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

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not intended for all audiences.

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Speaker 2: Listener discretion is advised.

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Speaker 3: I will murder you.

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Speaker 4: I will murder you.

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Speaker 5: I will murder you.

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Speaker 4: I will murder you.

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Speaker 1: I will fucking murder you. Why don't we play this

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dumb music at the beginning of a show about murder?

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I don't know, Karen, why do you listen to murder

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for entertainment? It's a contradiction, isn't it. This is episode

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two ninety nine of Sword and Scale.

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Speaker 2: You know that you're all.

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Speaker 1: It was a busy August evening at a hospital in Georgia.

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Julian Reyes was sitting in a waiting room in his

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gray sweatsuit. His fiance, thirty year old Ashley Bocnegra, had

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suddenly died. Detectives had just arrived at the hospital and

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sat down across from Julian.

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Speaker 5: Are you going, sir?

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Speaker 6: I think what I had Detective Black Firm.

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Speaker 7: First, I just want to say I'm really sorry for

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your loss.

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Speaker 2: Sure, we're going to do it.

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Speaker 8: I think we can to try to keep a response.

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Speaker 9: Form, you know, please, Oh man, I know it's really

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difficult right now.

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Speaker 10: Doesn't even seem real, his wife, Oh my god, every day,

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a normal day.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't even seem real.

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Speaker 1: Of course, it didn't seem real. When Julian left the

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house that morning, his fiance was in good spirits. Ashley

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was an active, thriving working mom of their seven year

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old son. Now she's dead. A few hours earlier, Ashley

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had called Julian for help, telling him that she had

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been jumped.

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Speaker 2: You know, she called me and she was just like

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really out of brush.

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Speaker 6: So she's trying to get it out.

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Speaker 10: She can tell me, Henry, I like to come up, laughing, laugh,

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and how'd you jump?

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Speaker 2: I can't read? All right, I'm on the way. I

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don't my job.

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Speaker 11: He left.

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Speaker 2: I came home. She was on the bed just like

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gasping for air.

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Speaker 7: And when she called me on the phone, does she

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tell you who did.

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Speaker 2: This to her?

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Speaker 9: She told me to you know, she recognized them, No,

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did she descry them.

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Speaker 6: One was a dark skinned.

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Speaker 2: H heavy set woman.

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Speaker 6: And then one was a life kin And that's all

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she said.

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Speaker 2: I asked her, who are do you know them?

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Speaker 6: Have you seen before?

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Speaker 10: No, I've never seen the fo I have no clue

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who they are.

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Speaker 1: During her labored breaths, Ashley described the woman who jumped her.

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She was shaken up, exhausted, and kind of embarrassed. She

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had been beaten up very badly, barely able to defend

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herself against two other women. Still, she swore she didn't

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know who they were, not a clue.

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Speaker 7: When you got home, it didn't appear that maybe she

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had cleaned her wounds up or anything like that.

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Speaker 2: Take a shower, then the wash cloth, and might bom fresh.

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Speaker 7: Fresh like like I mean, did you see any paper

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towels or like rags on the firemen where you know?

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Speaker 12: Or when I got home I opened the door, I said,

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where I'm in here should be a bedroom.

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Speaker 6: My turn of light.

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Speaker 2: She took off the cloth off to.

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Speaker 6: Completely naked a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Ashley looked awful. Her skin was raw and red in

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places where she'd been hit, Her hair was tangled and matted,

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and one side of her face was straight, leaving angry

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marks that told the story of what she'd been through.

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Ashley tried to sit up and talk to Julian, but

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vomit spewed out of her mouth instead.

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Speaker 7: Once she threw off did you look at it?

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Speaker 2: It looked like it was red.

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Speaker 10: When I gave her a black back to throw up,

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and I didn't see it, said, I think I'm throwing

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Speaker 2: I got a dressed leave and go straight to forth Ice.

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They are doing pro They scanned.

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Speaker 10: Her oxygen, IVY and all your medicine, whatever they could

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do make her feel better.

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Speaker 6: And then the doctor told.

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Speaker 2: Me that she was like they did a scan they

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had held.

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Speaker 10: By her kidney, you know, and that's when they decided to.

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Speaker 2: Fly her out here.

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Speaker 1: When Ashley arrived at the hospital, she had severe internal bleeding.

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She couldn't breathe and was put on a ventilator. When

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the doctors discovered all the blood was pooling around her kidneys,

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they decided to airlift her to another hospital for surgery.

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She died en routed.

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Speaker 2: She would banged up.

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Speaker 5: She banged up for what got her was because she

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told me she had gotten a bit on her cheek.

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She like, she bit me on my cheeks, She bave

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me on my arm, she did, kicked me in my

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rib while the big heavy set one was on top

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of her, the father one was kicking her.

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Speaker 2: On her root cage. Okay, and obviously that's what cost it,

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you know.

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Speaker 8: And she said that they were using any weapons.

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Speaker 5: She didn't say, any of our weapons they were fighting.

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Speaker 2: She said, it happened so fast.

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Speaker 10: That she didn't have.

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Speaker 2: A chance to do anything. It was just they just

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gave up on her.

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Speaker 1: Before she died, Ashley had been able to describe the

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woman who attacked her, as well as some of the beating.

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It was all melting into fragments as she lay dying

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on the hospital stretcher. Now, Julian was left to try

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to make sense of it all.

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Speaker 2: And I just don't know why. I just don't know why,

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you know, because we only been back in Georgia. We

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Reefly just moved back, well lasted a year ago. When

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was it?

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Speaker 10: We moved back in December of twenty twenty one, okay,

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after my mom passed.

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Speaker 2: My mom passed in November.

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Speaker 10: Right beforeteenth. We moved back in December to be a

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close p panie. Eight months later, and nine months later

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this happened.

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Speaker 12: Kind of life did no reason life, I don't even

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get anything, you know, why would anybody.

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Speaker 2: Want to do that? You know? It was like random.

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Speaker 10: She was going out to give me a birthday cake,

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so then my fucking birthday, she's not giving.

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Speaker 2: Me a birthday case.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it was Julian's birthday, and instead of enjoying a

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delicious cake with frosting and candles and maybe a birthday

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card and some balloons, maybe a couple of pictures with

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the fiance and the sun. Yeah no, no, no, Now

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he's sitting in the hospital waiting room talking with a

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detective about Ashley's Now that's a twist. Ashley and Julian

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were both from New York City, the projects to be exact,

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they met in middle school.

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Speaker 2: We've been together ten years. We've known each other in

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fucking eighth grade.

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Speaker 1: So they met in school. Julian and Ashley didn't start

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dating until years later when they reconnected.

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Speaker 12: Until two doAnd twelve is when we finally kind of

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reconnected on Facebook.

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Speaker 6: You know, I finally as ahead enough I had.

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Speaker 12: The courage around, you know, to come up with me

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with my birthday, and she came home with before my birthday.

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Speaker 6: Eight days later p together.

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Speaker 1: So not only was it Julian's birthday, but today also

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marked ten years since their first date. The timing couldn't

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be any more cruel. A milestone meant for celebration was

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now twisted into a gut wrenching loss. Julian and Ashley

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had grown up together, but they'd always dreamed of leaving

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New York City. Julian's family started trickling down to Georgia

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and they followed That same year their son was conceived.

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But the couple had gone back and forth between New

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York and Georgia for about a decade, never really able

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to cut ties with the Big Apple. As crime rates

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rose and the constant chaos of New York seemed unavoidable,

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they said goodbye to the North and called Georgia their home.

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Speaker 12: We were both New Yorkers, so we always wanted to

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eventually go back.

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Speaker 2: So we decided to go back last year.

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Speaker 12: We moved in January, being back and growing back.

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Speaker 6: To where you know.

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Speaker 2: To her mom, it was design we forgotten what we

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left on Englishit like it was just.

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Speaker 6: So much and we seemed to move by all these.

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Speaker 12: Random shootings and beatings and stabbings.

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Speaker 1: And they moved to escape the violence of New York.

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Speaker 4: That's where, you know.

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Speaker 12: So when my mom passed away, we decided, you know,

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the ship and going back to Georgia where we.

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Speaker 2: Don't have to deal with this match. And then we

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come back to Georgia and deal with the same ship,

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and we tried to leave.

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Speaker 1: The irony was chilling. This young couple, raised in the

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unforgiving sprawl of New York City's projects, had chased a

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dream of a better life in the suburbs of Georgia.

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But it was as if the darkness they left behind

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had tracked them down, kind of like what's that movie

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Final Final Destination? The Final Destination franchise is what I'm

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thinking of. It's as if when death comes you have

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to hurry up and set the place matts out because

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they ain't leaving.

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Speaker 2: So like you, you're not anywhere, you know.

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Speaker 6: But I try to do the best I can to.

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Speaker 2: Give my family the best that.

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Speaker 12: I can, you know, because' you know, the best chan

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possible and it's not giving me your fucking.

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Speaker 2: Work, you know.

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Speaker 7: Like I said, we went to everything we can to

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find these people. Make sure the paper what they took

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to you and your family.

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Speaker 1: Julian supported the family on his income. Ashley had taken

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a job at Florin decor to bring a little extra

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money in and give her some independence outside of her

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role in the home. She'd been promoted to night manager

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and was working the overnight shifts, which had put a

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strain on the couple.

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Speaker 2: I started with a six. She gets how I fought her.

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Speaker 12: She's right next door, so as soon as she gets home,

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II by I go work, you know.

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Speaker 2: And that's just how it's always been.

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Speaker 13: You know.

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Speaker 1: The couple started bickering. Julian supported her desire to work,

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but kept reminding her that they didn't need the money. Plus,

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she didn't like working overnight shifts. It just seemed unsafe.

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Ashley was adamant about keeping her job and making time

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for one another. Became really hard. There's only so many

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hours in the day.

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Speaker 13: You know.

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Speaker 1: They'd been fighting for the last week.

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Speaker 6: It was so heady and like the.

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Speaker 2: Last few days we were fighting about pumping that.

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Speaker 6: Didn't matter, and now you eve may hear and like

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I could.

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Speaker 2: Have spend the last few days.

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Speaker 5: Rekindling and saying I'm sorry, you know, I'm sorry for

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starting some bullshit, you know, and now whenever that.

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Speaker 2: Can be again.

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Speaker 1: Julian sat there, baffled as to how this happened to

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his wife.

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Speaker 5: She even though she told the nurse is just came

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out of the like, I can't even tell you why,

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you know, I have no clue.

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Speaker 6: You know, I go to work every day. All I

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do is work, can come home, you know, That's all

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Speaker 5: So if I had any slight idea of.

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Speaker 2: What could have caused this, I would definitely say something.

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But it's like I don't even know.

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Speaker 6: I don't even know.

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Speaker 2: And like I said, we'd only been back.

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Speaker 6: In Georgia nine months and we don't do anything.

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Speaker 2: We literally work and go home every day.

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Speaker 1: This attack did not feel random. Ashley was not robbed.

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In fact, she didn't even have her purse on her.

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Two women had brutally beaten her, working together to hold

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her down, kick her, punch her, bite her, and scratch her.

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They left her gasping for air and bleeding from the head.

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It was savage, like an animal. But Ashley swore she

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didn't know them, and Julie believed her. Julian believed a

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lot of things to detectives. It felt like there was

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more to the story. Maybe, just maybe Ashley had taken

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a dangerous secret to her grave in the quiet city

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of Buford, Georgia, Ashley Bocanegra's life ended violently. She told

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everyone she was ambushed by two strangers. It happened in

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the middle of the afternoon. As Ashley walked to pick

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up a birthday cake for her fiance Julian, out of nowhere,

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two girls sprang out of the bushes outside her apartment

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complex and pounced in broad daylight. They beat her mercilessly,

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leaving her gasping for air, barely holding herself together. Ashley

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stumbled back to her apartment and called Julian for help.

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At the hospital, things only got worse. Her breathing faltered,

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her lungs started to collapse, and her body started to

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shut down. Slowly, piece by piece, it gave out. By

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the end of the day, Ashley was gone. She was

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only thirty years old. It was her fiance's birthday and

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the ten year anniversary of their first date. Now, Julian

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was left heartbroken and puzzled as to why this happened.

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The more he talked with detectives, the more he questioned

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what Ashley had told him before she died.

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Speaker 6: You know how the camera at home, so all I

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see is like the tip of the neighbors. We had

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wanted a dog when we read.

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Speaker 2: There's nobody in the front.

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Speaker 12: There's really nobody ever walking around, Nobody ever really walking around.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's just getting in the car, and.

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Speaker 1: Julian and Ashley had a ring camera on their front door,

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so their daily movements were tracked. The apartment complex they

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lived in was one of those cookie cutter apartment communities

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with a gym, a pool, a little park, and plenty

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of green space between the buildings. People keep to themselves,

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shuffling to and from the parking lot to their own

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suites after work. Ashley had described her attackers as a

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young Hispanic female and a heavy set black woman. That

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was all she knew.

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Speaker 2: With that description.

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Speaker 5: I can't even put a faith to it, Like I

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don't even have a clue, Like I don't know if

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they lived there.

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Speaker 6: I don't know if they just have to stumble in there.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if there was an attack reason so

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taking her, I don't know.

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Speaker 7: The way she's explained and what all the injuries you observed,

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it seems personal, so maybe it was something very little

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to her, little to you, like you're overseeing and.

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Speaker 2: Go back to him.

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Speaker 7: It's like, oh, like for example, with my girl, if

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some girl like smiles at me right and she's like

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all rows out about right she if she you know, yeah,

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she gets extremely jealous about it.

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Speaker 2: Or whatever.

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Speaker 7: Do you think of any situation where like maybe some

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guy was being friendly, she just was being friendly back,

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she said, be friendly. I didn't know the mean that

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guy had like a girlfriend, and then this girl now retaliating.

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Speaker 1: Julian shook his head.

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Speaker 13: No.

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Speaker 1: Then, after a long pause, he admitted something. Remember how

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he said they'd been fighting earlier that week. What he

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hadn't mentioned was why it all started with a suspicion

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that he could not shake the suspicion that Ashley may

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have been cheating.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 12: It's like I give you little moments where any thing

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you do would make me believe.

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Speaker 2: That you cheated.

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Speaker 7: Did you just have like a feeling that she was

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doing it?

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Speaker 6: I have no type of proof.

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Speaker 7: Just do you guys have each other's past cost to

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each other's phones?

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Speaker 6: She doesn't have mine, Okay.

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Speaker 13: You have hers.

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Speaker 14: I know hers.

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Speaker 7: Never found anything on her.

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Speaker 2: Look, you know I boundaries. You know what I mean.

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Speaker 6: I don't care if you give me your code.

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Speaker 7: I don't look any like weird behavior like me with

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a ring camera. You've noticed her going in and out

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of the house, Okay, it's normal.

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Speaker 1: Julian said that jealousy had been an issue for both

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of them over the years.

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Speaker 7: Was it just you guys just talking or was there

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actually we never really argue, you know what I mean, like.

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Speaker 6: Like the cheating.

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Speaker 7: Was it just saying it just because it just jealousy?

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Or did actually something I had previously in our earlier years.

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Speaker 6: We've been together ten years. In our earlier years, I

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did fuck up and.

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Speaker 2: She in New York.

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Speaker 6: In New York, okay, nothing here another year, okay, this

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was in New York.

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Speaker 2: That wasn't that day? It was he already had heard

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doubt about me, gotcha.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Julian had his suspicions due to his own guilt

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about his own past. Teachers often accused their spouses of cheating,

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but the bottom line was that he had no proof.

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Ashley never went anywhere without him. It seemed logistically impossible

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for her to manage an affair. All she did was

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take care of their son and go to work. The

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ring camera proved it.

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Speaker 8: I'm not trying to get your personal business or anything,

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but I mean, you weren't talking to.

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Speaker 7: Any female on the side, like does this mat Like

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these females that no them, I would.

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Speaker 2: Say, maybe I've gotten jealous or I know nobody here,

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you know.

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Speaker 12: Surprisingly, I've been on Georgia, you know, almost eight years totally.

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Speaker 2: I don't know anybody.

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Speaker 8: So the description that she gave, they're not nothing film

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and familiar.

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Speaker 1: The police were getting nowhere. There was no shady business

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on Julian's end that could have provoked this deadly midday attack.

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Keep in mind, Ashley died late in the evening, but

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she'd been attacked around one pm in the afternoon. Around

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that time, a nine to one one call came in

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from Ashley's apartment complex.

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Speaker 14: Hi, I've worked here at the apartment complex and there

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was two girls fighting and she's really bloody. I can

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see the blood from where I'm at. Where you're fighting

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in the apartment complex, in the parking lot, I mean

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on the street.

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Speaker 4: What did the anners say?

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Speaker 14: Two crosstreets.

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Speaker 1: The woman who called nine one one worked at the

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leasing office in the apartment complex and had seen the

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fight on her way to work.

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Speaker 14: Anything one of them is bleeding. Yeah, I can see

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her poor head from down here is leaving the girl

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head on the ground. It's a black girl, and I

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can't show up with two white girls of two Spanish girls,

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three of them three girls three years well, together made

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three girls.

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Speaker 4: Okay, have you seen any weapons?

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Speaker 14: I have been there arguing right now. They stop fighting,

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but they're arguing now.

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Speaker 1: The leasing manager watched from her car down the road

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as Ashley's attackers screamed at her while she was on

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the ground. Ashley hugged her knees to her chest, flipped

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back her curly mess of hair, and suddenly sprung up

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to her feet.

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Speaker 14: I think they might lead to you because the girl

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who got beat up. There's follow on now.

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Speaker 1: Ashley was following her attackers. The leasing manager watched intently,

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trying to piece together exactly what was happening as she

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trailed the two women her unknees set in as to

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where this strange pursuit might end.

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Speaker 14: They were tight from what it was they saw. Watch

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according me some I'm driving away, Okay, that's fine, but

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I'm trying to see what building they goes. Who they're

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going to? Building three hundreds, the high end of three hundreds.

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Speaker 1: According to the leasing manager one witness to the fight,

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Ashley had followed the girls who attacked her into the

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three hundred building, but that is not where Ashley and

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Julian lived. In fact, at the hospital, the nurse who

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tended to Ashley, had also reported the assault to the police.

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When the cops called to talk to Ashley before she died,

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the cops were able to get her side of the story.

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Speaker 15: So what happened, Well, I because right now it's my birthday,

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so I want to gross of Paris to go, you know,

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grabbing the cake and stuff like that.

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Speaker 4: So I was outside way for my OBErs walking around say.

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Speaker 14: The kind of history like they was, you know, and

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think anything of it.

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Speaker 4: And then they started me.

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Speaker 14: All I hear is.

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Speaker 3: She got the description and that I don't know if it's.

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Speaker 2: Reason just came in and tacked me out.

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Speaker 4: I don't hope like that unless they were looking for

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somebody or what.

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Speaker 1: But sorry, Ashley said, the women called out she matches

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the description before they attacked her. She said she was blindsided.

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Yet she was adamant she did not want to pursue charges.

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Speaker 3: And but once again, you don't want the place involved,

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you want anything, You don't want anything document.

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Speaker 2: You just wanted to go about your way. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Ashley's refusal to press charges just didn't add up. This

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was an unprovoked attack. According to her, Her hesitation made

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no sense. Something about the situation just helt off. The

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police didn't have to look very far to find Ashley's attackers.

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The witness who called nine one one led them straight

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to a building in the same complex where Ashley lived.

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Apparently her attackers were her neighbors. Two officers knocked on

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the door and a young man answered, which.

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Speaker 3: Want to make sure everyboy's good.

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Speaker 11: So that's why we're here, that's what.

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Speaker 3: But we'd rather y'all come out here.

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Speaker 4: Can they come out.

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Speaker 3: The females that are in there. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: At this point, all that officers knew was that a

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fight between three women had been reported. They had no

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clue that Ashley had been sent to the hospital. They

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just needed to get details about this assault. The young

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man at the door stepped aside, and a heavy set

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black woman walked to the open breezeway. She was breathless

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and sweaty, wearing a white T shirt and yoga pants.

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Speaker 2: This girl, she came to the house.

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Speaker 4: She's love sleep with my fiance.

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Speaker 14: She works over there.

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Speaker 16: She's his manager, and she keeps on forcing him to

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have sex right her.

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Speaker 14: After he'd then cut it off or she was going

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to fire him, and.

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Speaker 4: We ended up fighting right there.

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Speaker 14: She approached my home.

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Speaker 4: This is my home.

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Speaker 16: She lives all the way over the end, and everybody

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in the house right now, Oh, just me, I'm the.

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Speaker 11: Only one I fought, Just me, the girl she left.

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Speaker 1: The woman who fought Ashley was twenty seven year old

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Antanetta Stevens. Though she was shaking with adrenaline, she claimed

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that Ashley had confronted her at her front door. That

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means there was no street brawl, no random attack. Then

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they fought. Apparently, Ashley had been sleeping with Antonetta's fiance, Daniel,

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who was the one who answered the door. Antonetta claimed

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that Ashley was Daniel's boss at Floor and Decor and

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she had been forcing him to have sex with her.

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Speaker 5: How about that.

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Speaker 4: I'm very heartbroken, Tommy Bury and.

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Speaker 2: Female.

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Speaker 1: So we're to make sure everybody's okay, because the third party,

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you call a noble woman. Antonetta let officers inside. In

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the living room, Danielle and Antonetta's toddler was watching TV.

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Antonetta's sister in law, Janine Gonzalez, was there too. She

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admitted that she had also been a witness to the fight.

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Speaker 3: All right, so kind of slow it down. You were

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going the female that he's going sleeping with him.

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Speaker 11: Yes, my guess.

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Speaker 4: And I've known for.

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Speaker 14: Five years and you're together from up nor So.

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Speaker 11: He has worked, he's worked, he works a.

480
00:26:47,559 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 4: Floor in the core.

481
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:50,319
Speaker 16: He's been sleeping with his manager.

482
00:26:50,759 --> 00:26:51,559
Speaker 4: And that's who is here.

483
00:26:51,759 --> 00:26:54,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, and I've been feeling it for some time now.

484
00:26:54,559 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 4: Okay, Yesterday I'm.

485
00:26:55,559 --> 00:26:57,799
Speaker 16: Walking to the quick trip. I see them walking together,

486
00:26:58,079 --> 00:26:58,720
and you're a woman.

487
00:26:58,799 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 4: You know our intuition, I know that's the girl. I

488
00:27:01,839 --> 00:27:03,039
seen her. We argue yesterday.

489
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 13: He broke it up.

490
00:27:03,799 --> 00:27:04,400
Speaker 2: It was fine.

491
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:10,880
Speaker 1: According to Antonetta, she had caught her fiance Daniel walking

492
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,680
to the corner store with Ashley. This was all the

493
00:27:14,759 --> 00:27:18,400
confirmation she needed to secure her feeling that Daniel had

494
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,240
been sleeping with Ashley.

495
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:21,519
Speaker 4: This morning.

496
00:27:21,599 --> 00:27:24,759
Speaker 11: Now she's calling tests on testing tests on her, saying that.

497
00:27:24,839 --> 00:27:25,839
Speaker 4: She's going to be coming here.

498
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,799
Speaker 11: I waited for her and then I thought her because

499
00:27:28,839 --> 00:27:29,799
I'm just enraged.

500
00:27:30,039 --> 00:27:31,079
Speaker 4: I'm very heartbroken.

501
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,079
Speaker 16: You see, I started packing myself yesterday.

502
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 2: Nothing is even in bags.

503
00:27:34,519 --> 00:27:36,599
Speaker 17: I'm just mentally out of it right now because this

504
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,640
is a person that I wanted to grow old with.

505
00:27:39,039 --> 00:27:41,079
Speaker 18: This is a person I want to share my life with.

506
00:27:41,279 --> 00:27:42,160
Speaker 11: And I feel dirty.

507
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,559
Speaker 1: I feel disgusting, I feel heartbroken, and I feel Santa Man.

508
00:27:47,039 --> 00:27:51,359
Antonetta was fired up clearly. She alleged that Ashley had

509
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,759
shown up at her front door asking for a fight,

510
00:27:54,599 --> 00:27:58,480
so they duped it out. Then Ashley left.

511
00:27:59,039 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 4: But I'm okay right now, I'm not going to be

512
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,039
going out with here anybody. I'm not a mess of society.

513
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:04,039
Speaker 13: I'm just very hard bro.

514
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,559
Speaker 14: We just had to make sure everybody was good because

515
00:28:07,599 --> 00:28:08,160
we got a call.

516
00:28:09,319 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 1: The adrenaline was raging through Antonetta and she couldn't stop talking.

517
00:28:13,759 --> 00:28:16,759
Speaker 18: She's actually cheating on her feeling to go figure, you know,

518
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,920
the husband, and she drives off of no, she walked.

519
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:21,799
Speaker 1: I don't know if she has on card, but you know,

520
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:22,279
I don't know.

521
00:28:22,319 --> 00:28:24,799
Speaker 11: I hope her husband finds the hell out from puddles laugh.

522
00:28:24,839 --> 00:28:26,599
Speaker 4: I be the only one in shambles of my life.

523
00:28:27,079 --> 00:28:30,440
But what was her name? I have no idea.

524
00:28:31,079 --> 00:28:31,759
Speaker 17: You don't know her name.

525
00:28:32,319 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 3: I'm assuming he's not going to tell me her name, probably.

526
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 16: Not because he probably wouln't want me to finale.

527
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 7: How old is she?

528
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:39,519
Speaker 4: Thirty? Thirty?

529
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 16: What's she look like?

530
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 4: Hispanic?

531
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 7: From them?

532
00:28:43,799 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, black hair, we're kind of like highlights, curly.

533
00:28:50,079 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 11: Stuft really big jaw.

534
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,359
Speaker 1: Of course, the man who this fight had erupted over Daniel,

535
00:28:57,759 --> 00:29:01,680
you know the prize. He just sat there quietly while

536
00:29:01,759 --> 00:29:06,559
his angry fiance rattled off. Caddy remarks about his mistress

537
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,279
just sitting there like a grown baby. It's amazing.

538
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:12,279
Speaker 16: But I'm not going over there.

539
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:12,759
Speaker 2: Just like guys.

540
00:29:12,799 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 4: Now, am I going to go on a manhunt looking

541
00:29:14,759 --> 00:29:15,039
for her?

542
00:29:15,359 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 11: I don't care. I already handled my business.

543
00:29:18,519 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 19: Yeah.

544
00:29:18,839 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 3: Like I said, it's not considered domestic violence. Y'all went

545
00:29:22,039 --> 00:29:24,519
at it together, so it would be if you want

546
00:29:24,559 --> 00:29:26,839
to prosecute, she wants to prosecute, then technically both of

547
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,519
y'all will go to jail. So well, if you're not

548
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,119
wanting to worry about it and then fading.

549
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 4: Your separate ways and not worry.

550
00:29:34,319 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 11: About it, thanks appreciate it.

551
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 4: You want anything done to her?

552
00:29:38,759 --> 00:29:43,359
Speaker 1: Nope, nope, And she's got enough, you know, Like Ashley,

553
00:29:43,599 --> 00:29:47,920
Antonetta was firm she did not want to press charges.

554
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:53,000
This was street justice. She didn't need no cops, you know.

555
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,319
Her claim that Ashley had shown up at her door

556
00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:00,440
only deepened the confusion, and none of it it up

557
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,200
buried within the strategic white lives of both Ashley and

558
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:08,720
Antonetta's stories was a truth. Neither woman seemed to be

559
00:30:08,839 --> 00:30:09,920
willing to share.

560
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 2: I'm guys in your own path. All your crop, folks

561
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,799
get here, That's why your clothes are on the couch.

562
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,079
Speaker 6: Or y'all gonna try to work this out.

563
00:30:17,079 --> 00:30:18,559
Speaker 1: If y'all have a kid, I don't know.

564
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 4: What he works right there?

565
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 16: So would I be a horrible woman and.

566
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:23,039
Speaker 4: Tell you to quit your job?

567
00:30:23,519 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 16: And then you had to work with this woman?

568
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 4: And I had to stay here?

569
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:26,319
Speaker 14: I work from home.

570
00:30:26,319 --> 00:30:28,839
Speaker 11: I mean twenty four seven, I put clean work as

571
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,119
ali all days. How do I lost my mind like that?

572
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,599
Speaker 1: Antonetta worked from home while Daniel did overnights at Florin

573
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:40,319
Decor with Ashley. Their fair grew in the shadows of

574
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,400
the home renovation depot, hidden under stacks of tile and

575
00:30:44,519 --> 00:30:49,880
carpet swatches. Through long nights stalking shelves, Daniel and Ashley

576
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,519
fell hard for one another. Their shifts became an escape,

577
00:30:55,279 --> 00:30:58,039
a stolen chance to leave their other lives behind and

578
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:02,200
be together in secret. It was kind of the perfect affair.

579
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:07,920
No CD hotel meetups were required, all sex was maintained

580
00:31:08,759 --> 00:31:12,519
at work. But once Antonetta figured out what was happening.

581
00:31:12,599 --> 00:31:17,119
The party was over. Now she was livid and threatening

582
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:17,559
to leave.

583
00:31:18,279 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 17: So I don't really know, but I think I want

584
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,039
to leave though, so I, as I did say, I'm

585
00:31:24,119 --> 00:31:24,720
from up North.

586
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,079
Speaker 16: I don't really have family out.

587
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,839
Speaker 17: Here, you know, and so on one basket just for

588
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:30,599
this happened.

589
00:31:31,799 --> 00:31:33,599
Speaker 16: I want you to fascinating for a weekend. I don't

590
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:35,240
need a break from this in his house?

591
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 13: Well, did you ever what he wish for there?

592
00:31:39,039 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 11: Yeah, you went for.

593
00:31:43,279 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: As officers prepared to leave, Antonetta joked as she wished

594
00:31:47,279 --> 00:31:50,680
that they could take her away for the weekend, Well

595
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:56,559
they can, She had no idea. At that very moment,

596
00:31:57,319 --> 00:32:00,480
Ashley was being admitted to the hospital, and by the

597
00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:03,680
time the night was over, she wouldn't be leaving on

598
00:32:03,799 --> 00:32:07,240
her own two feet. She'd be leaving in a body bag.

599
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,880
Text between Daniel and Ashley from the morning of the

600
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:15,799
attack showed that they'd been swooning over each other. They

601
00:32:15,839 --> 00:32:17,960
were falling in love since.

602
00:32:17,759 --> 00:32:20,799
Speaker 20: I've met you. You've made everything so much better and bearable.

603
00:32:21,079 --> 00:32:22,359
I don't know how to explain it.

604
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 13: Wow, Ashley, you really make it hard not to want

605
00:32:27,079 --> 00:32:29,000
you or keep falling for you.

606
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,119
Speaker 20: I can tell you how I feel and not worry

607
00:32:32,119 --> 00:32:35,240
about your reaction. I feel secure around you. I don't

608
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:36,279
know why, but I just do.

609
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 13: Just know it's going to be like that. Be yourself, Ashley.

610
00:32:42,039 --> 00:32:44,440
I want Ashley, not someone else.

611
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 1: The conversation ended up with Ashley telling Daniel to get

612
00:32:48,799 --> 00:32:51,960
some rest. He signed off saying he was about to

613
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,680
have a nap. An hour later, he started texting Ashley again,

614
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:57,200
where you at?

615
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,799
Speaker 13: I need to see you well. I'm in bed. I

616
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:04,759
want you to hear so bad. Meet me please, I'm

617
00:33:04,839 --> 00:33:07,119
going through it. I got kicked out.

618
00:33:08,039 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 20: Are you serious? Let me put on something real quick.

619
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:15,640
All right, I'm outside, Okay, about to come out now.

620
00:33:16,839 --> 00:33:19,319
Speaker 1: Not only did Ashley and Daniel work together at Florid

621
00:33:19,359 --> 00:33:23,000
de cor but they lived in the same apartment complex.

622
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,519
Ashley's husband, Julian, was at work when she allegedly left

623
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,160
to get his birthday cake, but really she was rushing

624
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,400
out to meet Daniel because he had texted her saying

625
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,799
that Antonetta had just kicked his cheating ass out of

626
00:33:37,839 --> 00:33:41,640
the house. Ashley put on her green leggings and crocs

627
00:33:42,359 --> 00:33:45,559
as you would, and left the house with only her iPhone.

628
00:33:46,319 --> 00:33:48,319
The ring camera on her front door was the only

629
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:52,400
witness to her leaving. She walked around looking for Daniel,

630
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:56,279
texting him as she searched. He said he was on

631
00:33:56,400 --> 00:34:01,559
his way, that Antonetta was furiously packing, that she was crazy.

632
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,920
Ashley texted back how sorry she was as she crossed

633
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,719
the road towards their meeting spot, and that's when it happened.

634
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,519
Antonetta and her sister in law, seventeen year old Jeanine,

635
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:18,239
came storming onto the street. Janine had her phone recording

636
00:34:19,039 --> 00:34:20,559
the only truthful witness.

637
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:31,599
Speaker 11: To the fight, Litle, that was me, you know, yeah, yeah,

638
00:34:32,039 --> 00:34:33,079
yeah yeah.

639
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: Antonetta sprang into action. Perhaps that's a bit hyperbolic. She

640
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:43,119
was a very big girl regardless. She tackled Ashley to

641
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:47,440
the ground. She grabbed fistfolds of her hair, smashed her

642
00:34:47,519 --> 00:34:51,320
head into the pavement, and punched her repeatedly. Her sister

643
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,599
in law, seventeen year old Jeanine, egged her on like

644
00:34:54,679 --> 00:34:58,760
a deranged cheerleader. Let's not pretend that world star hip

645
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,360
hop was not day cultural phenomenon.

646
00:35:02,159 --> 00:35:02,559
Speaker 13: Is what we do.

647
00:35:03,679 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 11: Savages for savages. You're gonna get fucked up. Off my hair, bitch,

648
00:35:09,639 --> 00:35:12,880
Get the fu fro off my hair, bitch, Off my hair.

649
00:35:14,079 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 1: Ashley's small body was powerless against Antonetta, after all, she

650
00:35:18,639 --> 00:35:24,199
was twice her size. Consumed by rage and jealousy, Antonetta

651
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:29,119
straddled her, fists crashing down as she unleashed everything she

652
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,000
had on Ashley.

653
00:35:31,639 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 4: Say hi to Daniel.

654
00:35:32,599 --> 00:35:35,519
Speaker 11: You know, Daniel, you know he said, I could come

655
00:35:35,559 --> 00:35:37,840
out here, fuck you up, right, you're not that right.

656
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,840
He's in the house with our son bench. He said,

657
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:41,599
I could fuck you up.

658
00:35:41,679 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 14: Yeah, this is what we do if I get.

659
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 11: Mad, if he knows I'm leaving, he so said.

660
00:35:45,519 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 14: He said, you fucking up. That's what I'm doing, fucking

661
00:35:48,039 --> 00:35:48,360
you up.

662
00:35:49,199 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 11: You're ready by over dick, real crazy yap.

663
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 15: You are.

664
00:35:54,159 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: At this very moment in the video, the leasing manager

665
00:35:57,079 --> 00:36:00,719
drove by. She stopped when she saw Antone on top

666
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,360
of Ashley, using handfuls of her curly hair to keep

667
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,039
her skull pinned to the pavement.

668
00:36:06,559 --> 00:36:09,159
Speaker 17: Right his manager, I'm getting you fire, bitch, that's bias

669
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:11,079
has come of interest.

670
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 4: I'm showing us at a job.

671
00:36:12,639 --> 00:36:15,519
Speaker 17: You're fucking my nigga while he's on the clock, fucking

672
00:36:15,559 --> 00:36:16,239
my nigga, going.

673
00:36:16,159 --> 00:36:17,280
Speaker 4: Here trying to ruin his family.

674
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:17,519
Speaker 13: Bitch.

675
00:36:17,559 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 14: He had the whole son, you're mad at him.

676
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,199
Speaker 1: Ashley was losing strength. She put up a fight, but

677
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,159
now her breathing was slowing as Antonetta sat on top

678
00:36:28,199 --> 00:36:32,079
of her stomach, crushing her and banging her head. Then

679
00:36:32,119 --> 00:36:35,400
Antonetta pushed herself up and started whipping Ashley across the

680
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:36,719
pavement like a rag doll.

681
00:36:41,119 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 3: I will murder you.

682
00:36:42,519 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 4: I will murder you.

683
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:44,679
Speaker 13: I will murder you.

684
00:36:45,199 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 4: I will murder you.

685
00:36:46,639 --> 00:36:51,559
Speaker 1: I will fucking murder you, Antonetta and Ashley's rail thin

686
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:55,960
body twisted over itself like a wire hanger, bent beyond recognition.

687
00:36:57,039 --> 00:36:59,920
She shook her, punched her, and screamed in her.

688
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:01,519
Speaker 4: Stop you so lucky.

689
00:37:01,559 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 11: My nouse is hunksus. Really do worse to you right now.

690
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:05,159
Speaker 14: I will do worse to you.

691
00:37:05,639 --> 00:37:06,519
Speaker 13: I will do worse to you.

692
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 11: I will do fucking worse to you. That's why I

693
00:37:09,039 --> 00:37:09,760
was trying to protect you.

694
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:10,760
Speaker 3: But now you don't care to you.

695
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:12,679
Speaker 11: For you to get your ass beat he let me

696
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:13,000
do this.

697
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 13: Do you love me?

698
00:37:15,159 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 11: You're getting fired. You're getting fucking fired.

699
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:19,519
Speaker 1: You're getting fucking fired.

700
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 11: You can get I'm done. I'm getting fucking I'm fucking good.

701
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:24,119
Speaker 4: Okay.

702
00:37:26,159 --> 00:37:31,079
Speaker 1: The fight was completely one sided. Antonetta dominated Ashley, punching

703
00:37:31,159 --> 00:37:36,000
her over and over with hard, angry fists. Well, Janine

704
00:37:36,119 --> 00:37:39,039
held the camera and continued cheering on her sister in law.

705
00:37:40,039 --> 00:37:43,280
Janine was giddy, like the bad teenager that she was

706
00:37:44,159 --> 00:37:49,599
completely devoid of morality. Then, when Antonetta was done beating Ashley,

707
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:53,000
she held her in place and called to Janine, you

708
00:37:53,039 --> 00:37:57,760
want some of this. That's when Janine backed up, took

709
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,679
a running start, and drove her foot in to Ashley's

710
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:07,119
side with brutal force. Over and over she kicked her mercilessly,

711
00:38:08,039 --> 00:38:14,559
cackling and screaming like a deranged wild animal, like something

712
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:19,480
with rabies. She wanted to show her beloved sister in

713
00:38:19,559 --> 00:38:25,239
law exactly how tough she really was, so she killed someone.

714
00:38:26,639 --> 00:38:32,840
Speaker 17: Bitch, I want to jump her now, Yeah we could

715
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:33,039
do that.

716
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 15: You done?

717
00:38:34,079 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 11: You tapping out?

718
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm done?

719
00:38:35,559 --> 00:38:36,079
Speaker 15: I'm gay?

720
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,639
Speaker 16: What's she?

721
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:40,079
Speaker 4: Her?

722
00:38:40,119 --> 00:38:41,039
Speaker 11: Crazy ass bitch.

723
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 1: When Antonetta and Jeanine were satisfied, she took Ashley's crocs

724
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:50,039
and her cellphone, leaving her sitting on the blacktop trying

725
00:38:50,079 --> 00:38:53,440
to fix herself up and salvage what little pride she

726
00:38:53,519 --> 00:38:54,000
had left.

727
00:38:54,599 --> 00:38:57,760
Speaker 11: And he knows, I'm crazy. Cut her face looking dumb

728
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,480
bitch at us.

729
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,280
Speaker 17: Again because you're gonna have to make me find another page.

730
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 11: That's what I haven't said at all.

731
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:06,639
Speaker 13: Let's go.

732
00:39:08,079 --> 00:39:11,039
Speaker 1: But Ashley needed her phone back and she wasn't going

733
00:39:11,079 --> 00:39:15,320
to let Antonetta and Janine take it. And so, even

734
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,800
though she had been shamelessly beaten, she followed them back

735
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,199
to their front door. She was woozy and breathless as

736
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,840
she trailed them. Antonetta and Janine screamed at her to

737
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,920
go home, but she didn't relent. The screaming between the

738
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,519
three women was so loud it woke up Daniel, who

739
00:39:32,599 --> 00:39:35,119
had been asleep the entire time. Can you imagine that

740
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:37,760
this is all your fault and you're just sleeping through it?

741
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,800
Unlike Antonette had Professor and her brutal beating of Ashley,

742
00:39:42,599 --> 00:39:46,239
he had not okayed any of this. As he walked

743
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:56,320
into the living room, Antonetta burst inside, yelling, yeah, let

744
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,679
me repeat what Antonetta said in case you missed it.

745
00:39:59,679 --> 00:40:03,800
Speaker 13: Good, your bitch is outside. I just fucked her up.

746
00:40:04,519 --> 00:40:07,239
I used your phone to write her and I recorded it.

747
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:08,599
Speaker 2: There.

748
00:40:08,639 --> 00:40:13,679
Speaker 1: It was, this fourteen minute video held it all, a motive,

749
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:18,920
a plan, the murder, and a confession, all recorded by

750
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:24,840
Antonetta's trusty seventeen year old accomplice. What a fucking idiot.

751
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,599
When Daniel figured out what was going on, he opened

752
00:40:28,639 --> 00:40:31,599
the front door and saw Ashley there, bloody and shaken up.

753
00:40:32,639 --> 00:40:35,280
Stunned to find his boss and his secret girlfriend at

754
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,280
his front door, he quickly slammed it in her face,

755
00:40:39,119 --> 00:40:40,960
then found her phone and gave it back to her.

756
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:46,840
She snatched it and scurried home. Daniel was overcome with guilt.

757
00:40:47,679 --> 00:40:51,159
He immediately started texting Ashley from the privacy of another room.

758
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 13: Ashley, Please are you okay?

759
00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 20: Nah, I'm good, leave me alone.

760
00:40:57,719 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 13: Please talk to me.

761
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 20: I can't breathe and my heart is skipping a beat.

762
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:02,719
I'm about to go to urgent care.

763
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 2: By no way.

764
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 20: Please, Your fucking sister kicked me in my back.

765
00:41:09,119 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 13: I was good until she did that, Ashley. I really want,

766
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,079
with all my good intentions, I want to see you

767
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,320
and check on you. I feel sad. I can't believe

768
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,480
your face and body are hurt. Talk to me here,

769
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:27,320
let me see you. Fuck I'm sorry sorry I wasn't there.

770
00:41:28,559 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: In the light of truth, Ashley's secrecy at the hospital

771
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,519
made sense why she never told Julian or the police

772
00:41:35,639 --> 00:41:39,639
that she knew her attackers. She couldn't risk her husband

773
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:44,519
discovering the affair, especially not with their tenth anniversary and

774
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:49,679
his birthday on that day. Antonetta refused to press charges,

775
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:53,400
knowing full well she had set this storm in motion,

776
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:58,039
luring Ashley out with a message from Daniel's phone. It

777
00:41:58,159 --> 00:42:01,360
wasn't like she claimed, Ashley didn't come to her looking

778
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:05,760
for a fight. But as the chaos simmered, one fact remained.

779
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:11,280
Ashley was still alive when they left her. Neither Antonetta

780
00:42:11,559 --> 00:42:15,199
nor Janine realized that their cruel plan to teach Ashley

781
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:19,440
a lesson about infidelity had already spiraled into something that

782
00:42:19,559 --> 00:42:23,000
they couldn't lie their way out of, something that they

783
00:42:23,039 --> 00:42:26,599
wouldn't be confronted with until hours later, after the adrenaline

784
00:42:26,679 --> 00:42:31,119
rush had subsided and their kids had fallen asleep. It

785
00:42:31,199 --> 00:42:33,519
was about four am when the police came back to

786
00:42:33,679 --> 00:42:36,719
Antonetta and Daniel's house and knocked on the door.

787
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 18: Hey, I'm the type of Carl Bonnette County Police and

788
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,559
your incident. Yes, Hey, this is Detective Poppy. You're such

789
00:42:47,559 --> 00:42:49,760
a poppy in highness. We know that there was like

790
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:53,639
an incident that happened earlier today. Has anyone called you

791
00:42:53,679 --> 00:42:56,440
about it since with somebody, so we'll see.

792
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 3: Well, we just got another call about it.

793
00:42:59,519 --> 00:43:02,320
Speaker 11: So I guess the girl went to the hospital and

794
00:43:02,639 --> 00:43:03,119
she died.

795
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:04,760
Speaker 7: She died, she.

796
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:08,679
Speaker 14: Did so, but we know that there was like an.

797
00:43:08,599 --> 00:43:10,119
Speaker 18: Altercation that happened beforehand.

798
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,199
Speaker 7: I was usual, she came here.

799
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 16: Yeah, we understand that because of it and going secure. Yeah,

800
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:18,239
I'm not that verse I did it.

801
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: The lack of remorse here is astounding. It truly says

802
00:43:23,559 --> 00:43:29,039
something about the state of our society today. What exactly,

803
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:33,360
I'm not really sure. I'm not a sociologist. Is that

804
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:35,760
who does things like that? I don't even really know,

805
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,760
but I can tell you that as a human being,

806
00:43:39,639 --> 00:43:43,840
it feels disgusting. Antonota sounds like she's just been told

807
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:47,320
her pizza delivery will be late, not that the girl

808
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:53,119
she beat up, another human being, has died. I don't

809
00:43:53,199 --> 00:43:58,079
think I could ever fully understand the complete lack of

810
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,800
empathy and sympathy that it takes to do something like

811
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:05,800
this and then be so cold and callous about it.

812
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,800
Speaker 18: But because of that, we have to kind of talk

813
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:10,360
to you guys and get a more formal statement.

814
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 2: Sure, whun, I'm so sorry about that.

815
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:15,559
Speaker 14: Yeah, that was not my intention.

816
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:23,159
Speaker 2: I've been mentally going through a lot. I have bipolar depression,

817
00:44:23,199 --> 00:44:24,760
and I'm just going through a lot right now.

818
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 14: And you know, I came here from up North with

819
00:44:29,079 --> 00:44:30,360
my fiancee without him.

820
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:36,639
Speaker 1: Of course she has bipolar depression. Of course, right, who doesn't.

821
00:44:37,119 --> 00:44:41,119
It's twenty twenty five. Everybody has mental illness. You're not special.

822
00:44:42,159 --> 00:44:45,119
She's mentally been going through a lot. As if this

823
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:49,119
fucking matters, seeing as she's just murdered someone with her

824
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,719
bare hands. But sure, it's all about guns.

825
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 17: I came here with my fiance to start in life

826
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,360
by a house, everything like that, and I never expected

827
00:45:00,119 --> 00:45:00,480
him to.

828
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 20: Basically cheat omni with someone at the work the autos.

829
00:45:06,559 --> 00:45:08,639
Speaker 8: So we would like to get like a formal statement.

830
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:10,199
Speaker 2: So we're going to ask these from up to our

831
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:11,159
headquarters and brought fit.

832
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:12,519
Speaker 14: It's just right up the street.

833
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:16,199
Speaker 4: I hear kids, is there someone else here that? Yeah,

834
00:45:16,679 --> 00:45:17,719
there's someone here with them?

835
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 15: Yeah?

836
00:45:18,119 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 7: Okay?

837
00:45:18,639 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 4: Were they were they involved at all?

838
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:20,280
Speaker 13: No?

839
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, so it was just you too, guys.

840
00:45:23,159 --> 00:45:24,639
Speaker 18: Let me if you don't mind, we could just do

841
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:25,039
some shoes.

842
00:45:25,039 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 7: It'll be quick if you get an ounch.

843
00:45:26,559 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 1: Okay, but their time at the police station wouldn't be quick.

844
00:45:31,199 --> 00:45:35,360
Antonetta and Janine's reckless decision to film their assault had

845
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,960
already set the stage for disaster. But it wasn't just

846
00:45:39,079 --> 00:45:43,639
the evidence that left investigators disgusted in the interrogation room.

847
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:49,480
Something unexpected emerged, something that would shift the entire case

848
00:45:50,519 --> 00:46:24,599
and reveal a darkness no one could see coming. Thirty

849
00:46:24,679 --> 00:46:28,840
year old Ashley Bocanegra had been attacked by Antonette Stevens

850
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:34,119
and Janine Gonzalez in their apartment complex. Ashley was having

851
00:46:34,199 --> 00:46:38,079
a secret affair with Antonette's fiance, Daniel. You see, she

852
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,440
was his manager at the floor in Decor, a place

853
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,679
that sells a bunch of tiles and flooring and shit.

854
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:48,239
When Antonette discovered the affair, she used her fiance's phone

855
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:52,079
to lure Ashley to a meetup spot, where she and

856
00:46:52,159 --> 00:46:55,559
her sister in law, Jeanine, beat Ashley up until she

857
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:59,760
had to be hospitalized. Hours later, Ashley succumbed to her

858
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:04,280
injuries and died. Now Antonetta and Jeanine were on the

859
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,679
hook for her murder, not just a malicious cat fight.

860
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,360
They were taken down to the police station, and the

861
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:15,000
officers finally got Daniel alone, so they could talk with

862
00:47:15,079 --> 00:47:16,719
him about what had happened.

863
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 2: How long have you looked? About like a year? About

864
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:29,119
a year? Yeah, you know, you know, relationship see.

865
00:47:30,199 --> 00:47:33,840
Speaker 1: Daniel admitted that he'd found out about the fight after

866
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:37,000
Ashley showed up at the door looking for her phone.

867
00:47:38,039 --> 00:47:40,360
He felt terrible for slamming the door in her face,

868
00:47:40,559 --> 00:47:42,239
but he was stunned to see her there.

869
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:44,760
Speaker 4: How did she look when you when she opened the door?

870
00:47:47,079 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 21: Yeah, my.

871
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 2: Up?

872
00:47:51,159 --> 00:47:54,280
Speaker 14: Yo, okay, I mean when you say.

873
00:47:54,199 --> 00:47:57,159
Speaker 8: She you're talking about Ashley, And when you said they

874
00:47:57,239 --> 00:47:58,480
took her phone.

875
00:47:59,599 --> 00:48:04,679
Speaker 2: Takes so they detect her whatever she got.

876
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:07,880
Speaker 3: How does your sorry, how do you know that they

877
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:08,440
took her phone?

878
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:09,800
Speaker 7: Does she tell you she's.

879
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:12,599
Speaker 4: She's not gonna don and yelled please, I just want

880
00:48:12,679 --> 00:48:13,079
my friend.

881
00:48:14,199 --> 00:48:17,559
Speaker 1: Daniel explain that he and Antonetta had been having relationship

882
00:48:17,599 --> 00:48:21,639
problems long before his affair with Ashley. He'd wanted out

883
00:48:21,679 --> 00:48:28,639
of that relationship and he was preparing his Exitetta.

884
00:48:26,559 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 8: Having a relationship problems already.

885
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's it's deep, Like it's deep.

886
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,280
Speaker 8: We got a kid and everything, so it's like it's

887
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:32,639
some more.

888
00:48:32,679 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 2: I'm I've been I go off with respect. I have

889
00:48:35,039 --> 00:48:37,559
a kid with you I'm going to respect you, regard this. Yeah,

890
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:39,840
if I'm not with you, then I don't have to.

891
00:48:40,159 --> 00:48:42,079
I don't have to like I don't.

892
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 4: I don't have to do that part anymore.

893
00:48:44,519 --> 00:48:46,800
Speaker 16: I just take care of my kid and if you need.

894
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:47,559
Speaker 2: Help, I'll hopefully.

895
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:50,119
Speaker 11: Like it's not like this is first like.

896
00:48:50,199 --> 00:48:52,079
Speaker 8: I'm over here cheating on this woman.

897
00:48:52,199 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 15: I'm not.

898
00:48:53,119 --> 00:48:56,039
Speaker 7: We've been like this has been a tastic environment and

899
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,719
she's just been trying to figure out what you're doing.

900
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:00,159
Speaker 2: I've been trying to figure out what to do.

901
00:49:00,599 --> 00:49:02,760
Speaker 8: But but she doesn't want nobody to leave.

902
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,599
Speaker 16: I'm telling it, I'll leave, I'll live in my car,

903
00:49:05,679 --> 00:49:06,280
I'll do whatever.

904
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 1: But Daniel had made it clear that he wanted to leave,

905
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:13,639
even if it meant living in his car. What is

906
00:49:13,679 --> 00:49:19,519
it with these grown adults that can't get their ship together? Anyway,

907
00:49:19,639 --> 00:49:23,719
Antonetta refused to let him go, because that's how it works.

908
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:30,519
Speaker 16: This shocks manes. She hurts.

909
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:31,199
Speaker 4: Real bad.

910
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,079
Speaker 8: So honestly, I'm not going to make a show.

911
00:49:35,119 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 16: I'm not going going yell.

912
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:37,840
Speaker 8: And I never got call there.

913
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 14: I just just wanted to know, Well, you know, we

914
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:41,440
got a call.

915
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:44,320
Speaker 7: From the hospital a while ago, and she actually passed

916
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:45,519
away from stop.

917
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:49,039
Speaker 3: Playing now, please saw please stop.

918
00:49:53,039 --> 00:49:53,280
Speaker 7: Breath.

919
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:00,320
Speaker 1: Daniel broke down in uncontrollable sobs when the offic sirs

920
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:05,079
told him Ashley was dead. He was panicking, and it

921
00:50:05,119 --> 00:50:07,559
seemed like he was the only one who had been

922
00:50:07,679 --> 00:50:09,920
truly devastated by her sudden death.

923
00:50:10,679 --> 00:50:16,519
Speaker 16: The baby, the babies, the babies, babies.

924
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 13: O fuck.

925
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:37,360
Speaker 1: Daniel was shattered. The woman he loved was gone, murdered

926
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:41,199
by the very person he'd been trying to escape. Every

927
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:46,000
breath felt heavy, weighed down by the cruel truth. Ashley

928
00:50:46,119 --> 00:50:49,079
was dead because of him.

929
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,119
Speaker 2: So wow, now you know while.

930
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:53,800
Speaker 6: We're here, it's more than just a little fire.

931
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 2: Wow, I felt. I felt the hole in my heart

932
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:01,880
as so that she left.

933
00:51:03,159 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 16: I really fucking.

934
00:51:19,559 --> 00:51:23,760
Speaker 2: Oh am, I gonna fucking houes. Listen, you just gotta

935
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:26,239
take a breath and give yourself some time.

936
00:51:27,559 --> 00:51:31,280
Speaker 1: The officer left Daniel with his thoughts and his son

937
00:51:32,079 --> 00:51:35,599
to keep him hopeful. They had two murderers waiting for

938
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:39,599
them at the police station. The ringleader, Antonetta, was first.

939
00:51:40,679 --> 00:51:43,599
After having her rights read to her, she did the

940
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:47,119
smart thing, sort of how these rights.

941
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 8: In mind, you wish to talk to us now?

942
00:51:49,599 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 17: Lies you want to speak with the lawyer, just because

943
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:56,599
of how cenative the situation is. I will say that,

944
00:51:56,880 --> 00:52:02,119
you know, I don't go out looking to harm anybody.

945
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:06,360
That's not my intention. I do feel, you know, very

946
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:10,639
remorseful about anything that has happened with that that young lady.

947
00:52:12,639 --> 00:52:14,840
Speaker 4: I'll also say that, you know.

948
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 17: It wasn't my intention to even get into an altercation

949
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:24,480
with her. Today she came over to my place of

950
00:52:24,639 --> 00:52:30,440
residence looking for my fiance. We argued, I was hit,

951
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:31,760
we fought.

952
00:52:34,079 --> 00:52:34,880
Speaker 4: I feel really.

953
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:36,559
Speaker 17: Bad, but you know, I really.

954
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:41,519
Speaker 4: I don't know. I just know it's just it's just

955
00:52:41,679 --> 00:52:42,159
too much.

956
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:46,320
Speaker 1: It's just too much. She really trails off there, doesn't

957
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:52,920
She real? Low energy, low confidence. Biace Antonetta clung to

958
00:52:53,039 --> 00:52:56,800
her story, ignoring the damning video evidence on Janine's phone.

959
00:52:57,880 --> 00:52:59,920
Maybe she was dumb enough to think that the cops

960
00:53:00,039 --> 00:53:00,880
would never find it.

961
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:02,239
Speaker 7: I don't know.

962
00:53:03,079 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put it past her. But because she wasn't

963
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:09,280
willing to talk, she was thrown in jail. Seventeen year

964
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:11,480
old Jeanine wasn't as sharp as her sister in law.

965
00:53:12,039 --> 00:53:15,719
She'd stayed quiet when the police first showed up, but

966
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:19,079
the moment a female detective strolled into the interrogation room,

967
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:24,360
mirroring her tone and attitude. Janine's face lit up. All

968
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,280
it took was a little imitation for her to believe

969
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:28,400
she'd found a friend.

970
00:53:29,039 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 14: Hey, at least it's.

971
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:37,320
Speaker 16: Not a blazon Hatten here, right, you look, COMPLI where's

972
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:37,840
the ryot?

973
00:53:42,199 --> 00:53:43,679
Speaker 4: I swear, I swear it was just.

974
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 16: I know I mess you at at your apartment. I'm

975
00:53:50,039 --> 00:53:51,920
a textive party. This is a detective, a riot.

976
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:53,840
Speaker 4: He's still trying to get builled in on everything.

977
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 18: So basically, her sister in law, there was a situation

978
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:02,639
with her, her brother, there's a whole situation whatever.

979
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:06,039
Speaker 16: We just got through talking to answer it. So I said,

980
00:54:06,039 --> 00:54:08,360
we should got to get your side now because you

981
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:08,800
are in here.

982
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 2: He has to read some stuff to you.

983
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:13,400
Speaker 16: So he's he's going to be the lead detective, so it's.

984
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:14,119
Speaker 4: Going to do most of talking.

985
00:54:14,159 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 16: But I wasn't here because I'm kind of familiar with it.

986
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:21,079
Speaker 1: But I'm here too, So Janine smiled at her falling

987
00:54:21,159 --> 00:54:23,159
for the trick that this cop was somehow in the

988
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:24,960
room for her benefit.

989
00:54:25,599 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 22: Just go through basically, since I was in there and

990
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:34,960
I'm playing castule, basically, so happened, So like, let me

991
00:54:35,039 --> 00:54:38,519
start to we're elited, Okay, We're all okay.

992
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:43,559
Speaker 21: So, like since I've been down here, they have been

993
00:54:43,639 --> 00:54:46,960
on good terms, so, you know, arguments back to back.

994
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:51,800
Speaker 1: Janine confirmed that Danielle and Antonetta were on the rocks.

995
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:56,079
Things were bad, so like you know.

996
00:54:56,159 --> 00:54:57,280
Speaker 16: They're arguing or whatever.

997
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:07,079
Speaker 19: So my brother, him being a man, jeeps is you know,

998
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:10,400
he's feeling less than he things so catchy, so you know,

999
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:14,719
he tells me, he tells me who's he cheating?

1000
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:15,400
Speaker 2: Way and stuff.

1001
00:55:16,039 --> 00:55:19,719
Speaker 21: Now me and my stepsister, I mean, now my sister

1002
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:23,679
are lat We're very close, like so close, but you understand.

1003
00:55:24,039 --> 00:55:26,840
Speaker 16: Like she's more of a sister to me than my

1004
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:27,719
brother's and brother to.

1005
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:28,119
Speaker 21: Me, you know.

1006
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:30,280
Speaker 16: Yeah, so like we're very close.

1007
00:55:31,199 --> 00:55:35,280
Speaker 1: Antonetta was the sister Janine never had. She had visited

1008
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:39,239
her every summer. So when Daniel admitted he was seeing Ashley,

1009
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:42,400
Janine couldn't wait to share the juicy gossip.

1010
00:55:43,039 --> 00:55:46,280
Speaker 2: So once he told me, I was just like, oh,

1011
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:47,199
what a fella.

1012
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:54,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, right to teenage Jeanine, this was all a game.

1013
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:57,320
The fact that Daniel and Toonetta and their son were

1014
00:55:57,599 --> 00:56:01,119
a family meant nothing. She was riding high on the

1015
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:04,519
thrill of being the gate keeper of his secret. In

1016
00:56:04,639 --> 00:56:09,239
case you haven't figured it out, kids are dumb, especially teenagers,

1017
00:56:10,039 --> 00:56:12,000
if you're looking for them to guide you, boy, or

1018
00:56:12,079 --> 00:56:12,800
you lost.

1019
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:18,559
Speaker 16: Two days prior before this day, where's chilling? She was

1020
00:56:18,639 --> 00:56:22,440
working and Daniel moved to something.

1021
00:56:22,199 --> 00:56:23,239
Speaker 4: To her to make her upset.

1022
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:25,679
Speaker 16: So we were just talking or whatever, and I was

1023
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:27,679
just saying, oh, I forgot to tell you move you.

1024
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:30,360
Speaker 8: No, I didn't forget, but that's too Yeah.

1025
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 4: So I was like to her, what happened.

1026
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:36,199
Speaker 8: He explained what she did or whatever.

1027
00:56:36,679 --> 00:56:38,760
Speaker 16: She's like, oh, really, she's what I'm saying with her.

1028
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:40,000
Speaker 4: I was like, don't tell him diving.

1029
00:56:40,199 --> 00:56:41,840
Speaker 2: Or if you're gonna be that right.

1030
00:56:42,519 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 21: He explained how the girl looked to me though, and

1031
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:47,360
you know earlier put her reading Skinny Girl.

1032
00:56:48,159 --> 00:56:50,039
Speaker 16: So I was like, oh, so that I explained it

1033
00:56:50,119 --> 00:56:54,280
to not if. So the next day after that, we

1034
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,719
went to the store. Last night last night, we went

1035
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:00,119
to the story last night and we were walking.

1036
00:57:05,039 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 4: That was you.

1037
00:57:07,199 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 8: Okay?

1038
00:57:07,639 --> 00:57:10,840
Speaker 16: So we walked to Trip as we're weal kind of cryptrip.

1039
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:14,320
Speaker 21: Both fight all are walking together from crypt Troop. So

1040
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:16,920
they're just not leaving and we're just not coming. So

1041
00:57:17,039 --> 00:57:20,760
Inetta is like, is that Daniel walking to that?

1042
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:22,719
Speaker 4: She runs then like who is this?

1043
00:57:24,119 --> 00:57:28,079
Speaker 1: The feud had been boiling for twenty four hours. Janine

1044
00:57:28,159 --> 00:57:32,000
told Antonetta about Ashley, and then Antonetta and Jeanine caught

1045
00:57:32,119 --> 00:57:34,760
Daniel and Ashley walking to the corner store on their

1046
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:38,119
work break. Janine kept talking to officers as if she

1047
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:42,280
was gossiping with her girlfriends on FaceTime. Her story was

1048
00:57:42,559 --> 00:57:45,719
a far cry from the truth. She lied and said

1049
00:57:45,719 --> 00:57:48,719
Ashley came to the door looking for a fight, and

1050
00:57:49,119 --> 00:57:50,039
she come to the house.

1051
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:58,039
Speaker 4: You know, big fight, big fight. So after their fight,

1052
00:58:02,639 --> 00:58:03,440
we took her phone.

1053
00:58:03,519 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 2: We're gonna call her husband to let her know.

1054
00:58:05,599 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 4: That, you know, just just thirt loud.

1055
00:58:08,199 --> 00:58:09,639
Speaker 16: So does she knock on the door at first, or

1056
00:58:09,639 --> 00:58:12,840
you guys just saw her outside outside? She ain't.

1057
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:14,280
Speaker 2: She didn't know cause she didn't get to cancer.

1058
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:18,079
Speaker 16: Okay, cause they own god the bitch coming whom about

1059
00:58:18,079 --> 00:58:18,440
to beat her?

1060
00:58:19,519 --> 00:58:21,719
Speaker 8: She yeah, you guys start yelling at her before and

1061
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:23,599
you guys approached her or h how that going down?

1062
00:58:23,719 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, tell us about that.

1063
00:58:28,079 --> 00:58:29,960
Speaker 16: It wasn't really all bitch you.

1064
00:58:30,239 --> 00:58:32,199
Speaker 23: It was just like young you came to see my

1065
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:36,079
neighbor and then it's just fight at that. She knew

1066
00:58:36,119 --> 00:58:38,480
what it was cause she she got ready to you know,

1067
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:40,599
and then d it was just fighting?

1068
00:58:41,119 --> 00:58:41,880
Speaker 4: Who was fighting?

1069
00:58:44,039 --> 00:58:47,639
Speaker 16: The girl's note everybody, no care youna get out of here?

1070
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 4: No A, yeah, I court you did?

1071
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:51,159
Speaker 13: I know you did it?

1072
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 16: Just just just move you guys, just cause just like

1073
00:58:54,079 --> 00:58:54,599
you said.

1074
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 4: That's your home girl.

1075
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 1: It's amazing how this detective just mirrors Jeanine's style of

1076
00:59:00,119 --> 00:59:03,039
talking right back at her, and every time she falls

1077
00:59:03,119 --> 00:59:06,440
for it, she relaxes her body and slips up again.

1078
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:07,639
Speaker 16: Tell me about that.

1079
00:59:08,239 --> 00:59:10,320
Speaker 4: I didn't I didn't go to I didn't go create though.

1080
00:59:10,239 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 16: Because she's small, sow like, you're enough already. I don't

1081
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:17,239
need to be punch or draggon her. I don't need

1082
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:20,039
to out that I'm good and doom I get my

1083
00:59:20,119 --> 00:59:20,559
little hit.

1084
00:59:20,679 --> 00:59:25,320
Speaker 4: And then where'd you get in in it? I don't know?

1085
00:59:26,039 --> 00:59:27,079
Speaker 16: I know edter though.

1086
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:32,239
Speaker 1: Janine kept changing her story. First it was Ashley who

1087
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:37,199
woke Daniel up. Then wait, it was Antonetta who woke

1088
00:59:37,239 --> 00:59:40,320
him up. Her lines were getting tangled and afraid as

1089
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:41,920
she tried to keep her story straight.

1090
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:44,719
Speaker 16: Did you guys text her? M?

1091
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 4: What do you mean?

1092
00:59:46,719 --> 00:59:49,039
Speaker 16: Did you guys send messages to her. No, we don't

1093
00:59:49,039 --> 00:59:51,119
get her number, you know, I mean from his phone? Oh,

1094
00:59:51,159 --> 00:59:51,760
from his phone?

1095
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:53,440
Speaker 2: M No, I don't think so.

1096
00:59:53,639 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 8: No, okay mm hmm you sure.

1097
00:59:58,159 --> 01:00:00,199
Speaker 16: Yeah, because you you messed up your story on little.

1098
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:03,599
Speaker 8: I already read the messages.

1099
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:05,599
Speaker 16: You messed up a little bit. What was the messages?

1100
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 8: He wasn't getting kicked out?

1101
01:00:07,639 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 21: Oh?

1102
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:09,840
Speaker 13: Yes he was.

1103
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:13,719
Speaker 4: I don't know, you know.

1104
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:17,639
Speaker 8: Are you sure it was text messages to fight or

1105
01:00:17,719 --> 01:00:18,440
was it something else?

1106
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,840
Speaker 4: I don't know. You don't know what. You don't want

1107
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:24,320
to tell me during my honest, the whole time.

1108
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:25,559
Speaker 16: It's fine since you straight up.

1109
01:00:28,039 --> 01:00:31,519
Speaker 18: Smart, smart move because you know he's actually come over

1110
01:00:31,719 --> 01:00:33,440
and she's not gonna come over like that.

1111
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:37,440
Speaker 16: You know, y'all were smart. Y'all finess the hell out

1112
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:41,840
of that girl. Of course she know, no, she was

1113
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:44,360
non confined regardless, Sydney Honest.

1114
01:00:45,559 --> 01:00:50,159
Speaker 1: Janine's lies were like a bad high school rumor, spreading

1115
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:54,440
fast but falling apart under the slightest scrutiny. She was

1116
01:00:54,519 --> 01:00:57,840
too oblivious to grasp the fact that she wasn't walking

1117
01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:00,280
out of this police station scott free with her cell

1118
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:02,199
phone in her jeane shorts.

1119
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:05,519
Speaker 8: Earlier today, she didn't know that she was walking into

1120
01:01:05,599 --> 01:01:05,920
a fight.

1121
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:07,199
Speaker 13: Good.

1122
01:01:08,199 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 8: You know she's dead, that's do you know?

1123
01:01:12,559 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 4: How she did like.

1124
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 16: Fighting the injuries of her dead, so they had to

1125
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:24,719
go as a result of the injury she sustained her

1126
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:29,840
in the fight. How does make you feel this ship?

1127
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,440
If feel like I'm going to hell, that I'm not

1128
01:01:32,559 --> 01:01:37,840
gonna lie and her, she's pretty fucked up. I don't know, Dan,

1129
01:01:38,559 --> 01:01:39,400
I want to open the door.

1130
01:01:39,519 --> 01:01:40,000
Speaker 4: I saw her.

1131
01:01:40,239 --> 01:01:41,559
Speaker 16: I was like, oh, ship, and I had to slam

1132
01:01:41,679 --> 01:01:44,599
the door because she was so fucked up he did.

1133
01:01:48,599 --> 01:01:52,559
Speaker 1: The careless and sinister nature of her affect is terrifying.

1134
01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:57,960
People like this actually exist in society, and sometimes they vote.

1135
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:02,280
This girl has absolutely no remorse for the fact that

1136
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:05,960
she helped murder someone, nor does she even really care

1137
01:02:06,039 --> 01:02:09,320
that Ashley was being an alleged home wrecker trying to

1138
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:10,280
ruin break.

1139
01:02:10,159 --> 01:02:13,440
Speaker 8: Up your family. Should that made you upset?

1140
01:02:16,679 --> 01:02:17,400
Speaker 4: I wasn't upset.

1141
01:02:18,119 --> 01:02:21,280
Speaker 13: No. No.

1142
01:02:21,599 --> 01:02:23,559
Speaker 16: They've been on a rocky road for a minute, like

1143
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:26,360
I knew I've been, and he was chieving when he

1144
01:02:26,519 --> 01:02:26,760
when he.

1145
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:29,360
Speaker 4: Told me so, I was just like, what I expect

1146
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:31,880
from this? Is there? Her first word?

1147
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:32,119
Speaker 7: You know.

1148
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:35,559
Speaker 8: He was gonna go off with her.

1149
01:02:37,119 --> 01:02:37,719
Speaker 4: Well that scaring.

1150
01:02:37,719 --> 01:02:39,599
Speaker 16: He was gonna go off for her, to be honest,

1151
01:02:40,559 --> 01:02:43,280
when me and my brother isn't really that close. We

1152
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:44,320
were trying to work on it.

1153
01:02:45,519 --> 01:02:46,239
Speaker 4: So it's just like.

1154
01:02:47,719 --> 01:02:49,880
Speaker 8: I'm just makes it easier when families together. You got

1155
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:50,440
your sisters.

1156
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:53,039
Speaker 4: You're gonna hate him, yeah, but we.

1157
01:02:53,199 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 2: I don't live with the role.

1158
01:02:54,679 --> 01:02:58,239
Speaker 16: Yeah, I don't really feel that stare the connection and

1159
01:02:58,400 --> 01:02:59,760
just like near her close and I.

1160
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:02,119
Speaker 2: Car and he's just like.

1161
01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:04,639
Speaker 13: With that.

1162
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:08,679
Speaker 1: They left Jeanine alone in the interrogation room. She laid

1163
01:03:08,679 --> 01:03:11,000
her head on the desk and slept on it like

1164
01:03:11,079 --> 01:03:15,719
a pillow, like little kids do in preschool. She played

1165
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:20,119
with the scrunchy around her wrist. Then the detective came

1166
01:03:20,199 --> 01:03:20,440
back in.

1167
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:29,159
Speaker 8: It's all right, so we're gonna have to book him

1168
01:03:29,159 --> 01:03:29,639
into the jail.

1169
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:33,639
Speaker 24: The charge is gonna be bag battery, pull the fight, okay,

1170
01:03:34,519 --> 01:03:40,079
aggavated battery. Yeah, so it's just basically there's a little

1171
01:03:40,119 --> 01:03:41,719
more serious than just a regular battery.

1172
01:03:43,039 --> 01:03:45,320
Speaker 8: When we had to take the phone for evidence.

1173
01:03:46,159 --> 01:03:50,440
Speaker 1: Ah, Janine's phone the only character in this entire story

1174
01:03:50,559 --> 01:03:51,760
capable of telling the truth.

1175
01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:56,199
Speaker 8: So what happens We're gonna go to the general. Get

1176
01:03:56,239 --> 01:03:58,000
you booked in fingerprinted photo?

1177
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:00,760
Speaker 16: That don't what else?

1178
01:04:02,159 --> 01:04:07,559
Speaker 8: Wait for the court so you clean your charges? Yeah,

1179
01:04:07,679 --> 01:04:09,679
guess yeah, it's robbery.

1180
01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:16,639
Speaker 2: Robbery? What robbery?

1181
01:04:17,119 --> 01:04:18,920
Speaker 16: Yeah, we didn't steal her phone.

1182
01:04:19,559 --> 01:04:20,840
Speaker 4: We took that she could come to.

1183
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Speaker 2: You took it.

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Speaker 16: Yes, she got her phone back. I told you she

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wasn't leaving unless she got We gave her back her phone.

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We just didn't we call her husband when we turned

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her out.

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Speaker 8: Okay, jail, she sails. Okay for your taking it? No, okay, Yeah,

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that's a robbery.

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Speaker 2: The other charge is murder.

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Speaker 16: Murder to be in charge with murder me, that's that's

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01:04:48,519 --> 01:04:52,079
too bad. That yeah, that's that's fucking insane.

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Speaker 4: Yeah no, no, no, no, what murder?

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Speaker 16: I couldn't playing hands on her.

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Speaker 4: She wants some.

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Speaker 13: Bitch.

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Speaker 1: It was Janine's foot that delivered the fatal blows, the

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ones that pushed Ashley past the point of no return,

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the sheer force of them big ass hams, as those

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01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:29,119
final kicks caused bleeding in Ashley's lungs, sealing her fate

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01:05:29,679 --> 01:05:33,960
in a brutal, merciless instant. Though it would take hours

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01:05:34,039 --> 01:05:37,880
for Ashley to actually die, Janine's part in this beating

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01:05:38,199 --> 01:05:42,920
was the nail and her coffin. Antonetta and Janine were

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01:05:43,039 --> 01:05:48,679
charged with felony murder, robbery, and aggravated battery. They waited

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01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:52,079
in jail for their day in court. When it was

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Janine's turn, she sat beside her court appointed lawyer, tears

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01:05:56,480 --> 01:06:01,159
streaming down her acne splotched face as she argued she

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01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:05,320
was just a bystander and deserved a manslaughter charge instead.

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01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:12,719
But the video MM disagrees. There was no spinning the truth.

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That was all caught on ten eighty p Actually it

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could have been seven to twenty or four to eighty

1212
01:06:19,679 --> 01:06:23,119
who knows. This ain't a camera course. But after weeks

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01:06:23,159 --> 01:06:26,280
of wrangling, both Antonetta and Janine took their plea deals

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01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:32,400
twenty years for voluntary manslaughter and robbery by force. Two

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decades in Arundale State Prison will do things to you.

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There's plenty of time to relive every reckless second, every

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01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:46,760
cruel decision, every moment of that recording is on Janine's phone,

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01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:52,280
plenty of time to regret it all microsecond by microsecond.

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But would either of these women be capable of such introspection?

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Speaker 2: I doubt it.

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Speaker 1: After all, it takes a little bit of intellect to

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01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:26,199
have a conscience. It's ironic. Ashley and Julian came to

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01:07:26,239 --> 01:07:29,639
Georgia from New York searching for a better life, a

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01:07:29,719 --> 01:07:32,920
fresh start from the chaos of the projects and their

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01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:37,679
tangled past. Antonetta and Daniel came for the exact same reason,

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even from the same state, but neither couple was truly

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in a good place. Your geographic location doesn't really matter

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01:07:46,719 --> 01:07:49,320
much if the core of who you are is all

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01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:53,519
fucked up. The trouble they tried to escape followed them

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01:07:53,559 --> 01:07:57,719
across state lines, growing into an unstoppable force when Daniel

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01:07:57,760 --> 01:08:01,159
and Ashley started falling for each other during their night

1232
01:08:01,239 --> 01:08:05,559
shifts at Floor and Decor. Daniel and Ashley found one

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01:08:05,599 --> 01:08:09,199
another because they weren't happy in their own relationships. They

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01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:12,760
wanted something more, and when a new town, a new house,

1235
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:15,119
and a new life wasn't enough to fill the void,

1236
01:08:16,039 --> 01:08:18,760
what they wanted was a new person to be with,

1237
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:23,680
not a change of scenery. Daniel was a man trapped

1238
01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:26,439
with a woman he didn't like, bound by a sense

1239
01:08:26,479 --> 01:08:30,319
of duty to their son. His affair with Ashley was

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01:08:30,359 --> 01:08:32,920
a spark of hope in a life that felt dim

1241
01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:39,039
and joyless. Every moment with her was electric, and Ashley

1242
01:08:39,079 --> 01:08:43,399
felt the same. We all heard Daniel sobs when she died.

1243
01:08:44,399 --> 01:08:47,319
Who knows what they talked about in those quiet moments together.

1244
01:08:48,319 --> 01:08:51,159
Maybe they dreamed of turning their affair into something real

1245
01:08:51,279 --> 01:08:56,000
and long lasting. Maybe they even imagined leaving their partners

1246
01:08:56,039 --> 01:09:01,119
and starting fresh together. But those dreams die the minute.

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01:09:01,199 --> 01:09:06,880
Daniel confided in his teenage sister Janine was the little

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01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:09,720
piece of the past that came down to Georgia that

1249
01:09:09,840 --> 01:09:15,520
summer and threw gasoline on the fire. A child who

1250
01:09:16,079 --> 01:09:19,399
didn't create the situation, but she surely made it go

1251
01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:25,880
from bad to fatal and pretty fast. For Julian, for

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01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:28,479
their son, for Daniel, and for all of those who

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01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:34,520
loved Ashley. When heartbreaking reality remains, Sometimes a fresh start

1254
01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:38,520
isn't enough to leave the troubles of the past behind.

1255
01:09:39,640 --> 01:09:43,039
And if you find yourself being miserable and you want

1256
01:09:43,079 --> 01:09:46,520
to just patch it up instead of discovering and fixing

1257
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:52,279
the actual problem, well then don't worry, because the problem

1258
01:09:52,399 --> 01:10:43,399
will eventually find you. Episode fifteen, titled Burn of Swordan

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01:10:43,479 --> 01:10:47,520
Scale Television is out now at Swordanscale dot com. It's

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01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:51,520
a harrowing tale of a couple of teenagers that just

1261
01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:56,800
wanted to buy some pot, and bad things happen. State

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01:10:56,880 --> 01:10:59,399
of the world these days, I swear it's like parenting

1263
01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:02,600
took a decade off once they invented the iPad. I'm

1264
01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:04,279
gonna go record some more. Maybe you should try being

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01:11:04,279 --> 01:11:04,600
a mom.