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<v Speaker 6>You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking

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<v Speaker 6>Every week another fascinating author talking about the most shocking

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<v Speaker 6>and infamous killers in true crime history. True Murder with

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<v Speaker 6>your host, journalist and author Dan Zufanski.

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<v Speaker 7>Good Evening. This episode is brought to you by Audible,

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<v Speaker 7>the world's leading name in digital audiobooks. Nanette Johnston Packard

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<v Speaker 7>Sex divorce like to met meet men at the gym

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<v Speaker 7>and through personal ads. Soon after she began dating millionaire

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<v Speaker 7>Bill McLaughlin. He moved her and her kids into his

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<v Speaker 7>bayfront home in Newport Beach. But one man was never

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<v Speaker 7>enough for Nennette. Eric Napowski, who her NFL linebacker lover,

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<v Speaker 7>fulfilled Thennette's wilder cravings. Together they schemed to make her

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<v Speaker 7>fiance's fortune their own. When McLaughlin was gunned down, authorities

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<v Speaker 7>had suspicions, but no proof. Pulitzer nominated writer Caitlin Rother

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<v Speaker 7>explores this chilling story of a woman who seemed to

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<v Speaker 7>have it all until justice finally had its day. The

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<v Speaker 7>book we're profiling this evening is I'll take care of

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<v Speaker 7>You with my special guest journalist and author, Caitlin Rother.

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<v Speaker 7>Welcome back to the program and thank you for a

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<v Speaker 7>Greenness interview. Kaitlyn Rother.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh, thanks for having me on again. It's always fun.

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<v Speaker 7>Now, it's always my pleasure in our audience as well.

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<v Speaker 7>Now let's get to this my typical question without giving

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<v Speaker 7>too much away, why did you why were you interested

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<v Speaker 7>in this story, and how did you come to write

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<v Speaker 7>this book I'll take care of you.

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<v Speaker 5>Well, this book actually came out of another book that

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<v Speaker 5>I wrote a few books ago, called Dead Reckoning. The

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<v Speaker 5>same police department, the same prosecutor, and actually one of

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<v Speaker 5>the same defense attorneys were all involved in this previous case.

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<v Speaker 5>Same DA investigator as well, who took it up as

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<v Speaker 5>a cold case. But I was working on the other book,

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<v Speaker 5>which came out some years ago, and the detective sergeant

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<v Speaker 5>that I had been working with getting information from and

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<v Speaker 5>following along and calling and nagging him for various things,

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<v Speaker 5>he said, yeah, I'm actually working on this arrest warrant.

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<v Speaker 5>We're going to go after this woman. She was a

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<v Speaker 5>piece of work. And I said, oh, tell me about

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<v Speaker 5>this case. So that being this case, which was a

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<v Speaker 5>cold case by then. It took fifteen years for Annette

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<v Speaker 5>and her lanebacker lover, Eric Naposki to be arrested for

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<v Speaker 5>the murder of Bill McLoughlin. But it was just interesting

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<v Speaker 5>that I was able to follow it from the beginning

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<v Speaker 5>of this second phase and all the way through two

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<v Speaker 5>trials and sentencings and what have you, and was able

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<v Speaker 5>to work with some of the same people on this

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<v Speaker 5>other book. So very different though in terms of the

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<v Speaker 5>way that they handled the investigation. So the Dead Reckoning

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<v Speaker 5>was the Skylar DeLeon's case, and they handled that one beautifully.

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<v Speaker 5>This one did not go so well in the first

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<v Speaker 5>stage of the investigation, in the initial initial stage of it.

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<v Speaker 7>Yes, I interviewed you about Dead Reckoning a few years ago,

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<v Speaker 7>so even not about three or four times now with

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<v Speaker 7>your projects. Yeah, so yeah, yeah.

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<v Speaker 5>If I could just add a little bit. But the

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<v Speaker 5>thing that actually grabbed me more currently in a more

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<v Speaker 5>timely way was I was drawn to this case not

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<v Speaker 5>just because I knew some of the characters, but because

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<v Speaker 5>I really feel like money corrupts, and this case drew

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<v Speaker 5>me for some of the same reasons that the other

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<v Speaker 5>case did. For the greed and the materialism that you see,

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<v Speaker 5>you know, portrayed in shows like The Real Housewives of

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<v Speaker 5>Orange County and The OC which was a show that

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<v Speaker 5>was on TV some years ago. But just the way

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<v Speaker 5>that people seem to think that, you know, money and

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<v Speaker 5>appearances are so important that that's one of the more

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<v Speaker 5>thematic reasons that this case really really drew me in,

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<v Speaker 5>because I feel like that's one of our major problems

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<v Speaker 5>in our society today and in our culture, of how

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<v Speaker 5>much importance people put on money and appearances, and you know,

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<v Speaker 5>that leads to some people stealing from other people and

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<v Speaker 5>committing fraud and having so much cosmetic surgery that you

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<v Speaker 5>can't even recognize them anymore. So those were a couple

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<v Speaker 5>of the things that Nnnette ended up doing.

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<v Speaker 7>Right, Well, let's get to that right now. Let's because

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<v Speaker 7>you do, I got to congratulate you on a very,

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<v Speaker 7>very vivid betrayal of these characters. So let's start with

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<v Speaker 7>the most colorful character I think is Nenette Johnston Packard

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<v Speaker 7>and his various names be along the way, because she's

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<v Speaker 7>ends up married four times. So tell us about Nannette.

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<v Speaker 5>But yeah, she didn't take her third husband's name.

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<v Speaker 7>Okay, But to tell us about Nanette and a little

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<v Speaker 7>as much as you explain in the book. Tell us

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<v Speaker 7>about Nnette, Well.

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<v Speaker 5>That's a very complicated question. I could probably take half

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<v Speaker 5>an hour to answer. I'll try to keep it short.

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<v Speaker 5>But she was a very different kind of person from

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<v Speaker 5>whom I've written about before. So I was also drawn

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<v Speaker 5>to this case for that reason. I like to have

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<v Speaker 5>a different even though there's so many out there, there

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<v Speaker 5>are only so many murders that are interesting to me

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<v Speaker 5>and that are worth a book, and this woman. The

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<v Speaker 5>more that I got into this case, the more I

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<v Speaker 5>just could not believe just how extreme she was. She

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<v Speaker 5>was an extreme liar and an extreme cheat and a fraud,

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<v Speaker 5>and she was incredibly sexual and manipulative and seductive. And

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<v Speaker 5>I just kept thinking to myself, what is it about

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<v Speaker 5>her that drew in so many of these men? And

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<v Speaker 5>what can people learn from this book? Because I don't

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<v Speaker 5>want to just you know, I'm not writing books about

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<v Speaker 5>murders to sensationalized violence. I am writing about murder to

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<v Speaker 5>try to figure out what makes people do these things

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<v Speaker 5>to other people? What is it about them? What happened

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<v Speaker 5>to them, was there anything in their background as a child,

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<v Speaker 5>And I was not really able to pin that down

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<v Speaker 5>with her because she was so good at creating these different,

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<v Speaker 5>you know, faces for herself that it was difficult. So

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<v Speaker 5>I did end up getting some answers from her third husband,

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<v Speaker 5>who you know, got close to her, and I think

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<v Speaker 5>actually maybe the only husband, if you know, other than

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<v Speaker 5>maybe her first husband when she was still seventeen when

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<v Speaker 5>she first got married her third husband, it sounds to

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<v Speaker 5>me like she really fell in love with him. But

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<v Speaker 5>he ended up finding out a few things about her,

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<v Speaker 5>but he still didn't know who she really was. And

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<v Speaker 5>that was who Nanette was, somebody who was different to

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<v Speaker 5>everybody she met. She lied about who she was. She

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<v Speaker 5>adopted other people's successes as her own. She told people

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<v Speaker 5>that she was someone she wasn't, and she had cosmetic

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<v Speaker 5>surgery to make herself into something she wanted to be.

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<v Speaker 5>And frankly, I don't know even what that was, other

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<v Speaker 5>than she wanted to paint herself as you know, as

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<v Speaker 5>some of these reality stars.

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<v Speaker 3>Do.

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<v Speaker 5>You know, I have money, I'm pretty, I have a

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<v Speaker 5>lot of men, very narcissistic, wanted so many clothes that

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<v Speaker 5>you know, her entire closet was full of clothes. In fact,

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<v Speaker 5>many them still had price tags on them, so it

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<v Speaker 5>was like she needed to surround herself with expensive things

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<v Speaker 5>to make herself feel worthy, and yet at the same time,

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<v Speaker 5>she also was I don't know if this is you know,

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<v Speaker 5>she was pretending to be a supermom or really felt

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<v Speaker 5>like she was a supermom. But she attended every sports

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<v Speaker 5>game of her sons and every dance recital for her daughter.

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<v Speaker 5>She brought her kids cupcakes on their birthday, even when

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<v Speaker 5>they were in college, and she was, you know, doing

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<v Speaker 5>some of these things, dating all these men and getting

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<v Speaker 5>money and spending money other people's money on her kids.

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<v Speaker 5>So maybe they thought she was a great mom too.

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<v Speaker 5>I don't really know. But she used this mom thing

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<v Speaker 5>to draw in these men, to make them feel like

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<v Speaker 5>they were part of a family, and that was one

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<v Speaker 5>of her manipulative mechanisms. So in the end, though, what

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<v Speaker 5>my theory was that Nanette really just wanted to be

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<v Speaker 5>somebody other than herself. I told you it was a

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<v Speaker 5>long answer.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, that's not so long.

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<v Speaker 5>Now.

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<v Speaker 7>We'll get to the beginning of this story then, and

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<v Speaker 7>we'll talk about how she puts an ad in a magazine.

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<v Speaker 7>A lot of people would be online, but she puts

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<v Speaker 7>an ad in a magazine for wealthy men and tell

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<v Speaker 7>us what that ad was.

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<v Speaker 5>Well, you have to remember this was nineteen ninety four,

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<v Speaker 5>so this was before the days of online dating. So

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<v Speaker 5>today she probably will that's true, you know, match dot

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<v Speaker 5>com or something, but all, let's be honest. Match dot

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<v Speaker 5>com doesn't allow you to look for wealthy men only,

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<v Speaker 5>although I guess you could put that in your profile.

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<v Speaker 5>But anyway, she advertised in a singles magazine called Singles Connection,

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<v Speaker 5>and she said for wealthy men only. That was the

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<v Speaker 5>title of the ad. She dressed up in this white

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<v Speaker 5>feather boa and had on this little come hither outfit,

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<v Speaker 5>you know, frufreugh hair. It was a boudoir shot essentially,

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<v Speaker 5>but head and shoulders, and she basically said, I'll take

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<v Speaker 5>care of you if you take care of me, and

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<v Speaker 5>so she pretty much came out and said it. So

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<v Speaker 5>Bill McLaughlin answered this ad. And the police know this

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<v Speaker 5>because they found a stack of notes back back and forth,

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<v Speaker 5>presumably because they were cards in a stack and Bill

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<v Speaker 5>was very meticulous, and so he had a stack of

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<v Speaker 5>them in the earliest one was at the bottom, which

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<v Speaker 5>was the first one, and it was addressed to him

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<v Speaker 5>in the mail. So it's clear that, you know, he

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<v Speaker 5>was answering her ad because her his kids did not

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<v Speaker 5>want to believe that their dad would have answered a

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<v Speaker 5>personal ad, but there there was proof that he did.

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<v Speaker 5>He did mail this thing to her anyway, So she,

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<v Speaker 5>you know, pretty much gave her measurements and height and

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<v Speaker 5>and said a bunch of stuff that really ends up

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<v Speaker 5>not being true. I don't know when she met him,

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<v Speaker 5>she told him she had an advanced college degree, when

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<v Speaker 5>in fact, you know, and she graduated high school early.

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<v Speaker 5>She was a valedictorian, she had finished college earlier than

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<v Speaker 5>school and she was not valedictorian. She went to work

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<v Speaker 5>and so she got promoted quickly. But all of this

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<v Speaker 5>moved her into his his house pretty quickly, and they

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<v Speaker 5>who I quote in the book, you know, I really

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<v Speaker 5>her law, and we get along really well. And da

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<v Speaker 5>da da da dah. Anyway, she she she weaseled her

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<v Speaker 7>So now let's go backwards a little bit. So let's

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<v Speaker 7>introduce mister McLaughlin William Francis Blacklin and and the age difference.

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<v Speaker 7>In nineteen ninety four, she was twenty nine, he was

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<v Speaker 5>and his older he had two daughters, and one was

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<v Speaker 5>a high school nearby. And he had, you know, thought

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<v Speaker 5>he was done with being a you know, a dad essentially,

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<v Speaker 5>but his son ended up getting into a skateboarding accident,

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<v Speaker 5>meaning that a drunk driver you know, ran him over.

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<v Speaker 5>He hit his horrible brain injury. He was in a coma.

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<v Speaker 5>They weren't sure he was going to come back. So

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<v Speaker 5>when he came out of it, he had some deficiencies

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<v Speaker 5>so it was hard to understand him. He was kind

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<v Speaker 5>of slurry, and he wasn't able to walk as well.

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<v Speaker 5>He was wasn't as athletic obviously as he used to be.

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<v Speaker 5>And he still had a hard time writing as well.

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<v Speaker 5>So he was working on that with the therapy, and

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<v Speaker 5>he was living in the house and one of you know,

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<v Speaker 5>he's very frustrated, so he was actually using drugs and

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<v Speaker 5>drinking more than his dad appreciated. So you know, he's like,

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<v Speaker 5>and he made him sign a contract and he had

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<v Speaker 5>some drug testing kiss in the refrigerator. And meanwhile, Nannette

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<v Speaker 5>was living with both of them in the house, and

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<v Speaker 5>she had her two kids would come and stay because

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<v Speaker 5>she shared custody, and they moved into Bill's daughter's rooms

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<v Speaker 5>pretty quickly. And so the older Bill's daughters were a

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<v Speaker 5>little taken aback by that Wow left and she's just

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<v Speaker 5>they were not thrilled with her. He thought she was,

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<v Speaker 5>you know, the greatest thing. You know, he was having

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<v Speaker 5>a good time with her. Clearly, he was also a

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<v Speaker 5>very bright man, a very educated man, and he was

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<v Speaker 5>a wealthy man because he had invented a medical device

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<v Speaker 5>that separated plasma from blood. He invented this with a

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<v Speaker 5>partner and then subsequently got into this major legal battle

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<v Speaker 5>with this partner, and so there were royalties that had

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<v Speaker 5>been coming into the tune of a couple million a year,

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<v Speaker 5>and then once this lawsuit kept going and going and going,

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<v Speaker 5>it was very expensive, very prustrating for him. They put

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<v Speaker 5>some of those royalties into a fund that he did

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<v Speaker 5>not have access to while they were in the middle

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<v Speaker 5>of this lawsuit. So he was wealthy, but there was

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<v Speaker 5>a bunch of money that he didn't have access to.

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<v Speaker 5>So meanwhile, he and the neette were working on a

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<v Speaker 5>number of different projects, real estate projects, various other things

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<v Speaker 5>he was trying to do with some related technology to

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<v Speaker 5>the blood device, So he was he was busy working away,

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<v Speaker 5>but he was struggling financially in the last year of

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<v Speaker 5>with his finances, but she had some plans to change that.

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<v Speaker 7>Now you paint this portrayal of these people. But what

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<v Speaker 7>did what did really Ninette look like? In comparison? Will

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<v Speaker 7>say to this educated Bill McLaughlin, rich guy, he got

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<v Speaker 7>out of a nasty divorce, so it he was very

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<v Speaker 7>interested in this woman was what he thought was injecting

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<v Speaker 7>some real, uh you know, some happiness in his life

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<v Speaker 7>for a change. Souse, What what did she look like?

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<v Speaker 7>What did he look like? And what was the what

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<v Speaker 7>did the relationship just look like? From outsiders? Friends of

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<v Speaker 7>Bill will say, what did it look like?

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<v Speaker 5>How did she look physically?

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, physically and sort of just in terms of they

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<v Speaker 7>went out with people? What did what did it seem

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<v Speaker 7>like the couple was like? The dynamic of the couple?

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<v Speaker 5>Right? Okay? She she had she was of Indian as

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<v Speaker 5>in from India descent, not Native American, and so her

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<v Speaker 5>father was Indian. Her mother was from the Chicago area,

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<v Speaker 5>so she was half white and half Indian. So she

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<v Speaker 5>has a different kind of look about her. But you know,

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<v Speaker 5>you wouldn't you wouldn't know from looking at her that

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<v Speaker 5>she was of Indian descent. So she had dark eyes,

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<v Speaker 5>she had dark really kinky, curly kind of frizzy hair,

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<v Speaker 5>and she started coloring it, and it also looked like

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<v Speaker 5>it was some bleached, so it's kind of hard to tell,

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<v Speaker 5>you know, which was what was the sun and what

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<v Speaker 5>was the hair color. But she was almost blonde, which

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<v Speaker 5>you know, for somebody with Indian descent, you can imagine

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<v Speaker 5>they're dark, dark haired, dark eyes, and a you know,

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<v Speaker 5>different tint to the skin. So I saw her in court.

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<v Speaker 5>She didn't really look olive skinned, but she was. She

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<v Speaker 5>definitely didn't look, you know, completely white. So anyway, she

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<v Speaker 5>was attractive at the time. She was very athletic, very

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<v Speaker 5>much in shape, went to the gym all the time,

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<v Speaker 5>and apparently dressed to the nine. So she was very

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<v Speaker 5>Bill was you know, bought her of some breast implants.

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<v Speaker 5>Bill took her on vacations. Bill said she didn't have

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<v Speaker 5>I mean, that was the deal, right, So she had

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<v Speaker 5>plenty of time to work on her appearance. Bill, on

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<v Speaker 5>Had a nice place on the beach, and you know,

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<v Speaker 5>they would go out. He would bring her on business dinners,

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<v Speaker 5>which was something I guess his wife, his ex wife,

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<v Speaker 5>trying to get every soak up every little piece of

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<v Speaker 5>information that she could from Bill and learn from him,

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<v Speaker 5>and I think he enjoyed that. I think he enjoyed

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<v Speaker 5>that his ex wife had not been. And so, by

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<v Speaker 5>all appearances, Bill's friends all thought they were this you know,

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<v Speaker 5>I wouldn't say loving couple, but exclusive couple. They got

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<v Speaker 5>affectionate with his kids. Kind of all kinds of snapshots

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<v Speaker 5>of him, you know, cuddling with her kids on the couch,

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<v Speaker 5>taking them on his private plane, and taking them on

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<v Speaker 5>his private boat. You know. So she's living the high

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<v Speaker 5>life and seems like everything's great. But he also is

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<v Speaker 5>spending a couple of days a week in Las Vegas.

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<v Speaker 5>He flies there in his private plane because he is

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<v Speaker 5>establishing residency for tax purposes. He's saving half a million

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<v Speaker 5>dollars a year doing this. Now, while he is away

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<v Speaker 5>in Las Vegas, she's at the gym, you know, supposedly

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<v Speaker 5>staying in shape. She is not taking her big diamond

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<v Speaker 5>engagement ring with her to the gym. She is going

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<v Speaker 5>to the gym posing as a young, hot, single athletic

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<v Speaker 5>woman on the prowl. And she is meeting and dating

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<v Speaker 5>men left and right and sleeping with them, in fact,

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<v Speaker 5>sleeping with them in Bill McLoughlin's house while he is

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<v Speaker 5>in Las Vegas, which takes so much hutsbah, I can't

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<v Speaker 7>Now, why would she do that? If did she?

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<v Speaker 1>Did?

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<v Speaker 7>She? Did you? What is the motivation you believe at

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<v Speaker 7>that time? Did she not? Did she not understand what

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<v Speaker 7>the ramifications could be if she were caught? Or was

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<v Speaker 7>it more of a sexual drive? What would you attribute

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<v Speaker 7>it to?

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<v Speaker 5>I'm not really sure. To be honest, I'm not sure.

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<v Speaker 5>I want to assume anything. I can speculate. I think

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<v Speaker 5>can say that for sure. I think she just thought

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<v Speaker 5>she was so damn clever. She was gonna fool everybody,

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<v Speaker 5>you know, and she was going to get what she

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<v Speaker 5>wanted and what she needed and nobody was going to

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<v Speaker 5>figure it out, because I mean, that seems to be

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<v Speaker 5>a pattern with these narcissistic killers that you know, I'm

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<v Speaker 5>smarter than everybody else, and I'm going to get away

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<v Speaker 5>with this because I'm so good at this. I'm so

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<v Speaker 5>good at lying. I fool everyone and everyone believes me,

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<v Speaker 5>and they'll just do what I want and I just

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<v Speaker 5>manipulate them. And I want these men to give me sex,

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<v Speaker 5>and I want these men to think that I'm a

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<v Speaker 5>successful business woman and that this car that Bill gave me,

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<v Speaker 5>and these clothes that Bill bought me, and these other

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<v Speaker 5>things that Bill gave me, including his own accomplishments, which

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<v Speaker 5>she took as her own, and told stories that she

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<v Speaker 5>had invented this blood device, which is just ridiculous considering

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<v Speaker 5>how old she was and what her education truly was.

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<v Speaker 5>These people believed her, and they wanted to meet Bill.

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<v Speaker 5>They wanted to meet Bill because she told them that

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<v Speaker 5>Bill was her you know, father figure, business mentor, and

422
00:23:24.240 --> 00:23:26.839
<v Speaker 5>they were thinking, hey, some of them, you know, hey,

423
00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:29.640
<v Speaker 5>I can get some of his money and invested in

424
00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:34.119
<v Speaker 5>my business. So they were believing her stories. And so

425
00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:38.200
<v Speaker 5>she was basically getting the admiration and the respect and

426
00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:44.599
<v Speaker 5>the sex and the nice things from every direction. So

427
00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:46.960
<v Speaker 5>she was getting what she wanted, and she was pretending

428
00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:49.240
<v Speaker 5>to be who she wanted to be, and she was

429
00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:52.720
<v Speaker 5>getting away with it. So motivation. I think she had

430
00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:55.640
<v Speaker 5>a big, deep black hole in her soul now that

431
00:23:56.079 --> 00:23:58.519
<v Speaker 5>she was trying to fill with this cash and with

432
00:23:58.599 --> 00:24:00.640
<v Speaker 5>this sex. And I don't know why she had it

433
00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:04.119
<v Speaker 5>or where it came from, but it seems like she

434
00:24:04.119 --> 00:24:06.759
<v Speaker 5>she definitely had a big black hole in her soul.

435
00:24:08.759 --> 00:24:12.680
<v Speaker 7>They were together three years approximately. Now, at what point

436
00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:15.160
<v Speaker 7>does she she's always going to gym, she's always working out.

437
00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:18.279
<v Speaker 7>When does she meet Eric Nepowski? And please tell us

438
00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:20.160
<v Speaker 7>about Eric Nepowsky.

439
00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:26.880
<v Speaker 5>Eric Neposki and the Net meet actually a couple years

440
00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:31.200
<v Speaker 5>before Bill is murdered, So they meet as friends at

441
00:24:31.240 --> 00:24:36.759
<v Speaker 5>the gym. He's he's a guy who's an NFL you know,

442
00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:41.519
<v Speaker 5>want to be Essentially, he has played five games in

443
00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:45.720
<v Speaker 5>the NFL and he keeps getting injured. So he's gets

444
00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:49.039
<v Speaker 5>a walk on with the with the New England Patriots

445
00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:51.720
<v Speaker 5>the auditions and he makes it by crawling through a

446
00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:54.319
<v Speaker 5>hole in the fence and you know, running really fast

447
00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:57.680
<v Speaker 5>and getting some notice. And he was a great athlete,

448
00:24:57.880 --> 00:25:01.680
<v Speaker 5>really great athlete, just kept getting injured, so he could

449
00:25:01.720 --> 00:25:06.559
<v Speaker 5>never make it in the NFL. He did actually do

450
00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:09.160
<v Speaker 5>well in the World Football League, so he was on

451
00:25:09.359 --> 00:25:12.920
<v Speaker 5>a team in Barcelona called the Barcelona Dragons. He actually

452
00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:16.960
<v Speaker 5>had his own fan club with five thousand fans. But

453
00:25:17.079 --> 00:25:19.720
<v Speaker 5>he just could not make it here in the US.

454
00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:24.279
<v Speaker 5>And so in between, you know, healing and you know,

455
00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:28.039
<v Speaker 5>getting injured and healing and training and running off and

456
00:25:28.079 --> 00:25:31.119
<v Speaker 5>trying to audition again and getting signed and then injured,

457
00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:33.359
<v Speaker 5>you know, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

458
00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:37.440
<v Speaker 5>He was a bouncer and a physical trainer. And so

459
00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:41.319
<v Speaker 5>while he was you know, in in the Newport Beach area,

460
00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:43.720
<v Speaker 5>he met Nanette at the gym. They started hanging out

461
00:25:43.920 --> 00:25:46.440
<v Speaker 5>and I guess they were friends. So she would tell

462
00:25:46.519 --> 00:25:49.359
<v Speaker 5>him that she was dating all these different guys and

463
00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:52.200
<v Speaker 5>he didn't really know much about Bill McLoughlin. But she

464
00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:56.640
<v Speaker 5>never told anybody at the gym that she was engaged

465
00:25:56.680 --> 00:26:00.440
<v Speaker 5>to Bill McLoughlin. She made everybody think that he was

466
00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:04.160
<v Speaker 5>just a business partner. So Eric Naposki, he had been

467
00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:08.640
<v Speaker 5>married and divorced, had two kids, and he never sent

468
00:26:08.680 --> 00:26:12.440
<v Speaker 5>them any money. He was always behind in his child support.

469
00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:15.359
<v Speaker 5>As it turns out, by the time he was ultimately

470
00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:17.160
<v Speaker 5>arrested in two thousand and nine, he was about one

471
00:26:17.200 --> 00:26:20.519
<v Speaker 5>hundred thousand dollars behind because he had been married again

472
00:26:20.680 --> 00:26:23.799
<v Speaker 5>with two more kids. Of four kids, never paying his

473
00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:26.000
<v Speaker 5>child support. He was one hundred thousand dollars in debt.

474
00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:28.920
<v Speaker 5>But at this time, this is only after two kids.

475
00:26:29.079 --> 00:26:31.880
<v Speaker 5>So he's he's a dad. You know, he's telling Nnette

476
00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:34.599
<v Speaker 5>he's a dad, and he gets I think sucked in

477
00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:37.960
<v Speaker 5>a little bit too, because he apparently likes kids, and

478
00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:41.400
<v Speaker 5>he's hanging out with Nanette kids. And you know, by

479
00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:46.519
<v Speaker 5>the year of nineteen ninety four, they were dating. So

480
00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:49.240
<v Speaker 5>they decided to start trying to try to date. So

481
00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:51.480
<v Speaker 5>they've been friends already for a year or two and

482
00:26:51.839 --> 00:26:57.359
<v Speaker 5>started dating. And initially, you know, it wasn't an exclusive thing,

483
00:26:57.400 --> 00:27:01.039
<v Speaker 5>but they were getting more serious and at least Eric Sasso,

484
00:27:01.640 --> 00:27:04.599
<v Speaker 5>and he took her home to meet his parents in

485
00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:08.960
<v Speaker 5>Thanksgiving of nineteen ninety four, and Nannette took him to

486
00:27:09.079 --> 00:27:12.480
<v Speaker 5>her sister's wedding that same trip back He's down in

487
00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:16.799
<v Speaker 5>the Maryland area and introduced him as her boyfriend. Meanwhile,

488
00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:23.039
<v Speaker 5>Bill McLoughlin is thinking they're engaged right now. Bill was

489
00:27:23.079 --> 00:27:25.599
<v Speaker 5>telling some people that he wasn't sure he wanted to

490
00:27:25.640 --> 00:27:27.640
<v Speaker 5>marry her. He was just trying to keep her happy

491
00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:31.599
<v Speaker 5>with this ring, and things were starting to go a

492
00:27:31.599 --> 00:27:35.119
<v Speaker 5>little funny, and it's unclear whether he was figuring anything

493
00:27:35.160 --> 00:27:37.519
<v Speaker 5>out or not. But he did tell his brother right

494
00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:41.680
<v Speaker 5>before he was killed that he thought someone was after him,

495
00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:46.440
<v Speaker 5>and he didn't say who. Well, I don't remember what

496
00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:48.200
<v Speaker 5>your ust There you go.

497
00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:50.920
<v Speaker 7>No, it was great, No, it was great. I mean

498
00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:52.599
<v Speaker 7>that covers a lot of things. I would have asked

499
00:27:53.319 --> 00:27:59.039
<v Speaker 7>the now you say that they were Nannette and Bill were.

500
00:27:59.480 --> 00:28:02.680
<v Speaker 7>Bill had her involved in some things, trying to generate

501
00:28:02.720 --> 00:28:06.000
<v Speaker 7>some income and utilize whatever talents he thought that she

502
00:28:06.119 --> 00:28:09.119
<v Speaker 7>might have or shed to him.

503
00:28:09.039 --> 00:28:10.640
<v Speaker 5>That she did. But I wouldn't say it was for

504
00:28:10.680 --> 00:28:13.559
<v Speaker 5>that reason. I would say that she was trying to

505
00:28:13.599 --> 00:28:17.160
<v Speaker 5>soak up whatever he was doing, and so she was

506
00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:20.039
<v Speaker 5>more in a support capacity I think at that point.

507
00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:23.759
<v Speaker 7>No, but I want to establish how she came to

508
00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:28.279
<v Speaker 7>have I mean, he must have had someone like a

509
00:28:28.319 --> 00:28:31.440
<v Speaker 7>brother or someone to advise him that you know, you

510
00:28:31.440 --> 00:28:33.880
<v Speaker 7>don't really or at least he would know himself, being

511
00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:37.160
<v Speaker 7>a businessman himself, that that not to give her access

512
00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:39.880
<v Speaker 7>to his money. How does she come to have access

513
00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:42.039
<v Speaker 7>to be able to do some things?

514
00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:46.839
<v Speaker 5>Here's the problem. You're applying rationality.

515
00:28:46.920 --> 00:28:48.640
<v Speaker 7>To affect clure suation.

516
00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:54.440
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, of course, so no, I totally agree with you,

517
00:28:54.440 --> 00:28:57.799
<v Speaker 5>you would think, and everybody wondered afterwards. You know, Bill

518
00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:02.200
<v Speaker 5>was a smart man. What happened here? Right, Well, he

519
00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:06.319
<v Speaker 5>gave her access to his check book for the household bills,

520
00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:10.720
<v Speaker 5>So he gave her access to one account, okay, And

521
00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:13.799
<v Speaker 5>I guess he just didn't think that she was a

522
00:29:13.839 --> 00:29:16.599
<v Speaker 5>bad person that was going to take that, you know,

523
00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:21.000
<v Speaker 5>liberty to start moving money around between other accounts. So

524
00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:24.759
<v Speaker 5>one thing he did do is he talked to his accountant,

525
00:29:25.079 --> 00:29:29.359
<v Speaker 5>who you know, basically he said, you know, Ninette wants

526
00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:32.759
<v Speaker 5>to get married. You know, what should I do? And

527
00:29:32.279 --> 00:29:35.880
<v Speaker 5>the accountant basically said, well, you know you should whyt't

528
00:29:35.880 --> 00:29:39.160
<v Speaker 5>you just wait? You know, it's not going anywhere. If

529
00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:40.920
<v Speaker 5>she really wants to marry you, she'll still want to

530
00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:43.200
<v Speaker 5>marry you. And because you know, he was having some

531
00:29:43.240 --> 00:29:47.559
<v Speaker 5>difficulties and at one point, actually in nineteen ninety four,

532
00:29:47.720 --> 00:29:51.359
<v Speaker 5>as things were getting very tight and he was having

533
00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:55.880
<v Speaker 5>some liquid liquidity problems, he even said to his daughters,

534
00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:57.799
<v Speaker 5>you know, do you think she's with me for my money?

535
00:29:57.799 --> 00:30:02.480
<v Speaker 5>And they said yes. And so, you know, it's hard

536
00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:04.839
<v Speaker 5>to say exactly, but I think she must have just

537
00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:07.400
<v Speaker 5>told him what he wanted to hear, and he trust

538
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:10.759
<v Speaker 5>I think he trusted her, so all she had access

539
00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:13.799
<v Speaker 5>to was one account. And what she ended up doing, though,

540
00:30:13.880 --> 00:30:16.759
<v Speaker 5>was was, like I said, soaking up all this knowledge.

541
00:30:16.799 --> 00:30:19.759
<v Speaker 5>And what you know he did. He did make her

542
00:30:19.799 --> 00:30:22.559
<v Speaker 5>a trustee to his estate. You know, that's if he

543
00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:25.200
<v Speaker 5>were dead. Of course, when he did that, she was,

544
00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:28.720
<v Speaker 5>she was. They were engaged, and she kept saying she

545
00:30:28.759 --> 00:30:31.799
<v Speaker 5>wanted to have his child, and you know, he thought

546
00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:33.960
<v Speaker 5>they were, you know, going to build a life together.

547
00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:35.799
<v Speaker 5>At least that's what she wanted. I don't know that

548
00:30:35.880 --> 00:30:38.880
<v Speaker 5>he wanted that necessarily, but I think he was just

549
00:30:38.920 --> 00:30:43.519
<v Speaker 5>trying to get back on a float, because this this

550
00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:46.960
<v Speaker 5>legal this this lawsuit had been dragging on and dragging on,

551
00:30:47.039 --> 00:30:51.319
<v Speaker 5>and then finally in October of nineteen ninety four and

552
00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:55.440
<v Speaker 5>he was murdered in December, he finally got word that

553
00:30:55.559 --> 00:30:58.480
<v Speaker 5>he had won or at least, you know, had won

554
00:30:58.519 --> 00:31:01.160
<v Speaker 5>that round and was thinking and so he and the

555
00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:04.599
<v Speaker 5>Neett were thinking that about nine million dollars was about

556
00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:08.960
<v Speaker 5>to come floating in. The thing suddenly changed in October

557
00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:10.279
<v Speaker 5>of nineteen ninety four.

558
00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:15.839
<v Speaker 7>Right right now? Was there any she's living with her

559
00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:21.960
<v Speaker 7>two kids, he has kids, Bill has friends. I mean,

560
00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:27.359
<v Speaker 7>she's in a gym. I mean, is there anybody trying

561
00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:31.240
<v Speaker 7>to intervene on Bill's behalf warning him, or any rumors

562
00:31:31.240 --> 00:31:34.039
<v Speaker 7>floating around? Is there any doubt? Is there anybody that's

563
00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:37.319
<v Speaker 7>speaking out against her? Well?

564
00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:40.599
<v Speaker 5>There, I guess they could. I think Bill was pretty headstrong.

565
00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:42.839
<v Speaker 5>From what I understand, Bill was pretty headstrong. And you

566
00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:44.880
<v Speaker 5>did not tell Bill what to do, and you did

567
00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:46.680
<v Speaker 5>not tell Bill how things were going to be. Bill

568
00:31:46.799 --> 00:31:49.160
<v Speaker 5>told you how things were going to be. And so

569
00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:53.319
<v Speaker 5>pan his other daughter was you know, living on her

570
00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:56.039
<v Speaker 5>own elsewhere. So the only person who was living with

571
00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:59.079
<v Speaker 5>him was his son, who he was having some issues

572
00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:02.440
<v Speaker 5>with because of his drug and alcohol youth, so he

573
00:32:02.519 --> 00:32:05.519
<v Speaker 5>was still in a father son situation with him. I

574
00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:07.759
<v Speaker 5>don't think Kevin was saying anything to his dad like

575
00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:10.079
<v Speaker 5>watch out for Ninette, and in fact, I don't think

576
00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:12.640
<v Speaker 5>they were they had any idea of what she was

577
00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:15.400
<v Speaker 5>capable of. That's the thing. So when she's running around

578
00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:18.079
<v Speaker 5>with Eric Knapowski and all these other men, they didn't

579
00:32:18.119 --> 00:32:21.759
<v Speaker 5>know that. They thought they were in an exclusive relationship

580
00:32:21.799 --> 00:32:26.799
<v Speaker 5>because Nannette was Nannette was savvy enough to figure out that,

581
00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:28.799
<v Speaker 5>you know, Bill did not want to come to these

582
00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:31.359
<v Speaker 5>sporting events with her because he told her that he goes,

583
00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:34.519
<v Speaker 5>you know what, I already raised my kids, I'm any

584
00:32:34.599 --> 00:32:37.039
<v Speaker 5>interested in coming to these, you know, baseball games with you.

585
00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:41.200
<v Speaker 5>So she would bring her lovers and Eric Knapowski in particular,

586
00:32:41.319 --> 00:32:44.400
<v Speaker 5>to these games so the other people on the team

587
00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:47.839
<v Speaker 5>could see them. In fact, she's sitting on Eric Nappowski's

588
00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:52.039
<v Speaker 5>lap right up until the day of the murder in

589
00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:55.960
<v Speaker 5>front of her first ex husband. But again she's telling

590
00:32:56.000 --> 00:33:00.839
<v Speaker 5>everybody else that, hey, Bill McLoughlin is my you know,

591
00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:05.599
<v Speaker 5>business mentor father figure, including her first sex husband. The

592
00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:10.720
<v Speaker 5>only person that testified during the trial that said anything

593
00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:14.960
<v Speaker 5>that he knew was some guy who was a father

594
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:18.000
<v Speaker 5>of one of the kids on Nannette's son's baseball team,

595
00:33:18.079 --> 00:33:22.279
<v Speaker 5>who actually knew that she was living with Bill. He

596
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:24.519
<v Speaker 5>was the only person and he didn't say anything because

597
00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:27.079
<v Speaker 5>he didn't like Bill personally. In fact, he liked Eric

598
00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:30.480
<v Speaker 5>Napowski better because Eric. So there was nobody to warn

599
00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:34.920
<v Speaker 5>Bill because they didn't. She kept everybody separate and compartmentalized

600
00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:36.160
<v Speaker 5>that she was very good at that.

601
00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:41.759
<v Speaker 7>Now, let's get to pardon me some particulars of this

602
00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:46.200
<v Speaker 7>and without giving anything away, let's there's she has finance,

603
00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:49.440
<v Speaker 7>she has this checkbook, she has the ability to write

604
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:53.279
<v Speaker 7>a check one thousand, ten thousand. You can tell our

605
00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:55.279
<v Speaker 7>audience how much do you write that check for? But

606
00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:58.200
<v Speaker 7>hang on, then we want to know. We want to

607
00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:01.240
<v Speaker 7>you have to. You should tell us outline where Eric

608
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:07.759
<v Speaker 7>Neposki works and it's proximity to their home and the

609
00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:10.239
<v Speaker 7>soccer game. We're going to talk about the soccer game,

610
00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:13.440
<v Speaker 7>which is an hour before or earlier in the evening,

611
00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:18.360
<v Speaker 7>and Eric and Nanette and the boy is going to

612
00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:20.760
<v Speaker 7>receive an award. So this is an amazing part of

613
00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:24.880
<v Speaker 7>this book. Where this is incredible scene. So tell us

614
00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:28.800
<v Speaker 7>first about this check and how much and when is

615
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:31.559
<v Speaker 7>it written out for? And tell us about that first.

616
00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:37.239
<v Speaker 5>Okay, So, all through nineteen ninety four, Nannette is getting

617
00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:41.440
<v Speaker 5>more and more brazen with this. Basically, what she's doing

618
00:34:41.519 --> 00:34:44.119
<v Speaker 5>is embezzling money. So first she's starting out with just

619
00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:48.639
<v Speaker 5>taking one thousand dollars and making it five thousand dollars.

620
00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:52.199
<v Speaker 5>So she's moving money basically from account to account, so

621
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:55.320
<v Speaker 5>she only has access authorized access to one account, but

622
00:34:55.400 --> 00:34:59.559
<v Speaker 5>she's moving stuff around, and she keeps the ledger, and

623
00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:02.159
<v Speaker 5>so she entering in, she'll take a certain amount of

624
00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:05.480
<v Speaker 5>money and she'll enter in a different amount of money.

625
00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:09.519
<v Speaker 5>So she's taking money and since she's doing the accounting,

626
00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:13.280
<v Speaker 5>she's not doing the proper accounting either, so she can

627
00:35:13.320 --> 00:35:15.280
<v Speaker 5>take it. No one will notice, at least she thinks so,

628
00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:19.920
<v Speaker 5>and that's true for all of nineteen ninety four. Then

629
00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:22.400
<v Speaker 5>she starts getting a little more brazen. So as nineteen

630
00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:25.719
<v Speaker 5>ninety four progresses and her relationship with Eric progresses, she

631
00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:30.119
<v Speaker 5>starts taking bigger amounts of money and again entering in

632
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:34.039
<v Speaker 5>a different amount in the ledger and moving money around

633
00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:37.719
<v Speaker 5>different accounts, so that you can't find it if it's missing, right,

634
00:35:38.280 --> 00:35:41.360
<v Speaker 5>So all the way up to it starts getting to

635
00:35:41.559 --> 00:35:45.480
<v Speaker 5>thirty thousand and seventy five thousand, and then on December fourteenth,

636
00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:47.880
<v Speaker 5>which is the day before he's murdered, she writes a

637
00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:52.760
<v Speaker 5>check for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. She signs

638
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:57.320
<v Speaker 5>it Bill McLoughlin, so she's forging his signature, and it

639
00:35:57.440 --> 00:36:00.599
<v Speaker 5>is made out to a trust that she has just

640
00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:03.159
<v Speaker 5>established in the last couple of weeks. As soon as

641
00:36:03.159 --> 00:36:05.159
<v Speaker 5>she found out this nine million dollars was going to

642
00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:10.239
<v Speaker 5>be coming in, she immediately establishes this new business and

643
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:13.559
<v Speaker 5>a new account, incorporates this new thing, and she's basically

644
00:36:13.679 --> 00:36:18.000
<v Speaker 5>setting up a mechanism to take the rest of his

645
00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:22.119
<v Speaker 5>money and obviously to kill him, because all of this

646
00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:24.800
<v Speaker 5>is done in such a way that the timing is

647
00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:27.639
<v Speaker 5>such that he would have found out that she was

648
00:36:27.719 --> 00:36:31.800
<v Speaker 5>doing this, and so the detectives and the prosecution think

649
00:36:31.960 --> 00:36:36.000
<v Speaker 5>that she either he was about to find out, or

650
00:36:36.599 --> 00:36:39.400
<v Speaker 5>the clock was ticking, or something was about to happen.

651
00:36:39.519 --> 00:36:43.559
<v Speaker 5>Maybe he really was having suspicions. We don't really know.

652
00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:47.800
<v Speaker 5>His brother said that there was a very strange phone

653
00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:51.320
<v Speaker 5>call right before he was killed where he said that

654
00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:54.519
<v Speaker 5>he was stockpiling guns and someone was after him, and

655
00:36:54.559 --> 00:36:58.320
<v Speaker 5>he was you know, he was sounding really paranoid and strange.

656
00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:01.199
<v Speaker 5>So but he didn't mention it. Now, it's just it's

657
00:37:01.199 --> 00:37:07.199
<v Speaker 5>something he knew something was going on. Meanwhile, Nanetta is

658
00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:11.119
<v Speaker 5>has just gotten back from this you know, whirlwind trip

659
00:37:11.199 --> 00:37:14.199
<v Speaker 5>back to meet Eric's parents and from her sister's wedding

660
00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:18.400
<v Speaker 5>where he caught the garter belt and she caught the bouquet.

661
00:37:18.519 --> 00:37:21.800
<v Speaker 5>And you know, they're sitting each other's lap. The pictures

662
00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:25.280
<v Speaker 5>of them, you know, clearly this happy couple. This is

663
00:37:25.320 --> 00:37:29.800
<v Speaker 5>a couple couple of weeks before Bill is killed. Right. So,

664
00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:32.840
<v Speaker 5>and I don't know what she's thinking that nobody's ever

665
00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:35.760
<v Speaker 5>gonna notice, nobody's ever gonna find these pictures, nobody's ever

666
00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:38.400
<v Speaker 5>gonna find out. I don't know what she was thinking.

667
00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:42.960
<v Speaker 5>But anyway, so she and Eric go off to this

668
00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:49.159
<v Speaker 5>championship soccer game for her son Christopher. And you know,

669
00:37:49.239 --> 00:37:51.559
<v Speaker 5>as I said, she has gone to every single game.

670
00:37:51.639 --> 00:37:55.440
<v Speaker 5>She is the super soccer mom. She drives all the kids.

671
00:37:55.480 --> 00:37:59.920
<v Speaker 5>She's always there, except on this night, her first ex

672
00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:02.480
<v Speaker 5>husband is there. He's the father of these of her

673
00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:06.840
<v Speaker 5>two kids. He's there, Eric is there. He thinks that

674
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<v Speaker 5>Eric and and Nette are a couple, but he knows

675
00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:12.760
<v Speaker 5>Nanette's ways because she cheated on him too, and he's thinking,

676
00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:15.840
<v Speaker 5>you know what, she's involved with Bill and Eric. So

677
00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:19.480
<v Speaker 5>he's but he doesn't say anything. So he sees them

678
00:38:19.559 --> 00:38:25.199
<v Speaker 5>at about eight twenty eight twenty pm. They start like saying,

679
00:38:25.679 --> 00:38:28.800
<v Speaker 5>we gotta go. Eric's got an eight o'clock appointment. He's like, well,

680
00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:31.400
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681
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<v Speaker 5>The kid loses, and there's a championship medal ceremony, So

695
00:39:11.199 --> 00:39:15.000
<v Speaker 5>even though he lost, there's still a metal ceremony. It's like,

696
00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:17.480
<v Speaker 5>you know, it's not a trophy, but it's a medal,

697
00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:19.719
<v Speaker 5>so it's still something. And if you're a great mom,

698
00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:21.599
<v Speaker 5>aren't you going to stay and watch your kid get

699
00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:23.960
<v Speaker 5>the medal because he did make it into the championships.

700
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:26.360
<v Speaker 5>Oh no, she's got to leave with Eric, so they're

701
00:39:26.360 --> 00:39:31.559
<v Speaker 5>like running off to the car, and her first husband

702
00:39:31.559 --> 00:39:36.840
<v Speaker 5>thinks that's pretty weird. Anyway, they disappear, and Eric, about

703
00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:40.960
<v Speaker 5>two weeks earlier, coincidentally, has gotten this new job as

704
00:39:41.000 --> 00:39:46.599
<v Speaker 5>a security guy at this new nightclub which is only

705
00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:50.480
<v Speaker 5>about a two and a half minute walk from Bill's house.

706
00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:55.000
<v Speaker 5>So it's called the Lado. I think it's the lead

707
00:39:55.400 --> 00:40:02.119
<v Speaker 5>village area, and it's over bridge over some water from

708
00:40:02.159 --> 00:40:07.000
<v Speaker 5>Bill's house, which is right on the water. And coincidentally,

709
00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:11.360
<v Speaker 5>two weeks earlier, he gets this job. So Nanette and

710
00:40:11.599 --> 00:40:16.920
<v Speaker 5>Eric tell police later that when they're questioned that you know, hey,

711
00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:20.400
<v Speaker 5>she dropped him off at his apartment and he took

712
00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:22.639
<v Speaker 5>a shower, and then he went to work and she

713
00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:26.039
<v Speaker 5>went shopping. She went to the mall because it was

714
00:40:26.159 --> 00:40:30.039
<v Speaker 5>right before Christmas. She had some shopping to do, so

715
00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:36.000
<v Speaker 5>she comes back to Bill's house with these shopping bags

716
00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:39.079
<v Speaker 5>and a receipt to show where she's been. And Eric,

717
00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:44.039
<v Speaker 5>when they finally catch up to him, you know, he says, oh,

718
00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:46.880
<v Speaker 5>he that was his story, So I'll.

719
00:40:46.800 --> 00:40:51.679
<v Speaker 7>Stop there now tell us about the murder in itself.

720
00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:56.000
<v Speaker 7>Bill's home in his robe and he's just got back

721
00:40:56.039 --> 00:41:01.960
<v Speaker 7>from Vegas in his private flane. His son, the somewhat

722
00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:05.920
<v Speaker 7>mentally disabled son, is upstairs listening to some music. And

723
00:41:06.199 --> 00:41:07.159
<v Speaker 7>what happens.

724
00:41:08.559 --> 00:41:13.079
<v Speaker 5>So Bill comes back. And normally on a Thursday night,

725
00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:16.440
<v Speaker 5>Kevin is at an AA meeting and so on this

726
00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:19.239
<v Speaker 5>particular night though, he did not go, and it's not

727
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:24.239
<v Speaker 5>really clear why, but he stayed home and he and

728
00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:27.119
<v Speaker 5>his dad had some dinner, and then he went upstairs

729
00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:32.119
<v Speaker 5>to listen to music. And around nine to ten pm

730
00:41:32.920 --> 00:41:37.599
<v Speaker 5>he starts tearing these shots downstairs, pop pop, and then

731
00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:41.119
<v Speaker 5>there's a pause, pop pop, and then there's a pause,

732
00:41:41.519 --> 00:41:46.400
<v Speaker 5>pop pop, and then there's a pause. So he comes

733
00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:49.239
<v Speaker 5>downstairs as fast as he can. As I mentioned before,

734
00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:54.000
<v Speaker 5>he has some ambulatory problems from his brain damage, so

735
00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:57.079
<v Speaker 5>it takes him a full minute to get downstairs and

736
00:41:57.119 --> 00:42:01.159
<v Speaker 5>this dog is barking like crazy, and he finds his

737
00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:04.400
<v Speaker 5>father lying on the kitchen floor and there's blood on

738
00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:08.039
<v Speaker 5>the floor, there's some bullet case things lying around. The

739
00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:14.559
<v Speaker 5>dog is barking like crazy. His father's glasses are askew. Yeah,

740
00:42:14.599 --> 00:42:17.480
<v Speaker 5>and he's in his bathrobe. And so he immediately starts

741
00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:23.159
<v Speaker 5>calling nine one one and the tragic, tragic, horrible part

742
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:25.719
<v Speaker 5>of this case. And they played the nine woman on

743
00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:29.280
<v Speaker 5>tape in the courtroom and it just made you wrench inside.

744
00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:32.360
<v Speaker 5>It was so sad. He was trying so hard to

745
00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:35.599
<v Speaker 5>communicate with the nine one one dispatcher and she could

746
00:42:35.679 --> 00:42:39.559
<v Speaker 5>not understand what he was saying, and it was just

747
00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:42.639
<v Speaker 5>it must have just been horrible for him, so trying

748
00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:46.519
<v Speaker 5>to communicate, having such problems communicating. She's like, wait, what

749
00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:50.079
<v Speaker 5>your dog's been shot? You know, wait, did your father

750
00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:54.199
<v Speaker 5>shoot himself? Your mom? Your dad? I mean, she just

751
00:42:54.239 --> 00:42:56.360
<v Speaker 5>couldn't get it, but she did get that there was

752
00:42:56.400 --> 00:42:59.559
<v Speaker 5>a gun involved. So they did end up sending an ambulance,

753
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:02.199
<v Speaker 5>did send the police over, but by the time they

754
00:43:02.239 --> 00:43:05.639
<v Speaker 5>got over there, it was way too late. And in fact,

755
00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:08.239
<v Speaker 5>by the time he was calling nine one one, his

756
00:43:08.280 --> 00:43:12.199
<v Speaker 5>father was probably already dead because there were six shots

757
00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:18.400
<v Speaker 5>with the nine millimeter and there were several at least

758
00:43:18.440 --> 00:43:22.119
<v Speaker 5>several of them that would have been fatal as soon

759
00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:25.480
<v Speaker 5>as they were shot. So he probably felt like, you know,

760
00:43:25.559 --> 00:43:27.960
<v Speaker 5>time was running out, but in fact his dad was

761
00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:28.599
<v Speaker 5>already dead.

762
00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:35.239
<v Speaker 7>Now when police come, as I spoke about at the beginning,

763
00:43:35.360 --> 00:43:38.719
<v Speaker 7>what do they find in the door and what do

764
00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:41.920
<v Speaker 7>they find in the ground near the door, Well, they

765
00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:46.000
<v Speaker 7>don't find it immediately, but tell us what they find

766
00:43:46.079 --> 00:43:47.599
<v Speaker 7>and tell.

767
00:43:47.519 --> 00:43:52.360
<v Speaker 5>Us about that, right, okay, So Kevin comes downstairs and

768
00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:55.599
<v Speaker 5>he finds his dad. He calls nine one one. When

769
00:43:55.679 --> 00:44:01.559
<v Speaker 5>the police arrive. They show up, and the first police

770
00:44:01.559 --> 00:44:03.760
<v Speaker 5>who show up were actually on bikes because this is

771
00:44:03.880 --> 00:44:07.000
<v Speaker 5>Newport Beach. This is there's a lot of water in

772
00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:11.800
<v Speaker 5>Newport Beach and a lot of there's a pedestrian's kind

773
00:44:11.840 --> 00:44:15.320
<v Speaker 5>of like a jogging path or you can walk on it,

774
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:17.679
<v Speaker 5>you can bike on it, you can roller blade on it,

775
00:44:18.239 --> 00:44:21.519
<v Speaker 5>and that goes all the way around the peninsular area

776
00:44:21.559 --> 00:44:25.920
<v Speaker 5>and the right where Bill lived, which was called Bay.

777
00:44:26.239 --> 00:44:31.440
<v Speaker 5>Oh my god, I don't get this wrong. Bishar Coves

778
00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:38.480
<v Speaker 5>and Ninette was a rollerblader and very athletic. As I said,

779
00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:42.880
<v Speaker 5>And so the people in the house who lived there

780
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:48.800
<v Speaker 5>had a key to a gate that went from inside

781
00:44:48.800 --> 00:44:52.239
<v Speaker 5>the community out to that path. So there was a

782
00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:54.440
<v Speaker 5>gate right across the street. They lived on a cul

783
00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:58.199
<v Speaker 5>de sac, and then there was they also had front

784
00:44:58.239 --> 00:45:05.000
<v Speaker 5>door keys, so the pedestrian access gate keys that for

785
00:45:05.119 --> 00:45:09.719
<v Speaker 5>that lock were given out to by the homeowners association.

786
00:45:09.800 --> 00:45:11.880
<v Speaker 5>There were only a limited number. You had to sign

787
00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:14.519
<v Speaker 5>out for them. You are not allowed to copy the key,

788
00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:17.199
<v Speaker 5>it said, do not copy on you know, on keys.

789
00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:21.239
<v Speaker 5>So they were distributed by the homeowners association on purpose

790
00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:27.719
<v Speaker 5>to keep these to keep it secure. So anyway, when

791
00:45:27.719 --> 00:45:32.079
<v Speaker 5>the police got there, they found two newly copied keys.

792
00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:36.880
<v Speaker 5>One was actually literally in the door lock of the

793
00:45:36.960 --> 00:45:40.400
<v Speaker 5>front door, just a single key with one of those

794
00:45:40.440 --> 00:45:43.639
<v Speaker 5>little tiny metal circles that you get when you just

795
00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:45.679
<v Speaker 5>come back from the hardware store because they give you

796
00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:48.559
<v Speaker 5>those little tiny keyring things. And then there was another

797
00:45:48.599 --> 00:45:51.679
<v Speaker 5>one on the doormat, and they were different colors and

798
00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:58.719
<v Speaker 5>they were clearly, you know, shiny, brand new copies keys. Now,

799
00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:03.039
<v Speaker 5>as they started doing some investigation, what they found was

800
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<v Speaker 5>that well, because they were right near the ocean, the

801
00:46:08.079 --> 00:46:11.679
<v Speaker 5>front door lock could get corroded with salt, so that

802
00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:13.599
<v Speaker 5>sometimes when they had a new key they'd have to

803
00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:16.920
<v Speaker 5>go get it reground because it wouldn't fit in properly.

804
00:46:18.760 --> 00:46:21.400
<v Speaker 5>And then the one that was on the doormat was

805
00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:24.880
<v Speaker 5>the one that went to the gate, the pedestrian access

806
00:46:24.920 --> 00:46:27.239
<v Speaker 5>gate out to that path, and by the way, that

807
00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:31.519
<v Speaker 5>path led right up to the bridge which led across

808
00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:34.679
<v Speaker 5>the bridge over to the Thunderbird Lounge where Eric Napowski

809
00:46:35.400 --> 00:46:38.679
<v Speaker 5>had just gotten this job. So again there was a

810
00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:41.760
<v Speaker 5>key to the pedestrian access gate on the mat, and

811
00:46:42.119 --> 00:46:45.440
<v Speaker 5>the front door lock had a key that was literally

812
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:49.480
<v Speaker 5>stuck in it, as if somebody had stuck the key

813
00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:51.719
<v Speaker 5>in the front door lock tried to turn and get

814
00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:54.400
<v Speaker 5>it out and it got stuck, and in his haste

815
00:46:54.960 --> 00:46:58.840
<v Speaker 5>dropped the other key. So that's basically what the police

816
00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:04.000
<v Speaker 5>decided that, Okay, there's two keys. They're freshly made copies.

817
00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:07.159
<v Speaker 5>And what that means is there's a finite number of

818
00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:10.679
<v Speaker 5>people who had access to these keys, because, like I said,

819
00:47:10.800 --> 00:47:13.360
<v Speaker 5>they were not supposed to be copied.

820
00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:23.719
<v Speaker 7>Now, in any investigation, homicide detectives, some experience, some more experienced,

821
00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:27.719
<v Speaker 7>and some less experienced, will all have some kind of

822
00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:32.079
<v Speaker 7>strategy to ascertain what really went on, and who are

823
00:47:32.199 --> 00:47:35.679
<v Speaker 7>the likely suspects and who can be arrested if there's

824
00:47:35.800 --> 00:47:41.400
<v Speaker 7>enough evidence. What is their strategy in what's the police strategy,

825
00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:43.639
<v Speaker 7>what's their initial idea, and how do they go about

826
00:47:44.719 --> 00:47:47.559
<v Speaker 7>with a strategy to try to get a confession or

827
00:47:47.599 --> 00:47:48.039
<v Speaker 7>a conviction.

828
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<v Speaker 5>Well, when you have a small department, and I'm you know,

829
00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:56.000
<v Speaker 5>I'm saying this in other departments as well, in other small,

830
00:47:56.199 --> 00:47:58.880
<v Speaker 5>smaller communities. You know, I live here in San Diego

831
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<v Speaker 5>and that's a big communit it's the eighth largest city

832
00:48:01.800 --> 00:48:06.159
<v Speaker 5>in the nation. Newport Beach is a much smaller place.

833
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<v Speaker 5>So what's different about a small police department versus a

834
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<v Speaker 5>big city police department is they have people on their force.

835
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<v Speaker 5>And in Newport they rotate their detectives, so you don't

836
00:48:21.079 --> 00:48:25.800
<v Speaker 5>have somebody who's, you know, a veteran homicide detective work

837
00:48:25.840 --> 00:48:30.519
<v Speaker 5>in every case. They rotate them, so that the detective

838
00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:37.199
<v Speaker 5>in this case was Tom both Or Boss and this

839
00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:40.360
<v Speaker 5>was his first homicide case. And actually, as it turns out,

840
00:48:40.400 --> 00:48:43.840
<v Speaker 5>it was his first and only homicide case. He had

841
00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:48.000
<v Speaker 5>worked undercover narcotics, he had done all kinds of other things,

842
00:48:48.360 --> 00:48:52.239
<v Speaker 5>but this was his first homicide case. Now, by the

843
00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:55.480
<v Speaker 5>same token, as he's explained to me, that doesn't mean

844
00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:58.400
<v Speaker 5>he was making decisions on this case. It meant that

845
00:48:58.480 --> 00:49:02.880
<v Speaker 5>he was the lead detective, but he said he mostly

846
00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:05.199
<v Speaker 5>was in charge of keeping the paperwork together and that

847
00:49:05.239 --> 00:49:07.440
<v Speaker 5>the people above him were the ones who were making

848
00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:11.079
<v Speaker 5>the decisions on what to do next, which I think

849
00:49:11.159 --> 00:49:13.800
<v Speaker 5>is also true of smaller departments where you have the

850
00:49:13.840 --> 00:49:16.239
<v Speaker 5>supervisory people who are more experienced, who are calling the

851
00:49:16.239 --> 00:49:19.119
<v Speaker 5>shops and telling everybody what to do. So I think

852
00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:21.840
<v Speaker 5>when they say lead detective in this particular case, you know,

853
00:49:21.840 --> 00:49:24.239
<v Speaker 5>I don't want to blame him for overlooking on anything.

854
00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:28.559
<v Speaker 5>But at the same time, he wasn't experienced, So by

855
00:49:28.639 --> 00:49:31.559
<v Speaker 5>the same token, he was also an enterprising guy. He

856
00:49:31.559 --> 00:49:33.239
<v Speaker 5>he was the one who said, Hey, why don't I

857
00:49:33.320 --> 00:49:35.480
<v Speaker 5>go approach some of these hardware stores and see if

858
00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:38.920
<v Speaker 5>I can find out if anybody's made keys there recently.

859
00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:41.760
<v Speaker 5>As it turned out, guess what, Eric Nepowski had recently

860
00:49:41.800 --> 00:49:47.000
<v Speaker 5>copied keys at the hardware store, you know, near near

861
00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:51.559
<v Speaker 5>his house. So, like I said, so there are pros

862
00:49:51.599 --> 00:49:54.880
<v Speaker 5>and cons to this small kind of smaller community approach

863
00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:58.960
<v Speaker 5>and the experience, but that's the way it is. What

864
00:49:59.000 --> 00:50:00.599
<v Speaker 5>it is, and it was it was.

865
00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:05.199
<v Speaker 7>So how do they first what do they first do?

866
00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:10.920
<v Speaker 7>What is their first idea as a likely suspect or

867
00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:14.559
<v Speaker 7>a possible suspect, what's their first idea and how do

868
00:50:14.639 --> 00:50:15.440
<v Speaker 7>they go about it?

869
00:50:16.599 --> 00:50:19.440
<v Speaker 5>Well, there's you know, there's this is over some period

870
00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:23.880
<v Speaker 5>of time, but initially I think they kind of knew, well,

871
00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:26.800
<v Speaker 5>this probably was an inside job because of the keys, right,

872
00:50:26.840 --> 00:50:30.880
<v Speaker 5>because of the finite number of keys. So they were searching.

873
00:50:31.480 --> 00:50:34.079
<v Speaker 5>They were also searching for the murder weapon. And they

874
00:50:34.760 --> 00:50:38.559
<v Speaker 5>they went looking right in the channel of water right

875
00:50:38.599 --> 00:50:43.199
<v Speaker 5>outside his house. Didn't find any gun or anything because

876
00:50:43.199 --> 00:50:47.800
<v Speaker 5>there's no murder weapon. There were just the bullet casings.

877
00:50:47.840 --> 00:50:52.039
<v Speaker 5>And they didn't really know what was going on or

878
00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:56.679
<v Speaker 5>who to look at, in particular, until Bill's memorial service,

879
00:50:57.519 --> 00:51:03.320
<v Speaker 5>at which Nanette's son said, my boyfriend plays football. My

880
00:51:03.360 --> 00:51:07.840
<v Speaker 5>mom's boyfriend plays football. Now, people at the funeral were like,

881
00:51:08.519 --> 00:51:12.800
<v Speaker 5>wait a minute, Nannette was Bill's girlfriend. Who's she talking about?

882
00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:17.440
<v Speaker 5>So right away casts out of the bag. They focus

883
00:51:17.519 --> 00:51:20.400
<v Speaker 5>in on somebody who plays football who is hanging out

884
00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:25.239
<v Speaker 5>with Ninnette. N Nannette has gone to stay at another

885
00:51:25.320 --> 00:51:27.960
<v Speaker 5>house that Bill owns, which is about four minutes away

886
00:51:28.360 --> 00:51:32.880
<v Speaker 5>on Seashore Drive. She says, Oh, I can't stay in

887
00:51:32.920 --> 00:51:34.800
<v Speaker 5>this house where he was killed, So she's staying in

888
00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:38.360
<v Speaker 5>this other house, which they call the Beach House, and

889
00:51:40.559 --> 00:51:44.079
<v Speaker 5>the police starts surveilling her and that house, and within

890
00:51:44.199 --> 00:51:47.519
<v Speaker 5>short order they see Eric Naposki come in into the house,

891
00:51:48.199 --> 00:51:52.679
<v Speaker 5>so they start following him and they find probable cause

892
00:51:52.920 --> 00:51:55.320
<v Speaker 5>to pull him over and bring him in for questioning

893
00:51:55.360 --> 00:51:57.079
<v Speaker 5>in the middle of the night, after he's gotten off

894
00:51:57.119 --> 00:52:02.519
<v Speaker 5>work at the Underbird Lounge, some kind of outstanding traffic warrants,

895
00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:07.519
<v Speaker 5>so they bring him in for questioning about this murder.

896
00:52:08.039 --> 00:52:10.400
<v Speaker 5>And he's like, well, you know, I've been Yeah, I've

897
00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:12.280
<v Speaker 5>been kind of dating the net but it's like, no

898
00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:16.800
<v Speaker 5>big deal. So he's minimizing their relationship and she's minimizing

899
00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:21.119
<v Speaker 5>their relationship, and so the police are kind of focusing

900
00:52:21.159 --> 00:52:25.360
<v Speaker 5>in on the two of them as suspects, but they

901
00:52:25.400 --> 00:52:30.280
<v Speaker 5>still don't have what they need to break this case open.

902
00:52:30.440 --> 00:52:34.239
<v Speaker 5>So what they end up doing and I ended up

903
00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:38.360
<v Speaker 5>interviewing the prosecutor at that time, which was not the

904
00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:44.320
<v Speaker 5>prosecutor who ultimately prosecuted this case to conviction. She was

905
00:52:44.400 --> 00:52:48.679
<v Speaker 5>a tough cookie and the way she described it, this

906
00:52:48.880 --> 00:52:51.400
<v Speaker 5>was an all man's kind of world. She was the

907
00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:55.000
<v Speaker 5>only woman, and she just had a disagreement with these

908
00:52:55.039 --> 00:52:57.280
<v Speaker 5>guys at the Newport Beach Police Department. There was a

909
00:52:57.320 --> 00:53:01.280
<v Speaker 5>breakdown in communication. They didn't want her involved in the case.

910
00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:04.239
<v Speaker 5>They wanted to do it their way. She wanted to

911
00:53:04.239 --> 00:53:08.880
<v Speaker 5>do something different. They split the case into two, into

912
00:53:08.920 --> 00:53:12.679
<v Speaker 5>the fraud with the checks, the embezzlement, and the murder,

913
00:53:12.719 --> 00:53:14.679
<v Speaker 5>and she's like, you know, she didn't think that was

914
00:53:14.719 --> 00:53:17.360
<v Speaker 5>a good idea, but that's what they did. So they

915
00:53:17.519 --> 00:53:22.920
<v Speaker 5>finally arrested in a net for these fraudulent checks that

916
00:53:23.000 --> 00:53:25.639
<v Speaker 5>they basically counted up like fifteen checks that they could

917
00:53:25.639 --> 00:53:28.960
<v Speaker 5>figure out that she forged the bill's name on. And

918
00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:30.599
<v Speaker 5>they thought that they were going to force her to

919
00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:33.159
<v Speaker 5>talk about the murder, but in fact, she she just

920
00:53:33.239 --> 00:53:38.519
<v Speaker 5>clammed up. And so she the way she tells it now,

921
00:53:38.559 --> 00:53:42.079
<v Speaker 5>looking back, that was a big mistake and that that

922
00:53:42.559 --> 00:53:45.159
<v Speaker 5>is what, you know, really screwed up this whole, this

923
00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:47.000
<v Speaker 5>whole case and why it ended up turning into a

924
00:53:47.039 --> 00:53:50.880
<v Speaker 5>cold case all these years later. She wouldn't talk, and they,

925
00:53:51.039 --> 00:53:52.760
<v Speaker 5>I guess thought she was just going to roll over,

926
00:53:53.039 --> 00:53:56.719
<v Speaker 5>and she didn't, so they they thought that Eric was

927
00:53:56.760 --> 00:53:58.440
<v Speaker 5>the shooter, I think, way back then, but they just

928
00:53:58.480 --> 00:54:01.360
<v Speaker 5>couldn't prove it.

929
00:54:01.480 --> 00:54:04.639
<v Speaker 7>Was there any explanation what they thought they were doing

930
00:54:04.679 --> 00:54:07.800
<v Speaker 7>by separating those charges because it's I mean, it's a

931
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:10.800
<v Speaker 7>minor charge. They thought because she was the pressure of

932
00:54:10.840 --> 00:54:13.920
<v Speaker 7>being in prison would then get her to I don't

933
00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:16.079
<v Speaker 7>I still don't understand what they thought they would do

934
00:54:16.119 --> 00:54:18.800
<v Speaker 7>by doing that. Well, I think unusual.

935
00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:23.400
<v Speaker 5>Well, yeah, one thing you need to understand is I

936
00:54:23.440 --> 00:54:26.679
<v Speaker 5>can't say this with any certainty. I am only being

937
00:54:26.719 --> 00:54:29.199
<v Speaker 5>told what I'm being told. It's all these years later.

938
00:54:29.320 --> 00:54:32.719
<v Speaker 5>People's memories are faulty. There's a lot of politics involved

939
00:54:32.719 --> 00:54:36.559
<v Speaker 5>in this, and people don't want to point fingers the prosecution,

940
00:54:38.199 --> 00:54:42.800
<v Speaker 5>the prosecutor and his investigator. You know, they don't want

941
00:54:42.800 --> 00:54:45.000
<v Speaker 5>to say anything bad about the police department. The police

942
00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:49.639
<v Speaker 5>department's probably embarrassed after all these years. Ultimately, you know,

943
00:54:49.679 --> 00:54:51.599
<v Speaker 5>there was a conviction and it all turned out fine.

944
00:54:51.599 --> 00:54:54.079
<v Speaker 5>But I mean, I can't say for sure what happened

945
00:54:54.119 --> 00:54:56.800
<v Speaker 5>back then, But I think what happened is that they

946
00:54:56.840 --> 00:54:59.719
<v Speaker 5>thought that they had a sure thing with the fraud.

947
00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:01.719
<v Speaker 5>That's what they could prove, and that's what they could

948
00:55:01.719 --> 00:55:03.559
<v Speaker 5>prove in court, and so that's what they went after,

949
00:55:04.039 --> 00:55:06.280
<v Speaker 5>and they were hoping that the murder would follow. That's

950
00:55:06.360 --> 00:55:09.920
<v Speaker 5>that's all I can suggest at this point. It may

951
00:55:10.119 --> 00:55:12.400
<v Speaker 5>make but I think that's what happened.

952
00:55:13.119 --> 00:55:16.320
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, but regardless, it goes cold. And I think one

953
00:55:16.880 --> 00:55:19.360
<v Speaker 7>thing that you convey in the book though, that and

954
00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:23.159
<v Speaker 7>that's a pretty strong character when her demeanor when she's

955
00:55:23.199 --> 00:55:27.519
<v Speaker 7>being interviewed is very helpful instead of being defiant, and

956
00:55:27.599 --> 00:55:31.599
<v Speaker 7>she doesn't really dig herselves into too many holes, doesn't

957
00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:33.800
<v Speaker 7>contradict herself. She has her story down.

958
00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:37.559
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, as a post Aposki who's a big argumentative, you know,

959
00:55:38.800 --> 00:55:43.599
<v Speaker 5>aggressive guy who just pisses them off. You know. Yeah,

960
00:55:43.639 --> 00:55:45.960
<v Speaker 5>she says, oh, well, you know, I'll be helpful. I mean,

961
00:55:46.079 --> 00:55:49.639
<v Speaker 5>you can be you can be passive, aggressively, not helpful

962
00:55:49.679 --> 00:55:53.559
<v Speaker 5>and sort of appear like you're trying to do, you know,

963
00:55:54.119 --> 00:55:58.760
<v Speaker 5>to go along. But she wasn't. She wasn't volunteering anything, clearly,

964
00:56:01.119 --> 00:56:04.239
<v Speaker 5>and she she's a calm woman. She had an answer

965
00:56:04.320 --> 00:56:07.679
<v Speaker 5>for most things that they asked her, and she, you know,

966
00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:10.280
<v Speaker 5>she got away with it for fifteen years.

967
00:56:10.800 --> 00:56:13.960
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, now what was it? We're run out of time.

968
00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:17.840
<v Speaker 7>But to what was it that was the turning point?

969
00:56:17.960 --> 00:56:21.639
<v Speaker 7>Did they have any new evidence? What was the reason

970
00:56:21.760 --> 00:56:24.199
<v Speaker 7>for after that many years of being colled, it became

971
00:56:24.239 --> 00:56:25.880
<v Speaker 7>suddenly prosecutable.

972
00:56:26.639 --> 00:56:31.559
<v Speaker 5>There's an investigator named Larry Montgomery who was a former

973
00:56:31.559 --> 00:56:35.599
<v Speaker 5>homicide detective at another police department. He went to work

974
00:56:35.599 --> 00:56:38.800
<v Speaker 5>for the DA's office and he also worked on the

975
00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:40.920
<v Speaker 5>Scowlar Delei own case, and he did a good job

976
00:56:40.920 --> 00:56:43.440
<v Speaker 5>with that, helped them bring that to conviction. And this

977
00:56:43.639 --> 00:56:46.360
<v Speaker 5>was a this was a similar case to that other one,

978
00:56:46.400 --> 00:56:51.760
<v Speaker 5>which meaning that it was a death penalty case originally,

979
00:56:51.880 --> 00:56:53.920
<v Speaker 5>or it looked like it could be at least, meaning

980
00:56:54.119 --> 00:56:58.000
<v Speaker 5>that the special circumstances of financial you know, murder for

981
00:56:58.079 --> 00:57:01.960
<v Speaker 5>financial gain were there. They did not prosecute this one

982
00:57:02.119 --> 00:57:04.519
<v Speaker 5>as a death penalty case, but it was a very

983
00:57:04.559 --> 00:57:08.679
<v Speaker 5>similar case in that it was a you know, largely

984
00:57:08.840 --> 00:57:12.360
<v Speaker 5>circumstantial evidence case because they did not have the murder

985
00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:15.280
<v Speaker 5>weapon and they did not have direct evidence, but they

986
00:57:15.320 --> 00:57:19.679
<v Speaker 5>had all kinds of other financial evidence and all kinds

987
00:57:19.719 --> 00:57:23.320
<v Speaker 5>of other evidence. And so they were very similar in

988
00:57:23.360 --> 00:57:29.960
<v Speaker 5>the way that the suspects and defendants used children, use

989
00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:34.559
<v Speaker 5>their children as pawns and manipulated and it was all

990
00:57:34.559 --> 00:57:38.480
<v Speaker 5>about money and greed. So he came into this one.

991
00:57:39.840 --> 00:57:45.599
<v Speaker 5>The police detective and the prosecutor really got to be

992
00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:49.360
<v Speaker 5>close over this during the scholar Giulion investigation, and they

993
00:57:49.360 --> 00:57:51.840
<v Speaker 5>wanted to continue to work on something else, and they

994
00:57:51.840 --> 00:57:53.960
<v Speaker 5>basically just said, hey, do you have any other cases

995
00:57:54.559 --> 00:57:57.320
<v Speaker 5>that you think, you know, we could take another look at,

996
00:57:57.400 --> 00:58:01.559
<v Speaker 5>And they said, yeah, the McLoughlin case. So so they

997
00:58:02.679 --> 00:58:06.760
<v Speaker 5>set this investigator, Lara Montgomery, onto the case and he

998
00:58:06.840 --> 00:58:09.800
<v Speaker 5>went through every piece of evidence again. He listened to

999
00:58:09.840 --> 00:58:14.079
<v Speaker 5>all these tapes that they had in the case, files

1000
00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:17.800
<v Speaker 5>of phone calls that they'd made, you know, phone interviews,

1001
00:58:18.079 --> 00:58:20.719
<v Speaker 5>and a bunch of taped calls that had come into

1002
00:58:20.719 --> 00:58:23.159
<v Speaker 5>the police department. And what he found were a couple

1003
00:58:23.199 --> 00:58:28.159
<v Speaker 5>of witnesses who had basically been overlooked. And what also

1004
00:58:28.239 --> 00:58:30.800
<v Speaker 5>had changed is that, you know, with new technology, the

1005
00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:34.880
<v Speaker 5>ballistics were much better, so that they were able to

1006
00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:39.480
<v Speaker 5>narrow down the murder weapon from twenty seven or twenty

1007
00:58:39.480 --> 00:58:43.280
<v Speaker 5>eight guns down to just one, and that was the

1008
00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:49.199
<v Speaker 5>Bretta ninety two F which coincidentally, Eric Neapowski had owned

1009
00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:52.159
<v Speaker 5>and said had been stolen. He didn't know where it was,

1010
00:58:52.199 --> 00:58:56.760
<v Speaker 5>couldn't find it. Couldn't produce it, so they basically were

1011
00:58:56.800 --> 00:59:02.880
<v Speaker 5>able to arrest both of them, and they reinterviewed both

1012
00:59:02.920 --> 00:59:07.960
<v Speaker 5>of them, and Eric Naposki kept saying, I have an alibi.

1013
00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:09.840
<v Speaker 5>I have an alibi, and he said this earlier too,

1014
00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:14.079
<v Speaker 5>but he never produced any phone records to back this up.

1015
00:59:14.480 --> 00:59:18.000
<v Speaker 5>He said he got a page from the Thunderbird lounge

1016
00:59:18.039 --> 00:59:21.599
<v Speaker 5>where he worked, saying he needed to come in and

1017
00:59:21.639 --> 00:59:24.719
<v Speaker 5>warned him about some boat parade traffic and he should

1018
00:59:24.800 --> 00:59:28.239
<v Speaker 5>be aware, and that he returned a page all those

1019
00:59:28.360 --> 00:59:31.679
<v Speaker 5>years ago when we used to have pagers, he apparently

1020
00:59:31.760 --> 00:59:35.880
<v Speaker 5>returned a page from a payphone using his credit card,

1021
00:59:35.960 --> 00:59:39.519
<v Speaker 5>his phone credit cards, but he never produced those records,

1022
00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:42.719
<v Speaker 5>and so by the time he was arrested, those records

1023
00:59:42.719 --> 00:59:45.760
<v Speaker 5>had long been destroyed, and he and his attorneys and

1024
00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:49.000
<v Speaker 5>Nanessa attorneys kept trying to use that as well, it's

1025
00:59:49.039 --> 00:59:52.559
<v Speaker 5>been so long, you can't properly a judic case or

1026
00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:56.360
<v Speaker 5>prosecute this case because you know our evidence and you

1027
00:59:56.360 --> 00:59:59.920
<v Speaker 5>know Eric's albi have been destroyed. Well, according to the prosecution,

1028
01:00:00.360 --> 01:00:03.559
<v Speaker 5>they did these time trials driving from point A to

1029
01:00:03.559 --> 01:00:05.519
<v Speaker 5>point B, and they're like, you know what, regardless of

1030
01:00:05.559 --> 01:00:08.320
<v Speaker 5>whether he ever made this call, he still had enough

1031
01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:10.559
<v Speaker 5>time to commit the murder, so it doesn't even matter.

1032
01:00:11.400 --> 01:00:13.079
<v Speaker 5>So there was a whole lot of you know, back

1033
01:00:13.079 --> 01:00:16.000
<v Speaker 5>and forth over these over this phone call that Eric

1034
01:00:16.079 --> 01:00:20.559
<v Speaker 5>Naposki supposedly made. His defense said it was physically impossible

1035
01:00:20.559 --> 01:00:23.599
<v Speaker 5>for him to have committed the murder because he returned

1036
01:00:23.599 --> 01:00:26.039
<v Speaker 5>his call at eight point fifty two and there's no

1037
01:00:26.079 --> 01:00:28.679
<v Speaker 5>way he could have driven from there at Newport, And

1038
01:00:28.719 --> 01:00:31.840
<v Speaker 5>the prosecution proved that he was able to do that

1039
01:00:32.119 --> 01:00:36.239
<v Speaker 5>to everybody's satisfaction, including the jury, including the judge.

1040
01:00:36.760 --> 01:00:40.480
<v Speaker 7>So how was it that the trials were split up,

1041
01:00:40.559 --> 01:00:43.760
<v Speaker 7>that he went first? And was there any indication that

1042
01:00:43.840 --> 01:00:51.480
<v Speaker 7>anyone any of the defense attorneys wanted that, Umm, oh.

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<v Speaker 5>Okay, you're asking me a question that I'm not exactly

1044
01:00:56.119 --> 01:01:01.199
<v Speaker 5>positive of. I think this was the prosecution's choice. But basically,

1045
01:01:01.199 --> 01:01:04.320
<v Speaker 5>what happens is if you try two people like this together,

1046
01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:08.559
<v Speaker 5>you can't use their statements about each other against them.

1047
01:01:08.880 --> 01:01:14.280
<v Speaker 5>So it actually is better for probably everybody to separate

1048
01:01:15.199 --> 01:01:18.239
<v Speaker 5>defendants and trials like this. So it's not that often

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01:01:18.280 --> 01:01:20.760
<v Speaker 5>that you see a whole bunch of defendants tried together.

1050
01:01:20.960 --> 01:01:25.000
<v Speaker 5>It does happen, but it actually works better because you know, theoretically,

1051
01:01:25.400 --> 01:01:29.039
<v Speaker 5>the prosecution can then use completely different theories from trial

1052
01:01:29.119 --> 01:01:32.559
<v Speaker 5>to trial because you have different juries. With using the

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01:01:32.559 --> 01:01:34.840
<v Speaker 5>same facts, you can have different interpretations.

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01:01:35.360 --> 01:01:38.440
<v Speaker 7>So well, yeah, well that's that's kind of the point.

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01:01:38.639 --> 01:01:40.360
<v Speaker 7>Was That's the kind of point I was bringing up,

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01:01:40.360 --> 01:01:43.199
<v Speaker 7>because the defense attorneys sort of, well not sort of

1057
01:01:43.920 --> 01:01:47.840
<v Speaker 7>pointed it kept insisting that it was Naboski alone, So

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01:01:47.880 --> 01:01:51.639
<v Speaker 7>that was sort of it could have been to her

1059
01:01:51.639 --> 01:01:54.960
<v Speaker 7>advantage from him playing on that this guy's already been

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01:01:55.000 --> 01:02:00.000
<v Speaker 7>convicted and acted alone. Well, a bit of an advantage.

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01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:03.199
<v Speaker 5>From one trial you have the defense saying one thing

1062
01:02:03.199 --> 01:02:05.159
<v Speaker 5>and the prosecution saying one thing. In the next trial,

1063
01:02:05.199 --> 01:02:07.480
<v Speaker 5>you have the prosecution saying what the defense said in

1064
01:02:07.559 --> 01:02:10.840
<v Speaker 5>the last trial, we're against the other defendant. And so

1065
01:02:10.880 --> 01:02:13.840
<v Speaker 5>everybody's plenty fingers at everybody else, and it's you know,

1066
01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:17.480
<v Speaker 5>you have different juries, so they don't know. But the

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01:02:17.719 --> 01:02:21.320
<v Speaker 5>judge did not keep out the information that Eric Kapowski

1068
01:02:21.440 --> 01:02:25.519
<v Speaker 5>had already been convicted when Nannette finally came around for trial.

1069
01:02:25.599 --> 01:02:29.000
<v Speaker 5>But when Ninette came around for trial, Eric had already

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01:02:29.000 --> 01:02:32.880
<v Speaker 5>been convicted, and and so what her defense was trying

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01:02:32.880 --> 01:02:34.800
<v Speaker 5>to say is well, Eric's the one who shot him,

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01:02:35.199 --> 01:02:38.400
<v Speaker 5>and Nanette didn't have anything to do with it. In

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01:02:38.519 --> 01:02:41.920
<v Speaker 5>the first one, you know, he was a jealous and

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01:02:41.960 --> 01:02:45.559
<v Speaker 5>in the first one they were trying to his defense

1075
01:02:45.639 --> 01:02:47.079
<v Speaker 5>was trying to say, well, it could have just as

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01:02:47.119 --> 01:02:50.199
<v Speaker 5>easily have been the Neette who shot him, you know,

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01:02:50.320 --> 01:02:54.960
<v Speaker 5>I mean, it was just kind of crazy. Yeah, But

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01:02:55.280 --> 01:02:58.880
<v Speaker 5>the defense for both of them were that it's been

1079
01:02:58.920 --> 01:03:01.880
<v Speaker 5>fifteen years, this just isn't fair to prosecute them because

1080
01:03:01.880 --> 01:03:04.239
<v Speaker 5>we don't have all the evidence. It's been destroyed, which

1081
01:03:04.320 --> 01:03:06.280
<v Speaker 5>wasn't true, but that was what both of them said,

1082
01:03:06.599 --> 01:03:09.639
<v Speaker 5>and that the police investigation was so shoddy and so

1083
01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:12.480
<v Speaker 5>poor that you know, you can't trust anything they say.

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01:03:13.519 --> 01:03:16.840
<v Speaker 7>Mm hm, Well, I mean they have to make a defense.

1085
01:03:16.880 --> 01:03:20.920
<v Speaker 7>But obviously sure he concurred with the prosecution.

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01:03:21.159 --> 01:03:25.840
<v Speaker 5>So right, Well, Matt Murphy the prosecutor, he's pretty he's

1087
01:03:25.880 --> 01:03:30.239
<v Speaker 5>a pretty amazing prosecutor. He's very convincing and very persuasive.

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01:03:31.639 --> 01:03:34.559
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, so I did. I did an admirable job, obviously, Right.

1089
01:03:35.559 --> 01:03:38.960
<v Speaker 7>What was the atmosphere like at the trial? There was

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01:03:39.000 --> 01:03:42.159
<v Speaker 7>there was a lot of spectators and basically how was

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01:03:42.400 --> 01:03:44.639
<v Speaker 7>the trial received basically by the media.

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01:03:46.519 --> 01:03:49.760
<v Speaker 5>Well, I think, you know, people were really more interested

1093
01:03:49.800 --> 01:03:54.440
<v Speaker 5>in Nnette because Nnette is a woman, and it's more

1094
01:03:54.480 --> 01:03:57.599
<v Speaker 5>interesting when you have an attractive murderer these days in

1095
01:03:57.639 --> 01:04:01.760
<v Speaker 5>our culture, you know. And this got to be a

1096
01:04:01.840 --> 01:04:05.440
<v Speaker 5>more high profile trial because Eric Nipopski was in the NFL,

1097
01:04:06.119 --> 01:04:10.159
<v Speaker 5>so that's the sort of a celebrity status. Excuse me,

1098
01:04:10.239 --> 01:04:15.039
<v Speaker 5>but Nannette really was the story as as far as

1099
01:04:15.039 --> 01:04:17.679
<v Speaker 5>I could tell, and as far as I think the

1100
01:04:17.760 --> 01:04:22.840
<v Speaker 5>media was concerned. They really felt like, you know, it's

1101
01:04:22.880 --> 01:04:25.760
<v Speaker 5>just she's just more interesting as a person. But they

1102
01:04:25.840 --> 01:04:31.239
<v Speaker 5>never really painted her during the trial either trials, as

1103
01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:33.559
<v Speaker 5>a three dimensional person. It was she was just like

1104
01:04:33.639 --> 01:04:40.079
<v Speaker 5>this horrible, terrible, sleazy, cheating, you know, seductress. And even

1105
01:04:40.119 --> 01:04:43.840
<v Speaker 5>her own attorney it was bizarre. He just kept bringing

1106
01:04:43.920 --> 01:04:47.239
<v Speaker 5>up all this horrible behavior. But he said, but no

1107
01:04:47.280 --> 01:04:49.320
<v Speaker 5>matter how much you hate her, you can't can you

1108
01:04:49.440 --> 01:04:53.360
<v Speaker 5>can't convict her just because you don't like who she is.

1109
01:04:53.400 --> 01:04:55.840
<v Speaker 5>It doesn't make her murderer. And I'm not sure that

1110
01:04:55.960 --> 01:04:59.559
<v Speaker 5>was the best tactic because by the time you were done,

1111
01:04:59.599 --> 01:05:02.440
<v Speaker 5>I mean, hitter lickworst than the prosecutor did. I mean,

1112
01:05:02.920 --> 01:05:03.960
<v Speaker 5>it was kind of bizarre.

1113
01:05:05.480 --> 01:05:08.039
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, I know what point he was trying to make.

1114
01:05:08.119 --> 01:05:10.360
<v Speaker 7>But yeah, you're right. He went on and on and

1115
01:05:10.400 --> 01:05:13.559
<v Speaker 7>on and was like, wow, that's uh yeah, you're You've

1116
01:05:13.559 --> 01:05:14.719
<v Speaker 7>convinced them, Yeah.

1117
01:05:14.599 --> 01:05:18.400
<v Speaker 5>You have right, right, And so the thing was, you know,

1118
01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:21.079
<v Speaker 5>the other thing that we didn't quite get to it, and

1119
01:05:21.079 --> 01:05:24.119
<v Speaker 5>I know we have like two seconds left. But the

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01:05:24.199 --> 01:05:27.199
<v Speaker 5>interesting thing at the very end was that Eric Kapowski,

1121
01:05:27.400 --> 01:05:30.639
<v Speaker 5>after he was convicted, then comes out with this story

1122
01:05:30.679 --> 01:05:33.599
<v Speaker 5>about oh, it wasn't me, it was a hit man

1123
01:05:33.800 --> 01:05:38.519
<v Speaker 5>that Ninnette hired, which delayed everything and sentence things, and

1124
01:05:39.400 --> 01:05:42.559
<v Speaker 5>had the prosecutor and Larry Montgomery the investigator, go back

1125
01:05:42.599 --> 01:05:46.239
<v Speaker 5>again and try to research this whole new theory but

1126
01:05:46.639 --> 01:05:48.360
<v Speaker 5>it never held any water, and they.

1127
01:05:48.239 --> 01:05:53.400
<v Speaker 7>Were both sent Yeah. Yeah, so they're both sentenced to

1128
01:05:53.480 --> 01:05:56.199
<v Speaker 7>life without any possibility to parole, no death penalty, but

1129
01:05:57.079 --> 01:06:03.920
<v Speaker 7>right secured away, secured away, both of them, and amazing.

1130
01:06:03.639 --> 01:06:05.400
<v Speaker 5>He's already been denied. So there you go.

1131
01:06:06.360 --> 01:06:08.440
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, yeah, well, I mean there has to be something

1132
01:06:08.480 --> 01:06:11.119
<v Speaker 7>wrong with the trial anyway, but with you know, there's

1133
01:06:11.159 --> 01:06:14.039
<v Speaker 7>been some surprising appeals though, so I didn't I shouldn't

1134
01:06:14.039 --> 01:06:16.039
<v Speaker 7>say anything. Anything can happen.

1135
01:06:16.760 --> 01:06:21.880
<v Speaker 5>Was the deliberations in her case were pretty quick.

1136
01:06:22.000 --> 01:06:27.559
<v Speaker 7>So so it was an amazing experience attending the trial obviously,

1137
01:06:29.239 --> 01:06:30.719
<v Speaker 7>you know, it was interesting to me.

1138
01:06:31.119 --> 01:06:36.119
<v Speaker 5>To go and interview Eric Napowski the trials, you know,

1139
01:06:36.239 --> 01:06:40.559
<v Speaker 5>the trials or trials, and I couldn't I could not

1140
01:06:40.639 --> 01:06:43.559
<v Speaker 5>believe all the stuff that she had done to people.

1141
01:06:43.840 --> 01:06:46.519
<v Speaker 5>I was amazed at that and the fact that she

1142
01:06:46.559 --> 01:06:51.320
<v Speaker 5>had no emotion whatsoever. Ever, she just sat there.

1143
01:06:51.159 --> 01:06:52.719
<v Speaker 7>Like a stone.

1144
01:06:52.960 --> 01:06:56.440
<v Speaker 5>Wow. It's like, wow, do you have a heart? Like

1145
01:06:56.480 --> 01:06:59.880
<v Speaker 5>I said, she has a deep, dark hole in her soul,

1146
01:07:00.079 --> 01:07:00.480
<v Speaker 5>that woman.

1147
01:07:02.639 --> 01:07:06.719
<v Speaker 7>When you interviewed Naposki, was he still in denial or

1148
01:07:06.760 --> 01:07:10.280
<v Speaker 7>what And was there any talk of him being manipulated?

1149
01:07:11.760 --> 01:07:12.320
<v Speaker 4>Oh no, he.

1150
01:07:12.960 --> 01:07:17.280
<v Speaker 5>Admitted, you know, she she yeah, she she took me.

1151
01:07:18.639 --> 01:07:21.039
<v Speaker 5>She's a liar. You know, I believed her at the time.

1152
01:07:21.079 --> 01:07:24.880
<v Speaker 5>I loved her at the time, you know, I But

1153
01:07:25.039 --> 01:07:27.639
<v Speaker 5>he also was like, you know, I'm innocent. I didn't

1154
01:07:27.679 --> 01:07:31.480
<v Speaker 5>do this. You know, there was a hit man. You know.

1155
01:07:31.679 --> 01:07:35.079
<v Speaker 5>I talked him for almost seven hours and he I

1156
01:07:35.239 --> 01:07:37.920
<v Speaker 5>could barely get a word in edgewise. He really liked

1157
01:07:37.920 --> 01:07:40.159
<v Speaker 5>to talk, and that was how he was with the

1158
01:07:40.280 --> 01:07:43.880
<v Speaker 5>with the detectives as well. You know, they were trying

1159
01:07:43.920 --> 01:07:46.199
<v Speaker 5>to ask him questions, and he just kept taking over.

1160
01:07:46.880 --> 01:07:48.320
<v Speaker 5>So I let him do that, and I said, look,

1161
01:07:48.400 --> 01:07:49.960
<v Speaker 5>I'm going to let you talk, but I need to

1162
01:07:50.000 --> 01:07:51.880
<v Speaker 5>talk to I need to ask some questions. And so

1163
01:07:51.960 --> 01:07:55.800
<v Speaker 5>he did let me. But he's a character. You know.

1164
01:07:55.840 --> 01:07:58.039
<v Speaker 5>What's the thing that I always say is people who

1165
01:07:58.079 --> 01:08:02.840
<v Speaker 5>were convicted killers is they don't seem like killers. They're charming,

1166
01:08:03.079 --> 01:08:07.599
<v Speaker 5>they are friendly. Oftentimes they are you know, you would

1167
01:08:07.679 --> 01:08:10.519
<v Speaker 5>have no idea, and he was. He fit right into

1168
01:08:10.519 --> 01:08:11.039
<v Speaker 5>that mold.

1169
01:08:11.440 --> 01:08:15.559
<v Speaker 7>So yeah, well that's the scary part of the capacity.

1170
01:08:17.079 --> 01:08:25.159
<v Speaker 7>You say, geez, I almost could be friends with this person. Almost.

1171
01:08:25.640 --> 01:08:29.279
<v Speaker 5>Wow, that was a story. So I said, well, okay,

1172
01:08:29.319 --> 01:08:31.800
<v Speaker 5>I need to just go research this. So I did,

1173
01:08:32.039 --> 01:08:34.960
<v Speaker 5>you know, and and I was like, and I started

1174
01:08:34.960 --> 01:08:36.600
<v Speaker 5>looking at the evidence, and I started looking at the

1175
01:08:36.600 --> 01:08:38.600
<v Speaker 5>stuff that he said. It just didn't hold together.

1176
01:08:39.560 --> 01:08:42.439
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, well that's the thing. Yeah, that's that's amazing that

1177
01:08:42.520 --> 01:08:46.359
<v Speaker 7>you had that opportunity to listen to his story first.

1178
01:08:46.079 --> 01:08:49.560
<v Speaker 5>And right, oh, I always have, you know what, I

1179
01:08:49.640 --> 01:08:51.439
<v Speaker 5>go into these things with it. I try to go

1180
01:08:51.479 --> 01:08:55.319
<v Speaker 5>in with an open mind. I don't just immediately dismiss anybody,

1181
01:08:55.399 --> 01:08:59.760
<v Speaker 5>even if they've been convicted, because you know, there are convictions,

1182
01:08:59.760 --> 01:09:02.479
<v Speaker 5>and I'm willing to take a look. And you know,

1183
01:09:03.399 --> 01:09:08.039
<v Speaker 5>I'm I'm trained as an objective journalist, so I do

1184
01:09:08.159 --> 01:09:11.119
<v Speaker 5>approach these these cases that way, even though people have

1185
01:09:11.199 --> 01:09:13.560
<v Speaker 5>already been convicted. I do approach it that way. And

1186
01:09:13.600 --> 01:09:16.279
<v Speaker 5>then I write the story the way I write the story,

1187
01:09:16.319 --> 01:09:19.119
<v Speaker 5>and people, I mean, I don't. I don't write a

1188
01:09:19.119 --> 01:09:22.520
<v Speaker 5>book unless somebody's been convicted. So I wait till everything's over.

1189
01:09:23.880 --> 01:09:26.640
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, that's that's a pretty safe bet these days, because

1190
01:09:26.680 --> 01:09:29.079
<v Speaker 7>there's been a few books where I was surprised where

1191
01:09:29.399 --> 01:09:32.399
<v Speaker 7>a publishing company actually said, Okay, we're going to publish

1192
01:09:32.399 --> 01:09:34.159
<v Speaker 7>this story before the outcome of a trial.

1193
01:09:34.359 --> 01:09:36.000
<v Speaker 5>And oh, that happens all the time.

1194
01:09:37.279 --> 01:09:39.279
<v Speaker 7>If we're getting it wrong, we're getting it wrong though,

1195
01:09:39.439 --> 01:09:43.239
<v Speaker 7>you know so well surprising surprising jury results, so it

1196
01:09:43.359 --> 01:09:47.960
<v Speaker 7>can happen yep, and appeals too, So I never do that.

1197
01:09:48.800 --> 01:09:50.560
<v Speaker 5>I always wait till there's a conviction.

1198
01:09:51.159 --> 01:09:53.840
<v Speaker 7>I'm pretty happy with the conviction. Like in Canada here

1199
01:09:53.880 --> 01:09:58.239
<v Speaker 7>and you're originally from Canada, I believe Montreal they try to,

1200
01:09:58.960 --> 01:10:00.840
<v Speaker 7>you know, I don't know. Some people or hesitant to

1201
01:10:01.000 --> 01:10:04.319
<v Speaker 7>write before the appeal is finished, which is another year,

1202
01:10:04.680 --> 01:10:06.560
<v Speaker 7>another year, and a half or so, Now you'd be

1203
01:10:06.680 --> 01:10:10.039
<v Speaker 7>waiting forever for that. Well you're already waiting forever, as

1204
01:10:10.079 --> 01:10:11.920
<v Speaker 7>you know, So the maybe a year and a half

1205
01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:14.600
<v Speaker 7>is not And you know, I mean, especially if you've

1206
01:10:14.640 --> 01:10:17.800
<v Speaker 7>looked at the trial and your experience that looking at trials,

1207
01:10:17.840 --> 01:10:20.800
<v Speaker 7>and no one can ever say for sure that something

1208
01:10:20.800 --> 01:10:23.399
<v Speaker 7>won't be overturned an appeal, but unless something was dramatically

1209
01:10:23.439 --> 01:10:27.680
<v Speaker 7>wrong with the trial, and so well, you know, my.

1210
01:10:27.760 --> 01:10:32.239
<v Speaker 5>First book, Poisoned Love with Kristin Rossam. She is still

1211
01:10:32.479 --> 01:10:35.960
<v Speaker 5>she's over, She's gone through the appeals process. Her appeal

1212
01:10:36.039 --> 01:10:38.560
<v Speaker 5>was rejected in the state courts, or appeal was rejected

1213
01:10:38.560 --> 01:10:40.840
<v Speaker 5>in the federal courts, or appeals rejected by the US

1214
01:10:40.880 --> 01:10:44.319
<v Speaker 5>Supreme Court. She's still found an attorney to take another

1215
01:10:44.359 --> 01:10:47.520
<v Speaker 5>whack and coming in in a side door and is

1216
01:10:47.560 --> 01:10:51.760
<v Speaker 5>still going at it. I mean, in her two thousand

1217
01:10:51.800 --> 01:10:55.800
<v Speaker 5>and two and we're in twenty fourteen, she's still trying

1218
01:10:55.800 --> 01:10:56.720
<v Speaker 5>to get free.

1219
01:10:57.119 --> 01:11:02.600
<v Speaker 7>So some people to keep trying, some people can keep

1220
01:11:02.680 --> 01:11:07.640
<v Speaker 7>using the system. Yeah, certainly, Yeah, and there's been some outcomes,

1221
01:11:07.680 --> 01:11:09.960
<v Speaker 7>so it's worth a shot. I guess if you got

1222
01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:13.560
<v Speaker 7>nothing better to do, and you're sitting there anyway, why not, right.

1223
01:11:13.920 --> 01:11:14.800
<v Speaker 5>It's not your buddy.

1224
01:11:18.239 --> 01:11:21.479
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, that makes a taxpayer feel good. It's listening right now,

1225
01:11:21.520 --> 01:11:25.560
<v Speaker 7>so exactly. Yeah, Well, I want to thank you very

1226
01:11:25.640 --> 01:11:28.640
<v Speaker 7>much for this. What's your you have something coming down

1227
01:11:28.680 --> 01:11:31.520
<v Speaker 7>the pike. What's the next project? If you could be

1228
01:11:31.640 --> 01:11:32.279
<v Speaker 7>so kind as.

1229
01:11:33.680 --> 01:11:36.680
<v Speaker 5>Working on a case. This is kind of interesting that

1230
01:11:37.199 --> 01:11:40.239
<v Speaker 5>also came out of Dead Reckoning, the Scalar de Leon case.

1231
01:11:40.319 --> 01:11:43.239
<v Speaker 5>Tom and Jackie Hawks, who were the victims in that

1232
01:11:43.319 --> 01:11:47.399
<v Speaker 5>case and tied to an anchor and thrown overboard right

1233
01:11:47.399 --> 01:11:51.359
<v Speaker 5>off New prote Why the Newport Beach Department was investigating

1234
01:11:51.399 --> 01:11:57.640
<v Speaker 5>that they originally met in a town called Prescott. Actually

1235
01:11:57.680 --> 01:12:03.359
<v Speaker 5>it's pronounced Prescott like biscuit, Prescott, Arizona. And I am

1236
01:12:03.479 --> 01:12:06.600
<v Speaker 5>now writing a book about a case, a murder case

1237
01:12:06.600 --> 01:12:09.560
<v Speaker 5>out of Prescott, Arizona. So somebody who had read that

1238
01:12:10.720 --> 01:12:15.319
<v Speaker 5>Dead Reckoning was sending me story ideas and book ideas.

1239
01:12:15.840 --> 01:12:17.680
<v Speaker 5>In the first one, I'm like, no, no, And then

1240
01:12:17.760 --> 01:12:21.159
<v Speaker 5>she tried again, and she was sending me these clippings

1241
01:12:21.199 --> 01:12:25.880
<v Speaker 5>from the newspaper from the trial of Stephen Democher, who

1242
01:12:26.399 --> 01:12:32.000
<v Speaker 5>was ultimately convicted and sentenced for killing his just recently

1243
01:12:32.279 --> 01:12:37.640
<v Speaker 5>divorced wife Carol Kennedy. And the interesting thing about this

1244
01:12:37.720 --> 01:12:41.359
<v Speaker 5>case is that they have two daughters, and the two

1245
01:12:41.439 --> 01:12:44.920
<v Speaker 5>daughters to this day believe that their father did not

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01:12:45.079 --> 01:12:48.159
<v Speaker 5>do it and that their father was wrongly convicted, and

1247
01:12:48.239 --> 01:12:52.600
<v Speaker 5>so does his entire family. So this is a really

1248
01:12:52.640 --> 01:12:55.720
<v Speaker 5>interesting case to me because there were a lot of

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01:12:55.720 --> 01:12:59.720
<v Speaker 5>twists and turns things that went wrong. There was a

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01:13:00.239 --> 01:13:03.119
<v Speaker 5>trial on the first trial, and he was ultimately convicted

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01:13:03.159 --> 01:13:09.199
<v Speaker 5>in a second trial, but there was he was The

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<v Speaker 5>murder occurred about a month after their divorce was finalized,

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<v Speaker 5>and there had been a long battle over money, So

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01:13:15.960 --> 01:13:20.359
<v Speaker 5>it's another one of these cases about money and financial gain,

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01:13:20.479 --> 01:13:25.079
<v Speaker 5>and the prosecution basically says that his motive was so

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<v Speaker 5>that he didn't have to pay her alimony. So the

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01:13:28.239 --> 01:13:33.359
<v Speaker 5>day that he was supposed to pay his first alimony

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01:13:33.399 --> 01:13:36.600
<v Speaker 5>payment of six thousand dollars, he didn't make the payment

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01:13:36.760 --> 01:13:40.439
<v Speaker 5>and the next day she was murdered. And then there

1260
01:13:40.439 --> 01:13:44.000
<v Speaker 5>were two life insurance payments of seven hundred and fifty

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01:13:44.039 --> 01:13:49.880
<v Speaker 5>thousand dollars total that he was supposedly the beneficiary. But

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01:13:50.359 --> 01:13:53.600
<v Speaker 5>because they were divorced, they were then going to go

1263
01:13:53.640 --> 01:13:58.640
<v Speaker 5>to the daughters, and what ended up happening is that money.

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01:13:59.640 --> 01:14:02.279
<v Speaker 5>He convinced them that money needs to go to me

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01:14:02.359 --> 01:14:06.239
<v Speaker 5>and my defense. And so there were all these transfers.

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<v Speaker 5>And so even after he was charged with the murder,

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01:14:09.960 --> 01:14:13.479
<v Speaker 5>he was later charged with a whole bunch of other

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01:14:13.520 --> 01:14:16.439
<v Speaker 5>things that happened while he was in jail, with the

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01:14:16.479 --> 01:14:18.880
<v Speaker 5>transfer of all that money, which ended up getting spent

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01:14:18.960 --> 01:14:22.479
<v Speaker 5>on his first trial, which was a mistrial. To so

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01:14:22.600 --> 01:14:25.199
<v Speaker 5>private attorney's got all that money, the daughter's got none

1272
01:14:25.239 --> 01:14:29.439
<v Speaker 5>of it, and that's gone. And there was a whole

1273
01:14:29.520 --> 01:14:31.520
<v Speaker 5>there's a whole bunch of other stuff that was just

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01:14:31.720 --> 01:14:35.439
<v Speaker 5>really crazy, and these attorneys were accusing each other of

1275
01:14:35.680 --> 01:14:39.520
<v Speaker 5>impropriety and the judge and it was just like, it's

1276
01:14:39.600 --> 01:14:45.199
<v Speaker 5>a crazy case. It's crazy fiction, right, it's crazy. It's

1277
01:14:45.279 --> 01:14:47.880
<v Speaker 5>like crazier than fiction. I always pick cases that are

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01:14:47.920 --> 01:14:48.920
<v Speaker 5>crazier than fiction.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, well that's great, it's amazing. It makes for amazing storytelling,

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01:14:53.239 --> 01:14:53.800
<v Speaker 7>that's for sure.

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<v Speaker 5>Right.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, we look forward to that one. So, yeah, we'll

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01:14:57.399 --> 01:14:59.239
<v Speaker 7>be talking to you in the new year, or in

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01:14:59.319 --> 01:15:02.439
<v Speaker 7>this year, I should say, knowing how it'll be out of.

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01:15:03.560 --> 01:15:05.359
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, because I have to write it first. Give me

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01:15:05.439 --> 01:15:06.479
<v Speaker 5>some time to write it.

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<v Speaker 7>Well, I mean, I know you're prolific. So yeah, well

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<v Speaker 7>not's that bad. Okay, good, thank god. Well, I want

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<v Speaker 7>to thank you very much Kaitlin for coming on and

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01:15:16.079 --> 01:15:19.439
<v Speaker 7>talking about I'll take care of You, a very fascinating book,

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01:15:19.479 --> 01:15:22.239
<v Speaker 7>and thank you for coming on for a fascinating interview.

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<v Speaker 5>Well, thank you once again for having me on, and

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01:15:25.239 --> 01:15:26.239
<v Speaker 5>I'm glad I was here.

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<v Speaker 7>Well, thank you and have yourself a good night

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<v Speaker 5>You too, all right, by bye bye
