Defense Attorney Linda Parisi
Appearances
48 Hours
Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
The instances of violence were becoming more frequent and more severe. Fear, love, sex, lies, and dirty little secrets will help you understand, I think, what happened in those three minutes.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
To say that she was physically abused and she was fighting for her life that day and that's why she had to kill him, that's just going to get the jury angry.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
You can't go after a victim. Going after a victim in a courtroom, you might as well just turn in your license, really. So you have to be able to be very soft with regard to Travis here.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Now, this was a buildup that led to her ultimately making a decision in a passionate way
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
He really didn't know and probably didn't care because when you're young and you're having sex the way Jody made it very easy for him, and he didn't realize that he had this rattlesnake by the neck. Whatever he did fed into her craziness, fed into her insanity, fed into her desire that she wanted him, and she wanted to control him, and she wanted to have a life with him.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Was sex a tool for Jodi? Of course it was. But was Travis playing with fire? Absolutely.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Oh, it's very, very hard. I mean, they're never going to get over this.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Just as much as Travis lost his life, there's going to be parts of that family that have died in the process.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
The jury's not gonna feel sorry for Jodi. They can only feel sorry for her family and hope that the sorrow they feel for her family is more merciful than what she felt for Travis.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Some defendants are manipulative, and they think they can manipulate the police, and they also then think they can manipulate the courtroom, and that's the problem. You can't manipulate everybody.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
I thought that the jurors in this case asked better questions than the prosecutor of defense many times. Bodden says those jury questions were telling. They really got to the heart of the matter.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
So what I'm saying to you, ladies and gentlemen, is ultimately, if Ms. Arias is guilty of any crime at all, it is the crime of manslaughter, and nothing more.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
She does seem to adapt, which is why I think she's like a praying mantis here, is that she is a chameleon.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Jodi gave us secrets in those interviews. She gave us an insight right into what she is thinking.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
What piece of evidence sticks out the most in your mind? Well, the piece of evidence that to me is amazing is the slit neck wound.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Because it was the coup de grace, in my opinion. It was the ultimate control over him. He wasn't going to say anything bad to her ever again. To me, that was just vicious.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Jody gave us secrets in those interviews. She gave us an insight right into what she is thinking.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
She talks about having a fight with the woman, and she describes the woman who attacked Travis as being, you know, about her height and Caucasian. Well, that's her.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
She then talks about power later on in that interview, and she talks about having a gun.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
And if somebody has a gun to your head, you have the ultimate power.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
So I think that a lot of what she was saying about what happened was what happened with her and Travis the day he died.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Jody, when she did the interview, she at one point said she likes to document everything.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
So it's kind of amazing that she actually documented herself committing this murder.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Did you kill Travis Alexander on June 4, 2008? Yes, I did. Why?
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Because then the case only becomes about the client and what she said. And that jury is always going to go back to what Jodi said.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 1
I mean, if I had a dollar for every time somebody said to me, this guy must have just snapped.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 1
What does that suggest to you? If that isn't a clear example to a lawyer or my colleague to have psychiatric analysis of our client, that's what that says to me.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 1
People need to remember that Mr. Mack came back voluntarily so that he could present his defense.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 1
Our investigation shows that this woman was violent and could get angry and do things that were inappropriate that may actually raise the question of self-defense.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 1
I didn't say that, but I don't know who wrote it, and it hasn't been established. And until I know who wrote it, how could I possibly speculate as to what the meaning of it was?
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Deadly Divorce, Part 1
No. He has a lot of friends and family that care about him a great deal.
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The Cyanide Killer
Is there something funny? I noticed that you're laughing. Is there something funny?
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The Cyanide Killer
The fact of the matter is you've been negotiating with these people all along. Isn't that true?
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The Cyanide Killer
testimony in her husband's murder trial is about to begin his lawyers have honed their arguments in that mock trial and let me begin by saying that now they're ready for the real one let me begin by saying that the death of rosemary isa is senseless and certainly tragic Whole life's on the line here. So, naturally, there's a lot of anxiety.
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The Cyanide Killer
He's happy in his marriage, but at the same time, he continues to have all of these sexual affairs? Yeah. Do you know whether Rosemarie was aware of the fact that your brother was cheating on her?
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Strange Truth
Could you explain to the jury how you were feeling and what you were going through at that time?
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Strange Truth
Does he do anything, anything at all, to look for his wife? He does nothing, ladies and gentlemen. While he's hooked up to monitors, he's on the floor doing push-ups. So, how does Mr. Croteen prepare for the funeral? He's not a porn site, ladies and gentlemen. He is guilty of concealing and destroying all the evidence.
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Strange Truth
Hold this man responsible for not only the bludgeoning death of Ramona Croteen, but for the victims that are left behind. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
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A Tragic Journey
Lead defense attorney Linda Parisi... That Mr. Hirshfield is wrongfully accused.
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A Tragic Journey
I don't think it magically appeared at all. The van was open. During that period of time, Mr. Hirshfield was... in transition in terms of having a residence, and in fact, a person was seen sleeping in that van.
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A Tragic Journey
We didn't believe that the suicide note is relevant or reliable. When people are planning their own death, it is not at all uncommon for them to rewrite history.
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A Tragic Journey
They were not exonerated. It was not where there was a finding that they were not involved. It was a finding that their DNA did not match with what was found on the blanket. We would ask to call Raymond Gonzalez.
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A Tragic Journey
You ask him some questions about that guy putting up a struggle. Do you have a recollection of that conversation?
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A Tragic Journey
David Hunt and his crime associate, Richard Thompson, figured quite prominently.
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A Tragic Journey
They put it in this bag. We didn't make up this bag. This bag isn't a stage prop. This bag is the for real bag.
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A Tragic Journey
Mr. Hershfield didn't have an easy life. Some will say he didn't have a chance. His mother was raped by Mr. Hirshfield's father. His father was a very cruel man, physically, emotionally abusive.
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Dark Side of the Desert
It's a question of putting together all the pieces of evidence and being able to form a picture at the end.
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Dark Side of the Desert
I think we have sufficient evidence to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Dark Side of the Desert
It was an ordinary day in the neighborhood. The evil was done in the dark of night.
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Dark Side of the Desert
That night, as Jennifer lay in bed, Michael got his gun. He loaded around into the chamber, and he shot Jennifer in the face.
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Dark Side of the Desert
Right here, there's a note. Typewritten with a signature line at the bottom.
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Dark Side of the Desert
Would that wound be consistent with having been fired more or less straight down into her head if she had been lying on the bed with her head on a pillow?
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Dark Side of the Desert
Mrs. Conway said that... Michael hurt Jennifer in Corpus Christi, Texas?
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Dark Side of the Desert
Mr. Eisner had some photographs and letters on large boards up here. And that's the way it could have been, and that's the way it should have been. But that ended on November 12, 2001.
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Dark Side of the Desert
He's a narcissistic pig, as far as I'm concerned, and he deserves the sentence he got.
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A Deadly Family Secret
It's a genuine risk. But it's a risk we pretty much have to take at this point.
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A Deadly Family Secret
As we said, that's a crucial part of the defense of this case, and yeah, it makes it difficult. No doubt it makes it difficult.
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A Deadly Family Secret
Yeah. It's not what they said, it's the fact that they were there testifying for the prosecution. That, yeah, no doubt.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 1
And before I opened it up, I just said a little prayer. And I just said, OK, God, help me out here. I said, give me a sign. And I opened up the phone bell, and oh my gosh.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 1
Jim had highlighted on there and it looked like he got on the phone as soon as he took the girls to school and stayed on the phone with her most of the day. It was crazy.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 1
Matt tells us that Carrie committed suicide. I'm thinking, how can that be? I talked to her, and she was... just in a really good mood.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 1
This is a man who has a very, very dark, evil side. He was preying on other women. And then finally he found one who It looked like something might go somewhere with, and I believe Carrie was in the way.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 1
All of a sudden, all the shock I'd been feeling, all this numbness, it was just like it just washed right off of me. And I thought, okay, Linda, we're going to find out what's going on here. And after that, we went into battle mode.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 1
Carrie loved Matt from the very beginning, and he seemed to adore her. There were times when it was very difficult being the wife of a pastor, but Carrie was very good at it. I'm Carrie's mother. I'm Linda Doolin. More than anything, Carrie loved her girls, loved them.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 1
I found it unbelievable, but I accepted it. I mean, what was the alternative?
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 1
Oh, my gosh. She was just there with her baby, just did not leave her.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 1
We were truly in shock. It was almost like we were in a trance. And all I kept thinking about, all Jim kept thinking about was that we didn't have a daughter. Our daughter was gone.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 1
We kept trying to convince ourselves what other alternative was there. The idea that Matt could have taken her life was more horrible.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 1
Correct. I wanted Matt to be okay. I wanted him to be a good man. But it didn't add up.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 1
Tina Roundtree walks in my office. That's the first time I heard that Fred had been killed. She came in and said, did you know, have you heard Fred was killed yesterday morning? I said, no, I haven't. But McVeigh was in for another surprise. Piper comes walking in my office door with four detectives, two from the Houston Police Department and two from the Henrico County, wanting to talk to her.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 1
I took Piper in my office, talked to her for a minute. She wanted to talk to them. They sat right here in this reception area and had a conversation.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 1
To the opposite, they told her she was not a suspect. The majority of Piper's conversation with them was concerning her children.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 1
That's correct. And if she was on that flight, it would have been impossible for her to get to my office at 4.30 because I understand the flight didn't come in until 4.40. It was 10 minutes late. And it's at least a 30 or 45 minute drive from Hobby Airport to my office.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 1
She didn't understand why she was being treated like she was by the court and the judicial system in Virginia. And that was where most of her animosity was directed to. It was not directed at her ex-husband, but it was the way she was being treated in her divorce case.
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Two Wigs and A Gun Pt 1
I was in my office, had my doors open for her, let the breeze come through. And about 4.30 in the afternoon, Piper Roundtree just walked in my office and sat down. Just a casual conversation. Nothing out of the ordinary.
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The Haunting of David Coffin
When I first met Scott, he was absolutely just unbelievably frightened that the police were focusing on him in a murder case.
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The Haunting of David Coffin
You know, he's an interesting fellow. He grew up in a wonderful family and had all of the opportunities that you would want to have growing up.
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The Haunting of David Coffin
I can tell you that Scott Davis, from the first moment I ever met him, has unequivocally said, I am innocent, I didn't do this.
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The Haunting of David Coffin
We believe the case was absolutely, completely, and forever over.
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The Haunting of David Coffin
I think Megan said it. Whether she was hysterical and doesn't remember it or is lying about it, I don't know.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
She was going to punch him on the left side of his face, but Darren gets up and pushes her back.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
Charla, give me the gun, Darren says with his left hand. It's loaded. Charla looks at the gun, pulls the hammer back, smiles, and fires. Just like that, the rubber band breaks.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
Darren's worst fears were realized at that moment. Charla was really going to kill him.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
They are both struggling on the ground. Darren plunges the knife into her neck once. Charla's violence has stopped.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
He's like a soldier. He's a soldier for a just cause. That's how he sees this. Everything is happening basically on automatic pilot, which is consistent with somebody suffering from the delusions that Darren Mack was suffering from at the time that he went and shot Judge Weller.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
Darren thought that Charla had slept with Judge Weller. Delusion, I hope. We'll ask Judge Weller when he comes here.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
You would agree that you've become a lot more familiar with this particular divorce than you actually did when the divorce was occurring. Isn't that fair, Judge Weller? No. Well, you didn't know Mr. Mack's first name, and he'd been in front of you for over a year.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
You treated Mr. Mack differently than you did other people who appeared before you, didn't you, Judge? No.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
With this question, I do apologize, but I have an obligation to Mr. Mack to ask it. You hadn't been sleeping with Charlotte Mack, had you? No, sir. Okay, that would be crazy.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
We've given him hope, we've given him an opportunity for his family and his kids to feel that he's not gonna be locked away in a max prison forever.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
I think it's been one of the greatest injustices that I have ever seen in the criminal justice system, and I've been doing it for 17 years.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
You could bring in any competent expert. Darren Mack is not insane. It's an absolute joke what they did. You're not competent to argue self-defense if you're insane.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
Am I correct that Darren Mack is the one that said, I'm not going with an insanity defense on Charla? This was self-defense? Yeah, there's no question about that. And you did not think that was a smart thing to do?
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
No, because he came to the garage with a knife and a gun in his pocket.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
had told us that after he stabbed her, he put his knee on her head and she was gurgling. When he told that to us in preparing for his testimony, I got physically ill.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
This is a horribly disturbing situation I'm in right now. Because when I learn something from my client, I'm not telling anybody.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
So the second conversation, he indicated to me that he had meditated on what we had talked about and described to me in fairly significant detail what had occurred in the garage that included this gun.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
I had two concerns. The first concern was that perhaps Mr. Mack was being less than candid with me, or alternatively, the dumpster had been moved. So I decided to go with the dumpster had been moved as opposed to him being less than candid with me. Your Honor, the defense will call Darren Mack to the stand.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
The truth will set you free, not the fear of the truth. And that's what happened here, Judge. They were afraid of their own case. They tried to tailor this man to an insanity defense, and he is not insane.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
You're actually, you know, better off to murder your spouse and then plead insanity and you'll be out in seven years, you know, have your kids.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
He thought he'd hit the lottery with this woman. Funny, smart, beautiful, physically fit. Darren was not aware of the dark side of Charla prior to marriage. She also was not aware of her ability to be physically violent and physically abusive towards Darren.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
Charla had an unusual sexual appetite. She liked women. She liked swing with men and women.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
She could be kind and giving in public. She could be violent and abusive at home. It was too much for Darren to take.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
Charla arrived about 9.15. Charla begins to threaten, and the rubber band starts to pull. The name calling from Charla began. The terrorist split personality reared its evil head. She transferred into pure hatred. The rubber band is pulling.
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Driven To Death
Frances Hall is a nurturer. She's everyone's mother. She's everyone's rock. To say that she was intentionally trying to hurt Bill Hall, a man she's loved and still loves and always will love, I mean, that's just a ludicrous idea.
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Driven To Death
I sympathize wanting to confront your husband's mistress, but engaging in road rage That's unacceptable.
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Driven To Death
I don't think that he had death coming. He had a divorce coming. If everybody were sentenced to death for being a philanderer, what would the population look like?
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Driven To Death
Bill Hall was following his wife. They're traveling at 70, 80 miles an hour.
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Driven To Death
is true. There's no evidence. No evidence whatsoever. There's no evidence on the rear of the motorcycle of any contact. There's no evidence on the hood of the Escalade.
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Driven To Death
I wouldn't characterize her testimony as untruthful. I would just characterize it as
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Driven To Death
Francis Hall took a 210 death tank to what should have been a fist fight. Francis was out for blood.
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Driven To Death
To me, and I want to think to any woman, that would speak... very much to Frances' intent to hurt Bonnie. She was out for blood.
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Driven To Death
As a result of her rage, A man is dead. And justice is holding this woman responsible for that man's death.
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Driven To Death
Now, if you cause a death, it's murder, but at punishment, you can get a lower punishment. You can get basically manslaughter punishment.
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Driven To Death
Francis Hall gave chase at a high rate of speed. Different witnesses called 911 and indicated that two black SUVs are racing. And it probably appeared that that was the case.
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Driven To Death
No one knows exactly what happened. Not Francis Hall. Bonnie Contreras definitely does not.
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Driven To Death
Bonnie Contreras is Bill Hall's mistress. He had been dating her for about three years, and by most accounts, it was a pretty open affair.
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The Mystery of Jane Mixer
We also don't know when that stain came in contact with that pantyhose.
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The Mystery of Jane Mixer
I believe there's innocent explanations in which the DNA could have been on there. Such as? Such as having contact with the pantyhose in a laundromat.
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The Mystery of Jane Mixer
It's going out on quite a limb to say, well, there's contamination in this part, but there's not contamination in this part.
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The Mystery of Jane Mixer
That means that John Rulas is around this young lady who is ultimately found dead and bleeds on her. How does that happen?
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The Mystery of Jane Mixer
There were no fingerprints that have been associated with Gary Leiterman. Is that correct?
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The Mind of a Murderer
You don't remember doing that? No. You restrained her, though? I did. You didn't try to kill her that day? No, sir.
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The Mind of a Murderer
You were pretty forthright, though, whenever you met someone new. Right. You would tell people
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The Mind of a Murderer
Tell me about that conversation when your mother came to you and told you that Stephen had served time in prison.
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The Mind of a Murderer
Your father was a strict disciplinarian? My father was a Master Chief in the Navy.
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The Mind of a Murderer
What he's saying is that I was born this way. He's saying that I cannot control my violent impulses and you can't hold it against me.
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The Mind of a Murderer
These are the people who you seem to prey on. Prey on? I don't know, what words do you want me to use?
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The Mind of a Murderer
Were all of you at peace with the decision you reached? You all were? Almost. Stephen Stanko should die for these questions. Absolutely. No doubt about it.
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The Mind of a Murderer
Could a sane person, someone who possesses all of their mental faculties, carry out these heinous crimes?
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The Mind of a Murderer
You excelled in school. Yes, sir. In the yearbook, you were described as the all-American boy. Yes, sir. You were the golden boy. Something like that.
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Beauty Queen Betrayal
Did you see the condom wrapper in the kitchen? No, there was one. So she was raped. Don't know that. Did you see it? Did you ever touch it? No, I didn't even know it was there. Me and the machine, I never used condoms.
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Beauty Queen Betrayal
I didn't do it. I didn't do it. Some scumbag did this to my girlfriend, and I want to get put in jail for it, and I didn't do it.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I remember just falling to my knees, and I was crying, and I was overwhelmed.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
The stakes are so high. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Please be seated. This is what we had been working for, the criminal trial.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
Matt was a dangerous man. He had to be stopped before he hurt someone else.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
Matt Baker was in fact having an affair. I got fooled, got fooled by Matt Baker.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
For me, pretty tough. Both of them lied to the families, both of them lied to the cops, and both of them lied to try to cover up this affair.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I was trying to steel myself for the stories they were going to spin about Carrie.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
You've got no physical evidence. You will see a lot of suspicion. You've got no cause of death. You will see a lot of theory. You can't even be really certain that it was a murder.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
No, I'm OK. I apologize. I had this inner dialogue with myself, telling myself to get it together.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
He told me that clearly some youth had found his briefcase and spit the pills in there so that they wouldn't have to take them, and that he reported this to security.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
They went through the process of looking at it, but it was aborted and no purchase of Ambien was made. Correct? Yes. No further question.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
Matt Baker was very good at hiding his dark side. In her gut, she was figuring it out, but she didn't listen to those instincts.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
We had no knowledge of what she would say until she testified in the courtroom.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
For the first time, we were going to hear exactly what happened.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I know what my child was screaming inside of her head. She was screaming out for her babies. I know that. I know that.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
Out of all of the people that you tested, which one had the highest probability of a touch? Carrie Baker appears to have the highest number. Nothing further, Jim.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
If the primary source of DNA on that piece of paper was Carrie Baker's, then she must have taken her own life.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
As the hours went on, I became more nervous. I went off by myself and just prayed a lot.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
It's the only case I've ever tried that I didn't put my client on the stand.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
It doesn't matter how long it takes. We're in it till the end. You can't hide dirty little secrets forever.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I felt absolute relief. that Matt Baker would never again be in a position to take a life or destroy lives.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
Since the day he walked in my office and told me he was lying, I talked to him only for strict legal necessities and had no other conversations.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
You cannot be a good lawyer for somebody if you don't believe them, and that's the position I was in.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I gave them my advice. They needed to go get a different lawyer to handle it. I did not want to be there.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
The judge made me be there, and they requested that I be there, and I did my duty.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
Oh, yes. I've never in my life been forced to go to trial in a case that I didn't think I was on the right side. Hardest thing I've ever done.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I still think I did a decent, credible lawyer job, but I had no heart in it.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I'm talking to you, Matt, today, okay? You haven't looked at me in almost four years. Can you look at me today? You murdered the mother of your children. But the most tragic victims, Matt, are Kinsey and Grace. Those sweet, sweet babies.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
They've been taught to hate us. We were portrayed as the people who caused their father to go to prison.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
Carrie was a very good minister's wife. Faith was very important in her life.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I only take the cases that I believe in with all my heart, and this is one of them.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I don't believe that a person should be able to walk free after he's murdered someone, and this someone is my daughter.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
You can't go forward with a murder case unless you can establish that it is homicide. So you have to establish cause of death. And that, forensically, is just not possible in this case.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
And it's time that we should have been grieving for our daughter, that we've been fighting for a cause.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I'm angry. And all he's doing is making us more determined to uncover the truth.
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A Toxic Relationship
Treated many paranoid patients. Someone was really trying to kill her and she knew it in advance. Why in the devil would she then drink it?
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A Toxic Relationship
It just doesn't make any sense. That, to me, suggests a state of mind of a person attempting suicide.
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Coerced Confessions
Are there two reasonable interpretations? Brad Patton is one of Richard Tuitt's defense attorneys. The evidence that is being proffered against Richard Tuitt is not reliable and does not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. Is this going to be more about defending Richard Tuitt or proving that the boys did it? This is a trial within a trial in the classic sense.
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Coerced Confessions
Absolutely not. No, never. Never would he have done anything like that. This picture was taken on his first birthday.
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Coerced Confessions
He used to tell me, I know it's not your fault, Mom. I'm like this. And he felt bad, and he felt like he was a burden.
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Coerced Confessions
There is not any trace evidence that connects Mr. Tewitt with the Crow residence. Richard Tewitt did not go into that house, and Richard Tewitt did not kill Stephanie Crow.
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Coerced Confessions
Based on photographs that you've seen, saw, What she called was transfer?
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Coerced Confessions
You were talking to the detectives about the fact that you were in the kitchen and Michael had come out alone, not with Aaron, but alone with the knife. You recall that?
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Coerced Confessions
So as you sit here today, you have no recollection of having called Michael Crow and made that statement? Correct.
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Coerced Confessions
Who had the motive to kill in this case? Was it Richard Tuitt in this theory that the prosecution is woven together? Or is it Michael Crow?
48 Hours
A Family Affair
I opened the bathroom door and went in and said, Philip. And then I saw the blast as the gun was turned on me.
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A Family Affair
I remember waking up, and I was on the floor, and I prayed. I remember very distinctly saying, God, if we're going to do this, I need your strength, because I have none of my own.
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A Family Affair
I didn't see a face or anything. I did not see Craig in that room. I did not see anyone in there. The blast was what I saw.
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A Family Affair
Yes, I can. I know my child. I know the man he is. I know the heart he has. He does not have a cold-blooded heart. And I can be certain that Craig did not do this to our family. Have you ever looked him in the eye and said, Craig, son, did you do this? Yes, I have. And he's looked me right straight in the eye and said, no, Mama, I did not do this. I couldn't do this.
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A Family Affair
It didn't do anything for Craig, his appearance of innocence, for him to be staying there.
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A Family Affair
As a mother, I could not sacrifice the son that was killed and my husband that was killed to protect another son if I really thought that that son did that.
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A Family Affair
Remember, family is important, and we will always be there for each other. Love, Dad.
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A Family Affair
Oh my Lord, no way. This can't be happening. I've got to see if I can see Craig tonight. So I did. I went to the jail and saw him. And how was he? Very emotional.
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A Family Affair
I see life. I see hope. I see love. I see truth. I see justice. And one day, peace.
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A Family Affair
We met at the county fair in Savannah, and he stole my heart right away. And things weren't always easy, but, you know, there was love.
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A Family Affair
Good men, fine men, church-going men. They had values, and they believed in each other.
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A Family Affair
I wrote down in my journal that I knew what hell smelled like. What hell smelled like? Gasoline and gunpowder. Wow. I remember smelling the gas, yes.
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A Family Affair
No. Everyone was very upset, very on pins and needles, not knowing what to say or what to do or how they could help.
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A Family Affair
I thought that Carrie and Robin would probably divorce. And then if the situation between Craig and Robin still worked out, that they would be together.
48 Hours
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
So I drove over and met him and did a day of fishing. And that began when we started dating shortly thereafter.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
You know, he was incredibly bright, eccentric, had a lot of similar interests that I did.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
I grew up with my family doing a lot of camping. On Whidbey Island we have a small beach cabin up there and I grew up saltwater fishing, salmon fishing. I was born in California and then moved when I was very young to Bellevue, Washington. I went to junior high and high school there.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
I was very involved in horseback riding and competed doing Grand Prix jumping and that was really my passion and where I spent my time in my youth.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Well, it probably depends on who you'd ask.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Yes, he started with, came from a very middle-class background and went to University of Washington and then really became involved in a lot of different businesses, one of them being Chateau Saint-Michel, developing that.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Yes, it is. I'm very proud of his accomplishments that way. He was also involved in K2 Ski Company and Jansport Sporting Goods and different businesses throughout his career.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Yes. It was all of my, what we developed there was my business idea, my development, my money. I did capitalize it to go in.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Beautiful piece of property that my family has owned, no longer owns, but did purchase in the 80s.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
I don't think there's probably many places like that, whether dogs live on there or people live on there. It's just a terrific place.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
For example, an avocado that was too much money really upset him. I remember another time I was... Excuse me.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
I'm absolutely serious, yes. He would be in a rage that I spent too much money and it was an inappropriate expenditure on things.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
And we were working, you know, seven days a week, 15-hour days, and there was really not any time for personal relationships.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
I just kept thinking that if I could reduce our workload, if we could make some changes and try to get more personal time, that the relationship could be salvageable and work. So we went through some counseling, and at that point in time, Mark did want to get married. And I, again, because of the commitment, said, okay.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Things were fine for about four months after the marriage and then it really started going south.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
I think my desires for a personal, truly a personal loving marriage and relationship was something that he did not want to provide and could not provide.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Kickett Island meant a lot to Mark because it had quite a prestige to it.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
I saw him becoming more aggressive with people, for example, on the property that were trespassing, pulling guns on people and threatening them, being verbally aggressive and very threatening.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
My experience with him was he was very unstable and with that and his agitated state and he had real highs and lows and rages that he dealt with. It was very concerning to me and what his reaction would be to something, how that would affect my safety.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
I recognized that I was so unhappy and I knew that I needed to leave the marriage and I got a separation.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
He told me that he was listening to phone conversations and that he had been in my house and read my diaries. And just, it was horrifying. It was chilling to me. Every single moment you're wondering when you walk out the door, is he going to be there? I know how he operated and his stalking abilities and hunting abilities.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
This is war. This is goddamn war. You've ruined my life enough. I really did feel that my life was in danger.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
My first thought was, oh, a body. I have a safe room in there.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
I was looking to do some training with my dog and found him in the phone book.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
I remember speaking with him on the phone and I felt he was very arrogant, actually rubbed me the wrong way initially. Name dropped a lot of people and had quite a bit of an attitude, but yet he seemed also to know a fair amount about dogs. So I thought, let's try this out.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
I saw he definitely did have a connection with dogs, and I felt that he would be able to help us.
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Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
He was very bright and witty and charming.
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TV Bailiff Spivey on Trial
One of the things that we were able to see in this case is they had a camera system in their home, and I watched their relationship.
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TV Bailiff Spivey on Trial
I mean, the idea of a gentle giant. His size was, you can't avoid seeing how big he is.
48 Hours
The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
No, I didn't. That was not the main theory, that the dogs actually strangled her to death.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
Let's assume that someone trips and falls and fractures their C3. Their breathing is compromised. If they're then choked, it doesn't take much to kill them.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
It wasn't asked. Why would she think the dogs were important? She doesn't even know that there's any question of being choked.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
Because if she got sick, that was something that she would wear a scarf to wipe your mouth with it.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
Yes. Sometimes dogs, when they're crate trained, when they go to bed, will go lay in the crate, even with the door open.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
From getting cut on a nail that was in the back of the nightstand that was there.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
Susan had touched that area before at some point in time, and she lived there.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
She has hair extensions. And you know what hair extensions cause? Loss of hair.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
What he testified is, well, I didn't stay there the whole time he fixed the car. Does that seem like a discrepancy to you? Well, it's not a discrepancy. Nobody's asking him that full story at the age of 12.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
No, he basically said I wasn't there when he got the injury.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
If you have 40,000 texts and there's five of them with hard language in it, that's a perfect marriage.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
No. First of all, I don't know really who printed this stuff up.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
There was never any physical violence. Their working and marriage relationship, everybody looked at it as loving.
48 Hours
A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
I don't know of a case in America where someone's serving a 31-year prison sentence for a death that was undetermined.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
The new evidence was that the images that had been given to Paul DeLuca had been darkened.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
The skull fracture was the pivotal point. in the state's case to convince the jury it was a homicide.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
I call in a secretary, call in somebody else in the office. No one could get any better images.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
She's trying so hard to be the good girl, the compliant girl.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
She's not equipped to deal with a situation like that.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
Eric. was just indignant. He was saying whoever had done this manipulation should be held accountable. I believed after the meeting that he believed in Melissa's innocence, and he was going to try to rectify this.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
That's the only evidence against her. There's nothing that tips this as being a homicide. Absolutely nothing.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
No. There is no fracture. The evidence had been manipulated.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
No, absolutely not. They had absolutely nothing. There's no eyewitness. There was no video. The reason Melissa Kaluzinski got charged is she confessed.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
I think that his parents were misled by the daycare center about that incident.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
I believe he thinks in his heart that she's innocent.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
What we want to do today is focus on who is this person and how did she end up in the position that she's in, convicted of the first degree murder of a child.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
There is no question that the death of a child is probably the worst thing that could ever happen to a parent. But the only way that a parent gets closure is with the truth. And the truth has not come out in this case. I know that she is innocent.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
We're asking them to declare that she's actually innocent and release her. We are also saying, commute her sentence.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
Melissa was not even working there at the daycare center.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
Before trial, I said, do we have any better images? And it was no.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
Dr. Montes said he put his finger in the skull and threw the fracture. I mean, it was devastating.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
Zero. She had nothing to do with it. I am Melissa Kaluzinski's current attorney. She loved Ben. Ben loved her.
48 Hours
The Boy Across the Street
He had said repeatedly that Katina pulled the gun, that Tatina was the one who had the revolver, ignoring the fact that we knew that he had stolen Katina's father's revolver. Sometimes she shot him, sometimes they struggled over the gun and it accidentally went off.