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This episode may contain content of a
graphic nature, including descriptions of physical and

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sexual violence against adults, children,
and animals. Listener discretion is advised.

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Hi everyone, I'm Talia and I'm
Tanya, and together we are Crimes and

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Consequences, a true crime podcast.
Hi everyone, I am Talia and is

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Tanya my lovely co host. We
are two attorneys that like true crime a

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lot, like discussing it. Yeah
we do. Yeah, we don't like

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to commit it, right, but
we like discussing it. And I have

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a story today that I'm gonna tell. And she doesn't know this story.

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This was suggested by a fan of
ours is named Chanelle b. Thank you,

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Chanelle, Yes, thank you for
it. It is a really interesting

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case. I spent a lot of
time researching it. It was written by

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a lovely friend of mine named Rachel, but I added to it too.

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So I'm gonna give you a little
background. Okay, this is about Alexis

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Tierra Murphy and she's seventeen when the
story takes place. She was born on

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June fifth of nineteen ninety six in
Charlottesville, Virgina. She had three brothers.

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They were younger. She was the
captain of the football team, and

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she was beautiful. Who's captain of
the football team. I'm sorry, fyball

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team you released? I mean,
you go girl. She could she could

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have been good, Thank you.
Yes, I'm a little tired. I

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have allergies really bad in its allergy
season and palinas high. So I'm a

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little bit like a zombie. And
everybody always comments how I talk so slow.

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Well, sorry, that's what you
get. I'm a little bit of

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a zombie. She played, Yeah, she was hoping to play volleyball in

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college too, and she was looking
at colleges because she's getting ready to graduate.

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She considered a career in accounting after
high school. But she was your

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typical This story takes place in about
twenty thirteen, and she was like your

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typical seventeen year old. She had
social media all over it. She liked

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vine. I remember Vine. Yes, she had over ten thousand followers,

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wow, right, And she lived
in a very small town that had less

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than ten thousand people, so she
was very popular. Oh, I gotta

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put them in glasses. She was
described as joyful, vibrant, athletic,

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stunningly beautiful, with an infectious personality
and a warm heart. She's about five

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seven weigh one hundred and fifty pounds. The story takes place August third of

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twenty thirteen. Alexis had left her
home in Shipman, Virginia. Okay,

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mall, mall town. There's not
a lot going on in Shipman, like

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a McDonald's and probably guess at gas
station. Probably some bars, yeah,

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and probably that's it. Some churches. There might be a Walmart nearby,

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yeah, maybe nearby. Maybe she
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August third, to travel to Lynchburg
to get hair extensions, but she was

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getting ready for her senior photos.
So fine, did she want to look?

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Yeah? Of course right. The
drive from her home and Shipman to

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where she was going to get the
hair extensions was about forty minutes, but

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she never made it to her appointment. Oh. Before leaving her home,

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Alexis tweeted on Twitter quote, I
actually look cute right now. And that

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was about five point forty. She
was always on her phone. You know

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how their thumbs go, oh yeah, yeah. My daughter's like, how

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can you even do that? I
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that that glasses And just so you
know, this was a Saturday evening.

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The last time her family saw her
was about seven seven fifteen pm. She

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was driving her dad's two thousand and
three Nissan Maxima. He let her borrow

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the car. She was last seen
at Liberty gas Station. And that's a

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popular gas station that has McDonald's,
oh right next to it, and it's

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on US twenty nine in Lovingston,
Virginia. And again this is Saturday evening,

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August twenty thirteen. Alexis. His
family stated she often went to that

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gas station because there was that a
McDonald's and she absolutely loved their carmel rabbit.

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Oh yeah, those are goods,
are good. Those are really good.

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So many calories for me. Yeah, I know. Alessa's family became

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concerned when she stopped answering her cell
phone because she's again right, I can

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understand being concerned when you're a child
who is constantly on their phone. Was

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annor yes, and it was starting
to go right to voicemail. Oh no,

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which is that's not good good.
This was out a character for Alexis,

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as her family described her cell phone
as her sixth finger. Yeah,

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it never left her her hand.
In the early morning of August fourth,

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Alexis's grandmother, because she lived her
she lived with her mom and she lived

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with her grandparents. Had contacted her
mother, who worked the night shift,

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in said Alexis, she didn't come
home, and there's obviously very concerned.

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She's just going to get hair extensions, right, so, and her phone's

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going right to voicemail. So the
family contacts the police and on August fourth,

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they begin their investigation into her disappearance. They knew something was wrong.

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This just did not fit this great
student, you know, it didn't fit

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anything about her. And this isn't
nineteen seventies where they're like, oh,

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she's a runaway. Yeah, she
probably ran away. No, no,

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no. On August fifth, the
FBI and the Virginia State Police joined the

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search for Alexis. So they took
this extremely serious. And they found where

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her phone was last pinked. It
was about seventeen minutes away from the gas

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station and then it died. Investigators
searched a property on Canary Loop off of

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US twenty nine in Lovingston because that's
where our phone was. So they're looking

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and they're actually using helicopters now too. There were hundreds of tweets with a

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hashtag find Alexis Murphy. Everybody they
put missing person posters up, which we

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have one here, and one of
her friends was able to convince a popular

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rapper named Whale I don't know wa
l e. Nope, listen, I'm

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too old, yeah, to keep
up on the new stuff, and he

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retreated. He retweeted the message to
more than three million people. Wow.

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On August sixth of twenty thirteen,
so we're three days in, the FBI

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issued a statewide bulletin seeking information about
Alexi's disappearances. And when they were looking

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for her, they started going to
the area where her phone like less things,

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right, Yeah, of course they
like, that's logical. And one

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of the people they met with was
a man named Randy Taylor, and he's

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in Nelson County. He got on
the radar because first of all, his

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phone pinged in that area, and
second of all, they had CCTV footage

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from Liberty Gas Station that showed her
talking to a white male with a lot

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of tattoos and he had one on
his neck. It's like, I don't

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know, tweety bird or something like
that. That really stood out, and

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her phone was pined by him.
So he gets on the radar. She's

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seen talking to him also on the
on the CCTV. It shows that Alexis

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is talking to this man. He
holds the door open for her. She

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has filled up her gas tank and
her dad's white car, and she follows

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this camouflage truck kind of like a
Bronco looking truck. And you can see

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it on the camera that it appears
she's intentionally following this truck. Well,

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Randy Taylor happened to have camouflage truck. They go and then you try to

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talk to Randy and he's like,
what are you talking? I don't know

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her? Yeah, right now.
They show him a picture and he's like,

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not first seen her before in my
whole life. Sure, Randy's forty

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eight years old. I'm gonna tell
you a little bit about Randy. He

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worked off and on for the in
the past five years, previously as a

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used car salesman at a dealership in
Rutgersville, Virginia. It's kind of rough

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looking. I don't think i'd buy
a car from Randy. I'm just throwing

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that out there. He was the
father of a teenage son and he was

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never married. He didn't really even
spend any time with his son for a

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while, but then the boy ended
up living with Randy for a few years

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and then moved back with his mom. Okay, he is a criminal history.

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It's mostly nonviolent crimes that span over
twenty years. He got I'll just

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I'll give you a little bit of
background, not to bore you too much

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with him, because he's a piece
of shit. Yeah, I was guessing,

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yeah, he's a piece of I
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grand larceny. He was sentenced to
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released after four and a half years. He was convicted of arson. Oh,

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and he got a two year suspended
sentence, some restitution, and he

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failed to pay his restitution, so
suspended sentence got invoked and he ended up

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getting out on good behavior after not
very long. I don't know what he

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burned. I don't know. He's
just doing petty things. He paid a

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total eight one hundred and fifty five
dollars first restitution whatever. Who knows what

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he burned. In twenty thirteen,
he had a petty larsening conviction in a

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nearby Green County. And he's also
a person of interest. There's some other

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girls that really aird, but we'll
get to that later. Shady character.

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Oh a girl yeah, yeah,
yeah, And I should have showed you

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pictures because we're putting the pictures on. I should have showed you where you

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lived. Have sorry. Then you
see your stand, I'll say you would

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never buy a car, and I
don't think he's sold many cars. If

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you saw his home, well he
must not be making a lot of money

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at the job because he's committing larcenye
and burglary and camper Oh no, and

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it's not a mobile home. It's
a camper that you'd put like you'd hitch

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to your chouck and go camping it. But then he made a tarp over

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it for like a porch. You're
getting an idea? Yeah, oh nice,

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lovely h jinks you owe me a
coke. We hang out. We

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hang out way too much. On
August sixth of twenty thirteen, at around

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nine pm, a passerby spotted what
looked like Alexis's vehicle or her dad's car

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in a parking lot. There was
about fifteen twenty police officers. They surrounded

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this white sedan in Charlottesville and it
was Alexis's car. It was found at

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the Carmike Imax Movie Theater and that
was about a half a mile out from

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where Alexis worked. She worked at
a consignment shop called Kid to Kid okay

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used kids close. Yeah, these
dogs traced ascent from the car to these

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Arden Place apartments in East Rio on
East Rio Road, which was less than

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a mile from where Alexis car was
found. Now we're into August seventh,

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it's day four and there's about fifty
law enforcement officers searching thirty mile area north

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and south of Lovingston, and they're
paying really close attention to US Highway twenty

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nine because that is where the route
she would have taken and close to where

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her phone was. They gathered all
this information, they talked to everybody try

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to figure out who Alexis might have
been with. And again, Alexis family

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knew like she didn't run away.
They said she's a good girl, and

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this whole thing is just really unbelievable, and they were all over the media

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and it's really sad to see them
on the news. Investigators were pursuing leads,

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but they kept it very hush hush, you know, they didn't want

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to reveal what they knew. On
August eighth of twenty thirteen, five days

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into her disappearance, the National Center
for Missing and Exploited Children added Alexis information

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to it, and the FBI updated
their bulletins and confirm that her phone is

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not at There was a visual held, hundreds of people came and it was

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at the football field, so that's
where I got the football. Apart from

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the family stated at the visual,
this has been the longest week. Oh,

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we were just stuck on last Saturday
Sunday, and Alexis's aunt, Angela

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Taylor added, it just feels like
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They put pink ribbons all over in
honor of her. So on August

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ninth, twenty thirteen, the FBI
had moved their investigation from the state level

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to the national level. They began
canvassing businesses on a road called Angus Road

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in Charlottesville, Virginia. They were
looking to identify photos of individuals that were

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it had been seen on their surveillance
footage, and they announced that they were

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trying to identify one particular person,
the one with the tattoos all over her,

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which was fine, tattoos are lovely, but he's got like a big

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bird right there, which is going
to stand out. If you commit a

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crime, that's true. On August
eleventh, twenty thirteen, they went to

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Randy D. Hailer's trailer, his
camper, it's a camp and they officially

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identified him as a suspect. And
when they got there they noticed something.

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The first time they were there,
remember he said, oh, like I

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didn't I don't know her, blah
blah blah. Well, when they got

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there, they they had with search
warrant and they found a broken fingernail in

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the carpet and what looked like a
nose ring which she had, and one

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long piece of hair that was African
American all on the floor. Hmm.

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Not a good sign. No,
So, okay, obviously there's something going

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on with Randy. They do DNA, they do DNA testing and it matted.

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The hair had a hair follicle.
Thank you, you're welcome, and

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the DNA matched elect and so did
the fingernail. So they're trying to figure

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out what happened. Did they go
to They were looking at CCTV footage and

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they can see that Randy Taylor had
went to a novelty store we'll call it

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okay for adults, okay, And
forty five minutes before Alexis disappeared. He

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rented two pornos. Okay, it's
a daffy duck tattoo. Daffy duck.

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Okay, he rented two pornos before
she disappeared. It's August twelfth, now

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in twenty thirteen. Investigators are continuing
to search the grounds near Canary Loop where

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Taylor was living. And there was
a press conference how then they actually gave

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some information about the case. They
coned the area around Randy's camper and they

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hauled away his camper was so you
know, it was filled with shite.

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It's gross. Yeah, And I
mean it's almost a week later when they

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visit and he hasn't cleaned up.
So you bet it will tell you something,

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right, it's gross. So he
didn't run a vacuum or anything.

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No, and I think he stole
electricity from oh lovely some something to get

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it going. So Margaret, they're
back. They're back there at his camera.

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Margaret Turner, that's a grandmother of
Randy's son, and she owned the

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property where they've been living, stated
that Randy lived in this camper trailer and

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he ran the electricity from an abandoned
home nearby. Oh, an abandon home.

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I guessing that electric bill. Yeah, huh, maybe somebody was running

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it. Nobody was running at the
time. I don't know. He figured

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it out, tom Asks managed to
figure it out, right, hmm.

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Again, Randy was seen with you
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something that's really strange is that Alexis's
aunt recognized Randy when the police showed her

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a photo. I mean, it's
got daffy duck there. He had sold

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her a car three years earlier.
It's my world, yeah, right,

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and she found him to be really
creepy, but I guess it was a

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really good deal on the car.
She couldn't resist it. Right, it's

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such a good deal, I'll buy
it anyway. The police end up getting

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a second search warrant, and when
they do, underneath Randy's gross discussing Nancy

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se couch, they find a shirt
of his and then they open up the

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shirt. There are a pair of
fake eyelashes and tons of what is it?

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Hair extensions? Yes, thank you, you're welcome hair extensions in its

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eyelashes and hair extensions. Yeah,
it's really sad, that is It's terrible,

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Like, it's really really sad.
So they have broken nail. They

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have a strand of hair, they
have her nose ring and then hair extensions

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and fake eyelashes, And why would
he keep it? I know that's the

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second time they're searching, so fucking
weird. Yeah, there's a second time,

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and you're just out right just clean
under your couch or not? He

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probably who knows? Did he forget
about it? I think that he wanted

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to keep it as a trophy.
Randy appears in court on August thirteenth,

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and he's got this hearing for felony
abduction, and it was handled by the

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prosecutor. Of course, again he
started he denied knowing her, No,

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no, no, but eventually he
admitted that Alexis had been in his camper.

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I mean, what's he's gonna Yeah, of course, like really,

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we've got her hair, her eyelashes, we have all that. Of course

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he does. Said she came there
with a man he didn't know, and

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he claimed not to know the man's
name, but the man bought sixty dollars

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worth of marijuana from him. He
stated that while they were there, the

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man in him had some beer,
but Alexis didn't drink any beer, and

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the man in him smoked weed,
but Alexis didn't smoke any weed. So

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she's on her way to get her
hair done for her senior pictures, and

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she went alone and she just all
of a sudden shows up at his trailer

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with some guy to buy weed.
Yes, okay, that's the story.

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That's his story, Okay. Randy
claims that Alexis and this man went and

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went their own way in separate view
gulls, and he maintained his innocence.

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Sure, he said the man was
It was a black man with Alexis,

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and they should be really looking for
him. Oh, of course. Yeah,

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he's the real perpetrator. He was
in his early twenties, he had

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corn rows and was driving in nineteen
ninety sedan with twenty two inch rims.

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Oh nice, he's got the details. Yeah he does. Didn't remember Alexis,

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didn't remember a bit else, but
he remembered those. But then he

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remembered Alexis and oh the rims okay, and all that. So I told

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you they got that search warrant.
They found all the stuff. His attorneys

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said. Finding a hare in the
residence doesn't mean he killed her or abducted

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her, and finding his hair actually, yes, and the eyelashes. She

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just left them there right under.
She decided she had had enough with the

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eyelashes and the hair sensions, and
she left them behind. Her family did

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not believe that she went there with
some unknown black male with corn rolls.

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It didn't make any sense. It
doesn't make any sense to me. And

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I don't even know this poor girl. They said, it's a big fat

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pack of lies. Yeah, and
she wasn't the kind of kid that would

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hang out at a camper with Randy. I just came nasty ass, Randy.

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I'm just stuck on the fact she
had an appointment to be somewhere,

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right, Like she wasn't just out
and within seventeen minutes of being at the

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gas station, her phone is off
right, and like she's not out,

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just like fucking around, you know, driving around in her dad's car,

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like looking for something to do.
She had something and somewhere to be,

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so her family stated that she would
have considered someone like Randy Taylor to look

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like some sort of freak yeah,
and not go with them. So tell

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you a little bit more about Randy
Taylor. He is a suspect in the

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murder of Samantha Clark, who disappeared
in twenty ten. He Samantha lived at

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the same trailer park area as him, and she disappeared somewhat in the middle

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of the night and during the day
and at night. He had called her

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six times, so she was like
neighbors with him, and she just disappeared

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and he was the last person to
talk to her six times that night.

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Was she a teenager as well?
Yes, she was nineteen nineteen. Very

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very interesting, right, right,
Like, why do they keep picking on

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poor Randy? Right? I know
I'm being sarcastic, but hmmm. They

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ended up putting a GPS on his
car. There's a whole lot of stuff

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that's just really not worth talking about. But on August twentieth of twenty thirteen,

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he was ordered to stand trial.
And they'd gotten all their search warrants

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and everything was found to be deemed
appropriate. They had, but they still

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didn't have Alexis's body. Right,
where is Alexis? They searched everywhere.

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Randy lived by a river, so
dive teams searched the river a ten mile

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span and they were on canoes,
kayaks, rafts, everybody's looking. They

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never found her, but they did
find a red sweater that was caught beneath

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rock and they investigated it, but
it had no it had no connection.

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On September third, twenty thirteen,
investigators announced that they had found Alexis's cell

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phone in the search in searching Randy's
residence. And it was really interesting.

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Did you know that they used dogs
and dogs can smell some sort of glue

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on cell phones. No, I
didn't know that really, uh huh?

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And so the dogs found the phone
in the woods by Randy's house. Sniffer

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dogs for cell phones. Those dogs
are amazing. Who knew? I know

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there's an answer too. Huh oh, yeah, that's right. They can,

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so they can. It's amazing.
They looked at her phone. It

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was smashed, it was destroyed,
and they were hoping to get coordinates from

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it and helped see her precise location, and basically they couldn't. But it

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was only fifty feet from Randy's place, fifty feet But he didn't do it.

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He didn't do it. No,
she decided when she left to smash

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her phone and throw it in the
woods fifty feet away. She was never

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there. Oh wait, she was
there there. He gets so confusing.

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She was with that guy and sure, so now there's a new person of

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interest, believe it or not really, because Randy is like, I didn't

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do it, and he says,
there's this black guy with a corn roads

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right yep. In late September of
twenty thirteen, authorities identified a new person.

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They contacted the man that Randy described
to them as the person with Alexis

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and he was a real guy.
He was a real guy. Okay,

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he was a real guy. I
was thinking he just made him up.

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Well, it was a guy that
he knew, okay. And this guy,

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yes, his name was Damien.
And this guy was one hundreds of

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miles away. So Randy actually said
I I did know the guy. So

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his story changes again. I knew
the guy. His name is Damien.

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These are all red flags to the
police. Damien had an alibi. He

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was in Alabama, hundreds of miles
for the wayness yeah right, otherwise you

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look into Damien, right, And
they did start so there's a gag order.

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They searched his property again. He
ends up going to trials. Trial

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starts May first, twenty fourteen,
and took eight hours to find a jury.

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And this is a tiny place.
Everybody knows everybody. Yeah, I

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got to find somebody who's like,
oh no, I don't know anything about

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it. I don't know this case. Or even though I know a little

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bit, I can still be impartial, Right, pan are not guilty,

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But I mean they had the DNA
evidence, right, a lot of it.

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His navy blue shirt had some bloodstains
on it that matched her DNA.

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Really, I know, come on, so with a reasonable degree of scientific

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certainty, they could say she was
there, and then the human finger,

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nail fragment, her diamonds studded nose
ringing, a strand of her hair.

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It's just gross. Anyway. They
said there was signs of violence in the

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camper, but they didn't describe exactly
what the violence was. But I'm assuming

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when you have broken nails that is
a sign of violence and blood it's a

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sign of definitely. Yes, I
gotta tell you something really fucked up.

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Oh no, what When they searched
his camper they found a scrap book.

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It was a scrap book of nude
women. K Okay, their heads have

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been cut off, and instead a
picture of his coworkers daughter's head was placed

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where these women's head should be.
Really, imagine that your daughter cut off

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the heads of the pictures and put
in this other woman's head. That's very

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disturbing, extremely weird. That's so
weird, that's so weird. Cuckoo.

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Yeah, there's something wrong with Randy
that is putting it really lightly. Why

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are people like this? I mean
Randy described the photos as glamour shots,

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glamor shots photos. He's superimposed the
blondhaired female who was identified later as the

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daughter of the used car dealerships of
a coworker there where he worked. A

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creep. He's a complete Maybe if
you're her, I know, and your

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head is super imposed? If she
ever met him or did he He just

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see a picture on like this woman's
desk and decide to like take it and

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who knows, right, I don't, I think about the stupidest shit,

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but yeah, fucking weirdo. So. At the trial of the cashier at

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the Liberty gas station testified against Randy, saying he saw him talking with Alexis

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for a few minutes before they both
ended up leaving the station and he held

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the door open for Alexis, and
then video surveillance of the movie theater parking

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lot showed Alexus's car pulling into the
parking lot at around ten PM, but

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they tried to enhance it to see
who's driving it and they couldn't. Roughly

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thirty minutes after that, at around
ten thirty PM, and Applebee's bartender reported

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seeing Randy looking sweaty as he asked
for a if he asked, he asked

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if he could use their phone to
a cab. Oh, okay, he's

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hoofing it to Applebee's and then getting
a cab right like. He said he

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needed a ride. He told the
bartender his friend had passed out. Okay,

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sure, that's nice. And I'm
just gonna leave my friend wherever they

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are, you know, from passed
out and I guess I can't drive their

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car home. Okay, just gonna
leave Tanya passed out. I need to

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get home, So I'm gonna leave
her in her car, in her car,

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and I'm gonna take a tick.
I'll stick a little note on you.

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Yeah, Randy's not too bright.
So cab driver identified Randy and said

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he took him home. They found
inside the camp or or. They also

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found a pellet gun and a buck
knife overholt Oh he's one of the sheriff.

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Stepanies collected two beer bottles for an
all assis and again Randy is sticking

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to the story that Damien Bradley did
it. He did it, he did

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it, but they're like he couldn't
have done it. Bradley testified on the

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stand that he'd never been at Randy's
residence with Alexis, stating, Alexis and

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I have never even been in the
same room together. Like, why the

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hell am I involved in that?
He's pissed, so passed right, Like

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what the fuck? Dude? He
had seen her on Facebook before, but

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he'd never spoken to her in person. He gave his DNA, he didn't

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match. It didn't match anything in
the camper, and yeah, he had

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nothing to do with it. Let's
see what else is interesting? Told you

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the CA nine units found it.
So he was found guilty on me eight,

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twenty fourteen. He found guilty of
on the charges of first degree murder

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in the commission of an abduction Wow
with the intent to defile Wow. Alexis's

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mother, her name was Laura.
Laura Murphy spoke after the verdict was read

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and just talked about how you know, painful it was. I feel so

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bad. Randy got up and tried
to dart for the door. He's like,

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I don't want to hear the shit
not disrespectful. He was then escorted

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out. So Alexis's high school graduation, they honored her within honorary certificate of

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graduation, which is I'm sure it
was very sad. It sounds like she

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was like well liked and popular and
not that it matters, but you know,

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like everybody knew who she was.
It sounded like Taylor ends up,

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Randy ends up going, you know, to prison for two life sentences and

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then they get them for stealing some
Honda four hundred hour dirt like, and

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they're just going after him for everything
and he does it adds a little more

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time to it. So he had
stolen these items the day before that she

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had disappeared. But time goes by, you know, he's doing he's doing

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his time, and eventually he says
where her body is? He does he

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does? He admits it. Yes, the police found her body four miles

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away from his place, and he
had buried her. And what they suspect

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happened is they believe that he lured
her to his camper, that she went

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willingly just to get a small bag
of weed, and she was there he

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brutally, statistically raped her, and
he admitted he suffocated her. That's how

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she died. So he confessed,
Yeah, he suffocated her. As far

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as Samantha, she's a missing person
still. And you know it's really interesting,

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isn't. Then authorities started looking at
all the runaways and stuff, and

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there's eighteen girls that fit the age
profile in that small area disappeared. I

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mean statistically, if you compare like
the disappearances with probably the local population,

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it's probably like ten. Yeah,
right, Like it's a huge statistic.

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Wow, So he could be a
serial killer. Yeah, they suspect that

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for twenty years, he's been probably
really getting away with it. That's crazy.

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He's never admitted to anything else.
No, no, no, But

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Samanda lived oh yeah, next to
him, and he's the last person to

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talk to her and she's never been
seen since. Terrible. God, I'm

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surprised. Why didn't he just come
out with it. It's not like he's

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going anywhere. He's going to die
in prison. I don't know. He

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was saying he was innocent up until. Yeah, it took seven years for

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him to admit that he killed her. Yeah, seven years. At first,

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he tried to strike a deal,
and you know, he's innocent of

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course, but he said, okay, if you give me twenty years,

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I'll tell you where the body is
my medicent Yeah, and they were like

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fuck you, yeah, and they
wouldn't do it, and they give him

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to life sentences and then eventually seven
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and that he's suffocated. But I'm
sure he hurt her very badly. Yeah,

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I'm sure for oh yeah, because
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her nails broke her nose for this
nanty campers or girl I know,

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only seventeen years old. I'm so
sorry for her and her famamily. Her

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family seems very amazing and they have
a foundation for her setup. So that

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is the story of Alexis Murphy.
Well, thank you, te Leia,

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thank you story. I know it's
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