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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, police in Salt Lake City, Utah,
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Speaker 1: discovered a strange video on someone's phone. Now, this video,
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Speaker 1: which at first seems kind of playful, is one of
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Speaker 1: video in today's episode towards the end of the episode.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's get into today's story. On January twenty eighth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, Daniel Halseth was born in a small
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Speaker 1: town in Oregon called Estacata, which is located about thirty
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Speaker 1: miles southeast of Portland. Daniel's family owned a farm, and
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Speaker 1: so from a young age, Daniel became accustomed to getting
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Speaker 1: up super early and helping out with daily chores. This
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Speaker 1: childhood experience on the farm instilled in Daniel a strong
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Speaker 1: work ethic, and it also taught Daniel to really appreciate family,
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Speaker 1: because the family he had grown up in spent all
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Speaker 1: their time together and they all struggled and worked together
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Speaker 1: every day to make ends meet. In high school, Daniel
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Speaker 1: really began to blossom. He had this wonderful energy and huge,
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Speaker 1: radiant smile that drew people to him, and he was
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Speaker 1: just one of those people that was just naturally gifted
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Speaker 1: at everything he did and it seemed totally effortless. During
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Speaker 1: his high school years, he picked up playing the piano
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Speaker 1: as well as the drums, and his classmates affectionately nicknamed
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Speaker 1: him Drummer Dan. Daniel was also amazing with anything to
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Speaker 1: do with computers or technology, and Daniel was just very
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Speaker 1: handsome and very athletic and fit, and so he was
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Speaker 1: really the guy that everybody wanted to be. But despite
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Speaker 1: having all of these things going for him, Daniel was
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Speaker 1: dealt a major blow in nineteen ninety four when he
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Speaker 1: was in his junior.
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Speaker 2: Year of high school.
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Speaker 1: That year, his father, who he was quite close with,
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Speaker 1: died unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm. This was a crushing
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Speaker 1: blow for a young man that still very much leaned
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Speaker 1: on his father for guidance and support. But Daniel, like
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Speaker 1: the rest of his family, found a way to just
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Speaker 1: keep on going despite this immense heartbreak. In nineteen ninety five,
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Speaker 1: so a year after his father's death, Daniel would graduate
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Speaker 1: high school and he would head to Salem, Oregon, where
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Speaker 1: he would go to school and earn his bachelor's degree
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Speaker 1: in music, and then he would stick around in Salem
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Speaker 1: at another university and he would earn his masters in business.
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Speaker 1: And it was during those years that he was in
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Speaker 1: Salem that Daniel would meet a young woman named Elizabeth
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Speaker 1: Schorak who had grown up in Salem. She, like Daniel,
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Speaker 1: was incredibly hard working and was just naturally good at
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Speaker 1: everything she tried. She was also a model, and so
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Speaker 1: when she and Daniel began dating, they genuinely looked like
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Speaker 1: this beautiful Hollywood couple. In two thousand and one, which
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Speaker 1: was shortly after Daniel had earned his master's degree, he
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Speaker 1: and Elizabeth got married five years later. The couple, who
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Speaker 1: now were the proud parents of three young children, two
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Speaker 1: girls and a boy. They moved to Las Vegas because
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Speaker 1: Daniel had found work there. Daniel had founded this computer
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Speaker 1: it company because he was so skilled with computers, and
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Speaker 1: it was really starting to thrive, and many of his
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Speaker 1: clients were in or around Las Vegas. But just a
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Speaker 1: few years after getting settled in Las Vegas, it would
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Speaker 1: be Elizabeth's career ambitions that would take center stage in
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Speaker 1: the family. Elizabeth had always wanted to get into politics,
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Speaker 1: and in twenty ten she decided she would run for
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Speaker 1: a state Senate seat in Nevada. But in order to
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Speaker 1: do that, she would need to campaign really aggressively, which
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Speaker 1: would mean she'd be gone a lot of the time.
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Speaker 1: And so Daniel, who was working full time with his
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Speaker 1: computer company, he would need to keep doing that because
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Speaker 1: that paid the bills, but he would also have to
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Speaker 1: become the primary parent for their three children. And so
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Speaker 1: when she approached Daniel and said, you know, I really
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Speaker 1: want to do this, but it requires a lot out
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Speaker 1: of you.
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Speaker 2: Are you willing to do this?
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Speaker 1: Daniel was completely supportive and actually really excited.
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Speaker 2: At the idea.
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Speaker 1: He had no problems whatsoever, And so very soon Elizabeth
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Speaker 1: would be out on the road campaigning and trying to
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Speaker 1: win the state Senate seat, and Daniel would be home
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Speaker 1: goofing around with the kids and taking them hiking and
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Speaker 1: going to playgrounds in parks, and then after he would
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Speaker 1: put the kids to bed at night, he would stay
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Speaker 1: up super late and run his computer business out of
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Speaker 1: their dining room. And all this additional hard work sacrifice
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Speaker 1: that Daniel was making for his wife paid off when
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Speaker 1: later that year, on November two, Elizabeth, who would run
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Speaker 1: this incredible campaign that was built on family values and
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Speaker 1: wholesomeness and morality, she would win the state Senate seat,
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Speaker 1: which shocked the state of Nevada, and even more impressive,
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Speaker 1: she would become the youngest woman to ever be elected
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Speaker 1: to Nevada legislature at just twenty seven years old. So
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Speaker 1: it was clear to everyone in Nevada and also outside
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Speaker 1: of Nevada that Elizabeth was destined for greatness. She was
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Speaker 1: going to be the next big political superstar, and anyone
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Speaker 1: who was close to the Halseth family knew Daniel was
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Speaker 1: her number one cheerleader. He was so so proud of her,
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Speaker 1: but soon the hall sess perfect life would come crumbling down.
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Speaker 1: It was not long after Elizabeth had won her election
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Speaker 1: that Daniel began to notice she was becoming suspiciously close
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Speaker 1: with another man named Tiger Helgellian, who was a former
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Speaker 1: golf pro and fellow rising political star. After noticing his
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Speaker 1: wife constantly texting with Tiger, Daniel would actually reach out
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Speaker 1: to Tiger directly and beg him to stop messaging his
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Speaker 1: wife and to just leave his family alone. But the
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Speaker 1: texting and the calling and the interactions between those two
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Speaker 1: would not stop. And then, finally, in October of twenty eleven,
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Speaker 1: so less than a year into Elizabeth's first term as
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Speaker 1: a state senator, Daniel would find out that his wife
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Speaker 1: and Tiger had been away together alone on this long
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Speaker 1: extended work trip. And so Daniel realized that almost certainly
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Speaker 1: his wife was having an affair. And so when his
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Speaker 1: wife came home from this trip and she was unpacking
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Speaker 1: in their bedroom, Daniel walked into the room and he
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Speaker 1: accused her of being unfaithful, and the argument that ensued
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Speaker 1: got very heated, but it did not become physically violent. Basically,
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Speaker 1: Daniel just screamed and yelled at Elizabeth, swearing at her
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Speaker 1: and kind of losing his temper completely. But at some
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Speaker 1: point Elizabeth just said Daniel stop, and Daniel would actually stop.
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Speaker 1: And in fact, both Elizabeth and Daniel, when they were
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Speaker 1: called this night, would say as soon as she said stop,
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Speaker 1: Daniel stopped yelling and he left the room. Over the
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Speaker 1: next couple of days, Daniel and Elizabeth would go to
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Speaker 1: therapy sessions at their church, indicating that they both were
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Speaker 1: making a concerted effort to try to salvage their marriage.
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Speaker 1: But on October twenty first, five days after this big
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Speaker 1: blow up fight about the affair, Elizabeth would go to
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Speaker 1: police and she would claim Daniel had touched her inappropriately
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Speaker 1: during the fight they had over the affair, and so Daniel,
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Speaker 1: much to his shock, was arrested and charged with something
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Speaker 1: called open and gross lewdness, which is effectively unwanted.
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Speaker 2: Touching of another person.
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Speaker 1: This accusation is quite common, especially amongst people at bars
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Speaker 1: who are drinking.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's lots of unwanted touching that can happen there.
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Speaker 1: But interestingly, this particular charge is as being one of
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Speaker 1: the more frequently falsely accused offenses because the police do
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Speaker 1: not require any physical proof to actually arrest someone. Basically,
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Speaker 1: people are, in theory able to get other people arrested
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Speaker 1: simply by claiming they inappropriately touched them, even if there
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Speaker 1: is not a shred of proof. It's basically one person's
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Speaker 1: word against the other. After being found guilty of open
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Speaker 1: engross lewdness, Daniel was sentenced to six months of probation,
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Speaker 1: anger management, and he had to register as a sex offender.
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Speaker 1: Shortly after he was found guilty, Daniel filed for divorce.
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Speaker 1: Their divorce, which was heavily centered on who gets custody
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Speaker 1: of their three kids, was very contentious. It was very bitter,
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Speaker 1: and it was very public. Because Elizabeth was a state senator,
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Speaker 1: she was in the public eye, and because her campaign
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Speaker 1: that she had run on to get elected was built
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Speaker 1: entirely on wholesomeness and family values and having good moral character,
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Speaker 1: that when rumors start to fly that she had had
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Speaker 1: this affair with Tiger Hellgellian and that had blown up
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Speaker 1: her family and her husband is being charged with open
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Speaker 1: and gross lewdness, it was just so salacious that despite
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Speaker 1: her denying that she ever had this affair and acting
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Speaker 1: like she was in the right, she was still forced
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Speaker 1: to resign from her state Senate seat in February.
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Speaker 2: Of twenty twelve.
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Speaker 1: The divorce would finalize later that year, and most likely
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Speaker 1: because of Daniel's new sex offender status from the open
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Speaker 1: and gross leudness charge, he was denied custody of the
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Speaker 1: three children, despite the fact that for the last several
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Speaker 1: years he had been the everyday primary parent. So Elizabeth
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Speaker 1: she gets custody of all three kids, and she promptly
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Speaker 1: leaves Nevada to go to Alaska with her three kids
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Speaker 1: to live with Tiger Hellgellian, the man she denied having
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Speaker 1: an affair with, and shortly after arriving in Alaska, she
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Speaker 1: married Tiger Hellgellian. Daniel was heartbroken. It was like his
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Speaker 1: life had blown up in a matter of seconds. But
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Speaker 1: most devastating of all was that his kids, who he
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Speaker 1: called as three little angels, were now so far away
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Speaker 1: from him.
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Speaker 2: He couldn't even see them if he wanted to.
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Speaker 1: But just like he had done back in nineteen ninety
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Speaker 1: four when his father passed away, Daniel just found a
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Speaker 1: way to keep ongoing despite this horrible pain he was feeling.
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Speaker 1: Over the next few years, Daniel would pour himself into
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Speaker 1: his computer business and really make that his full time effort,
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Speaker 1: and he would make every effort to see his children
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Speaker 1: any chance he got, but because his relationship with his
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Speaker 1: ex wife Elizabeth was not good, it was really difficult
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Speaker 1: to see his kids. Eventually, Daniel would meet another woman
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Speaker 1: named Bogdana and they would actually get married, and when
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Speaker 1: that happened, it seemed like, in the eyes of Daniel's family,
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Speaker 1: he was starting to kind of finally get his life
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Speaker 1: back on track.
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Speaker 2: Around this time, Daniel began sharing.
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Speaker 1: More and more of his life on his social media channels,
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Speaker 1: and every post he made, and he made lots of them,
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Speaker 1: nearly every day, were so overwhelmingly positive and optimistic, and
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Speaker 1: it really showcased his wonderful personality that was all about
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Speaker 1: lifting up your fellow person and just being a.
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Speaker 2: Good human being.
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Speaker 1: And he also posted loads of videos of him goofing
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Speaker 1: around with his three kids, because he adored his kids.
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Speaker 1: They were the most important thing to him by far.
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Speaker 1: But despite having this very cheerful outward presence on social media, privately,
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Speaker 1: Daniel was dealt yet another very difficult blow in twenty
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Speaker 1: nineteen when his marriage to Bogdana, his second wife, fell apart, and.
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Speaker 2: So once again Daniel was all alone.
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Speaker 1: His social media posts around the time of the second
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Speaker 1: divorce remained positive and very optimistic for the most part,
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Speaker 1: but anytime you saw an image of Daniel actually facing
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Speaker 1: the camera, you could just see a distinct sadness in
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Speaker 1: his eyes. But just as quickly as it seemed like
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Speaker 1: once again Daniel's life was just going to crumble, something
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Speaker 1: truly amazing happened for Daniel.
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Speaker 2: Daniel's first ex.
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Speaker 1: Wife, Elizabeth, and their three kids decided to leave Alaska
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Speaker 1: and come back to Nevada and resettle in Las Vegas.
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Speaker 1: This was not because Elizabeth wanted to rekindle with Daniel,
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Speaker 1: it was just because she and the kids liked living
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Speaker 1: in Las Vegas and wanted to come back. And as
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Speaker 1: soon as they were back, Daniel suddenly got to see
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Speaker 1: his kids all the time.
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Speaker 2: He was so excited and so happy.
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Speaker 1: In fact, by late twenty twenty, Daniel's youngest daughter, Sierra,
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Speaker 1: who was sixteen, she had basically just moved in with Daniel,
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Speaker 1: even though legally.
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Speaker 2: Speaking she was not supposed to be doing that.
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Speaker 1: And her mom, Elizabeth, was totally unhappy about it.
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Speaker 2: But regardless, that was just how it was.
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Speaker 1: She was living with Daniel in August of that year,
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Speaker 1: so around the time that Sierra had basically moved back
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Speaker 1: in with Daniel, Daniel decided to take his ex wife
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Speaker 1: Elizabeth back to court to see if he could get
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Speaker 1: custody of Sierra because Sierra was the only miner of
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Speaker 1: their three children, she was still sixteen, and at that point.
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Speaker 2: Sierra was already living with him.
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Speaker 1: During the recorded video sessions between Daniel, Elizabeth, and the judge,
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Speaker 1: Daniel would tell the judge that life in Elizabeth's home
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Speaker 1: was totally toxic and not good for his children, and
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Speaker 1: certainly not good for Sierra. Daniel would explain to the
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Speaker 1: judge that Sierra was really struggling with some mental health
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Speaker 1: issues and what she needed right now was professional therapy,
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Speaker 1: something he had already enrolled her in since she had
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Speaker 1: moved back in with him. Daniel also presented to the
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Speaker 1: judge a letter that he said Sierra wrote that basically
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Speaker 1: backed up the idea that she is better off living
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Speaker 1: with her father. Elizabeth would generally respond to all of
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Speaker 1: these things that Daniel was saying by saying Daniel was
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Speaker 1: a liar and that he was not fit to be
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Speaker 1: a parent, and that letter that he claims Sierra wrote
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Speaker 1: doesn't sound like her, insinuating.
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Speaker 2: That the letter was forged.
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Speaker 1: The judge, who at regular intervals would get very frustrated
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Speaker 1: with both Daniel and Elizabeth, finally would just say, look,
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Speaker 1: you've got all sorts of issues between the two of you,
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Speaker 1: and it's creating a horrible environment for your kids, and
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Speaker 1: if you don't find a way to come to some
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Speaker 1: sort of compromise, the people that are going to suffer
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Speaker 1: are your kids, specifically Sierra. Finally, in early twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 1: when Daniel and Elizabeth still had not come to terms,
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Speaker 1: the judge just ordered that Daniel returns Sierra to her
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Speaker 1: mother's residence, because legally speaking, Sierra was supposed to be
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Speaker 1: in her mother's care, and so, begrudgingly, Daniel would take
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Speaker 1: Sierra and he would bring her back to her mother's
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Speaker 1: house and he would say, okay, you know, go see
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Speaker 1: your mother, and then he would drive off. But later
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Speaker 1: that night, Sierra would sneak out of her mother's house
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Speaker 1: and just run back to be with her dad. Needless
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Speaker 1: to say, Daniel was not unhappy about that turn of events.
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Speaker 1: The custody battle over Sierra continued to rage for the
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Speaker 1: next several months, with Sierra opting to still.
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Speaker 2: Remain at her father's place.
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Speaker 1: Despite the court order, despite her mother pleading with her
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Speaker 1: to come home, and then in April of twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 1: something very odd happened. On the morning of April eighth,
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Speaker 1: several hundred dollars was withdrawn from Daniel's bank account from
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Speaker 1: a few different ATMs around Las Vegas. This particular bank
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Speaker 1: account was shared between Daniel and his second ex wife, Bogdana.
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Speaker 1: They just hadn't gotten around to relinquishing control to one
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Speaker 1: or the other, and so these particular withdrawals were kind
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Speaker 1: of uncharacteristic for Daniel or for Bogdana, and so they
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Speaker 1: were flagged as potentially fraudulent, and so the banks sent
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Speaker 1: notifications to both Daniel and Bogdanna saying as much. And
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Speaker 1: so Bogdana she gets the messages that there's been these
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Speaker 1: potentially fraudulent charges. She knows it wasn't her, and so
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Speaker 1: she calls Daniel, but Daniel doesn't pick up, and so
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Speaker 1: she texts Daniel, but again silenced from Daniel. Thinking this
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Speaker 1: was a little bit odd, Bogdanna reached out to Daniel's mother, Christine,
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Speaker 1: knowing that Daniel and his mom spoke nearly every day,
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Speaker 1: and so she filled the mother annabout what was going on.
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Speaker 2: And after getting all the information.
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Speaker 1: From Bogdana, Christine would try calling and texting Daniel but
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Speaker 1: still got nothing, and so she reached out to her granddaughter, Sierra,
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Speaker 1: and so she calls Sierra, Sierra doesn't pick up. She
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Speaker 1: texts Sierra asking to speak to Daniel, and Sierra doesn't
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Speaker 1: get back right away, but eventually she responds to Christine
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Speaker 1: and the response just said his phone has been acting up,
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Speaker 1: but he's okay. It should be fixed by tomorrow night.
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Speaker 2: No worries. Now, Christine was relieved to read.
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Speaker 1: That her son and her granddaughter were just fine, but
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Speaker 1: at the same time, there was just something odd about
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Speaker 1: the fact that she could not get in touch with
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Speaker 1: her son and that Sierra was kind of acting a
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Speaker 1: little bit Cagy, not answering her phone, which was unlike her,
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Speaker 1: and then sending a message that didn't quite sound like her.
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Speaker 1: But either way, Christine just let it go and figured
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Speaker 1: she would be in touch with her son over the
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Speaker 1: next twenty four hours. But the next day. By ten am,
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Speaker 1: when Christine and Bogdana had not heard or seen Daniel,
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Speaker 1: Christine again reached out to her granddaughter Sierra. She called her,
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Speaker 1: but she didn't pick up, and so she texted Sierra,
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Speaker 1: this time demanding that she put her father on the phone,
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Speaker 1: but Sierra did not put her father on the phone. Instead,
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Speaker 1: after a few minutes, Christine just got another text message
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Speaker 1: that said something to the effect of my dad's in
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Speaker 1: the shower, so he can't talk right now. Christine, at
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Speaker 1: this point it was like her radar was up and
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Speaker 1: she knew there was a real problem. She didn't know
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Speaker 1: what it was, but there was a problem and someone
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Speaker 1: needed to go over to Daniel's house and make sure
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Speaker 1: he and Sierra were okay. And so Christine contacted a
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Speaker 1: woman named Peggy Newman, who was Daniel's landlord and a
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Speaker 1: close friend of Daniel, and she asked, Peggy, would you
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Speaker 1: mind going and doing a welfare check at Daniel's house,
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Speaker 1: And Peggy would say, of course, no problem, but I
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Speaker 1: won't be able to get over there for at least
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Speaker 1: several hours. So Christine said, no problem. But as soon
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Speaker 1: as she hung up, Christine just was so anxious waiting
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Speaker 1: to find out what was going on with her son.
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Speaker 1: That at one forty six pm, when still Peggy was
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Speaker 1: out running errands and had not done the welfare check yet,
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Speaker 1: Christine just called the police and asked them to do
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Speaker 1: a welfare check.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I need a welfare check. I don't know, welfare check. Oh,
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Speaker 3: for my son. He's been missing for two days. His
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Speaker 3: works called, his family's called, I've called his ex wife's call.
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Speaker 1: And.
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Speaker 3: There's nobody answering the phone, and nobody's there's nothing, but
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Speaker 3: nobody can get ahold of them. And then his work
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Speaker 3: called and they can't get a hold of them, and
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Speaker 3: it's really really he just doesn't act like this.
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Speaker 1: But as it would happen, just a few minutes after
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Speaker 1: Christine placed that nine to one one call, Peggy Newman
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Speaker 1: and a friend of hers actually arrived at Daniel's residence
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Speaker 1: ahead of the police, and so when they got there,
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Speaker 1: they hopped out of their car, they walked up to
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Speaker 1: the front door, and as they're knocking on the front door,
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Speaker 1: they look over into the driveway and they see Daniel's car,
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Speaker 1: which was a blue Nissan Ultima, is not there, and
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Speaker 1: so they're knocking. They're seeing the car is not there.
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Speaker 1: It's totally silent in the house, and so Peggy she
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Speaker 1: reaches down and she tries the door knob and she
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Speaker 1: finds it's unlocked, so she twists the knob, she opens
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Speaker 1: the door, and she and her friend stepped inside. Just
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Speaker 1: minutes later, Peggy and her friend would come running out
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Speaker 1: of the house, and Peggy would call nine one one
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Speaker 1: because the police weren't there yet, and she would frantically
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Speaker 1: try to describe to the dispatcher what she had just seen.
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Speaker 2: Twenty four hours earlier.
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Speaker 1: A man and a woman were spotted on surveillance camera
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Speaker 1: withdrawing cash from several Las Vegas ATMs using Daniel's debit card.
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Speaker 1: Those were they withdrawals that had been flagged as fraudulent
19:32
Speaker 1: and tip bugged on off that something could be wrong here.
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Speaker 1: After those withdrawals, the man and the woman were spotted
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Speaker 1: again on camera going into a Las Vegas supermarket called Winco,
19:43
Speaker 1: and inside they would purchase a few items using Daniel's
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Speaker 1: debit card, and then they would leave and they would
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Speaker 1: head to a Las Vegas home depot, where once again
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Speaker 1: they'd be caught on camera purchasing a few items using
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Speaker 1: Daniel's debit card. After these purchases, the man and the
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Speaker 1: woman would make their way to Daniel's residence, where they
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Speaker 1: would spend the night. The following morning, Daniel's blue Nissan
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Speaker 1: Altima carr was spotted leaving Las Vegas at around ten
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Speaker 1: twenty in the morning.
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Speaker 2: That was about three and a half hours.
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Speaker 1: Before Peggy Newman and her friend went into Daniel's residence
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Speaker 1: and then quickly turned.
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Speaker 2: Around and ran out and called nine to one one.
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Speaker 1: When police finally did arrive at Daniel's residence on April ninth,
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Speaker 1: and they pulled up and they saw Peggy Newman and
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Speaker 1: her friend totally ashen faced and pacing on the sidewalk,
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Speaker 1: the police would get out, they would talk to those two.
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Speaker 1: They would go inside of Daniel's residence, and they would
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Speaker 1: see the horrible thing that Peggy and her friend had
20:36
Speaker 1: also seen. But the police could not make sense of
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Speaker 1: what they were seeing. It really just did.
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Speaker 2: Not add up.
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Speaker 1: Then, four days later, on April thirteenth, police in Salt
20:47
Speaker 1: Lake City, Utah, just happened to find the man and
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Speaker 1: the woman that were seen on camera on April eighth,
20:54
Speaker 1: using Daniel's debit card and going to the Windco and
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Speaker 1: the home depot.
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Speaker 2: The police.
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Speaker 1: They just happened to find these people on a bus
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Speaker 1: in Salt Lake City, and after going through the man
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Speaker 1: and the woman's belongings, including their phones, the police would
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Speaker 1: discover a video that these two had taken of themselves
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Speaker 1: in the last couple of days that explained what was
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Speaker 1: inside of Daniel's house.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to our YouTube channel up.
21:22
Speaker 3: After somebody whoa with it on camera.
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Speaker 2: It was worth it.
21:31
Speaker 1: The young man and the young woman you just saw
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Speaker 1: joking on camera about murdering someone were eighteen year old
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Speaker 1: Aaron Guerrero and his girlfriend sixteen year.
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Speaker 2: Old Sierra Halseth, Daniel's youngest daughter.
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Speaker 1: Allegedly, on the morning of April eighth, after Aaron and
21:47
Speaker 1: Sierra had pulled all that money out of all those
21:50
Speaker 1: different ATMs, they had gone to the Winco and purchased
21:53
Speaker 1: disposable gloves and bleach and drop cloths, and they had
21:56
Speaker 1: gone to the home depot and purchased a circular saw,
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Speaker 1: saw blades and lighter fluid, and then they headed for
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Speaker 1: Daniel's house. It's not been made public what actually occurred
22:06
Speaker 1: inside of Daniel's residence, but we can make a few
22:09
Speaker 1: assumptions Daniel adored his children.
22:12
Speaker 2: There was no act there.
22:13
Speaker 1: He truly loved his children, and so it would never
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Speaker 1: cross his mind that one of his children or one
22:19
Speaker 1: of their significant others would ever want to hurt him.
22:22
Speaker 1: And so when Sierra and Aaron went inside of Daniel's house,
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Speaker 1: it would have been extremely easy to sneak up on
22:29
Speaker 1: Daniel or just kind of catch him off guard, because
22:32
Speaker 1: he's not looking to put up a fight. He thinks
22:35
Speaker 1: he's around people that love him and respect him, because
22:37
Speaker 1: he loves and respects them. But however the young couple
22:41
Speaker 1: did it. They would inflict up to seventy stab wounds
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Speaker 1: in Daniel's body, most of which were in the back
22:47
Speaker 1: of his head, and then at some point during this
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Speaker 1: vicious attack, they stuffed Daniel into a sleeping bag, and
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Speaker 1: right in the middle of the living room of his house,
22:56
Speaker 1: they doused him in lighter fluid and lit him on fire.
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Speaker 1: Clear what exactly killed Daniel or for how long he
23:03
Speaker 1: was actually conscious and aware of what was happening before
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Speaker 1: he died, but it's very possible that Daniel had at
23:09
Speaker 1: least a small moment in time where he recognized his
23:13
Speaker 1: beloved little angel, Sierra was actively trying to kill him.
23:17
Speaker 1: After Daniel was either dead or incapacitated, the young couple
23:21
Speaker 1: tossed their pocket knives into the sink, and then they
23:24
Speaker 1: retrieved their circular saw as well as a chainsaw and
23:28
Speaker 1: began attempting to dismember Daniel's body, but they were unable
23:32
Speaker 1: to do it, and so they just kind of set
23:33
Speaker 1: the saws down in the middle of Daniel's home with
23:36
Speaker 1: bits of Daniel stuck on the grooves of the saw.
23:39
Speaker 1: At that point, Aaron and Sierra attempted to destroy evidence
23:43
Speaker 1: inside of the house by scrubbing everything down with bleach,
23:46
Speaker 1: but it was totally ineffective, and so at that point
23:49
Speaker 1: the couple decided they would just burn the entire house
23:52
Speaker 1: down and that.
23:53
Speaker 2: Would destroy all the evidence.
23:54
Speaker 1: And so around the time that Christine texted Sierra and
23:58
Speaker 1: demanded to speak to Daniel, and Sierra wrote back, Oh,
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Speaker 1: he's in the shower, he can't talk to you right now.
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Speaker 1: That was probably around the time that Sierra and Aaron
24:06
Speaker 1: were actively trying to burn the house down, but the
24:09
Speaker 1: fire they set was just not very big and it
24:11
Speaker 1: kind of smoldered out, and so they would just kind
24:14
Speaker 1: of leave all of the evidence all over Daniel's house
24:17
Speaker 1: and they would leave Daniels destroyed and burned body kind
24:20
Speaker 1: of propped up against the door leading into the garage,
24:22
Speaker 1: and they would just leave the house hop in Daniel's
24:25
Speaker 1: blue niss On Ultima, and at around ten twenty in
24:27
Speaker 1: the morning, they.
24:28
Speaker 2: Would leave Las Vegas.
24:29
Speaker 1: The only reason police were able to apprehend Aarin and
24:33
Speaker 1: Sierra in Salt Lake City a few days later was
24:36
Speaker 1: because the couple had made their way to Salt Lake
24:38
Speaker 1: City and hopped on a bus and Aaron had not
24:41
Speaker 1: paid the fare. He had just snuck onto the bus,
24:43
Speaker 1: and so at some point the transit authority had come
24:46
Speaker 1: through the bus and they were asking people to show
24:48
Speaker 1: their tickets, and Aaron didn't have one, and so when
24:51
Speaker 1: they discovered this, they asked for his name, and when
24:53
Speaker 1: they entered his name into their system, it popped up
24:56
Speaker 1: that the Las Vegas PD were actively searching for him.
24:59
Speaker 1: While only Ara knows why she turned on the one
25:02
Speaker 1: man who would forever love her and would forever support her,
25:06
Speaker 1: what we do know is around the time that Daniel
25:09
Speaker 1: and Elizabeth had gone back to court and they were
25:11
Speaker 1: having those virtual meetings with the judge to decide who
25:14
Speaker 1: was going to have custody over Sierra. Sierra had begun
25:17
Speaker 1: dating Erin and she had fallen totally in love with him,
25:21
Speaker 1: and it seemed very much like Aaron had totally fallen
25:23
Speaker 1: in love with her. And somehow Daniel caught wind of
25:27
Speaker 1: the fact that Aaron and Sierra were planning to run
25:31
Speaker 1: away secretly and go move to Los Angeles. And so
25:34
Speaker 1: when Daniel heard this, he told his ex wife Elizabeth,
25:37
Speaker 1: and then they would go and talk to Aaron's parents
25:40
Speaker 1: and they would tell them about this plan to run away,
25:43
Speaker 1: and both sets of parents talked and decided it was
25:45
Speaker 1: in both child's best interest if they stopped seeing each other,
25:49
Speaker 1: and so, starting in early twenty twenty one, the parents
25:53
Speaker 1: forbade their child from seeing.
25:55
Speaker 2: Each other and that was it.
25:56
Speaker 1: But even though all the parents were involved in this decision,
26:00
Speaker 1: because Sierra was at the time living with Daniel, it
26:04
Speaker 1: seemed like she focused her rage about this decision on
26:08
Speaker 1: Daniel because he was the one kind of enforcing the rule,
26:11
Speaker 1: and so it's believed in April of that year, Sierra
26:15
Speaker 1: decided she would just have to kill her father in
26:18
Speaker 1: order to get her boyfriend back. In Daniel's obituary, his
26:21
Speaker 1: family very conspicuously left Sierra out, saying that Daniel was
26:26
Speaker 1: survived by two loving children, not three. His family has
26:31
Speaker 1: also come out and publicly stated that they hope Sierra
26:34
Speaker 1: and her boyfriend are given the harshest penalty allowable by law.
26:38
Speaker 1: Despite the existence of this confession video that Aaron and
26:41
Speaker 1: Sierra took up themselves talking about murdering Daniel, they have
26:46
Speaker 1: pled not guilty and are currently awaiting trial.
26:51
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