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Warning this episode of Real Life Real Crime. The podcast may contain descriptions of acts of violence or that of a sexual nature and should be for people that
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He my warning people. I do not get the facts of these cases off of the Internet or for some television show. The facts I'm retelling you will presented to me by the victims of the crimes or the perpetrators who committed the crimes against the victims. My descriptions of the crime Scenes what I saw with my own two eyes. If you're going to get offended, please turn this podcast off now. Thank you. Hello, everybody, and welcome this episode of
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Real Life, Real Crime, the podcast. As always, I'm your host, Woody Overton. Today, I'm going to be continuing the series titled Monsters as part three, Y', all. If you haven't listened to one and two, go back and listen to it.
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And again, I'm gonna give an extra warning today. I, you know, I. I gave the
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warning on part one, in part two,
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the extra warning about the brutality of it, and I. I don't know that
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it meant as much to y' all lifers.
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I guess you were thought, you know, you hear more than you did or something like that.
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To me, this case being the single worst crime scene.
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As an investigator, I work where one body is involved. I should clarify that homicide, I guess. When I'm bringing y' all back through this scene, I'm seeing everything in my mind. You know, I don't use any notes, and I'm raw and I'm unscripted and all that.
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So I'm literally 14 or 16 years
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later, however long it is. I'm taking myself back there, putting myself where I can see everything and smell everything, and. And so it's just really graphic in my mind. And that's. That's why I'm giving the warning. But today's episode is going to have some. Some tough stuff for you to hear in it.
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So if you.
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If you're gonna get offended, please turn it off now.
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Turn this podcast off now.
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But before I get started, I want to do a correction. And y' all know sometimes I don't always say all the words, right?
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That, like Patreon is supposed to be Patreon.
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Or in the Rapids Burning series, I
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said the DA's name.
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I pronounced his name incorrectly a couple times, whatever. Generally, I don't care. But I did. I had a life reach out to me a couple times in episode one and two when I was talking about
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the blood spatter, I called it splatter.
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But an L is definitely not splatter, y'. All.
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It's blood spatter. Okay?
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So I will correct that. And I stand correct or I sit correct and now telling you about it.
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So spatter, S P A T T E R. All right, so let's get into it.
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Stay tuned to the end of the
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show for some announcements.
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It's the morning after the body was discovered in the. In episode one and two, I took
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you through the crime scene and last
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time I left you, I told you
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what we had recovered from Walmart, which the video and the receipt of the
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guy who did at this time was our only suspect.
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But he was the son in law
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of the victim who lived in the residence where the 82 year old white
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female was found brutally murdered.
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And again, my heart goes out to
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the family, but he's gone. In fact, he was seen in, in the middle of the night coming out of a Walmart in Mississippi by a family member.
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Just a chance freak encounter, right? That still trips me out to this day.
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But so we meet at the office
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and we had eight detectives at the time. Now I think Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office has like 30. But out of the eight, two would have been on the night shift. So we had six if nobody was on vacation.
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And this was, I think it was
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the week before Thanksgiving. And anyway, everybody's there for the meeting. And so we start working over.
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We call it kicking the can, right?
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Or, or session. You know, you got to get it together. I mean, this is an obvious death
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penalty case because of the victim's age
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and certainly a death penalty case because
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of the brutality of the crime.
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So it's important and we didn't rush, but you know, in any investigation you
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have to go where the evidence leads you.
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And at this time, other than the victim's granddaughter saying that she believed this missing male was kidnapped by some and
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she didn't say black, she said the
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N words over and over and over again. Drug dealers and that they had done this to her grandmother, we didn't have any suspects. All we knew is this, this guy is missing and he lived in the house, he left work early the day before and in, you know, he's gone. So what do you do?
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You got to start, you got to,
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you got to hit him and hit him hard.
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You got to run him down until he shows up or you can exclude him or something else turns up in that's hotter, if you will. So we start working on him. Now. One of the things I want to
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do was go to his work and
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talk to the people that he worked
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with and see what he said when he came in the office the day before.
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That son said he came in and
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he left early or way early is
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what I think he said.
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But he had to have more contact. I don't know if he had a secretary or whatever, but we need to go over and find out.
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But there are other things we need to find out, including we already knew he had a company truck, but we
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need to know what? What's more of the rules in the company truck. If he doesn't show up in it,
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are you going to report it stolen?
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Right. Did he show up for work today? We don't know.
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And we want to know does he
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have a company cell phone?
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If so, can we get access to it?
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Or we're going to have to get a warrant. And does he have company credit cards
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and how does he get his money?
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I mean, we just really didn't know much about him. Now, there was a long night process
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in the scene and the last thing
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we learned was that he had been
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seen in Mississippi
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while we were still
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on the scene processing. So we need to get the detective
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to go or detectives to go to his work and just find out any kind of information that they can, you know, about his habits and his financial means and everything. So somebody was assigned to go do that.
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I don't remember who, and they left to go do that.
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We scheduled the autopsy for later that
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afternoon and we needed to get back with the family, specifically this guy's wife,
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the victim's daughter, and find out the same thing we're going to find out at his work.
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You know, what was it, where his habits, his cell phone company, we needed the name of that when they need his bank.
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We need just anything that we can get to start tracking this guy and
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looking for him now, right now, we
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didn't have any charges on them.
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And what are you going to do, a BOLO or be on the lookout for?
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You going to put it out there
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to the whole world? We're looking for a guy driving a maroon colored truck.
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I mean, that's something else we needed from his work. The license plate number from the truck, the registration that the truck's going to
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come back to so we can enter him into ncic.
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But still,
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what are you going to enter? We needed a charge, all right, and so came up with the idea that we needed to get some type of
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warrant form and came up with the
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idea that we had probable cause, depending
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really on what the people said to work. But I was going to try to
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get probable cause to have him charged with possession of cocaine just so we can make the BOLO or be on the lookout for ballot also at the company.
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If he doesn't show up for work,
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what is his rules on that truck?
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If he doesn't show up for work
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and he's in the company truck, does he have to call in or is he not to drive the truck when
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he's not at work? If we can get something like that in Louisiana. That charge would be unauthorized use of
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a movable, not auto theft.
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Okay. And explain the difference. An auto theft is when you steal
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a vehicle and you tend to permanently
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deprive the owner of the vehicle. Meaning like somebody gets in your shit and they're gone. Right. And they don't know them or anything like that. Unauthorized use of a move is like
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let's say your roommate takes your car
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without your permission and goes to wherever and they come back.
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If you want to charge them with it, you can.
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That's actually a charge in the state
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of Louisiana that you can they use your vehicle without your permission.
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Unauthorized use of. And a lot of times in these work cases where people wouldn't return vehicles, that's what we charge them with. Unauthorized use of a movable.
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I mean movable, because it could be
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a boat or hell, a bicycle or whatever.
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If it's something that drove and you didn't have permission to use it as a charge.
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But we had to start somewhere and we were starting in scratch. And the Probable cause is 50% plus 1, y'.
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All.
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It's not beyond a reasonable doubt.
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You do not have to wait to make an arrest in especially in a homicide case till you have beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Okay. And you've heard me talk about a case in the past like Courtney Cocos
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and they're now they're waiting to go
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be way beyond reasonable to doubt anything that a defense attorney is going to prove a trial. But you'd never solve a case in the world if you, if you conducted law enforcement like that.
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Again, we're following the lead.
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We got to get some type of charge on Guy.
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That's our main thing. So Calvin and I went to the
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autopsy and again the autopsies at the
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time were conducted in a metal building behind Seals Funeral Home in Denim Springs, Louisiana. And that metal building, I'll describe it
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to you as you walk up.
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There's a, the roll up door.
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If you face in the building, there's
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a roll up door where they would
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back the hearse and stuff in like
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a roll up metal door to your left and to the right.
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It's like a little porch, an overhang
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with the main door that you walk in on in there's no secretary or anything.
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You walk in, there's like a, a little love seat and a corner to your right.
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And guess what's directly across from that.
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The bodies.
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Like you see in the movie where they have the silver wall and the doors that open and the trays that come out and the bodies are on.
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That's it, that's the coolers.
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This building was made for efficiency, not for comfort.
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It certainly wasn't made for the public to view.
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Then you walk right past the bodies
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and there's a right on the right hand side of that love seat was a small enclosed half bath, a toilet and a sink and, and a door.
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Right as soon as you walk past that on the right hand side is the first body station is what I'll call it. And that's where they embalm the bodies
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and stuff for the funerals. And you take a.
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It's that room y' all is like a yellow ceramic tile.
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The floors and even the walls over halfway up and then there, there is a, a metal table, a slab if you will, where the bodies were embalmed and they have hoses that are connected
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to it, et cetera and they go
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and run into a drain and then
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it's pretty gruesome to think about but I mean that's how all the bodies are done. Basically the embalming equipment was in that ring.
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But that room dead ends.
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But right before you get to that table you take a left into a
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doorway and inside the door you're standing, you walk into the doorway, you stand in, in between two more body setups, table setups and the one to your left and one to your right.
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The one to the left is where we always conducted the autopsies. Unless you had multiple victims and sometimes
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they would use two tables.
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So we get there, we go in the corner is there.
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They have to document everything for we have to match up the photos on the body bag and all that. And the corner is going to be there period for the autopsy. But the coroner does not conduct the autopsy itself. The corner, I mean the forensic pathologist
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who was contracted by Livingston Parish conducted the autopsies. Reason why didn't have that many murderers.
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I mean there's no reason to have a full time pathologist like a big city. And the guy that did it was
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Dr. Corkin and he was a genius and he was, you have heard me
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talk about him in past episode like
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pants on the ground etc.
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Just a genius. And he was an elderly man, short, bald headed, but.
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And every time he'd come in he would bring his wife and I'm sure
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they're both deceased by now. And his wife was a career like
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a nurse I believe, like an rn. But she was in the early stages of dementia.
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It's not being need or organized and
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But she would come in case he needed any assistance or whatever.
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But Dr. Corcoran would come in and
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they had lights in these rooms.
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But he would come in, he'd bring
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his own stuff in, his own autopsy
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tools, and he brought this, this tall lamp and it looked like it came
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from Walmart but had like six bulbs on it.
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And he would bring it in.
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That's one of the items he'd get when he'd come in. And so we're there. The body's been placed on the table. Dr. Corgan comes in and he brings in his, his lampstand, plugs it in and he's like, you know, he's always got something funny to say, but he,
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he was a dry humor, if you
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will, you know, but anyway, he comes in, we match up the, the tag
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on the bag, he holds it up
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for us, we verify with the pictures, he verifies with the picture.
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Now, y', all, he's been doing this forever.
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I mean, he's done thousands autopsies and he's testified in hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of murder trials. And, but I told him, I say, doc, and you know, this is what we have before we began. And I told him about the 82 year old victim. I told him about the severe trauma to the head.
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And he's got, he's, he's kind of
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quiet, man, he's shaking his head and
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he's listening and he's taking it all in.
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Now this guy has seen so many
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thousands of dead bodies and we established
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a chain of custody and cut the tag on the bag. And y', all, these bags are black like nylon. And that's on the table. And what, he takes over. We don't, we don't do anything from that point on unless he wants a photograph or needs some type of information. But we stand, we stand there and we observe.
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And so what he does is cuts
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the lock, okay, and we take the pictures, all that. Then he does everything. He's, he's, he's got his pants on. Yes, half the time they would fall to the ground, but he's got on his scrubs, if you will.
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And then he puts on his scrubs.
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He would change before he started it. Puts on his scrubs and he unzips the bag.
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Then he folds the bag open onto the metal table.
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Not where the, the sides were exposed,
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but enough where he could begin to process or to begin to view and process the body. So he unzips the bag, pulls it
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down, opens it up.
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Then he will lift her up and pull the bag without turning it to
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the left or right where anything could spill out.
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He pulls the bag down until the
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victim is laying on the table.
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Then he takes that bag and puts it to the side.
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But nothing can spill out of it.
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And that's important.
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Later on, I'll tell you why.
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So the victim is now on the table and she's still in her, her
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nightgown.
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And I told him about it being pushed up, possible sexual assault in the panties, pulled down, possible sexual Assault. I also told him what I observed
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about the blood not being on the panties, the blood spatter not being on the panties, like it was all over
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the walls and everything. And I even showed him some pictures
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of the walls and. And what it looked like before, what
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her underwear and everything looked like. Obviously, we rolled her over and put her in the bag, because then the underwear got some blood on it. So I showed him those pictures, and he's like, okay.
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So he cuts her gown off, puts
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it in an evidence bag. Why?
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Because it's going to be sent in
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for DNA looking for hair fibers or anything like that. But there was nothing obvious on the clothing.
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And so now you have your victim, the deceased, on the table. They're laying face up, nude, and he always starts with the head, and he works his way down to the feet.
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Now, the problem, that's not a problem, but the issue with this one was the condition.
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I told you about the victim's head. It just was unbelievable.
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And Dr. Corkin, when he. He stopped and the bags put to the side, and he's looking at her. He just. I mean, I told you, he's kind of quiet guy, unless he said one of his funny jokes, but he's looking
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and he's staring and he's looking. And he looked up at me.
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He didn't say anything.
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And we met eyes.
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He looked back down.
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He looked back at me, and he said, that's going to be a death penalty.
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And I said, yes, sir, I believe
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that in my heart.
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And he said, well, you.
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You know, I always do great work.
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He said, but we're really going to have to take our time on this one. He said, all the head traumas I've
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seen, this has to be the worst or one of the worst or the most amount of damage I've ever seen
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to a human head.
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
And y', all, you look at it, it's just.
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It's just doesn't exist.
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I can't. I don't know how to put it
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in context for you, and I'm not trying to sensationalize, but what he has
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to do, he starts to observe the
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head from the outside in the hair,
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and he's going through now with each tear, and there were so many. Each tear, he would take a ruler and put it up against the tear,
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and then he would say, take a picture of it. And then take a picture of it, Right? So why. Of course, it's going to help determine the cause of death, but he's trying to count all the damage to the
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head and it's just too much.
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I mean, we took picture after picture.
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But the problem was there were so
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many blows to the head that he
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started on one side head and worked over and then we turned over into the backside of head.
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But there were so many blows that
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some of them were overlapping.
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So if you hit, hit, let's say it's a watermelon. You hit a watermelon with a hammer and you get the indentation and the tearing.
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Right.
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If you hit the watermelon almost in the same spot spot, and the, the
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wounds are actually touching, then it just
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kind of becomes a larger wound, right.
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Maybe with a little bit different shape on it.
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And that's how the victim's head look.
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It was really hard to tell or
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get an accurate account on how many blows there were because a lot of them were overlapping beats of shit.
Investigator/Assistant
And it just.
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I mean, I can't imagine what she went through.
Investigator/Assistant
Okay.
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And the. Yeah, I just pray that maybe she,
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she was unconscious or, or something after like the first blow or whatever to,
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to receive this much damage because I.
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But then again, I know she probably
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wasn't because why would you continue to
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beat over and over again unless they
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are fighting, unless they're resisting, unless they're still saying something.
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So I don't remember y' all exactly
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how many blows he came up with. I think he quit at 30 something.
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Tears in the skull and the face and all that.
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It could have been like way, way
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higher, but it was 30 something.
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And then the.
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But by the time we photographed the
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whole head, the problem was not all the tears.
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When he turned her over and was going through the hair on the back head. Remember I told you it was blood everywhere. And then the tears and all that,
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he found
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a hole.
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Perfect, Almost perfect, you would say little hole on the back of her skull, which we, we couldn't have known on
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the scene because of the amount of blood and then just, you know, the way everything was. But remember, he's going meticulously inch by inch over the head and he gets
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in and goes through all the hairs individually, etc.
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And when he gets to that one
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spot and he, he stops and he
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takes it, he cuts around and shaves
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
around the hole where it was.
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Well, once he does that and the bloody hairs out of the way and
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all that, you see the hole and it was a bullet hole and there was tattooing around the wound, meaning it was a contact wound from a weapon.
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For, remember at the crime scene, I told you we found some bullets that were not shot unspent meaning that the bullet was still in the casing. Okay, when you look at a bullet for you, those of you don't know, when you look at a bullet, you have the metal part, which at the very end has the.
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The spot where the firing pin strikes.
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And.
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And inside that metal part is the gunpowder, but inside the cavity of the
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metal part is the gunpowder.
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The bullet itself, the metal part actually
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fits into the end of that, what
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we call the casing.
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The casing is where the gunpowder is housed.
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When the firing pin strikes it, it
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creates a spark, which makes the gunpowder inside the casing explode.
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And the power of that explosion is what propels the bullet out. Now, I know y' all probably all know this, but I'm just telling my story.
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
Let me go, okay?
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Let me do what I do.
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When the bullet is propelled out, what remains behind is the empty casing.
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Okay? Remember I told you I found one
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empty casing at the scene, but I also found.
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And it was a.22 long. Okay? And the difference between a.22 long and.22 short. I didn't explain that on the.
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
On the previous episode.
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A.22 long only fits in certain types of.22 rifles or pistols is just that
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the casing is a little bit longer.
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If the.
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The bullet size is the same, it's still a.22 caliber, but the casing contains more gunpowder. Therefore, it is a stronger propulsion that the bullet gets when it.
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Behind the explosion when it comes out.22 short.
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More commonly for pistols is still a.22 bullet, but less powder. And they won't fire from the same gun, especially older rifles. But there were. 22 shorts that were not spent, meaning
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they had not been fired. The bullet was still housed inside the casing, and the gunpowder still inside the casing and the.
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The firing pen. And I struck him in the blood in the crime scene. But the one that we found spent was a.22 long.
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And I told Doc that.
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So he gets to a certain point,
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but all that's photographed, and then he
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takes the bone saw, he rolls back
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over, takes the bone saw, and then
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he makes a completely circular cut all the way around the skull. Now, this is a saw. It's a vibrating saw.
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It only cuts when it's making contact
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with something, meaning that it doesn't spin freely the rest of the time.
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You don't have to worry about cutting yourself.
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But he puts it against the skull, and he makes a perfect circle all
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the way around the top of your
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head, cutting into the skull itself. And normally it's.
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It's a Sound that I'll never forget, no matter how many years I haven't done it.
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But the.
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He makes that cut around and he
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takes a tool in, almost like a
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screwdriver, if you will, and then a
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little hammer thing and hits the end, and it has to break the suction on the skull. And when it does that. Let me back up. Before he starts the sawing part, he. He makes a.
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An incision on the scalp and basically
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peels all your hair and everything, basically your whole.
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All your skin.
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He puts it to the front of your face, if that makes sense.
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Okay. Basically he scalps you and. But he starts in the back, takes
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up all the skin, all the hair, and pulls it over and sets it on to the front of the skull, exposing the skull. So he can use the.
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The bone saw, if you will, the vibrate bone saw. That's when he makes the cut. Now, before he makes the cut again, he takes measurements of the skull, or
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that bullet hole was. But also on this victim, he is
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now taking measurements or indentations from the
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beating that she took to.
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Because there's many, many fractures on a skull.
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So he had to figure it out. It's like a puzzle, and he had to figure out how to put it together. But once he takes the top of the head off, then he's able to go in and see what kind of damage there is to the brain. Now he's taking notes and he's doing his thing and he's jamming it out. And he goes inside. And one of the things they do is it takes the brain out. It takes all the organs out of your body at some point during autopsy
Investigator/Assistant
and weighs them and makes his notes.
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
But when he popped the skull and goes in, the brain was just tore up. And that was from.
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And he said, they said this is going to be from the bullet. He said, I bet you the bullet's in here. He said, I don't think it's going to be intact. And he was right. There was no exit wound, but the bullet was a
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he.
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
He recovered soft shards of lead from
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inside the brain that it's kind of scattered when 22 is not a lot of lead in the bullet part. And when most time when it hits something, it'll flatten out or tear apart. And that's what happened on it.
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
The bullet went into the brain and
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just kind of turn it into mush and hit the skull and maybe bounce
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around a little bit and split up. So he's got to go through meticulously
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
and pick the pieces out.
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And in case they try to put it back together and determine what caliber he based off his experience, he, he said I can already tell you it's going to be a 22 caliber.
Investigator/Assistant
From the size of the wound to
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the skull, he couldn't tell you if
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it's 22 short or 22 long.
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Just 22 bullet is the same size.
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goes to the rest of the autopsy and you know, they cut you open and they take out all your organs and they weigh them
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and all that stuff, right? He works from the head down and
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once you get, he gets done with
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the skull, he puts this, the you,
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the top of what's there on her top of you just go back on and put, put your face back on if you will.
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Flips the skin back over and then
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goes to work down.
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He and he cuts you from your
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neck down to your bottom of your
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abdomen in cross and then he splits
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you open and takes out the organs and ways and et cetera. But that really wasn't really the problem on her.
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He, he said I guarantee the cause
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of death was a.22 bullet.
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He said it could have been the, it's from some that these other wounds to her skull.
Investigator/Assistant
I said but he said why would
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
you shoot somebody, you know, if they
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weren't already dead or if they're already dead. But sometimes that happens. But either way he's got enough scientific
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
evidence to prove that.
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And what are we really worried about now?
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The rape in because she was found with her night down up, etc.
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So he goes down, goes to all the organs.
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I'll save you the, the time of it, right?
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He, he works the body like he's
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done thousands of others and then he
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gets down to the vagina and all
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that and then, and he did what
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he does and he said there's absolutely no sign of penetration out of anywhere. The anus, vagina.
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He said no sign.
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I mean he's looking for hairs, collect any type, anything, right?
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
And there's nothing there. And he said, I, I just absolutely
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can tell you that she wasn't raped, but even he still took swabs in
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case there was DNA or something like that. And I concluded the autopsy basically and his finding was it was definitely a
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homicide and that shooters.
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Whether she died from the blows he
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
had, he couldn't say for sure. He can definitely say if she wasn't dead from the blows to the head and damage to her face and her
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skull, then she definitely died from the gunshot wound.
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Contact gunshot wound to the back of the head. It's up and you know, I guess
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it's compounded for me because I've done
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so many of that.
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I mean, autopsies never bothered me, but as far as seeing the body and all that stuff. But just, just think about this lady
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
who couldn't even walk and she was
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so severely beaten and now you throw
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on top of that that she's been basically executed gun to the back of the head, whether it's a pistol or
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
rifle, whatever, but we only had one
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spent shell casing and that was the long.
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
And I'm assuming From experience that the 20 long belongs to a rifle. So that means that she's laying halfway
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in and out of the door after
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the beating and, and they take a rifle and put it to the back of her head and shoot her while she's face down, execute her like a. You wouldn't even do a rabbit dog that way.
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And I, I still don't have an
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explanation for the.22 short bullets being in the crime scene.
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So anyway,
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go back to the office to find out what other detectives have found out by going to his work and stuff like that. And this is what they said. They interviewed several and I'm not going
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
to say names, they interviewed people that
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he worked with in the day prior. He came into work and he stayed like an hour, maybe hour and 45 minutes. But then he told one of them that worked there.
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He said, oh, my stomach's messed up,
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I don't feel good, I'm going to go home.
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
And he splits, right? Not to be seen again until approximately 2am in the morning coming out of Walmart, Mississippi. He did not have permission to, you know, use the truck to be in
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Mississippi at 2 o' clock in the morning.
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We found that also he had not
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called in on this day. Nobody of course they're still trying to call him and all that. His son's trying to call him etc. He's in the wind.
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His ghost cell phone was not theirs.
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He had access to I believe a company card. We got all the information on that.
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
The detectives asked the owners or the owner you would say what, what did they want to do about the truck?
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And if he didn't return the truck, the would they pursue charges for unauthorized use of removal. And the answer was yes.
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And he also had access to money the day before. And I believe it's like, I believe
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it was like 3, 500 that he
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was supposed to take care of and he did.
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It wasn't done. So they were asked would they pursue charges on that also.
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
So we're getting back, we're having her beaten. That's.
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We found out he left work early, not been seen again. Got all his personal information, the work cards and stuff like that. So what do you do?
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
No more calls are coming in and this has been on the news.
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I forgot to tell you the night
Investigator/Assistant
before the news was out there the whole time and not it would, you
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know, it was on the news for
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10 o' clock and then it was
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on the news that morning.
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And about the homicide of this, this
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lady, not no suspects names or anything like that.
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And what do you do?
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Well, you got to keep gathering information.
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But we needed a warrant and so
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we made, we had typed up a Tina Stafford secretary.
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She's, I mean she already knew if
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I, if I told her a charge, she already knew what to say because she done thousands of them for us
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over the year and then can't even call her secretary. She kind of ran the office and
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said Tina, I need a warrant. Unauthorized use of movable. And gave the company's name and gave
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this guy's name and said he, he's gone with it.
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He was seen in Mississippi 2:00' clock in the morning.
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He did not have permission and she typed it up. We also did a warrant and yes,
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it was a bit of a reach, but not.
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It only has to be 50% plus one.
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We did a warrant for possession of cocaine being that it was found inside his residence. His wife did not know about it and he left work early and said
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he was going home and, and certainly
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the deceased wasn't doing cocaine, making lines
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of cocaine on the coffee table in the living room.
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So we got those warrants and went
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and had a meeting with a judge
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and told him the truth.
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And this is where we're at and we need to get a BOLO on this guy, and this is what we have.
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And unauthorized uses, slam dunk.
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I mean, that's in the possession of cocaine.
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Could be inferred.
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He said he was going there.
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He lives there, and the cocaine was found there.
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A little bit of reach, but, I mean, you got to do what you got to do, right? If they throw it out. So what the. You need to get him in. You need to get your hands on him.
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So Calvin and I, we got the
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warrants, we enter him into ncs.
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Oh, we got the vehicle information, the truck.
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So now if anybody, any cop in
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
the United States of America, runs this license plate on this truck, it's going
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to come back as an unauthorized use,
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basically a stolen vehicle.
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And they're going to stop it, and they're going to arrest who's ever in
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the vehicle because they don't have permission to be in it.
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And so that's.
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We get that done.
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Get it started. It goes into the NCRC computer in.
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Any cop, if they happen to stop
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him, will make their arrest.
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Okay.
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We then go to meet with the
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family sometime later that evening.
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
It was at the sister's house who was married to the Baton Rouge city police officer. And we called.
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We called the victim's daughter, and that's where she was. We need to go get more information. We need to find out, like I said, about the cell phone and bank accounts and all this so we can
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start tracking this guy.
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
And we go over there, and we get there. Outside is the female who kept using
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the N word and had told us
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she believed it was drug dealers.
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And she's outside, and.
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And she's smoking, and she has on long, long. A long sleeve shirt. Blue denim, like a lighter color.
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Not like a dark blue jean, but like a lighter color shirt.
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It's untucked, and it's all the way
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down to her hands.
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And she.
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She sees us pulling up, and she throws a cigarette butt out.
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And she puts her hands under her
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arms and said, hey, we're here. See mama?
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And she said, come on, I'll take you in.
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And she brought us a really nice
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home, brought us into the home, and the mom and the sister was married
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to the Baton Rouge city cop. And the Baton Rouge city cop were there.
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And we said, hey, we need to
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talk to you and ask you some questions.
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She said, can my daughter be in the room?
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I said, and I was thinking, I
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
don't really want the one to be
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in the room, but okay.
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
And she said, no, maybe my daughter who lives here.
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And that was Baton Rouge City copswife.
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I said, that's fine.
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You can bring him in.
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So. So we go in the room and we just get. Start getting the general information. But she told us.
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She said, listen, I gotta tell you, my other daughter's not acting right in. Her sister conferred and then said, she's just all, you know, whacked out, if you will, and that. That's not the term they use, y'. All. It was something like that.
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And then I told him, I played it down right.
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I said, I. I get that and
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understand and duly noted. I said, but, you know, everybody takes grief differently.
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Etc. I said, well, we're here for is information on him. We need his cell phone.
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We need to know the name of the company.
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We got it.
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We need to know his bank accounts and does he have any credit cards
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and all this stuff.
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And she said, yeah, I don't know. I'll get you the information. I'll get my daughter to get you the information, or son can go get it.
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And, you know, basically, we want to
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know that, and certainly we want to know had they heard from and they
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hadn't and gather all the information.
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And of course, they're upset. And, you know, one day, do we have any leads? And we just say, hey, we're look.
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We're looking at everybody. We're working it hard.
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And she asked about her husband. I said, hey, you know. You know, we know he was seen
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
in Mississippi, but we had to tell
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them, you know, that we did do the autopsy, and it was definitely homicide, and it did not go into that she was shot in the head, right?
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And they want to know how.
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And we just said head trauma.
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
We didn't release that back in.
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I'm kind of paraphrasing this. I mean, we certainly were there probably
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an hour and a half with them talking to him, consoling on Calvin. And I, you know, again, Calvin is saying probably just as much as me in all this, but I'm telling the story right?
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
So we. We do what we do, and we're
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gentle with the family, gentle with, you know, the victim's daughter, but we same time, we're pulling information, pulling information, pulling
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
information till we get enough where I
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look at Calvin, he looks at me,
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and we're like, okay, we're done.
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But we go out into the hallway and see y'. All.
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Y' all can just wait in here. Calvin and I are gonna talk to the living room for a minute, and, you know, we'll call you later or whatever.
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So we go in the hallway, and I told Him.
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I say, hey, dude, we gotta. We need to go check that girl for injuries. He's like, you're right.
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In the end, we were kind of
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whispering, and then she was. Turns out she was in the kitchen.
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She didn't hear us say.
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And it's.
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
We start to walk to.
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And turn to the kitchen part to
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
go to the door, and there she is. And I'm like, hey, hey. And then called her name. I said, you know, do you mind
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coming to talk to. She said, I don't know why they
Calvin (Co-host or Detective)
wouldn't want me in there.
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Talk. Y' all been in there talking all this time and why I couldn't come in? I said, I don't know. I mean, we were just getting information on your. Your stepdad and all his accounts and everything like that. She said, I just think it's funny that.
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Blah, blah, blah. She just kind of went off. And I was like, just step outside. Talk to us.
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And this was a clear, bluebird November
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day, but it's late in the evening.
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The shadows were falling.
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The street lights hadn't come on yet, but it was almost that time, right?
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Like 5, 5:15. I could just.
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I see it in my mind's eye.
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And she's got that long thing on,
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but guess what, she's got her hands tucked under her pits again, under armpits.
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And.
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And I'm noticing that. And then you, Calvin, we just talked about it.
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And so we just talked to her a little bit. Hey, you hadn't heard from. No, I hadn't heard from that motherfucker. And da, da, da, da going on.
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But then, you know, to her, maybe not to her, but to us, it
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was very clear
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that she had her hands tucked away where we couldn't see them.
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And so anyway, just go through bullshitting
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or three, whatever, trying to ease her back down off the family thing.
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And. And she's just out there, right?
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And finally at some point, I said, hey, you know what?
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Would you.
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In any investigation? I said, you are absolutely not a
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suspect or anything like that. I said, but, you know, you were there last night and you said you haven't seen this guy.
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She said, and I hadn't.
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I hadn't seen him in days.
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I said, okay, and you were home,
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and you were home alone?
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She said, yeah. I said, can anybody prove that you
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She said, what do you mean?
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I said, I mean, like, did you
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She said, why are you asking?
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I said, you know what, Let me
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go ahead and advise you your rights.
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I said, you are no way under arrest.
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I said, we talk, everybody we talk
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to in this investigation, we're going to advise them their Miranda rights. I said, you have the right to remain silent.
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Anything.
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Boy, her face just went ash and like, I mean just pale, pale blood just rained her feet, but she still
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got her hands on her arms.
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Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court law. You have the right to an attorney prior to and during any question. If you can't afford one accord point one for you. And look, she just goes might. Hey, you'd have thought I shot her or something. And she was like, why did you do that? I said, no, no, no, no.
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And I said, we do it for everybody.
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I said, because I never know what people are going to tell me. And then I'm really talking almost like a child this morning I put my
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arm on, I said, it's okay, it's okay. And she kind of pulled away a
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little bit and still kept her hands on her arms.
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I said, look, I said that we got to ask everybody any questions, right?
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I said, I asked your sister whose house is this?
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I asked her where she was and
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could anybody verify it, et cetera. We, we got to verify that your
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mama wasn't home, you know.
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And we asked everybody questions and she was kind of like thrown, taken aback
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by it, if you will.
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That's what, let me ask you this.
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I said, it's not really cold today and it's, it's probably like 76 degrees, y'. All. It wasn't, it was a warm day for mid November.
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And I said, it's not really cold today. I said, are you cold natured? And she said, I don't know why.
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I said, because you got this big
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long button up blue jean shirt on. And she said, so.
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And I said and, but boy, she,
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I, I don't think she realized she did it.
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She pushed her hands further under her armpits at that time.
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And I said, well, so just need
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to know, are you cold nature? And she said, I don't understand.
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I said, but I said, I'm a short sleeves and in, or actually I was in a dress shirt with T.
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My, my shirt sleeves are rolled up.
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I said, calvin's are rolled up.
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I said, hell, it wasn't cold in the house. I said, do you always wear long sleeve shirts like that?
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She said, yeah, yeah, I do.
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I said, well, are you cold right now? She said, well, no, because I got my shirt on.
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And I said, well, let me ask you this. I said, why are you standing there with your arm, your hands underneath your armpits? And she was like.
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And she said, what do you mean? But she didn't take them out. I said, ever since we turned into
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the driveway when we got here, you've had.
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You saw us, you threw your cigarette
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out, and you put your hands underneath your armpits. And she said, well, I always keep my hands on them armpits.
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That's well cool. I said, I get that. I mean, different stroke, different folks, right?
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I said, but do you mind if
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I look at your hands?
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She said, what do you want to
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look at my hands for? She kind of started going off. I said, because I just want to look at him.
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I said, do you have any cuts or anything on your hands?
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Fresh cuts.
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And.
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Yeah, I'm thinking fat drops. Fat drops in the master bedroom. Fat drops through the crime scene, the broken vase, the bottle, blood that I didn't. Not spatter.
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Blood drops all throughout the house, including the gun cabinet in different places. And I'm thinking, you know, this.
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I mean, I really didn't probably think
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that she had anything to do with
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it, but I, I. She kind of gave me the. The gut instinct from when we first got on the scene, and she was
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doing all that hollering and screaming and.
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Yes, and I get there's different stages of grief and. And everybody handles it differently, but I
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didn't do it long enough. Guess what?
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I know whenever I get that little
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gut feeling, I listen to it, right? And now she's really upset, and I don't have anything.
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I don't have any proof. I haven't. We haven't had chance to go talk to her neighbors and see if she
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was at home or pull phone records or cell phone records or, you know, to the.
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I didn't know if she had a cell phone.
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Cell phone, you know, if we get a search warrant to see if her cell phone was pinging off the tower by the victim's house, I had nothing at this point other than a gut instinct.
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And she said, I'm not showing you my hands.
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She said, am I under arrest?
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I said, no, you're not.
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Unrest.
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I've told you, you're not under arrest. And she said, but I, you know, she said, I cut myself all the time. And I had. Yeah, I wear long sleeves because I'm cold.
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And, yeah, I'm just not.
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And she said, you know what?
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I Don't have anything else to say.
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She turned around, she went inside, slammed the door. How you living?
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How you like that? And guess what?
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She'd be totally innocent.
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But
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I was damn sure gonna find out. The guy told me, stepdad's in the
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wind,
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but the squeaky wheel gets the grease. And she had been the squeaky wheel the whole time. Calvin and I load up, we're both thinking the same thing. She definitely was on our radar. Let's just put it like that. So y', all, 50 minutes in, we're
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going to go ahead and stop it
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right there for this episode. You do not know what's going to happen. Even if you know this case, you. It is simply crazy.
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All right?
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Victims son in laws and when victims granddaughter gave me the heebie jeebies, maybe
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not the heebie jeebies.
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The victim's granddaughter gave me Paul's if you will.
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And she put herself on the radar.
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Okay, so I'm stopping from there and look this, I'm telling you I don't
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have any notes, I haven't looked at anything. And I'm recording this strictly from my visual memory.
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So if I get some minor detail wrong or whatever, then it is what it is.
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It's not with mal intent.
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But I'm stopping this part three of
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Monsters for this week.
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I'm going through continue to do the
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series until I get done telling the story.
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And listen, there's a hell of a
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lot more to come and stuff that
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was never ever released.
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So that being said, thank you for tuning in and listening to part three of Monsters.
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Couple show notes y'. All before we close out, I would just again want to thank everybody for, for listening and liking and tuning in.
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I try to post at least one
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I want to.
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I think it's pertinent enough to post it.
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And I think that's, that's in the thousands of members also.
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And I post a lot of stuff in there also. And then we have a regular pages and all that. And look, if I get so many
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friend requests today, I cannot accept any more friends.
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Facebook blocks you out at 5,000. I don't want anybody to think I'm, I'm being an ass. I would love to, you know, have y' all be my friends and Facebook, but I can't, I'm blocked from Facebook from doing that. So I do have a regular real
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and I will answer you. And I, I do spend a lot of time on social media and I try to answer everybody. If I miss something, I apologize because that's a lot to keep up with.
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But generally some.
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Sometimes I'll find messages somebody send me on a page I hadn't been to in like two or three days and
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I messaged him back.
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Thank you so much for the support
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Host: Woody Overton
Date: April 1, 2026
Podcast: Real Life Real Crime
Episode Focus: Deep-dive into a brutal homicide case, autopsy details, and the emergence of a new suspect
In the third installment of the “Monsters” series, Woody Overton continues his recounting of an especially brutal homicide case involving the murder of an 82-year-old woman. This episode provides raw, unscripted insights into the day after her body was discovered, including the investigative steps that followed, detailed autopsy descriptions, and the emergence of a new suspect. Woody delivers his story through vivid memories, bringing listeners into the emotional and procedural intricacies faced by investigators handling such a horrific crime.
| Time | Segment | |--------------|-------------------------------------------------| | 03:56 | Episode theme & extra graphic content warning | | 06:11–06:48 | Recap of previous episode & status of main suspect | | 13:03 | Probable cause vs. reasonable doubt explanation | | 13:44–16:07 | Detailed description of autopsy facility | | 27:03 | Pathologist’s reaction to victim’s injuries | | 30:02–31:14 | Discovery of the bullet wound during autopsy | | 39:07–39:31 | Sexual assault evidence findings | | 43:39–44:07 | Obtaining warrants | | 51:00–57:12 | Confronting the granddaughter, emergence as suspect | | 57:38 | Shift in investigative focus to granddaughter | | 58:00 | Cliffhanger ending & lead-in to Part 4 |
This episode delivers a harrowing autopsy reveal, the intricacies of running down suspects with limited evidence, and a nuanced look at family dynamics surrounding a homicide. Listeners are guided through the practical, emotional, and ethical challenges faced by Woody and his team. While the initial suspect remains missing, the behavior of the victim’s granddaughter becomes increasingly suspicious — her defensive reactions and attempts to hide potential injuries lead investigators to consider her as a person of interest.
The episode ends on a cliffhanger: suspicions mount, but the case is far from solved. Woody promises there’s much more to unfold — particularly revelations never previously released to the public.
Next Episode:
Stay tuned for Part 4, as Woody's investigation presses further, with new evidence and unexpected turns that challenge all prior assumptions.