Michelle Martins (Interviewee)

I'm worried about my life now, too. Well, can you kind of tell me why you're worried? Because now I'm afraid they're going to come back and kill me. I don't even want to say, oh, no. I want to get out of there.

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Victoria come home, and when did you notice that was gone? She gets home about 4.30, because the bus gets there about 4. So she went to her friend's house, because she didn't see me at the bus stop. And her friend sent her back to the house around 4.30, 4.45, around there. And that's about the time that me and Fabian, we got back about 4.50, 5 o'clock, around there.

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And where were you and Fabian at? We went to his uncle's. Okay. And we came back and that's when I sat on the table. Okay.

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Take your time. And I went to the restroom. And I came back and I was gone. And Victoria was the only one in the living room. So then she said she started feeling tired so she was going to go to bed. So she went in there.

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Okay. And then we came back up.

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I always checked on her. When I checked on her, she seemed to be breathing. Because I checked, I always look at her stomach. See, it was going up and down. And that was the last time that I checked on her. OK. Vivian said he was going to go check on her for me. So he went to go check on her. And that was the time she went to breathing. And that's when he told me, she's not breathing.

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I got up and, what do you mean? She's not breathing. Okay. And then I looked up too, but didn't notice that the bag was gone. I was like, Did she get a hold of that? She might have. I was like, what was the only thing there?

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At the living room table, the coffee table.

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Okay. So I went to get the knife, and I asked her where she was going with that.

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I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to call the cops because then they probably would have stopped me from trying to do that. Okay.

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Because there was drugs in the house. Okay. And I didn't want them to think it was mine because it's not.

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Was she dead? I'm so sorry. I know that this is not your fault.

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And what did you guys decide to do with your daughter? With Victoria?

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You forgot the discussion? Okay.

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They said that if I say anything, they just kept threatening me. Okay. That if I say anything, I'm going to be the next one, or I better not fall asleep. So then I just left.