don't think you're giving us
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Speaker 9: the whole truth. I think you're trying to spin it
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Speaker 9: a little. About this, well, she convinced me.
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Speaker 8: She made me. How old are You're twenty four years old?
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 8: Who can make you do anything?
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Speaker 3: Nobody?
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Speaker 4: Right?
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Speaker 8: So nobody made you stab her.
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Speaker 3: Nobody You decided to stab her while she talking into it.
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Speaker 3: You guys will never believe it, because how did you
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Speaker 3: guys believe it?
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Speaker 8: Because I can't get talked into killing somebody.
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Speaker 3: No, people can't get talked into killing people.
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Speaker 5: You were trying to paint this in a picture that.
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Speaker 3: Makes it most acceptable. No, I'm not. What happened here
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Speaker 3: is acceptable.
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Speaker 5: Is you stab this poor drunk lady about twenty times
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Speaker 5: while she was down on her bedroom floor. It's one
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Speaker 5: of the worst stabbings I've seen in my twenty.
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Speaker 3: Three years of law enforcement.
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Speaker 5: And then you're smart enough to get out of there,
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Speaker 5: destroy the evidence, evade our efforts to locate you, and
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Speaker 5: come down to the springs.
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Speaker 1: Following his confession, Jose Sandoval Romero pleaded guilty to the
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Speaker 1: murder in early twenty twenty three. He was sentenced to
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Speaker 1: forty eight years in prison. His earliest date of release
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Speaker 1: is in July twenty fifty five. Arianna's mother, Susan, was
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Speaker 1: seventy two years old when her daughter was murdered. She
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Speaker 1: told media outlets at the time that she was grieving
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Speaker 1: the loss of her daughter and was too upset to comment.
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Speaker 1: A GoFundMe page was created by Arianna's sister, Romie to
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Speaker 1: help raise money to bring her body back to California.
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Speaker 1: She also set up a separate fundraiser to help create
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Speaker 1: a trust fund for Ariana's young son, and that was
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Speaker 1: the tragic case of Ariana Woke. Thank you for joining me,
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Speaker 1: and a special thanks this week to Cherry t, Dijah Brown,
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Speaker 1: and Hailey Turner for joining our Sherlock Holmes membership. Welcome
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Speaker 1: to the members lounge. I'm Kevin. This is just thought
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Speaker 1: lounge and I'll see in the next one.
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Speaker 5: Get deep, but these stories can't.
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Speaker 4: Hi, let me find my go ahead set to.
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Speaker 6: Be selective, research, keeping it objective, always effective.
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Speaker 3: Can say he got a neck. You see how Newton
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Speaker 8: It was like the whole world