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and situations.

Said he couldn't handle talking about IT. I was angry at him. You're going to tell me what happens and you're gona the answer around the issue and tell three different stories. What are you eating?

IT started as a teen romance. Two of my girlfriends were like.

there's a sky and you need to meet him.

I was in love.

IT ended in one of the strangest love stories you'll ever hear.

like I got her bus .

right before their weddings. Her mother and his father got married.

They told us. We ran off. We locked. Who does that?

Two families in a small town left stunned. But IT was nothing compared to .

what happened next last night.

a deadly attack in the dark of night, her mother murdered.

I realized that lost conversation add with her.

his father bruised, be wildered.

I don't remember anything else other waking up in the .

morning was in a robbery. Was IT revenge? You're always .

going to look at the closest people to the victim.

Or was IT something much darker?

You were eleven years old when your .

mother disappeared, a missing woman, a murdered woman and a lie.

I didn't get through more than page and a half, and I through IT, I could barely stomach .

to finish IT. I'm less to hold. And this is deadline. Here's kid Morris. In with .

tangle.

you can put words to that. He was, that was very surreal .

and emergency.

It's true you're saying when you marry someone, you marry their family too.

He looks like a shot. He had something broken last night giving his light house.

Find you not a bad thing to turn a mom or dead for advice. Council.

it's not real. It's hard. Sometimes you think maybe IT didn't happen, but yet IT IT really did.

It's swith their help and support. After all, the true love can deep grow. And last.

I watched the crime scene shows on TV, and I never, never, ever thought that what it's going to my life.

Yes, IT really is all about family. The high desert opens up near prep o colorado, one hundred miles or so south of denver, among the highest of the nation's deserts, little closer to heaven. Perhaps this is where a shanon promise moment, dad said, how to create a good, safe and holy life for their daughters, far from the risks and temptations of the city.

IT was awesome, got a group with horses and dogs everywhere in chickens and four acres to run around on.

Shane and her sister elsa went to school right at home. Their mother, pam, devoutly to hove's witness ere's their teacher.

I love IT. I don't think that I miss out on in the aspect .

of my education. There were strict guidelines, of course, about beliefs, family, marriage, sex. There were no birthday or holiday celebrations.

And they learned that members who committed dottery or who divorce can be cast out, shown shandon. Elsie's dad Jerry didn't share the faith, but he respected pants. Though he was never a real fan of the home schooling. He wanted them to go to public school. The time wouldn't have .

IT SHE always wanted us to be this tall and and be heard little girls. SHE very genuinely loved us, and we were her world.

but were her .

reason to be yes, oh yes.

But finally, when I was time for high school, pam relented.

I think he realized that you can control an environment for a child forever.

What was IT like to make the transition?

IT was a culture shock IT. IT was different. I was there, maybe a weekend, and my new friends are like, let's educate you on the ways of the world. And I was, I was like, oh my god.

Which, of course.

included boys.

Two of my girlfriends were like, there's a sky and you need to meet him. And I think you too were just really good. Longer on my g great.

The guy was iron candle ario. And before long I was in love. Yes.

I was very much in love.

No, we had such a connection.

No kidding. Both jehovah witnesses, both home school by their mothers, or at least iron was home school until his parents to marriage broke up.

We were so drawn to each other that two people were so driven and so optimistic and just wanted to do big things in life.

So after high school, they got engaged and, full of excitement, plan the wedding. Then one night, shan's mother, pam, sent the girls off the bible study and told their father, Jerry, they needed to talk.

SHE looked up and says, I don't want to be married to you anymore.

I don't want .

to be here. Everything was fine, fine, and everything is done. Who was a rush? You request .

what happened? No one knew, except that. Now these two had one more thing in common, both products of broken homes.

The wedding day approached just a few days to o when chen's mother, pam and errents dad, ref, invited the bride groom to be for dinner at a talk. Raf, was everybody devoted believer? s.

Pam, so some premarital guidance perhaps. Oh, no. Nothing like that.

They told us we ran off. We are looped and got married.

Wait, what? Your mother and iron's father?

yes.

Who does that? Yes.

I don't know. But I can't tell you how much you'll like. I got hit by a bus.

Do you know what that meant? That meant that by the time you got married, you were marrying your step brother.

right?

I didn't say my, I was just like .

relieving. And suddenly Jerry realized how blind he'd been.

You didn't understand. But then afterwards at all, all the pieces of fell in the place.

You were never suspicious.

I trust her. Do we do that in a relationship?

No trust. Now, channon and iron were furious, told the gallopers interlopers more like stay away from the wedding. But they couldn't pretend that hadn't happened. And when they hit the little bumps most Young marriages encounter, IT covered everything. Did your father and her mother's relationship have anything to do with what happened to you in channel?

Know we were pretty determined not to let their relationship have an effect, but you know, it's always something in the back.

your head, after a year and a half. Shannon an, aren't divorce. Pam and rose marriage, on the other hand, thrived. They moved in to a big house on a corner, law and Wilson burg and coal mining talk about fifty miles the they opened up and and takes mall in the center of town and then bout a vacation home and oregon .

that was the .

happiest day to ever .

remember seeing .

her for nearly three years, china still heard, rarely spoke to her mom. But then one day pam asked her to lunch.

SHE was so focused on wanting me to know that we had a future together her night.

wow. So finally, SHE was coming around and .

IT felt like IT, yeah. And you, you know, when I told her, I said, I can't handle you being my mother and being, did you know doing what you did? I said, but I want to be your friend and .

I want to try this. So this is a great lunch, really.

for the .

beginning at least. And then just a few days later.

I was at work and I see, uh, iran's name come up on my phone. He's like, you know what? Somebody s happened in all over my dad's being rushed to hospital. They can't find your mom, he said. But I think someone's .

dead who was .

dead and was a killer on the loose in a small town.

When we return crying.

a family in shock and an x husband under suspicion.

you're always going to look at the closest people to the victim.

Seven, I am january sixteen, two thousand and fourteen, a cold morning in walden burg. Color rather. Nine.

one one worth your emergency real.

And pam cellarius neighbor had been on her way to work.

bring the ambuLance .

very rahel had never encountered anything like this before.

I looked over and he was saying.

helped me, helped me, is on the ground in front of his house.

But I got to him and asked him if he .

needed help.

And he seemed to be kind of out of IT get the words he and his wife had been attacked and rock very afraid the attackers might sobey in the house called nine one one.

He looks like he's been shot. He said something broken last night, having his .

light house powerful doing .

me ah he's not good crying. And please tell me, go out. Purse is the kitchen. I mean, get my nights helping here. P, we're getting help to you.

Rap OK. The police arrived, went into the house with guns drawn, and there are the entrance to the kitchen still in her nightlong, like pam gandara ario, her head covered in blood.

I knew he was .

dead when .

the ambuLance showed up because they didn't go into the house. They just stayed. And we're working on ralph.

Raph wasn't shot, but he was hurt and he was airlifted to the nearest trauma hospital. Walburga's local reporter eric mulleins knew was not equipped to handle an investigation of this. Magnus de.

you have small town departments, five, six, seven people. You don't have murder cops, no on staff. You don't have forensic professionals on staff.

So by the time shannon arrived at the hospital looking for her mother, an agent of the colorado bureau of investigation was there to meter, along with iron. How did he take IT about .

as well as you expect? Anybody, you know, get hipp by a sledge hammer, whatever, you know, first is kind of shock, then a little bit of denial.

And suddenly I was, I realized that that last conversation I had with areas was that that .

was IT no fresh start. Now her mother was dead. And then shen saw ralf.

and he lost IT. He just turned into a sobbing, shaking maniac.

Rose face was banged up. He had Bruces in several places. He was confused, like a man coming out of a .

concussion exacted. I just, my head still just hurt.

And then soon as he was able, and still in his hospital, cloth rose. Talk to agents of the C. B. I.

Best I could remember, said ralph, got up to use the bathroom in the middle night, then decided to go down stairs to make sure the woods burning stove was still lit. But on his way to the bottle of the steps, he said, somebody hidden them for behind. And then again from the side.

put my army and bone I need is just hit me like a turn of brick IT hit me hard, you know. And so i'm a backward, though the ring I I couldn't see no more rough .

was not done conscious.

I mean, I don't remember anything else waking up in the morning.

then said, ref, still disorient. He tried to .

sit up. I hit seat.

Her legs, shoes. Revealed by the first race of a warm morning sun her header who was over one over and and tester cheap and and he was called, called.

called and I else and that that .

ref is when .

he says neighbor .

ferri and yield for help but who did IT robbers or someone else Normal I said Wilson berg, police kept in vince wais.

You're always going to look at the closest people to the victim.

except in this case, ref was also a victim and clearly wanted to help find the killer or killers cbi agent jodie, right?

He was very CoOperate.

absolutely. So investigators turned their attention to the spurned x husband.

Jerry palmer. Actually, the next day was when the investigators called me.

was no secret. Jerry and pam did not get along after the divorce, the divorce, which is, by the way, he asked him to file since says he was witness SHE wasn't allowed to. And so then you filed for the.

and filed for the wars.

accommodating to the end.

to the end.

Now the police were calling.

and I told them i'd be more happy to talk to .

if they come up to.

I think I get about six hours. You can be here to talk to me.

nebraska. Jerry had moved far away, which cleared him for sure. Of course, they need to look at shine in an air on two, given their falling out with pan arrive. But they .

were cleared almost immediately because were no around.

Yeah.

they were not involved .

dead in the crime scene. E people did find some things might do, including a bloody fireplace poker that turned out to be the murder weapon.

The marking on her head was the exact replica of the shape of the fire poker, the end of the poker.

They catalog everything. They found broken glass in the back door. They even took the nobs off draws and set them to the lab, hoping the intruders left DNA or fingerprints on them. And then, quite unexpected, something remarkable turned up, came right through the front door, the local newspaper. So what did you think when you first read that document?

I felt I had my own little version of the pentagon papers, in a way.

coming up a letter that has everyone in town talking.

I remember reading IT and putting IT down thinking, no.

I didn't say that when date line continues.

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It's a grand name, perhaps for a weekly paper in another of the way, little town, the wear for the world journal, but then went. Berg was once the hub of worth of county, and thriving coal mines offered endless promise now. And tech stores like pama rose filled the gaps left behind by departing commerce.

I think in all small towns, you see maybe a certainly ree of selling the heritage because there's nothing else left to sell.

So no surprise that the world journal eric mullions invasion and killing at the candler aria s place was a very big deal for the weekly paper and for the whole town.

We didn't know who was out there.

People like the candle larios neighbor's dinner. And mark.

I was afraid I I didn't even want to go to my my pint class that I do in the evening because I was afraid to be out.

People got neighbors. I went down, got a again. You know, I want to protect myself. Everybody knew the candilejo at a nice house filled with vintage treasures.

There's a little jew and guys that have kept, this is your dress.

some of which who are missing is rave, told the police during a video tape tour. Okay, the Candy lario had been about to leave on vacation, so maybe the intruders thought they were gone, and we're surprised to find about home. But who that citizens tips supplied a possible lead. He .

brought up individual names um that he believed were involved in this on my side.

ron barth and the welfare known drug users both had rap sheet, a history of breaking and entering and assault. One inform said remote will try to so jury the day after the murder so you have a responsibility to check into yeah pms daughter shanon found herself blaming real for not preventing what happened.

I was angry at him. In my mind, I was like waiting to protect my mother. That's your role, as you know.

her husband, right about them. The biggest scoop average mulleins career landed right in the lap of the warping o world journal.

I mean, I been a new sense of fifteen years old. I've seen a lot of things walk in the newsroom, but I had never seen anything .

like this through the front door. March l candler ario. With an open letter to the whole town.

That was him explaining what he could remember after he had been treated up in pro for his his injury and .

interviewed by the cbi.

This is my family, me.

to whom IT bag concern. He began, and we're including his types exactly as they appeared in his letter, his memory was coming back. He wanted to explain, and maybe shanon was right.

He felt guilty. I am angry at myself for not finding a way to do more or just getting myself killed too. Now, he wrote, he had an image of who his attackers were.

I got a glimpse of that person that told dark man with yellow glasses, short curly hair, wide nose, large lips and Marks on the sides of his face. The tall guy was talking on the phone in span is, he said. One of the two files, the tip ture, called that that hard to know, but one of them knocked him out, he wrote.

And when he came to there was pam, but not dead. As he first told the police says here he was still alive. SHE started to convulse, and I held her hand for just a couple minutes, and he just went quiet.

I yelled at her again. I just started crying, and then the two men return. I just broke down.

I was crying and I was cold and I was freak out. Pam was there with me just a few feet away. Things took a turn for the worst erode.

Then he pointed his gun at me and fired. IT just clicked. I can't fully say what happened to me at that point. In fact, he was so scared, he said he sold as paja.

He wrote that his ordeal began after he and ham went to bed on tuesday night, not wednesday, as he originally thought, and IT lasted nearly two days. He woke up on thursday morning. I thought my nightmare was over, but I looked down the hall and I could see pants legs in the kitchen.

That's when he ran out of the house and found his neighbor, or who called nine one one. Of course, the world journal printed all that, though the police weren't too happy about IT and eric millet. I remember taking .

IT home and reading IT and putting IT down and thinking, no, I didn't say that, and picking IT back up again.

But remarkable as rose letter was, IT still wasn't the whole story. A few weeks after the murder, he mustered up the courage and told the police while .

he was held captive, he had asked to go to the restroom and he was sexually assaulted in the bathroom.

But why didn't he say anything about that before?

His explanation was that he was .

and if one of china might be a little bit discount to talk about, but the smaller details could be very important. So keep that in mind. Raf agreed to show the investigators exactly what happened and where.

He graph me with the other hand, on my head, bread here, and then he proceed, see me.

So that was the whole lawful story. But if i've thought that sharing his new, more detailed recollections would clear the air he was wrong, what did you think when you .

said I was pretty blown away by what was really.

Coming up back at home with detectives, ref gets his own surprise.

what? What happens?

He was very upset that they were missing.

Why don't? why?

A Better question. Why would he care?

Candle lario appeared to believe that his thirty three hundred word letter about the murder of his wife would be the accepted true account of that terrible event. But here's what time s daughter shannon thought I .

felt overly dramatic and very just glamorous that he was the victim of this, and that wasn't. That made me sick.

And her sister Chelsea interpretation.

I thought IT was very strange. I .

thought .

that he had more to on a story, because IT sounded really funny.

entitled to their opinions, of course. But then so with the cops recovered memory. no. So this tbi joe, right, more like a cover up. Nothing in his .

statement matched anything that I knew to be at the cranberries IT, just to make sense.

not of IT IT .

wasn't really that ref changed his story in his world journal manifesto. Not exactly more like he kept adding to IT. So he watches very carefully what you're doing and Taylors his story to match what is you think think you're finding. RAV kept explaining, kept offering not less, but more detail about, for example, the draw poles in his house, the ones investigators removed to test for fingering prints .

in the event that one of the invasion and persons touch them.

Now here's brave with the police at his house, just after pan was murdered, noticing the missing nob.

he was very upset that .

they were missing.

And he would know you're a looking for fingerprints of these. Well, yeah, but what if they didn't find any fingerprints besides hairs and pants? Well, in his letter written a few days later, ref provided a new detail that accounted for that possibility.

All of us said, now his attackers, he remembered that they wore gloves with L, D, lights on him, which would explain why no one else's prints would be on the .

knobs of the draws. Heard, well, we .

research them because I have never heard .

they do exit in the letter. Realf also changed the time of pants death back IT up by more than twenty four hours. Why could that perhaps have been a response to this investigators chAllenge?

SHE didn't die at three .

clock in a boy.

And to be returned at .

and we're going to .

go after today.

We'll know that and that's .

going to come back to you.

Okay.

but that's when ref report of the invade or were in his house just a few hours now, in his letter, he remembered the ordeal lasting nearly two days. And do you remember we mentioned in a while back that broken glass in the back door, that was, the glass fell out, the door not in, as I expected, would do if somebody was breaking into the house. The police, of course, brought that up with ralf.

And what did he write in his letter? I went out the back in the rear door. Glass was broken.

Some pieces fell out when I opened the door. Raw fever had answers to questions. He wasn't asked, like, why was the fireplace poker exactly where I belonged by the fireplace?

Normally, if you use the weapon, you're going to find IT somewhere around where your victim is. And IT looked like the poker have been put back in its original place.

Here's what, Brown road. I picked up the poker to stir up the fire. I saw blood on the end of IT and put IT down. So investigators studied ed roves manifesto for clues, and thanks to the world of the world journal, so that everybody else in town, neighbors, mike and dinner.

this sounds like a novel of .

me mazaran .

of that Jenny would been angry with, well, for not protecting her mother. Read the letter that began to have thoughts that were much more disturbing.

I didn't get through more than page and and a half, and I do IT and like, this is, I said, this is the worst. You know, I don't know where I could barely .

stomach to finish IT and iron chen's x husband rail, son iron went to a very dark place indeed. Oh, you have no idea. You are eleven years old when your mother disappeared. Yes.

coming up secrets in the basement. I have been going through .

some of my dad stuff in the base one day. Found a box stuff that supposedly SHE had taken with .

her when deadline continues.

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The year was two thousand four, and iron candle lario was eleven years old. His parents had recently separated, were sharing custody. One day after a weekend at his dad house, iron went home, defined.

There was just a note on the coffee table that was in kind of sketchy handwriting, but know, never less. I love you, my boys, and i'm .

taking off his mother and was simply gone. Iron was devastated. What did you, your father, suggest me have happened to that?

He possibly had moved to missouri, a guy that he had been talking to online for quite some time. You know, maybe he ran a way .

to be with him. Missing person's case was open, but nothing came of IT iron and his brother moved in with wealth full time. But iron couldn't move on.

SHE had to have left some trail somewhere. Barely a teenager. He taught themselves every web search engine, looked for years, but found no sign of his mom online.

And a terrible suspicion took colder 了， harden. That is something like certainty. His mother must be dead. His father must have done IT.

And after that, he became more of okay. Well, where would he put her body?

He was baby thirteen or fourteen when he thought about those old coal mines around wassenberg. Do you actually go and look all?

Yeah, I went through a lot of those minds myself alone.

You're looking for the remaining.

the fire drives.

And then one day I have been going .

through some of my dad stuff in the base. One day found a box stuff that supposedly SHE had taken with her. That was a denim jacket that her mother had given her passport. Drivers license, a cell phone were down there.

Wait a minute. What was that like?

That was kind of the final straw.

And naturally, if he was gone, taken those things with IT.

exactly. no. That was, that was my final piece of the puzzle.

He left IT there, left the box in the basement, and emerged a changed person. Jane told us there and wouldn't talk much about his mother when they were married. God.

i'd find him up at night just over her stuff, just over papers. And he just emotionally .

going through her papers.

just going to like her stuff, her, whatever, a little bit and pieces he had left of his mother he couldn't even handle, just erect him.

And when aron heard pan was, did my .

first response was, how did he do IT?

And then he told the cops about his mother. Now you may have a serial killer on your hands, serial killer of spouses.

Yeah.

so like that. That was a fun. Two wives, one missing, the other dead.

And the one thing they had in common with health, candle ario. But suspicion alone wasn't enough, wasn't proof. So the investigation continued. Yes, in an enough t to shake him, or maybe even get a confession, they saw help from the one person whose presence back at the hospital made real break down and cry on C.

B. I had me call him but my phone and tried to get him .

to tell me what happened.

He was, he was terrified. IT was probably one of the worst .

thing she's ever had to do if he.

this is shining, but shavin did IT.

I've been waking up having panic attacks. I just, I can't do with this. I want to know what happened. Can you? Can you tell me anything?

The only thing you know that that I know is there a lot of stuff with stone .

from the house OK roll stuck to a story, a deadly .

home invasion. I, yeah.

yeah.

And I trying to do that.

china pressed out for details.

The one guy they hit me that I saw from the front was told to me then something .

that didn't sound quite right.

I don't know. And like live second.

a split second, remember, in his letter, real said his capture held him and abused him for nearly two days in my money.

If you're going to tell me what happens, and you're gonna dance around the issue and told three different stories, what are you hiding?

Investigators wondering the same thing, try to find answers in the evidence on a laptop. They found hits for match dot com just days before the murder to somebody had been visiting the site. At least .

that would have been our .

suspicion to be either pay around right then. They found rows. Real life mistress? Yes, he had won. And SHE said they Carried on from most of the time he was married to pan. So now shanon thought back to the last time he saw her mother.

I asked if he was happy.

So what he say?

He realized that SHE had given up her family because he had destroyed this relationship with me and healthy. And she's gotten into this new marriage, telling me that he just wasn't as happy as he should been.

Lots of circumstantial evidence, almost enough, not quite. And then the antique rugs.

I was thirteen, the kitchen, and found in the washing machine to small size rus. And the rose were so very wet, and they were bowled up to one side.

But when raw saw the rocks during a walking with the police, he didn't seem to recognize.

mean, i've never seen this road. The minute we heard.

he'd never seen them. We knew the rugs had the importance. We just didn't .

know how they sent the ruggs to the lab. And months later they heard back, what do you find when you tested them? hands?

Blood was found on the ruggs.

They had caught raf and an obvious lie. He must have put those ruggs into the machine himself, hoping to wash away the evidence. Finally, they had enough. Almost nine months after pam's death, officers went to the antick door with an arrest warrant.

That's when we learned that he decided .

to go on vacation. He was gone.

coming up a manhug for a suspected killer by cell phone.

I initiated some phone calls with roof so that we can try to track them down.

But what he answer?

IT took nine months of painstaking police work before investigators finally had enough evidence to arrest routh camdal lario for the murder of his wife, pam, but that would have defined him. First rough was on vacation or maybe on the run.

I initiated some phone calls with roof um so that we can try to track him down.

They track this cell phone and caught up with him. In northern california, back to the sound of my voice.

back to me. Yeah.

charge him with first degree murder. Pam's daughters were believed when they got the news. I can think myself was family. What was that like?

I was like, yeah, they're like, oh my god, this is reality over again. It's starting.

meaning, of course, reliving the crime at the trial.

I mancy let me go.

You want to go? Yeah, testify.

I want this to be over. And I know that I need to cope with whatever answer comes.

Then here, IT was february e twenty five, two thousand sixteen. Already ref and managed the Victory, had tight prosecutor ryan bracewell s hands in one way. anyway.

Well, we tried to tell the entire story about raf candler o and ref candle ario s life.

In other words, the various suspicious disappearance of dinner, the first wife whose body has never been found, but ultimately .

the judge denied that motion and we went to trial without that peace .

ve already heard about the prosecution's evidence rough open letter to the worth, the world journal, which said prosecutor mad durkin have been exposed as an elaborate lie that .

letter was in itself a very sensational story um but that was inconsistent with all of the physical evidence in the investigation that had had occurred to that point which the prosecution listed .

in detail for the jury here but there is always more than one side to a story defensive tony denial ever told the jury that when SHE read carefully through all the prosecution material, here's what jumped right out at her.

When you take a good, hard look at their evidence, when you see that they've interpreted the evidence to fit the conclusion that they drew in the first twelve hours of this case, you see that all IT is is assumptions and supose tions and cut corners.

But so of the defense, if the jury looked at fact, said not assumptions, they see the real story about what happened to pam had to be true. Remember, those two men figured as possible killers, they had records drug offences, burglaries, SHE walks in on .

a burglaries. Burglaries aren't uncommon in Watson burg, is especially with all the drugs around.

Then said the offense, one of the bad guys saw pam, and he .

hits pam in the head hard. He's standing there in the kitchen fire poker in his hand, wondering what to do.

The robbers must have thought having rough had already left on vacation.

This family was supposed to be gone. That was the talk around town.

So for the jury, IT came down to whose story to believe, prosecutors said the police cleared those suspects right back at the beginning. But nothing could clear rough and nothing could soft on a truly shocking allegation, rf murdered pam because divorce would get him this fellowship cast out from his church. Pm wasn't leaving, and so he had only one option left.

If he became a water, he'd be free to marry IT again, IT was, said the prosecutors, one of the more disturbing motors from murder we've ever heard. So his religious belief were more important than somebody else. Life.

wealth, Candy lario is life was more important than anyone else's life.

So the jury got the case, and they worked to the end of the day. And then through a second and then a third, tiktok.

whether they can victim or they don't going to be a different set of emotions.

And then in the middle of the third day.

we, the jury find the defend raf leo y. Candy ario guilty of count number one first degree murder guilty.

But the end of real story, oh no, on the day, set aside for his sentencing, rave decided the plot needed one more twist. The jail issued in a safety razor to clean up for court. Rove used that the slice es risks and throat his own sun was not sympathetic.

你好， thank rather go out and actually faces faces the ony that way.

Suicide attempt, delaying tactic, whatever was IT didn't work. The day later, the judge ordered ralf back to court people versus roughly Candy lario sentencing and ralf vantage up, got another day in the spotlight.

have maintained that i've been innocent through this whole process.

And then the keen observer might almost have heard the jaws drop around the courtroom.

Ham will be resurrected. We will be able to see her again. We will be able to watch her laugh and saying and do all the things that made her such a special person. And in that regard, I put my hope in that future. But until then, I am going to file an appeal for this particular emotion.

But now his future is life without the possibility of parole.

I have never had a wait so heavy lifted. IT was IT .

was wonderful.

I gotto say.

why the way do not embarrass. But I have found that investigators of homicides are the biggest softies on the planet.

We're not that out.

But once you try to care as much as you do.

but you really do, you become very attached.

Those girls are special team, had a part of that, and their hopefully we'll be able to live on her .

legacy and elves legacy because of him. Aron will go on searching, hoping to learn what happened to his mother.

Yeah, I will be looking, Polly. You know, in some way in my entire life, I always be .

asking questions.

And he needs to realize this isn't over. He didn't just murder someone and have nothing afterwards. He left behind family. He left behind a disaster. And if I the only thing to remind him of that, then that's what i'm therefore.

That's all for now. I'm less to halt. Thanks for joining us.

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