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Speaker 1: Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is

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not intended for all audiences.

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Speaker 2: Listener discretion is advised.

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Speaker 3: This man has came in and told my foundation doll

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what I helped built. I feel like it should be

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an eye four I and a lot of things would

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change in this world.

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Speaker 1: On Friday, December eleventh, twenty fifteen, could Jvi a globe

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got up and immediately started getting ready for work. She

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was nervous but confident. That day was her interview for

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a new position at work. She could barely hold in

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her anxiety, so she called her sister Friday.

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Speaker 4: Morning around seven twenty. She faced timed me. We were

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discussing her hair. She just got to them that night.

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It was fresh new.

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Speaker 1: They talked for a bit and it helped. Then she

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headed to work. At the start of the interview, she

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was still a little nervous, but forced a smile. By

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the end, when her boss offered her the position, she

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couldn't have smiled any bigger. Her hard work had paid

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off all of her coworkers through her going away party

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and bought her balloons. At the end of the day,

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she wrote a little message to her work friends on

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the desk she wrote goodbye. After work, Kajavia was dying

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to share the news, so she visited her aunt before

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going home. No one saw.

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Speaker 4: Her again about will Am. Her living work friends caught

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me to let me know that she was missing.

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Speaker 5: Now, is this rare that she would not return home

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for the night.

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Speaker 4: No, she always come home.

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Speaker 5: Did you try calling her own book?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Didn't this globe for turnacal?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 5: And is that unusual?

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Speaker 1: Very Kajavia lived with her boyfriend John Black in his

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house in Lakewood Village. When she didn't come home, he

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was worried and called her sister to let her know.

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It was the early morning hours of Saturday, December twelfth.

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She hadn't been missing for long enough to report her.

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Speaker 4: I got the call she was missing around twelve am.

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I knew I had to call the police about one

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o'clock in the morning, but it wasn't long enough. I

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knew he Jack was going to turn you around because

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it wasn't your own order. The police station was going

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to turn you around because she wasn't gone long enough.

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Speaker 7: In other words, they weren't going to act on it

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if she was only gone for an Hour's what you mean?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: And you knew that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Kuldjavia's sister walked into the Detroit Police department at

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noon the very next day and reported Kajavia in her

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car missing. She'd been missing for less than twenty four hours,

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but her family had already waited long Enough's sister insisted

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that she wouldn't just leave. Someone must have done something

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to her. The police filed the report and even reached

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out to the news media to spread the word. The

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nightly news that Saturday was filled with pictures of Kajavia

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and her two thousand and three gold Chevy Impala.

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Speaker 6: And if anybody has any information on missing Kajavia Globe,

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please call Detroit Police. You can remain anonymous and we'll

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have much more on this family and their search coming

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up on Action News at five o'clock.

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Speaker 1: After filling the missing person's report, her family sprang into action.

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They called relatives and friends, They went out to hand

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out flyers and searched the streets for themselves because they

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feared that if they didn't look for, no one else would.

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But they weren't the only ones looking. Early on December fourteenth,

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two days after reporting Kajavia missing, someone called nine to

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one one Detroit nine.

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Speaker 9: The address of the emergency.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 10: I listened to the news. They says young ladies missing.

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There's been a car on my block a Keeler and Sinkle.

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It's been there for like all day yesterday and I'm

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the only one to live on the block. That says

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gown a corner. He could have company, but it looks

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kind of suspicious. I don't know if this uh is

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suspicious or not, but I think the police should come

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and check this vehicle out.

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Speaker 9: He said, Man, is this an abandoned vehicle or have

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you seen the missing person that you saw this?

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Speaker 10: I seen a girl missing of something and I did

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notice this car disappear from nowhere. And I don't know

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if it's related or not, but I'm thinking maybe the

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police can find out.

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Speaker 1: The caller couldn't have been any clearer. She saw a

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suspicious car resembling the one from all the news reports

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about the missing woman. It had been sitting at the

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end of her block for over a day. She just

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wanted the police to come and check it out, but

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the dispatcher acted like she didn't understand.

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Speaker 10: Okay, acting on the corner Keeler and Finkle, and I

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know this young lady came up missing off telegraph. I

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don't know what kind of car it is, but I

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I'm ma'am.

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Speaker 9: Now, huh, I understand that you said there's an abandoned

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vehicle at the corner of your block. My question to

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you is, what does that have to do with the

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missing young lady.

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Speaker 10: I don't know. It just s looks suspicious to me

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that their car is there and I've never seen it before.

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Speaker 9: That's fine, the abandoned vehicle. We requested for that, but

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I'm try to understand where does the young lady come

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in at uh.

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Speaker 10: I don't know. I make you said, because telor I

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didn't wanna go up close to it. But they say

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she has some kind of impala come goal and in

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the car looks like it's like a d a Tannish okay.

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Speaker 9: Pannel with oldish color. So what you're saying looks like

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the car that they described on television.

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Speaker 10: I'm kind of ignoro when it comes to cars, but

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I know which Tannish goal and and and it disappears there,

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and I know, I know I lived near the telegraph

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and I'm just kind of like, you know, I don't

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wanna walk around the car and bring no attention about that.

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Speaker 9: Oh, I'm ma'am. Take a deep rest.

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Speaker 1: I mean talk about hating your job. I get it.

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A lot of people don't like their job, but you're

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kind of doing something important, Lady. Maybe a career in

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the DMV or the local post office would be more appropriate,

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better suit it for this Black Karen than a job

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where actual human beings are physically at risk. Maybe the

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only people who have actual empathy should be hired for

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these jobs. But who the hell am I to say?

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The caller had done the math a gold car, an

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empty block, and a missing woman. You don't have to

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be elon musk to figure it out. I mean, maybe

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these things are related, but maybe they're not. Either way,

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it's the cops job to figure it out, not the

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person reporting it. But somehow the dispatcher couldn't or wouldn't

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connect the dots.

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Speaker 9: Take a deep breath for me, because you're talking really

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fast the fragments, and I'm trying to understand what you're saying.

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Speaker 1: Apparently that seems to be a challenge.

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Speaker 9: So what you're saying is that you heard this on

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the news, you looked outside yesterday, you saw this vehicle,

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and it matches the vehicle that you heard on the news.

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Speaker 10: I didn't look outside. I mean, it's just like I

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was outside in the morning, like I'm outside every Sunday,

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and I noticed this car that has been there all day,

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and I baked out the window today and it's still there.

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Speaker 11: And I have no.

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Speaker 9: Idea he looked out. You looked outside and you saw

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the vehicle that you believe has something to do with

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what you heard on the news. Is that what I

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understand it is that what I'm understanding you to say.

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Now it could be.

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Speaker 10: Because it's in front of abandoned house and that's all

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the land as homes with my block, and there's only

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one resident and I know that's not his car. So

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that's what I'm saying. It's like, this is there and

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there's no homes here occupiably other than mine and the

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guy who's down on the corner unless he has come.

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Speaker 9: Now you're going a mile a minute again.

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Speaker 10: Okay, I'm sorry from wasting your time.

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Speaker 9: You're not wasting my time. But man, what.

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Speaker 10: Happens happened at That's why people.

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Speaker 11: Don't like to call.

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Speaker 9: I'm trying to under sustain it, don't mask it, don't

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matter no, Okay, what happens happened when Detroit.

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Speaker 10: To shoot happens all the time.

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Speaker 1: In Detroit, shit does happen all the time. That is true.

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In twenty fifteen, Detroit citizens had been battling urban decay

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for decades. It was a vicious cycle where fewer people

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meant less money. Less money meant fewer businesses invested in

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the neighborhood. With fewer businesses, there were fewer jobs, so

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more people would move away, taking their money with them,

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so on and so forth. Abandoned buildings and homes were everywhere,

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especially on the West Side. There were whole streets of

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empty homes with sagging porches and boarded up windows. With

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over one hundred thousand abandoned structures, the city couldn't keep up,

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and those that remained in these neighborhoods paid the price. Brightmore,

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where the car was found was one of the hardest hit,

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with something like thirty percent of all structures abandoned. Vacant

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lots became illegal dumping grounds, and unoccupied homes became hubs

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for criminal activity. Two years earlier, the city filed for

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bankruptcy and lost nearly forty percent of the police force.

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Now neighborhoods on the West Side had high poverty and

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crime rates, with little police presence and slow response times.

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This led to rampant crime. Of course, the good people

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left in the community rarely talked to the cops because

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of distrust for authorities and fear of criminal retaliation. And

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even when they did, even when someone tried to help,

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the system was stretched so thin that the police didn't

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realize they had already gotten a nine to one one

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call about Kajavia's car the day before.

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Speaker 11: I just saw a news reports about the young.

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Speaker 12: Shatama Chatham. Yeah in single Yeah, one block the north

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of Flint Finkeel, the young lady that was missing. Okay,

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says O three Golden Pellar.

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Speaker 9: You said, the young lady that was missing.

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Speaker 11: See, I just saw a news report. I saw the

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car earlier today. I'm doing a job on that street

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and as far as on the that would be the

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west side of Chadow Man. You know, everything is taking

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on that side, so it was odd. And then I

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just saw the news report. So I rode by to

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check the license plate on the car, and that's the

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car AFF nine six. Okay.

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Speaker 9: Now I'm not familiar with what's going on. So I

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just saw it.

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Speaker 12: Say no, no, no, I can Okay.

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Speaker 9: They're talking about but what is this incident about?

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Speaker 12: A young lady's missing they're looking for and what's does

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car got to do with her?

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Speaker 11: This was the car she was last seen driving.

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Speaker 9: Okay, so I need to know the exact location that

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was there?

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Speaker 11: Okay, shadows one block north of Sinkle's right there, like

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near the corner. Anyway, I'm gonna put this request there, Okay,

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all right?

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Speaker 1: The caller had to explain it three times? Is it me?

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Or do you not need a basic ged to get

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a job as a dispatcher in Detroit? Is every dispatcher

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in Detroit completely fucking retarded? Seems like that's the case.

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Then the dispatcher submits a request. This is a report

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about finding a missing woman's car. This shouldn't be a request,

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should be a priority. Should get off your ass. This

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call wasn't being taken seriously at all. It's unclear why

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this call didn't get any attention. Maybe it was a

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shift change, Maybe it somehow just got lost in the shuffle.

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Maybe they didn't have an officer to send her. Maybe

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they just didn't give up. Fuck Kajavi's family didn't know

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a call had already been ignored, but they didn't have to.

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In their neighborhood, they learned not to count on help

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that may never come. Their loved one had been gone

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for too long, and they weren't gonna wait for police

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to find her.

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Speaker 13: We're gonna be out here every day until we find her.

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And whoever got our sister, your best bet. If you

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believe in God her, if you love yourself, send our

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sister home. Send our sister home, because God ain't sleep,

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and please believe it ain't. None of us got no

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sleep either, and we ain't getting none until you come home.

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Speaker 1: Kajavia Globe was last seen on the afternoon of Friday,

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December eleventh. She had just gotten a promotion at work,

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celebrated with balloons and goodbyes. After work, she visited her

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aunt to share the news. That night, she never came home.

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Her car was spotted two days later on Sunday night,

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but police never responded. Monday morning, another call came in.

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This time officers were dispatched, but when prepared for what

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they would find, officers finally arrived at the corner of

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Chatham and Finkel on the morning of Monday December fourteenth,

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with no real sense of urgency. It was an hour

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after the nine to one one call put it that way.

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Dispatch never even mentioned the possible connection to a missing woman.

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Speaker 5: The area where this vehicle was located. What kind of

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area is this?

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Speaker 7: A lot of It's a large field, a lot of

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vacant homes. There's probably a handful of occupied homes in

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that area.

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Speaker 1: The gold car was parked at the end of the

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block in front of a vacant house. The street was

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filled with empty lots and unoccupied homes in disrepair. Only

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a couple of families actually lived on the street. The

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officer arrived and followed procedure running the plate number through

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the system.

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Speaker 7: The license plate was Adam Frank Frank nine.

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Speaker 1: Six AFF nine two six Kajavia's plate number, just like

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the ignored nine to one to one call set. The

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first caller had already given them the plate number. They'd

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had a chance to find her and missed it. While

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waiting for the licensed plate search to come back, he

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walked up to the car and looked inside.

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Speaker 7: Looked in through the window. I answered a purse on

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the front passers seat. Balloons were in the back seat.

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I observed red drice mirrors that appeared to be blooded

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in the center council cup.

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Speaker 1: Her purse was still on the seat. The balloons from

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her promotion party hovered silently in the back. It was

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Kajavia's car and there was no sign of her, but

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the blood in the car made the situation a much

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higher priority.

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Speaker 14: As we recovered the vehicle, there was evidence of foul play.

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Speaker 1: It proved something had happened to her. Kajavia could be

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somewhere hurt or worse. This was no longer just a

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missing person's case.

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Speaker 6: So many loved ones out here for Kajavia, who again

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many call Nucy, including her sister here Tracy. Tracy, let

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me ask you, first of all, what are police telling

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you at this point?

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Speaker 15: Uh?

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Speaker 13: Pretty much. They're telling us that, yeah, they're searcheen for

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you know, we all came out to do our search.

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But they have the state police coming out, they have

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other Detroit police coming out. They also have the K

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nine unit coming out as well, So we don't wanna,

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you know, mess up their investigations, so they want to

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get theirs done first. And then they said, we're more

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than welcome to you know, begin our search.

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Speaker 6: So this what you guys are gonna do? You see

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we waiting.

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Speaker 16: This is a really rough area and somewhere we wantso

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said would never come. It's a lot of wooded areas,

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it's a lot of outside areas.

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Speaker 3: We just want to look and.

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Speaker 16: Make sure nothing no blood, no no stone unturned turned.

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Speaker 1: The police started searching the immediate area. They searched in

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all directions for blocks. They even searched the banks of

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the Rouge River. Meanwhile, sanitation manager got an unusual report

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a few miles away.

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Speaker 5: Now, were you alerted to something by one of your

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drive yes?

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Speaker 17: Money, okay?

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Speaker 5: And do you know about what time?

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Speaker 18: That was maybe about nine thirty a years and what

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were you alerted that there was a body in one

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of the containers that he serves.

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Speaker 1: You'd never gotten a report like that before. He immediately

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drove over the Fielding Street between Kiptford and seven mile

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uh went.

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Speaker 19: And h researched the information I got, checked all the

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cans to make sure there was no body.

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Speaker 1: He walked up and down the street, checking every trash

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can on the curb. He didn't find anything. But as

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a city employee, he wasn't allowed on private property. So

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if the trash can was next to the house. He

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couldn't check it.

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Speaker 11: You know.

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Speaker 19: It kind of stuck with me, and a few hours

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later one of my drivers got sick and went home,

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so I got on his truck and finished what finished

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his route, and we distilled on my mind. I saw

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the police over on Chatham, and I happened to stop

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and talked to one of the officers and tell them

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about the ordeal.

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Speaker 1: I just went through the sanitation manager, stumbled upon a

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large police presence and relayed the report of a body

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in a trash can with evidence of foul play and

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Kajavio's car. Officers and detectives were sent to Fielding Street

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to look around. Fielding Street looked a lot like Chatham.

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The few homes on the block were run down and

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most were unfit to live in. Yards were full of

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rotting leaves and fallen branches. There were only a handful

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of families left on the block. There was one house

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in particular that stood out one eight five four one

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Fielding Street was an abandoned home, long since boarded up,

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but behind it was a city issued trash can.

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Speaker 20: We got a direct to the backyard by Detective Shade

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worked in harmsize section. We'd get back there and by

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indicated earlier backyard that is heavily laden with the fallen

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leaves debris.

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Speaker 1: Behind the little yellow house was a one car garage

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that somehow seemed in better shape than the house. Next

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to the garage was a large pine tree. At the

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foot of that tree, covered in branches was a trash can.

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Speaker 20: We got pointed to a City of Detroit Corbeille dumpster,

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which is the dumpster that you put in front the

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Alphager weekly trash. In front of the dumpster, there was

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a pile of branches, tree branches that did not follow

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that they were placed there.

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Speaker 1: He called it a dumpster, but really it was your

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typical fifty five gallon trash can with a lid, a handle,

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and wheels.

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Speaker 20: Inside the dumpster, it was the body of a black female.

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Speaker 4: She appeared to.

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Speaker 20: Have on a red or orange tight sweater. Around her

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neck was a Retto orange different Colorado orange rolle, and

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she appeared to be news from the waist down. There

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was a pair of tan boots inside the dumpster. I

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couldn't doubt they were on her feet or just next

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to her feet.

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Speaker 1: Inside the trash can was the body of a young woman.

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She was nude from the waist down. She was put

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in the trash can knees first, with her legs folded

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behind her. On top of her was a bag of trash.

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Speaker 20: Top of the body that there was a plastic bag

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which appeared to contain some.

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Speaker 5: Fiber field material. On the outside of the look at

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a dumpster.

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Speaker 20: There was a small quantity of what appeared to be

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human here.

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Speaker 1: The missing person's case became a homicide investigation, and detectives

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quickly drew some connections between Kajavia's history and the location

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where her body was found. When her family reported her missing,

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they gave the police a list of names. Some were friends,

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some were family, but one was her ex and his

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name was Maxwell Brack. The police interviewed him early on

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and he answered all their questions. It wasn't evasive, he

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never asked for a lawyer, and he seemed to be helpful.

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He admitted to having sex with Kajavia just days before

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she disappeared, even helped her family hand out missing flyers.

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He seemed genuinely concerned about her. That is until the

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police found a body across the street from his current

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girlfriend's house. So they got permission from her to search

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it well.

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Speaker 20: There was plastic bags, clear plastic bags similar to what

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was in the dumpster. In the basement. There was the

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I guess a fiber material that was similar to what

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it peu to be at a plastic bag.

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Speaker 5: Inside the dumpster.

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Speaker 20: There was some article of clothing that we collected and

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collected plastic bags, the fibroom material we saw on the

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base that latex gloves, some clothing in.

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Speaker 1: The trash can on top of Kajavia, detectives found fibrous

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material like the stuffing of a pillow. On the rim

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of the trash can were what looked like human hairs.

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Across the street, they found what seemed to be the

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same kind of stuffing along with dog's hair. They also

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found some similar trash bags and suspicious Latex gloves. And

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the time since Kajavi had gone missing, Maxwell appeared helpful

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and concerned, but just the day before the police found

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her body, he moved out of his girlfriend's house. Other

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detectives were digging into Kajavia's financial records now that it

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was a homicide case. Her debit card was used at

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an ATM after her last known sighting. When detectives viewed

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the camera footage from the ATM, the case took a

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bizarre turn.

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Speaker 21: To your mask of skeleton. Basically, it's very unique hoping

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that some of the public can identify or know someone

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who has that mask. Oh, this is a heinous crime

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and we want to get this suspect and custoder.

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Speaker 1: A man driving Kajavia's car and wearing a Halloween mask

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of a skull used her debit card and pinned to

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withdraw five hundred dollars the night she went missing, and

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the ATM photo released to the public, you can see

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the mylar balloon still in the back of her car.

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There's something eerie and hunting about that. The body and

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the evidence found in Maxwell's girlfriend's house pointed directly to him,

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but the police didn't name him a suspect just yet.

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It didn't matter to Kajavia's family. They were already convinced

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he did it.

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Speaker 22: He was destruction from the jump, and I told my

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daughter it this and that bank transaction, everything just had

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his name written all over it.

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Speaker 8: The death penalty, I want it.

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Speaker 23: I'm gonna ask for it because if you go to prison,

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you're gonna eat every day, You're gonna breathe every day.

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You're gonna still live your life, and you shouldn't live anymore.

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Speaker 8: It should be an eye for eye.

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Speaker 1: Kajavia's family could see the light at the end of

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the tunnel. Soon justice would be served, but the police

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still had to prove Maxwell Brack was responsible for her death.

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They processed the scene throughout the night, and the next

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day they brought in Emily Shepherd, Maxwell's current girlfriend, for questioning.

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It was the morning of December fifteenth, just a day

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after Kajavia's body was found. She sat at a table

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in a well lit room at police headquarters.

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Speaker 24: Ideal fielding earlier day and or following up on an investigation.

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Speaker 4: A person that was living at your house is Maxwell guy,

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that's your.

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Speaker 24: Big boyfriend, right, could possibly be involved in that?

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Speaker 8: How long I've been dating? I'by last year in November?

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Fight is usually harmony on this lage.

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Speaker 24: We got a hot temper from the lad from one

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to team and what would you say.

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Speaker 4: A second teen?

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Speaker 1: Maxwell Brack met Kajavia in high school in two thousand

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and five. He wasn't very tall, only about five seven,

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but he had an undeniable charm. They started dating on

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and off for the next six years until Maxwell was

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arrested for weapons charges and sent to prison for two years.

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As soon as he got out in twenty thirteen, he

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and Kajavia rekindled their relationship. Emily had been dating Maxwell

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for about a year since October twenty fourteen. He lived

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with her for most of twenty fifteen, staying over at

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least a few nights a week, but Emily didn't know

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that Maxwell was dating multiple women, five women in fact,

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including Emily and Kajavia. Well, she didn't know until recently.

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Speaker 4: So she texted you because she's inside your house.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what were you at.

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Speaker 8: Monday?

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Speaker 15: So that would have been a week from now.

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Speaker 1: The Monday before her disappearance on December seventh, Kajavia sent

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Emily a text. The text read, I'm in your house.

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Then she sent a picture of her living room with

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a caption.

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Speaker 8: Second when she's a nice house, I said, I know right.

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She was founded beg by sitting me to video.

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Speaker 1: When Kajavia sent Emily the picture of her living room

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while she was at work, she didn't let it get

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to her. Her response was the exact opposite reaction that

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Kajavia was looking for. So then she sent Emily a video,

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a video of Kajavia and Maxwell having sex in Emily's bed.

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Emily played it cool. She wasn't about to give Maxwell's

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ex girlfriend the satisfaction of pissing her off.

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00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,039
Speaker 4: She was just like bitch dis and you know, I

480
00:27:21,079 --> 00:27:22,920
guess she got mad because.

481
00:27:22,839 --> 00:27:24,559
Speaker 8: I didn't give her the reaction and she.

482
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,079
Speaker 7: Was hoping, so she was taking me miscellaneous bull crab.

483
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:30,599
Speaker 9: That's why he eating my put.

484
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 8: You know, had fun and that.

485
00:27:33,319 --> 00:27:35,559
Speaker 4: Was that was trying to bridge a lobo.

486
00:27:38,319 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 8: Yo guess is.

487
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 1: As good as my But they wouldn't break up stupidly.

488
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,079
What kind of a woman dates a man that goes

489
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:50,640
around philandering like that? Have a little bit of self respect, ladies.

490
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,400
When Emily went home on her lunch break and confronted

491
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,880
Maxwell about the video, he said he knew he was

492
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:01,200
being recorded, but he had no idea the video had

493
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,960
been sent to her. He apologized and explained he was

494
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,400
just being petty because he and Emily hadn't had sex

495
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,599
in a while. He promised her that it would be

496
00:28:11,599 --> 00:28:13,640
the last time and that he would never see her again.

497
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,160
Blah blah blah blah blah. She was still upset, but

498
00:28:17,319 --> 00:28:20,279
somehow she forgave him and went back to work. I

499
00:28:20,279 --> 00:28:23,920
don't get that anyway. That night she stayed out rather

500
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,160
than going home, probably to get even probably spread it

501
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:28,720
out a little bit.

502
00:28:28,799 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 11: You know.

503
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:33,880
Speaker 1: She wouldn't see Maxwell again until early Saturday morning, after

504
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,680
Kajavia's sister started looking for her and reached out to him.

505
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,599
Emily was as casual as could be during her interview.

506
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,359
Only when the detective left the room did she whisper

507
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,640
to herself that this whole situation was fucked up. It

508
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,599
didn't look good. Her interview cast more suspicion on Maxwell,

509
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:58,440
but also on her the love hexagon aside. The police

510
00:28:58,519 --> 00:29:01,160
knew the murderer had to have happened and in her home.

511
00:29:01,559 --> 00:29:05,200
I mean, the body was found across the street. So

512
00:29:05,279 --> 00:29:08,839
I guess there was only one question left to ask

513
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:10,440
what drovers for.

514
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:11,759
Speaker 4: Group on Monday.

515
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 14: She had to say to Carbage out his morning to Science,

516
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,000
said to Carbage Alliance.

517
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 9: Says Carbag shown last couple of weeks, I've been seen

518
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:18,680
on the side of the house.

519
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,799
Speaker 1: Even after all the information Emily provided, there were still

520
00:29:22,839 --> 00:29:27,960
no charges against Maxwell. Kajevia went missing on December eleventh.

521
00:29:28,359 --> 00:29:31,519
Her family filed a report on the twelfth. The first

522
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,400
nine to one one call came in late on the thirteenth.

523
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,559
The nine to one one call that actually got a

524
00:29:37,559 --> 00:29:41,680
police response was early on the fourteenth. By the evening

525
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,000
of the fourteenth, the police had found her body across

526
00:29:45,039 --> 00:29:49,000
from the home of one of Maxwell's girlfriends. There was

527
00:29:49,079 --> 00:29:52,200
a lot of circumstantial evidence already pointing to Maxwell, but

528
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,279
when they talked to Emily, she provided a potential motive.

529
00:29:57,119 --> 00:30:00,480
On the seventh, so four days before Kajava went missing,

530
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:06,640
she had sex with Maxwell and Emily's house and recorded it. Kajavia,

531
00:30:06,799 --> 00:30:10,440
in an act of defiant jealousy, sent a clip to Emily.

532
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:15,599
Maybe Maxwell killed Kajavia because she upset his delicate balance

533
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:20,440
of multiple girlfriends and grifting off of them, something which

534
00:30:20,599 --> 00:30:24,079
seems to be celebrated in black culture. At least that's

535
00:30:24,079 --> 00:30:27,839
what the police were thinking. Kajevia's family and the community

536
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,920
could only feel let down. A week would go by

537
00:30:32,119 --> 00:30:36,599
after Kajevia's body was found, and still no charges were filed,

538
00:30:37,119 --> 00:30:41,319
no arrests were made. It seemed all too obvious who

539
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,880
killed their loved one, and they just couldn't understand what

540
00:30:45,079 --> 00:30:49,720
was taking so long, So they took the streets again

541
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:55,359
this time in protest.

542
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 15: You're not going to forget about us. You're not just

543
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,920
going to leave us here to find for ourselves. If

544
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:03,960
we have to, We're gonna get out here and do

545
00:31:04,039 --> 00:31:04,720
it our sins.

546
00:31:08,279 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 23: I've lost brothers in the city of Detroit, and I'm

547
00:31:11,039 --> 00:31:12,960
tired of it. I'm tired of it.

548
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 15: I have children. How could I not do something about this?

549
00:31:19,839 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: They marched not just for Kajavia, but for all the

550
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:27,680
missing and murdered women across the country. The community was frustrated.

551
00:31:28,359 --> 00:31:32,240
They felt the trade let down by the system. Once again.

552
00:31:33,119 --> 00:31:36,480
To them, there could be no justice without an arrest.

553
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:41,079
By far, Kajavia's mother, Lashanda, was the angriest person in

554
00:31:41,119 --> 00:31:41,480
the room.

555
00:31:42,119 --> 00:31:45,559
Speaker 3: I feel like life is down there Joan for me

556
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,200
and my family. This man has came in and tored

557
00:31:48,279 --> 00:31:51,400
my foundation down what I helped build. I feel like

558
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,839
it should be an iour a and a lot of

559
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:55,559
things will change in this world.

560
00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 1: This wasn't just Kajavia's family, this was a community. Over

561
00:32:00,519 --> 00:32:03,759
one hundred Detroit citizens from the West Side and a

562
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:09,160
city councilwoman marched in chanted Kajavia had been murdered and

563
00:32:09,279 --> 00:32:13,759
everyone knew Maxwell Brack was responsible. They just couldn't understand

564
00:32:14,559 --> 00:32:18,359
why he hadn't been held accountable yet, why wasn't Maxwell

565
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:23,319
in jail. Well, that's where the story of the death

566
00:32:23,319 --> 00:32:28,160
of Kajavia Globe takes yet another turn. The medical examiner

567
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:32,359
couldn't tell exactly how she died.

568
00:32:33,079 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 17: Miss Glow's body was brought into our office within or

569
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:41,519
inside a garbage bin. She was placed knees first into

570
00:32:41,559 --> 00:32:45,559
the bin. That was how she was placed in because

571
00:32:45,599 --> 00:32:48,319
that's how her body was removed from within the bin.

572
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: To conserve any forensic evidence, the police took the entire

573
00:32:52,319 --> 00:32:56,160
trash can to the medical examiner. Other than the fact

574
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,640
she was dead, there were no other substantial injuries.

575
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,359
Speaker 17: There was a laceration or tearing the skin on the

576
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,519
left outer surface of the eye, and also there was

577
00:33:06,599 --> 00:33:08,240
boozing to the labia minora.

578
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: The cut on her left eye was small and superficial.

579
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,720
It obviously happened post mortem because it didn't bleed at all,

580
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:21,240
and her bruised labia minora most likely came from consensual sex.

581
00:33:22,279 --> 00:33:26,200
She did have broken fingernails, indicating a struggle, and her

582
00:33:26,319 --> 00:33:29,640
freshly stitched in weave had been ripped half off.

583
00:33:30,279 --> 00:33:33,279
Speaker 17: There were no injuries to any of the organs within

584
00:33:33,319 --> 00:33:33,720
the body.

585
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 5: What about the tops of house? Did you find anything

586
00:33:36,279 --> 00:33:37,200
of No, in the tops of.

587
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 17: Houses, there was nothing that contributed to her death.

588
00:33:40,839 --> 00:33:43,119
Speaker 5: Were you able to determine across death.

589
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: No, Kajavia appeared totally normal inside and out. All the

590
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,880
medical examiner could do was say, what didn't kill her?

591
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 11: Yes?

592
00:33:53,839 --> 00:33:56,599
Speaker 17: I was able to rule out any injury to the body.

593
00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,720
Has ruled out any natural disease processes in her body?

594
00:34:01,799 --> 00:34:04,519
Speaker 5: And were you able to determine a manner of death?

595
00:34:04,799 --> 00:34:05,079
Speaker 8: Yes?

596
00:34:05,359 --> 00:34:08,320
Speaker 17: And what was the manners? Classified as homicide?

597
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,800
Speaker 1: But how can you rule a death of homicide if

598
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,880
you can't tell how they died?

599
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 17: First, there was objective suspicious nature of the death. In

600
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,880
this case, the body was hidden from view. Second, there

601
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:25,119
was no anatomic causes of death. Third, there were no

602
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:30,400
toxicologic causes of death. Fourth, there was no reported environmental

603
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,480
causes that would have resulted in death, such as toxic

604
00:34:34,559 --> 00:34:38,679
gases or extreme temperature changes. And then the last or

605
00:34:38,679 --> 00:34:42,760
fit criteria is that there is no other reasonable cause

606
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:43,159
of death.

607
00:34:43,679 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: I guess that answers that question. You can't put yourself

608
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,880
in a trash can after your death, but with no

609
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:55,039
gunshot or stab wounds, no blood, force trauma, drugs or toxins,

610
00:34:55,800 --> 00:35:00,760
and no ligature marks. Prosecutors couldn't point to Maxwell and say, hey,

611
00:35:01,119 --> 00:35:05,480
he shot her, he strangled her, et cetera. And without that,

612
00:35:05,559 --> 00:35:09,840
they couldn't prove anything at all. They needed more than motive,

613
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:14,639
opportunity and suspicious behavior. Charging Maxwell with the open murder

614
00:35:14,639 --> 00:35:18,519
with a case built entirely on circumstantial evidence was a

615
00:35:18,559 --> 00:35:22,800
big ask. So while the police tried to strengthen their case,

616
00:35:23,639 --> 00:35:28,079
the public only saw an action. The case would stall

617
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:32,519
for weeks as Kajavia's family waited for news. Details of

618
00:35:32,559 --> 00:35:34,199
the autopsy reached the media.

619
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 8: There's no doubt I know she was murdered.

620
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:41,639
Speaker 23: We getting calls about her toxicology report. We didn't even

621
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:45,920
know anything about it. It's on the news, it's on Facebook,

622
00:35:46,039 --> 00:35:48,840
and we just sitting here like send us. We never

623
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,199
was notified by the Medical Examiner Office or homicide.

624
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 8: No one called me.

625
00:35:54,559 --> 00:35:56,599
Speaker 23: No one's ever said this is where we're at with

626
00:35:56,679 --> 00:36:00,159
this case. Nothing from nothing has been nothing. I've been

627
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,679
on their head. I went down there and fossil complaint

628
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:03,480
on geinst the.

629
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: Service Lashonda was demanding answers. She filed a complaint about

630
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:12,000
the lack of transparency and communication from the police department.

631
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:16,480
Still she waited. It took a month for the medical

632
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:22,159
examiner to release a final autopsy report manner of death homicide,

633
00:36:22,599 --> 00:36:28,199
Cause of death undetermined. That didn't answer the question about

634
00:36:28,199 --> 00:36:29,480
the hair, how.

635
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,679
Speaker 16: Did your hair come off your head if it's sung

636
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:32,800
completely down?

637
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: Or the broken fingernails.

638
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 8: It was all like she was fighting.

639
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,039
Speaker 25: They was all not cut chip like you fighting.

640
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 23: You got somebody out here thinking they have got away with.

641
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:45,760
Speaker 6: Murder, is ready to help in your mind?

642
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 8: Who's behind that mask? No, it's none, not at all.

643
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: When the body of Kajavi A Globe was discovered in

644
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,320
a trash can across the street from Maxwell Brack's current

645
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:31,119
girlfriend's house, the case of her disappearance and murder seemed

646
00:37:31,159 --> 00:37:36,599
all but solved. Maxwell had motive, opportunity and a disturbing

647
00:37:36,679 --> 00:37:41,159
pattern for using women. All the circumstantial evidence pointed directly

648
00:37:41,199 --> 00:37:46,000
to him, but it wasn't enough. The medical examiner couldn't

649
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,840
say exactly how Kajavi Ha died. She had no wounds,

650
00:37:50,199 --> 00:37:53,800
no toxins or drugs in her system, just a dead

651
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,119
body hidden and a trash can. But investigators knew that

652
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:03,360
some methods like ciation or smothering couldn't take a life

653
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:07,480
without leaving any signs. Because there was no clear cause

654
00:38:07,519 --> 00:38:11,559
of death, prosecutors hesitated and the police were forced to

655
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:15,639
press on to the family and the community. The case

656
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:19,760
stalled and weeks passed as the family waited for justice.

657
00:38:20,599 --> 00:38:23,519
But then a woman spoke up, what.

658
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:27,559
Speaker 24: We were doing here, Well, I shouldn't come down. We're

659
00:38:27,559 --> 00:38:29,480
going to trying to bring some clothes into the case.

660
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,800
Speaker 8: And that wasn't this case that this is just terrible?

661
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:34,119
Speaker 10: Is this?

662
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:37,800
Speaker 8: You know, it gets to the point that you just

663
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:41,000
need to look at the turn the TV on this articles.

664
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 6: We are.

665
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:51,320
Speaker 26: We've been working in a lot of hours and we've

666
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:55,679
done a lot, you know, we've kind of got idea

667
00:38:55,559 --> 00:38:56,400
the direction.

668
00:38:56,199 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 24: That we're going with the going well, we just need

669
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,199
a little bit of help. And the fact is we're

670
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,760
just having been did That's why we saying that, that's

671
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:08,039
why we're trying to back out today, just to kind

672
00:39:08,039 --> 00:39:11,280
of see if there's anything that we missed. And when

673
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,239
we talked to your husband and expressed it that there

674
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,840
was some information that you may have you think you

675
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:17,400
can help us.

676
00:39:18,159 --> 00:39:20,039
Speaker 8: I might be want to help you guys.

677
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,280
Speaker 1: Tina Morale was one of the few residents living on

678
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:26,760
Fielding Street. She had seen the neighborhood and it's heyday

679
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,400
and watched its entire decline.

680
00:39:29,679 --> 00:39:31,559
Speaker 14: And I'm mena just tell you about my neighbors that

681
00:39:32,079 --> 00:39:36,039
hete my neighbors and ones I don't even know them.

682
00:39:36,159 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 8: I know, whore ones on the right.

683
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:37,679
Speaker 11: I know.

684
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:39,760
Speaker 14: I hate going on the right. I hate goes on

685
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,960
the left. I deal with the ones across the street.

686
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,639
People are just strange to me these days. It's not

687
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:52,760
like the old days. Not like the old days. We

688
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,559
just had a family get together and we were sitting

689
00:39:55,599 --> 00:39:59,280
there talking how we used to know every family on

690
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:03,519
the block. How many kids they head going to school

691
00:40:03,519 --> 00:40:08,199
where I don't know everybody. Now doesn't happen.

692
00:40:09,119 --> 00:40:13,039
Speaker 8: It's a shame. I'm scared of young people's you know.

693
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's terrible.

694
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,199
Speaker 21: Yeah, young people, especially when they don't have the same

695
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:21,920
value as you do.

696
00:40:22,039 --> 00:40:23,760
Speaker 4: You don't know what they're thinking.

697
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:27,639
Speaker 8: And don't think, and they don't care, and it's it's

698
00:40:27,679 --> 00:40:30,000
a shame. It's a It's something I tell my son.

699
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,000
I said, well, I need.

700
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:33,760
Speaker 14: To look at the news because I need to know

701
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:38,440
where criminal Sorry, that's terrible and I mean, and it's

702
00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:42,760
like you have to know where they are beyond the

703
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,559
big gid. Like I said, I have nieces and nephews

704
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:49,679
and nieces and especially in our families, mostly girl and

705
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:50,679
I'm always telling them.

706
00:40:50,679 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 8: You have to be on your p's and q's. You

707
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,599
got to know what's going on in your neighborhood. You

708
00:40:54,639 --> 00:40:57,159
need to know where this rapist is or what's going

709
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:57,639
on here.

710
00:40:57,719 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 14: You have to know these things cause you guys gonna

711
00:41:00,119 --> 00:41:04,639
have to look out because young girls and your victims.

712
00:41:05,039 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 27: It's almost like if everybody had your values or you worked,

713
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,760
your husband work, and you're raising a family there, when

714
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:17,760
everyone around you has that same same mentality, you find

715
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:21,119
yourself it's a little easier to be social with people.

716
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:25,000
But when you don't know what people's motives are, or

717
00:41:25,079 --> 00:41:27,760
you do know because you see what's going on, it

718
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,880
makes you just want to disconnect, you know what I mean.

719
00:41:32,199 --> 00:41:36,760
Speaker 1: As she watched her neighborhood deteriorate, she became more isolated.

720
00:41:37,599 --> 00:41:40,000
She didn't socialize with most of her neighbors because she

721
00:41:40,079 --> 00:41:44,599
disapproved of their lifestyles. She feared the younger generations because

722
00:41:44,599 --> 00:41:48,000
they didn't act right and didn't seem to care about anything.

723
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,320
She sat on her porch in front of her picture

724
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:55,880
window and just watched her once great neighborhood become overrun

725
00:41:55,920 --> 00:42:01,159
with crime and violence. That is until she saw something

726
00:42:01,199 --> 00:42:04,199
that she could not keep quiet about.

727
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 14: Oh what time was it?

728
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 28: Something that Juli attention?

729
00:42:08,159 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 21: It was?

730
00:42:08,679 --> 00:42:11,119
Speaker 14: It was during the day, about one two o'clock in

731
00:42:11,159 --> 00:42:11,800
the afternoon.

732
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,079
Speaker 8: And it wasn't the drew attention.

733
00:42:16,039 --> 00:42:19,639
Speaker 14: Well, it was this guy taking his garbage can across

734
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:21,119
to a vacant house, it was.

735
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,159
Speaker 8: And he set in front of the house where some

736
00:42:23,159 --> 00:42:23,840
people take.

737
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,599
Speaker 27: Their garbage, put it on the opposite side of the street.

738
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:31,320
Speaker 8: Right, But he kept going back and forth. And that's

739
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:34,280
what really was he dragging the garbage can over there?

740
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:34,599
Speaker 22: Was it?

741
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 8: What was when he said he was going back for Yeah, he.

742
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,159
Speaker 14: Was because whatever house he was coming out of, I

743
00:42:40,159 --> 00:42:43,480
didn't see what house he came out of. And he

744
00:42:43,559 --> 00:42:46,159
took the garbage can and he dragged it across the

745
00:42:46,199 --> 00:42:48,760
street with you know, the first time. And you know,

746
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,119
like I said, this is garbage can pick up there

747
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:52,639
Sunday he takes the garbage out.

748
00:42:52,519 --> 00:42:56,559
Speaker 8: Because they come on to that And I sit on

749
00:42:56,599 --> 00:42:58,800
my couch right there cause I got the picture window

750
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:00,719
there on and I sit and the guards.

751
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,599
Speaker 14: I was sick, so I'm sitting on the couch and

752
00:43:03,599 --> 00:43:09,079
I'm just look out. And he came back out and

753
00:43:09,159 --> 00:43:11,079
he stood there on the phone. And unally, if he

754
00:43:11,159 --> 00:43:12,199
go on the phone.

755
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:14,679
Speaker 8: You just kind of notice people be on their phones

756
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:15,199
and stuff.

757
00:43:15,519 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 6: Did you bring came back out?

758
00:43:16,519 --> 00:43:18,599
Speaker 8: Did you go back to the can or yeah? I

759
00:43:18,599 --> 00:43:21,920
mean he stood there next to the Yeah. Then you know,

760
00:43:22,039 --> 00:43:25,360
I started doing something else and doing something in the house.

761
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,119
Speaker 14: A little bit later, maybe an hour or so later,

762
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:32,320
she took the garverage can in the backyard across the street.

763
00:43:33,599 --> 00:43:35,599
But then the garbage can was back on the curve,

764
00:43:36,159 --> 00:43:38,960
and like I said, the next day, that's when.

765
00:43:40,599 --> 00:43:42,519
Speaker 8: Came here and it was like wow.

766
00:43:43,519 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: Tina didn't realize what the man with the trash can

767
00:43:46,599 --> 00:43:50,440
was doing until the police swarmed the next day. Still

768
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:54,000
she said nothing. Her first reaction was to mind her

769
00:43:54,039 --> 00:43:57,800
own business. She didn't want to get involved. She had

770
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,639
seen the others testify in court only to be retaliated

771
00:44:01,679 --> 00:44:05,960
against later. She held her tongue, hoping someone else would

772
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,760
speak up or the police would just solve the case

773
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:12,400
without her. But when the police recanvassed the neighborhood over

774
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:18,039
five weeks later, her husband convinced her otherwise, you're young.

775
00:44:18,159 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 14: Yes, And thank my husband because he said, look, you

776
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:21,920
got four sisters.

777
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:24,159
Speaker 8: If it was your family, remember, and I said, it

778
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,719
is terrible. We've been talking and I was like, I

779
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:34,400
can't sleep there, and but that was awesome. Yeah, well,

780
00:44:34,639 --> 00:44:35,360
I'm glad.

781
00:44:35,079 --> 00:44:37,039
Speaker 24: You can't talk to us because you know this is

782
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:40,840
I just should this could be anybody I remember, and

783
00:44:41,119 --> 00:44:43,400
people should step up. People should want to step up

784
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,599
and do everything, or something like this happens to someone

785
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:47,159
she didn't deserve what she got.

786
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,199
Speaker 8: Well, people are now so scared to say anything. And

787
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,760
he's like, look, you can't be scared. This is supposed

788
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:56,400
to be your neighborhood. How are you going to take

789
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:57,679
your neighborhood food that.

790
00:44:58,599 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 1: You can't be scared if you want to take your

791
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:05,880
neighborhood back. Tina Morel's reluctance to come forward nearly let

792
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:11,440
Maxwell escape justice, but in the end she found the courage,

793
00:45:12,159 --> 00:45:15,639
the kind that communities depend on when the system fails.

794
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:19,280
They asked her to look at this photo lineup, and

795
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:24,760
she picked out Maxwell in seconds. Her testimony transformed the case,

796
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:29,320
taking it from circumstantial evidence to direct evidence. In a

797
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:33,079
city worn down by neglect, it was the people who

798
00:45:33,119 --> 00:45:38,119
stepped up, one neighbor at a time, with enormous courage

799
00:45:38,559 --> 00:45:43,800
to bring the truth to light. On February sixth, twenty sixteen,

800
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:48,840
Wayne County prosecutors finally charged Maxwell with open murder. Under

801
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:52,199
the Michigan law, the jury could consider first her second

802
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,880
degree murder or manslaughter, depending on what the evidence showed.

803
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,679
They also charged him with felony murder tied to the

804
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:04,519
kill happening during the commission of another felony, specifically larceny,

805
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:09,760
since he stole Kajavia's debit card. Additional charges included use

806
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:13,559
of a financial transaction device without consent for withdrawing the

807
00:46:13,559 --> 00:46:17,280
money from an ATM, and mutilation of a dead body

808
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:21,920
because of how he disposed of Kajavia in the trash can.

809
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:25,440
When the news broke that un arrest had been made,

810
00:46:26,199 --> 00:46:30,559
Leshonda was, well, I'll let her tell you.

811
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 29: So much right now. I'm just so happy, tel like

812
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:41,719
I'm gonna have a nervous breakdown. Thank you Jesus, Thank

813
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,840
you Detroit, thank you everybody that's helping.

814
00:46:45,159 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 8: Thank you so much.

815
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,519
Speaker 29: Thank you and they got the right person.

816
00:46:51,039 --> 00:46:52,760
Speaker 8: He didn't have know what to do with that body.

817
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,320
Speaker 29: He wanted that guy truck to pick up my baby,

818
00:46:55,519 --> 00:46:57,239
and she would have been missing forever.

819
00:46:58,079 --> 00:47:02,679
Speaker 25: You will pay every day, baby.

820
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 1: Of course, she said. She always knew it was him

821
00:47:06,039 --> 00:47:07,920
from the very start, when.

822
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 23: I went in and did the missing report. From the jump,

823
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,800
he was the number one suspect. Baby, I knew this

824
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:19,679
straight up from the jump. When I did a missing

825
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:20,599
his name was.

826
00:47:20,559 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 8: The first name.

827
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:25,639
Speaker 1: Lashanda was relieved she would see justice for her daughter Kajavia,

828
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,440
but she would still have to sit through a trial.

829
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:33,360
The case against Maxwell Brack was strong now, thanks to

830
00:47:34,079 --> 00:47:39,039
months of investigation and crucial testimony from Tina Morrel. They

831
00:47:39,039 --> 00:47:42,639
had all the circumstantial evidence. The body was found across

832
00:47:42,679 --> 00:47:45,559
the street from his girlfriend's house, the same girlfriend that

833
00:47:45,599 --> 00:47:50,559
Kajevia was battling for his affection, but the forensic lab

834
00:47:50,599 --> 00:47:53,920
would provide even more evidence in the time it would

835
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:57,800
take to get to trial. Turns out the smeared red

836
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:01,079
substance on her car wasn't blood at all, but that

837
00:48:01,119 --> 00:48:04,280
didn't matter because both the fiber's material and hair are

838
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:08,280
found in and on the trash can matched The fibers

839
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:12,000
and dog hair at Emily's house. But most damning of

840
00:48:12,039 --> 00:48:16,599
all was the DNA found under Kajavia's fingernails. And just

841
00:48:16,639 --> 00:48:19,719
in case you were still suspicious about John Black or Emily,

842
00:48:20,519 --> 00:48:24,000
their DNA was not a match. Only Maxwell Brack was.

843
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:29,000
Then there was the digital evidence, like when Maxwell's cell

844
00:48:29,039 --> 00:48:33,559
phone went dark right after Kajavia's body was found. The

845
00:48:33,599 --> 00:48:37,320
trial of Maxwell Brack started in late August twenty sixteen.

846
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:42,000
For over a week, prosecutors laid out the evidence Kajavia's

847
00:48:42,039 --> 00:48:46,000
last known movements that tangled web of relationships, the surveillance

848
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:50,000
footage at the ATM, the DNA under her fingernails, et cetera.

849
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:54,360
The defense pushed back, of course, arguing the case was

850
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:58,599
built on assumptions and circumstantial threats. They pointed to the

851
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:02,639
lack of clear cause of debt, suggested alternative explanations for

852
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:07,000
the DNA, and question the credibility of witnesses like Emily,

853
00:49:07,639 --> 00:49:12,280
implying jealousy and chaos in the relationships. Maxwell even took

854
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:15,519
the stand, but he just came off as trying to

855
00:49:15,559 --> 00:49:20,519
win sympathy. On August thirty first, twenty sixteen, after less

856
00:49:20,559 --> 00:49:24,719
than a full day of deliberation, the jury returned their

857
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:30,119
verdict guilty of the lesser charge of second degree murder.

858
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:34,320
Speaker 18: We as the jury find him guilty of the lesser

859
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:35,719
offensive second degree murder.

860
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:40,559
Speaker 2: Okay, are members of the jury, please ride and raise

861
00:49:40,599 --> 00:49:45,119
the right hand. Listen to a verdict as reported by

862
00:49:45,159 --> 00:49:47,280
the board. You say up on your own that you

863
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:53,039
finally have been guilty of the lesser offensive second degree murder.

864
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:57,239
Don't say you mister poor person, and don't say you

865
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:58,960
are members of the jury.

866
00:49:59,159 --> 00:49:59,320
Speaker 11: Yes.

867
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 1: After the verdict was read, Maxwell smiled At sentencing. Lashanda

868
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:08,480
was finally able to address the court and Maxwell.

869
00:50:09,119 --> 00:50:12,079
Speaker 25: He was abusive. He broke her nose. He was taking

870
00:50:12,119 --> 00:50:17,239
her down. He was destroying her life. When she decided

871
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:21,880
to say good bye to Maxwell. He took her life

872
00:50:22,119 --> 00:50:25,239
because she was on a road to success. She was

873
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:28,280
gonna drop that zero cause she had not found her.

874
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:32,239
He wrote, he took her bandage, and he don't care.

875
00:50:32,559 --> 00:50:34,800
He ain't showed no remorse, He don't care.

876
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:35,519
Speaker 1: He killed my.

877
00:50:35,559 --> 00:50:39,559
Speaker 3: Baby and she was so dumb she loved this monster.

878
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:42,400
Speaker 8: You took my baby from me.

879
00:50:42,639 --> 00:50:46,559
Speaker 30: Max and I have told you a kajagon leave each

880
00:50:46,599 --> 00:50:50,199
other alone, because one day one of yall can hurt

881
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:50,679
each other.

882
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:52,159
Speaker 8: He was jealous.

883
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:55,199
Speaker 30: I told Kajagon, he's jealous of you mine. You just

884
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:58,599
don't like I said, baby, he don't like you. And

885
00:50:58,719 --> 00:50:59,920
look what we are today.

886
00:51:01,039 --> 00:51:05,559
Speaker 31: This man has destroyed my family honor. Was gonna go

887
00:51:05,639 --> 00:51:09,760
to the Navy August the third. Her mind ain't even right.

888
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:11,280
He just destroyed it.

889
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:15,639
Speaker 28: Do what I say, don't care? He don't care.

890
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:17,119
Speaker 8: That was him at the bank.

891
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 30: I said it from day more because he had on

892
00:51:19,519 --> 00:51:22,000
that man's out of care cause Lucy Fall was sitting

893
00:51:22,079 --> 00:51:24,000
right in his left. A lot of stuff that the

894
00:51:24,079 --> 00:51:28,039
trial was not mentioned. And I am gonna hardly kiss them, hardly.

895
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:31,239
Upset about that too. Some facts that I felt should

896
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:33,719
have been brought out. And I thank you because you

897
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:35,480
called it a couple of times. Why I was like,

898
00:51:35,599 --> 00:51:37,840
I couldn't say it, but you felt it, like, let's

899
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,800
just dealing with this because a lot of people got

900
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:42,000
on that stand was a joke.

901
00:51:42,199 --> 00:51:44,440
Speaker 5: They didn't bring nothing to the table for.

902
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 30: This because he would have got first degree Do you

903
00:51:47,079 --> 00:51:49,480
understand if it would have been ran right, he would

904
00:51:49,599 --> 00:51:52,639
have got a first degree murdered because Max, No, he

905
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:53,039
did it.

906
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 4: That's why he got them flies and didn't pass him out.

907
00:51:56,079 --> 00:51:59,280
Speaker 3: I hate this man. This man has destroyed our family.

908
00:51:59,599 --> 00:52:01,800
This man has took something from me that he can.

909
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:03,519
Speaker 1: Never give it back, never.

910
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 3: And I ast you, Marciet his man life. What was

911
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:12,679
he doing out hand in society? Nothing? He was doing nothing.

912
00:52:13,599 --> 00:52:14,079
Speaker 25: Nothing.

913
00:52:15,039 --> 00:52:18,360
Speaker 1: Lashanda was still so angry that she wanted to go

914
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:24,199
on and on, but the judge made her stop. Even

915
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,679
with Maxwell convicted, she hadn't let go of the bitterness,

916
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:30,840
not just at him, but at the system that had

917
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:34,119
failed her daughter so many times. Before the courtroom doors

918
00:52:34,159 --> 00:52:37,679
ever opened. She had wanted the police to act sooner,

919
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:41,800
the community to protect her better, and the whole process

920
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:46,320
to work faster. For Lashanda, no sentence could erase that

921
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:50,679
feeling that they had been left to fight alone. The

922
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:53,440
judge then addressed Maxwell.

923
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:57,119
Speaker 32: There were all kinds of demands that you were making,

924
00:52:58,639 --> 00:53:03,400
demands that at times I found.

925
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 5: Really just despicable. During this tribe. I didn't like a

926
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:09,360
lot of.

927
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 32: The things that your defense attorney was saying.

928
00:53:12,519 --> 00:53:14,280
Speaker 5: I didn't like a lot of the.

929
00:53:14,039 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 32: Interaction between the two of you at that table. I

930
00:53:17,039 --> 00:53:22,119
thought it was disrespectful. But I knew that that defense

931
00:53:22,159 --> 00:53:26,480
attorney was doing exactly what you were asking him to do,

932
00:53:26,599 --> 00:53:28,519
and that was put on a shelf.

933
00:53:28,559 --> 00:53:31,159
Speaker 1: She went on to Sutton Smackswell to a minimum of

934
00:53:31,199 --> 00:53:35,119
seventy years in prison, with a maximum of one hundred years,

935
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:38,119
and she made sure to let him know that she

936
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:41,960
tacked on the last ten years of that seventy just

937
00:53:42,199 --> 00:53:44,880
for that smile, just to let him know he's a

938
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,400
piece of shit, for that smartness he showed. In the courtroom.

939
00:53:48,159 --> 00:53:52,559
Kajavia Globe's family erupted in applause, and Lashonda raised her

940
00:53:52,679 --> 00:53:58,679
arms and thanked God and justice finally served. In Detroit,

941
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:02,840
they had learned the hard way. Help doesn't always come,

942
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:07,320
and when it does, it can take a while. The

943
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:12,480
system stalls, the police miss calls, somebody doesn't get the memo,

944
00:54:13,159 --> 00:54:17,719
and sometimes justice just stays locked behind closed doors. But

945
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:23,400
not this time. It wasn't the detectives who found Kajavia's car.

946
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:27,480
It wasn't the police who brought her home. It was

947
00:54:27,519 --> 00:54:31,519
a sister who refused to wait, a sanitation worker who

948
00:54:31,559 --> 00:54:36,400
wouldn't ignore a report, a neighbor who stopped watching from

949
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:41,559
behind the glass and spoke up. Justice didn't arrive with sirens.

950
00:54:41,599 --> 00:54:45,079
It was dragged forward by a community that refused to

951
00:54:45,159 --> 00:54:49,960
be ignored by people who made noise when the system

952
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stayed quiet, by a mother who vowed her daughter's name

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would never be forgotten. And in that courtroom, Shonda raised

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her arms. It wasn't just her family's victory. It was

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a triumph for everyone who refused to look away. It

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was a triumph for justice. Before I leave you here,

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I just wanted to take a moment to say thank

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you to everyone that's reached out. Some of you have

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sent me private messages saying, hey, Mike, you seem a

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little angry lately. You okay, and you know, twelve years

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of dealing with the worst of the worst on the planet,

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we'll do that to you. But yeah, I'm fine. Thank

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you very much. Guys really appreciate it. It's really nice

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to you. It's really nice to some of you to

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just reach out, and you know, know that there's a

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human behind this whole apparatus, at least the human that

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you do see. Thanks again to my team of very

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talented producers and writers. This one was written by Evan Ziegelman,

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one of our long time senior producers here at Sword Scale.

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So we hope you liked it and we'll see you

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next time.

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Speaker 28: Stay safe.

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Speaker 1: A reminder that if you do like true crime, there's

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a whole lot more of it on our website sortinscale

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dot com or our app available on iOS and Android devices.

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Go get it and check out the latest episode named Wreckage,

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about a nineteen year old farmer from Utah named Dylan Rounds.

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It's gonna make you cry. I'll put it that way.

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It's gonna make it cry a lot if you like

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that sort of thing.