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Serial Killer Burns His 9th Victim Alive · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: It's three thirty am in a neighborhood in the city
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Speaker 1: of Akron. CCTV records a man in a jumpsuit walking
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Speaker 1: up to a house. Seconds later, what could only be
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Speaker 1: a nightmare begins.
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Speaker 2: Akronan one one. I got a flyer going on, pull
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Speaker 2: gabners fully and gulf.
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Speaker 1: I think there's people in house.
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Speaker 3: But they boas and man, it's right, I can feel it.
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Speaker 4: Beat.
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Speaker 3: The lights are going out.
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Speaker 5: He's going to quake.
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Speaker 3: Man, if somebody's in there, their man.
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Speaker 1: As the flames engulf the house, the mysterious man disappears
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Speaker 1: into the night, leaving a trail of blood behind him.
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Speaker 2: Oh my God, hurry, hurry, please, Oh Jesus, the whole
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Speaker 2: house is on fires.
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Speaker 1: As authorities were called to investigate, they had no idea
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Speaker 1: what they were stepping into. This would only be the
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Speaker 1: beginning of a series of fatal fires set by a vicious,
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Speaker 1: cold blooded killer, and detectives would soon find themselves racing
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Speaker 1: against the clock as a serial arsonist hunts for his
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Speaker 1: next victims. The night of April seventeenth, twenty sixteen, was
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Speaker 1: uneventful for sixty six year old Lindell Lewis. He had
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Speaker 1: just gone through a hip replacement surgery and was resting
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Speaker 1: at his home on seven one nine Fault Street, being
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Speaker 1: looked after by Gloria Jean Hart, his girlfriend at the time. However,
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Speaker 1: this night would be different. This night would plunge the
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Speaker 1: once peaceful city of Akron into sheer terror. In the
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Speaker 1: early hours of April eighteenth, close to three thirty three am,
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Speaker 1: CCTV footage captured a man walking in the direction that
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Speaker 1: led directly to Lindell's house, and moments later, tragedy would
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Speaker 1: strike the house of Lyndell Lewis because he was in
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Speaker 1: a hurry to escape. This first attempt at setting the
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Speaker 1: house on fire had failed and the flames died out,
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Speaker 1: prompting the arsonist to make a return for a second
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Speaker 1: time to make sure he finished the job at around
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Speaker 1: three forty am. At approximately three minutes after this second
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Speaker 1: round of dousing the house with what appears to be gasoline,
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Speaker 1: a raging fire would swallow up the entirety of Lindell's house.
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Speaker 1: This was an early Monday morning and most people in
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Speaker 1: Lane Worcester neighborhood were asleep preparing for work. No one
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Speaker 1: would have been awake to see who this masked arsonist
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Speaker 1: was more importantly, whoever this was, was well aware of
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Speaker 1: Lindell's hip surgery, as it had made him wheelchair ridden
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Speaker 1: and unable to move. This meant that the fire was
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Speaker 1: started knowing that he would never be able to escape,
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Speaker 1: and soon enough nine to one one calls would begin
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Speaker 1: pouring in as the fire raged on.
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Speaker 6: I just feel like he's delight to going out.
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Speaker 3: Man if somebody man.
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Speaker 1: Presumably Lindell and his girlfriend were sleeping in their bedroom
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Speaker 1: on the upper floor of the house when the fire
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Speaker 1: initially began. Since the masked arsonist ensured that the fire
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Speaker 1: spread from the ground floor, this meant that by the
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Speaker 1: time they woke up, because of the heat and crackling
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Speaker 1: of the fire, they had no escape, especially because Lindel
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Speaker 1: was unable to move by himself. Gloria most likely helps
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Speaker 1: Lindell move from the bed, and the couple retreated to
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Speaker 1: their bedroom in an attempt to get as far away
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Speaker 1: as possible, but all this did was delay the inevitable.
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Speaker 1: As firefighters and ems arrived at the scene, the elderly
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Speaker 1: couple was heard screaming for help from inside their bathroom.
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Speaker 1: Even with desperate attempts to save them, it was far
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Speaker 1: too late. This gasoline fire was far too violent and
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Speaker 1: the smoke was far too thick. Gloria Jane Hart, and
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Speaker 1: Lindel Lewis were pronounced dead by the time they were discovered.
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Speaker 1: A tragedy like this was unheard of an Akron, not
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Speaker 1: only because of the facts that there was now an
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Speaker 1: arsonist on the loose, but because no one knew who
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Speaker 1: his next victim would be. Because, as it turns out,
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Speaker 1: Lindel and Gloria were only two of his nine victims
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Speaker 1: to come. The hunt for this masked murderer was on,
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Speaker 1: and soon enough detectives had a lead. During the night
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Speaker 1: this fire occurred, the suspect had fled in this direction
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Speaker 1: immediately after his second attempt. This meant that whoever this
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Speaker 1: was lived in this general vicinity, and considering this, the
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Speaker 1: very first suspect would be Stanley Ford. Stanley was a
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Speaker 1: peculiar man. He often claimed to be a guardian sent
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Speaker 1: by God, and would spend his days sleeping so he
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Speaker 1: could stay awake at night to watch over the neighborhood. Additionally,
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Speaker 1: Stanley was also Lindell's neighbor, and the two had spent
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Speaker 1: many years living next to each other. This is why
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Speaker 1: officers were certain that Stanley would react with sorrow when
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Speaker 1: informed of Lindell's death, but when a call was made
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Speaker 1: telling him of the tragedy, something was off.
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Speaker 7: I was calling to follow up with you about the
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Speaker 7: fire across the street. You know, because of the tumultuous
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Speaker 7: history that you and the people in Lindell's house had.
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Speaker 7: Everybody is thinking you right now.
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Speaker 4: Tennis.
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Speaker 8: Listened to me once again, I do not mess with
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Speaker 8: these people up here.
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Speaker 9: Them guys try to get me to come on and
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Speaker 9: engage with them.
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Speaker 3: Them guys was nasty.
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Speaker 4: They was.
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Speaker 10: They had prostitutes in and out all night.
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Speaker 11: They was dealing with homosexuality.
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Speaker 8: The people was just bad people.
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Speaker 10: I didn't do nothing to them people.
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Speaker 3: Them people were just me.
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Speaker 5: I'm listening here.
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Speaker 10: When they moved up to a Tenisia, they stole everything
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Speaker 10: that wasn't vote it down.
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Speaker 7: Well, mister Ford, this is my concern, said, how to
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Speaker 7: make people believe that it wasn't you Tenisian.
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Speaker 3: Either take my word or you don't.
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Speaker 4: That's all I can take.
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Speaker 7: Well, we do have another option. What's that the polographs.
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Speaker 1: Suspiciously, Not only did Stanley refuse a polygraph test, but
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Speaker 1: officers believed his reaction to be endorsing Lindell's death rather
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Speaker 1: than mourning. Yet this was likely because of a low
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Speaker 1: in the two's relationship that stemmed from their arguments about
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Speaker 1: property boundaries and maintenance. However, in all fairness, this case
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Speaker 1: was not limited to Lindell alone. In fact, Stanley was
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Speaker 1: infamous for often disputing with neighbors when it came to
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Speaker 1: property boundaries. All things considered, Stanley was only seen as
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Speaker 1: a weird and obnoxious neighbor rather than someone who would
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Speaker 1: burn a house down. For now, at least, he was
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Speaker 1: not the most prominent suspect as detectives began to believe
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Speaker 1: that the one responsible for this fire may have been
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Speaker 1: someone inside Lindell's house the night the fire occurred, Lindell
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Speaker 1: and Gloria were not the only ones in the house. Thomas,
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Speaker 1: Hugly and Garrett were two of Lindell's friends who were
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Speaker 1: going through tough times due to financial constraints. Lindell was
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Speaker 1: kind enough to offer the two of them a place
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Speaker 1: in the basement of his home. Fortunately, Thomas escaped before
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Speaker 1: the fire could swallow up the basement, but Garrett, on
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Speaker 1: the other hand, just so happened to be somewhere else
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Speaker 1: that night. By April twenty second, twenty sixteen, Agron detectives
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Speaker 1: would call in Garrett for an interview to find out
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Speaker 1: what really happened.
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Speaker 3: First, let me say that I hate having to put
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Speaker 3: you out.
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Speaker 5: There like that, Like I was still want that.
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Speaker 3: Because that's my first language. But I was worried because
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Speaker 3: they said you lived down there and I hadn't seen
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Speaker 3: or heard from you, so I waited.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was there out there earlier that day because
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Speaker 4: I was old. My auntie sels then a job for her.
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Speaker 5: What's her name? Uh uh sh Williams. I forgot her
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Speaker 5: your blessing? Sure cross the street?
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Speaker 4: Is there?
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Speaker 5: Okay?
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Speaker 3: Now, I ain't trying to, you know, stirre your brain
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Speaker 3: as a man, reason out where I wanted to find you,
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Speaker 3: make sure want are you safe?
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Speaker 5: And you okay?
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Speaker 4: And it's like I didn't know nothing about it until
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Speaker 4: my sister didn't call me, and you call me, and
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Speaker 4: what they say they said I was better that, but
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Speaker 4: they didn't tell me nothing about nobody got hurt in it,
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Speaker 4: and none about best.
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Speaker 5: Friend should.
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Speaker 1: For detectives, it is definitely odd that Garrett is taking
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Speaker 1: so long to remember the finer details but this is
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Speaker 1: nothing conclusive as of now. However, they are confident that
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Speaker 1: by poking deeper they might be able to find some clues.
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Speaker 5: Have you heard about.
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Speaker 3: Anybody who got to be found?
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Speaker 4: No thought you had, nor.
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Speaker 5: I don't know, man, because I.
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Speaker 3: Didn't know if you knew, it is odd because you
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Speaker 3: just had a thought. Do you just not want to
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Speaker 3: speak because all of us in here, or I want
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Speaker 3: to speak if you had.
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Speaker 5: Thought?
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Speaker 4: Right, dear, All I don't know is David retreating order
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Speaker 4: across the street?
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Speaker 5: You know, stand something? That's all.
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Speaker 1: Stanley's name has once again crept into the conversation. In fact,
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Speaker 1: rumors about Lindell and Stanley's conflicts had already spread like wildfire,
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Speaker 1: and he was on his way to becoming suspect number one.
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Speaker 1: But for detectives this could mean anything. Stanley would alternatively
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Speaker 1: be the most suitable for Garrett to pin his crimes
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Speaker 1: on a neighbor with a god complex who had frequent
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Speaker 1: conflicts with Lindell. Furthermore, Garrett has not given any details
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Speaker 1: about his alibi. All we know is that during the
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Speaker 1: night of the fire, he was at his aunt's house
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Speaker 1: and was spending time with his knees. This is why
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Speaker 1: detectives would not let up putting pressure on Garrett.
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Speaker 3: You're the only person. Did anyone give a scenario? It
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Speaker 3: kind of made me suspicious of anything.
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Speaker 5: Thought you only one.
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Speaker 4: There.
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Speaker 3: I know you aren't there, you you aren't there, but
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Speaker 3: you're the only one.
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Speaker 5: Let's suit this. The day of the fire made it happened?
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Speaker 5: What time there was dark? Can I say we was
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Speaker 5: where you was my niece? And what time did you
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Speaker 5: leave there? Do they say, I think what time did
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Speaker 5: the fire happen? I don't know. Thomas told me it
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Speaker 5: was three o'clock in the morning. Helping.
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Speaker 3: Now, let me ask you this question. Was you watch
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Speaker 3: the funerals that?
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Speaker 5: Yes, you know it is. It's for me, Turcock, that's
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Speaker 5: what you're saying. I'm gonna say this.
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Speaker 7: I'm just gonna go on straight which But the gut
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Speaker 7: feeling I got is that you have the knave spurlver
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Speaker 7: your head.
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Speaker 3: You just don't want to give them because you don't
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Speaker 3: want to.
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Speaker 4: Give I don't know him, right, I don't know people.
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Speaker 5: People mean your health. We're asking for your help. I
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Speaker 5: know I don't understand that. I just don't really know much, man.
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Speaker 4: But man, they protected me right on the football field,
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Speaker 4: and they they made.
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Speaker 5: It happen for me.
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Speaker 1: They said, there's goods for detectives. This was perplexing. A
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Speaker 1: suspect that was willing to cry for his dead friend
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Speaker 1: and housemate, yet had no solid story for where he
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Speaker 1: was on that day created a contradicting situation. No matter what,
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Speaker 1: detectives cannot be certain that Garrett is the arsonist, so
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Speaker 1: they would slowly push him towards a polygraph test, claiming
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Speaker 1: it's the only way to prove his innocence.
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Speaker 5: We can't get.
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Speaker 4: Okay, we're gonna bring him in here and he's got
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Speaker 4: scheduled with you set up an appointment.
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Speaker 5: Oh god, this listen man, we're trying to help here.
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Speaker 5: We're not telling.
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Speaker 4: Fucking help you well if you need to, and that
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Speaker 4: you know you will feel a whole lot better that
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Speaker 4: you are a key to the information about who.
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Speaker 5: Would you know me? I wouldn't have lived in.
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Speaker 6: The house for two years, yeah, but I wasn't never there.
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Speaker 6: You're saying that you don't know or I have heard
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Speaker 6: anything about you?
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Speaker 5: Not else You're just hardfire.
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Speaker 6: That happened in twenty thirteen and you were near in
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Speaker 6: the house. You have no clue of who may have.
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Speaker 3: Started saying nobody gave any names.
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Speaker 6: No, no, no scenarios, no theories, no nothing. O.
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Speaker 5: God, it's just not possible, sir.
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Speaker 6: I mean, that's that just goes on in a normal conversation.
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Speaker 5: Who do you think did this? I was just part
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Speaker 5: of the.
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Speaker 1: Even though Garrett just agreed to the polygraph, just moments
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Speaker 1: later he would have second thoughts.
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Speaker 5: You're saying you want to take a photography.
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Speaker 3: You just said you will, you will?
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Speaker 5: I under say.
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Speaker 4: If I said, if what's coming down to a knee.
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Speaker 5: Go and talk to sorry to hear.
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Speaker 3: That you.
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Speaker 1: Usually, suspects are never legally obligated to undergo a polygraph test,
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Speaker 1: even if they did. These tests are not presentable in
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Speaker 1: court due to a lack of accuracy and reliability since
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Speaker 1: results are affected by several factors like anxiety and mental
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Speaker 1: and physical health, and with Garrett's insistence that he is
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Speaker 1: innocent and was not at Lindell's house, often detectives are
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Speaker 1: stuck with no other suspects. Their only remaining choice was
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Speaker 1: Stanley Ford, the self proclaimed neighborhood guardian, but at this
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Speaker 1: point this was more of a gut feeling for detective
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Speaker 1: as they could not put up a plausible case against
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Speaker 1: him for an arrest, and their eyes many suspects were
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Speaker 1: just as suspicious as Stanley, if not more. This meant
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Speaker 1: the ark and arsonist was still on the loose, and
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Speaker 1: maybe these investigations had scared him. Because things seemed to
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Speaker 1: settle down for the entirety of twenty sixteen, there were
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Speaker 1: no more fires and most began to forget about the incident. However,
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Speaker 1: this piece would soon come to an end. On January
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Speaker 1: twenty third, twenty seventeen, someone set fire to a vehicle
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Speaker 1: on seventy two three Russell Avenue, just a few blocks
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Speaker 1: away from the first fire. The next two months would
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Speaker 1: be another wave of silence from the arsonist until May fifteenth,
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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, when close to three am Lane Worcester neighborhood
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Speaker 1: was given another rude awakening.
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Speaker 2: Multiple people are dead after a house fire in Akron
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Speaker 2: this morning, and at least some were children.
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Speaker 9: The Acron Fire Department says the home was fully engulfed
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Speaker 9: when they arrived.
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Speaker 10: He was so high as staircase melted away.
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Speaker 7: The exact number of victims has not been released.
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Speaker 1: A fire on six nine to three Faults Avenue had
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Speaker 1: resulted in the death of seven people, thirty five year
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Speaker 1: old Dennis Huggins and thirty eight year old Angela Boggs,
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Speaker 1: along with their five children, aged between sixteen months and
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Speaker 1: fourteen years. This was the second major fire after the
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Speaker 1: Lindell home was burnt to a crisp thirteen months prior.
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Speaker 1: The fire had started in trash cans placed at the
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Speaker 1: front of the house and spread quickly through the porch
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Speaker 1: into the home. However, this was no accident. According to
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Speaker 1: a forensic analysis, an accelerant identified as gasoline was dumped
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Speaker 1: into the cans. The flames were intense and enveloped the
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Speaker 1: house within seconds. There was no room for escape, and
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Speaker 1: just like the first fire, all seven victims were found
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Speaker 1: huddled in corners of the home as they had been
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Speaker 1: trapped by the smoke and flames. The bodies had been
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Speaker 1: burnt so badly that the only way to identify them
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Speaker 1: was through a DNA test. This was a tragedy, but
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Speaker 1: compared to the first fire, finding the suspect this time
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be hard as there were only two options. The
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Speaker 1: first was Patrick Boggs, who had a bit of history
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Speaker 1: with Angela Boggs, the mother of the children in this fire.
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Speaker 1: Patrick Boggs served twelve years in prison for dousing Angela
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Speaker 1: and kerosene and threatening to set her on fire in
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Speaker 1: two thousand and one. He was a violent man and
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Speaker 1: had even tried to stab someone, making him a very
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Speaker 1: plausible suspect. But even with his past, Patrick was quickly
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Speaker 1: discarded as cameras provided he had never left his home
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Speaker 1: in Ohio. More importantly, an extensive polygraph test proved that
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Speaker 1: Patrick was telling the truth about not being involved in
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Speaker 1: this crime. However, his role in these murders wouldn't end here,
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Speaker 1: as we'd later find out. For now, the only remaining
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Speaker 1: suspect was a familiar face, one that was a common
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Speaker 1: denominator in both fires, Stanley four Word, and this time
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Speaker 1: officers were prepared to gather a mountain of evidence against him.
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Speaker 1: The first step was to obtain a search warrant for
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Speaker 1: Stanley's home, which would result in a crucial piece of
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Speaker 1: evidence being found worn out tennis shoes that had been
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Speaker 1: covered in an accelerant, an accelerant that just so happened
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Speaker 1: to be gasoline. But the evidence wouldn't end here. One
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Speaker 1: of the detectives would decided to have a one on
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Speaker 1: one conversation with Stanley in his car, and what he
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Speaker 1: says would be nothing short of disturbing.
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Speaker 5: No wrong, you.
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Speaker 4: Mentioned some things last night about some bad people at
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Speaker 4: the house.
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Speaker 5: Or to me the stuff he was just doing immature
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Speaker 5: the neighborhood.
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Speaker 12: What kicking the vehicle's rear view mirrors, buzzing them out
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Speaker 12: and stuff like that?
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Speaker 5: Is that a good way to get rid somebody moved
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Speaker 5: out the neighborhood. I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't do
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Speaker 5: it like that. Why would I do that? I wouldn't
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Speaker 5: do it at all. I ain't gonna set somebody on
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Speaker 5: far just to get amount. That's that?
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Speaker 6: That That ain't a god, Ain't that ain't human nature's period?
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Speaker 5: Man, I'm not evil man.
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Speaker 1: Yet another instance of Stanley Ford justifying not only the
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Speaker 1: deaths of the couple, but of their five innocent little
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Speaker 1: children too. Just like in the murder of Linda Lewis,
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Speaker 1: there was a pattern, a pattern of pure hatred towards
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Speaker 1: the victims, a pattern so disgusting that Stanley felt it
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Speaker 1: was his god given right to purge anyone who upset
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Speaker 1: the guardian of the neighborhood. In this case, Stanley often
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Speaker 1: accused the family of dealing drugs, damaging his property, and
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Speaker 1: engaging in illegal activities which only fueled his hatred towards them.
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Speaker 1: Several neighbors had witnessed heated exchanges between the couple and
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Speaker 1: Stanley leading up to the Not only that, but the
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Speaker 1: night of the fire, neighbors mentioned how they saw Stanley
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Speaker 1: continuously patrolling the house. This would be corroborated by CCTV
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Speaker 1: footage that would not only catch Stanley walking towards the
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Speaker 1: house right before the fire, but also running away from
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Speaker 1: it after. If all of this was not compelling enough,
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Speaker 1: there would be one last piece of evidence that would
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Speaker 1: solve the mystery of the ark and arsonist. Take a
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Speaker 1: look at this footage from the twenty sixteen fire of
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Speaker 1: Lindell's home. Now matching this with the footage from the
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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen fire, and matching both with the footage from
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Speaker 1: when police spoke with Stanley in the neighborhood, there is
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Speaker 1: one correlation. The way the suspect walks is exactly the
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Speaker 1: same as Stanley's stride. Without a doubt, Stanley was the
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Speaker 1: one responsible for the cold blooded murders of nine people.
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Speaker 1: Officers were now certain of this and Soon enough, Stanley
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Speaker 1: was called in for an interview to be confronted with
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Speaker 1: his sick crimes.
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Speaker 5: We will watch you.
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Speaker 12: I want you to be Okay, what about to day question.
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Speaker 12: Let's go back to the fire. What can you tell
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Speaker 12: us about the fire?
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Speaker 5: I don't have no knowledge of that, So what's the one?
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Speaker 4: You know?
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Speaker 6: Sometimes I expect from him, you know, sometimes I walk
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Speaker 6: the street, you know what I mean, something like that.
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Speaker 1: But through that fire man, in the face of these denials,
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Speaker 1: detectives decide that enough is enough, no matter what, they
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Speaker 1: need a confession out of Stanley, and the best way
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Speaker 1: to do that is to show him all the evidence
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Speaker 1: that points towards him being the arsonist.
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Speaker 12: As you running back to the house, m that's the
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Speaker 12: time of the fire.
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Speaker 5: Okay, we got you run into the house. You're not asleep.
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Speaker 5: You want your only cameras then I'm gonna got you.
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Speaker 5: Run from Stanley. You're on the camera running from the fire.
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Speaker 5: We got him, no fire, se Yeah, it's time to come.
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Speaker 5: It's time. It's time man. Yeah, yeah, we know the answers. Okay, right,
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Speaker 5: but I didn't running from it. I wasn't running from
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Speaker 5: no fire.
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Speaker 12: Okay, you walk, you're seeing you see the fire. Okay,
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Speaker 12: I ain't at the fire.
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Speaker 5: No, no, no, I'm not at no fire. At the fire.
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Speaker 5: I'm at a fire. Yeah, you're at the fire there.
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Speaker 5: We need to hear your side of the story. Honest, man,
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Speaker 5: I didn't do anything. I mean I can't. I can't
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Speaker 5: look to somebody didn't do it up on the dinner
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Speaker 5: he did that. I'm gonna have I got too much
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Speaker 5: to loose. Man. We got all the pieces of you know,
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Speaker 5: the answers. This is what we want to know. Is
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Speaker 5: there something reasoning or some kind of something that happened? Man,
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Speaker 5: somebody picked you up, somebody to do something. No, maybe
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Speaker 5: there's maybe why. Maybe you're trying to send a message.
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Speaker 6: I'm gonnowed to walk in the neighborhood.
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Speaker 5: I wasn't at nobody in housing. I'm walking. I want
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Speaker 5: nobody running back from the house. I didn't do that.
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Speaker 5: Hell yeah, I'll tell you I got well know.
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Speaker 1: You know, often a suspect will refute their crimes even
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Speaker 1: in the presence of concrete evidence, as this would still
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Speaker 1: give them a fighting chance in court. In this case,
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Speaker 1: Stanley is doing exactly this, and no matter what detectives
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Speaker 1: say it, he won't be cracking anytime soon.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I believe that I did it. Oh no, we
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Speaker 5: proved that you. I didn't do that. I want to
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Speaker 5: Darrey did that?
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Speaker 4: Man?
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Speaker 5: I was explain charge to you or will you up?
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Speaker 5: I didn't do it. I'm serious. I didn't do it.
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Speaker 5: I'm not gonna men to that. I didn't do it.
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Speaker 4: If I did, I.
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Speaker 5: Admit to it.
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Speaker 4: I didn't do that.
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Speaker 5: Let me explain Sharpe. So yeah, okay, you have seven.
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Speaker 1: Counts of However, this would be far from the end
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Speaker 1: of Stanley's saga. Because he never admitted to anything and
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Speaker 1: had a history of being mentally unstable. There was a
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Speaker 1: chance that he could get away completely scott free in
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Speaker 1: court due to his mental status. Being absolved of all
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Speaker 1: his crimes. Sixty two year old Stanley Ford's trial would
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Speaker 1: begin on Monday, August thirtieth, with the prosecutor, Michael DiAngelo
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Speaker 1: making his opening statements that focused on correlating the masked
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Speaker 1: arsonist with Stanley Ford.
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Speaker 8: That timeline his statements and the similarities of his actions
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Speaker 8: shown his opportunity and ladies and gentlemen, the evidence, all
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Speaker 8: of that will reveal his identity, and that will show
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Speaker 8: you that when the Defendert gets angry with his neighbors,
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Speaker 8: he sets their property on fire, and he kills them.
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Speaker 8: And at the conclusion of this case, mister Leprenzy and
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Speaker 8: I are going to ask you to find the defendant
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Speaker 8: guilty of all the charges and all the specifications.
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Speaker 1: Stanley's defense, on the other hand, knew the kind of
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Speaker 1: upheld battle that they were facing and decided that the
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Speaker 1: best approach would be not to prove Stanley's innocence, but
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Speaker 1: to disprove the suspicions of his identity.
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Speaker 9: A lot of the evidence that you're wanting to be
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Speaker 9: presented to is not discute. It's not discute that they
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Speaker 9: were three by our set, it's not abscute that all stention,
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Speaker 9: and it sure is not ensue that they were not deaths.
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Speaker 9: Quartern medical Janders should come in talk to you about
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Speaker 9: bahamicide that she ruled and then caused in the manner
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Speaker 9: of all nine of those deaths.
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Speaker 3: Those facts are.
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Speaker 9: Not into suit, but against who told you? And you
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Speaker 9: know that statable while answer, the bird proved true each
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Speaker 9: and every element asked.
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Speaker 5: The bird to proved.
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Speaker 8: Not.
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Speaker 1: On the surface, this might seem like an open and shutcase,
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Speaker 1: but Stanley's defense has planned for these hearings thoroughly and
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Speaker 1: knew exactly who to blame because there was one person
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Speaker 1: who could turn the tides in Stanley's favor, Patrick Boggs,
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Speaker 1: the same man who was the initial suspect for the
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Speaker 1: second fire. When Patrick was arrested, the most conclusive evidence
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Speaker 1: to dispel suspicions was his polygraph tests, but these tests
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Speaker 1: are not admissible in court. This meant that when lead
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Speaker 1: Detective Troy oh He was called to the stand, he
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Speaker 1: could do nothing but watch as the defense twisted this case.
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Speaker 10: You knew during the course of your investigation in two
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Speaker 10: thousand and one that Patrick Boggs tried to set Angela
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Speaker 10: Boggs on fire. Correct, also beat her up. Correct, he
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Speaker 10: believed he believed she was cheating on him with a
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Speaker 10: black man.
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Speaker 5: Correct.
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Speaker 10: That picked your interest in this case too, because of
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Speaker 10: who Angela Boggs was now dating.
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Speaker 1: This line of questioning puts the prosecution in a tough spot,
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Speaker 1: as Detective Troy could not immediately dispel the doubts of
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Speaker 1: Patrick being the suspect using the results of the polygraph test. However,
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Speaker 1: the defense would not lose momentum on this win. They
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Speaker 1: would play their final trump card, bringing in Patrick Boggs
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Speaker 1: himself as a witness.
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Speaker 3: And at this time do you choose to testify? I
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Speaker 3: choose fifth to the fifth and not testify at all.
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Speaker 11: So you're choosing to invoke your Fifth Amendment right against
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Speaker 11: self incrimination?
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Speaker 5: Is that correct?
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Speaker 1: With him pleading the fifth, the defense's case became much
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Speaker 1: stronger because, for the jury, a suspect refusing to answer
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Speaker 1: questions meant that he did not want to incriminate himself
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Speaker 1: in a crime that he may have been involved in,
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Speaker 1: thus shifting some of the blame off of Stanley. Fortunately,
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Speaker 1: there was one silver lining. A major step of the
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Speaker 1: defense's plan was to use Stanley's extreme beliefs to drive
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Speaker 1: the case towards an evaluation of his mental health. Unluckily
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Speaker 1: for them, if Stanley didn't hesitate to murder nine people,
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Speaker 1: he wouldn't hesitate to fight his own defense team and
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Speaker 1: admit in front of the jury that he had no
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Speaker 1: mental issues.
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Speaker 3: Psychologist, Yes, but I gotta tell you it's incumbent upon
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Speaker 3: you just collaborate with doctor Parkwood.
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Speaker 1: I'm at this point, the only thing left to do
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Speaker 1: was for the jury to come to a decision. However,
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Speaker 1: even with every single one of the defense's attempts to
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Speaker 1: save Stanley, the decision would come out to be in
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Speaker 1: favor of the prosecution due to the overwhelming evidence they had,
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Speaker 1: the similar walks of the suspect, recordings of Stanley expressing
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Speaker 1: his hate towards his neighbors, and Stanley running back to
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Speaker 1: his home after the second fire.
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Speaker 11: One verdict one aggravated murder regarding Angela Bobbs. Will you
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Speaker 11: the jury being duly paneled and sworn and affirmed to
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Speaker 11: well and truly try and do deliverance make between the
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Speaker 11: State of Ohio and the defendant Stanley of Ford, to
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Speaker 11: find the defendant guilty of the offensive aggravated murder, a
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Speaker 11: charge in the indictment Honor about the fifteenth day of
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Speaker 11: May twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 1: But even though he was found guilty of the fires,
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Speaker 1: jurors were yet to conclude their decision about Stanley's punishment.
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Speaker 1: This is when the defense decided to move forward with
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Speaker 1: plan B do anything to save Stanley from the death penalty.
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Speaker 1: There were a total of twelve jurors and a unanimous
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Speaker 1: vote was needed to give Stanley the death penalty. Even
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Speaker 1: if one of them disagreed, he would be given a
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Speaker 1: life sentence instead, and on the twelfth day of his trial,
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Speaker 1: only eleven of the twelve would vote in favor of
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Speaker 1: the death penalty. The defense was successful in their attempts
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Speaker 1: to save him, as just one juror disagreed, feeling that
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Speaker 1: he should only be given life in jail. But even
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Speaker 1: his life sentence would not be kind to him, because
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Speaker 1: for every single year of his life, he would be
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Speaker 1: reminded of his sick and disgusting crimes. Stanley Ford would
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Speaker 1: receive nine consecutive life sentences for every single one of
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Speaker 1: his victims without the possibility of parole, plus an additional
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Speaker 1: twenty one years, and to be reminded of his crimes
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Speaker 1: for every single date of the fire and for every
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Speaker 1: single birthday of the five children he murdered. Stanley would
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Speaker 1: be given solitary confinement, a punishment that he will have
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Speaker 1: to endure for the rest of his life.