Damon Tyner
Appearances
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But the tide may be turning. I grew up on the beaches and the boardwalk of Atlantic City, and I always say I have sand in my shoes.
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True Crime Vault: Family Secrets
Good to see you. How are you making out? So they named a pizza for me.
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Dating back to 1970, there are about 140 unsolved homicides. I urged my executive staff to tell me which cases were most solvable. Unanimously, they all came back to me and said the murder of April Kaufman.
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It wasn't that there were glaring mistakes. It was just an omission of effort, you might say.
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That is correct. Once you start examining someone who is bold enough to engage in stolen valor, you start realizing that there are other aspects to this man's life that would require us to investigate.
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they would come in and be patients. And all of a sudden you had a prominent endocrinologist that was prescribing opioids and all kinds of other painkillers when that wasn't quite his practice.
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Essentially they were flooding the market with opioids and selling them at a marked up price.
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To get rid of her. For the past five and a half years since April Kaufman was found shot to death, there's been little movement on this case, and no arrests have been made in connection with the murder. That is, until today. An explosive breakthrough in the murder of radio host April Kaufman.
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I was stunned. But that's, in retrospect, that's what convinces me now more than ever that he understood that the end was near.
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Our investigation at the time did not lead us to believe that she had any involvement. I believe that at some point she became aware of it. I think ultimately that's the reason why she was killed.
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There is an aspect of the investigation that's continuing with a defendant who is still pending trial. So I won't disclose too much about that part of the investigation, but suffice it to say that we were convinced that Jim Kaufman's involvement in this matter was enough to charge him with conspiracy to commit murder.
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He started thinking about ways to engage his exit strategy. To get rid of her. to get rid of it.