May 7, 2025

Homicide: Dan Markel

Homicide: Dan Markel

In this episode of Unspeakable, KJ covers the tragic murder of law professor Dan Markel, whose life was cut short amid a contentious divorce from Wendi Adelson. KJ delves into the investigation, revealing suspicions surrounding WendI and her family,...

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Season 7

In this episode of Unspeakable, KJ covers the tragic murder of law professor Dan Markel, whose life was cut short amid a contentious divorce from Wendi Adelson. KJ delves into the investigation, revealing suspicions surrounding WendI and her family, as well as potential gang involvement.

Chapters
02:22 The Story of Dan Markel
11:38 The Divided Family Wendi adelson
14:16 The Moment of Betrayal
21:32 The Mother-in-Law's Influence
46:41 The Investigation Begins
55:46 The Latin Kings Connection
57:31 The Arrests Made
1:03:45 Unraveling the Motives

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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell

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Unspeakable as intended for mature audiences. If you are easily offended,

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it's kJ You're back for another episode of Unspeakable. What's

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going on with you? I am so excited because I'm

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counting down these days, y'all.

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At the end of the school year.

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Things are almost wrapped up, so I can focus full

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time on this podcast. And there's a student who reminded

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me about this, and she her name is Evannah, and

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she's in my class.

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And she said, you know, I would really love to

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have a shout out from you.

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my girl, this is my shout out to Havana, who

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she is from I believe that Venezuela is where she's from.

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it's English is not her first language, and she makes

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amazing grades and is just.

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A beautiful girl who always wears pink. So Evanna, this

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one's for you, my girl. I hope that I I.

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that's how you can make that happen. Now let's jump

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into this story, and this is this is one for

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the books. I hope you're ready, because wow, I'm just

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telling you there's a a lot of detail.

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To this one.

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So let's let's let's start with this. Whenever you are

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growing up, you're told from the get go that you

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can be anything that you want to be, and usually

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it's followed by the same thing. You can be a doctor,

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you can be a lawyer, or you could even be

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president of the United States. I don't know how many

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times I heard that growing up, but it's one that's

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still said today in the elementary schools and and even

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I guess in high schools. We're still saying, guys, if

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you put forth the effort, you can be anything that

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you want to be. And my point in telling you

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this is that there's a great deal of respect that's

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put on those positions. Your child growing up to be

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a doctor or a lawyer would make any parent so proud.

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And this, as you can imagine, was the case for

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forty one year old Dan Markel.

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Dan had grown up in Toronto, so originally from Canada,

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and his family was described as quote unquote very Jewish

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in their family life. And so I did some research

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on Jewish family life because I'm not Jewish.

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That there is a long history of customs and traditions

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and a strong value placed on loving your family and

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spending time together and really investing in one another. And

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so to say that you're very Jewish is a nod

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to how much your family means to you. As far

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as what how I took this to be. So, I

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guess it's no surprise just in knowing that about their family,

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that he grew up to be one hell of a

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young man. He was driven, smart, kind successful. Now look

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when I say smart, I want you to understand that.

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Let me throw you this at you.

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He went to Harvard.

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Smart, not just oh he's smart, like we say about everybody.

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He literally went to Harvard, and not just Harvard, but

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Harvard Law School, and he excelled there. He would not

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only get his undergrad degree, but then he would go

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to Cambridge University where he would obtain his master's degree

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in political theory. And then he would return back to

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Harvard and that's where he would finish and get his

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law degree, which he graduated magnecum laud from these programs.

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And if that doesn't tell you how intelligent this guy is.

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I mean, what we can pick up from this is

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that he was a stellar learner and a force to

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be reckoned with in terms of academics and I guess

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prowess to tackle anything that came in front of him.

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So after graduation he went to work on a fellowship,

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and a fellowship is kind of where newly graduated lawyers

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who lack hands on experience, so like they've got the

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bookwork and all of that, but they lack hands on experience.

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These fellowships provide them a structured path where they can

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go and they can work on and develop their lawyer skills.

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them on or take them in and really guide them

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to the way so to speak, of how lawyers behave

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and act and how to become.

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A great lawyer.

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Well, Dan's fellowship would find him doing graduate work at

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Hebrew University, which is world renowned and a just prestigious

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university in the academic world. So, needless to say, the

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man put in the work and all of the accolades

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that followed were not only earned but well deserved. He

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was a sought after speaker at legal seminars all over

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the country, and he was regarded as someone who just

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flat out knew his shit, and he had the ability

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to command an audience whenever he would speak.

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Dan was a well put together guy.

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He was if you would see him, he was sporting

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long leave, buttoned down, tucked in shirts, tucked into slacks.

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He often had a tie coordinating belt and shoes. His

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hair well groomed and a short traditional mail cut with

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like a little gel to keep it in place. He

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wore these small rectangular glasses with metal frames, and they

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blended really nicely with his face, like they didn't stick

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out or anything, just blended in nicely. And he looked

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the part of the esteemed lawyer. He was fit, too,

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fit in an average way, though not fit like you know,

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the Hulk or anything, but he was fitting an average way,

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and he had this casual coolness about him that people

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just were drawn to. He was interesting, but casually cool,

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sunglasses and shorts on a boat by weekend, but professional

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and fierce in the courtroom or classroom by workday. So clearly,

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if you're slipping in what I'm dripping here, Dan was

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a catch all right, And this is exactly what another

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lawyer or law student she wasn't a lawyer yet, but

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that's exactly what another law student at the University of

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Miami thought as well, and her name was Wendy Adelson. Now,

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Wendy was originally from South Florida, and she too came

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from a family that believed in high expectations of their children.

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So while she was studying at law school, her family

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was running a very successful dentistry clinic. Her father's name

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was Harvey, and he was a dentist. And wouldn't you

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know it that her brother, his name was Charlie, would

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also follow wright in his father's footsteps. And I think

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that's so cool that a father and son could work

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together and both become dentists. A matter of fact, my

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own dentist has that same setup. That the dad built

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a successful business and then his son became a dentist too.

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They worked together, expanded, it made more clinics. So shout

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out to her dentistry if y'all are listening, they're right here,

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local in town, and I think that they run an

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amazing clinic. So doctor Harvey was one proud papa with

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a doctor son and a soon to be lawyer daughter.

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And he was also pretty smitten with his patient care

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cord in the front office. But that's to be expected

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because that was doctor Harvey's wife, Mama Donna, was holding

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it down in the front of the office while the

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men were in the back doing all the dirty work

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or the drilling work.

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I guess, however you want to look at that.

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But both of their now adult children were bound for

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success and good looking to boot.

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Wendy was thin and tan.

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Big smile, these bright green eyes, I mean they're really

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bright green eyes, long brown hair, with body to it.

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Her bangs always neatly tucked behind one of the side

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behind her ear, and she looked like a cheerleader or

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a runner. Is kind of the vibe that you would

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get from her. And she was a wild one. She

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was born to run with her quirkiness, which usually took

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center stage when people met her. She was smart, she

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was a go getter, and she was fun. And she

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too had graduated magna cum lauda from Brandis University and

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then she obtained her master's degree in international relations from Cambridge.

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Now going to cam Cambridge alone is you know, a

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big deal. But she was also a Rhodes scholar, and

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so just to give you a little bit of information

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about this to tell you just how incredibly intelligent Wendy was.

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The average GPA of Rhodes scholars is about three point

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nine three point nine at this level and at those.

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Types of universities.

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These types of students are the ones that excel in

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their chosen fields.

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They're considered widely read.

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They demonstrate intellectual flexibility beyond most of us me included. Okay,

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like like, they're smart, they're gonna outsmart me, They're gonna

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dance circles around my intelligence. So I just think that

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to look at the level that these two young professionals

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have reached or what they went through to get to

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where they were, there's a I'm nod in my hat

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to these two that they had it going on. These

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are some super, super super smart people. Well, Dan was

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living in Washington, d C. When he and Wendy met,

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and I read that where they met was on a

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place called jay Date, and I'm like, well, what is

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jay Date? So it made me think about JPay, which

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japay If you don't know, this is the system online

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where it's an email system where you can email inmates

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and you know, family members if you're they're in prison,

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or whatever, and I'm like, they didn't meant no dawn

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prison site, what the hell? So I googled it and

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jay Date is a popular Jewish dating website specifically designed

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for Jewish singles that are searching for other Jewish singles.

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I'm like, okay, well that makes more sense than prison talk.

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So they matched on this jay Date and they hit

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it off almost immediately. They had too many things in

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common and too many commonalities and where they wanted to

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go in life, and so they dated for a short

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period of time before they both decided this was it.

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You're the one, and they wanted to make a lifelong

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go of it. So they announced their plans to marry,

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and they proudly posted their wedding announcement in the New

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York Times for everybody to see February of two thousand

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and six. So they were married in this beautiful ceremony.

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It was in Boca Ratone, Florida, at the Congregation Beni Israel.

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At that time, Wendy was twenty six, Dan was thirty three,

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and they were now husband and wife. So they settled

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in to their Florida life to make their home in Tallahassee,

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which was going to be great in that moment for

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both of their careers. Dan was going to secure a

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position at FSU Florida State University as a criminal law professor,

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while Wendy also got a job there as a clinical

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law professor. Her focus, by the way, was human trafficking,

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and I find that incredibly interesting. I read an awesome

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book about human trafficking. This is so random. I didn't

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plan on saying this, But if you have the chance

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to read a book called Renting Lacy, if you want

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something crazy to read that's really really good about human trafficking,

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check that one out.

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It's a goodie.

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So if power couples ever had a face, these two

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theirs would be it. They had it all, great jobs,

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good friends, and soon they had two little boys of

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their own who they both adored, and they both put

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all of their central focus on and their lives and

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everything that they would grow up to be. They wanted

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them to be excellent people. So outside looking in, all

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I can say is what a life? What a life

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these two built together, the legitimate American dream unfolding right

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before your eyes, and the love in that home was

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one hundred percent undeniable. And so a couple of years

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would just fly by. The kids were now toddlers, and

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both of their parents were busy with their careers. They

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had to work hard to take care of the kids

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whenever business obligations called. For example, Dan traveled a lot

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for business. He attended seminars. Like I said, he was

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a well sought after speaker at speaking events, and so

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when he would go on these trips, he was always

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super eager to get back home to his wife and

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to the kids, and this was no different in twenty

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twelve when he drove into the driveway of the house

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after a short business trip. So he got out like normal,

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unlocked the door to the house, and then he swung

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the door open, grabbing his bags, picking him up to

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just bring him in.

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And when he.

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Looked up as he walked in, he was shocked to

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find his house in a very different condition than he

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had left it just a few days prior. He looked

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inside and he was really unsure of exactly what was happening.

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So he stepped in and he looked around, trying to

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really process what he was seeing or what he wasn't seeing,

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because as he looked around, the only thing he saw

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in the house was a mattress with some paperwork on

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top of it. It was like a kid's mattress. So

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he walked up to it and he stared down at

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the mattress, and divorce was clearly labeled at the top

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of the paperwork on top of this child's mattress. On

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September tenth, twenty twelve, Wendy had filed for divorce, and

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he's like, oh my god. She cleaned out the entire

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house and left with the kids while he was gone.

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If you want to talk about the rug being pulled

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from beneath you, I think that this is probably the

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most prime example of that I've ever heard of, that

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you leave your well loved home and come home to

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it being empty. So he didn't know in that moment

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exactly what to do, but he gathered himself and he

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tried to decide the best course of action.

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What do I do?

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And in his mind he had to work it out

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with his wife. He just didn't know how this even

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came to be. He didn't know what she was upset with,

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besides any normal marital spats that anybody would have. I

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don't care how in love you are, You're still gonna fight.

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You're sill gonna argue, And he had no clue that

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divorce was even on the radar, that was something that

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was even being considered. It hadn't even been brought up

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or mentioned. But Dan knew one thing and one thing

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for certain, and that's that he wanted his wife and

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he wanted his family. He did not want this divorce.

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He wanted to fix whatever went wrong, and he would

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do anything he could to try to reconcile whatever had

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made Wendy feel that she wanted to just in their

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family just like that. So Dan attempted to try to

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reconcile with Wendy, but those attempts would go unanswered, and

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he would realize that soon he figured out that she

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had rented a home nearby just for herself. She was

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that done that she went and she rented a house

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right underneath him. So the courts would become involved in

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this because custody obviously had to be handled. So the

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courts would decide that they would share fifty to fifty custody,

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which is a great thing for both parents. I think

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that's wonderful when they both can get half custody. Yet

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he would receive another blow right after that custody decision.

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When Wendy then filed paperwork with the courts and asked

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them to allow her to relocate with the children tours

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parent to her parents' house, which wouldn't have been a

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big deal for except the fact that they were four

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hundred miles away from where their lives had been and established.

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So while he had been focusing on repairing their family,

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Wendy had no same intentions whatsoever. So when the request

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to take his children further away from him became known

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to him, he realized that his goals of reconciliation were

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far from what would ever happen, and he just came

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to the conclusion that he indeed was going to have

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to prepare for this divorce. It was gonna happen, whether

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he wanted it to or not. So I guess when

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someone has divorce on their mind, the two parties involved

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are going to have hurt and they're gonna have anger

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between them. Hell, I mean, I expect that. I think

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for you to say that wouldn't app would be completely unreasonable.

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But I'll add to that too, that Dan's no different.

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Dan's just like the rest of us. He went through

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the same emotions that anyone would go through shock, sadness

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and grief about his marriages abrupt what he called Pearl

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Harbor style attack when she moved out of the house

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and just blew up his world. That's what he called

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in court dot com cuments, he said it was a

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Pearl Harbor style attack. But there was now also anger

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brewing when it comes to his kids. It's one thing

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to leave me, it's one thing to not love me

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and not want to be with me. But now you're

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trying to take my kids from me too. Now I've

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got a problem. So he's kind of thinking, well, my

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family may be falling apart, but my love for my

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boys will never end. I want to be in their lives.

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These are my children, and I'm not going to let

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them go without a fight. Absolutely not. So she doesn't

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have to stay married to me, but my kids have

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to stay close enough that we can co parent because

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I'm not gonna parent on the weekends, absolutely not. And

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so he filed that paperwork to say I don't want this,

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and the courts sided with him in June of twenty

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thirteen and denied Wendy's motion to relocate those kids closer

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to her parents. It was also just eleven days after

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the court granted that or denied that. Excuse me that

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they granted the divorce. They'd only been married now for

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seven years, and now it was over. So while I've

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somewhat tied up what kind of went down as far

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as the dissolving of the marriage in this pretty little bow,

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as if it happened really fast, the truth is that

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there was a lot of angst between the two and

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Wendy's parents were heavily involved in trying to help her

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during the divorce. They would fly in to be with

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the kids. They were really invested in Wendy getting everything

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that she wanted in the divorce. And again I would

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expect this of any loving parent when a divorce is

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happening concerning their child. Everyone is going to take sides

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and they're going to want the best for their loved one.

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Whenever a divorce is going down. The thing is, sometimes

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what you want or what you think is best for

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your loved one happens at the expense of someone else,

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and in this instance, it's.

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Involving the children.

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This really became an issue because Wendy's mom, Donna, seemed

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to miss the memo on appropriate behavior in front of

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small children, because it turns out, whenever she seemed to

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be in the care of the children or when she

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was taking care of them, she would say things so

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often about their daddy that they would go back and

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repeat it to their dad. Because they were little, they

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were three and four years old, they didn't know any better,

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and so they would repeat it back to him, things

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like your dad is stupid and we all hate your father.

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She also told the.

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Boys that their dad was trying to quote take her

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sunshines away from her, things that were intended to make

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them believe or imply that their daddy was a bad man.

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And as a child that divorced myself, this makes me really,

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really angry. Kids should never know anything more than Mama

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and Daddy have decided to live separately, but we both

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love you and we are all still family. Were just

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not going to be married anymore, period. And shame on

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anybody that would try to pit a child against their

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other parent, because when adults start trying to influence children

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to hate another parent, I can't accept that the kids

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did not ask to be in the middle of this

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and making them decide.

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Which parent they basically love more. Isn't fair.

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It's not fair to kids to treat them that way.

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You can love both of your parents, that's fine, So

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shame on Grandma Donna for acting this way. And Dan

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was just beyond frustrated that this is what was happening

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whenever they were outside of his care. So he got

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so mad about her behavior and the fact that the

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kids were able to repeat the constant degrading statements about

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him that she was saying, he went and took legal action.

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He even went so far as to file emotion with

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the courts, asking that Donna not be allowed unsupervised visits

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with the children because of her behavior when she was

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with them. It's just not right that you're doing this.

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So on May fifteenth, twenty fourteen, a hearing was held,

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but they did not make a ruling in this It

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was gonna be continued, so basically no decision was made

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for the moment, and for the time being, they had

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not yet set a future hearing date to settle the matter.

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But even without an immediate outcome, Dan was clearly making

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his point that he wasn't going to take this level

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of disrespect or manipulation of his children. Even you know,

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if he used to be married to their mother, and

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that used to be his mother in law. He's not

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gonna have it. His soon to be ex mother in

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law or monster in law is probably more fitting. But

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as soon as he gave that pushback and said you're

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not going to do this, and if the courts have

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to get involved, they will, the mother in law, Donna decided, well,

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she was going to try to.

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Push Dan's buttons about it.

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She would do things in a very mean spirited way.

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And I wanted to give you examples of this, not

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just say she was being mean, okay, because I don't

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want to seem like I'm just being mean about a

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mother in law.

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For example.

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There was a lot of differences that Wendy listed as

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to why she was wanting to get divorced from Dan,

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and one of her complaints that she made vocal about

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was that Dan really wanted the children to be raised

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in a more strict Jewish upbringing than Wendy did. So

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he was very vocal about this, I want them to

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follow our customs. I wanted to have our same Jewish values,

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blah blah blah blah, and Wendy seemed to be more

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of wanting to like water it down and not be

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so strict. And I'm not saying one way is better

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than the other. That was just the disagreement. Well, what

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was mother in law Donna's idea?

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Whenever?

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That was one of the complaints that Wendy had. Well,

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she told her daughter in an email that she Wendy

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should convert her children to Christianity and go have them

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baptized in the Catholic church, make sure to take lots

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of pictures of it, and post the pictures of those

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kids in front of the Catholic church, just to piss

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off Dan. Willing to forego her own religion, just to

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piss off Dan. Tell me that's not mean spirited. I

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don't know what else you would call that. So, while

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all of this was going on, both Wendy and Dan

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seemed though to be moving on, respectively, with their lives

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moving forward. So Wendy began dating this fellow FSU professor.

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His name was Jeffrey Lacasse. And look, Wendy is a type, y'all.

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Hear me out, because the two men, jeff and Dan,

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look very similar to me. If you look at their photos.

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I'm not gonna say they're absolute twins or anything. But

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their essence, their clean cutness, the look about them very similar.

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He's her tight, he's hur tight. Okay, she got it tight.

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Now.

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Jeff had met Dan on a handful of occasions, but

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they weren't friends or anything. And I'm talking about met

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him before he ever even started dating dating Wendy. He

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had met Dan at some events, I think around the

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campus something like that. But every interaction they ever had,

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the two men were cordial. They were polite. It was

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very professional, and when they spoke, there was no ill

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will or foul words.

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Between the two of them. It just kind of was

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what it was. And Wendy and.

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Jeffrey had casually dated right after the divorce, but around

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February fourteen, twenty fourteen, they became legitimate couples or a

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legitimate couple, and it was official. People knew that they

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were boyfriend and girlfriend, and he knew that she was divorced.

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He also knew, because of them talking about it, that

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this divorce was extremely contentious. She was very emotional about

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any filings that were done by Dan with the courts,

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but the one against her mother was specifically frustrating to her.

475
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So Jeff would listen as any good boyfriend would do.

476
00:24:46.920 --> 00:24:50.319
But he didn't go like jump in and interfere or

477
00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:52.240
anything like that. I mean, hell, they'd only even dating

478
00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:55.599
officially for about four months at this point, so he

479
00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:58.960
was supportive of her emotions, but he was not confrontational

480
00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:02.160
of Dave or any It wasn't his place. And it

481
00:25:02.200 --> 00:25:04.839
seemed to me like he recognized that that, you know,

482
00:25:04.839 --> 00:25:07.079
I'm not these kids' father, you're their father. Y'all are

483
00:25:07.079 --> 00:25:09.000
going through the divorce. I'm just a new boyfriend, and

484
00:25:09.039 --> 00:25:12.480
I'll listen, but I'm not gonna go, you know, get

485
00:25:12.519 --> 00:25:17.400
involved in a huge way. But the thing was, Jeff

486
00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:19.240
just kind of had this inkling in the back of

487
00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:22.480
his mind and he couldn't help but feel like maybe

488
00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:27.759
their relationship wasn't as deep or as official on Wendy's

489
00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:31.400
end as he thought it was on his end, Like

490
00:25:31.519 --> 00:25:34.240
maybe maybe she was just kind of stringing him along

491
00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:37.599
and he was she was just passing time with him.

492
00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:40.319
He just didn't feel like it was she was as

493
00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:43.960
invested as he was. And this isn't too far fetched

494
00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:47.359
either that he thought this way, because Wendy had even

495
00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:50.759
said something about her former husband that mimicked almost that

496
00:25:50.839 --> 00:25:55.279
same thought pattern. So maybe the truth was that Wendy

497
00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:58.319
hadn't been completely truthful in her love for her husband either.

498
00:25:58.759 --> 00:26:01.880
Now why do I say that? Well, Wendy had recorded

499
00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:06.240
herself on a podcast that she did, and in that podcast,

500
00:26:06.519 --> 00:26:10.559
she basically admitted that she felt like she had somewhat

501
00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:14.559
settled when she married Dan. But it wasn't because she

502
00:26:14.599 --> 00:26:17.079
was saying, oh, Dan wasn't a catch. It was just

503
00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:20.839
that she claimed that she was just not passionately in

504
00:26:20.880 --> 00:26:23.880
love with Dan. He was a good man, he was smart,

505
00:26:24.119 --> 00:26:28.119
he would be a great provider, but passion she didn't

506
00:26:28.119 --> 00:26:31.559
really think it was there. Well after their kids were born,

507
00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:34.680
this wedge or divide that she felt came between them

508
00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:38.440
really just began to widen, and so she felt like

509
00:26:39.240 --> 00:26:42.480
maybe Dan acted like he was superior to her, or

510
00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:46.599
that his accomplishments were more valuable than hers, and that

511
00:26:46.920 --> 00:26:48.960
he just kind of maybe was looking down on her.

512
00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:51.640
And another example she gave was that he just didn't

513
00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:55.039
seem excited for any of her passions that she followed.

514
00:26:55.079 --> 00:26:57.279
For example, she had written a novel at one point

515
00:26:57.480 --> 00:26:58.880
and wanted him to read it, but he didn't want

516
00:26:58.920 --> 00:27:00.920
to read the novel because it was fiction, and he

517
00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:02.960
didn't like fiction, so he didn't want to read it.

518
00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:07.200
And so basically her concept here was that, Okay, I

519
00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:09.680
settled because I'm not. I wasn't passionately in love with him,

520
00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:11.720
but he's a good guy. He made a good husband.

521
00:27:12.279 --> 00:27:14.920
But I may have thought that I could make it work,

522
00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:17.279
but the small things are now becoming the big things,

523
00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:21.200
and I'm just not wanting to do this anymore. And

524
00:27:21.240 --> 00:27:23.519
the thing is, Dan did have a reputation for being

525
00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:28.519
tough as nails, but also as being fair, and that's

526
00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:30.880
important to me. You can be tough as nails as

527
00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:34.119
long as you're fair. That tells me that you know

528
00:27:34.279 --> 00:27:36.319
you can look at things objectively and that you can

529
00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:38.559
stand on business, but you're still going to be fair

530
00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:40.920
about all the information that you take in. And this

531
00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:44.559
sentiment was not only shared by his students, but also

532
00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:47.759
his friends and his colleagues. They all pretty much echoed

533
00:27:48.039 --> 00:27:52.279
the same things. His approach to life or his approach

534
00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:55.039
to things. I guess his friends would describe as being

535
00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:59.400
pretty abrasive and that he could push people past the

536
00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:03.640
point of come, But he also loved with that same

537
00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:05.680
level of aggression and intensity.

538
00:28:05.720 --> 00:28:07.000
He loved intensely.

539
00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:08.680
He was the kind of guy that would have that

540
00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:11.200
thousand watts smile when he saw his friends and wrap

541
00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:13.079
them up in these over the top hugs.

542
00:28:13.079 --> 00:28:15.640
My friend Elijah does that. When you see him.

543
00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:18.039
You can't help but know that he recognizes that you're

544
00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:20.240
there because he basically bear hugs me. When he hugs me,

545
00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:21.839
he lifts my feet off the ground. Okay, it's like

546
00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:24.119
this very and I love those. Hey, Elijah, what's up?

547
00:28:24.279 --> 00:28:26.319
I love those hugs. But that kind of seems to

548
00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:29.079
be the essence of how Dan was. So his habit

549
00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:32.519
of somewhat imposing himself on people wasn't in a negative way,

550
00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:36.119
but it was more of like a daring one that

551
00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:39.519
was fueled by intellectual sophistication. Like he kind of liked

552
00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:42.200
to push buttons, but just for the thrill of it,

553
00:28:42.400 --> 00:28:46.279
to see where it would go. He spoke his mind freely, good, bad,

554
00:28:46.319 --> 00:28:48.680
or indifferent. He spoke his mind freely, and he was

555
00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:51.559
not someone who would ever back down in his views

556
00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:55.640
just to suit his audience. That just wasn't him. So

557
00:28:55.799 --> 00:28:59.440
obviously this ruffled some people's feathers time to time, but

558
00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:02.720
it was also something that brought him many admirers. People

559
00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:06.160
that were just so impressed by his authenticity as a

560
00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:10.279
human being, he did not waiver. So basically my point

561
00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:12.799
is that Danny wasn't a mean person. He was just

562
00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:15.440
very matter of fact and to the point in his

563
00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:18.799
daily life. But Wendy wanted more than that. She wanted

564
00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:23.359
something more passionate, so she moved on with Jeff. And

565
00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:26.799
then Dan had moved on too. He was seeing another

566
00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:30.400
female professor at the school. And while the post divorce

567
00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:34.519
feelings and filings and motions in court and all of

568
00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:37.720
that were pretty fiery, they still were both moving on

569
00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:41.720
from one another and trying to go past it, so

570
00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:45.279
things were normal. It was eleven am on July eighteenth,

571
00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:49.000
twenty fourteen, when Dan's neighbor, his name was mister James Geiger,

572
00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:51.880
heard a loud noise as he and his wife were

573
00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:54.880
sitting on the couch looking at their iPads. Now, mister Geiger,

574
00:29:55.079 --> 00:30:00.400
he's an older gentleman. He's got gray hair, balding on tops, crosses,

575
00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:03.839
a smart guy, kind of gruff, but smart fella, and

576
00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:06.400
a tentive, you know. And so he gets up and

577
00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:08.160
he looks out of his front window to kind of

578
00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:10.440
see what that noise might have been, and he noticed

579
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:14.079
that a car backed out of Dan's driveway pretty quickly.

580
00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:16.480
He said, it was a silver or a white Prius,

581
00:30:16.799 --> 00:30:19.039
and it backed out really fast and then it took

582
00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:23.279
off down the street. Well, it was like a really

583
00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:26.400
quick back out, almost like squealing tires back out, And

584
00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:29.960
so mister Geiger walked outside and kind of wanted to

585
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:31.119
see what was going on.

586
00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:34.440
So his thought process was this, there had.

587
00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:37.319
Been burglaries in the neighborhood recently, and so he was like,

588
00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:40.559
I hope somebody wasn't breaking into Dan's house. So when

589
00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:42.799
he walked over there and he got to the house,

590
00:30:43.079 --> 00:30:45.400
he saw that the garage door was open and Dan

591
00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:48.599
was in his car. It was still running. So he figured, oh, oh,

592
00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:51.319
I'm wrong, He's getting in his car to leave. So

593
00:30:51.400 --> 00:30:53.160
he just turned around and he walked and he went

594
00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:56.319
back home. But as he looked out of the window

595
00:30:56.559 --> 00:30:59.839
of his front little bay window area, he never saw

596
00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:03.400
Danny leave, and so that struck him as odd. About

597
00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:05.880
five or ten minutes would go by and Danny never

598
00:31:05.960 --> 00:31:09.400
backed out, and so something in his gut told him

599
00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:12.079
to walk back over, just go back over there, maybe

600
00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:15.160
double check and make sure Dan's okay. So he went

601
00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:17.720
back out of the house, and as mister Geiger approached

602
00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:20.480
the car, he realized that he needed to call nine

603
00:31:20.519 --> 00:31:21.920
one one immediately.

604
00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:24.480
Give it a listen, I one.

605
00:31:24.519 --> 00:31:26.960
I want to see yes of your emergency. Okay. So

606
00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:31.039
I can't tell you exactly what happened. We heard it

607
00:31:31.079 --> 00:31:33.799
looked in the garage. Door was up, and I thought

608
00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:36.599
the gentleman was backing out, and I went back to

609
00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:38.759
my house, but he never backed out. And I came

610
00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:43.279
back over and his wind his driver's side, the window

611
00:31:43.359 --> 00:31:47.279
is shattered and he spattered. You can't answer. He's inside.

612
00:31:47.319 --> 00:31:50.000
I don't know if somebody tried to shoot him, or

613
00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:52.599
if he shot himself or what. I don't know. He

614
00:31:52.599 --> 00:32:00.319
didn't sent an ambulance in a hurry, neam king alive.

615
00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:06.799
He's moving, Okay, What's what's going on with him? I

616
00:32:06.839 --> 00:32:10.720
don't know. The driver's side window is all bashed in

617
00:32:11.240 --> 00:32:14.880
and he's got blood all over his head. He's not

618
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:18.839
responding to me, thinking me to hurry. Yeah, I'm gonna

619
00:32:18.839 --> 00:32:20.039
get him on the way to you. I just want

620
00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:23.240
to ask you a few questions. Okay, go ahead, but

621
00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:25.960
send him as you're asking. Yes, they're they're already on

622
00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:29.599
the way okay him now, I'm standing right outside the

623
00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:31.880
garage door. Can you tell me how old he is?

624
00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:36.000
I don't know. He looks like maybe thirty five or forty.

625
00:32:36.759 --> 00:32:41.319
Hang on one second for me, okay, Okay, all right, sir,

626
00:32:41.559 --> 00:32:44.240
I apologize about that. What was the How old is

627
00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:46.519
the patient again? I'm sorry. I can't tell. He looks

628
00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:50.359
maybe thirty five or forty, I don't know, Okay. And

629
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:54.799
it's he awake. He's just moving his head around, but

630
00:32:54.839 --> 00:32:58.559
he's not responding. I call his name, asked what's going on?

631
00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:00.240
And I call his name, asking what's happen. I think

632
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:02.640
he's not responding to that, but his head's kind of

633
00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:08.000
rolling around. Okay. Is he conscious? Well, I can't tell. Okay.

634
00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:12.279
Is he breathing? I can't tell that. I'm assuming he's

635
00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:14.880
breathing at these movement his head around. Did you ever

636
00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:16.680
hear him talk or anything?

637
00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:17.640
No?

638
00:33:18.319 --> 00:33:22.359
Okay, he said he's sitting in the car right correct,

639
00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:25.839
the driver's suit. Okay. Wherever exactly is he in the

640
00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:28.279
driver's seat, Yeah, in the driver's seat. Is he in

641
00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:33.039
the garage or in the garage? Okay? Can you direct

642
00:33:33.079 --> 00:33:35.000
the emergency crewise to him? Sir? Sure?

643
00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:37.359
Now, that's just part of the nine on one call.

644
00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:39.480
It was actually a very long one. But mister Goger

645
00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:41.079
would go on to explain that he couldn't tell if

646
00:33:41.119 --> 00:33:43.400
this was a suicide attempt or what, but he was

647
00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:46.519
very adamant. He needs an EMT. He needs somebody quickly.

648
00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:49.480
This is not going to be this is not going well.

649
00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:52.079
And he said, I mean, his head was just thrashing

650
00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:55.279
back and forth, but he wasn't responding, He wasn't making

651
00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:58.440
any sense, and he surely wasn't answering any questions as

652
00:33:58.440 --> 00:33:59.200
he yelled at him.

653
00:33:59.319 --> 00:34:00.519
You know, Dan, Dan.

654
00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:06.000
So the police got there pretty quickly and they're waiting

655
00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:08.960
to try to get Dan out of there. Matter of fact,

656
00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:10.920
they would actually take a lot of flack about this

657
00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:13.840
because I believe it took the ambulance nineteen minutes to

658
00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:16.880
get there, which is unheard of. That's kind of a

659
00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:19.719
side point here. But they were doing whatever they could

660
00:34:19.719 --> 00:34:21.840
for Dan until they were able to card him off

661
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:26.079
and try to save his life. But the neighbor, mister Geiger,

662
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:28.599
never left the area, and so this would be really

663
00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:31.760
important because he would tell police what had happened and

664
00:34:31.800 --> 00:34:34.400
that he had seen that that prius pull out, and

665
00:34:34.440 --> 00:34:36.119
he thought that that really might have had something to

666
00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:39.079
do with what happened to Dan. So Dan was loaded

667
00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:42.039
up eventually transported to a local hospital where he was

668
00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:48.119
listed as extremely critical by doctors. Now his wounds were horrific.

669
00:34:48.559 --> 00:34:53.639
He had multiple penetrating injuries to his head. One of

670
00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:58.400
the injuries was straight to the middle of his forehead.

671
00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:03.320
I'm talking a bullet hole straight through the middle of

672
00:35:03.400 --> 00:35:07.840
his forehead, and another bullet hole was over his cheek

673
00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:12.800
and almost into his eye area. So both of his

674
00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:17.320
eyes were super super swollen. It was very evident that

675
00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:20.920
he had sustained extreme trauma. His face was bloodied and

676
00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:24.880
there was also this massive bruising around his eyes. When

677
00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:27.519
the doctor was looking him over, he was bleeding out

678
00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:30.239
of his eyes, his nose, his ears.

679
00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:34.360
I mean, this was just this was horrific.

680
00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:38.920
And he had to be intubated during the resuscitation attempts

681
00:35:38.920 --> 00:35:41.039
because he was not doing well and not breathing well

682
00:35:41.039 --> 00:35:44.280
on his own. So everything was done that could possibly

683
00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:46.400
be done by doctors, and all they really could do

684
00:35:46.519 --> 00:35:49.079
was hope for the best once they got him stabilized.

685
00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:53.360
So Dan's body would hold on for about twelve hours,

686
00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:57.719
but he would eventually pass away. He just couldn't fight

687
00:35:57.800 --> 00:36:00.400
the extreme trauma that had happened to his head into

688
00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:03.679
his brain. So his body was transported to the Medical

689
00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:06.400
Examiner's office for an autopsy, which was done by a

690
00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:11.480
doctor Anthony Howard, And so doctor Howard had to clean

691
00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:14.000
his face up really well to even be able to

692
00:36:14.039 --> 00:36:16.920
tell what was going on. Once he got in cleaned up, though,

693
00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:19.800
it was very obvious that there were two bullet holes

694
00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:22.199
to his face. There was a great deal of swelling

695
00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:25.440
still whenever he made it to the doctor, and a

696
00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:27.719
great deal of distortion to the left side of his

697
00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:30.920
face in particular. And the doctor even said in his

698
00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:33.920
report he put what he referred to as raccoon eyes,

699
00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:38.760
because Dan's face now had these black bruises, massive black

700
00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:40.199
bruises around his eyes.

701
00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:43.280
It looked just like a raccoon's face would look. One

702
00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:43.480
of the.

703
00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:46.039
Bullets, like I told you, had entered into his cheek. Well,

704
00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:49.800
that bullet entered into his cheek, his left cheek, right

705
00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:53.440
right kind of by his eye, and it stopped just

706
00:36:53.559 --> 00:36:55.559
below his ear, so it was kind of like a

707
00:36:55.599 --> 00:36:59.679
downward angle how it had entered into his head. He

708
00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:02.760
also noted that he had scratches and bruising on his nose,

709
00:37:03.280 --> 00:37:05.719
but based on what had happened at the scene, the

710
00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:09.400
doctor believed that scratching was from the glass from the window,

711
00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:12.800
that when the bullet shattered and went through it, that

712
00:37:12.840 --> 00:37:15.239
glass blew back at such a fast rate that it

713
00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:18.400
caused the scratches on his face. And then the second bullet,

714
00:37:18.400 --> 00:37:22.119
as I mentioned mentioned that he was struck with, entered right.

715
00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:24.800
I mean, it was like almost between his eyes where

716
00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:30.039
his eyeglasses would have sat, and the wound to his

717
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:33.159
face right there was really irregular looking, but it was

718
00:37:33.239 --> 00:37:37.519
because whenever the bullet hit, it hit his glasses first,

719
00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:41.760
and so strangely enough, the glass itself, like the lens,

720
00:37:42.119 --> 00:37:45.719
protected his eyeballs from getting glass and shattering all of that,

721
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:49.239
because they didn't shatter, but the frame hit his face

722
00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:52.519
and then it went straight through the frame. The frame shattered,

723
00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:54.679
and then the bullet entered straight into his face and

724
00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:57.440
it rested into the back of his skull. So lots

725
00:37:57.440 --> 00:37:59.880
of swelling due to those skull fractures, and because of that,

726
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:02.280
there was a lot of fluid that ended up rusting

727
00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:04.679
in his eye area. And I'm not I'm not saying

728
00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:07.079
all this to be graphic. I'm saying all this to

729
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:10.159
tell you just how traumatic this was to and what

730
00:38:10.280 --> 00:38:14.119
he was still alive and dealing with before he passed, and.

731
00:38:14.119 --> 00:38:16.280
As far as the rest of his body.

732
00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:18.599
He even had a bruise on his arm, which was

733
00:38:18.800 --> 00:38:21.199
noted at the hospital, but it was kind of strange

734
00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:24.400
that he would have this, this random bruise on his arm.

735
00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:28.320
So the medical examiner looks it over and he believed

736
00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:31.599
what happened was the first shot was actually the one

737
00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:35.079
to the cheek. So whoever this was, was a shot

738
00:38:35.079 --> 00:38:37.719
through the window. It hit him in the cheek, and

739
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:43.360
that wasn't necessarily a fatal or instantly I guess incapacitating

740
00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:46.880
wound because as it hit him, Dan he believed, threw

741
00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:50.400
up his left arm to like naturally shield himself from

742
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:54.039
whatever was coming. And that second shot would have then

743
00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:57.480
been closer because the bad guy or the gunman could

744
00:38:57.480 --> 00:38:59.679
have reached in through the window. There's no more glass

745
00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:02.800
in the way now, and so he was closer in

746
00:39:03.320 --> 00:39:06.760
when he took that shot. So there was also some

747
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:10.280
soot or stippling on the forearm, and he believed that's

748
00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:12.880
because the gun was closer he threw the arm up.

749
00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:17.800
The soot from the gun transferred as Dan's glasses also exploded,

750
00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:20.360
and the frame must have flew and.

751
00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:22.000
Hit the arm and caused the bruise.

752
00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:24.440
Now, I know some people might question, because I actually

753
00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:27.079
did too, what do you mean the soot transferred from

754
00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:30.440
the firearm, because I automatically always think like a nine millimeter.

755
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:32.400
I don't know whyever that or maybe a twenty two

756
00:39:32.480 --> 00:39:34.119
or something. That's what I always go to in these

757
00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:38.559
types of instances. But the report added that he thought

758
00:39:38.599 --> 00:39:42.400
it was soot because he believed a revolver was used,

759
00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:44.719
and in a revolver, just real quick, there's a gap

760
00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:47.079
between the cylinder and the frame of the weapon and

761
00:39:47.119 --> 00:39:50.920
so gases are expelled through that gap after firing. And

762
00:39:51.079 --> 00:39:54.199
based on the shape of the bruise pattern, it seemed

763
00:39:54.239 --> 00:39:56.599
like that was what happened, is that that soot came

764
00:39:56.639 --> 00:39:58.639
out and that's what was on Dan's arm and it

765
00:39:58.719 --> 00:40:01.719
must have been a revolver. So at the crime scene,

766
00:40:02.199 --> 00:40:04.920
there really wasn't much to go on, like, nothing really

767
00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:07.159
to go on other than they knew Dan had been shot,

768
00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:11.360
but robbery was ruled out because Dan's wallet was still

769
00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:14.079
in the car, and that sucker was fat. I have pictures,

770
00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:15.760
by the way, I put all this on Patreon for you,

771
00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:18.199
but that sucker was fat, Like physically, I was like, dang,

772
00:40:18.239 --> 00:40:20.119
his spine must have hurt sitting on top of that

773
00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:22.280
day in and day out. And it had money in it,

774
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:26.440
so it wasn't robbery. They would have taken the wallet.

775
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:31.400
There was shattered glass on the garage floor and the

776
00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:34.320
one half of his eyeglasses were in the middle of

777
00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:36.760
the garage floor. Of that in the middle of that

778
00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:41.400
glass in the on the garage floor, there weren't lenses

779
00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:43.199
in it though, But this would match up with what

780
00:40:43.239 --> 00:40:45.840
the police, what the medical examiner would say, because they

781
00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:49.800
located the lenses of the glasses inside the car on

782
00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:53.480
the floorboard, still intact. So it seemed obvious to the

783
00:40:53.480 --> 00:40:56.039
police also that the glasses must have snapped due to

784
00:40:56.079 --> 00:41:01.079
the bullet, and that Dan's must have just taken these

785
00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:04.039
shots and didn't have much to say or much that

786
00:41:04.079 --> 00:41:06.880
he could do before he was just completely incapacitated by

787
00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:10.480
the action. But knowing how brutal Dan's last moments were

788
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:14.480
only led to more questions. Really so Dan had the

789
00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:17.360
kids that day, he had custody that day. So the

790
00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:20.159
first question is where are the kids? You know, were

791
00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:23.880
they kidnapped? Was this a kidnapping situation? But police would

792
00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:26.440
find out that Dan had brought them to daycare that morning.

793
00:41:26.679 --> 00:41:28.920
They were fine, They were dropped off a daycare, and

794
00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:31.559
then after daycare, Dan went to the gym.

795
00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:33.199
I told you he was a fit guy.

796
00:41:33.239 --> 00:41:35.920
He liked to work out, so he got his workout

797
00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:37.960
in at the gym, and then he went home to

798
00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:41.440
shower and get ready for his day. But police believe

799
00:41:41.519 --> 00:41:44.079
this was an ambush and he got shot before he

800
00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:46.920
could even get out of his seat in the garage.

801
00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:49.360
But thankfully, like I told you, mister Geiger was able

802
00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:51.519
to give that information on that car that was speeding away,

803
00:41:51.800 --> 00:41:54.039
and that would be something that the police would try

804
00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:55.440
to jump on immediately.

805
00:41:56.239 --> 00:41:58.880
But also who would have had.

806
00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:02.679
The motive to do this was the question that they had,

807
00:42:03.320 --> 00:42:06.760
as well as who could possibly benefit from the death

808
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:07.280
of Dan.

809
00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:09.559
All of those things are are the obvious questions.

810
00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:13.199
So police went straight to the presumptive number one suspect

811
00:42:13.519 --> 00:42:15.840
in any attack like this, and it's the same person

812
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:19.559
you're thinking right now is say this say it with me, Wendy,

813
00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:22.239
right the ex wife. Who else would be more pissed

814
00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:26.000
off that than the ex wife? So when she was

815
00:42:26.039 --> 00:42:31.679
told about Dan's shooting, she completely fell apart at the

816
00:42:31.719 --> 00:42:35.960
shock of it. She was like, you know what happened?

817
00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:37.239
Why?

818
00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:38.039
You know?

819
00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:38.519
Who?

820
00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:41.800
Give me some more information, none of which the police

821
00:42:41.840 --> 00:42:44.079
had answers to in that moment. Remember, as I'm telling

822
00:42:44.119 --> 00:42:46.800
you it right now, Dan wasn't dead yet and he's

823
00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:49.400
still at the hospital fighting for his life.

824
00:42:49.719 --> 00:42:51.199
So police then would take.

825
00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:54.960
The normal steps of explaining that we have to exclude you, Wendy.

826
00:42:55.079 --> 00:42:58.159
We just you're the number one, You're right here, you're

827
00:42:58.199 --> 00:42:59.960
the closest, and you're the only one who would probably

828
00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:02.639
be thought of as angry enough to do this. So

829
00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:06.440
she's like, whatever, no problem. She complied with all of

830
00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:10.239
their requests, and she says, you know, we had a

831
00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:14.920
bitter divorce, but I never would have wanted him dead. Okay,

832
00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:17.239
I never would I have ever wanted him to die.

833
00:43:17.400 --> 00:43:20.840
Whatever you need, I'll do it. So she let them

834
00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:24.079
take photos of her. They swabbed her hands for gunshot residue,

835
00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:26.159
They did the whole nine yards everything you would expect.

836
00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:28.480
They even took her cell phone to review it. They

837
00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:33.039
photographed her van. They questioned her about her whereabouts that day,

838
00:43:33.119 --> 00:43:36.159
and she was very open. She shared with them, I

839
00:43:36.239 --> 00:43:39.440
had a TV repairman that came earlier in the morning

840
00:43:39.480 --> 00:43:43.280
because my TV wasn't working properly. She said that she

841
00:43:43.519 --> 00:43:45.719
I think maybe the kids or something had thrown something

842
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:48.920
at the TV, and so she was getting it repaired.

843
00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:52.639
After that, she ran to a grocery store or a

844
00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:54.960
liquor store because she was attending a stock the bar

845
00:43:55.079 --> 00:43:58.079
type party later on and so she needed to go

846
00:43:58.119 --> 00:44:01.280
get the liquor for that. And then after that she

847
00:44:01.320 --> 00:44:04.519
went and she met her friends for lunch, which this

848
00:44:04.559 --> 00:44:07.239
would easily be proven too. First of all, she didn't

849
00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:09.800
drive a Prius. Her van was a Maroon Odyssey, and

850
00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:12.360
the receipt for the alcohol and the bottle of alcohol

851
00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:15.639
were still in her car as well, so her alibi

852
00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:18.599
was pretty frick and solid. Also, she did go eat

853
00:44:18.679 --> 00:44:20.880
lunch with her friends because the police that's where they

854
00:44:20.880 --> 00:44:23.599
had found her to get her to come bring her

855
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:24.960
to tell her to break the news to her about

856
00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:28.519
her her ex husband's passing, So pretty solid alibi.

857
00:44:28.239 --> 00:44:29.760
Through and through well.

858
00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:33.440
A few days later, on July twenty first, the Tallahassee

859
00:44:33.480 --> 00:44:35.679
police department decided that they wanted to create a tip

860
00:44:35.719 --> 00:44:40.599
line that was dedicated just for the investigation of Dan's murder,

861
00:44:40.800 --> 00:44:42.760
and they were very clear when they set up this

862
00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:44.800
tip line. They did not believe that this was a

863
00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:48.480
random act of violence, and they added to that, not

864
00:44:48.519 --> 00:44:50.679
only do we think it's not random, but we don't

865
00:44:50.679 --> 00:44:53.719
believe that it was burglary and there was no entry

866
00:44:53.760 --> 00:44:56.880
to the home after he was shot. Well, come on, y'all,

867
00:44:56.880 --> 00:45:01.559
the age old motives for murder, sex, money, revenge, That's

868
00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:03.440
what it all boils down to. I don't care what

869
00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:06.159
murdered her, is it always boils down to one or

870
00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:10.239
more of those. Well, money wasn't the motive, and so

871
00:45:10.320 --> 00:45:12.360
that leaves them down to sex or revenge.

872
00:45:12.719 --> 00:45:16.519
So let's talk sex real quick. There was no jealous X.

873
00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:23.000
Angry yes, frustrated yes, but there was no jealous X

874
00:45:23.199 --> 00:45:28.320
either way. Wendy wasn't going after whoever Dan was Dayton,

875
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:32.719
and Dan wasn't going after Jeff that Wendy was Dayton,

876
00:45:33.880 --> 00:45:37.159
So both of them had moved forward, and the police

877
00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:39.159
wondered who might.

878
00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:41.159
Have had motive if sex was involved.

879
00:45:41.559 --> 00:45:44.960
Well, Wendy did pipe up at that point, and she said, well,

880
00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:50.599
I mean I was dating this guy, Jeff, and recently

881
00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:53.440
I said that I wanted to break from him because

882
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:56.159
they had gotten into an argument, is what happened. And

883
00:45:56.199 --> 00:45:59.039
she said I wanted to break from him. He wasn't

884
00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:02.639
thrilled about it, but I was done. I didn't want

885
00:46:02.679 --> 00:46:06.039
to remain dating him anymore. And so maybe I drove

886
00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:09.079
him to do it, because I don't know why, but

887
00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:11.920
maybe if he wanted to go remove the one person

888
00:46:11.920 --> 00:46:14.679
who was causing me so much grief, then I could

889
00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:16.480
just focus on Jeff.

890
00:46:16.519 --> 00:46:18.400
I mean, I hate to think that, but maybe he

891
00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:18.800
did it.

892
00:46:19.719 --> 00:46:21.719
And it certainly was something that police were willing to

893
00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:24.719
look into, and so they called Jeff and they said, hey,

894
00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:25.920
why don't you come in. We'd like to have a

895
00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:28.760
little chat with you. So Jeff comes in, no problem,

896
00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:33.440
and Jeff admits it is true he loves Wendy and

897
00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:36.039
he did want at one point to kick Dan's ass,

898
00:46:36.239 --> 00:46:38.119
but it was because of the stress that Dan was

899
00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:45.320
causing Wendy. But murder, no freaking way, absolutely not. So

900
00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:47.039
police asked him, okay, well where were you on the

901
00:46:47.079 --> 00:46:50.360
day of the murder, and Jeff explained he stayed at

902
00:46:50.360 --> 00:46:53.480
a really crappy days in motel which was near Atlanta,

903
00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:57.360
about one hundred miles away, and he wasn't anywhere near

904
00:46:57.559 --> 00:47:00.679
Dan's home whenever he was presumed to have been murdered.

905
00:47:01.599 --> 00:47:04.320
And this when police went investigated, was actually proven to

906
00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:07.280
be true. Everything he said about where he was was

907
00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:10.480
proven to be true and they ruled him out. So

908
00:47:10.599 --> 00:47:14.280
back to that prius, Okay police decided to canvass the

909
00:47:14.320 --> 00:47:18.039
area and specifically the roadway that that prius would have

910
00:47:18.119 --> 00:47:20.880
driven down in the neighborhood. They wanted to see does

911
00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:23.280
anybody have security cameras that maybe we could get a

912
00:47:23.320 --> 00:47:25.800
glimpse of this car. Well, it took them about a

913
00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:28.519
week to track something down, but sure enough they were

914
00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:31.719
able to find and spot a Prius that matched that

915
00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:36.079
vehicle description that the neighbor had given. Well. By July

916
00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:39.400
twenty third, police decided that they were going to release

917
00:47:39.480 --> 00:47:42.519
that image of the Prius to the public, and once

918
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:46.599
they did that, the tip line generated over fifty tips

919
00:47:46.679 --> 00:47:51.320
almost immediately from residences and businesses that also had video

920
00:47:51.559 --> 00:47:55.119
around around the area. So while this was all looking

921
00:47:55.199 --> 00:47:58.519
up in terms of the investigation, things were still moving

922
00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:01.440
rather slowly as as far as knocking this out and

923
00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:05.840
solving it, and a year would pass and the case

924
00:48:06.440 --> 00:48:09.000
still wasn't solved well.

925
00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:10.480
Wendy eventually had moved with the.

926
00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:13.199
Kids back to South Florida and had tried to start

927
00:48:13.239 --> 00:48:17.559
anew but back at her former home. Tallahassee police it

928
00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:19.360
was still on the front of their minds, the forefront

929
00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:19.960
of their minds.

930
00:48:20.280 --> 00:48:21.480
They had not given up.

931
00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:23.840
They had to solve this case, and they thought that

932
00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:26.480
that prius had to be a key factor in this.

933
00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:30.800
So an investigator decided to step back and look at

934
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:34.440
the case and try a different approach to iding the

935
00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:36.280
prius that was seen leaving Dan's house.

936
00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:38.480
He decided, Okay, rather.

937
00:48:38.320 --> 00:48:41.440
Than looking at cameras that might be stationed on the roadway,

938
00:48:42.559 --> 00:48:47.119
I want to go pull the public bus systems cameras. Now,

939
00:48:47.599 --> 00:48:49.239
I don't know that I would have thought to do that,

940
00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:51.719
to be honest, I don't think that would have struck

941
00:48:51.719 --> 00:48:55.519
me as something to do because it sounds tedious as hell. Okay,

942
00:48:55.840 --> 00:48:58.400
but a year had passed and this investigator decided to

943
00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:01.639
try it. Basically, public buses, maybe not all of them,

944
00:49:01.639 --> 00:49:03.840
but a lot of them have cameras that are equipped

945
00:49:03.840 --> 00:49:06.360
on the side of them, and they film the streets

946
00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:09.360
while they're in operation, and this includes the lanes that

947
00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:12.480
run alongside of the buses. You know, if they're in

948
00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:14.559
the middle lane, it films the lane to the left

949
00:49:14.599 --> 00:49:16.079
and right, and no matter where they are, it's always

950
00:49:16.079 --> 00:49:18.519
able to pick up the side lanes that are traveling

951
00:49:18.559 --> 00:49:22.840
and also in front of them. Well, when reviewing hours

952
00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:26.960
and hours and hours of tape, sure enough, if that

953
00:49:27.239 --> 00:49:32.079
investigator didn't find a Prius passing a bus right near

954
00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:35.800
the area of the time of Dan's murder, it was

955
00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:39.599
grainy as hell, and the driver couldn't be made out. Okay,

956
00:49:39.599 --> 00:49:42.880
it wasn't very good quality, but there was something in

957
00:49:42.920 --> 00:49:46.400
the window of that Prius that caught the investigator's attention,

958
00:49:46.840 --> 00:49:49.719
and it was a toll pass. You know, those like

959
00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:52.519
sun pass tolls that you see when you're heading to

960
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:54.760
Florida for vacation. And when the closer you get to Florida,

961
00:49:54.840 --> 00:49:57.559
everybody starts having those sun passes so that people don't

962
00:49:57.599 --> 00:49:59.360
have to drive through and stop at the toll. They

963
00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:01.360
can just go through and it charges based on their pass.

964
00:50:01.400 --> 00:50:05.760
You know those things, Well, they'll get you, okay. Well,

965
00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:09.840
the reason that it caught the investigator's attention is because

966
00:50:09.840 --> 00:50:12.840
Tallahassee doesn't really have a lot of toll passes.

967
00:50:13.559 --> 00:50:15.039
So his thought process was.

968
00:50:15.039 --> 00:50:18.079
Well, maybe this car was from somewhere else and it

969
00:50:18.199 --> 00:50:23.519
drove to Tallahassee for the murder rather than originating in Tallahassee.

970
00:50:23.679 --> 00:50:26.800
So this led the investigator to pull toll road passes

971
00:50:27.159 --> 00:50:31.239
during the time before and after their murder took place.

972
00:50:31.320 --> 00:50:33.840
And sure enough, and I hate to make it this simple,

973
00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:37.119
because it was tedious as hell, again, he was able

974
00:50:37.159 --> 00:50:41.559
to id the very vehicle where it came from, and it.

975
00:50:41.559 --> 00:50:42.920
Was North Miami.

976
00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:48.920
So this would set off an even further investigation on

977
00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:51.599
what's going on in Miami. And it turns out where

978
00:50:51.599 --> 00:50:54.840
the vehicle was rented from was not this big industry

979
00:50:55.400 --> 00:50:58.440
known name. It was like a little small mom and

980
00:50:58.519 --> 00:51:00.960
poplic in business that had a very tiny fleet that

981
00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:04.000
you could rent. So when investigators contacted the business for

982
00:51:04.039 --> 00:51:06.599
a name of who had rented the vehicle, that's when

983
00:51:06.599 --> 00:51:07.719
they got the contract.

984
00:51:08.159 --> 00:51:13.079
They got the name Luis Rivera. Y'all on trippin' I didn't.

985
00:51:14.360 --> 00:51:15.440
I don't know why I said it like that.

986
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:20.239
Okay, here Louise Rivera, bingo, Okay, they have a name

987
00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:21.880
that they could at least work with.

988
00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:23.360
And so this was this was huge.

989
00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:26.679
And it turns out that that name was one that

990
00:51:26.920 --> 00:51:29.880
was way more well known to that area than you

991
00:51:29.880 --> 00:51:33.480
would expect. But the local police knew him because he

992
00:51:33.639 --> 00:51:37.679
was a member of the Almighty Latin Kings. A little

993
00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:41.199
word about the Latin Kings. They are not a group

994
00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:44.639
to be laughed off. The Latin Kings, y'all, are a

995
00:51:44.760 --> 00:51:50.639
legit organization. They are authoritarian and very violent, but they're

996
00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:54.199
also organized, and that's to me a scary combo. Whenever

997
00:51:54.199 --> 00:51:57.920
you're extremely violent and you're organized, that's that's that's something

998
00:51:57.960 --> 00:52:00.400
to be said there. They have their own content institution,

999
00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:03.960
by the way, and they have bylaws. Their members know it,

1000
00:52:04.440 --> 00:52:08.440
they memorize it. Their current membership is estimated to be

1001
00:52:08.519 --> 00:52:11.719
upwards of thirty five thousand members across the US.

1002
00:52:12.159 --> 00:52:12.760
It's big.

1003
00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:16.559
They have chapters and they operate in one hundred and

1004
00:52:16.599 --> 00:52:21.239
fifty eight cities across thirty four states. Okay, so the

1005
00:52:21.320 --> 00:52:25.360
members of these of this gang tend to be Mexican

1006
00:52:25.400 --> 00:52:28.639
American or Puerto Rican. There are a lot of males

1007
00:52:28.679 --> 00:52:32.000
involved and they make their money usually doing street level

1008
00:52:32.159 --> 00:52:39.000
distribution of dope. We're talking cocaine, heroin, marijuana, okay, whatever. Well,

1009
00:52:39.440 --> 00:52:42.000
the members also like to be violent, like I told you, so,

1010
00:52:42.039 --> 00:52:45.679
they'll commit burglary, homicides, aren't out of their pay grade.

1011
00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:47.159
They'll do money laundering.

1012
00:52:47.280 --> 00:52:51.920
Just a really really nasty group of gangsters that mean business.

1013
00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:54.880
So in terms of size and violence and how much

1014
00:52:54.920 --> 00:52:58.199
do they actually penetrate into the communities around or outside

1015
00:52:58.239 --> 00:53:01.719
their localized area where they stay, they score an eight

1016
00:53:01.840 --> 00:53:06.119
out of ten on a threat severity level by law enforcement.

1017
00:53:06.159 --> 00:53:06.920
You can look that up to.

1018
00:53:07.039 --> 00:53:10.320
I'm not exaggerating or sensationalizing this.

1019
00:53:10.320 --> 00:53:12.760
This is not a joke. This group is not a joke.

1020
00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:14.440
They are dangerous people.

1021
00:53:14.760 --> 00:53:17.840
And if you watch movies and stuff about gangsters, if

1022
00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:20.119
you like gangster movies, they kind of allude to this

1023
00:53:20.159 --> 00:53:22.360
sometimes if it's a Hispanic gangster and if they have

1024
00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:25.280
a five point crown like a like a king would wear.

1025
00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:28.159
If there's a five point crown tattoo, that's their most

1026
00:53:28.199 --> 00:53:32.719
notable visual that you'll see, or sometimes you'll see a

1027
00:53:32.719 --> 00:53:38.360
a m l K Almighty Latin Kings something like that. So,

1028
00:53:38.360 --> 00:53:40.679
so dangerous are these guys? Just so you know that

1029
00:53:40.760 --> 00:53:44.079
when gang intel units or gang unit officers go in

1030
00:53:44.119 --> 00:53:47.519
to affect arrests or do busts or whatever. They usually

1031
00:53:47.760 --> 00:53:50.679
hide their faces when they do this, they wear the masks.

1032
00:53:50.679 --> 00:53:52.119
You know you're dealing with some bad dudes when you

1033
00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:54.400
won't even show your face. But they don't want to

1034
00:53:54.400 --> 00:53:57.000
become targets for revenge. They also don't want to give

1035
00:53:57.079 --> 00:53:59.000
up if they're you know, whoever they're infiltrating.

1036
00:53:59.039 --> 00:54:01.440
So pretty serious situation here.

1037
00:54:01.559 --> 00:54:04.039
So as you can imagine from what I've all told

1038
00:54:04.280 --> 00:54:05.920
what I have just told you, it was really hard

1039
00:54:05.920 --> 00:54:09.079
to believe that Dan, of all people, would have ties

1040
00:54:09.119 --> 00:54:13.159
to a Hispanic gang of this magnitude. It just wasn't

1041
00:54:13.159 --> 00:54:16.480
something number one that his character would have entertained. Plus

1042
00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:20.119
he was white, you know, this isn't really a white gang.

1043
00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:24.960
So who is this Louise Rivera and was he the

1044
00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:28.639
shooter of Dan? Became the main question. All of this,

1045
00:54:28.920 --> 00:54:32.599
by the way, happening around the one year anniversary of

1046
00:54:32.679 --> 00:54:35.360
Dan's murder and a year I just want to point out,

1047
00:54:35.360 --> 00:54:37.199
that's a really, really long time for a family to

1048
00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:39.480
wait for justice, whatever justice means to you.

1049
00:54:39.760 --> 00:54:40.599
I used to think.

1050
00:54:40.559 --> 00:54:43.519
Justice meant, you know, like dunt dunk justice, you know,

1051
00:54:43.599 --> 00:54:46.960
it served. But the more the older I've gotten and

1052
00:54:47.039 --> 00:54:52.159
the more I've experienced crime and criminality and victimhood and

1053
00:54:52.280 --> 00:54:53.599
victimology and all of that.

1054
00:54:54.719 --> 00:54:57.159
Justice, justice I.

1055
00:54:57.079 --> 00:55:00.519
Don't think is something that the victim ever a chiefs.

1056
00:55:02.199 --> 00:55:05.599
I think justice is our worldly way of saying that

1057
00:55:05.639 --> 00:55:08.119
they were held accountable in the eyes of the law.

1058
00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:12.000
But justice for a victim, I don't think that happens.

1059
00:55:12.239 --> 00:55:13.599
And I don't want to sound I don't want to

1060
00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:15.239
sound jaded when I say that. I mean that from

1061
00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:17.840
the heart of someone who just hurts so bad for

1062
00:55:17.880 --> 00:55:20.920
these people. A year is a very, very long time,

1063
00:55:21.239 --> 00:55:23.360
and you're not knowing who did this to your son,

1064
00:55:24.360 --> 00:55:26.280
why it was done. That has to be the most

1065
00:55:26.320 --> 00:55:31.000
painful and exhausting year of their lives. And I would

1066
00:55:31.039 --> 00:55:32.960
be angry too that no one had been held accountable

1067
00:55:32.960 --> 00:55:36.519
for a whole year, wouldn't you. I mean, But regardless,

1068
00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:38.360
it wasn't because the police weren't working.

1069
00:55:38.400 --> 00:55:39.480
They had kept working.

1070
00:55:39.559 --> 00:55:42.320
It's just it was so tedious to go through all

1071
00:55:42.360 --> 00:55:44.519
of those records and all of those reports and the

1072
00:55:44.559 --> 00:55:48.159
manpower it takes to do that. So they found that

1073
00:55:48.239 --> 00:55:51.519
Louise was a leader in this gang too, y'all, not

1074
00:55:51.679 --> 00:55:54.760
just a little like not just a little road soldier

1075
00:55:54.760 --> 00:55:55.639
that went and did whatever.

1076
00:55:55.719 --> 00:55:56.559
He was a leader.

1077
00:55:57.159 --> 00:56:00.960
Matter of fact, he was the shot caller. As if

1078
00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:02.760
you look at the terminal, you remember that song wanna

1079
00:56:02.840 --> 00:56:05.440
be a ball A shot call? You know you do

1080
00:56:05.480 --> 00:56:08.599
if you're forty all right. Well, he was a shot caller,

1081
00:56:09.159 --> 00:56:12.519
specifically for the Northern Miami Beach chapter. And so this

1082
00:56:12.639 --> 00:56:16.079
meant that he ran that PSALM bitch. He was in charge,

1083
00:56:16.159 --> 00:56:19.320
He gave the orders. Not only that he controlled the

1084
00:56:19.360 --> 00:56:20.960
crime activities in that area.

1085
00:56:21.239 --> 00:56:22.880
This was a high level dog here.

1086
00:56:23.239 --> 00:56:25.880
So whenever they were looking at the contract for that

1087
00:56:25.920 --> 00:56:28.719
rental car and they saw his name on there, they

1088
00:56:28.800 --> 00:56:31.360
noted at the very top, just scribbled at the top

1089
00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:35.559
was a word that said brother, just scribbled. There was

1090
00:56:35.599 --> 00:56:38.519
no name or anything handwritten, and it said brother. And

1091
00:56:38.559 --> 00:56:41.840
there was a phone number underneath brother. So the question

1092
00:56:41.960 --> 00:56:45.480
kind of going through officers' minds as they're trying to

1093
00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:47.719
kind of wrap their brains about around what's going on here,

1094
00:56:47.840 --> 00:56:50.880
was was it possible that Dan may have taught a

1095
00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:54.960
Latin king or possibly a Latin king member family member

1096
00:56:55.519 --> 00:56:59.079
and somehow pissed them off, And so they got angry

1097
00:56:59.079 --> 00:57:00.800
with him because after all, but y'all. He was a

1098
00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:03.119
law professor. I'm sure he said a lot of things

1099
00:57:03.119 --> 00:57:06.559
that criminals probably wouldn't like or maybe not agree with.

1100
00:57:07.360 --> 00:57:10.360
So the name of who that brother was became kind

1101
00:57:10.400 --> 00:57:12.639
of important too, And so that phone number was ran

1102
00:57:13.000 --> 00:57:15.800
and it came back to a guy named Sigfredo Garcia,

1103
00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:20.119
who was also from Miami. Now both men were Hispanic,

1104
00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:23.679
but they weren't actually related. They grew up together in

1105
00:57:23.719 --> 00:57:26.440
the projects and they had remained lifelong friends as well

1106
00:57:26.480 --> 00:57:28.760
as very accomplished criminals.

1107
00:57:29.840 --> 00:57:30.519
How sweet is that.

1108
00:57:32.800 --> 00:57:37.039
But they weren't actually brothers for real. So Luis looks

1109
00:57:37.119 --> 00:57:40.280
like a very average guy. He's got a cris pairline,

1110
00:57:40.639 --> 00:57:43.880
a manicured kind of shorter beard. Nothing about him to me,

1111
00:57:44.079 --> 00:57:47.599
like really stood out as crazy. He didn't have face tats,

1112
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:49.679
he didn't look like this raging gangster to me or

1113
00:57:49.679 --> 00:57:54.599
anything like that. Sigfredo is a very very very light

1114
00:57:54.679 --> 00:58:00.519
skinned Hispanic man. But he has got these crystal stole

1115
00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:04.960
blue or greenish eyes like they glow. It is bizarre

1116
00:58:05.039 --> 00:58:07.239
how much they glow. And you can't help but notice

1117
00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:09.960
those first when you see him. I don't care if

1118
00:58:09.960 --> 00:58:12.440
he puts a ski mask on, you will notice those

1119
00:58:12.440 --> 00:58:14.800
eyeballs and again I put pictures of him on Patreon

1120
00:58:14.840 --> 00:58:18.280
for you. So iding these men was great. But what

1121
00:58:18.360 --> 00:58:20.840
was even better was that they had the cell phone numbers,

1122
00:58:20.880 --> 00:58:22.760
because this meant that they.

1123
00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:24.920
Could research They me and the police could research the.

1124
00:58:24.880 --> 00:58:27.679
Cell phone data, and by doing that, it would kind

1125
00:58:27.679 --> 00:58:30.239
of tell a story as to what all was going on,

1126
00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:33.440
at least with those cell phones. So even if that

1127
00:58:33.519 --> 00:58:37.480
story would become just dots on a map showing cell

1128
00:58:37.559 --> 00:58:41.719
tower usage, those dots would travel as time passed, and

1129
00:58:41.760 --> 00:58:44.639
basically it would provide a digital roadmap on the day

1130
00:58:44.679 --> 00:58:47.480
of the murder if they had those phones with them,

1131
00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:50.519
so it would really be easy also to rule them

1132
00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:52.880
out as suspects if if that's the case, what if

1133
00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:55.760
those phones were, you know, being used somewhere else. So

1134
00:58:56.280 --> 00:58:59.840
the reports were requested via a warrant and there was

1135
00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:03.360
sults came back in so on July sixteenth of twenty fourteen,

1136
00:59:04.159 --> 00:59:08.119
their phones showed that both men were in fact traveling

1137
00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:13.159
from northern Miami to Tallahassee, and it took them roughly

1138
00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:16.760
seven hours to make that trip. So that drive brought

1139
00:59:16.760 --> 00:59:19.199
them into Tallahassee. It was just after midnight when they

1140
00:59:19.280 --> 00:59:22.760
got there, so their drive not only took them into Tallahassee,

1141
00:59:23.000 --> 00:59:27.039
but the actual towers that the cell phones were bouncing

1142
00:59:27.119 --> 00:59:31.159
off of were really close to the vicinity of Dan's home. Now,

1143
00:59:31.199 --> 00:59:33.199
I don't believe in coincidences, just so you know, I

1144
00:59:33.239 --> 00:59:36.599
say that a lot, but you're hopefully starting to see

1145
00:59:36.639 --> 00:59:40.880
a trend in my storytelling episode after episode, and that's

1146
00:59:40.880 --> 00:59:43.719
why I am the way that I am. The men

1147
00:59:43.960 --> 00:59:46.320
then went and they checked into a hotel on North

1148
00:59:46.400 --> 00:59:50.320
Monroe Street. The next morning, their cell phone records showed

1149
00:59:50.360 --> 00:59:53.880
them right near the gym that Dan had worked out

1150
00:59:53.920 --> 00:59:57.400
at the morning of his death. So video surveillance that

1151
00:59:57.480 --> 01:00:02.199
was previously pulled from the gym would show something pretty interesting. Dan,

1152
01:00:02.280 --> 01:00:07.199
who drove a black Honda, literally passes that prius in

1153
01:00:07.239 --> 01:00:12.559
the parking lot going opposite directions. So Dan parked his vehicle,

1154
01:00:12.599 --> 01:00:14.880
he went inside. He's wearing a red T shirt and

1155
01:00:14.880 --> 01:00:17.000
black shorts, carrying only his keys in his hand.

1156
01:00:17.320 --> 01:00:18.119
He worked out.

1157
01:00:18.360 --> 01:00:22.320
He was there the entire time working out, and while

1158
01:00:22.320 --> 01:00:24.960
he was doing that that entire time, the Prius was

1159
01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:29.840
outside in that parking lot slowly driving around. But if

1160
01:00:29.880 --> 01:00:32.639
you watch the car, no one ever gets out of

1161
01:00:32.639 --> 01:00:35.920
the Prius, and no one ever comes from outside of

1162
01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:37.639
the gym to get in it, and no one from

1163
01:00:37.880 --> 01:00:41.119
the car goes into the gym. The car also never

1164
01:00:41.239 --> 01:00:46.360
left the parking lot. But later, when Dan exited from

1165
01:00:46.440 --> 01:00:49.039
his workout and he got into his car, he left

1166
01:00:49.079 --> 01:00:52.840
the parking lot, and wouldn't you know that Prius conveniently

1167
01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:56.320
followed him just a few paces behind. So, as you

1168
01:00:56.320 --> 01:00:58.800
already know, the public buses were out and working, but

1169
01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:01.719
specifically on a time stamp at ten forty four am,

1170
01:01:02.079 --> 01:01:06.039
that a bus caught Dan driving past it. It's the

1171
01:01:06.159 --> 01:01:09.159
front view, like he passed in front of it, and

1172
01:01:09.199 --> 01:01:11.639
wouldn't you know it, right after he passes straight through

1173
01:01:11.639 --> 01:01:15.119
the front of the bus a Prius. That same Prius

1174
01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:19.559
also just seconds later goes right past the camera as well.

1175
01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:22.960
And it's chilling to watch, Honestly, it's chilling because a

1176
01:01:23.079 --> 01:01:27.679
man is being unsuspectingly hunted like prey, and you know

1177
01:01:27.760 --> 01:01:30.039
that he has no clue that this is happening to

1178
01:01:30.360 --> 01:01:32.920
He had dropped his babies off at daycare that morning,

1179
01:01:32.920 --> 01:01:36.519
and he never realized, he never realized that that was

1180
01:01:36.559 --> 01:01:38.679
the last time that he was ever gonna hold those

1181
01:01:38.679 --> 01:01:41.920
babies or hold their hands He didn't know that he

1182
01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:44.960
was in somebody's sights. He never knew that that was

1183
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:48.079
his last kiss goodbye to his babies, nor in his

1184
01:01:48.239 --> 01:01:52.000
wildest dreams could even ever imagine that a Latin King

1185
01:01:52.239 --> 01:01:55.800
gang member or two would be following him through his.

1186
01:01:55.719 --> 01:01:56.639
Stops that day.

1187
01:01:57.719 --> 01:02:01.599
And just fifteen minutes so that bus caught those images

1188
01:02:01.599 --> 01:02:05.840
of both vehicles passing through. Dan was shot, so a

1189
01:02:05.880 --> 01:02:10.280
timeline was starting to take place, and the Prius was

1190
01:02:10.320 --> 01:02:12.719
then seen rushing away from the scene by the neighbor.

1191
01:02:12.760 --> 01:02:16.519
And wouldn't you know, another city bus captured that prius

1192
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driving in the opposite direction away from Dan's home just

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a minute or two after the shots rang out.

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All of this now happening by eleven am.

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And then to icing on the cake seven hours later

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after that bus was seen or the prius was seen

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passing that second bus. Guess what that prius was seen

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on camera back in Miami at a Chase Bank getting

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money from an ATM.

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That ain't a coincidence. Sorry.

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What's cool about it, though, is that that ATM had

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a camera that filmed the entire withdrawal and you can

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clearly see the driver a Hispanic mail with a long

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sleeved black shirt on and the passenger wearing a long

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sleeved white shirt. You can't really see the passenger's face though,

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but that first face you see that is Louise, guaranteed.

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But then at one point the passenger happens to lean

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forward just briefly and you can see his face. And

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what are the chances that both of those men looked

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just like Louise and SIGFRIEDO? Well, good police work would

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tell you, really good. So with all of this evidence,

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the police knew that they had their killers, and they

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went and arrested them both, charging them with first degree

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murder nearly two years after Dan was murdered. But the

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answer as to why still had not been answered. There's

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too much in the process here that's not making sense.

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It just none of the theories fit. And that's when

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police really thought about the questioning they had already done

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of some of the people years ago, including Wendy's ex

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boyfriend Jeff. He had come in from multiple interviews, y'all,

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But something during one of those interviews interviews seemed odd.

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He mentioned in one of those interviews that he was

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worried about his safety. So police were kind of curious

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about this, and they're like, okay, we'll do tell. Why

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would you be worried about your safety if you're not

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involved in any of anything. Doesn't make sense. But he

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wasn't pointing the finger at Wendy. Interestingly, he was just

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flat out weirded out by her family. He just would say,

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they're kind of off, there's something very strange about the

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way that they do business. And he eventually would kind

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of open up to the police about just how unusually

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caught up Wendy's family was in her divorce and how

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much they were just insisting that she moved back.

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Home with them.

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They hated Dan with a frickin passion, and it was

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more than just frustration too. He was very clear to them,

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He's like, this is not normal. This is pure hatred. Hatred,

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and so this seemed like maybe a bit much, but

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it was nothing that they wanted to overlook. The police

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thought maybe they needed to rule out the family. But

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even Dan's friends though that came in and were questioned

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about it, they said the same thing. They brought up,

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how Wendy's parents were just flat out unreasonable and that

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they were misbehaving in their behavior during this divorce. So

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Jeff didn't want to just flat out accuse these people,

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and he even said that, look, I'm not going to

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go out there and accuse them, but I just feel

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like maybe you should check out the idea. And so

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they're like, okay, well, why do you worry about your safety?

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Though I still don't understand, and that's when Jeff said, okay. Basically,

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his position was that if Dan had possibly been murdered

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for a failed relationship with Wendy, then why not him too.

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That was kind of his thing. So maybe where there's smoke,

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there is fire, as they say. But when they were

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all looked at, they went and they checked out the

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whole family, including Wendy's brother, who you know, not just

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the parents. They looked at the brother. They were all

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in Tallahassee the day of the murder. They were nowhere

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near Dan, and this was validated and verified. So I

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guess they did hate him. But Dan's murder was at

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this point more of a convenient tragedy for them, you know,

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from where they stood. But Jeff just wasn't so convinced,

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is what it seemed to be. And this is where

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this story takes a major left turn. While we've been

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talking this whole time about divorce and murder and gang members.

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There was something else that police should have been focusing on, y'all, boobies.

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That's right, boobies. Now I know what you're wondering right now, Like,

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what the hell do boobs have to do with this case?

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Kelly?

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Well, hang on to your brasstraps, ladies, because they certainly do.

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And let's just say that this case perked up after

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police received a well supported lead. Someone needed to get

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off their chest.