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True Crime Time For July 14, 2026 | Cold Case Breakthrough, Child Predator & Death Row
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Hello everybody and welcome to this episode of True Crime time for Tuesday, July 14, 2026. And I'm Woody Overton bringing it to you again. Let's do some stories. Got some crazy stuff. As always, love and appreciate each and every one of y'. All. Hashtag what happened Madison and all the cases. Please Continue calling your tips 313-RLRCTIP. This should be a good week for us, y'. All. And, and it should be a good week for the good people and a bad week for the bad people. Right? Let's talk about July 14th in 2022. Alex Murdaugh. Guilty, guilty, guilty. Alex Murdaugh was indicted for the murders of his wife and son Margaret and Paul Murdaugh. Investigation and murders uncovered that Alex and Margaret, otherwise known as Maggie, were experiencing difficulty with their marriage at the time of the murders. Alex lured Maggie to the family property, stating that his father's health was declining. Alex was later convicted of the murders in March of 2023 and sentenced to two life sentences. Well, everybody in the world knows about this. Been way over covered. He's a, he's getting, you know, new trial or whatever because of what the court reporter did and what have you. Doesn't change the facts that he's a murdering piece of shit. So the, and I said it before the trial last time and I'll say it again, murder and piece of shit and doesn't deserve to breathe. All right, y', all, we're gonna go out to Portland, Oregon and a naked man was arrested over the weekend after he attempted to kidnap a seven year old girl from her mother at a waterfront park. All right, so shortly before 7pm on Saturday, Portland police received reports of a naked man running around Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Methysfad. Right. And one of the callers said the man had attempted to punch them in the head. A naked man. I'm pretty sure your ass is going to jail. But that's not all. He did not, not just the punch police, but police said all officers were busy responding to other calls and were not available at this time. Okay, you got a neck of man, run around a park, try to punch some dude in the head, but you don't have not even one officer to send to stop this his shenanigans. But about 12 minutes later another call came in and said that the suspect had grabbed a young girl and attempted to pull her away from her mother while he's naked. Officers then respond to the scene. Right, Well, I mean try to punch a dude in the head when you naked, it's okay, we can let that slide because we're busy. But then you try to kidnap a girl, 7 year old girl when you're naked and we're going to respond. So they responded to the scene and found the naked dude swimming in the Willamette river. And he's identified as 31 year old Daniel Vasi. And even of course, there he is naked. And they arrested him and booked him into the Multnomah County Detention center on charges of first and second degree attempted kidnapping, first degree custodial interference, third degree assault and harassment. Well, thankfully the seven year old girl was not seriously injured and she was checked out by paramedics at the scene and treated for scratches. And an investigation revealed that Vassi allegedly grabbed the girl's arm and that her parents and bystanders stepped in to prevent him from taking her. I could pretty sure much guarantee you if it happened in the state of Louisiana anyway and a naked dude is trying to kidnap a seven year old girl, grabbing her by the arm in a park. And they say people intervene. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he, he would have called an ass whipping. They said the girl's mother grabbed her other arm and tried to prevent Bassey from taking her daughter. And the struggle of the girl was so significant that she was lifted off the ground. Can you imagine that? Let go, motherfucker. No, you let go. Well, the child's father and bystanders then jumped in and punched, slapped and pulled on the suspect, which caused him to let go of the girl. One bystander used pepper spray on him in an effort to keep him away from people. The young girl and her family told officers that they were tourists visiting Portland from out of state. And that's the end of Mr. Bossy. So if you're going to be naked and try to kidnap a seven year old, I hope they just. Well, he sounds like he got a bit of his issue right, as he should have. So a little bit of street justice. All right. I'm gonna play this next story going to New Jersey and it's a homicide investigation.
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911 call from the husband of slain New Jersey mom Brooke Hamlin, who was found stabbed to death in her home over a month ago. With investigators still searching for answers.
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I just found my wife. I don't know what's going on. CPR needs cpr, this instruction.
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She's not breathing or conscious. Oh my God. There's a lot of freak men. Please, I don't know. Jake's blood. I need you immediately. She is bleeding and she's not, she's not conscious.
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Joining us now to react to this is FOX News contributor and former FBI special agent Nicole Parker. Nicole, very difficult audio to hear. What is your reaction to what we all just listened to? It's awful. I mean, this is absolutely tragic. Brooke was a 35 year old psychotherapist from New Jersey and she and her husband Connor had been married for five years. And Carly, I know that you can appreciate this as a mother. They had one child who will celebrate their first birthday this month without the mother. It's tragic, it's heartbreaking. But I can tell you that the investigators are working very, very hard. Her body remained in the home. And unlike other cases that have been investigated, I know looking back at the Anna Walsh case where a mother died in her home, but the body was removed. In this instance, the body remained. And that's very critical. That is a crucial piece of evidence. The medical examiner's office came back and the manner of death was determined to be a homicide. Cause of death was multiple sharp force injuries because she had been stabbed. And I think it's interesting to look at the timing. This occurred on a Saturday afternoon around 4:30pm is when they received the 911 call. And that's typically a day that people are not working. And so I think it's interesting to know who was there when this occurred. And I'm very curious. Was the baby in the home? And I understand that the baby is now in the care of her family. How did the baby get moved into the care of her family? And I want to know, was this premeditated? You know, there's no person of interest named at this point, but I do think that investigators Have a lot that they're working with behind the scenes.
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You know, this took place in Chester, New Jersey. I grew up in the neighboring town. I went to high school in Chester. So I know this area very well. And the only reason I bring that up is because it's a safe and rural community. Things like this just don't happen in that area of New Jersey. So that makes this even more notable. It's not an area where crime ever occurs. What are the chances that this is, like you said, premeditated or done by somebody that knew the victim versus a random attack, especially when it comes to a fatal stabbing. Right. Those are excellent questions. And I think it's important to note that Morris county, the Morris county prosecutor's office, they released a social media statement on social media on June 13, and they said, no, no further information can be released at this time to, you know, protect the integrity of the investigation. That to me tells you that they have a lot of information. And I think that Brooke's sister. Absolutely devastating. Who would ever think that you would receive that most tragic phone call that your sister is dead by such a horrible, horrible means? But she has been very tight lipped about her brother in law. And again, he has not been named as a suspect. He has not been named even as a person of interest. But he has hired an attorney. But again, that is by no means an admission of guilt by any stretch of the imagination. That happens oftentimes in these cases. But investigators will be looking at the husband's behaviors pre and post offense. They will be looking at the relationship status of the couple. Were they having arguments? Were there a fair allegations? What was the status of their relationship? They will be doing interviews of family members, loved ones, colleagues, looking at phones, devices, text messages, call logs, search histories online both for him and for her and anyone that was in her immediate sphere of influence. I do know that they had a $1,000 cash reward that is out for those that can provide information leading to an arrest. I do believe that a lot of times there is a correlation between the dollar amount of the tip reward and the need that they have for the tips. To me, $1,000 seems quite small at this point, but let's see what the investigators can come up with. Let's hope that justice is served and we need to find someone and put them behind bars. Yeah, it's been about a month now. So we pray that those answers, if the investigators do have them, are made public for the family's sake, because this is truly devastating. Nicole, thank you so much. For joining on, joining us on this, we've.
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Okay, I'm. No. Well, it's gonna sound a no, no genius, but I guess I have a lot of experience in homicide investigations. And the fact, the biggest fact that tells me they're looking at the husband. Although that's what you're going to do anyway, right, to start out. But the biggest fact is the baby, the baby is not in daddy's custody. Right. Don't you think the baby should be with the dad? Well, everybody in the world thinks that unless they think the dad is a murderer. So they're taking their time building their investigation. And that is not the last you're going to hear about this case, I can promise you. All right, we're going to roll out to Florida. You know, they got the ultimate penalty there and they're about to use it again and this time it's going to be on the oldest dude on death row. So I'm going to tell you all about it. The state of Florida is set to execute 74 year old United States army veteran Dennis Socor on Tuesday, July 14, today at 6pm at the Florida State Prison. Now, he was sentenced to death for the 1981 kidnapping and first degree murder of 18 year old Patricia Gifford and Broward County. Now if this execution goes forward, it'll be, well, it'll mark several milestones for the state's capital punishment system. He would become the oldest person ever executed in Florida. Well, let me tell you something. You've been sitting on death row for all these years. I don't mind you getting 40 years in appeals, but you still got sentenced to death because of what you did. The aggravating circumstances in your, your murder. But the, he'll be the oldest person ever executed in Florida. And it also marked Florida's 10th execution this year and the 11th execution of a military veteran under Governor Ron DeSantis and the 38th execution overall during that governor's administration. So he and the governor signed his death warrant on June 10th of 2026, on Saturday, July 11th. So Cor's attorneys, naturally they filed a petition for a writ of SARTORIA Asking the U.S. supreme Court toehold off on execution. Again. The petition requests a review of whether Florida's court system has made it nearly impossible for death row inmates to challenge the state's lethal injection procedures. Well, that means they got dick else to challenge, right? So we're going to throw this against the wall and hopefully give this murder and piece of shit, Even though he's 74, a couple more days. So the Supreme Court petition relies on recently obtained all types of reports from executions conducted under Florida's current three drug protocol, which they the first drug, y', all, is a sedative, edamate, and according to the filing, these autopsies consistently document evidence of flash pulmonary edema. And they said that condition causes fluid to rapidly fill the lungs, which attorney argues the attorneys argue creates a conscious sensation of air hunger or drowning before death. And they said this is cruel and unusual punishment, right? Protected by the 8th amendment. Pretty sure y' all know what I'm gonna say next. You didn't think about that when you kidnapped and murdered your victim. The Florida courts previously dismissed this argument and the state courts ruled not on scientific merits of the medical evidence, but on procedural grounds, stating the issue could have been raised years earlier. Right Whip it out at the last minute. This message is sponsored by Greenlight, y'.
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Well, they're not. Again, he's had 40 years of appeals. This U.S. supreme Court filing follows a unanimous per Korean opinion issued by the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday which cleared the final state level legal hurdles. State's highest court affirmed the lower circuit court's denial of the post conviction relief and declined to issue a stay. Yeah, that's this is just on this one issue. They've been doing this for 40 years on other issues. But in that rule in the seven state justice justices rejected so Corps lethal injections challenged on two fronts. They first said the claim was untimely, noting that Wausau Corps pointed to autopsy reports. They go back to 2017-2026. Florida's execution protocol has remained unchanged since January 2017. The court ruled the evidence should have been discovered and brought forward years ago. Second, the court ruled the claim lacked merit, writing, this court has repeatedly upheld Florida's lethal injection protocol, including the intimate date protocol. Socor had proposed execution by firing squad as constitutional alternative. We'll give it to him. I don't give a fuck if you do it. Lethal injection or shoot them up bullets, I don't care. The Florida Supreme Court also dismissed a separate claim regarding a 2022 letter from the Broward County Sheriff's Office to Socor's brother with salt information to locate Gifford's body. SOCOR alleged the state had improperly withheld this document. And the court called that bullshit. The justices declined to hold oral arguments or accept motions for a rehearing in ordering the mandate to take effect immediately. Mean, like go ahead and kill his ass after 40 years. But let me tell you about the case. This is why he doesn't deserve to breathe. The original criminal case states back more than 44 years. And according to court records, so Cor and his brother met Gifford at a Broward County Lounge on December 31, 1981. Y' all was 11 years old. That's how old this is. Gifford left with the men to get breakfast. Investigators stated that when Gifford rejected so Cor's sexual advances, he choked her to death and hid her body. Law enforcement officials never recovered her remains. You know what you want to get right or you want to have a chance at something? Tell him where the body's at. I mean, can't even bring her home because you're a piece of shit. So after he hid her remains, so Cor fled because the investigation started. And then they put his, his, his pictures on his picture on television, right on the. On the news police caption in Georgia five years later. And when they got him, they interviewed him and he gave three separate recorded confessions into which he admitted to the murder. The jury found Secor guilty and recommended the death penalty by 10 to 2 vote. Now, prior to recent filings regarding lethal injection, SOCOR had completed several rounds of appeals because at that time, he was blaming his brother and not himself. So we'll see if he can ride the needles the season or not. I don't Wish ill on anyone. But you got sentence. You choked this woman to death. And you still. Even though you confess, you won't let him bring her body home. Ride the needle. All right, let's roll out to Illinois. Here we go with a mass shooting. I guess we need to have a button for that. Seven family members were shot. Five of them were killed by the shooting in what officials described as a targeted mass shooting in this great state of Illinois on Sunday. Two teenage suspects, who both 16, were taken in custody in connection with the shootings, according to Illinois State Police, although charges of not yet been filed against them. Police said there were shootings at multiple locations in East St. Louis, Illinois, including 39th and Summit in the Gompers public housing project and Jones Park. Five people. Again, five people. Y' all were killed and two other were transported to the hospital with serious injuries. Quotations. I just want to say these alleged acts of horrific violence taking this number of lives here in this community is terrible. It's evil, but it will not keep this city down. That's according to the police. And they also said it's. They. They call the incident a terrible, terrible act of violence. Well, I would agree. In five more people dead in another mass shooting. The. I was reading an article last night and I thought it was going to be something. It was. Obviously I saw the picture and they said the city's named as the worst whatever. And I'm. It was Chicago. Right. I. I knew it from the picture and then I was like started to read it, thinking it was going to be about all the killings and everything. Unfortunately, it is. Chicago is the number one city in the United States for bedbugs. He believe that? I mean, yeah. I don't know who keeps track of that. The. You would think Las Vegas is number one because Cindy and I were in Las Vegas in the middle of the night in a very nice hotel. I woke up and I felt some bite me. And I was like, what the. Then I reached down, I was still asleep and. And just knocked it away. Didn't really think about it and went back to sleep again and woke up something else by me. And I turned on the light and it was officially the first bedbug I've ever seen. And took it down to the desk and they didn't do dick about it. I'll tell you which one it is. That was at the. The hotel where Elvis had his residency. The big. The big sports bugger. I can't think of the name of it, but I would never. We checked out that hotel and Got another hotel, and they were assholes about it. So when we press the button this time, 20 years is a long time, right? And Courtney Coco's case was like 18 years for Burns went to Angola. Ms. Barbara's cases is pushing. Ms. Barbara Blunt's case is pushing. 20 years, never been found, never been solved. The I always say, never give up, never surrender, right? And I'm going to tell you, we're going to Utah. And Richard Gudenkopf walked his daughter down the aisle in September of 1996 with a frownless face. The bride, Bernadette, was a vision in her white dress and matching pearls, big doe eyes peering out from behind her veil. Her mother, Laura Gudenkopf, watched her daughter glowing, happy to finally be marrying the man she had met years earlier during a theater production at church. Right. Sounds wonderful, doesn't it? From the start, dad didn't like the dude, obviously, and he said he had a bad feeling about the groom, whose name is David Vandermeer. He said he wasn't happy about David marrying his daughter, who's a vibrant young performer rooted in her faith and engaged in her community. Said Bernadette had always been a star in her daddy's eyes, but it was at a crowded nightclub one night that he realized just how bright her light could shine. There was a karaoke stage in the corner where a small audience listened to amateur singers doing what they do at karaoke, right? Well, Burner got up to perform, and soon as she started, the whole club got quiet. And they were captivated, right? They were listening like, this girl can sing. And that's when her daddy said, she's really good. Well, Bernadette did what she could to get her voice out there, performing and character as Betty Boop and recording demo CDs with covers from the likes of Aretha Franklin, Christina aguilera and Patti LaBelle. And she could just kept singing. Then she hooked up with her boy David, and they were going to Las Vegas to continue their dreams of their singing career. The even though the daddy didn't like him and he held reservations about the wedding, it still went on. They said it was beautiful. Well, about 10 years later, Laura Gudenkopf was separated from Richard and living with Bernadette and David, along with Bernadette's sister Vanessa, who had special needs. They were always teenagers hanging out at the house. And members of the youth group David led and Laura noticed this and Bernadette did also. And there was one girl, her initials were S.H. who seemed to be growing particularly close to David and she would often even call their house right. Well, the dazzling smile Laura had seen on her daughter's wedding day had turned Bernadette was feeling lonely and dissatisfied, married to a man who wouldn't publicly express his love to her and who treated her like nothing special. Now, she wrote all this in letters. And the investigators would find these letters years later. He said he paid more attention to the teenagers in the youth group than her. Now, once Laura saw Bernadette come home from a night of shift waitressing at a casino where she played the piano and sang for a guest. But all her tips and the money she made went straight to David. Now, Bernadette was angry with her husband and her mom saw this and, and she saw Bernadette slam the bedroom door. When Bernadette told David she wanted a divorce, youth pastor told her, you might want to see figure out how that that would look for us, he said, but what would people think? And the couple ended up staying together and their 10th anniversary was upon them. And they planned a trip to Zion national park in Washington County, Utah. Now, Bernadette was an experienced hiker and she loved adventure and she was glad to finally get some time alone in nature with her husband. Right? Maybe they can rekindle. And he wouldn't treat her like such a piece of shit anymore. But before the trip, Bernadette discussed her and David's life insurance plans with her mama, Laura. They had recently raised their policies from the death benefits benefits from 150,000 to 600,000 each. And David ensured Bernard that this would help support Laura and Vanessa if anything ever happened to the couple. Now explaining their decision, Bernadette sat down at a computer to pull up a document for her mother. She typed in a password and it didn't work. So she types in again and it doesn't work. So she turned and looked at Laura and Laura said, David changed the password. Okay, then we're going on the trip. So they're on the trips and they're hiking through the pre dawn darkness. And they set out around 4:20am on August 22, 2006. The and this, this all according to David, the husband. So this is in southwestern Utah and the park, it's Zion national park, is known for its awe inspiring landscapes in the famed Virgin river, running between towering gorge walls and steep cliffs and giving way to vast sandstone canyons and hiking trails and all that. Good. Well, David and Bernadette approached the top of Angel's Landing, which is one of the park's most popular and hardest hiking destinations. He said sunlight began streaming in and the couple removed their headlamps. He set up his camera, planning to catch Bernadette's silhouette against the sunrise as she stood close to the edge of the sheer cliff.
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Well, David snaps a few photos of the scenery and waited a few seconds for each to expose. Then he's looking at the photographs. He's like, oh, you know what? Our backpacks are in, in the, in the photos. Let me move them out of the way. And he said he tells investigators he moved the, the backpacks like 5, 10, what, 5 to 10ft away. And when doing so, he hears a scream. By the time he turns around, he said Bernadette was gone. Well, he calls 911 around 6:20am and he told the first responders his wife had fallen while hiking. Now Bernadette, who's just 29 years old, was pronounced dead on the scene. And the detectives asked David if he had ever been unfaithful to his wife. He was like, no way in. You know, y'. All. This is not the first time hikers have fallen in Zion Park. But they said that accidents in this portion of Angel's Landing were rare, with just a few over the years that were deemed suspicious or suicides. And unfortunately, there were no other witnesses to interview. It was just them too. So investigators ruled Bernadette's death an accident. Well, never give up, never surrender. So they said so many people want to attend Bernadette's memorial service that a special overflow room had to be arranged. At the funeral, David sat on the other side of the church from Bernadette's parents with members of his youth group when you think he would be sitting with his in laws. So back to him. Richard and Laura, her burnt as parents, had their suspicions about their daughter's death. They said she was too experienced a hiker to have just fallen. And they have believed especially that she didn't fall because she could see where she was doing because of the rise of sun said. Then there were the slamming doors, the calls from the teen girl and David's youth group, the changed password on the computer. But mom was beside herself with grief and she was still living in David's home. And they said she was depressed and full of fear. Well, over time, Richard's Shock and sadness, dad. Shock and sadness turned to a sense of vengeance that he said he could feel in his core. He had many friends. But as the months path, his anger turned him into something ugly. And the friend stopped calling. He realized he couldn't go on like that. And both parents did. And they decided to give it to God. And they did their best to move forward with their lives. Laurel didn't see David around the house very much anymore. She's still living with him, right? Eventually, he moved out, and his late wife's family lost touch with him. He's just gone now, right? Guess how much money he got, y'.
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In 2007, he got $567,000. $567,439. And he began to live like a pimp. And he bought cars and he paid for trips for members of his youth group. And by the next year, he was leading a youth group at another church under pastor Barry Diamond. And now Barry fired David after reports that the youth leader had been throwing parties for teenage members, giving them alcohol, and letting them gamble in his home. Barry pretty sure as church youth leader, you're not supposed to do that. But in 2022, a former member of a youth group that David led did what everyone should do. If you have information. He tipped off law enforcement that David had been using his position to groom underage members, including a girl with whom he had been sexually involved at the time of Bernadette's death. Investigators with the Washington County Sheriff's Office in Utah called the girl, S.H. power initials and interviewed her over the phone. And they. After that interview, they said, hey, we need to follow up and interview you again. But no one followed up, and the case went cold again. Then last October, more than 19 years after Bernadette's fall, I'm pretty sure she was shoved. Barry Diamond. Barry Diamond. David. So boss reached out to the Washington County Attorney's office with an accusation. Said Bernadette's death wasn't an accident. This is a pastor. And he believed David pushed her. Well, lieutenant investigator Jessica Bate with the county's attorney's office start investigating. And she spoke with diamond, who had tried unsuccessfully for years to get the authorities to look into David. And Barry would later tell all this to the Las Vegas Review Journal. Barry told the investigator about the former youth group members, who are all adults by this time. But he told him about all the kids who'd come to him over the years with stories about David's inappropriate behavior. Some felt traumatized, he said. He said the kids, as he said, the kids were scared of David then, and they're scared of him now. And again and again, the same girl. Sh's thing came up. And in December, the investigator met with SH for an interview. And the story David told detectives years before they started to see it was bullshit. So sh had met David when she was 14, and she explained over how over time, the youth group pastor, who was about nine years older than her, had begun paying her more attention. A gift, a hug, touch on the knee. Now, when she turned 16, David took her to a cabin and where she told investigators they had sex for the first time. I'm pretty sure it's raped, because you can't consider 16. And this continued for years at pay by the hour motels, even at the church where David worked. This is according to the girl herself. The once SH recalled Bernadette pounding on the doors of the church looking for David, and he told her to tell Bernadette that he wasn't there. David even bought her a phone so she could use to call him. And SH Said in an account, David even bought her a phone which you could use to call him. Investigators confirming this by cell phone record child later on. So when Sh turned 18, David told her to move out of her mom's house and into her apartment he had rented so they would have somewhere to have. Sound like a perfect youth pastor to me. David never spoke of a future with sh, except for once when he told her the only way they could be together is if Bernadette wasn't alive. And this is what she told investigators. And she said it stuck with her for years. On August 20, 2006, which was a Sunday, she met David at church and told him she had met her boy her own age. And that's when the relationship ended. And the very next day is when David and Bernardet left for Zion. Part right after her fall, SH found herself in David's living room with other youth group members, sitting Shiva, which is a term associated with Jewish mourning custom. And that was what David had requested. Then, two or three months after burning this death, SH and David reengaged in their sexual relationship. And after David was fired from his past job in 2008, David and Sh married in a private ceremony so he could use her health insurance. He's a piece of shit. But. But two years later, the marriage ended. And about. About 2014, it was done with and the pair had divorced. Now, around that time, David said everything afforded to them during the duration of their marriage came from Bernadette's Life insurance. And again this according to the victim sh. So the story starts cracking and the investigator Jessica Bate starts getting more and more evidence. Phone records and electronical and physical notes Bernadette had written and accounts from the officers who resigned national park the day she she died. Another officer got to work getting intel from August 22nd, 2006. And they used data from NASA and other public databases. And he determined the sun rose that day at 6:54am more than a half hour after David's 911 call. Right. That's pretty ingenious. And they said given the extreme terrain in the park, the sun would not have been visible on the Angel's Landing until after he called. So he's full of shutters. They said the picture David had painted for detectives after burning his fall. The sunlight streaming in as he and his wife reached the summit they starting to call. The detective then met with the chief design national park to review fatalities from their Angels Landing dating to the 1980s. And found that of the 17 documented deaths, the only ones that occurred from around where Bernadette fell were deemed to be suspicious in nature of suicide. That's kind of speculative whatever the but the detective Bate put her findings together and got an arrest after David which she signed on June 16th. And the Washington County Attorney's office charged David with murder in connection with Bernadette's death and insurance fraud. He was arrested on June 22 and booked into the Clark County Detention Center. Yeah, but guess what y'. All the he he's having an extra day extradition hearing. And it was get it was getting ready to begin and the judge had to tell the court this is unnecessary. Oh, because David is dead. Hours before he was doing court officers found David unresponsive in a cell along with a suicide note and a handwritten will in this hall according to Las Vegas pd In the end they reported this without revealing what he wrote in a suicide night. And he was taken to the hospital for self sustained injuries where he was pronounced dead. So the there you have it. Hell or jail. They finally get him after 20 years and was this little bitch do. He's a. He's a child rapist, wife murderer evident, you know, obviously a shitty son in law and all that and just a real piece of work. And I hope he enjoyed his 567,000 reasons that he killed his innocent wife. Right. Who he met in church at a church play and then he, you know, uses his position as youth pastor to rape babies and groom them and all that. And what a Piece of shit. And Utah does have the death penalty, but in this case, it's not necessary. Hell or jail. He rode out by his own accord. He took the bitch way out. Bye. Bye. All right. I know that was a long winded one. A little bit different, but I just think that's a super interesting story. Especially that. I mean, we don't have mountains and shit here, obviously, but using NASA in the angle of the sun to prove that those pictures were taken. Not when you said they were. Right. And so the. The fall couldn't happen when you said it did and for the reasons you said it did. Well, it was just you two on the mountain, but investigators got your assing in. Y' all never give up. Never surrender. Calling your tips. Bradley Straystone's case. AO's case. I was in Burnham Parish last week. Not going to tell you why. It doesn't matter anyway. But the don't give up on it. You know, people are still sending me tips on that case all the time, and I do treat them accordingly. We'll. We'll put it like that. In Ms. Barbara Blunt's case, beyond a reasonable doubt is a huge burden of proof to prove after almost 20 years. That doesn't mean investigators aren't looking at it the way they need to be. Right. But you can call on your tips. Somebody knows. Somebody knows in Haley. Justice for Haley. Wow. Wait until you hear Thomas Davenport and Scott Roeder put together, and then we'll see what Cobb county is going to do. Then the da What. What do you say? You tell us to get scientific proof, and we have to pay for it. Ms. Barber and you lifers raised money for it, and Thomas Davenport raised money for it. And then you call it double jeopardy. We get the scientific proof, but then you call it double jeopardy. And now we've legally proven that it's not. And we're gonna release all that this week. Balls in your court. Cobb county da Never give up. Never surrender. Hashtag. What happened? Madison guys are working on it. Y' all keep pressing forward. The worm will turn. Let's get justice. So. And I'm Woody Overton, you host the true crime. Time for Tuesday, July 14th. Love y'. All. Holla at you later. Peace. Foreign.
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