Karen Anderson
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
May 9th, 1995, Hayley Anderson was born and I did something in the top 10% of the world. I delivered on my due date. So of course, Hayley would come into the world when she was due, because she was always very tenacious. Haley grew up in Salisbury, New York, very tight-knit community, right in the middle of Long Island. And she was very curious and such a rambunctious little child.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
I had just come home from school and I pulled up to my house and there was a big black car. And there were two men sitting in the car with suits on. And I pulled into my driveway and I got into my house and I just kept looking out the window because I was like, that's so odd. And it kind of scared me. I was like, oh God, who's in trouble, you know?
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
Kept looking out the window and they weren't coming and they weren't coming. So I started feeding my dogs. And then all of a sudden I see them take a big swig of water. and get out of the car, two of them together, shut the door, and they start walking up my driveway. And my heart was pounding so fast. And they knocked on my door, and I walked out. And I said, can I help you?
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
They're like, yeah, we need to talk to you. I go, can we talk here? They go, no, we need to talk inside. And they sat me down at the dining room table. And they just said, homicide. And then I heard them say 23 Oak Street. And then Haley. And then from then on, it's really It's just a blur. The police officers, they didn't tell me how it happened.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
And I just remember they didn't want to leave until I had someone come to my house. So I called my one friend and I just said, I said, Patty, Haley's dead. Because I just wanted them to leave my house because I just needed to grieve more. or process without it being with strangers. Even though they were the nicest gentlemen, I mean, I wouldn't want to have to do that job. Oh God, I'm sorry.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
She did give them his name, but she was hesitant to press charges.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
because of the cost of each tire added all together, the price would be to a point that it would be considered a felony. To my understanding, if you commit a felony, I don't think you're allowed to continue in the nursing school at Decker. That's not something I've looked into to see if that's a fact. But I think it was something that Haley was very concerned about.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
That's the conversation that transpired between Haley and myself. And that was my understanding of why she was hesitant to press charges.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
She hasn't said anything else has happened, nothing else has transpired, and it seemed like he took some responsibility for his actions. So I kind of thought, well, everything must be okay. Haley handled it, he paid for the tires, and everything's back to normal. But Haley never really told me to what extent he was stalking her.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
I don't know if because she didn't want me to react in the same way I did with the tire slashing, or she just thought she could handle it because she knows Orlando and didn't expect anything that tragic to occur.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
She trusted him. So that's probably the biggest thing. She trusted him.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
A detective came down and that's when they told us how it happened.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
Then they separated us all and they were asking us all questions. The police officers were asking us questions, the detectives were asking us questions. On Sunday, I went up to meet the DA and his office.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
It was very upsetting to the university students because this is someone that, whether they knew her or not, this is somebody that is their age. They don't think about that they're going to die. So when somebody their age dies, it's almost like a reality check. And it's very disconcerting to them. And it was, you know, the campus reacted.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
They closed classes in the nursing school just to let the kids, you know, process, process what's going on to a colleague, a schoolmate.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
I filed for divorce from Haley's dad when Haley was 14 years old. And that was hard. This was a very difficult time for Haley, but we were always very close. So we persevered.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
I was very happy that they had found him, he was arrested, and then it was just a waiting game.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
I got a call from the D.A. He said that they're not extraditing Orlando. And right away, I said, well, what does that mean?
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
As it started moving along, everything started to come together. They both complied that they would have the trial on Skype, or whatever they called it, video camera, in between the two court systems.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
when she was setting out looking at colleges. We went to Binghamton University and she walked in on the campus and she fell in love with it. It was really quite large. It was pretty. And it was summertime there because it's a little different in the winter when it snows every day. But she fell in love with Binghamton and that was her choice to go there.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
And they had an interpreter so when we didn't understand it she would explain everything to us.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
The judge was female. They had a female prosecutor who was such an advocate for Haley. Very impressed with her. I was very proud of everything that she was doing.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
We wrapped everything up and then I think 30 minutes to an hour later, they delivered the verdict.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
He got the full 30 years, and that was the fullest extent of their law.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
I'm glad he got what he deserved to the fullest extent of the law, but death is forever, and he's not going to be there forever.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
Since Haley's trial, I've been on a mission to bring awareness to femicide. trying to enact femicide as a law in the United States. Many countries in South America have adopted the law. In Africa, more and more people are starting to adopt the law because it is becoming so much more prevalent. And even here in the United States, femicide has become much more prevalent.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
Binghamton is a very well renowned SUNY and it's difficult to get into and I was very proud of her for choosing Binghamton. I thought it was a good fit for her.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
There was so much more of life for Haley to live and so much more of us to have in Haley in our lives, the experience of Haley.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
This is just her memorial. All of these bricks are for parents who have lost a child. People come here to celebrate their child's life that were lost too early. I have a, this is a lotus with its cremation jewelry and inside. I have her because she always wanted to travel. So wherever I go, she goes with me. I couldn't have asked for a better 22 years. So I'm thankful for that.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
She applied to the nursing school at Binghamton University for her junior year and she got accepted into the program in the Decker School of Nursing.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
She thrived in that program and she loved it. And then she even applied for an externship at Northwell and she got it. And she was home all summer working really hard, putting on her scrubs. It was almost magical to me because I've never had anybody in my family being in the medical career. So I thought this is going to be perfect for her.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
I say she's forever 22. That's hard. That's sad to me. Because forever 22 is too young. Mic check, check, check. She was friendly with a huge heart.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
Kevin lived in Long Island as well, so I think when I met Kevin the first time, he came over to our house. They had a lot of fun together, and they would make each other laugh, and they just had so many things in common. It was just a very easy...
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
But when it started getting closer to her graduation time, she started thinking about if she wanted to be in a serious relationship. So there were a couple of times with Kevin that they talked about putting it on hold for a while.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
I went up on Super Bowl weekend, it was like the third and fourth of February, and that's when I met him for the first time of 2018. I know he was born in Miami, but he had dual citizenship with the United States and Nicaragua. Orlando's sister was nearby, I think in Queens. His mother and his father were living in Nicaragua.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
His father was a doctor, so he wanted to kind of follow in his footsteps and become a nurse in the medical field. His father had passed away. Haley befriended him, as she did many of the people in the nursing program.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
Haley was just ready to start her independent life free from anything that was going to keep her attached to one area. She wanted to have a career and really embrace the career and embrace the perks that come from having that salary and ability to travel. She had a job lined up at Northwell, you know, as long as she passed her nursing boards. So that would have been the next step.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
She would have graduated and studied for nursing boards, taken those in June and hopefully gotten her career. Haley called me to talk about her tax return. She was all excited because she was going to get $400 back. And I said, I love you. And she said, I love you. And I said, talk to you soon. And we hung up. And that was Tuesday.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
And then on Thursday, she was supposed to go to her roommate's poetry reading. But she didn't show up.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
Haley's roommates were calling her and calling her, but she wasn't answering. And that's when they started to get concerned. And I didn't even know they couldn't get in touch with Haley. Friday morning, that's when they checked the Find My Friends app on the iPhone. And they saw that it was at 23 Oak Street, which is where Orlando's apartment was.
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Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
So that's when her roommate went over to the apartment. And no one answered the door. And they climbed through the window. And that's when they found Haley.