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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell
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stories of real crimes with real victims, whose cases are
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so shocking that many are left wondering how is this
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even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections,
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and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator,
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dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so
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evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning. Unspeakable as intended
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for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm
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not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey you all,
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caj here back with another pisode of Unspeakable. How is
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your Christmas? How did everything go? I hope you had
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the time of your life and that you got everything
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that you wanted and you dreamed of and that you imagined.
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I've been writing my arse off for y'all. I also
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got the flu, which was not a lot of fun.
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But this is actually my third recording of the day
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that I'm doing right now, so I'm trying to catch
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up and get back into the swing of things, so
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I don't have any shout outs today. Please don't think
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that I have forgotten you. I'm going to catch up
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on those next episode. I'm gonna be rolling them out,
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but I just wanted to jump into this episode so
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that it's not late and you get it on time.
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So this episode, we're going to go to Canada, and
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I don't think I've even gone to Canada yet at all.
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Maybe I have, but how are my people in Canada doing?
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I'm waving to you on the camera right now. But
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we're going to go to Markham, Ontario, to be exact,
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And this is approximately nineteen miles northeast of downtown Toronto,
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if you're trying to get your grasp of things here
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and where this is taking place. And this place is
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kind of neat too, because it's like a really interesting
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place culturally as far as the people that make up
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the area, it's very very diverse. Normally, whenever you think
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of places, you know, they kind of like hone in
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into groups of what types of people are aware, but
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this one was just very diverse from different backgrounds, a
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lot of immigrants, and it's a very quiet area of town,
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very nice. These large brick homes and the specific neighborhood
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that I'm talking about, well manicured lawns and just a
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very low crime area. It's a good place to live.
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So this was the home of a very small Vietnamese
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family known as the Pans. It was mom and dad,
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brother and sister that made up this crew. Now, Mom
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and Dad were originally from Vietnam. It wasn't like they
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were born here and they just have Vietnamese heritage. No,
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they were born there and they moved here. I believe
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they were first generation and so they were chasing that
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proverbial American dream. But they were still very firmly rooted
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in their homeland culture and their way of living. So
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Mom's name was Bick and she was a supervisor at
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a car park factory, while Dad his name was Hann.
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He worked as a machinist. Now, I do want to
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tell you this, they do have more difficult full names.
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I've shortened them for storytelling purposes because I don't want
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to mispronounce it every single time. But they do have longer,
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more traditional Vietnamese names. But as far as being in
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the US, it's biic and hand. Now, very very very
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hard working couple. They worked five days a week. They
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were relaxing on the weekend, but they did not miss work. Obviously,
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because Bick was a supervisor, you can tell that she
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was invested in her job while dad was working as
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that machinist. So Bick loved to cook. She liked to
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entertain and have her friends over. And one of her
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things that she liked to do a lot was also
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line dancing, which was interesting to me because it's like, Wow,
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you come from Vietnam and then you come to America
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and now you're a line dancing queen, which I think
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is just really really fun. And then Dad, from what
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I understand, was more of a homebody, and he was
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a chill dude, relaxed. But they were a quiet family.
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The neighbors they said, they didn't stir up much interest.
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They weren't wild and loud or anything of that nature.
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And they were the type of people that believed in
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saving money and investing in your future. Now, don't get
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me wrong, the home was really really nice, but it
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wasn't like luxurious or anything like that. Something really neat
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about it though, And for all the adults out there,
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you'll love this. It was paid off. They had paid
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off their home. It was a done deal. It was
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their house. Now, both parents did drive nice vehicles, which
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is really cool, but hey, I mean, hell, you paid
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off your house. Might as well take on a car
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note and have a nice car. But you know, they
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weren't the type of people that were flashing money. And
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I'm not really sure that they had money to flash,
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but they just did really well in their investing and
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how they live their lives. Now, if you've got any
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experience with Vietnamese families like I do have taught many
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a Vietnamese child in my teaching career, they have a
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very very academically driven mentality. They are strict parents, and
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they want successful academics in terms of their children, and
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they believe wholeheartedly that you have got to do well
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in your schooling. That way you can grow up and
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you can be somebody, and you can take care of yourself,
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and you can chase all those dreams that you want
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for yourself as well. Now they're kids. They had a
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son named Felix, and then they had a daughter named Jennifer.
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And these expectations that I'm telling you about, I'm telling
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you seem to be very common amongst the Vietnamese culture,
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and these high expectations are normal. They love their children
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and they push them to do really well. Now, the
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kids went to school specifically, I guess I'll talk about
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it high school here, but these schools were ones where
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the kids were pretty much expected to excel. Jennifer specifically
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was amongst the top peers in her class. Her parents
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were very proud of her accomplishments. She graduated high school,
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and then she went on to graduate college and she
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studied pharmacy, pharmaceuticals, and so she was now a pharmacist,
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and she was trying to find a good job where
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she could get in, get settled, and just go on
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with her life and make a good living. So basically,
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what I'm telling you is life was good. They were
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in that sweet spot. The kids are old enough to
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be in college, they've paid off their house, and they
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can just go to work and they can go to
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line dancing in the evenings. Well, everything seemed really well
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until police in Toronto got a frantic call to nine
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one one. This was in November of twenty ten, and
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this was late. It was about ten thirty in the evening.
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Are you people, where are you? What? Avenue? Avenue? Roade
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ye hen frame for you? Hello, Hello, I need to
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hear your eyes an he roke my dad just when
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I say scream, ma'am. Street address breathe broken, and I
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don't know what's happening. I'm kind of there. So that
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frantic voice that you're hearing is their daughter, Jennifer, and
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you can hear the absolute terror in her voice. Whenever
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the dispatcher is trying to get control of her, She's
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just word vomiting out information, in which that's common people
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feel like they just need to spout stuff out, not
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realizing that you need to answer the questions that the
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dispatcher has so that they can classify and prioritize your
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call correctly. But Jennifer is just word vomiting everything out
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that she can. And while some of that information in
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that call you could kind of hear the beeps it
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was redacted. There was one thing that you heard that
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you cannot shake and it was the sound of her
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father yelling. That was a guttural yell in the background,
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and you can tell that he is in a bind.
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He is having a huge problem. So when the police arrived,
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they rushed to the scene, they bust up in the
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house and when they get in there, they realize that
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they have just entered a home where a double shooting
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slash home invasion had just taken place. Now let's talk
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about a home invasion. Home invasion is different than burglary
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or robbery. Okay, burglary, someone breaks into your house you're
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not necessarily home, and they take your things for monetary gain.
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Whatever robbery, someone comes up to you, you know, give
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me all of your money, or they steal from you.
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But a home invasion is its own entity. It's a
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thing of its own. It's where people come into your
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home and they threaten violence upon you, They commit violence
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upon you or the potential to, and they scare the
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living shit out of you. That is what a home
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invasion is all about. They come in with the intent
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of terrorizing you and in this case, to take from you.
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So as the police get there, they are really quite
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taken aback by the level of violence that has taken
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place in this home. Father hand, he has got massive
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injuries to his head. They were so bad that they
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had to AIRMD him out of there. So they call
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the chopper in and they transport him to the hospital.
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When they got him to the hospital and they were
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able to assess him, they realized that he had a
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gunshot wound to his eye, basically to his face. It
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had gone on through his skull and the angle of
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it was kind of like downward, so it went into
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his jaw and then it ended up the bullet rusted
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in his neck, so there was severe trauma to his
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face and to his skull. They ended up having to
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they stabilized him, but they had to put him into
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a medically induced coma at this point so that hopefully
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his body could rest and that he could survive this
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traumatic injury of a gunshot wing to the head, to
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the face. Really Now, unfortunately mom, Mom was dead when
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they got there, she was gone. And the daughter, Jennifer,
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she was still on scene, frantic, screaming beside herself, everything
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that you would imagine you would probably do knowing that
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your parents had just been murdered or tried to be
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murdered right there in front of you, you know, and
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the fear that this young girl was feeling was just
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palpable amongst everyone that responded. Now, Jennifer to kind of
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give you a picture about her, very very long black
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hair down almost to probably your belly button, glasses, very young,
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unassuming girl, a pretty girl, and very timid, a very
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meek type of girl. So this trauma was something huge
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in her life. It wasn't something she could just basically
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take on the chin. So as they secure the scene,
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they now realize it's a crime scene. They come in,
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they take their photographs, and they do everything they've got
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to do. Jennifer was not injured, thank god. But Jennifer
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had been restrained with like zip ties. I think there
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was like black zip tie type things behind her back,
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and so she was able to get free. And so
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the police took Jennifer down to the station and they said, look,
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you are our only eyewitness, and we need you to
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tell us what you can. Jennifer was understandably just almost
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in shock. It was like she didn't she just stared
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at them wide eyed and bushy tailed, because it was
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like shock is the only way I can describe it.
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But she explained that that evening was normal, that she
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was at home. Her mother had cooked some supper, so
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they sat down and they ate together. Then Jennifer said,
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she went upstairs in her room and she got on
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the phone. She talked with her friend for a while.
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Her mom had left that night to go do that
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line dancing that she liked to do, and I believe
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mom would go every Monday. It was like her thing
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she would go do her a little bit of line dancing,
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and then mom had gotten home around nine thirty that night,
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so the shooting occurred about an hour after Mom got home. Now,
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she said she was in a room, everything was normal
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when she heard her mother yell out for her dad
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and for her dad to come I guess downstairs. So
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the all that came out though from her mother was
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not a normal like mom yelling for dad to come here.
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There was something about it that just didn't sound right
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to her. So she opened her door and she kind
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of stuck her head out to see, you know, what's
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going on? What is mom yelling about? And when she
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stuck her head out of the door, that was whenever
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a man appeared. He kind of like rushed her. He
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grabbed her and he told her I have a gun.
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You better comply or I'm gonna blow your brains out, basically,
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so she did exactly what she was told to do
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because she didn't want to get hurt. And he then
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took her and he tied her hands behind her back,
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and he kept saying, you do what I say, and
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no one is gonna get hurt. So police ask her,
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can you describe this man to us, and she was
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able to give a pretty decent description. She said he
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was a black man. She said he had dreadlocks. She
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said that there was actually three guys total. There was
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the black guy with the dreadlocks. There was another man.
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He was darker than the dreadloine guy in skin tone,
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but he was thinner, and she said he was wearing
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a hoodie. And then all she really knew about the
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third guy was that she heard him speak and he
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had what she described as a Jamaican accent. So there