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Speaker 1: I'm Chris Hansen. Right now on crime Watch Daily, a.
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Speaker 2: Wealthy banker in the middle of a messy divorce falls
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Speaker 2: in love with his assistant, a former exotic answer.
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Speaker 3: It was like a kick in the stomach.
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Speaker 2: The wife who was in the way. The crook who
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Speaker 2: confessed to cops he was the hired hitman Holme Base,
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Speaker 2: Crime Watched Daily with a tale of big money, multiple lovers,
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Speaker 2: and a murder.
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Speaker 3: For hire, and I s, would do you know of
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Speaker 3: anyone that would want to kill you?
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Speaker 2: Then a crime spree that haunted and taunted Los Angeles
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Speaker 2: one by one, young women assaulted in murder. Today, the
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Speaker 2: woman who escaped the Grim Sleeper breaks her silence.
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Speaker 4: You're the only one who survived.
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Speaker 5: This serial killer was a survivor that we only know of.
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Speaker 2: And in a crime Watch Daily exclusive, Grim Sleeper on
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Speaker 2: the hull, grilled by police.
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Speaker 6: You have sex with them, you killed them?
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Speaker 4: Right now, Andrea Isisenser with Crimewatch Daily.
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Speaker 7: Jason Matara, Crime Watch Daily.
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Speaker 8: This I'm Elizabeth.
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Speaker 4: I'm here at crimewatch on.
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Speaker 8: Michelle from Crime Watch Daily, Ana Garcia from Crime Watch
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Speaker 8: is crime Watch Daily.
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Speaker 7: We'll find you again, we always do.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to crime Watch Daily Everyone, I'm Chris Hansen. We
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Speaker 2: start today with a wealthy banker in the middle of
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Speaker 2: a messy divorce. You see who was in love with
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Speaker 2: someone else, a former stripper now working as his assistant,
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Speaker 2: and police say he had to get his wife out
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Speaker 2: of the picture figuratively and literally. He's a small time crook.
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Speaker 2: You want to talk about what's going on? Turned hit man.
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Speaker 9: He's like a Martin robber Holm Bason.
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Speaker 2: She's a wealthy socialite. There was money involved, married to
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Speaker 2: one of South Carolina's most successful banker.
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Speaker 10: It's like, frankly, a lot of money.
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Speaker 2: But where these two lives from opposite ends intersect.
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Speaker 11: It was live sexual presentation.
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Speaker 2: Reveals one unbelievably dark and twisted conspiracy.
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Speaker 3: I cannot stop thinking about how horrific that would be.
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Speaker 2: Nancy Latham thrived in the well healed circles of Charleston,
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Speaker 2: South Carolina. Anyone who was anyone in this picturesque town
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Speaker 2: knew Nancy and her husband, Chris Latham, a top bank
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Speaker 2: executive with a high six figure salary. But by the
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Speaker 2: time the couple's two daughters, Emily and Manison, had reached
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Speaker 2: their teens, the family had drifted apart.
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Speaker 3: Chris wasn't incredibly involved in our lives at that point
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Speaker 3: in our lives. My two daughters and myself were sort
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Speaker 3: of acting as an independent unit.
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Speaker 2: And then the day that changed everything, one Nancy will
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Speaker 2: never forget.
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Speaker 3: It was Madison's spring break week, so Maddie was going
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Speaker 3: to be in the house every single day all day
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Speaker 3: that week. I happened to be taking my bath and
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Speaker 3: Madison answered the door and then ran upstairs and said,
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Speaker 3: the police are at the door. They both came in,
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Speaker 3: sat down and said do you know of anyone that
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Speaker 3: would want.
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Speaker 4: To hurt you?
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Speaker 3: And I said, what do you mean hurt me? And
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Speaker 3: they said, would you know of anyone that would want
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Speaker 3: to kill you?
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Speaker 2: It began Comps would tell Nancy not long before, when
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Speaker 2: a man named Aaron Wilkinson was pulled over by police for,
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Speaker 2: of all things, a simple traffic violation.
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Speaker 10: You know, it was a typical traffic stop. But once
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Speaker 10: he was going to maybe write in a ticket, Aaron
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Speaker 10: started telling him about a plot he knew about, a
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Speaker 10: murder for hire, and the officer quickly realized he should
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Speaker 10: search the car, and when the officer found the gun
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Speaker 10: inside the car, he then arrested Aaron Wilkinson.
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Speaker 2: And once Wilkinson was in custody, did he have a
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Speaker 2: story to tell.
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Speaker 10: What Aaron told the local detectives was that he had
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Speaker 10: come down from Kentucky on the orders of another individual
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Speaker 10: to kill a woman, and he said he had paperwork
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Speaker 10: that showed what he was planning to do.
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Speaker 2: So then who was this supposed target? That's right, Nancy Latham.
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Speaker 2: Once investigator started digging into Wilkinson's claims and more specifically
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Speaker 2: that paperwork, they discovered just how meticulously the hit had
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Speaker 2: been planned.
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Speaker 10: Whoever put that together had gone to the extent of
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Speaker 10: saying exactly where she would be at what time so
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Speaker 10: she could be killed, And obviously that was a concern
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Speaker 10: we had, so some of the things Aaron Wilkinson was saying,
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Speaker 10: we're checking out, and then the next step was really
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Speaker 10: sort of getting the details about who was involved.
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Speaker 2: The Feds are brought in and the hitman drops another bombshell.
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Speaker 2: He claims he's not working alone. His partner in crime
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Speaker 2: is is this guy Sammy Yannawan And Wilkinson tells the
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Speaker 2: Feds he's got to check in soon or he'll be
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Speaker 2: in big trouble. Sammy will suspect something is up.
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Speaker 12: His farm, but we make that The FEDS set up
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Speaker 12: an undercover call between Aaron Wilkinson and Sammy Yanawy.
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Speaker 2: Special agent Joe Boykin is releasing part of it to
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Speaker 2: Crime Watch Daily. Listen carefully because Fed say it reveals
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Speaker 2: one of the most chilling aspects of the crime.
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Speaker 11: This is an undercover phone call made to an individual
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Speaker 11: known as Sammy.
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Speaker 7: Can I popple with him in the car?
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Speaker 2: I want to do his to day? As the call reveals,
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Speaker 2: the gunmen have been given the green line to take
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Speaker 2: out anyone who gets in the way of their target
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Speaker 2: and his authorities were about to learn that included Nancy's
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Speaker 2: own daughter.
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Speaker 10: Wilkinson sad, what should I do? Somebody's there if the
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Speaker 10: kids are there, and Yenowine told him, well, it'll make
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Speaker 10: it look better, so go ahead and kill them too.
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Speaker 2: Then Aaron Tell's comps it was Sammy who gave him
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Speaker 2: that hit packet in the first place.
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Speaker 9: She came back and he had that minill envelope like
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Speaker 9: the you know, pretty much all the hierocracticals, and then
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Speaker 9: it had like a Google map, not satellite ima sure more,
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Speaker 9: just like a colored map.
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Speaker 10: There's also a separate word document that talks about the
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Speaker 10: type of car she drives the people that live with her.
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Speaker 10: I think what it shows is there were multiple ways
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Speaker 10: to commit the shooting or the murderer.
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Speaker 2: During the investigation, authorities also uncover the disturbing details of
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Speaker 2: how payment for a job well done would break down.
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Speaker 11: If the hit occurred. They were to received I think
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Speaker 11: believe I think it was twenty thousand dollars, but if
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Speaker 11: they made it look like an accident, they would get
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Speaker 11: more money. Regardless, she had to die, and you know
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Speaker 11: it was just a you know, a robbery on bad
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Speaker 11: or a carjacking gone bad. That would be fine.
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Speaker 2: Now with a plot uncovered and one of the hitmen
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Speaker 2: still on the streets, the clock was ticking. Feds had
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Speaker 2: to find Nancy and fast.
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Speaker 11: We had a victim that we didn't know her whereabouts
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Speaker 11: that we needed to make sure we could find and
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Speaker 11: secure she was safe.
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Speaker 2: And once they found Nancy and her daughter's there was
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Speaker 2: no time.
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Speaker 3: To waste and they sailp off and paid to kill you.
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Speaker 3: And they said pack a bag, and so we packed
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Speaker 3: a bag. It was like a kick in the.
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Speaker 2: Stomach up next.
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Speaker 10: So far we hadn't had anybody with any real motive
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Speaker 10: to want to have Nancy Latham killed.
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Speaker 2: The hunt is on to fined Nancy's conspirators, a trail
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Speaker 2: filled with sex, money, and malon. Nancy Latham's ruld of
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Speaker 2: Southern comfort is suddenly flipped on its genteel head when
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Speaker 2: federal agents.
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Speaker 1: Tell her she's the target of a murder for hire plot.
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Speaker 2: But that isn't the worst of it. There's proof her
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Speaker 2: young daughters are in the crosshairs too. They had to
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Speaker 2: be kept safe.
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Speaker 10: So far, we hadn't had anybody with any real motive
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Speaker 10: to want to have Nancy Latham killed. They had to
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Speaker 10: be given.
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Speaker 2: Protection, protection from these two hitmen, Aaron Wilkinson and Sammy Yenowan,
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Speaker 2: a tough guy once accused of murder. They were considered
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Speaker 2: partners in crime until Wilkinson spills his guts in this
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Speaker 2: police interrogation.
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Speaker 10: I could tell, so you know, the concern right then
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Speaker 10: was how many people were involved and how much danger
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Speaker 10: was there to the victim.
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Speaker 2: Nancy and her daughters are rushed to a safehouse, but
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Speaker 2: this mother of two is on pins and needles.
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Speaker 3: The best case scenario for me would have been that
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Speaker 3: they shot me, and that I instantly died. The worst
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Speaker 3: case scenario would have been that they came to my room,
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Speaker 3: shot me, woke up Ma Addison, and I wouldn't have
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Speaker 3: died immediately, and there would have been nothing I could do,
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Speaker 3: and I would have listened to them killed my daughter,
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Speaker 3: and I just that's the one thing that I cannot
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Speaker 3: stop thinking about, is how horrific that would be.
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Speaker 13: It's never going to be okay.
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Speaker 2: But who would want Nancy Latham dead and didn't care
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Speaker 2: if her beautiful daughters got in the way. Cops are
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Speaker 2: stumped until they asked Nancy herself and she lets them
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Speaker 2: in on a little secret.
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Speaker 3: And I said, well, considering I'm divorcing on Monday, I
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Speaker 3: would have to say Chris Latham.
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Speaker 2: Chris Latham, the man Nancy had been married to for
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Speaker 2: twenty four years.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know of anybody who's ever been
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Speaker 3: married that didn't have that fleeting thought of, oh I
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Speaker 3: wish you were dead, but nobody ever acts on it.
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Speaker 2: But now fed suspect that's exactly what Chris Latham did.
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Speaker 10: And so we knew from the hit packet she was
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Speaker 10: the target.
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Speaker 2: Her picture was there.
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Speaker 10: So the universe of people that would want to have
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Speaker 10: her killed is fairly small, and we didn't know the
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Speaker 10: scope of the danger.
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Speaker 2: Divorce by death didn't seem to fit Chris's profile a
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Speaker 2: well respected, well paid bank executive, but Nancy says behind
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Speaker 2: their picture perfect family was a dark secret.
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Speaker 3: We got plenty of evidence that he was having multiple
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Speaker 3: affairs with women with whom he worked, and I file
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Speaker 3: for a divorce on those grounds, and then, surprise of
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Speaker 3: all surprises, in I think it was three or four months,
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Speaker 3: he started saying that I was having an affair and
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Speaker 3: I was trying to kill him.
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Speaker 2: One of his affairs was with this woman Wendy Moore,
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Speaker 2: who copsy was Latham's very personal assistant.
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Speaker 11: They definitely had something corn on between the two of them,
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Speaker 11: and they were all, you know, caught up and you know,
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Speaker 11: passionate about each other.
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Speaker 2: Chris Latham and Wendy Moore got so closed. Her voice
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Speaker 2: was actually on his answering machine.
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Speaker 3: One time, I'd called my husband's voicemail at the office
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Speaker 3: and there was this woman speaking in a British accent,
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Speaker 3: and you know, you have reached.
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Speaker 4: The office of Chris Latham.
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Speaker 3: You have a British receptionist. And he said Oh no,
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Speaker 3: that's that's my new assistant, Wendy. I just had her
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Speaker 3: take a British accent because it sounds more upscale for
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Speaker 3: my clients.
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Speaker 2: And as it turns out, that wasn't her only talent.
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Speaker 2: Wendy Moore had once been an exotic dancer, and there
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Speaker 2: were even reports she used to live in what amounted
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Speaker 2: to a sex studio with her ex.
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Speaker 11: Husband downstairs, where they entertained clients. My understanding was it
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Speaker 11: was live sexual presentations as well as online sexual entertainment.
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Speaker 2: But here's the biggest shocker. That ex husband was none
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Speaker 2: other than Sam Yenowine, one of the hired hit men.
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Speaker 2: In fact, authorities learned it was Wendy who actually delivered
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Speaker 2: the hit packet and a lot of cash to the
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Speaker 2: hotel in Charleston where the triggerman were staying. Unfortunately for
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Speaker 2: the conspirators, cops tracked them down one by one and
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Speaker 2: placed Wendy Moore, Sam Yenowine, and Aaron Wilkinson under arrest.
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Speaker 2: But where was Chris Latham and how involved was he?
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Speaker 2: His stripper girlfriend wasn't saying a thing.
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Speaker 11: We really hoped that she would cooperate and testify against Chris,
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Speaker 11: but again, their relationship, you know, and their fates were intertwined.
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Speaker 11: Hit package was invaluable, but starting to try to tie
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Speaker 11: in these other players with direct evidence of their participation
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Speaker 11: was equally important.
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Speaker 2: But Fens don't necessarily need her statement. They soon obtained
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Speaker 2: recordings of jailhause phone calls between the Blonde bombshell and
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Speaker 2: Chris lath.
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Speaker 14: Your own arm on every single second, and we will
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Speaker 14: not give up until you're here with her. Okay, escape
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Speaker 14: to say, and you know we're doing everything we can
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Speaker 14: to get you home as quickly as you can. Okay,
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Speaker 14: thank you.
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Speaker 2: I love that. At the very least, the recording proved
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Speaker 2: the two were connected, and while searching through the hit packet,
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Speaker 2: they find more evidence that seems to incriminate Chris. The
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Speaker 2: paperwork is traced to his office computer and printer Copsey.
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Speaker 2: He supplied the torn family photo of Nancy and daughter
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Speaker 2: medicine and this snapshot of Nancy's car was taken with
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Speaker 2: his cell phone.
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Speaker 11: Yes, that's damning evidence. How do you explain that? But
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Speaker 11: I think they thought that somehow they were going to
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Speaker 11: beat this, and they were going to beat it together.
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Speaker 2: Now they just had to bring lead them in. That's
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Speaker 2: when they turned to his soon to be ex wife.
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Speaker 3: And they said, well, we can't find him and we
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Speaker 3: need to find him.
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Speaker 5: Can you help locate him? I said, give me a
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Speaker 5: few minutes.
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Speaker 2: Nancy was betting her ex was squirreled away where they
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Speaker 2: used to go on family vacations. With a couple of
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Speaker 2: phone calls to area real estate agents. She hit Peters.
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Speaker 3: I called the ATF agents, said this is where he is.
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Speaker 3: They said that's five hours away. How sure are you?
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Speaker 3: I said, I would bet my life's where he is.
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Speaker 3: He said okay, so they took off. I got a
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Speaker 3: call at about nine thirty at night from Joe Boykin
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Speaker 3: who said we want to let you know that your
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Speaker 3: husband has been arrested and thank you for helping us
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Speaker 3: find him. And my husband happened to be in the
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Speaker 3: car with Joe at that time when he said that.
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Speaker 3: So I'm sure that kind of got Chris's got.
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Speaker 2: The banker had treated his three piece suits for prison stripes,
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Speaker 2: brought down, some say by a pair of heels.
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Speaker 11: I think when he got tangled up with Wendy Moore,
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Speaker 11: it was his own undoing. You know, he would have
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Speaker 11: gone and had an ugly divorce like a lot of
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Speaker 11: people do, but I think she was probably the instigator
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Speaker 11: of putting this whole thing in play.
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Speaker 2: Now, the rogues gallery of conspirators was headed to trial,
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Speaker 2: but there is yet another shocking twist in the case.
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Speaker 11: Was a deputy US Marshal saying, Hey, it's sami Enowine.
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Speaker 11: You're a prisoner, and I said, yeah, he is. He goes, well,
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Speaker 11: he's dead, And I was like, what do you mean
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Speaker 11: he's dead? He goes he committed suicide. He hung himself
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Speaker 11: in the jail, and my job just dropped. I mean,
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Speaker 11: I couldn't even believe what I was hearing, because we
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Speaker 11: knew with his interaction with Wendy, we had a real
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Speaker 11: shot at getting some criminal evidence against Chris.
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Speaker 2: In a suicide note left to his current girlfriend, y Know,
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Speaker 2: Wine wrote these words, I'm finally free. Satan is killing
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Speaker 2: me with memories of us, love you always and forever.
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Speaker 11: I guess he really didn't want to testify against.
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Speaker 2: Wendy ultimate Lee. Wendy Moore is found guilty and gets
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Speaker 2: fifteen years for her role in the murder for Higher plot.
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Speaker 2: Chris Latham is also convicted and gets ten years in
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Speaker 2: federal prison, just has served, but what about the daughters
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Speaker 2: who have to live with the reality of what their
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Speaker 2: own father has done.
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Speaker 15: He wanted to take away someone who meant the world
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Speaker 15: to me, and then it's like he also didn't care
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Speaker 15: if I got hurt. How can you throw away relationships
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Speaker 15: with your own children and someone that you've been married
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Speaker 15: to for twenty plus years.
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Speaker 2: Nancy is still hard pressed for answers.
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Speaker 3: I will never, ever, ever forgive Chris Latham for including
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Speaker 3: my children. I absolutely forgive him for anything that he
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Speaker 3: wanted to do to me. I will never forgive him
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Speaker 3: for what he wanted to do to my children, our children.
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Speaker 2: But there's an unlikely hero in all of this, Aaron Wilkinson,
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Speaker 2: who got four years. Nancy says she's forever in his debt.
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Speaker 3: I think that the hit didn't take place because of
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Speaker 3: Aaron Wilkinson. I think that, at the end of the day,
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Speaker 3: for whatever reason, he is the person that saved our lives.
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Speaker 3: I'll be forever grateful to him for that.
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Speaker 2: From behind bars, Chris continues to maintain he is one
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Speaker 2: hundred percent innocent, and his family says he still wants
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Speaker 2: to be a part of both of his daughter's lives,
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Speaker 2: but that appears to be a bit one sided. At
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Speaker 2: his sentencing, one of those daughters told the court quote,
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Speaker 2: a father is supposed to protect his daughters from evil.
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Speaker 2: I'm disgusted. I have to call this man my father.
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Speaker 2: Coming up. A demon roaming the streets in this city
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Speaker 2: of Angels.
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Speaker 13: Young women are being snatched off of streets in South LA.
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Speaker 2: Prime Watch Daily follows the trail of terror left behind
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Speaker 2: by notorious serial killer the Grim Sleeper and the one
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Speaker 2: woman escaped as clutches.
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Speaker 8: He's shot you, yes, sexually violating you, yes, driving you
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Speaker 8: around right, and you're dying.
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Speaker 16: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Yes. Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy.
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Speaker 2: They're three of the most infamous serial killers in American history.
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Speaker 2: And today we have the story of another mass murderer,
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Speaker 2: one who may have never been discovered if not for
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Speaker 2: a little bit of luck and a slice of pizza.
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Speaker 2: Here's Ana Garcia.
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Speaker 8: Chris Lonnie Franklin Junior was living under the radar, married
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Speaker 8: with two children, but he also had a secret double life,
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Speaker 8: one as a ruthless serial killer. A reign of terror
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Speaker 8: casts an ominous cloud over the city of Angels. A
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Speaker 8: demon is murdering innocent young women.
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Speaker 13: Young women are being snatched off of streets in South LA,
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Speaker 13: young black women.
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Speaker 8: Suddenly the watering stops and the elusive killer is dubbed
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Speaker 8: the Grim Sleeper.
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Speaker 16: There was this span of time where they weren't aware
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Speaker 16: of any murders.
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Speaker 5: That's why they were referring to him as the grim Sleeper.
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Speaker 4: But he wakes with a vengeance.
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Speaker 13: The corner list had potentially thirty eight bodies.
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Speaker 8: Police are stumped until the killer makes one critical mistake.
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Speaker 4: He lets this woman live. We thought you were dead,
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Speaker 4: he thought I was dead.
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Speaker 8: It was an ugly era in South Los Angeles. Crack
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Speaker 8: wars were rampant and crime was at an all time high.
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Speaker 8: Jill Stewart, former managing editor of LA Weekly, says it
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Speaker 8: was the perfect time for a serial killer to strike.
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Speaker 13: I think it allowed serial killers to operate in silence.
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Speaker 13: You couldn't tell who was killing who. We just called
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Speaker 13: it random violence.
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Speaker 8: So when Deborah Jackson was found shot to death and
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Speaker 8: dumped in this alley, police first assumed it was a
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Speaker 8: random drug hit until the bodies of more and more
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Speaker 8: young women started to pile up.
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Speaker 17: What was he doing?
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Speaker 5: He was hunting for women.
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Speaker 8: Thirty five year old Henrietta Wright and twenty three year
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Speaker 8: old Barbara Ware are found shot dead. They're partially clothed
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Speaker 8: bodies left in dark alleys.
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Speaker 7: Yeah to border a murder or a dead body.
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Speaker 8: Police received this anonymous nine to one one call from
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Speaker 8: someone saying he witnessed a man dumping Barbara's body. Police
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Speaker 8: actually suspect the caller may be Barbara's real killer, but
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Speaker 8: have no proof. Three dead women, all shot and dumped
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Speaker 8: in nearby alleys. LAPD homicide Detective Darren Dupree says it
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Speaker 8: may have been the first sign a serial killer was
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Speaker 8: on the prowl in South LA.
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Speaker 18: They were checking vehicles, cars, people, so many people were questions.
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Speaker 18: There was people who they thought possibly could have been
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Speaker 18: a suspect.
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Speaker 8: And then Bernita Sparks turns up dead, but where she
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Speaker 8: is found raises questions about the serial killer theory.
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Speaker 16: She was found inside of a trash dumpster and almost
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Speaker 16: all of these victims were found in alleyways.
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Speaker 4: For these two separate cases.
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Speaker 18: There were several serial killers growing around south central LA
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Speaker 18: when the crack epidemic hit. It was a hard time
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Speaker 18: deciphering who killed each one.
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Speaker 8: Was this the evil work of two different killers? Cops
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Speaker 8: are stumped when Mary Low turns up dead in another alley.
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Speaker 16: A lot of them were covered with trash from the alleyways,
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Speaker 16: whether it be an old mattress or in one case,
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Speaker 16: car engine.
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Speaker 8: This time cops catch a much needed break. A witness
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Speaker 8: tells police he saw Mary getting into a souped up
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Speaker 8: Orange Ford Pinto with an unknown man.
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Speaker 13: They even did DMV studies of every Orange Pinto in
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Speaker 13: the entire southern California area, but before.
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Speaker 8: They can locate the car, they find another half naked
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Speaker 8: body in an alley. Twenty two year old Lucretia Jefferson.
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Speaker 8: He never really went outside that comfort zone.
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Speaker 18: He knew the alleyways, he knew the people, he knew everything.
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Speaker 19: I think each each time woman was murdered and it
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Speaker 19: would be reported in the news, and he was probably
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Speaker 19: waiting and say, hey, they haven't caught me yet.
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Speaker 8: The killer had a definite mo but detectives also noticed
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Speaker 8: a pattern with his victims.
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Speaker 4: Most of them had cocaine in their bodies.
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Speaker 8: Police suspected the killer was luring the women into his
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Speaker 8: car with the promise of drugs, but instead giving them
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Speaker 8: a bullet.
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Speaker 18: I think when someone got feisty with him, or they
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Speaker 18: had a you know, an attitude with him. Those are
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Speaker 18: the ones he chose to kill.
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Speaker 8: Porter Alexander Junior says his eighteen year old daughter, Meek
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Speaker 8: Alexander was always spunky and had recently taken up with
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Speaker 8: the wrong crowd. She was exactly the type of young
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Speaker 8: woman the killer was targeting.
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Speaker 20: He said, I want to go to the store. I
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Speaker 20: said okay. I said, please go. When you go, come
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Speaker 20: back home, will you please? She said okay, Dan, And so.
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Speaker 17: I fell.
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Speaker 18: I lay on back and I.
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Speaker 20: Fell off to sleep.
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Speaker 4: Porter woke up to a nightmare.
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Speaker 8: Two weeks after Monique disappeared, her body was found dumped
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Speaker 8: in this alley, just ten minutes from her family's home.
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Speaker 5: You didn't know at that time that your daughter was
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Speaker 5: the victim of a serial killer. You didn't even know
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Speaker 5: that there was a serial killer. I did not.
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Speaker 8: The LAPD starts to piece together a blueprint linking seven
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Speaker 8: of the murders. All are shot by a small twenty
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Speaker 8: five caliber handgun.
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Speaker 16: All of these murder victims were all shot from left
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Speaker 16: to right, front to back, with in a downward direction,
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Speaker 16: so that was consistent with being seated in the right
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Speaker 16: front passenger seat of a vehicle and the driver turning
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Speaker 16: towards you and shooting you.
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Speaker 8: But the key would be in the DNA. It was
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Speaker 8: all swabbed off the victim's breasts and it all matched.
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Speaker 5: Low in the hul We wound up with the same
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Speaker 5: DNA profile.
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Speaker 8: However, at the time, DNA was not an advanced crime
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Speaker 8: fighting tool. There was no database and no way to
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Speaker 8: identify the killer.
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Speaker 13: He was still a needle in a haystack.
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Speaker 8: But instead of warning the public and women of South La,
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Speaker 8: Jill Stewart says, the LAPD made a highly controversial decision.
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Speaker 4: To keep the serial killer theory a secret.
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Speaker 13: They were trying to figure out who he was. They
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Speaker 13: didn't want to spook him, send him out of state,
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Speaker 13: for example. But that has a twoage sword.
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Speaker 4: If you don't let him know that you're on to him, right,
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Speaker 4: he can kill freely.
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Speaker 13: Yes, he just thinks he's free to go ahead and
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Speaker 13: keep doing what his evil son of a bitch has
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Speaker 13: been doing all this time.
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Speaker 4: And that's exactly what he did.
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Speaker 8: The serial monster was soon back in business and on
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Speaker 8: the prowl for his eighth victim.
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Speaker 4: But when he found Denitrio, Washington, his number was up.
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Speaker 8: He's shot you, Yes, he is sexually violating you? Yes,
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Speaker 8: driving you around right and you're dying?
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Speaker 16: Yes?
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Speaker 5: And he didn't let to save me.
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Speaker 4: Coming up, what happened inside the killer's car?
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Speaker 2: How could you kiss me?
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Speaker 7: Add thisten?
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Speaker 2: I'd bleeding?
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Speaker 4: And the police interrogation of the grim Sleeper.
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Speaker 2: We're back with more on our investigation into the Grim Sleeper,
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Speaker 2: a convicted serial killer who prayed on victims in Los
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Speaker 2: Angeles for years. Anna Garcia is here now with more
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Speaker 2: on his trail of horror.
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Speaker 1: Chris.
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Speaker 8: What makes this case so scary is that this madman
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Speaker 8: took a break from kill, and had it not been
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Speaker 8: for a lucky break, he might still be walking the
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Speaker 8: streets of Los Angeles. Few people can say they've survived
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Speaker 8: the wrath of a serial killer.
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Speaker 4: Any Tria Washington is one of them. You're the only
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Speaker 4: one who survived.
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Speaker 5: This serial killer was a survivor that we only know of.
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Speaker 8: When Antria, a home healthcare provider, accepted a ride from
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Speaker 8: a friendly man driving an Orange Pinto, she had no
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Speaker 8: idea she was getting into the car with a notorious
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Speaker 8: grim Sleeper.
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Speaker 4: Where were you headed that night?
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Speaker 2: I was going to a party and he said, well,
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Speaker 2: can I go?
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Speaker 8: The man behind the wheel, had already savagely killed seven women,
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Speaker 8: and Anytria was supposed to be number eight.
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Speaker 4: And you didn't get a weird vibe from well, your
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Speaker 4: gut said, don't get it, don't get in a car,
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Speaker 4: and I did it.
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Speaker 8: Anyway, what happens inside that car, she says, plays out
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Speaker 8: like a real life horror movie.
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Speaker 18: Everything just got really quiet, I mean eery quiet.
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Speaker 5: And I'm going.
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Speaker 8: The madman shot any Tria point blank in the chest
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Speaker 8: and then began to savagely rape her.
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Speaker 4: He's shot you.
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Speaker 18: Yes, he is.
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Speaker 8: Sexually violating you, Yes, driving you around right, and you're dying.
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Speaker 2: I'm going, how could you kiss me and do all this?
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Speaker 2: And I'm bleeding?
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Speaker 8: After hours of torture, Andy Tria makes a life or
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Speaker 8: death decision.
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Speaker 4: She grabs for the door handle. He probably thought you
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Speaker 4: were never gonna make it. He probably thought you were dead.
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Speaker 18: I believe that he thought the same thing that I
27:43
Speaker 18: probably could run over and just lay there in the
27:45
Speaker 18: street anyway, But.
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Speaker 4: Any Tria was a fighter.
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Speaker 8: Doctors are able to retrieve a small twenty five caliber
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Speaker 8: bullet from her chest. Ballistics reveals it's a match the
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Speaker 8: same gun was used on.
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Speaker 4: The Grim sleepers, seven other victims.
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Speaker 13: This is the same guy, same gun, Samemo.
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Speaker 4: She changed everything for the LAPD.
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Speaker 13: Really the fact that she had the bullet in her chest.
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Speaker 8: Cops finally had someone who could put a face on
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Speaker 8: the killer. Anitria helps a police artist with this sketch.
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Speaker 8: She also tells detectives about a bright light inside the car,
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Speaker 8: possibly the flash from a camera.
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Speaker 19: I remember, is that flashbit in front of my face?
28:26
Speaker 18: Fighting Lehi.
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Speaker 16: She set out the blueprint for what happened to all
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Speaker 16: these victims couldn't speak because they were.
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Speaker 4: Dead, same caliber, bullet, same DNA. Still, the LAPD kept
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Speaker 4: the serial killer theory a secret.
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Speaker 13: This was a live acting killer that the girls in
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Speaker 13: South LA didn't know about.
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Speaker 8: Then the killings stop and the killer goes eerily quiet.
28:53
Speaker 8: The LA Weekly dubs him the grim Sleeper, and cops
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Speaker 8: are on pins and needles.
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Speaker 4: They know this isn't over.
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Speaker 13: He was the longest running serial killer in the United
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Speaker 13: States west of the Mississippi. E've been operating longer than
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Speaker 13: anyone else that was known. And he stopped for thirteen years,
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Speaker 13: or it looked.
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Speaker 10: Like he did.
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Speaker 4: Then suddenly he wakes.
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Speaker 8: His thirst for blood rekindled with Princess Bartholomew, a fifteen
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Speaker 8: year old runaway, and Valerie McCorvey both are found not shocked,
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Speaker 8: but strangled to death.
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Speaker 5: Then he kind of changed it up a little bit, but.
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Speaker 4: It wasn't long until he went back to his primal instinct.
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Speaker 8: Geniesia Peters, a mother of a four year old, is
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Speaker 8: found shot with a small caliber handgun, but this time
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Speaker 8: he stuffed her body in a garbage.
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Speaker 16: Bag, and the DNA that linked the defendant in this
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Speaker 16: case to her murder came from the zip tie that
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Speaker 16: sealed that bag.
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Speaker 8: By now, DNA was a common crime solving tool, but
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Speaker 8: LAPD Detective Darren Dupree says the Grim Sleeper's DNA wasn't
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Speaker 8: in any of their databases.
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Speaker 18: Sometimes you get a murder and you just can't saw
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Speaker 18: You give everything you got, and you just can't solve it.
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Speaker 8: But there was a possible solution, a groundbreaking DNA test
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Speaker 8: that could link the killer's DNA to any family member
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Speaker 8: found in the database.
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Speaker 13: And one person in prison lit up like a Christmas
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Speaker 13: tree turned out to be the Grim Sleeper's son.
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Speaker 8: Chris Franklin, had just gotten out of jail and was
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Speaker 8: living in a mint green home in South LA with
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Speaker 8: his mother and father. Lonnie Franklin Junior, who wouldn't you know,
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Speaker 8: was a retired garbage man for the city.
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Speaker 4: And how did people in the neighborhood think of him?
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Speaker 8: They love them and you would describe Lonnie Franklin Junior as,
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Speaker 8: you know, a.
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Speaker 13: Fun guy who was LA's most famous serial killer.
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Speaker 8: Police believed they had their man, but they had to
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Speaker 8: prove it, so they came up with this elaborate undercover
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Speaker 8: sting where they had to pose as workers in a pizzeria.
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Speaker 8: She wanted the DNA sample in the conformation rather than
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Speaker 8: going directly to him and saying, give me a DNA sample.
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Speaker 18: Correct.
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Speaker 8: This surveillance video obtained by Crime Watch Daily shows Lonnie
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Speaker 8: Franklin Junior inside a local pizza restaurant.
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Speaker 4: That's him right there.
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Speaker 16: One of the undercover officers acted as his busboy at
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Speaker 16: this pizza party, and.
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Speaker 5: I was able to collect multiple samples from Lonnie Franklin.
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Speaker 19: But they were able to develop beautiful, complete DNA profiles
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Speaker 19: from the piece of pizza.
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Speaker 8: The LAPD then assembled a special grim Sleeper Task Force
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Speaker 8: to arrest Lonnie Franklin Junior at home for the murders
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Speaker 8: of ten women and the attempted murder of Anetrio, Washington.
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Speaker 4: What they found was a house of horrors and the.
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Speaker 16: House and especially the garage area, it was like packrack conditions.
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Speaker 8: Cops uncover one of the most gruesome trophy rooms of
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Speaker 8: any killer ever.
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Speaker 4: Caught a treasure trove of.
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Speaker 8: Guns, morbid momento photos of women, some presumably dead, and
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Speaker 8: pornographic home videos of Lonnie Franklin Junior with more than
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Speaker 8: one hundred and sixty women.
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Speaker 18: Mister Franklin would take a professional pornographic video and he
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Speaker 18: would splice in there something that he's doing with the
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Speaker 18: female sexually, and then you go back to the actual
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Speaker 18: pornographic video.
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Speaker 8: But the key piece of evidence was a polaroid picture
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Speaker 8: found buried between two pieces of plywood.
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Speaker 4: Detectives actually found those photo the photo of me, so
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Speaker 4: we know it's actually him.
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Speaker 8: And it supported what she had told the policeac that
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Speaker 8: he had photographed her with polaroid.
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Speaker 7: Exactly sitting here having a chat with the grim Sleeper.
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Speaker 8: In this interrogation of Lonnie Franklin Junior, Cops confront the
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Speaker 8: grim Sleeper with that picture and a photo of every
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Speaker 8: single woman he's accused of killing.
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Speaker 6: You have a major problem today. You creep out, pick
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Speaker 6: up these young ladies, you have sex with them, you
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Speaker 6: kill them, and then you dump their bodies and alleys
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Speaker 6: throughout the city of Los Angeles.
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Speaker 7: I don't know these people totally.
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Speaker 6: Mister Lonnie Franklin has the e NA makeup that's found
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Speaker 6: on those young ladies right there. Of how in God's
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Speaker 6: name is that possible?
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Speaker 7: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: Just listen to his defense.
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Speaker 8: Franklin has the nerve to tell police these women are
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Speaker 8: too ugly for his taste.
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Speaker 7: Go ahead, take the close look. No, no recollection at hope,
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Speaker 7: no recollection. You just don't I don't know. I don't know.
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Speaker 7: I don't know what, but I do know.
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Speaker 8: After decades of terror, the families of the victims finally get.
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Speaker 4: Their day in a Los Angeles courtroom.
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Speaker 16: The theory of the defense is basically equivalent to the
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Speaker 16: skies opening up a spaceship, descending and murdering.
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Speaker 4: All these women.
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Speaker 8: Lonnie Franklin Junior, the Grim Sleeper, was convicted of murdering
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Speaker 8: nine women and one teenager and the attempted murder of
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Speaker 8: Anetria Washington. But the Deputy DA wonders how many more
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Speaker 8: of the Grim Sleeper's victims are out there. He was
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Speaker 8: sentenced to the death penalty exactly thirty one years to
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Speaker 8: the day of his first victim, Deborah Jackson.
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Speaker 4: What do you want to see happened to him?
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Speaker 5: He should be put to death. I mean, how many
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Speaker 5: women do you have to kill? How many girls do
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Speaker 5: you have to murder?
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Speaker 16: How many people's lives do you get to destroy before
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Speaker 16: you pay the ultimate price?
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Speaker 8: Any Trio Washington is now hoping people will forget about
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Speaker 8: the Grim Sleeper and instead remember all those victims who
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Speaker 8: didn't get away.
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Speaker 7: I pray this is peace for them. That's really the ultimate.
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Speaker 8: It sounds to me like you're almost angrier with him
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Speaker 8: for what he did to them than.
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Speaker 3: What he did to you.
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Speaker 18: Because I'm still here, my piavide grace, I'm still here.
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Speaker 5: They're not.
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Speaker 2: As for the thirty women still unidentified, Deputy da Beth
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Speaker 2: Silverman says they may never know where they ended up.
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Speaker 2: One theory is that Lonnie Franklin Junior dumped some of
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Speaker 2: the missing women in the landfills around Los Angeles when
35:24
Speaker 2: he was working as a garbage man. Up next, Murder
35:29
Speaker 2: and Mayhem has made his career. Now we go inside
35:32
Speaker 2: the criminal mind of best selling crime writer Harlan Coben.
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Speaker 17: Every time I finish the book, the same little voice
35:38
Speaker 17: comes in my head and says, that's it, You're done.
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Speaker 1: The new novel that has caught the intention of an Oscar.
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Speaker 17: Winner, They said, Julie Roberts wants to talk to you
35:46
Speaker 17: on the phone. Coming up.
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Speaker 2: Today, We've got a new member of our team, the
35:53
Speaker 2: best selling author of the book Ghosts of Manhattan, Doug Brynt.
35:56
Speaker 2: And for his first story, he's sitting down with a
35:58
Speaker 2: crime writer who readers and stars like Julia Roberts can't
36:02
Speaker 2: get enough of.
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Speaker 21: He's published seventy million books in forty three languages. New
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Speaker 21: York Times number one best selling author Harlan Coben.
36:11
Speaker 2: Murder, mayhem and mystery. It's all in a day's work
36:15
Speaker 2: for novelist Harlan Coben.
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Speaker 17: I've done forty eight hours straight writing. You have to
36:19
Speaker 17: do it. That's the key. You can't wait for the
36:22
Speaker 17: mood to arrive.
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Speaker 2: Harlan is behind the murders of more than two dozen people,
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Speaker 2: all fictional. Of course, his characters often die horrible deaths,
36:30
Speaker 2: such as fatal accidents. Harlan says, my Creditor series actually
36:34
Speaker 2: inspired his bestseller Caught. It's all about a crusading TV
36:38
Speaker 2: reporter who helps solve a murder after she catches a
36:40
Speaker 2: predator in the act. Today, Harlan's latest novel, Home is
36:44
Speaker 2: in bookstores, starring his hero Myron Bollatar.
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Speaker 21: Your character, Myron Bolatar is based here in New York City,
36:51
Speaker 21: where you live. How does this city inspire you?
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Speaker 17: The greatest city in the world. Let's face it, there's
36:55
Speaker 17: always something going on, there's always a heartbeat to it.
36:59
Speaker 17: You're always with other people, and yet you can always
37:01
Speaker 17: be alone.
37:02
Speaker 2: Harland grew up in Livingston, New Jersey, in the same
37:05
Speaker 2: neighborhood as a real life Tony Soprano.
37:08
Speaker 21: You had some colorful and possibly criminal neighbors as a kid.
37:12
Speaker 17: That there was a house that had two lionheads in
37:15
Speaker 17: front of it in the gate, and then if you
37:17
Speaker 17: stepped on a property, you were shot. And it was
37:19
Speaker 17: owned by a mobster named Richie the Boot, and there
37:22
Speaker 17: was a furnace in the back and he burned bodies.
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Speaker 2: Richie the Boot, Now that's a name for a mob boss.
37:29
Speaker 2: He reportedly got the moniker when he was a bootlegger
37:32
Speaker 2: during prohibsion.
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Speaker 17: Some people claim they based both the Godfather and the
37:35
Speaker 17: Sopranos on him, but we get a lot of that
37:38
Speaker 17: growing up in my time.
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Speaker 7: I just didn't just didn't realize it.
37:41
Speaker 2: Well, the mobster down the street was infamous. Some of
37:44
Speaker 2: Harlan's homeboys are famous in their own right. New Jersey
37:48
Speaker 2: Governor Chris Christie was his childhood buddy, and Da Vinci
37:51
Speaker 2: Code author Dan Brown was a fraternity brother in college.
37:54
Speaker 2: But he says he doesn't base any of his characters
37:57
Speaker 2: on his friends. He just makes them all up.
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Speaker 21: Work directly with law enforcement or visit crime scenes as
38:03
Speaker 21: part of your research for the books.
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Speaker 17: Almost never. I've never done the ride along. First of all,
38:08
Speaker 17: I'm a big fan of not doing so much research.
38:10
Speaker 17: When you're writing modern fiction. Sometimes you use that as
38:15
Speaker 17: an excuse not to write.
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Speaker 2: Harland created a popular TV crime drama in Britain called
38:19
Speaker 2: The Five, and also produced a six part series for
38:22
Speaker 2: French television. Now Hollywood has discovered what millions of fans
38:27
Speaker 2: already know. His novel, Fool Me Once, is in development
38:30
Speaker 2: with Oscar winner Julia Roberts producing and starring. How's that
38:34
Speaker 2: process been, It's been great?
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Speaker 17: You know about a few days after the book came out,
38:38
Speaker 17: I got a call from my agents telling me that
38:40
Speaker 17: Julie Roberts is reading it. Literally, like an hour later,
38:43
Speaker 17: they said, Julie Roberts wants to talk to you on
38:45
Speaker 17: the phone. And she was so insightful and so knowledgeable
38:49
Speaker 17: and had angles on the story that I hadn't really
38:52
Speaker 17: even quite and in the character that I hadn't really
38:55
Speaker 17: thought about.
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Speaker 2: And will this twenty first century Hitchcock do a cameo
38:59
Speaker 2: like The Master?
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Speaker 21: Can we expect a cameo?
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Speaker 17: Yeah, I'll definitely play a cameo. I won't do nude
39:03
Speaker 17: scenes unless a masked then I'll do them right away.