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Detective Scott Roberts

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Gwendel Greenblatt (6 of Diamonds, Florida)

1553.905

It's a murder investigation.

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Gwendel Greenblatt (6 of Diamonds, Florida)

1564.052

Your name has come up in a murder investigation. That's why the state is here. That's why we have fed help to help speak to us. And as he said, at any time, you're free to leave. But we would like to speak to you and answer our questions if you don't mind.

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Gwendel Greenblatt (6 of Diamonds, Florida)

2026.678

We had tracked Matt down, I mean, because he's a fisherman, and he was doing a tournament in Arizona. So loaded up the plane, went out there, and we figured out where it was being held, and it was like a little hotel or something like that where they checked in. So basically, me and I think it was another detective waited in the lobby, found out that he had come in.

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Gwendel Greenblatt (6 of Diamonds, Florida)

2048.972

And then as he was walking back out is when I met him right there in the lobby. We go back to the car because that's where all our stuff is. He agreed to talk to us, asked him to, as we're speaking, just tell the truth, nothing but the truth. We get into it and he goes into their marriage was fine. They weren't going to get divorced. We were in love, that type of thing.

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Gwendel Greenblatt (6 of Diamonds, Florida)

2071.993

We talked about the cheating and that's when he basically said, yeah, I did. We talked about the real estate. He said that really wasn't a problem, which was kind of confusing because when you're getting conflicting statements from people, her friends were saying that it was a problem, you know.

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Gwendel Greenblatt (6 of Diamonds, Florida)

2090.856

And then we got to the fact of, towards the end, because he was getting a little antsy in regards to Richard Engel. And do you know this person? Do you know that name? And he said, no. Show him the picture. No, I don't know him at all.

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Gwendel Greenblatt (6 of Diamonds, Florida)

348.041

Once the officers get there, they discover the door slightly ajar and immediately see, when you walk in, stuff on the floor, a sweater, a shoe, keys, and a cell phone. They call her name. They call out. They don't hear too much. They're walking around, and it's a very small apartment. And two officers eventually find her and hear her moaning in the closet. She's collapsed.

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Gwendel Greenblatt (6 of Diamonds, Florida)

375.737

But first, I guess she's sitting down in a laundry basket. She's got two gunshot wounds.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

106.229

If you want to define a routine Commonwealth Manic, it's pretty much that. We got a medical at Ashen Towers. They go there all the time for medical emergencies, all the time, all the time, all the time.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

1166.667

A lot of her statement was very mumbled and quiet and rambling at some points. When they exited the interview room, like she would actually continue to talk to herself again. It's just one of those things that you just sort of put in the back of the head and you're like, all right, you know, we'll maybe go back to that, which they did.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

1183.607

And the state police did an extensive investigation into the persons of interest in the beginning, which obviously revolved around Carmen. Just because of her access, she saw him last and then discovered him. Nothing came to fruition with Carmen. She was cooperative. A lot of the clothing that she had on before and after, she voluntarily gave up. We had them tested.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

1205.505

We didn't discover anything that would lead us to believe that she was responsible.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

1632.529

She deserves all the credit in the world for this because she would not let it go, and nor should she.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

1650.312

And I'm not saying Carmen's, you know, an angel. I just, I'm an evidence-based guy. I follow evidence, you know, and evidence at this time does not suggest that she's involved.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

1689.787

It's like a frustrating game of just like a ladder. You go to speak to this person. No, I didn't say that. I said that he told me he saw that. Then you go to speak to him. No, I told my wife that this is what I saw. But she said she saw it from... And then you keep on going down the line. And then you hit, just by the laws of probability, you hit one of those severely mentally ill tenants.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

1710.795

And then he goes off about the aliens or goes off about the government conspiracy. And you're like, there's now... There's the gap in the ladder. So I think that's where bringing more awareness to it, you might get the top of that ladder that I can't follow because I'm being cut off by a lead that doesn't go anywhere.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

1755.194

I wholeheartedly believe that people in that building right now know what happened. With William and the violence of that attack, I find it very hard to believe that one person could do this without anyone knowing.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

1767.481

Now, whether it's that attacker being seen by someone or telling someone or asking for assistance in getting rid of weapons or evidence or someone seeing him or her getting rid of any weapons or evidence, I think someone saw something. I think they're scared because if that can happen to Willie, who is the nicest guy in the world, what can happen to them?

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

1811.638

I put those posters up in the lobbies and people take them down. So for me, that says something. Why is someone taking down the poster that offers a reward? Like that money, I know it's not about the money, but $50,000 for someone that lives in that building is probably more than their yearly income rate, a lot more. So someone's deliberately went out of the way on one occasion to take them down.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

1834.437

That made me think, why would someone do that? And then I thought about it Maybe who's responsible lives there or visits there, which then made me think, hmm, maybe they're taking it down because they don't want anyone to know and call in a tip.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

1892.181

That's why these decks are amazing. They're helping people.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

198.137

The initial officers go in there and they immediately know that he's deceased. There was large amounts of blood on and surrounding William. It was obvious that there was some kind of violent struggle or violent attack, I should say. In plain sight, there was no obvious wound. There was no bullet. Usually when you go to some of these scenes, you could tell if it's a gunshot victim, a strangulation.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

1999.752

The technology and resources that we didn't have in 2016, the door has opened in as recently as this week in September of 2024 for us to try to get a glimpse inside that apartment building.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

2092.15

I think we're a lot closer today than we were at any point in this investigation. And that's the whole point of doing this interview, right?

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

2100.152

Because we're going on very limited eyewitnesses and witness accounts, and your listeners are going to be able to hopefully help us because, say, someone who is one of your listeners remembers something or saw something that can help us, point us in the right direction. Doing something like this with you and your audiences can only help.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

219.379

You can see sometimes the ligature marks or cordage or something that was used. For this case, you couldn't really see anything. They just knew that he was deceased and there's a large amount of blood. In fact, it wasn't until we called the medical examiner and they started moving William that they noticed the stab wound.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

254.42

So at that point, you're looking for knives, ice picks, screwdrivers, anything that's linear and can cause that kind of damage.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

276.072

There was a lot of knives. Like, when I tell you there was a lot of knives, Ballpark, he's probably over 20. We located knives in bedrooms, the dining area. So they were all over, probably everywhere but the bathroom.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

370.137

When a crime like this is committed, we as investigators start dumpster diving. We start jumping into these dumpsters and looking for anything that could have been discarded by the suspect or suspects. You know, whether it's throwing away clothing or hats, masks, gloves, any kind of weapon, we take and we seize it and we test it. So we collected a large amount.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

393.013

We call it an inventory of weapons or tools that we didn't know if they were used or not. You get one shot at it, the trash company comes and dumps that dumpster. You don't get it again. So you just sort of have to jump in there and it's not a perfect world. It's not TV. Yeah, they tell you seven and eight and one eighth inch object, the diameter of this.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

414.948

They don't tell you that until sometimes weeks later.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

472.529

Whomever was responsible, I believe, knew him. Whomever is responsible, I believe, knew him. He's in his underwear in his own apartment that late at night. If someone did come and made contact with him, you would think it'd be someone he is familiar with. Obviously, there was an issue. There was a disagreement or there was a conflict of something that would cause this to happen.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

501.903

And I don't think it was just as a random attack on an elderly man inside of his apartment. I think it's more personal. And I think the wound and his appearance suggests that. And where he was positioned, there was nowhere for him to go.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

515.655

So it was almost like it was a confrontation where the suspect knew that this is the spot where they can have William at a disadvantage, seated with nowhere to go because of a recliner to his left, a wall to his right, and another wall behind him.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

529.322

Literally cornered. I wanted to say that, but yeah, literally cornered. He was in a corner of a room. You feel even worse because he really didn't have a chance.

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William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)

675.145

He spent his days just hanging out with neighbors. He would frequent the soup kitchen, which is right here, one block over. He didn't have transportation. He was limited physically on what he could do. I mean, he was an older man. He liked to just have a couple beers, hang out with his brother, hang out with family and friends whenever he could, and just enjoy life.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

1020.346

And she said that Ferris had made the statement one time to her that one of these days, one of those girls is going to go missing. And then after Christy went missing, he said, well, they'll never find her. She's down on Alligator Alley. So I went up to Virginia, and I interviewed him, and he denied knowing Christy. He never admitted anything.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

1040.944

He said he didn't know Christy, and he never said those things. And his attorney was going to get him off that he was guilty of this crime.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

1068.422

I went up to talk to him. If you ever interview a sex offender, especially a child molester, it's never their fault. It is never their fault. If you listen to some of these people, I mean, they would make you sick, really sick. That's why I never liked working child molestation cases. The sexual barriers were bad enough. The child molestations were really bad.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

141.018

They drove up to Titusville, came back, stopped at two parks, Jonathan Dickinson State Park, and then they stopped at the Duke Boys Park. Then they came home. It was early in the afternoon. They were tired because they traveled all night. Christy slept because she was a little slump. And they all went to bed, and Christy came in and said, you know, the cats are hungry. I'll go get cat food.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

165.553

And she got some change, and she went to the store, which is right around the corner.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

1946.147

This person came forward and said that he molested kids and was very violent and that his septic tank was open and that he would always check it. The septic tank lid was busted and then he would empty it sometimes with a bucket. He would dump it.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

2023.959

We were there for a good week with them going through every bit of dirt that we took out. We had a septic tank company that cleaned out their truck so that it was spotless. And we put everything in there. And then when they dumped it, they went through every bit of it.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

2040.17

But they got down inside the septic tank and actually scraped the bottom of that septic tank and went through everything in that septic tank. And we come up with nothing.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

214.797

Green Acres is just a small, sleepy little town with a store downtown that all the kids walked to because it was right there. It's not that big an area. And you could almost throw a rock from the house to the store. Everybody's kids walked to the store. And they came home.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

254.943

We don't have anybody that said they saw her getting into any type of car or anything. I talked to the people that lived in the house at that time, and they were young kids too. And they remembered Christy being there talking to them and watching the fireworks. And the one girl told me, yeah, I saw her walking back towards her house. And that's it.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

348.226

That's when we discovered one of Christy's friends was being molested by Chuck and Willis Rambo. So they then became a primary people of interest. So warrants were obtained. She only gave us Chuck as one, and later on then she said Willis.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

498.191

We searched the house. We kept the house the whole weekend. I mean, we went through that house, top to bottom, everywhere. We couldn't find anything that would indicate that Christy was murdered there.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

521.843

Willis worked at a retirement place with a golf course, and the rumors were that he put Christy down a well. We went and we dug deep. They had to build a ramp for the front loader to get down in to dig deeper, but we never found anything.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

593.519

He worked close to the area where she went missing. He didn't show up to work that day that she went missing. And somebody got a tag off a car that was his. It was somewhere in the area.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

686.641

He went back to jail for violating his parole for coming to Florida. In 1990, Victor gets released from prison, comes to Florida, and as soon as he gets in Florida, the sheriff's office TAC team starts following him. They follow him 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They have pictures and video of him looking in these bedroom windows.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

709.927

Sure enough, there's little girls in that bedroom that he's looking in. So they followed him for almost a month. He never tried to pick anybody out. He had a couple of locations he was looking through windows. So anyway, when he started trying to get in through the front door one night, they arrested him.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

725.871

When they put him in jail, there was a group of inmates that said that Victor would sit in a chair and watch little girls on TV, you know, like Sesame Street. And then he would make statements like, well, they'll never find them. And I mean, he more or less was admitting that he killed both of them and they'll never find him.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

744.121

And these inmates are just having a field day, throwing Victor under the bus. I interviewed him, and he swore him down. He never had anything to do with Christy or Tammy. He said he wasn't even in the same cell blocks, same part of the jail, as these people that were talking and giving him up for all this stuff.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

782.685

In my experience over the years, the child molesters, they don't go to prison and talk about their crimes because they know that the inmates don't like that. So I could not believe that Victor is sitting in a local jail telling everybody how he killed these girls and nobody did anything to him. I just found that a little bit unbelievable.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

803.388

I thought, I'm going to find out if this is the truth, if what they're saying is the truth. So I found one inmate. I interviewed him. And he said, oh, yeah, he told us all this stuff. So I said, would you be willing to take a polygraph? And he says, yeah. We polygraphed him. He failed. I asked him, why did you lie? He said, we wanted to give her mother some closure.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

825.475

So he admitted it was all fabricated. And then I tracked down another one and talked to him on the phone. And he said, yeah, we made all this stuff up.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

863.172

I would never say that he didn't. I just don't think that he told anybody he did. In my whole career, I've never had any child molester or anybody like that really sit down and tell all the other inmates that they did this to some little girl.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

894.938

It wasn't like it was a dangerous area where guns are being fired and people are shooting and people are stealing kids. It was just a nice little quiet neighborhood. Except when we started investigating it, we found that there were a few child molesters in the neighborhood. But back then, there was no record of it. Nobody kept any records. You didn't know until you started running their history.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

916.957

You have to realize something, and I'm not defending families, but a lot of times back in the day, they would say, don't let your kids around Uncle Bill, or don't let your kids around Uncle Ralph, because they all knew that Uncle Ralph was a molester. For some reason, it was like a family secret. They never wanted to do anything. I think it was the embarrassment.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

941.064

We worked and we interviewed so many child molesters back then, and we just couldn't come up with anything. And then eventually the leads start fading away.

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Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

999.81

He would have never came on the radar until he got arrested. He got arrested up in Virginia for molesting his grandkids and I think another kid. And of course, his wife really, really was upset. And as soon as he got arrested, she called us up and said, we need to look at him.

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Sharon Glover (6 of Spades, Louisiana)

111.584

Deputies was dispatched to the scene. They identified the body as a Black female. At the time, she was unknown. She still had her clothes on and everything, but she had stab wounds to her body.

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Sharon Glover (6 of Spades, Louisiana)

1496.468

So if I'm able to call it close with the person of interest that's deceased, at least we'll know and have peace of mind that I can give to the family saying, hey, he's the one that did it. That way they can know and move on with their lives, hopefully build a relationship with the ex-husband.

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Sharon Glover (6 of Spades, Louisiana)

1519.722

And that way it's not in the back of their mind, always thinking, well, he did it, you know, and I can tell him, no, you know, maybe y'all can get past it now and help y'all build y'all relationship. So that's at least what I want, you know.

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Sharon Glover (6 of Spades, Louisiana)

214.036

If there is any good DNA that could have been found on the body at the time, the rain could have washed it away, or it could have washed and mixed up other DNA that may be blown to her from her bleeding and contaminated the scene.

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Sharon Glover (6 of Spades, Louisiana)

251.667

TV shows, a lot of stuff, you know, you run the tire track and then you pop up with 15 tires and the type of car, it don't work the same way in the real world. So, you know, so if we have a vehicle, we could be able to take that cast and determine, hey, these tires are similar to these tracks. So this person is a person of interest.

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Sharon Glover (6 of Spades, Louisiana)

291.226

We just feel like her body was placed there from the way it was positioned. We had tire tracks, car pulls up, open the door. You can see like where somebody had her and her feet were dragging along on the ground.

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Sharon Glover (6 of Spades, Louisiana)

560.389

The first person, I hate to say it, is always going to be either the spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend. Not saying that they're guilty of anything, but that person is the closest person to the deceased.

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Sharon Glover (6 of Spades, Louisiana)

711.03

I've heard this theory. I heard a whole bunch of other theories as well. From what I'm thinking of, the evidence has to be there for us to go out and arrest him.

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Sharon Glover (6 of Spades, Louisiana)

874.142

Other sources have confirmed that she would set guys up all the time and have sex with them out there on that private road as well. And then she would rip them off, pull a knife on them, hold a knife to their throat, take their money and all this.

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Sharon Glover (6 of Spades, Louisiana)

941.178

So I don't want this out. There's a person of interest that I think is the actual person that lived in that area.

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Sharon Glover (6 of Spades, Louisiana)

977.574

The only fear that I have that this person is deceased, being able to prove that he's involved. That's one thing that, you know, I would like to be able to say, okay, this person is determined as a person of interest for me to be able to go out and talk to him, get his side. And, you know, the ultimate goal is to get him to commit that he, you know, actually is involved with it.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

1076.067

One male party claimed that he saw a naked man around 11 o'clock on the 6th walking through the marsh, which is right in the area where East Shore Road is. That house borders this marshy, salt marsh area. And after people talking about this, Wojtek going missing, he claims he saw a naked man walking through the marsh southbound around 11 a.m. in the morning.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

1099.042

For some reason, he never decided to call the police. It was December. It was cold. There's a naked man walking through the marsh. But he says he saw him as he was driving by. And he claimed that the man walking through the marsh kind of matched up with the description provided of Wojtek.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

1192.233

Yeah, it's odd, but I'm not a canine officer. The area was contaminated because so many people were walking around searching. There's so many scents down there. The scent dissipates as time goes by. If he did go in the water, the dog wouldn't sense a living person going in the water.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

1206.319

Dogs over the next few weeks did pick up some scents, but they found deer carcasses, deer bones, other animals and whatnot. So they never picked up a definite scent from Voitec to be able to track that.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

1356.687

We were notified by the Wilbraham Police Department that Ms. Anna Fudali had reported to them there was a suspicious note left on a refrigerator when she was out. She reported that she arrived home at 10 p.m. on the 15th, and there was two yellow post-it notes affixed to the outside of her refrigerator door. The notes mentioned Wojtek's name, although it was spelled wrong.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

1380.435

The police investigated in Wilbraham, asked if there were no signs anybody broke into the residence. They did secure these two yellow post-it notes as evidence. One just said, I'm M-I-S-E, M-I-S-E, love, and it looks like it says W-O-I-T-E, possibly K, which she felt was Wojtek spelled wrong. And then the second post-it note appeared to have said, and I am at the bet, B-E-T.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

140.446

They were concerned because Wojtek had been at their house overnight, and when they went to go check on him in the morning, he was gone. He was not there. And the last time they saw him, they reported he was acting. What they said was strange.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

1461.713

It's difficult to make sense of it. It's definitely suspicious. If indeed somebody entered her house while she was gone and put these on the refrigerator, the local police department was never able to confirm that the house was broken into when they were put there. But Ms. Fodali swears that she was out when she got back there on the refrigerator.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

1480.146

She feels like it may have been a sign from him or somebody else.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

1545.983

She said it sounded like a young child talking to her on the phone. They asked, is Wojtek home? She said, how do you know Wojtek? He said, well, the voice said he is my brother. She said, he's not your brother. And then the

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

1557.745

voice said yes he is is he home and then she asked if she could speak with the child's mother or somebody else and then another woman took the phone and said something in spanish and then hung up she got the number from the caller id and i'm not sure if she looked it up on her own or the local police department did but they found out that area code was from puerto rico

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

1600.034

We tried following up that number. We didn't get anywhere. There was never a response. Our detectives at the time contacted authorities in Puerto Rico, and they were unable to ever locate where this call came from.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

1748.214

Every once in a while, remains will be found. Recently, there were skeletal remains found up in Coventry, Rhode Island. Voytek's entered into a database of missing persons, which is checked whenever there are remains found locally. And I was in contact with the Coventry PD. They ruled him out. Voytek, they actually identified that body.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

1766.568

Over the years, people have found bones on our beaches, quite frequently actually, and we always take the bones to the medical examiner's office and have them checked. All the bones that have been located have been identified as animal bones, which a lot of them look similar to human skeletal remains.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

1783.96

But every time there's human remains located within the general area, we're in contact with the medical examiner's office to see if they could be voitexed.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

1832.122

There's no indication that they were involved in his disappearance. That being said, we keep an open mind here and there's a possibility that we could have future interviews with them.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

242.864

Around 5 a.m., one of the people at East Shore Road reported they had woken up because he was downstairs, highly emotional, crying. He was nude. He was reportedly hitting himself with a piece of bed frame that he had disassembled from the bed. The roommates were able to calm him down and then went back to bed, and all the roommates went back to bed.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

260.928

But they were concerned about his behavior, but nobody called the police or fire department at that time. And then the next day around noon time, that's when they realized he was gone and all his clothes and stuff were still on the floor. So that's when they got concerned and called us.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

317.926

We never had any evidence that he was highly intoxicated or under the influence of narcotics. Nobody ever stated he did illicit drugs. He did drink, but not heavily. They stated he had a glass of wine at Charlie O's bar.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

388.044

Some of his friends were concerned. They reported in their statements that he was somewhat depressed about not being able to get a job. He was talking a lot about how he could live, survive out in wilderness. One of his friends said that he was just eating only bread and drinking water recently. He was talking about being one with nature.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

407.403

He was walking around in cold temperatures wearing light clothing, walking around barefoot. He had an encounter with Newport police a week or so prior where he was out in the freezing cold temperatures barefoot wearing, I believe, jeans and a T-shirt. And it wasn't really making sense when the officers talked to him.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

425.215

They were a little concerned about some of the things he'd been saying and the way he'd been acting lately.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

569.946

They observed a book that was turned to a page about being one with the ocean. I believe he didn't have his keys, his house keys or his car keys with him at the time because he left those back in Newport. But just his clothing and a book is what they located on the floor.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

945.953

We had a canine team with several dogs come in to search the area. We had officers on the ground. There's a campground nearby, which is pretty vacant in the winter, so we had to search that. It's an old military base, so there's these old tunnels and all kinds of old gun turrets and stuff back there. We had to search that area.

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Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)

964.346

There was a report of a ladder on the nearby dock that was broken, so they found that suspicious. We sent divers down, but it turned out we learned that that was just damaged by a fishing boat striking the fence there.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

1061.529

It's pretty clear from reports that investigators discovered him pretty early on, and there's not really much, if any, follow-up that I can see that was done on the case.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

1073.519

No. There's so much that the investigators discovered maybe knew back then or suspected back then, and it is undocumented. So that combined with just simply the length of time. With any cold case, it's tough to look back and say, man, what were the investigators doing back then? And it's hard to know.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

1128.453

She had been abducted from a parking lot in Madison and sexually assaulted and killed. And he was convicted of that in the late 70s and sentenced to life here in prison in Wisconsin. And after that time, the late 90s, early 2000s, he was convicted of a double homicide of some hitchhikers in the Los Angeles area. And then, again, in the early 2000s, he was convicted of homicide in Tucson, Arizona.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

1153.879

He had killed an FBI agent's daughter, adult daughter, sexual assault, and dumped her in the desert.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

1231.078

So he definitely was in the area, and the records from the jail back then that they had were on microfilm, and they were difficult to read. Investigators believed it was possible that he was in jail at the time of this case, but they're not certain because of the quality of the records. And when they talked with or attempted to talk with Zamestilla, he said, well, no, I wasn't in custody.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

1254.586

I was out. So they were never able to definitively say whether or not he was in custody.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

1277.062

And so part of his demands were he wanted to serve his sentence in a certain prison and he wanted some guarantees. They were suspicious back then as to whether or not he was claiming this murder to gain something for himself because he's incarcerated for life or if he actually committed it. And they basically said, well, we need to know some details and he was not willing to provide them.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

1302.672

So he was never ruled in or out.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

1426.721

They did identify some sperm cells on the swabs, but at the time, there wasn't enough genetic material present to develop a full profile for the male, and certainly not a profile that would be suitable for entry into a database like CODIS.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

1468.206

They were able to detect a trace level of male DNA from a couple of the hairs, but again, the quantity was not sufficient to develop a profile. They attempted to analyze the rectal swabs as well, and there's a lack of male DNA detected, so no further analysis was performed.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

1507.284

So one of the reasons that this case came back around is we had someone call in and say that they had noticed that someone was placing flowers on the victim's grave. And so that kind of spurred our interest and my supervisor's interest in being like, hey, let's have somebody take a look at this again.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

1595.74

I talked with the analyst, and he and I agreed that, you know, certainly 2001, but even 2009 to 2023 is a lifetime in DNA science, and that their protocols are much different. And I resubmitted some of the swabs that we still had, and then I also resubmitted DNA packets.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

1637.338

So the hope is that we'll be able to get a full male profile, right? Based on the advances in genetic genealogy, a lot of times, if you have a DNA profile, you're going to identify it. It's just a matter of time. And so if we get that full male profile, we're confident that we'll have the resources to identify that person.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

1700.558

There is a possibility that someone's out there who knows what happened to Lisa and they're still alive. And for whatever reason, they've never come forward. That's certainly possible. And that solves a lot of cold cases too. So between the physical evidence and somebody potentially coming forward with information, I think that's really what we would need to push this case forward.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

2160.925

No tip is going to be disregarded. You know, we're happy to talk to anyone who might have information because you truly don't know and we truly don't know what, you know, what information is key. There might be something out there that we have no knowledge of that someone brings to us and it solves the case.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

458.658

I think it was more like slang from investigators back then because obviously there was a year plus before she was positively identified as who she was. So they would refer to the case as Frigid Frida and that kind of transferred down because even talking to older employees here, that's what they knew the case as.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

545.703

I think just based on her positioning where she was found, obviously being nude, they assumed that there was probably a sexual component. And so they, as part of the autopsy back then in 76, they did take swabs, which are important today because obviously back then they weren't necessarily looking for DNA, but obviously that's what we're looking for today, right?

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

566.47

So they did do swabs that they would typically do in a sexual assault kit. And then they would have taken cuttings off the pubic hair.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

817.099

So Michelle says that she thinks that Lisa kind of wanted to just be free and go out to the bar and have a good time. She suspects that she was using some drugs back then too, drinking a little bit. And so Michelle suspects that Lisa was maybe using some marijuana and then possibly cocaine and then potentially heroin as well as part of the party that night.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

838.469

It doesn't sound like Michelle observed any actual use. That was just kind of her suspicion when she talked with investigators.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

938.004

He describes how he got to talking to Lisa and Lisa ended up going back home with him that night to his apartment in Chicago and admits that they had sex consensually and that the last time he saw Lisa was the following morning, early afternoon, where she gets on the L train in Chicago to go back to her cousins in Oak Park.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

958.874

David is very cooperative with investigators and gives any standards that they requested, which included hair samples and had hair samples, I believe in pubic hair samples.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

970.566

I'm not sure if they took fingerprints, I would assume that they did, but he was very cooperative and those hairs were later submitted to the lab and they excluded him as being the source of the foreign hairs that were found on Lisa.

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Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

994.679

I think they were fairly confident, or I infer from the reports that they were fairly confident that he was not involved just because of the potential alibi and then also his level of cooperation.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

1079.514

To be honest, we were hoping that she was going to pull through and that we would be able to get some information to help us in the case, but unfortunately, she passed.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

1109.329

The motive doesn't appear to be robbery, so the motive appears to be personal, like there was some personal conflict between someone in that home and our suspect. Up close and personal, pretty much. I mean, don't see where anything was taken, don't see where anything was left. You know, it just seemed like they wanted them not around.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

1134.19

We started getting information, quite a bit of information from confidential informants that, you know, we have in the city, people that we talked to about the case that led us to, you know, we do have a person of interest. Several names come up, but through those different names that came up, this one sticks out the most.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

1160.472

So there are other persons of interest, but there is one main person of interest, yes. He's a known user, known to move stuff on the street quite often, whether it's stolen stuff, personal stuff, just move and sell on the street, you know, kind of hustling.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

1310.33

If we convicted on the rumor mill, half the city would be locked up right now. If we could just go, oh, the whole community here just said this person did it and you're going to jail. We can't do that. But half the city would be locked up right now because everybody's about telling on somebody else but not wanting to go to jail.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

1327.338

the courtroom and testify under oath that they're swearing, you know, the information because they heard it from so-and-so, they heard it from their hairdresser, they heard it from their mechanic, you know, so it's constantly chasing down those things.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

1365.054

We heard that too, but that was early on. There still is gang activity that may possibly be cartel-related or believed to be cartel-related that are in this area as well. And that was one of the rumors. But we almost hear that same rumor come up with each homicide case that we have. We can't rule that out.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

1390.608

So there again, we have Charlie, who is our most probable person of interest, but we're open-minded that there could be something else. Maybe Charlie was, you know, contacted by this alleged cartel. You know, anything's possible. My thoughts, my intuition tells me it's one person. It was personal, and others were witnesses, and they didn't want witnesses.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

1419.188

And solving this case is going to depend if that person responsible shared any information with somebody about it, then that person he shared or told it to, those are the people I need to come forward.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

1463.965

Disheartening to us because we want to speak for the victim and we want to try and help the victim's family because it weighs on us heavily. You know, when we have these cases that we know somebody's got that bit of information, we know it's there and they don't come forward, then there's nothing that we can do. I always have hopes that we'll talk to that right person.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

1488.254

As time goes on, it's not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes it's a good thing. When time goes on, people may not be in the same situation themselves as they were in 2019. And you come right back around and loop with them and meet up with them and everything you needed is right there. There is some other things that the crime lab at that time wasn't taking that they would take now.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

1512.99

As I reviewed some of this stuff, I thought, I'm going to follow up with some of those items just to see. Because you don't always send everything you got to the crime lab. You send what you think is relevant. But we have a lot of evidence, so could other things be submitted? Yes, absolutely.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

1529.758

There could be some other stuff, but I want some relevance before sending that, you know, not just, are we going to get something from this? Are we going to get something from that? It's, you know, definitely the shell casings and things like that went, and I hope that there will be a connection with that at some point.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

1589.338

We've got a lot of older cases, too, that we're working on. And I always try to explain to the families, there's hope. As long as you have somebody willing to try and keep the case alive and the momentum going, there's hope. Don't ever give up on hope. Sometimes we can solve a case, and sometimes we can't.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

221.249

So they're going to do what we would naturally do, clear the rest of the house, make sure we don't have whoever did this or we don't have a witness in the house as to what has happened to her. Did anybody else see anything? And then during the search of the house is when the other two victims were located together. There was a significant amount of blood.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

242.826

We could look at that scene even before touching them and know that, you know, they had passed.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

348.047

It was a known drug home where people would come in and out of and use drugs. I can't tell you for a fact that they would buy drugs from that house, but we know that there had been some claims of prostitution in that area and some drug use in that area. It looked like it was a house where people would just crash maybe from time to time.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

370.127

But there was some areas, some of the rooms looked like they were lived in. There was no power at the house. There was no water at the house. So at that time, it looked like people were just staying there. We had also heard that the rooms would be rented from time to time. But with that, any and everybody had been in that house.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

388.139

So we probably had hundreds of people's prints that had been in that house. You see what I'm saying?

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

473.621

In Moss Point, when we have something, the crowd starts growing. There's usually on an average 50 to 200 people that are up and down the street because everybody knows it's such a small community with 13,000, 14,000 residents that when something happens... Everybody, not because everybody gets on their phones and everybody knows somebody that knows somebody that knows the relative.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

500.232

And relatives usually will arrive on scene, which is sometimes problematic because we have crime scene tape up for a reason. People will try to get into the crime scene and it's insane. Here's Asia's uncle, Terrence.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

599.21

I mean, we had a lot of information. We had an overabundance of information, but nothing was firsthand information. So it was a lot of speculation and rumors that came in initially in the case.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

668.715

Who did they hang out with? Who did they have problems with? What hobbies they have? What interests? Tell me about their social aspects. Do they get online a lot? So we try to immerse ourselves with knowing as much about that victim so we can narrow who that person, you know, who had access. You know, with this house, did somebody, was it somebody they knew?

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

691.811

Did the door stay locked or unlocked all the time? Did somebody just walk in? Did somebody break in? We didn't see the house was secured with the exception of the front door at that time. So we're like, did they know this person? So those are questions that we try to figure out early on.

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George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)

868.038

He was a person we were familiar with from calls that we've answered or responded to. He had been arrested a few times. So we knew him. We were familiar with him.

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Susan Poupart (7 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1031.954

Pretty much every investigator who's come in on the case, we think what likely happened is that they had left the party together. Robert likely made a move to Susie, which she probably did not like, which either caused an argument or he continued to come on to her. And obviously, when they did not go towards her house, probably asked to get out of the vehicle.

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Susan Poupart (7 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1051.301

We think that she probably did not get out of the vehicle at that point. And whether a struggle ensued or they continued to drive or if there was an altercation or fight or something in the car, or if she did get out and they did try to force her back in the car, we don't believe that she had ever actually gotten out of the car and left that area.

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Susan Poupart (7 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1068.289

The theory is that she was likely sexually assaulted and dumped out in the forest.

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Susan Poupart (7 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1284.468

The case kind of, it's never not, it's never just like done. It's not done being investigated, but it does ebb and flow with technology information. So there are times where nothing happens for a few years.

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Susan Poupart (7 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1457.588

We sent those to a private lab to do rootless hair DNA. And they told us that they have like a one in three chance to get DNA from rootless hair. I think we sent like six or seven of them and struck out on all of them. So we got no DNA from those hairs. They may have been Susie's hairs, we don't know.

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Susan Poupart (7 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1486.03

Reading back on the evidence reports and then now sending evidence, you know, years later, it just seems like we just need that one break. And it just seems like we haven't got the chips to fall our way. We had to talk about, do we try to do stuff with DNA now or do we give it another, you know, five years, another 10 years?

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Susan Poupart (7 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1501.802

Because think of all the DNA advancements that have happened over the last five to 10 years already. How much more sensitive, how much less DNA you need? Is it possible that, you know, continues to happen? And are we going to ruin whatever DNA that we are looking for now and be able to find that five to ten years from now?

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Susan Poupart (7 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1660.836

Really, all the rumors that have gone around, I think, hasn't really helped bring factual information. I guess 34 years later, it is like a game of telephone and people's memories probably fade over the years. And over time, those stories probably get a little bit more foggy. Even if people do remember certain things that happened, that information isn't as fresh anymore.

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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)

1135.384

And he came in and he said, oh yeah, that's him.

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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)

1246.483

What had happened was, and I remember this all the time, so we were interviewing him, and he had his legs crossed and his arms were crossed, meaning he's not talking to us. And I asked him nicely, put your legs down, sit up straight and act right. And I said to him, you started to hurt these women because your mother wasn't here to protect you. And he started shaking his head. Remember that?

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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)

1275.188

I said, you've been hurting these women. And he shook his head, yes. And then he put his head in his hands, looked up and said, I want my psychiatrist and an attorney.

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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)

1355.712

You'd have to watch every tape. I think there was 40-something tapes. And in between these movies, then it would be spliced in of an attack of a female.

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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)

1466.954

And most, well, the three of them positively identified Miller as the suspect who attacked them.

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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)

168.704

The knife was taken from a butcher block, which was on top of the refrigerator. And I don't remember if we found the knife, Bill.

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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)

1887.164

Like it's a stone's throw to the college. I think the area he stays in is called College Town. So there's a laundromat a block away from where he's staying, and it's a 24-hour laundromat. Well, that's his M.O. They put him right back where he does everything. And so it's like, this is unbelievable.

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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)

191.748

It was one of the larger knives. And if I remember right, the wound was down between her collarbone. It went down, hit the aorta, and she bled out right there.

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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)

230.649

And she was a petite woman. She was a small-framed woman. And so she just folded. It was a very cold-blooded thing.

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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)

335.373

He just said that they danced. He saw the cards exchanged.

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Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)

373.8

We don't know her eating patterns, so it could have been just for her and she kept some in the refrigerator for lunch the next day, or she could have ordered for two.

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LaQuandra “Shavonne” Slater (4 of Clubs, Michigan)

353.143

We went into the residence and noticed that everything was very well kept, neat and orderly. The cupboards still had food in them. The refrigerator still had food and other items in it. However, the toilets appeared to have been sitting for a while with cleaner in them.

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LaQuandra “Shavonne” Slater (4 of Clubs, Michigan)

367.586

The residence appeared to have been undisturbed and it did not look as though there had been any form of altercation and there was no forced entry to the residence. We did observe that inside the residence in the master bedroom, there were four dressers, all of which were empty of clothing. The closets still had clothing, shoes, and other apparel inside of them.

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LaQuandra “Shavonne” Slater (4 of Clubs, Michigan)

387.059

We were unable to determine if the residence had been cleared by Slater moving items out.

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LaQuandra “Shavonne” Slater (4 of Clubs, Michigan)

669.588

When we entered the building, we were met by a male walking down from the second floor. The male would not provide his name and stated he tries to stay out of people's business because of the location where he lives. He was shown the photo of Slater and he stated that he has seen her around the complex and walked us to her apartment door.

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LaQuandra “Shavonne” Slater (4 of Clubs, Michigan)

687.054

The male stated that he has not seen her in a few weeks and that was out of the normal. I asked the male where the mailbox bank was located. He stated it was on the second floor.

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REMEMBERING: Owachige Osceola (8 of Diamonds, Oklahoma)

1183.143

If you're not the person that killed her, which I think you are, I'll just be straight up with you. And I told you there's different levels of homicide. With all this evidence and people, and the 911 call, and you making her call 911 back, this to me looks premeditated.

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REMEMBERING: Owachige Osceola (8 of Diamonds, Oklahoma)

1240.129

I know that you typed that on her phone. I know you hit the Facebook icon on her phone and you were able to type that to make it look like Moose was a mom.

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REMEMBERING: Owachige Osceola (8 of Diamonds, Oklahoma)

1288.643

Was it premeditated or not? That's the main thing. I don't know. If it's not premeditated, I can tell the DA that it's not premeditated. He didn't plan on going over there to kill her. That's a big difference in this case. Yeah. And she deserves justice. I know you don't want to look at her photo. That's fine. Maybe you're trying to forget about her.

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REMEMBERING: Owachige Osceola (8 of Diamonds, Oklahoma)

1592.07

The manner of death was homicide. The cause of death was homicide by unknown means. And they provided a several-page report on why homicide by unknown means can be a justifiable crime. ruling of homicide.

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REMEMBERING: Owachige Osceola (8 of Diamonds, Oklahoma)

1619.163

And so I presented that to the district attorney's office, and they were pretty excited at first, and then later decided, no, we have to work with the state medical examiner's office in all of our cases. We're going to stick by their ruling, and we're not going to file.

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REMEMBERING: Owachige Osceola (8 of Diamonds, Oklahoma)

1741.417

I can point the finger. Did Northern Police Department fall down on this case a little bit? Yeah, we should have sent a patrol officer on that first 911 call. There should have been somebody there within a few minutes. But we did what we could to rectify that problem. Should the medical examiner's office have better supervision over their pathologist? Absolutely.

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REMEMBERING: Owachige Osceola (8 of Diamonds, Oklahoma)

1764.869

They have done nothing to reconcile their mistake. Should the district attorney file a case against Robert Ross for the death of Awashige? Absolutely. Because it's the right thing to do. Leave it up to a jury to decide whether he's guilty or not guilty. But it's the right thing to do. It needs to be done.

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REMEMBERING: Owachige Osceola (8 of Diamonds, Oklahoma)

500.427

That tells me either she or the male that you heard in the first call was afraid that the cops were going to show up because 911 was called. So she was forced to make a second call saying, hey, everything's okay. It was an accidental call, yada, yada.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1195.174

They tried to get a search warrant for a cell tower dump. So they just wanted to get everybody's phone that was in the area that night and start picking through it. But the court denied it, wouldn't allow it.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1326.457

Someone had come forward after seeing the picture and saying that a man that will identify as Mike was playing cards and said, that is my work, as if to say he's the one who killed Kyle Seidel. Then we started looking into him. There was no clear alibi for him that night.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1357.321

We heard that there was some arguments made by another person that we'll call Ron saying that Mike didn't do it, I did it. So we started looking at both of those people and we saw that there is a connection between those two people outside of prison. They were known to hang out together.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1389.9

Mike and Ron both have extensive criminal histories. Mike's was mostly narcotics-related, sale counts, things of that nature. And Ron has a more violent criminal history, also has drug offenses, but shootings and things of that nature.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1418.614

We had a family member of Mike's come forward and say that Mike admitted it to him that he had killed Kyle Seidel and that he had come over to a house that night and was acting very nervous and said he had to get out of town and went into a neighboring town later that night.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1508.342

We had a task force officer try to build a narcotics case on him to get him locked up in hopes that if he was in prison, maybe other witnesses would come forward. They would feel safe knowing that he was already locked up and he wouldn't be able to serve any kind of retribution on him. So that didn't work out. Mike got arrested on a narcotics charge in late 2015, and that's when we talked to him.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1535.294

He just cried a lot, but said nothing about the homicide, just denied any ever being at the bowling alley, denied knowing Kyle, denied ever being involved in any kind of violence. He basically just denied and said he didn't know what we were talking about.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1557.288

He basically came in the room, sat down. As soon as we started talking to him, he said, I'm all set, I don't want to talk, and left.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1629.093

Yeah, so the tower dump that we executed came back with a lot of information. We got a lot of phone calls from Mike to his girlfriend, other family members, other friends. We also got Ron's information. He made several phone calls. Notably, he called the hospital emergency room.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1651.539

Ron's calls to the Baltimore emergency room seemed like something you would do to cover your tracks or to see what the status is of Kyle, to see if he had died or if he was still alive.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1704.935

Amanda said that she was actually with Mike and Ron the night that Kyle Seidel was shot. Amanda says they pulled into the family bowl. She wasn't sure what was going on, why they were there. But Mike and Ron both got out of the car, which in her experience meant that they were probably going to rob somebody. Because if it was just a drug deal, then only one of them would have got out of the car.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1729.717

And so she witnessed the shooting. Mike and Ron got back in the car, and then they left.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1745.788

She has a lengthy criminal history and a lot of that criminal history has to do with deception. So whether it's fraud, defrauding people she was supposed to be trusted by, larcenies and things of that nature, it doesn't make her a great witness. So while her information is great and we can use some of that as investigative leads, the court

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1769.597

is not confident that they can bring this case to trial based on her testimony alone.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1804.118

Julie came forward and said that she took Mike to a small chop shop to actually get rid of the murder weapon used in the Seidel homicide. But based on Julie's statements of when and where it occurred, those things couldn't have happened.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1842.694

It's tough because when these people came forward, it was so many years after the fact that even if they are telling the truth or trying to tell the most accurate story they can, it's been so long that they get their dates mixed up. But that's part of the reason probably why the court's looking at it, that they can't take it to trial because a defense attorney is going to tear their stories apart.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1916.388

One possible theory is that Kyle, with a history of some drug use, was going to the bowling alley to purchase drugs since he had a recent Christmas bonus from work. And since he wasn't a regular user, he might have been hooked up with these guys, Mike and Ron. And because he was possibly a first-time buyer, they just robbed him of his money.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1942.503

The second theory is based on Mike and Ron's history with guns and having guns, is that Kyle was looking to purchase a gun and a text from just a couple of days before the homicide. Kyle texted one of his friends saying he was going to buy a .45 pistol, and that's the caliber of weapon that was used to shoot Kyle.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

198.868

The third caller, a male who identified himself as a corrections officer, stated, looks like he's got a bullet hole to his chest. He moved his head for a second. His car is running. The door is open. He's on the ground. Looks like he might have gotten into an altercation and got shot.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

2030.37

I think just if people are listening to this, then they will hopefully think about coming forward with any little bit of information that could help connect Kyle somehow to these people or even just connect these people to that area. It would be great to have a reason why they were both there at the same time. We believe we've definitely developed probable cause.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

2052.883

We just need just that little extra information that would place Kyle in the area with those suspects for some reason.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

2069.588

We just want to stress to anybody that was close to Kyle, friends and family, that might be either looking out for his reputation or their own reputation, that any small bit of evidence or leads can be very important to this case.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

2086.701

We interviewed, you know, lots of people that were close to Kyle, one of which, when we interviewed them, it felt like they were holding back and weren't telling us everything just based on their emotional response. And we asked to have that person be part of a polygraph. They agreed, but then shortly afterwards contacted us and said that they did not want to take the polygraph.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

2120.804

They're not going to be looked at in a bad light. And solving his homicide is a lot more important than Kyle either wanting to buy an illegal gun or buying some drugs. None of that matters at this point. It's just trying to help the family out and solve this homicide problem.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

222.486

The sergeant asked the male, who did this? He asked again, who shot you? The male did not answer. The male's jaw quivered as if he was trying to speak, but he was unable to do so.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

262.105

So based on the positioning of the vehicle, it was parked at an angle, so not totally within one parking spot. And the door was open, engine running, headlights on. So it seemed like he either pulled in quickly or needed to exit his vehicle fairly quickly.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

313.36

He had at least a second to try to defend himself, you know, by no DNA on that other than Kyle's. So that never got used. Basically, Kyle was never close enough to the person who shot him that he was able to use the knife on him.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

356.721

So the most difficult part of the case is that there was no real evidence that we were able to get from anybody else. The only evidence we collected was from the victim, including his knife that was open near the rear tire of the car. Nothing was collected that would say that somebody else was there.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

531.9

That's when the detectives and the investigator started asking her about use of drugs or anything like that. Kate said that Kyle occasionally smoked marijuana and formerly used coke when he was younger. She estimated that he smoked marijuana twice a week.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

606.001

The first kind of motive we had came from a family member of Kyle's who just said, you know, a gut feeling. I think maybe someone cut him off or he cut someone else off. And it was like a road rage incident that occurred. And that kind of goes along with the way the cars parked.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

813.41

You would barely be able to see anything in that parking lot. You can barely make out the family bowl because you have the lights on the businesses that are on Route 1 that kind of drown out the background and make it seem even darker to the eye. So you're not seeing anything back there.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

838.407

Well, we had theories that because he had just gotten a bonus from the Christmas party that maybe he was going out to buy some harder drugs than marijuana just to celebrate if he was into that kind of thing. Again, they're just trying to go through Kyle's life and find anything that can give us a reason why he was there and if he was going to meet someone or not.

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Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

931.147

Kyle said that he was going to buy a .45 caliber pistol. And that's what started leading us down that road. Was he meeting someone to buy a gun? And then the deal just went bad.

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Sharon Jones (10 of Spades, Florida)

525.274

Okay. What happened to Sharon?

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Sharon Jones (10 of Spades, Florida)

593.02

Okay. Was he freaking out, or was he calm?

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Sharon Jones (10 of Spades, Florida)

605.497

Okay. What did they do with Sharon?

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Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1568.45

It was adamant that he needed to speak with somebody in cold case, that he knew the details of what was going on in East Windsor's homicide, and that if somebody came down there, he would take us, show us the scene, and he would explain exactly what happened and who did it.

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Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)

1892.881

The working theory and hope here is that those two suspects have told at least one person, and then that one person maybe told another person, and that kind of scattered through the years to the point where maybe somebody's out there that wants to give us that one little bit of information that's going to help us across the finish line.

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Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)

322.176

The two men were described, two black males, one wearing a white jacket, the other wearing a dark hoodie. Now, that's important because we spoke with another person who would have been in the area of the one-stop who also described hearing some sort of a commotion at the one-stop. And when he looked over, he did see two people running, one in a white jacket and one in a dark hoodie.

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Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)

563.259

He was kind. He was a person that if somebody was short on money trying to purchase something, he would just give them the item at whatever they had or just give them the item. And Chief Carl heard the same things.

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Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)

641.943

There were two registers. Neither register was tampered with. No money was taken. Nothing else seemed to be tampered with. I believe there was a safe and the safe was intact.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1016.774

So we get called down there. They talked to the guy that found the tires. And while you can't say 100% with certainty, they matched the hubcaps from the AMC to a T.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1028.678

So what it's presumed happened was somebody took the wheels off of the AMC, which was almost a brand new car, and popped the hubcaps off the wheels and then put the new wheels on their vehicle and discarded their old wheels with the hubcaps.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1080.908

So they kind of ran into a dead end with that because I think they were trying to narrow down who would have this type of car and it was just, there was just too many. And we don't know if that was somebody who was involved with Robert's disappearance or if it was somebody who was being an opportunist and saw the car sitting there and said, I could use those tires and I could use that battery.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1102.465

and, you know, took him from the car without being involved with what happened to Robert. It's a possibility, but it's also possible that they are also the ones that are responsible for his disappearance.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1201.798

They pretty much just were interviewing anybody and everybody who associated with Robert, who knew him. And he wasn't a guy that had a lot of drama, you know. Like I said, he was pretty cut and dry as far as like his personal life. Never had any history of running away. A very squared away guy. Nothing, never got in trouble. Was in Boy Scouts, you know, athletic.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1224.796

And just had his life together, you know, for an 18-year-old kid.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1328.565

I mean, they literally talked to his neighbors, all of his friends, of course family, and not a single person said he had any beef with anybody. I mean, he was just a likable guy who wasn't into drama or anything like that.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1505.697

You know, oftentimes we see that with people who go, you know, off the grid and just disappear. There's some kind of indication like they're into being a survivalist. They've done it before, but come back. There's usually an indicator somewhere in their past.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1520.688

They don't just fall off the face of the earth without some kind of indication with family or friends or no left behind or, you know, I mean... He had his whole life ahead of him, and everybody that you talked to that knew him said that was just not his nature.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1600.908

So John Wayne Gacy, he's a pretty well-known serial killer. I think he has just over 30 confirmed victims that he raped and murdered.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1633.766

Their specialty was kind of updating pharmacies, you know, old drug stores to make them more modern. There are rumors mentioned in the reports that he was in this area around that time, which I've since been able to confirm that he was actually up here in Reedsburg, which is in our county about 15 minutes northwest of here. He was there remodeling a drugstore and that was in July of 1977.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1659.718

I've spoken with the wife of the owner of the store and he at least was up here to bid the job. It's a little bit fuzzy on whether he actually completed the work or if he just came here to bid the work. But he was here in July of 77, which obviously that's two months before Robert's disappearance.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1708.052

Baraboo is the home to the Ringling Brothers. They started their first circus here. There's a huge circus heritage here. The Circus World Museum is here.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1728.098

So I don't know if that's related or not. That's just speculation that maybe he was tied to Baraboo

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1816.414

I'm working with a Cook County sheriff's investigator who has a lot of knowledge on the Gacy cases. And it sounds like he was in a lot of his interviews very vague about, you know, maybe I did more, maybe I didn't. That's for you guys to figure out type attitude. So currently working on that end of things as well. Whether Gacy's connected or not, still working on that.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

1879.497

I'm not proficient enough in the DNA world to know, like, how close of a match does it have to be? Or if it's a degraded DNA sample from remains, like, how much of the profile does there have to be to match a family member's profile? You know, that's all real science-y stuff that those professionals, DNA analysts, they know those questions, of course.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

2220.322

I don't want to say she was a biker gang member, but she would hang with these guys and they were upset. I think their motive for murdering her was they thought she was being an informant for law enforcement, which wasn't true. That's why she was killed.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

2321.829

I really dug into this one. We do look into cold cases from time to time to get a new set of eyes on it. Last thing anybody did, I think, with this case was 2013 when they put in Amy and her dad's DNA. So I figured it'd be good to look it over again. And that's when I really started with everything.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

2474.153

Obviously, with going on 50 years almost, 48 years, it'll be in September. Memories fade, people die, so that's been hard. The other challenges now would be different, how we would probably process items of evidence, but 77, it just wasn't a thing. Reporting techniques were different back then.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

2496.552

There's some things I'm finding out now that we would have definitely documented and reported now that... I can't find reports on. Everything is done paper. There's an electronic record, so it's paging through paper reports. And I don't know if they just have gone missing or they were never done. I don't know, you know.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

2529.875

My hope is that somebody out there now is in that boat where they have a change of heart or a change of circumstance that they can give us information, you know, because time's only going to drag on and more people are going to be gone and more memories are going to be faded. And with his brother and sister still alive to get them some answers.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

406.152

So that's when we're called. We weren't involved at all until the car was found. And then the patrol deputy showed up, and then a detective came. You know, obviously, given the circumstances, it quickly morphed into, you know, something weird is going on.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

485.62

Nowadays, we would have definitely kept stuff for DNA, but they didn't know what DNA was. So a heavy, intensive search starts. They had people on foot searching. They had bloodhounds. They actually arranged to have a helicopter from the Army National Guard when they did an aerial search. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources was also involved.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

521.445

What that could mean is that he traveled away from where the car was found and could have potentially got picked up. Or he could have got on the road and walked a certain way. You know, it's hard to tell. I know there's mention in the reports of, I think, one of the nights around that time it rained. So that can throw this off, obviously.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

634.997

The bed linens were unkept. Food was eaten out of the refrigerator. Somebody had emptied a cigarette ashtray out in her sink. I mean, it's apparent to me that whoever was at the house was there for a period of time, like they had been almost staying there for a little while.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

664.406

She pulls in the driveway. The friend does. It's a long driveway up a hill. And there's a car sitting in the driveway facing up the driveway towards the house. And it's running with the lights on. So obviously, given the circumstances of what she was going there for, she was pretty freaked out. But she approached the car. There was a male in the driver's seat.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

684.892

And he said, I'm looking for my friend, Bob. I'm looking for my friend. I'm looking for my friend, Bob. And she said, well, nobody by that name lives here. This is private property. She said he was very polite, very apologetic and said, I'm sorry. And then he put in reverse back down the driveway, got to the road and then continued east away from where the car was eventually found.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

921.397

There's just so many avenues you can go, you know. It was not in his nature to not stick to the plan or at a minimum not let somebody know, like, let Randy know he wasn't going to be showing up at the house. He would have... stopped at a payphone to let Randy know, like, hey, I'm going to go check out a spot maybe to hunt tomorrow. I'll be late. That's what he would have done.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

944.535

He wouldn't have no-showed or stood him up, especially if he knew that his mom was making dinner for them and that would have been disrespectful and he was not about that.

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Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

993.669

The quarry was kind of a popular place for locals to go and like target shoot and just, you know, whatever, hang out. So the following Thursday, somebody's in their target shooting and they notice there's these tires discarded in the quarry that weren't there the last time he was there, which was just a few days before. Also with the tires are the hubcaps from an AMC car.

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Sandra Ann Burris (5 of Spades, Louisiana)

1018.712

We find out Freddie and them... dug this lake. You understand? This thing to become a lake. And that's why we kind of figured, you know, our mindset went to, well, man, she could have been buried in this, you know, when this lake was being dug out, you know?

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Sandra Ann Burris (5 of Spades, Louisiana)

941.702

I get a phone call from an administrator from Appaloosa City Court at the time. Administrator told me, called me, said, hey, D.T., you need to come over to the city court here. Got a lady here that's talking about Sandra.

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Sandra Ann Burris (5 of Spades, Louisiana)

991.221

We searched for, like, you know, some type of fresh dirt, a little pile of soil, like a grave site, you know what I'm kind of talking about? And we searched that whole thing.

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Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson (King of Hearts, Connecticut)

1273.254

The confidential source said he was interested, so he went to reach for it. And the seller said, don't touch it because it's hot and there's a body on it. And that means obviously it was used on homicide. It was used out in East Hartford to shoot Dede.

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Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson (King of Hearts, Connecticut)

1304

And that guy was in St. Francis Hospital because he was shot. I walked into the hospital. I said, I'm here to investigate, you know, you're trying to sell the firearm.

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Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson (King of Hearts, Connecticut)

1385.481

So I do it, comes back with four numbers. Holy smokes, that's awesome because most of the geofence warrants come back with nothing. I'm like, all right, positive results, four numbers. So I start tracking down the numbers and one by one, everyone had a legitimate reason to be there.

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Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson (King of Hearts, Connecticut)

1427.77

And that would mean a home run. Unfortunately, that did not happen, and we're just stuck with the name. And as you can see, I have plenty of names, and it's difficult with just a name to approach someone and say, you know, I want to talk to you.

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Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson (King of Hearts, Connecticut)

1559.11

People are afraid of, you know, the person that did the crime coming back and, you know, getting the snitch or, you know, rat. That type of code, if you will. And it's not just this case, but a lot of cases, you know, people don't want to snitch on anyone for fear of retaliation or retribution.

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Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson (King of Hearts, Connecticut)

1675.333

He's a good football player. His face would light up when we talked about football.

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Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson (King of Hearts, Connecticut)

197.401

And as we were coming into town, it was broadcasted that a gold car was seen leaving the area. And a patrolman had stopped that gold car at a local gas station. So myself, Frank, my partner at the time, we go to that secondary scene, if you will. And a patrol was interviewing the driver of that gold car.

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Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson (King of Hearts, Connecticut)

228.561

There was enough personnel there, so we decided let them handle that aspect. We can always go back to that if needed.

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Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson (King of Hearts, Connecticut)

271.698

Usually we call it to a scene and there's no one there. The whole area was just full of people, either kids getting off their bus or parents waiting to get their kids off the bus. I just remember, you know, the housing project, the parking lot, and just people everywhere.

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Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson (King of Hearts, Connecticut)

511.07

I think there was an inkling at that scene with the gold car that he may have not been involved at that time because I believe there was an explanation given that he was on his way to work and his mannerisms didn't really add up to someone being involved in a shooting at that time.

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Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson (King of Hearts, Connecticut)

639.31

So most likely he was standing at his mom's car, his car, however you want to call it. And he probably saw it coming, so he went to turn. And as he turned, that's when the round was fired.

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Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson (King of Hearts, Connecticut)

716.151

You would think numerous people saw it happen because the amount of people that were outside. So a couple weeks later, we printed out flyers and we literally went door to door.

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Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson (King of Hearts, Connecticut)

755

It was just names after name after name. People started to come up with all these theories. So you get multiple names, multiple theories, and you just start, it's almost like you just start going in circles.

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Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson (King of Hearts, Connecticut)

833.711

One of the sad things is shortly thereafter, the town decided to put out cameras. So that place has cameras now, and the cameras are very good quality, but too little, too late.

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Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson (King of Hearts, Connecticut)

874.938

And it took some time for them to admit that Day Day was dealing drugs. That came maybe six months to a year after the investigation, but we knew.

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Debra Sue Moore (Jack of Clubs, Texas)

2620.562

Yeah, I was... Were you in the dookie? Yeah, I was Cub Scout.

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Debra Sue Moore (Jack of Clubs, Texas)

2625.125

And Mom was E.T., and then she had a big old E.T. costume. And she was so butthurt because she wanted me to hold her hand.

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Debra Sue Moore (Jack of Clubs, Texas)

2645.78

Yeah, for me, she was upset because she wanted me to hold her hand because she couldn't see very good in the mask. She was awesome as far as what I knew of as a kid. My mom was always there for me. We were her priority. She was always happy, always joyful. She always sang.

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Debra Sue Moore (Jack of Clubs, Texas)

2664.103

She used to scare me because when she drove down the road and the highway, she'd be driving down the highway and she'd be singing and her hands would be going and I was yelling, I'd be like, put your hands on the steering wheel.

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Debra Sue Moore (Jack of Clubs, Texas)

2696.124

I got there, my dad, Bert was there, Ed was there. There was a close friend of the family that was a pastor in the church, and they took me in a room and basically just said, Mom's not coming back. They didn't say she was married or anything like that. Basically told me she was in heaven. No. I didn't believe them. And I kept arguing with them and just told them she wasn't.

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Debra Sue Moore (Jack of Clubs, Texas)

2735.31

Late getting home from work. The rest of it's kind of a blur.

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Debra Sue Moore (Jack of Clubs, Texas)

2762.689

That was the only family I knew at that time. I didn't have a relationship with my real father. So for a couple of years, I just thought it was my dad. I just thought he was my dad.

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Debra Sue Moore (Jack of Clubs, Texas)

2799.205

Everything was rainbows and unicorn farts for like the first six to eight months. Started getting a lot of fights, a lot of yelling.

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Debra Sue Moore (Jack of Clubs, Texas)

2830.695

I started, you know, being physical with her and Even when, like, his friends were over, they'd be hanging out at the party, and my mom would, whatever, and he'd start yelling at her and call her names. Sometimes he would just pick her up from people, like, take her in the bedroom, you know, rough sex with her. A couple times, like I said, he was a big guy, she was small.

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Debra Sue Moore (Jack of Clubs, Texas)

2859.677

I never really seen him, like, hit him with a fist, but just fucking... Just like I said, she was small. He would, like, thrust and push her and knock her down on the floor and stand over the top of her and yell at her. Sometimes he would pick her up and he would literally throw her from one side of the living room to the other. And there was a couple of times my mom would hide me under the

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Debra Sue Moore (Jack of Clubs, Texas)

2895.493

Kitchen table. Her had me go outside. I didn't know at the time, but as I became an adult, I know what he was doing a lot. He was, I don't know if it was cocaine or whatever it was. He was snorting shit and there was a lot of pills. And my mom just changed. I don't know if she started doing that stuff with him or not. I've never seen it, but I've seen him. And she just changed.

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Debra Sue Moore (Jack of Clubs, Texas)

2927.538

She didn't laugh anymore. She didn't sing anymore. So yeah, he might as well have stood dead.

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Debra Sue Moore (Jack of Clubs, Texas)

3421.093

And I remember the day in court when he lost custody of me. I heard him sobbing in his room in the back of the house, like a kid, you know, like really hard. At that time, I had never seen a grown man respond to my dad. Show of emotions. I screamed in my face, and she kept pointing to him. She goes, you see what you did? You see what you did? That's your fault. You did this to him.

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Debra Sue Moore (Jack of Clubs, Texas)

3461.192

Always knowing that... You're not going to be around forever. You're either going to die or leave me or decide I'm not good enough or I'm broken. Pretty much everyone in my life except for my sister and my close, five close best friends and my wife and daughter are the only people I've ever been able to depend on or trust.

The Deck

Debra Sue Moore (Jack of Clubs, Texas)

3494.584

She was a good mother and a good woman. And just when she got into that time of her life, you know, with the domestic violence, and it just kind of spiraled, you know, for her. But that doesn't define who she was, you know.

The Deck

Debra Sue Moore (Jack of Clubs, Texas)

3600.831

Yeah, I'd like to think that it would fix what... Some of the hole, maybe. I mean, I feel like I've come a long way.