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totally cooperating just not doing
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anything Cooper sir I will be very
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Cooperative let's TR down please that's
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not you on the 27th food line parking
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lot Travelers Rest I don't think so
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look where's that I don't know where is
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yes you do it's not making sense so
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you're the last person to be in a
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vehicle you wipe out of a lady that's
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missing that sound's really 28 years ago
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this man kidnapped a woman and was
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sentenced to 30 years in prison for it 3
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decades later 80-year-old Edna subtles
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is spotted picking him up in a parking
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lot this would be the last time Edna was
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ever seen alive Days Later detectives
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traced Edna's movement and discovered
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CCTV footage of the same man driving her
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car she's missing right now yes Dan
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where is it I don't have a clue but
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that's when police found found out Edna
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wasn't the only
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[Music]
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victim if you tell him to turn that off
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I will talk to you a little more
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freely sometime around 9:00 a.m. on
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August 27th 80-year-old Edna leaves her
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home in traveler's rest to look after a
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friend hours later 911 dispatchers
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receive a concerning call look kind of
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one was for your emergency a fitter was
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supposed to show up to be with my mom
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today her name is Edna subtle and she
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didn't show up with this is not like her
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she shows up like clockwork so
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something's wrong but this call was only
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the beginning of a long chain of
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mysteries as officers arrived at Edna
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sule's home for a welfare check based on
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these reports they received no response
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there were no signs of a Breakin and
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Edna was nowhere to be seen however when
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police asked Edna's son he pointed out
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that $50,000 worth of jewelry was
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missing from the home more importantly
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though her car was missing too if the
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cops could find that they might be able
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to figure out where she had gone this
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meant that finding Edna's vehicle would
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be the most instrumental step in this
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investigation as it would give a clue
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about her last known whereabouts
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immediately a haunt for Edna's car began
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and 6 days later it was found abandoned
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in the parking lot of a hotel in
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traveler's rest this was odd as Edna
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lived close by and didn't need to stay
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at a hotel a check with the staff also
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revealed that no one under the name of
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Edna was staying there so to get to the
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bottom of this mystery the cops decided
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to try and Trace back Edna's movement
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using CCTV cameras starting from her
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home at 9:30 a.m. a camera at a nearby
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pawn shop captures Edna leaving her home
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and driving towards a local Food Lion
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grocery store 9 minutes later Edna
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arrives at the store to pick something
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up a man approaches the vehicle with two
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bags in his hand and sits alongside Edna
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who then drives off back to her home 4
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hours later at 1:43 p.m. Edna's car
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leaves her home again and arrives at the
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same Food Lion once more but this time
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the person exiting the driver's seat
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isn't Edna at all it's the same old
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white man she picked up earlier who
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immediately moves to his car and Parks
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next to Edna's he then drags something
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out of her car placing it into his
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initially it was difficult to identify
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what the man moved from the Jeep to the
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Chevrolet but after a frame by frame
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analysis it wasn't a question of what
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was moved but who because in a chilling
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Discovery officers would realize the
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footage showed the unmistakable Golden
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Hair of Edna subtles 4 minutes later at
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1:47 p.m. the man drives Edna's car into
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the hotel's parking lot and Parks it in
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the same spot that the detectives found
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the vehicle in he exits and begins
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wiping down the door and seats trying to
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get rid of any evidence of his presence
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by 2:14 p.m. the man returns to his
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vehicle at Food Lion and drives off
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marking the last that was seen of Edna
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and the man the most crucial part of
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this investigation is to now figure out
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who exactly the man in the video is but
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due to the grainy footage and his
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distance from most cameras this proved
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to be difficult and the investigation
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seemed like it would come to a
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standstill but detectives had an idea
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since the man exited the store with bags
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in his hand a purchase was made and this
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realization would be the most crucial
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breakthrough in the case immediately
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officers began retrieving footage from
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inside the store and when they reviewed
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it they came to a harrowing realization
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this was Daniel Prince a man who only 24
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years prior to this got put in a federal
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prison for
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kidnapping 24 years prior to this
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incident in 1997 Daniel was responsible
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for the kidnapping of a woman in
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Michigan he had her tied up Shackled her
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hands it was by sheer luck that she
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managed to free herself before escaping
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even though he was sentenced to a
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maximum of 30 years for this crime he
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was released by 2009 on parole but the
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worst was Yet to Come d began working as
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a handyman for predominantly elderly
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Single Ladies a demographic that not
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only matched his previous victim but
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also that of ednas for officers the
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realization now begins to settle in they
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have a kidnapper on the run and there
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might be a chance that he has kept Edna
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alive not knowing where she is they had
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to act fast before this glimmer of hope
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dimmed even with this disturbing past
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detectives didn't have enough evidence
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to press strong charges for kidnapping
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or murder however they had established
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probable cause for Grand larsy involving
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Edna's Jeep a warrant to arrest Prince
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and search his property was granted and
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officers were quickly dispatched to
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Prince's residents to take him into
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custody totally coopera just do
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anything stand up on your
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feet yeah sir I will be very Cooperative
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despite the number of heavily armed
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officers that just descended on Prince's
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property he remained noticeably calm and
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composed as if he had a plan to escape
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this predicament the following footage
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was analyzed by our in-house criminal
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research specialist and retired
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detective to shed some light on key
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techniques and strategies used during
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the questioning when he is brought into
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the interrogation room the detectiv
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start with a relaxed friendly
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conversation a tactic used to put
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suspects at ease they don't want him to
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know they've caught him on camera just
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yet what what do you do
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now I do a lot of um Home Remodeling
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home repair I a lot of tile and I got a
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customer base that has me doing stuff
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okay well why Bostic North Carolina come
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all the way down from to say Michigan or
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Wisconsin okay here this is real easy um
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I'm originally from the east side of the
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state of Michigan but I was in prison in
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Michigan for a while and when I paroled
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I paroled to the west side of the state
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okay what uh what you get locked up for
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cuz he said he got pared I was locked up
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for a
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um kidnapping charge okay and um I did
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13 and2 years for that oh wow I did 1
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and A2 years for a um false statement on
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a vehicle title you know when they're
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not sure if they're going to make
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something they want something to hold
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you with so the false statement that's
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all that was the
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kidnapping I was doing some bad [ __ ]
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that I shouldn't have been doing but I
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should have gotten kidnapping but I was
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doing bad [ __ ] what kind of [ __ ] what
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[ __ ] have you
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gotten I really don't want to
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say huh we're just bullshitting nothing
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when you're talking to two police
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detectives in a room it's just
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bullshitting okay I've been through the
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system enough to know that all I'm going
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to say about that is I did my time I
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made my first PR and I haven't been in
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trouble since hey and that's great to
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know you know lot of people especially
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being what you've been through they come
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out and they go right back to it just
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because he's a convicted criminal
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doesn't mean he's involved in Edna's
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disappearance but the evidence the
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detectives have paints a different
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picture altogether from the hardworking
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reformed criminal he claimed to be I
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talk you August 27 2021 of this year
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what day of the week was that it was a
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Friday okay okay so specifically the
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27th mhm what two weeks ago do you
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remember where you were at no
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specifically where do you think you were
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at I've been going all over the place
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I've been back and forth to Charlotte
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I've been down to South Carolina like
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where's your jobs in South Carolina
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taking you um actually I was down
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Travelers Rest but I don't know if it
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was Friday or Thursday I know I've been
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there earlier that week but you don't
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remember which day specifically no it
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was either Thursday or Friday what kind
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of job were you working on I wasn't you
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wasn't I wasn't this lady had talked to
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me several times I'd been down to her
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house two or three times we kind of got
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to be friends this woman has so many
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damn problems mostly her daughter she
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would call me and have me come down
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there okay she said she needed to have
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money at one point in time to help her
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daughter cuz her daughter was in jail
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then she needed money another time
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because she was hiring a private
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investigator because her son-in-law was
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she talked to me all kinds of stuff
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about it we got to be pretty good
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friends about stuff like that okay how'
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you meet her initially years ago okay
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years ago it was somebody given me her
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name or number or her my name and number
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here the detectives are analyzing his
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behavior and allowing Prince to dig a
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hole for himself that he's going to
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struggle to escape from when they reveal
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they know the truth he's going to try
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and deny his guilt even when the
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evidence speaks for itself what you're
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telling us is that's not you on the
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27th food line parking lot traveler's
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rest I don't think
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so that's not you that's me where's that
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food line August 27th 2021
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9:23 okay to two seconds bringing a bell
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yeah yeah I went down to food yeah yeah
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so what were you doing down there that
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day um she wanted me to look at some
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stuff at her house okay and she picked
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me up at Food Li because she wanted me
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with her when she was
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um going to go meet some guy for for um
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private investigator okay yeah tell us
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about that she wanted me to meet her
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down there okay she was nervous because
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she says I'm not sure I trust this guy
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and she knows I've been in the military
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and she says will you meet me she wanted
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me to see if this guy was going to meet
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her where he was supposed to meet her do
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you know where there was a hotel lobby
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that he had finally said meet me at the
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hotel okay she says drive up there and
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see if he's there and I drove up there
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and and things are starting to sound
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really squirly to me this is a common
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deflective Behavior Prince is not only
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trying to deflect suspicion away from
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himself he's trying to point suspicion
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directly at someone else in this case
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the private investigator according to
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Prince Edna wanted to meet the private
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investigator the day before she was
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reported missing even though she didn't
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feel safe meeting him alone luckily
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detectives have seen the whole thing on
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camera and it completely contradicts
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everything Prince is saying what were
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you
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driving I was driving a blue car your
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wife's car or your car my wife's car so
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that's yall coming down 25 you and her
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[Music]
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together it could be okay cuz that's
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their car that's about 1345 on the
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27th okay so that's so you're with her
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there yeah okay I guess yeah yeah I'm
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not saying yeah I'm just saying that
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could be it's a different angle but I
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mean you know we've watched this
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car right okay here's yall in the uh
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Hotel parking
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lot okay yeah oh look there's yall yall
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backing in yeah and a couple of
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different copies of it backing in
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backing in yeah oh look you get out
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nobody else gets out I told you that
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you're walking around the car yeah you
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wipe the entire car down because I was
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worried you were
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worried or's you walking across the
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parking lot in front of Little Caesars
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mhm and there's
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you getting back into your car and
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driving away oh she's willing look man
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you are a good dude I honestly do
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believe that that you screwed up years
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and years ago Prince seems visibly
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stunned by the amount of photographic
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evidence the detective is showing him
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and even though it can't be refuted
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Prince is going to try and lie his way
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out of it but that's not the only
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evidence detectives managed to find
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along the way as there's mud on the
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wheels of Prince's car leading
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detectives to believe he drove Offroad
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to either kill Edna or to dump her body
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and this is when we arrive at the
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pivotal moment where Prince's story
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starts to fall apart you're not a bad
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guy right nobody is saying that you're
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some evil Twisted dude MH okay we need
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to know where is we've processed the car
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we found a dirt where did you go Offroad
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I never where did you leave oh I can
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tell you exactly where she and I had
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gone off road please when we were going
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from 25 South mhm there was off to the
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right there was a truck with a trailer
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and another vehicle there that had a uh
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for sale sign on it and it looked like
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an older truck and I need a work truck
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and I went ahead and I pulled in and
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with her
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and then we pulled out it was right
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there on 25 even in the face of such
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overwhelming evidence Prince still
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denies any wrongdoing and even tries to
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take control of the situation but
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detectives have him cornered and he's
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quickly starting to struggle to maintain
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his composure where's now her family is
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desperately looking for her she's
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missing right now yes Dan where is it I
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don't have a clue I dropped her off at
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her house Dan Dan please listen you did
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not drop her off at her house we have
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followed that car the entire day up and
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down 25 there's a number of minutes that
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are unaccounted for that are not by her
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house which car mine or hers dan stop
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playing games you know what we're when I
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got okay I can help you here got to give
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me a second you got to let me answer the
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questions when they're
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asked when I dropped her vehicle off
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look for the guy she said she wanted me
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to take her and drive around in my
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vehicle so I left her vehicle I went
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down to Food Lion and she was in my
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vehicle with me and I dropped her off at
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home D we watched the video she is not
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the car sits there it sits there man no
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no not in her car no my car Dr my car
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you did not drop anyone off man I picked
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her back up she said in my car at food
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line and I went back and got her no you
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did not the detectives are beginning to
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apply more pressure on Prince knowing
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everything he's telling them is a lie
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but he continues to stay on the defense
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even trying to brush off the facts that
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he might have destroyed potential
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evidence I don't know where it is yes
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you do no I don't
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damn let's go back to while you wiped
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the car down what what you said you were
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worried about
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what the only thing I did was because I
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knew I'd been in and out of her car all
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the time with her I'm like there is no
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way in hell I'm going to just leave this
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thing here cuz she's got somebody that's
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after her prince tries to deflect
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suspicion Again by suggesting Edna may
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have been in some kind of danger but he
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doesn't realize just how prepared these
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detectives are who would be after that
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guy with the truck she said she didn't
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trust him the pi yeah she hired as a pi
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his story is totally different he's been
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doing work for her I mean on the
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son-in-law thing I mean we've
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interviewed I mean he had no he didn't
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meet her so right that's why I said she
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said she hired another Pi I'm sure
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you're recording this it's not making
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sense of I mean you're the last person
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to be in a vehicle you wipe out of of a
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lady that's missing that sounds really
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fun it does it that's why we're here
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I've been real honest with you guys I
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told you what was going on the
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detectives managed to get Prince to
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admit he was with Edna on the day she
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disappeared while Prince tried to
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convince them he was helping her meet a
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suspicious private investigator they
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know it's a desperate attempt to deflect
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suspicion and distance himself from the
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crime Prince insisted he dropped Edna
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off at her home safe and well but the
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detectives established that he was the
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last person to see her alive and because
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of this interrogation they locked him
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into a lie that would eventually lead to
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a chilling confession when detectives
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search Prince's property they find
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several automatic weapons because
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because of his previous convictions he's
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forbidden from owning any firearms that
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means he could be facing a federal
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charge and be detained for even longer
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while he's detained they continue to
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search his land and find one of the most
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crucial pieces of evidence yet a yogurt
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cup this is the yogurt he bought shortly
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before Edna disappeared and it's laced
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with a cocktail of drugs lorazapam
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Tramadol and cyclobenzaprine can cause
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central nervous system depression when
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they're combined when this happens the
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body's neurological functions slow down
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in other words you're under sedation
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exactly as Edna was in the parking lot
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when she was seen in Prince's car after
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feeding her the laced yogurt there's
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nothing Edna can do to stop him and
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she's LED away to her death at the hands
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of this sadistic killer Prince begins to
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realize he's cornered and has nowhere to
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run so they bring him back in for more
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questioning where he makes a full
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confession as he admits to three more
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murders including the of Lee Goodman
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Dolores sers and her daughter Nancy Rigo
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the first victim was Dolores Daniel had
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euthanized Dolores sers at the request
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of her daughter Nancy rioo however Nancy
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began to have second thoughts and wanted
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to contact the police putting her
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directly in the crosshairs of Daniel
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Prince a mentally Disturbed serial
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killer Nancy Rigo was now his second
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victim even worse is the fact that for
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several years Daniel began receiving
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receiving ny's Social Security checks
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because she had given him her power of
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attorney moreover the search of Daniel's
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property would also reveal several of
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ny's documents since
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2017 after her murder Daniel pretended
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to be Nancy by sending her family emails
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and messages in an attempt to prevent
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them from thinking that she was dead
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Daniel's third victim was Lee Goodman
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who allegedly attempted to Rob him
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according to Daniel much like Nancy and
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Edna her body was disposed of in in some
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desolate area and finally Daniel's
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fourth and final victim was Edna sules
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whose body would be found one year later
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on May 16th 2022 in a grave close to
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Daniel's home in Rutherford County
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although decomposed officers were able
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to positively identify it as Edna and
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return the body to her loved ones but
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even in the face of his crimes he would
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never let go of his chance to leverage
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as much information as he could there
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was uh a lot of stuff F in uh your your
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be house there could be a million
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explanations for some of that stuff and
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I don't want to jump to conclusions and
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if there is something that happened that
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you didn't intend to happen let's talk
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about it there are
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things that have to
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happen and there are things that are
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going to happen and I'm a realist and I
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have acceptance with
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this I would like a little bit of
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control in how they
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happen if you tell them to turn that off
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I will talk to you a little more freely
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when they turn the cameras off Prince
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makes a final attempt to take control
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and influence the outcome in his favor
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Daniel Prince avoided a trial by making
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a deal with authorities he would tell
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them about the location of Edna's body
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and in turn his case would go Federal
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because of the better living conditions
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in federal prisons not only that but he
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would also avoid the death penalty and
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instead receive a life sentence one
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would think that the detectives were
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naive to turn off their cameras and not
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record Daniel's confession but
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unbeknownst to Prince the investigators
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keep the backup audio recording running
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after shutting down the camera this is
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the chilling confession he made okay
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let's put it this way a person I was
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very good friends with wanted to do
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something to put someone basic out of
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their misery that was very closely
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related to them that's one body that
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person started having an extreme amount
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of guilt over this and decided they were
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going to go tell what had happened
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that's the second body there's a third
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body that I did not kill and I knew that
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they'd be getting Social Security
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disability for the rest of their life so
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I got rid of set bodies for example so
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that I could continue to use the car by
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any chance while he's getting all his
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squ away mhm can you just help me get
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that closure for in this family not
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until I have this I clam up like a clam
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if this doesn't go Federal for
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everything
