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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 advice.

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Speaker 3: She couldn't even defend herself. Look how big he was.

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Speaker 1: All right, don't get used to this. This isn't gonna

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be the new norm. We aren't gonna do two episodes

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a week, every week forever. I mean, do you want

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to kill me? This is season twelve, episode two to ninety,

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Sword and Scale, show that reveals it the worst monsters. No,

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I missed it, damn it all right, let me try

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to get it. This is season twelve, episode two ninety

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of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals it the

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worst monsters are real. It was a cold January in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Then again, is in every January cold in Cleveland, Ohio.

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A thick layer of snow covered the ground and the

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sky was gray. Inside the modest downstairs apartment of a

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turn of the century house, thirty five year old Denisha

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Cooper was pacing through her living room. Her hands were

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shaking as she called nine to one one Cleveland.

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Speaker 4: I want one to patch the malave.

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Speaker 5: I mean, please, fire ambulance, please, what's going on over there?

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In a hundred pointin attorney, So reporter miss.

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Speaker 4: A child howl is the child even went to the

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child's name. Okay, hey, she ever done this before?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 6: I put her on the RCaH this morning. God see

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NICKI a bus ticket and she knows hep right down

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the streets.

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Speaker 4: From the police station and.

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Speaker 6: I gave her.

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Speaker 4: I put her and she ki on the TM hits

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the school and the school I had apparentage conference and

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I say she never checked hit to school.

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Speaker 1: Donisha's fourteen year old daughter, Aliana had not returned home

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from school. Aleianna took the RTA bus every day. RTA

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stands for Regional Transit Authority and it's basically a city bus.

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Even though Denisia was weary of sending her daughter to

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school this way, it had never been a problem before.

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Speaker 4: What time did you put her on the RTA? It

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was about people say when the bus turns out? That bus?

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She said a sixth grade this morning? What school? Uh?

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Did she go to? Acres?

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Speaker 1: Every weekday morning Aleana would get on the bus at

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six forty five am and ride halfway to school to

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ninety third Street and Kinsman. Then she would transfer onto

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another bus which would take her all the way to school,

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and she.

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Speaker 4: Never made a school this morning at all.

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Speaker 6: No, and they usually get out a phone call is

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a child that they come to school, but I didn't

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get a phone call.

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Speaker 1: Denisha never heard anything from Alliana's school about her not

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showing up. Normally, they would send her a text message

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through the school's messaging service, but Denisha received no notifications

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or telephone calls, so she assumed her child was safe

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in her classroom with her teacher and peers. But then

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Aleanna never returned home. Denisha called the school to check

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to see if her daughter was still there. She had

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a parent teacher conference scheduled for five PM that evening.

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Maybe Aleiana had decided to stick around for some reason.

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Speaker 4: Oh that's a lot she didn't just now, okay, all right,

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she's trying to get her own car over to you.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 4: What was she seen? What was she worrying when he

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last seen her? Call her a funiform brown colt like

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swater black pants. Yes, okay, has she ever does this?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 5: She never ran away before this said, you know, not

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the one just before. Oh, okay, she's trying to get

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his own car over to you.

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Speaker 4: Now, if anything.

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Speaker 5: Happened her for you year back if it's a call back,

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because we're gonna have an officer to make a report

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for you.

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Denisha was sick of worry. This was not like Aleianna.

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Her daughter was a good kid. She was sweet, shy,

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and young.

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Speaker 2: For her age.

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Speaker 1: She still liked Disney movies and dolls. She was innocent

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and inexperienced. The panic of where Aleana could be did

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set in. Here's one of the administrators at the eat Prep.

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Speaker 8: Like I mentioned, I opened the door physicool every day

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for my students and greeted everyone finding I was in

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and out of classrooms every day, coaching teachers and stuff.

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Speaker 9: I had a lot of interactions with students in the

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lunch room Alliana.

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Speaker 7: Because I was the first when a contact that egret,

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she felt comfortable coming to me often.

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Speaker 1: This administrator had a special relationship with a Leana.

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Speaker 3: She was never.

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Speaker 7: Absent and she was the type of student that loved

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coming to school.

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Speaker 2: So I.

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Speaker 7: Don't have the data in front of me, but I

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just haven't.

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Speaker 1: I know she was in school all the time, so

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when she heard she was missing, she sprung into action

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and I put my coat on and.

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Speaker 7: My director of critualm and instruction went on to the

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library to see if she was there. My first instinct

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was maybe she just didn't come to school because she

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was at the library. I don't know, I just that

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was my instinct.

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Speaker 1: She checked the library, but no a Leana. However, there

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were other places and other libraries that she might be at.

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Speaker 9: You got in my car and we drove to the

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library at our earth bus stop on Kidsmen to see

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if she was there.

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Speaker 3: So that was happening.

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Speaker 2: I was on the boat with Missus Cooper.

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Speaker 7: While also calling the police to follow up. At that point,

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the police were at Ethro, so I went back to

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school to talk with the almost.

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Speaker 1: Back at the school, the staff talked with the police.

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As concern grew. Everyone who knew Aleana could tell something

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was very wrong.

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Speaker 7: The police officer was there.

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Speaker 9: He wanted to take my statement and learn more about Aliana.

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At the time, the officer had felt like maybe she

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was just a typical.

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Speaker 1: Kid and run away.

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Speaker 7: And I had told the officer that that was in

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my gut. I knew Aliana that was not something should do.

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Speaker 2: And so.

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Speaker 7: He told me that he would go back on to.

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Speaker 9: The community and myself and three of my staff members

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continued to call parents and.

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Speaker 7: Call students to find out if anyone had any understanding

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of where she was. I go home.

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Speaker 9: I called us to Scooper to let you know, you

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stay on the phone.

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Speaker 3: That had high night she called.

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Speaker 7: I remember missus were calling me around midnight that night,

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just keeping in touch.

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Speaker 1: Nobody slept that night, not Denisha Cooper, not any of

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the school staff, not any of her friends or extended family.

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Everyone was busy making a plan for how to find her,

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and the next day they got to work.

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Speaker 9: The next morning, we set up a system where my

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school and a few of our other schools brought teachers

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and staff over and we'd canvass the area with flyers

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and we divided the city up, so myself and my

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director of Crikham Instruction we went as far as Tower City.

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We had folks up and down nine third, up and

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down all the neighborhood.

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Speaker 7: We were there looking That evening.

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Speaker 9: I went to a community event with the peacekeepers and

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Alianna's family.

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Speaker 3: There was a.

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Speaker 7: News media there.

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Speaker 9: We wanted to do a call to the community to

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find out if anyone had any information about her.

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Speaker 7: Pray that night and that was at the.

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Speaker 1: End of that night, the community rallied together in search

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of Aliana, and the faculty at E Prep took charge. Meanwhile,

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the police were starting their investigation, retracing their steps. Every

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weekday morning, Aleana would catch the number fourteen bus and

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ride it to ninety third and Kinsman. Then she'd transferred

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to another bus which took her down ninety third to

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her school. This was not the best area between Kinsman

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and E Prep. Ninety third Street was home to a

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few churches, auto shops, vacant lots, and some houses. The

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officers searched every location for Aliana and took note of

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where they could collect surveillance footage along her bus route,

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but they started with the video footage from the bus

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she got on the day she went missing.

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Speaker 3: That point, I did review the video.

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Speaker 2: It was a couple of things that we saw on

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the video.

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Speaker 10: Was talking to any younger age kid approxily her age phiscol,

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aage kid that you know. Peat that interest because she

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she was having for a conversation with him.

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Speaker 2: And then there was also another adult nail that was.

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Speaker 10: Seen on that video who was seen exiting the boss

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fan Aleana bid and exit the bus.

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Speaker 2: That beat our interest as well.

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Speaker 1: The man in the video footage did more than just

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talk to Aliana on the bus.

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Speaker 3: He had gotten off the bus, falling Aliena's saint path.

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Speaker 11: Alianda was going to where she was crossing East many

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third Street to the other side. Then that mail in

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that video appeared to reach out and say something.

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Speaker 2: Never in the crosslot that kind of peat our interurse.

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Speaker 10: It's an older adult mail and had no conversation with

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her whatsoever on the bus reached out and that's the

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period that's something to her in that crossland.

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Speaker 1: The man in the RTA bus footage sat facing the

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front with his white hoodie pulled up. As Aliana exits

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the bus, he looks up, grabs his two bags, and

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gets off the bus behind her. He yells something as

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they both cross the busy intersection, but Aleana keeps walking

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until she gets to the other side of the street.

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That's when the footage ends. The bus continues its route.

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Speaker 2: So what do you do next?

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Speaker 11: At that point I started to check bake it last

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in the area of ninety third and kidsmen also on

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the path of kidsmen.

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Speaker 1: To union the score, so they kept searching. Soon the

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FBI got involved. Denisea handed over her daughter's phone, just

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in case there was something on it which she'd found

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in her bedroom dresser. Anything on there could help. Still

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no Aliana. The whole neighborhood was on high alert in

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search of this beloved teenager. It felt like she had

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just vanished into thin air. Then police found a body.

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Speaker 12: Police have more questions than answers after they discovered the

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body of a female inside an abandoned home late last.

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Speaker 3: Night, and while investigators wait for a positive ID, there

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is concern tonight that it could be that of a

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missing fourteen year old Cleveland girl.

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Speaker 1: On Sunday, January twenty ninth, twenty seventeen, only three days

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after she'd been reported missing, officers searched an abandoned house

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just off ninety third Street. Inside the cold and crumbling home,

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the police used their flashlights to follow bloody footprints and

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smears towards a room. Inside, they found a training bra,

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some clothes, a ripped condom wrapper, and the body of

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a young black female. She was naked except for a

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pair of soft on the built in window bench. Next

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to her was an assortment of torture tools, a drill

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of Phillips head screwdriver, a nut driver, and a box Cutter.

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Speaker 12: There has not been any positive identification of a victim

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found in that house on Sunday night, and until there

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is positive scientific evidence, we're not going to announce who

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that person is. We have a very strong idea based

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on evidence and things like that, of who that person is,

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and we've talked to that family. We're in constant contact

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with that family, but until the medical examinter makes that

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positive identification, we don't have an announcement for that.

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Speaker 1: The body looked like Aliana, but there had been several

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missing women reported in the area, so they had to

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be sure. After securing her dental records, it was confirmed.

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Speaker 2: I went home.

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Speaker 9: I went home, and then a few hours later I

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got a call my boss to let me know what

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Speaker 7: I had to call all her teachers, I had to

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call her ones, tell everybody what about my school. She's

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my student, it's our community. I just felt like everyone

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had been putting so much time and effort into finding

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Heart that we needed everyone needed to know what had happened.

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Speaker 1: As far as anyone could tell, a Leanna had been

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mercilessly tortured and killed in this terrifying house with its

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cracked door frames, scurrying rats and peeling wallpaper. Now the

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police had to follow the breadcrumbs of video footage to

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find the person who killed her. Fourteen year old Aliana

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de Frieze had mysteriously disappeared one January afternoon on her

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bus ride to school. The entire community had banded together

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to find her, but it was the police who eventually

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discovered the dead body of Aliana in an abandoned home

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just off her bus route on ninety third Street. This

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area of Cleveland, Ohio was littered with abandoned and crumbling homes.

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Over the past few years, five women had gone missing

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near ninety third Street, their bodies mutilated and dumped like trash.

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All the murders had remained unsolved. Like we said before,

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this was not a safe area. Crime had started to

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fester there among the abandoned homes, and the women who

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were killed before Aliana were adults caught up in that

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dark world. But after what happened to Aliana, an innocent

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school kid, officials started to perk up. Some members of

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the city council feared the worst.

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Speaker 13: This is not a coincidence to me that now this

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is the fifth young lady. Then in less than a

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mile whose body has been dumped on ninety third and

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either in a vacant line or a vacant house.

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Speaker 1: This city councilman was convinced a serial killer could be

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targeting the East Side neighborhood, but the cops didn't agree.

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Speaker 13: Every time I bring it up, they tell me that

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I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, that

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these aren't connected. Well, like I said, I just want

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them to prove me wrong.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Aleana's family grieved publicly, and the entire community decided

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enough was enough. This was a teenager who had been

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taken from her family, and residents who rode the bus

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every day with Aliana and kids like her decided to

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take turns guarding the last place she had been seen

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her bus stop.

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Speaker 14: All we're doing is watch, just making sure that didn't

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get from one bus to another. I'll be out here

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every day to the end of the school year until

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they find some other way to get those babies to

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school safe.

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Speaker 1: As much as it was about preventing future tragedies, this

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was also a way to honor Aliana.

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Speaker 14: Community is out here and we didn't forget about you

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or sorry, did this happen on our watch and we

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don't want this to happen again.

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Speaker 1: Police continued pulling surveillance footage from around her first bus transfer,

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where the man in the white hoodie had followed Alliana

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across the street.

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Speaker 15: At that point, after seeing that video there and til

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the video over the Arch of Us ends, after the

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bus keeps me along Thamesman Passas ninety third, I resigned

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to Shelley ass Station, which is right on that corner

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we're in that passes.

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Speaker 3: I went inside there.

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Speaker 10: The check to see what kind of video was available

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there on the two only had interior video, so I

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did watch a little bit of the video.

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Speaker 3: There was nothing at the video that indicated me, and

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we out of the content.

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Speaker 1: The detectives continued pulling video from businesses and churches all

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up and down Aleanna's bus route. They kept thinking they

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would see the man in the white hoodie again, But

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then something strange happened. Another man appeared in the surveillance

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footage from her second bus stop, and it was not

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the man in the white hoodie. Outside the True Gospel

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Mission Baptist Church on East ninety third and Fuller, only

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a few blocks away from where she was murdered. Camera

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footage showed a black mail pacing back and forth across

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the parking lot at around seven am. Then Alana gets

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off her bus and crosses the street towards the church.

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The black mail then goes up to Aliana and starts

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talking to her. She takes a cautious step back. Even

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from the grainy video, you can sense the fear in

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her body language. Then she scurries away. A few seconds later,

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the video catches him following her up the street. It's chilling. Meanwhile,

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the community continued to make sure Alana was not forgotten

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like the other murdered women before her. Standing the church

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video was released to the public and tips soon came

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flooding in, but they would prove unnecessary because the killer

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had left his DNA all over the crime scene. In

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that cold, disgusting house, Alianna had not only been viciously murdered,

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tortured with tools, but also raped. The killer's DNA was

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like a white flag all over the abandoned house. When

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the police sent what they had out for forensic testing,

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they found the culprit was already in the system. His

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name was Christopher Whittaker. He wasn't hard to find either.

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Forty four year old Christopher was an ex con who'd

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been living and working in the ninety third Street area.

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He had a nineteen year old daughter to himself. But

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he was a negligent father, you know, being in and

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out of jail and all. Can't be a good father

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if you're locked up, you know. Anyway, Christopher had listed

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his aunt's house as his last known address, but he

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was staying with a girlfriend while he worked when he could.

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And when I say he worked, I mean he did

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random construction like tasks on homes for a buddy. I'll

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explain in a second. Anyway, he couldn't do much else

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given the lengthy criminal history.

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Speaker 3: Do you know him? Have you ever seen a news

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or anything recently in the past week or so?

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Speaker 16: You know what's going on in that area? Yeah, so

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then you know why I'm asking all these questions.

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Speaker 2: Yea, I know.

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Speaker 3: I Are you o familiar with the girl that went missing?

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Speaker 2: I do not know anything.

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Speaker 3: You know where when you were over there working or anything?

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Did you ever see her?

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Speaker 2: Never? I wasn't even out there. Early in the morning

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first we had heard about it. I was in the

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car with uh raised brother t. We were going to

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move a.

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Speaker 17: Friend of his and we saw a lady passing out

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flyers and we stopped and he grabbed two flyers and

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we was reading the flyers. First when you heard about it.

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Speaker 3: What day was that?

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Speaker 16: Do you know?

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Speaker 3: Mm?

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Speaker 17: It was like, uh that Yeah, I did go back

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over there that Friday because I went the have to move.

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Speaker 16: Okay, so Friday you were fuller, yeah, and I went

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back on Yeah, and people were passing out the flyers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 17: It was I don't know if she was white or

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part recon or something. And she was staying right there.

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In ninety third kids were passing out flyers, some.

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Speaker 16: Females passing on flyers. So nothing about her looks familiar.

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Speaker 3: You don't know her.

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Speaker 16: You have no information as to her whereabouts or what

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happened to her from you, What what's the next thing

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that you heard about what was going on over there?

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Speaker 2: Ian? What I heard on the news? What did you

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hear on the news they discovered the body?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 2: They wasn't releasing much information. I mean, I don't know,

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just basically what I heard on the news.

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Speaker 1: Christopher said that the only thing he knew about Aliana

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was the same thing anyone else did, but the police

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knew that he was involved. His DNA was literally everywhere.

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Instead of bashing him with the cold hard evidence right away,

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they wanted to see him squirm a bit. It's fun

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and cops need to have fun too sometimes.

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Speaker 3: Were you were in that house?

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Speaker 17: I mean, I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, we went in

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the house, me tea and what's this? Uh the other

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guy's name, what they call him?

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Speaker 2: What is his nickname? They call him boogie? What boogie Boogie?

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Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean we went We took the hot water

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heater in the furnace out and took compete couple pieces

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of uh, some wiring, some you know, little metal stuff

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connected to the pharnace.

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Speaker 3: Took that out and so you're talking about the piping

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and wiring, Yeah, took it, take scrap. How long was that?

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Speaker 2: It's like Bond two'sday when we use there.

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Speaker 1: Oh and by construction work, I also mean that Christopher

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and his friends would go into abandoned houses and dismantle

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whatever parts they could use, like hot water heaters, sinks, pipes,

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or scrap metal. They were scrounging, you know, like rats

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like furmit.

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Speaker 3: Where did you guy spark the vehicle to load all

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this stuff up?

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Speaker 17: We just put it on like a car a shopping

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cart and took it up the street, and the next

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morning you put it in a van.

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Speaker 2: And took it to the home started.

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Speaker 3: Do you know how much you got for it?

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Speaker 2: S not m's like it was like thirty seven dollars

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split between three people.

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Speaker 1: Thirty seven dollars, just three grown men stealing metal from

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abandoned houses and lugging it out in a also stolen

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shopping cart, then trading it in at a scrap yard

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for a measly thirty seven dollars to split three ways,

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instead of just, oh, I don't know, flipping a burger

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or maybe even delivering a burger these days for way more.

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But nah, nah, just keep doing what you're doing. Why

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would anyone resort to such a low level cash grab?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Right, right right? His criminal record keeps coming back to that,

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doesn't it. Let's just keep all of this in mind

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while we listened to Christopher spin his little web.

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Speaker 16: Well, if I was to tell you that we found

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your DNA inside the house and the upstairs, would that

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surprise you?

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Speaker 2: Probably through your kitchen?

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Speaker 16: Maybe, so I can tell you that we didn't find

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your DNA in the kitchen. That's not the room that

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we found your DNA in. That's the reason I'm asking

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you if you went into any other part.

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Speaker 3: Of the house, you know your DNA is on file.

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Speaker 16: I mean.

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Speaker 3: The case, Yeah, for the kitchen isn't where we found

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it because there was nothing in the kitchen.

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Speaker 16: The kitchen was empty. The dying room was where we

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found your DNA. Do you want to think about whether

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or not you were in that room at all? But

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then i'd explain your DNA and actually your print and

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then walked.

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Speaker 2: Around the house.

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Speaker 17: But we just didn't want I mean, it's like we

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didn't focus in there like we in here trying to

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see what it's in here.

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Speaker 2: We just looked around.

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Speaker 17: I mean, I'm not saying debasement in the dining room

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was the only thing we looked at. I mean we

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looked around out, but I didn't go around the house

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like just trying to see what's all in here we

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can take.

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Speaker 3: Did you find anything in any of the other rooms

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that you guys took or touched or no.

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Speaker 17: I did go upstairs because we went to see if

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they had a cast iron tub up there, because cast

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iron tubs?

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Speaker 3: Are you talking about? Second floor?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we went up to the vadroom and looked came

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back down.

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Speaker 1: Christopher said that they walked around, poking their heads in

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each dilapidated room, trying to salvage anything of value that

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someone else hadn't already ripped from the homes carcass. But

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it was jittery as he spoke, a little nervous. What's wrong, Chris, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Trying to get it right when I'm sitting here.

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Speaker 17: I'm nervous because I'm actually in the house that this

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girl's body was found here.

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Speaker 3: So I'm like, that's understand I want to get right. Yeah,

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and I understand that.

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Speaker 16: Getting back to her now, now that we've got the

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house down, Pat, you've never met her, you've never seen

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it before. You didn't recognize her when you saw the flyer. Okay,

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she's not a friend of yours or somebody that you

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talked to on the street when you were working on

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the street.

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Speaker 2: I would have no reason to street til fourteen.

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Speaker 3: Well, sure, she's a fourteen year old girl. I can

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understand that.

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Speaker 16: So then then my next question would be, can you

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explain how your DNA, your seamen would have ended up

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inside her?

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Speaker 2: About that?

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Speaker 3: You don't know anything about that.

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Speaker 2: I'm I wasn't even over there own that day.

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00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,759
Speaker 16: Okay, you weren't over there, then I've got to wonder

481
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:49,880
how your seamen.

482
00:26:49,599 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 3: Could have ended up inside of her.

483
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,680
Speaker 16: So now we have your DNA inside the house, we

484
00:26:54,839 --> 00:26:58,960
have your fingerprints inside the house, and now now we

485
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:00,720
have your DNA inside of her.

486
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,599
Speaker 1: Christopher sat there across from the detective with his broad

487
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:09,880
shoulders slumped forward. He looked like a gigantic toddler being

488
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:14,319
punished in his naughty chair. The flyer of Aliana was

489
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,720
on the table in front of him, her smiling, innocent

490
00:27:17,799 --> 00:27:21,640
face looking in his direction, but instead he just stared

491
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:22,640
at his hands.

492
00:27:23,599 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 3: There's going to be more things that are going to

493
00:27:25,519 --> 00:27:28,799
come up once they're finished testing it. So I'm asking

494
00:27:28,839 --> 00:27:29,079
you this.

495
00:27:29,319 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 5: Now.

496
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,039
Speaker 16: You can get in front of this straighten us out,

497
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,240
tell your side of the story, or you can just

498
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,240
let us assume whatever we want to.

499
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:43,559
Speaker 3: It's up to you, right, you want to explain to

500
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:44,240
us what happened?

501
00:27:46,319 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 2: I must explain you for really, well, sure you do.

502
00:27:49,559 --> 00:27:52,519
Speaker 3: How did you meet her? How did you get to

503
00:27:52,599 --> 00:27:57,920
talking to her? Did you see her before that day? Never? Well, then,

504
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,400
how did you get talking to her? Tell us what happened?

505
00:28:02,279 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: Christopher refused to look up. The detective pushed the picture

506
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,200
of Aleana closer to him and tapped her pen on it.

507
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 16: So why don't you just tell us how you came

508
00:28:13,319 --> 00:28:17,680
upon Aliana that's her name, How you came upon her,

509
00:28:17,759 --> 00:28:20,839
how you got your talking to her, How did that

510
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:21,319
come about?

511
00:28:22,559 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 2: What happened? Crazy?

512
00:28:25,799 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 5: What is that?

513
00:28:26,599 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 3: It's crazy? What did you run name?

514
00:28:30,039 --> 00:28:33,279
Speaker 17: I'm a crack and I get high and I do

515
00:28:33,799 --> 00:28:35,720
stupid shit for people for moment.

516
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: Okay, the scrap metal scrounging makes a little more sense, now,

517
00:28:41,279 --> 00:28:41,640
doesn't it.

518
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 17: Everybody you hang with that you smoke with or get

519
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,799
hide with, you don't know everybody you deal with. Sure,

520
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:54,920
you don't know everybody's situation or how everybody got in

521
00:28:55,039 --> 00:28:57,640
that situation. So I mean for me to sit in

522
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:02,720
and try to put the names or faces to everything

523
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:09,839
that went on that night or that morning, I I

524
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,400
it's probably impossible cause I was high.

525
00:29:13,559 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 3: So you're telling me there was more than just you?

526
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:15,599
Speaker 4: There?

527
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 3: Is that what you're saying?

528
00:29:17,759 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 13: Chris?

529
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 2: By the time I realized how old this girl was,

530
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,559
I left. Okay, I left and it was.

531
00:29:29,519 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 17: Other smokers around. Yeah, I mean, like late at night,

532
00:29:34,759 --> 00:29:37,359
you tryna find out. You don't know who to ask. So,

533
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,759
I mean, smokers come together to get high whatever what not.

534
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:42,599
Speaker 2: You don't even know.

535
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,599
Speaker 17: It's like I might not know you if you were

536
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:46,480
getting high and I'm l like, you know where it

537
00:29:46,519 --> 00:29:47,079
gets something at?

538
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, when you gonna look out for me? You

539
00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:54,680
have whatever? I mean, how this little girl got involved

540
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:55,119
after it? That?

541
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 16: You know?

542
00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 2: And if I could go back to this day and

543
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,680
prevent what happened from happening, I would.

544
00:30:08,799 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 17: Had I been in the house for the remainder of

545
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,440
that day, I probably would have never let anything happen.

546
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:19,279
Speaker 1: As a taxpayer, aren't you sick of this shit? Just

547
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,680
asking you do pay your taxes?

548
00:30:21,759 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 16: Right?

549
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: Christopher tried to say that this all happened because of

550
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,680
his addiction to crack. He was out looking for drugs

551
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,559
when he met some guys who took him back to

552
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:36,519
the house. It was someone else, not him. Oleanna was

553
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,839
already there naked. He was being very vague about the

554
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:41,319
whole thing.

555
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,039
Speaker 3: How did you get into the house? Start with that?

556
00:30:46,319 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 2: That part? I can't say I was invited in it.

557
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,960
I can't. I don't know the name of somebody I

558
00:30:55,079 --> 00:30:55,680
was smoking with.

559
00:30:57,359 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: Male Despite the video evidence of Christopher stalking Aliana near

560
00:31:02,119 --> 00:31:05,039
the church on ninety third Street. He tried to tell

561
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,440
the police that two strangers invited him into the abandoned

562
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,039
house and Aleanna was already inside. He just happened to

563
00:31:12,119 --> 00:31:16,079
be cruising around town looking for drugs on yep, you

564
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,759
guessed it. A stolen bicycle.

565
00:31:19,359 --> 00:31:21,039
Speaker 3: And what bike were you riding?

566
00:31:21,599 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 2: I was riding a blue and green Mountainvirony.

567
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:28,119
Speaker 3: Whose bike is it?

568
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 2: I was a bike land around in the backyard down

569
00:31:32,519 --> 00:31:33,440
on Edy fourth.

570
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,119
Speaker 1: Chris went on for a long time, spinning a story

571
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:43,119
about two random men who he described in great detail.

572
00:31:44,039 --> 00:31:45,960
They were the ones who had done this, not him.

573
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,799
He just happened to be there, and yes, sure he

574
00:31:50,359 --> 00:31:53,160
had sex with her. I mean, why not. You know

575
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,799
she was there, and she also wanted to get high,

576
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,920
and you know she's naked and stuff. So whatever. Imagine

577
00:32:00,279 --> 00:32:03,319
being so stupid that you think other people are this stupid.

578
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:09,319
The whole thing was completely unbelievable to anyone who knew Aleana. Actually,

579
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,680
it was completely unbelievable to anyone with a brain. But

580
00:32:12,799 --> 00:32:16,799
Alianna was a good kid. The detectives knew this, yet

581
00:32:17,559 --> 00:32:21,079
they sat and listened as Chris went on and on.

582
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 17: As far as hurting her, No, I had none to

583
00:32:25,079 --> 00:32:27,279
do with that. I'm gonna give you honest to God's true.

584
00:32:27,599 --> 00:32:31,759
They told me that she was somebody that was getting

585
00:32:31,839 --> 00:32:35,200
high or whatever. And now when I see hear the

586
00:32:35,279 --> 00:32:39,079
news and they say she was slow, I understand why

587
00:32:39,279 --> 00:32:41,839
she was going along with what they were saying.

588
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 2: She was probably scared or whatever. I had no idea.

589
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:45,720
I'm high.

590
00:32:45,799 --> 00:32:51,119
Speaker 17: I'm just you get hide and thinking it's cool. I mean,

591
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,640
you just women. I dared that sell everybody for those What.

592
00:32:55,799 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 3: Room of the house did you have sex with her in.

593
00:33:01,799 --> 00:33:05,279
Speaker 2: On the carpet on the little bundlework here? Which room?

594
00:33:06,759 --> 00:33:08,880
I think it was the little room closer to the door.

595
00:33:10,759 --> 00:33:12,079
Speaker 3: Did you recall what she was wearing?

596
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 2: No, she was naked when I got there.

597
00:33:15,559 --> 00:33:18,599
Speaker 16: Well, you were there on Wednesday night. She wasn't picked

598
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:19,720
up until Thursday morning.

599
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:21,359
Speaker 2: Wednesday.

600
00:33:21,799 --> 00:33:22,119
Speaker 3: Uh huh.

601
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 17: We was just smoking. We're just getting high. I went

602
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:30,319
and got some more dope, came back, and then she was.

603
00:33:30,319 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 2: Already here naked. I don't know how they got her naked,

604
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:37,759
how they got her in there? Okay, she was already naked.

605
00:33:39,799 --> 00:33:41,359
And so I'm taking this to a party.

606
00:33:42,319 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: Can you imagine what a piece of shit you have

607
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,119
to be to show up at an abandoned house, see

608
00:33:47,119 --> 00:33:50,759
a naked teenage girl and think this is a party.

609
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,319
I mean, that's some straight up diddy shit. I mean,

610
00:33:54,359 --> 00:33:57,000
you're basically a shuldn't cut her at that point. This

611
00:33:57,319 --> 00:34:00,359
man is so beyond scum of the earth that this

612
00:34:00,759 --> 00:34:03,680
is the story he's willing to admit, this is what

613
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:07,200
he thinks is acceptable to tell detectives.

614
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:12,599
Speaker 3: And she was already inside the house, naked in what room.

615
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:15,840
Speaker 17: In the living room, she was just sitting there quiet,

616
00:34:17,039 --> 00:34:19,760
and she had like a black hat on black hat

617
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:21,719
the only thing she had, almost like a black hat.

618
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,440
I don't know if it was one of theirs or

619
00:34:23,559 --> 00:34:27,599
if it was hers that she had wore. It was

620
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,639
basically like he was like, man, just look out for me,

621
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,440
and she gonna look out for you whatever whatever, like

622
00:34:33,559 --> 00:34:35,119
lay down and open your LIGs.

623
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,199
Speaker 2: Going there, give my tous hun.

624
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,599
Speaker 3: Oh, so they offered her up to you. I'm just

625
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:42,599
wondering if you had any conversation with their I never

626
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:46,559
talked to her. Was she crying emotional? Not at all? No,

627
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:49,639
that's surprising.

628
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,760
Speaker 17: I mean, I mean she it's I mean, it's surprising

629
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,440
to me now that I look at this and I

630
00:34:54,559 --> 00:34:56,400
see what I saw on the news, and I saw

631
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:57,559
the flyers.

632
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:02,280
Speaker 3: And I'm like, well, so it's just the three of

633
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,079
you inside this house, and basically it's like.

634
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,079
Speaker 17: What I really didn't even fit insider. So it was

635
00:35:10,199 --> 00:35:12,880
basically me just sitting here and I jacked myself off.

636
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,119
Speaker 3: Basically use a kindom or anything.

637
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,760
Speaker 2: No, I gave the kund them to somebody.

638
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 3: You gave the kind of to somebody. Well, there's only

639
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:23,320
two other guys there.

640
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:25,280
Speaker 2: To one of them.

641
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,760
Speaker 17: I mean, I had opened it up and I was

642
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,159
about to use it, but I just jacked myself off,

643
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,760
and then I rubbed up against.

644
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 2: Her as I was coming.

645
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 3: And so your DNA and the kind of rapper that

646
00:35:37,559 --> 00:35:41,920
was in the living room would explain you touched it,

647
00:35:42,079 --> 00:35:43,960
you opened it, and then you hand.

648
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,639
Speaker 2: As you open the other guy because it's about time

649
00:35:46,679 --> 00:35:47,400
for me to go to work.

650
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 1: So this is how forty four year old Christopher had

651
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:54,840
been living his life. He stole scrap metal for cracked cocaine,

652
00:35:55,679 --> 00:35:59,719
He worked random drywall jobs, and his only mode of

653
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:05,000
training inspretation was with friends or on stolen bikes. Quite frankly,

654
00:36:05,119 --> 00:36:09,239
his life wasn't worth living, and it hadn't been for

655
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:16,039
some time, a long, long, long time. Chris grew up

656
00:36:16,079 --> 00:36:20,159
the youngest of seven kids. His father was not around.

657
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,760
When Christopher was eight years old, his mother died of

658
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,079
kidney failure. Fearing the state would try to separate the

659
00:36:27,199 --> 00:36:31,079
kids into foster care, Christopher's eldest sister moved the family

660
00:36:31,159 --> 00:36:35,000
to Cleveland to be closer to their aunt. Christopher grew

661
00:36:35,079 --> 00:36:38,000
up and, like his older brothers, turned to drugs and

662
00:36:38,159 --> 00:36:41,679
petty crime. So you're telling me the Nancy Reagan say

663
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:43,119
no to drugs thing didn't work?

664
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:44,119
Speaker 2: Weird.

665
00:36:45,079 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: Christopher was arrested throughout the late nineties and early two

666
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:53,079
thousands for burglary, felonious assault, and other drug related crimes.

667
00:36:54,199 --> 00:36:57,239
Years went by. He stayed in the drug world and

668
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,639
had a daughter of his own, but by the time

669
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:04,519
his little girl turned six, Chris would be behind bars.

670
00:37:05,519 --> 00:37:07,880
When he was thirty two years old, Christopher attacked a

671
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,960
female friend when she came over to use his bathroom.

672
00:37:12,079 --> 00:37:14,679
He sprang open the door, stabbed her in the neck

673
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,400
with a pair of scissors, and then strangled her.

674
00:37:18,159 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 3: Then he grabbed me around my neck and was choking

675
00:37:20,559 --> 00:37:22,039
me and I passed.

676
00:37:21,679 --> 00:37:27,159
Speaker 1: Out, then he raped her repeatedly. When she woke up,

677
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:32,800
she was naked and bleeding out. She barely survived. Chris

678
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:36,880
was charged with third degree felonious sexual assault and attempted murder,

679
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:41,159
but he pleaded down the murder charge. He only got

680
00:37:41,519 --> 00:37:47,400
four years in prison. Four I mean, what kind of

681
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:52,119
judges are we putting on the bench four years for

682
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:57,920
a violent rape and attempted murder? Makes you wonder what

683
00:37:58,039 --> 00:38:02,440
the fuck is going on in Ohio. Christopher has been

684
00:38:02,559 --> 00:38:05,840
a registered sex offender since his release in two thousand

685
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:10,639
and nine. On post release control. He offended again, but

686
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,280
managed to slip through the cracks of the legal system.

687
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,559
Speaker 18: For some reason, the sexual assault case was closed, his

688
00:38:17,679 --> 00:38:20,760
sentencing was over, and so that could not be used

689
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:22,760
as a reason to put him back into prison. The

690
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,039
process did what it's supposed to do. It doesn't make

691
00:38:26,159 --> 00:38:27,559
us completely safe. It never can.

692
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:33,159
Speaker 1: Even Christopher's former victim knew he killed Aliana, and a parson.

693
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 19: Could go out and say our drugs and get more tanned,

694
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:37,519
and they gave him and I looked what he don't

695
00:38:37,519 --> 00:38:40,039
came back and did when they found her body, it.

696
00:38:40,119 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 3: Was like something came over me. And said Christy did.

697
00:38:43,519 --> 00:38:47,199
Speaker 1: Her death was so violent and sick. Her throat had

698
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,400
been slashed with a box cutter, her face had been

699
00:38:50,519 --> 00:38:54,840
stabbed with a screwdriver. Then he had wedged her eyeball

700
00:38:55,039 --> 00:38:57,920
out of its socket. Then he left the tools on

701
00:38:58,079 --> 00:39:02,639
display on the windowsill before discarding her body like trash

702
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:06,519
in the corner of the room. Now Here Chris was

703
00:39:07,079 --> 00:39:10,320
his DNA all over the place, his criminal history chock

704
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:14,400
full of violence and rape, and he was still trying

705
00:39:14,519 --> 00:39:18,119
to convince the detectives that he did nothing wrong to

706
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:24,679
hurt Aleana. Sure, Chris, Sure, There's only one problem with.

707
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 3: Your story, Chris. The footprints is the house. There's only

708
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,639
one set three yours.

709
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 2: There's only one set.

710
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 3: There's only one set.

711
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 2: Thirty people went in here scrapping, and then the two

712
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:40,039
people was in the house with you.

713
00:39:41,159 --> 00:39:43,039
Speaker 3: I'm not lying to you. I can show you the pictures.

714
00:39:43,039 --> 00:39:44,639
There's only one set of footprints in there.

715
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: Oh, did you believe Chris? You should probably rethink some things,

716
00:39:50,079 --> 00:39:53,039
A lot of stuff. There were more problems with this

717
00:39:53,119 --> 00:39:54,559
story than just the footprints.

718
00:39:54,599 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 2: Though.

719
00:39:55,079 --> 00:39:58,159
Speaker 16: I believe that you were high on drugs. I believe

720
00:39:58,199 --> 00:40:00,719
that you were out of your mind. I can believe

721
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:05,440
that point. But I don't believe that two unknown strangers

722
00:40:06,119 --> 00:40:10,079
that you've never met before in your life bring you

723
00:40:10,199 --> 00:40:12,199
to this house that you've already been to a couple

724
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:16,440
of times. Just decide to go to the same house

725
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:17,360
that you've already been to.

726
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,119
Speaker 3: You and then you leave, and.

727
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:26,599
Speaker 16: Surprisingly, in a matter of ten minutes, they find her,

728
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,239
bring her into the house, get her naked, and then

729
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:29,840
you return.

730
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:35,079
Speaker 3: It doesn't match up, Chris. So you're like halfway there.

731
00:40:35,559 --> 00:40:39,320
You're halfway to accepting responsibility, but you're still trying to

732
00:40:39,559 --> 00:40:41,079
You're still trying to blame other people.

733
00:40:41,519 --> 00:40:43,599
Speaker 2: No, I'm not trying to blame other people. I'm trying

734
00:40:43,639 --> 00:40:45,639
to tell you exactly what happened.

735
00:40:46,559 --> 00:40:46,679
Speaker 18: Now.

736
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 16: You're trying to lessen your responsibility for what happened.

737
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,079
Speaker 2: Christopher's people in the house?

738
00:40:54,199 --> 00:40:57,199
Speaker 3: You now, y'all, that's that throwing two of the people

739
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:57,719
in that house?

740
00:40:58,039 --> 00:41:01,039
Speaker 2: What's two of the guys? It was as huge? Who

741
00:41:01,119 --> 00:41:01,400
wasn't it?

742
00:41:02,679 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 3: I swear my mom, I'm not going don't do that.

743
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:06,519
Please don't do that.

744
00:41:07,119 --> 00:41:12,519
Speaker 16: The prince that you left behind were bloody, Prince, they

745
00:41:12,559 --> 00:41:15,880
could only have gotten bloody if she was bloody.

746
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:18,280
Speaker 3: Do you understand what I'm saying.

747
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,679
Speaker 16: You couldn't have just jacked off on her and then

748
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,400
left and she was fine if you had bloody Prince

749
00:41:25,559 --> 00:41:26,800
left in the dining room.

750
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 1: Chris had been caught literally red handed and red footed.

751
00:41:31,679 --> 00:41:34,599
It was almost as though he had no foresight at

752
00:41:34,639 --> 00:41:38,760
all when he killed Aliana. I guess crack does that

753
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,960
to you. It was almost as though the slap on

754
00:41:42,039 --> 00:41:44,400
the wrist he had received for raping a woman and

755
00:41:44,519 --> 00:41:48,679
stabbing her in the neck enabled him the power to

756
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:53,480
do this again, except get it right this time. This

757
00:41:53,639 --> 00:41:55,800
wasn't about drugs. This was about the fact that his

758
00:41:56,039 --> 00:41:59,599
urges of torture and rape were bubbling up to the

759
00:41:59,679 --> 00:42:04,079
surface yet again, and he was powerless to stop them.

760
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:34,719
Forty four year old convicted sex offender, rapist, drug dealer,

761
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:40,000
and user Christopher Whittaker had been taken into custody for

762
00:42:40,079 --> 00:42:44,599
the heinous murder of fourteen year old Aliana de Freeze.

763
00:42:45,639 --> 00:42:49,320
Despite the overwhelming DNA evidence at the scene and on

764
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,840
her body, Christopher continued to try to blame the crime

765
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,880
on other men and of course, his disgusting drug habit.

766
00:42:57,679 --> 00:43:00,800
Maybe his mind was so warped from decades of crack

767
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,239
use that he thought there were two other men with him,

768
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,280
or maybe he was just a seedy, worthless rapist and

769
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,960
murderer lying his ass off to try and get away

770
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,079
with it. Yet again, which.

771
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,079
Speaker 3: Bus step were you standing right there at the corner

772
00:43:14,079 --> 00:43:15,280
of Fuller by the church?

773
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,199
Speaker 2: Okay, because we was trying to do bad word, We

774
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:19,840
was going to get the dope from.

775
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 3: And everybody, that's what I was trying to get at.

776
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:23,079
Speaker 2: You to the church.

777
00:43:23,599 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 17: Everybody that's that we was calling either wasn't even answering

778
00:43:28,039 --> 00:43:30,320
her phone or didn't have nothing.

779
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:35,199
Speaker 3: So so the video from the church is gonna show

780
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:35,719
a solace.

781
00:43:36,519 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 17: The video from the church is gonna show I'm standing there.

782
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,760
My due would walk by to show him walking down

783
00:43:48,199 --> 00:43:51,599
talking with Aleana, she probably walking a few steps behind him,

784
00:43:52,639 --> 00:43:53,840
and I'm still standing there.

785
00:43:54,639 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: But the surveillance video from the church showed Christopher pacing

786
00:43:58,119 --> 00:44:02,800
back and forth, confronting a timid Oleanna and then stalking

787
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:06,440
her as she walked away. Christopher then changed his story

788
00:44:06,519 --> 00:44:09,559
and said two guys didn't actually go into the house

789
00:44:09,679 --> 00:44:13,159
with him, They just helped walk her to the house.

790
00:44:14,199 --> 00:44:16,920
He'd gone through about four different versions of the events

791
00:44:17,599 --> 00:44:18,199
at this point.

792
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 3: When once you got inside to get hi.

793
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:20,920
Speaker 2: What happened?

794
00:44:21,559 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 3: Did you get high?

795
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 2: Actually? I stood like in the little storm thing and

796
00:44:27,519 --> 00:44:29,360
got high just so the wind wouldn't blow my.

797
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:32,119
Speaker 3: Lighter in turn storm door? Is that what you're talking about?

798
00:44:32,119 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 2: The basement? Okay? Where she at? She's like standing right

799
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:42,719
there by the door back door. What do you mean it?

800
00:44:43,679 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 3: What happened then?

801
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 17: And I came through the house and said there she

802
00:44:50,039 --> 00:44:52,800
was like she just looked at me crazy, like what

803
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:53,880
does that make you feel?

804
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:54,039
Speaker 13: Like?

805
00:44:55,199 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 4: Yeah?

806
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 17: So I said it made me horn you. I said, uh,

807
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:02,400
I actually we could get naked and do something. And

808
00:45:03,639 --> 00:45:09,360
she was like it's cold, and but she took her

809
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:13,599
back back in her jacket off anyway, and I'm thinking

810
00:45:13,679 --> 00:45:14,280
it's okay.

811
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:19,280
Speaker 1: Sometimes his delusions are so unbelievable that it does seem

812
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:23,760
like the drugs removed him from reality. Christopher said it

813
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:27,039
was all consensual, but then Aleanna flipped on him.

814
00:45:27,519 --> 00:45:29,800
Speaker 17: I don't know exactly what happened to demoment, like she

815
00:45:30,119 --> 00:45:35,360
attacked me or whatever, like if she suddenly realized.

816
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,280
Speaker 2: That was wrong and I need to get away from here.

817
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,440
But I was high and it scared me.

818
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:46,559
Speaker 17: I turned around and it's like I pnstured but then

819
00:45:46,639 --> 00:45:48,880
it's like after that, it's like a blur. It's like

820
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:52,079
I almost blacked out or something. I don't mkay, where

821
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:53,199
where'd you punch her?

822
00:45:53,599 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 2: So really he can't say.

823
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,360
Speaker 17: I don't know if it's in her left side or

824
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:00,159
the right side or birthplace side.

825
00:46:00,119 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 3: But interface alright, was it with a closed fist or

826
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:04,119
an open hand?

827
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 2: It might've been a clothes face. But after that, I

828
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:08,559
just blacked out.

829
00:46:08,599 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 20: And not just like but when you said you punched her,

830
00:46:13,079 --> 00:46:15,079
what did she like fall back or something like that?

831
00:46:16,599 --> 00:46:20,000
I remember, like like I said, when I turned around.

832
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:25,079
Speaker 2: And went into that rage, it's like I blacked out.

833
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 3: And did you have those tools with you when you

834
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:32,000
went to the house? Was that something you were carrying around?

835
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 16: Yeah?

836
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:33,519
Speaker 3: Who's back back?

837
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 13: Is that?

838
00:46:35,119 --> 00:46:36,280
Speaker 2: Actually? Those tools?

839
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:37,280
Speaker 16: Was there's?

840
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 2: They were there at the house and I remember seeing

841
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:41,840
'em there? What did you see 'em at the house

842
00:46:42,039 --> 00:46:45,920
sitting on the legs by the window. Did you use

843
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:46,679
any of those tools?

844
00:46:48,039 --> 00:46:50,519
Speaker 17: I don't remember what I picked up. I'm telling you

845
00:46:50,559 --> 00:46:52,679
that I just to got you. I don't remember what

846
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:56,320
I did. I just remember when I came through that

847
00:46:56,440 --> 00:47:00,960
it had happened, and it was disgusting, right.

848
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,800
Speaker 16: Now, Chris, there's just one more question that we have

849
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:05,760
for you, as far as that's concerned, because I can

850
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,119
see this is uncomfortable for you.

851
00:47:07,599 --> 00:47:10,800
Speaker 3: I appreciate you telling us what happened, but there's one

852
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:12,199
thing that's not as good.

853
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:19,159
Speaker 16: After you dragged Aliana into that bedroom, there's evidence that

854
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,639
you then did something to her before you left.

855
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:25,639
Speaker 3: Do you recall that I'm.

856
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:26,760
Speaker 2: Being honest with you.

857
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:30,199
Speaker 17: I don't remember your name, but I'm being absolutely honest

858
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:33,000
with you, Okay, I mean I was.

859
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 16: There's indications, based on the condition of the room, that

860
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:40,639
you then cut her one more time at least do

861
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:41,280
you recall that?

862
00:47:42,119 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 1: Of course, he would not recall Christopher was selectively forgetting

863
00:47:47,039 --> 00:47:52,000
everything about the gruesome butchery he committed with those drywall tools.

864
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:57,440
But Alianna's corpse told a different story. Her body told

865
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:01,360
the detectives what a vile monster her killer really was

866
00:48:02,679 --> 00:48:05,719
before throwing him in jail. The detectives asked him about

867
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:10,400
five other missing women from ninety third Street. He admitted

868
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:12,119
he knew one of them and said they used to

869
00:48:12,159 --> 00:48:16,440
get high together. She was quote good people.

870
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:20,079
Speaker 17: I just regretting HI and if I was in my

871
00:48:20,199 --> 00:48:23,119
right state of mind and their child will still be.

872
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 2: Here's like, I mean a lot of things.

873
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:29,039
Speaker 17: He blamed on drugs, but like I told him, I

874
00:48:29,199 --> 00:48:31,360
was cleaned for three years and then it's like when

875
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,760
I started getting high again. I don't know what happened.

876
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:37,199
It just turned on the monster inside. I mean, I guess,

877
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,800
I don't know, and I just hated myself so much.

878
00:48:40,519 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: With Christopher behind bars, Aleiana's family felt a little relief,

879
00:48:45,559 --> 00:48:50,199
but this tragedy was far from over. Here's Aleiana's father.

880
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 21: Please watch your children. There's a lot of Christopher Whittickers

881
00:48:54,039 --> 00:48:56,800
out of here. There's a lot of Christopher Wittickers out

882
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:58,119
of there, and watch it as I speak.

883
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: Aleiana's mother was determined to stand strong when the court

884
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:03,519
proceeding started.

885
00:49:04,159 --> 00:49:08,800
Speaker 19: I'm going to go to every pre trial, every trial,

886
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,880
everything so he sees my face. But I want him

887
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:14,920
to suffer, like you know, he made my daughter suffer.

888
00:49:15,639 --> 00:49:20,119
But I also don't feel like he deserves to live

889
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:21,840
or take my daughter away from me.

890
00:49:22,519 --> 00:49:27,679
Speaker 1: Christopher was given ten charges, including aggravated murder, rape, kidnapping,

891
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:32,239
abuse of a corpse, and tampering with evidence. He admitted

892
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:35,800
that he was involved, but his defense argued that it

893
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:40,320
was crack cocaine that actually caused the crime, not Christopher.

894
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:44,159
Isn't it funny how you can just escape responsibility like that,

895
00:49:45,079 --> 00:49:47,280
just point at another thing and go, now, that did it?

896
00:49:47,559 --> 00:49:47,800
Speaker 13: Not me?

897
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:52,920
Speaker 1: So everyone who loved Aleana, including her family, her friends,

898
00:49:53,039 --> 00:49:57,960
and teachers, had to endure a very public trial. They

899
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,800
had to sit there and watch CCTV foot of Alana

900
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:05,159
on a bus smiling her last smile as she exited

901
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:09,280
onto ninety third Street. They had to watch Christopher stalk

902
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,800
her outside the church. They had to look at pictures

903
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:17,000
of the crime scene and the unthinkable ways she had

904
00:50:17,039 --> 00:50:21,920
been tortured. They had to hear the medical examiner explain

905
00:50:22,079 --> 00:50:25,400
how it was most likely that she was in fact

906
00:50:25,599 --> 00:50:30,599
alive when Christopher stabbed her face with a screwdriver and

907
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:34,559
plucked her eye out of its socket. They had to

908
00:50:34,679 --> 00:50:39,679
hear how after he murdered Aliana, Christopher went to a

909
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:43,400
local church and helped to past her unload food pantry

910
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:49,159
items with a calm smile on his face. The jury

911
00:50:50,039 --> 00:50:55,119
found him guilty on all charges. They recommended the death penalty.

912
00:50:55,960 --> 00:51:01,039
The judge agreed. Christopher Whittaker was sent to death row,

913
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:07,079
finally where he belongs. Before he was locked away, Christopher

914
00:51:07,159 --> 00:51:09,320
told the judge he wanted to say something to ali

915
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:10,119
On his family.

916
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 17: I never wanted this to happen, and ever since that day,

917
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:16,320
I've been in field with great ignomers Through the year,

918
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,079
I made a lot of phone calls, and in those

919
00:51:18,159 --> 00:51:19,480
calls I said things, a.

920
00:51:19,519 --> 00:51:20,360
Speaker 2: Lot of things.

921
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 17: In order to protect my family's feelings, I've admitted to

922
00:51:25,079 --> 00:51:28,679
my guilt to the detectives and to my lawyers. I

923
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:31,360
asked my lawyers and not to contest or challenge anything

924
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,920
in this case because I really wanted to the priest

925
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:38,000
family to have clothes in I will not try to

926
00:51:38,079 --> 00:51:41,639
hide behind drugs or alcohol. I will not pretend or

927
00:51:41,639 --> 00:51:44,800
allow because it wouldn't be fair to the family. I

928
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:47,639
apologize to the family and the community for my actions.

929
00:51:48,079 --> 00:51:50,920
There is now excuse for what I've done. I can't

930
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,360
imagure the pain the family feels, but I know the

931
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:54,599
pain I'm failed when I hate.

932
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:55,199
Speaker 2: To look at what I did.

933
00:51:56,599 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 1: Outside, the media buzzed and ali On his family stood strong.

934
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:03,679
Speaker 2: What do you think of the death penalty recommended?

935
00:52:04,039 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 21: I went in life without the possibility of parole, but

936
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:10,199
I respect whatever the jury and the judge has come

937
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,960
up with. I prefer him to sit there forever. You

938
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:15,760
can sit on death row forever, but you're isolated. I

939
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:19,559
want this man experience hell on earth before he's experience

940
00:52:19,599 --> 00:52:20,599
as a hell and after life.

941
00:52:21,199 --> 00:52:26,360
Speaker 1: Aleana Dafries's family did not stop fighting even after the trial.

942
00:52:27,159 --> 00:52:29,880
Her father and stepmom made it their mission to see

943
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:33,000
that the house she was killed in be torn down.

944
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:38,599
This cluster of forgotten homes attracted seed activity, drug use,

945
00:52:39,079 --> 00:52:42,960
and crime. Five women had been killed there already, and

946
00:52:43,159 --> 00:52:46,400
Aleiana was the last girl the city was willing to lose.

947
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:51,039
Standing outside in the rain, Aliana's father spoke to a crowd.

948
00:52:51,679 --> 00:52:57,039
Speaker 22: To our understanding, this building, this house needed to remain

949
00:52:57,239 --> 00:53:02,280
standing for legal purposes. But now that we have a

950
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:06,079
conviction of the man that took our baby away, this

951
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:07,639
house can be torn down.

952
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:12,119
Speaker 2: We want to bring light to the other women.

953
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 22: They were found within a mile of this house, and

954
00:53:16,639 --> 00:53:20,000
we want to send our condolences to their families. We

955
00:53:20,119 --> 00:53:23,639
have to get these eye sores in these safe havens

956
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for crime, because that's what they are. You have individuals

957
00:53:29,159 --> 00:53:32,760
that seek out these places, and beforehand they come by

958
00:53:33,519 --> 00:53:37,400
and they replay in their mind what they plan to

959
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:41,320
do later. So we have to bring awareness to the

960
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:43,880
dangers that lurk in these abandoned structures.

961
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Speaker 1: The house was destroyed on December twenty eighteen. Oleanna's family

962
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:53,400
felt that her death was preventable, like, I think they're right.

963
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:56,920
I think it was. The school she attended had an

964
00:53:56,920 --> 00:54:00,280
alert system in place where a text message could go

965
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:03,400
out to a parent whose child didn't show up to school.

966
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:07,559
But on the day Aliana was murdered, Denisha received no

967
00:54:07,679 --> 00:54:12,239
text message, no phone call, nothing. Remember, the only reason

968
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she found out her daughter was absent was when she

969
00:54:15,159 --> 00:54:19,599
called the school office. Aleiana's family sued the school and

970
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:24,480
the city. After a lot of back and forth, the

971
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case was finally settled in the Freeze family was given

972
00:54:28,119 --> 00:54:32,280
a one million dollar settlement, not much if you ask

973
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:36,400
me for a life taken. Aliana's family took it a

974
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:38,920
step further and advocated for a new law to be

975
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put in place that required schools to make contact with

976
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parents if their child is absent from the school within

977
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the first two hours of the school day starting. This

978
00:54:49,199 --> 00:54:51,920
bill was brought to the House of Representatives in early

979
00:54:52,119 --> 00:54:57,599
twenty nineteen, and it was promptly signed and passed. It's called,

980
00:54:57,639 --> 00:55:03,159
of course, the Aliana alert law. This year, Alana da

981
00:55:03,199 --> 00:55:06,920
Freeze would have been twenty one years old. She had

982
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,039
so much ahead of her. The way she was taken

983
00:55:10,119 --> 00:55:13,199
from this earth is the kind of tragedy that makes

984
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:19,840
your heart hurt, makes you worry about the future. Hell,

985
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:23,039
it makes you worry about the present. To die alone

986
00:55:23,119 --> 00:55:26,480
in that freezing house, in the dark and snow, with

987
00:55:26,639 --> 00:55:31,480
a sexually depraved monster plucking her apart as she lay

988
00:55:31,519 --> 00:55:35,480
there dying, it's just too awful to think about. You

989
00:55:35,559 --> 00:55:38,519
can't let it sit in your head too long without

990
00:55:38,559 --> 00:55:42,800
doing some damage. She was an innocent, beautiful child who

991
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:46,679
was beloved by so many. Her family did everything they

992
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:49,639
could to make sure her death served a higher purpose

993
00:55:50,599 --> 00:55:55,199
for the community at large. But, like Aliana's father said,

994
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:59,280
monsters like Christopher Whittaker are out there. We hear about

995
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:02,079
them every day. They slipped through the cracks of the

996
00:56:02,159 --> 00:56:05,360
legal system and often blame drugs for their actions. But

997
00:56:06,159 --> 00:56:09,039
I think we all know better. We've talked about so

998
00:56:09,199 --> 00:56:14,400
many of these monsters, these former human beings. They're all

999
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:21,480
cut from the same cloth. Narcissism, sociopathy, psychopathy, the inability

1000
00:56:21,679 --> 00:56:26,800
to empathize with the pain of others, and the uncontrollable

1001
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:34,280
need to satisfy one's own carnal gratification above all else.

1002
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:39,360
Christopher blamed drugs for what he did to Aleana and

1003
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:43,559
his other previous victim, but it had little to do

1004
00:56:43,679 --> 00:56:48,199
with drugs. Christopher had depraved urges inside of him, and

1005
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:52,000
he spent most of his adult life repressing them. He

1006
00:56:52,079 --> 00:56:57,519
pushed them deep, deep down inside the deviant killer and

1007
00:56:57,639 --> 00:57:00,519
Christopher came out when he was thirty two when he

1008
00:57:00,599 --> 00:57:04,000
stabbed and raped a woman in his bathroom. Who knows

1009
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:07,400
what set him off. Then he was able to keep

1010
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:10,000
his urges at bay for another twelve years until the

1011
00:57:10,119 --> 00:57:14,920
day that he murdered Aleana. Like an aerosol can near

1012
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:19,760
a fire, he finally exploded. This time. He couldn't stop it,

1013
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:22,920
just one stab to the neck. He had to keep going.

1014
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:27,280
After he raped Aliana, he treated her like she was

1015
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:32,159
a dead animal in a science lab. I think Christopher

1016
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:35,760
willingly gave up his self control that cold January morning.

1017
00:57:36,719 --> 00:57:42,760
He wanted to do this. He got sexual gratification from

1018
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:47,320
not only the rape, but also the torture the murder.

1019
00:57:48,440 --> 00:57:52,760
It made him come to be frank about it. He

1020
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is one of the most wicked and vile men that exist,

1021
00:57:58,039 --> 00:58:02,559
but certainly not the only one. There is no forgiveness

1022
00:58:03,119 --> 00:58:05,840
for this type of crime. There is no forgiveness for

1023
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:09,840
what Christopher has done. Here, no sentence suitable to fit

1024
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:14,000
his crime. Only Christopher knows what's waiting for him when

1025
00:58:14,039 --> 00:58:18,000
he finally crosses over to the other side for all eternity.

1026
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:21,480
If you believe in that sort of thing. I hope

1027
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he does, and I hope that his final days on

1028
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:29,280
earth are filled with fear as to what's coming. I

1029
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:31,199
hope he's a man of faith, and I hope he

1030
00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:37,079
believes in eternal damnation and hell fire, because I think

1031
00:58:37,119 --> 00:58:39,199
that if he's right about that, there may be a

1032
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:44,800
very warm future waiting for him, a future much warmer,

1033
00:58:45,079 --> 00:58:53,400
nay hotter than the freezing cold house Aleanna died in.

1034
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I'm sure this will come across as bitching, but it's

1035
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:09,719
just me explaining to you why there's so many episodes

1036
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,519
all of a sudden. I don't want you to get

1037
00:59:12,559 --> 00:59:15,559
used to it and think it's gonna be the normal schedule.

1038
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:21,559
You see, we make our money by selling advertising or

1039
00:59:21,679 --> 00:59:25,599
premium subs, and if there are fewer of you coming

1040
00:59:25,679 --> 00:59:28,400
in the door, then there are leaving. Then we can't

1041
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:33,079
really do that anymore. Canley and Apple loves to hide us,

1042
00:59:33,199 --> 00:59:36,119
even though we've been a top premium channel ever since

1043
00:59:36,119 --> 00:59:41,440
they launched their premium channel's service. So we're gonna just

1044
00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:43,800
put out a shitload of episodes and try to capture

1045
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,960
more eyeballs that way for the time being, to see

1046
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:49,639
if we can turn around this trend and get some

1047
00:59:49,719 --> 00:59:53,119
more people coming in the front door. I'm only telling

1048
00:59:53,159 --> 00:59:55,039
you this because you're gonna complain eventually, and I'd rather

1049
00:59:55,159 --> 00:59:55,920
just deal with it now.

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Speaker 2: Stay safe, remember n